The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 8, 1899, Page 6

TH AN FR NCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1899 M THURSDAY.... | ELS, Propristor. sk SR KE, Manager. Market and Third Sts., S. F ses. 217 to 221 Stevenson Street n 1874, JOHN D. SPRECKI Address All Communications to W. S. LEA CENTS PER WEEK. 86.00 3.00 1.50 Gho 1.50 rized to T when requested. 908 Broadway Room 188, World Building Advertising Representative. D. C.) OFFICE Wellington Hotel C. CARLTON, Correspondent. OAKLAND OFFICE... NEW YORK OFFICE C. GEO. KROGNE WASHINGTON GO CFFICE Marquette Building C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertlsing Representative. §—597 Montgomery street, corner Clay 357 Hayes street, open until icAlilster street, open until 9:30 street, n until 9:30 o'clock. reet, open untll 10 o'clock. 2291 Market BRANCH OFFIC 9:30 o'clock 621 Ixteenth, cpen untll 9 eo'clock. 2518 open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh 9 o'cloc 1505 Polk streét, open NW. co Twenty-second ana s, open until 9 o'cloc AMUSEMENTS. and “T'Pag- eville every after- | COMMERCE AND SHIPPING. \T( announce that the d in that m Wichita ssemble by resolu- ed to promote our mniend a gra carriers to compete with ountries, and un- the prev sentiment of the be found on every 1 of war with has In that w: e fi nd has 1l stated private soldier, 1 a recent in the In speaking of ir lled-in countr STREET RAILWAY BONDS AND STOCK Monday last, in its editorial columns, The Call, so far as possible from available infor- mation, published a full statement of the con- dition of the outstanding bonds of the Market Street Kailway Company and of six other railway corpora- tions that were absorbed by that consolidation Oc- tober 13, 1893. From that statement it appeared that, it of an authorized issue to the amount of $17,500,- 000, the Market Street Railway Company had ac- tually issued bonds representing $4,817.000, all of which had been used for additional acquisitions and for'new construction, and that the bonds of the six defunct companies taken by themselves remained ex- actly on their original footing, while the securities on which each issue depended, subject to the pre-existing liens, had been transferred. The fluctuations in Wall street and in other financial centers, including San Francisco, where there are nd large transactions in bonds and stocks prove the necessity of extremely conservative treat- ment of their values. But the investing public_is cer- i entitled to acctirate knowledge of the facts upon ch these transactions depend, so that innocent per- sns may be saved from risks that, if fully informed, v would be unwilling to assume. he Market Street Railway Company is a consoli- dztion of eleven corporations that existed before it ned. The financial standing of the principal sto beyond dispute. They 1ply able to respond to their personal liability under s for are owners « #1e constitution and laws of this State or to any equitable respon ity that may ultimately fall upon |them. But the consolidation itseli has no other v than street railways and franchises mostly de- from its eleven predecessors, and six of them exclusive of interest, to ged with indebtedne the amount of $7,035,000. These franchises wili ex- abouts of the twentieth century. ter, where genuine competition is assured upon terms much more favorable to the municipality than Junder the existing law, and where also the policy of the acquisition of public utilities is enforced, there is v renewals that m: the hands of their present holders. In its trust mortgage of June 12, 1804, the Market treet Railway Company agreed, as rapidly as prac- g bonds of the com- succeeded with its own bonds. The fact that the original bonds are now on the market shows this has not been done, although more than five The situation, therefore, is The iven for the protection of these bonds ble, to restore the outstand panies it had s elapsed. un- ue of the secur nably dangercus. ies es day by da , in add n to this fact, they are in the hands the Market street combination and subject to its control and to its manipulation. One method of ulation n I 1ed upon its face is simply ruinous. The , apart from the guar- of the rket street consc tion, if its trust e e be so construec the diminishing secur- i $7.035.000, has been put up to protect 0.000 O 1debtedness, of which $10.4635.000 represent new purchases and new construction ire in 10: To ovide for the redemption of these bonds a sinking origfnated in 1918, which, at the rate of um, cannot produce more than $g60,- the new bonds are due. nd is to be $160,000 per 000 by the tim the receipts of the property and franchises, w ciude the total Yet out of 1ortgage security for $7,03 or the present issue of new bonds further still unis also the security mentioned and of use of these any the extent t re ted, the R o Street they Market Company is distributing way : or |AMONg the holders of 186,170 shares of its capital - 5 stock, in the form of dividends, $446.808 per annum, An wcturers of electrical 5 B & A W h by 1024 wo aggregate $11,170,200. In ad- 3| and the like, are : , 5 S dition, the to al] the other elements of depre- o to be overrun with orders from the Continent about the com- ere I went I wa inven- development.” tion Wk of vast benefit to us, we do not reap the bulk of our forei the increasing demand for our products is ull profit of In a recent spee mated that we are paying foreig for ocean transportation, and some the fi 1s day after carried i foreign ships. ures much hi rities pl such su nent o trade and leaves us at the 1 be. e pre o I drain upon end of the year much less rich thz While the problem is one which concerns every sec- tion of th lion, it is of especial importance to the | nd was therefore rightly taken up by ssippi Congress. The upbuilding of i mean more to the West marine wi an to the st, because the expansion of our com- merce in the rediate future will be mainly in the | Pacific Oce: The opening of China to foreign trad T eatest stimulus to commerce that That ¢ are concerned, must be chiefly mmerce, so expect to see. ports, and it is American i the globe, therefore, which omotion and encouragement New York Senator > extension of our merchant that of | id to foreigners for trans- other benefits than our commerce in our own wuld make of the officers of ent and gents markets and the promotion intell interested the i our trade yose to accomplish it does cost us will there iple compen- not be 500,000 ar rdly requires an answer. If any has been given by the Trans-Mis- declare the in | “blossoms to lay s a dead robin could ar the pape frosts not nip enough apple spring som it is guage has n than is cc able in ready for the celebration® of the Fourt - imong the reports that will ke the day nt there should be one announcing that a sufficient sum has been raised to assure the carly erection of the Dewey monument. Mataafa and his chieis do not seem to he successes , but, judging from the prices they are ob- irom the powers for obsolete arms, they would e rapid fortunes as junk dealers. Dreyfus was pretty nearly the only pebble on the beach at Devils Island when the di Jand bore tg him the official notifi sion of-th¢ Court of Cassation | | patch boat Goe- | ion of the deci- | It takes no prophet to predict that the hardest blow that will be landed during the course of the coming Fitzsimmons-Jefiries fight will be on the public pocketbook. | ship. ciation to which we have adverted, as the franchises e to street rail- ction, the redemption, if turned steadily diverted to the which co cate actual market v > approaching e money that would for bond into : provide s boldly 1med the no rule but its The Huntington monopoly ition that it is governed by In If any reliance can be placed upon facts and figures,, unless there are concealed or unknown ar- rangements by which they are controlled, there is no whatever for the outstanding street »w under consideration, and the in- own this ta 1ce it appears to have gone too substantial b; bonds n suggest a deliberate purpose to leave bond investors ultimately in th other protection than th corded by the securities upon which they have a legal right to rely. When the securities have been divested dication lurch and dependent upon supposed to have been ac- of all value except the property remnants that survive | the existing franchises, the bulk of the indebtedness will have behind it only the personal liability of stock- holders and such equitable relie as the peculiar man- agement of. the monopoly may justify. When the Market Street Railway Company lately supposed itseli to have anticipated the new charter a network ges that would cover the prin- and to have corruptly secured of new franchises and priv cipal unoccupied parts of San Francisco it had evi- its bond dilemma by stealing enough property to enable it to pursue its present methods of appropriating its revenues and at the same time to provide for the out- standing indebtedness, with an enormous additional dently discovered a method of extrication from cumulation. A more transparently infamous scheme was never devised. An analysis of the facts demon- strates the reason for the desperate attempt to con- | centrate influence and to seduce property-owners, by false pretenses, into an apparent indorsement of robbery. The corrupted Supervisors understood per- fectly the extent to which they were sacrificing the municipal interésts at the demand of the railroad. Several of them have already stated in effect that un- der the new charter street railway bonds could not be floated with success, and, therefore, they argue Mr. | | Huntington, and not San-Francisco, should be pro- | tected. The position of an honest Supervisor would tbe that he is not called upon to supply the deficiencies | | or to rectify the errors or tlie frauds or to promote | the illegitimate speculations of this unholy consoli which has become a nuisance to de‘ent citizen- tion, There is no reason, not both fraudulent and cor- | rupt, why the Market Street Railway Company should | heights around Santiago, which is only a rhetorical [not be governed by the same principles and by the | Way of saying the colonel himself is a bigger mani same rules applied to ordinary citizens. Let it take its unclean hands off the government of this great city. Let it pay its debts out of its own resources and not out of the remaining municipal property. Let it fulfill its written pledge by issuing its own bonds for the amalgamated indebtedness it has assumed and pire at different periods during the first third or there- | and, under the new | certainty that they will be renewed at all or that | be secured will leave them in | the | THE LAKES OF KILLARNEY. N the higher mountains of Siskiyou County, in this l State, notwithstanding the different surroundings, it is possible to find suggestions of the Lakes of Killarney. Perched on the edge of a rugged ascent, in the midst of dense foliage, a small lake, called Lalita, reposes in quiet beauty, which resembles the { upper lake of the Killarney chain. On a rough and unfrequented trail between Castle Lake and Gumboot Lick, in the center of a dense forest, with tall trees | bending over its dark and placid waters, is another | lake of limited area, which to the traveler recalls the ;;r(-"e so famous in Irish song and story. The commingled grandeur and loveliness of the | mountain scenery lying around Mount Shasta, with its towering pinnacles of snow, and extending from the head of the McCloud to the sources of the Sacra- mento and the Trinity rivers, has been desecrated by | the vandals of transportation and of manufacture. A | broad stretch of almost unequaled attractions, where | the glittering trout leap in a hundred shaded brooks, | where antlered monarchs in deepest solitude prepare for their winter nuptials, where the bear fatten on luscious clover and juicy berries and the rich nuts | | that fall from the overloaded trees, has been turned | { from its natural use into a scarified memorial of mod- | ern covetousness. But this atrocious vandalism will not compare with | the proposed invasion of Killarney by the pot- boilers of cheap amusements, with the sanction of the arl of Kenmare, and presumptively to meet his fam- | | ily necessities. If on the face of the globa there is a | spot exquisite in itself and bathed in the glories of legendary and authentic history, it is the Lakes of Kil- larney, the very names of which are filled with liquid music. They lie within the compass of a few miles, | deeply imbedded in mountains that rise abruptly | from the water's edge. Lough Learne, studded with wooded islands, bears on its bosom the ruins of an old fortress of the O’Donoghues, the remains of Finnan Abbey and the “sweet Innisfallen” of Thomas Moore. On the shaded passages to Lough Torc, the second of the series, is Muckross Abbey, built by the | Franciscans more than five centuries ago, and still retaining the impress of an artistic conception. The | upper and most secluded lake is the smallest of the | three, covering only 430 acres, but it is so closel | shut in by the adjoining mountains that it flashes like | an emerald in midnight darkness. | In the warm Irish heart the image of this treasure of nature, over which has been spread the subtle charm of ancient myth and of rhythmic melody, is a perpetual memory. It is not surprising that the threat- ened obtrusion of modern barbarism, the civilization | of the into this home of sentiment and of tenderness, has touched Irish sensibility to the quick, in order to perpetuate its identity and its in- fluence, has resulted in a practical effort to outbid Our show that the movement has instantaneously attracted the only kind of sympathy that can prove effective, and that con- | tributions are pouring in that will preserve the pic- ture i its antique setting—the pure mirrors of the sky inclosed by dense and green forests, | y | dollar, Mammon. news dispatches foliage while— Over-str With The med and 1 rivulet high the glorious treaked, against the sun, mountains flash. many facets o OME slight attempt has been made on the At- NOT A SECTIQONAL SPEAKER. np the candidacy of Mr. S Henderson for Speaker as sectional. Perhaps no candidate for the place has been less tionalist than he. lantic seaboard to sta Natural politics requires that where the strength of the party lies there should be the eypression of its choice for Speaker, if those who have the power and right of expression choose to exercise it. When the Democrats carried the House in 1874, the first time after the war, they owed their victory to changes in the We nd though the South had a y of the that would have powerless except for the West. In recognition of this the Speakership went to Michael C. Kerr of Indiana, the ablest man his party has-ever had in the West. He died' not long after assuming the office, and. there being no other in the West of stature re- quired for the place, it went to Randall of Pennsy ia The Republicans have had two Western Speakers, Colfax of Indiana and Keifer of Ohio. Now the might of the party is so definitely in the West that | those who represent it have chosen to indicate their wish, not for a scction, but for the party and the country. Mr. Henderson is the beneficiary of that choice, | and that his election will be for the party's good no Already the evidence is abroad that he is as popular in the East as in the West, and | General Bingham of Pennsylvania, who was expected to have been his competitor, goes over to his stan- dard as an ally, carying twenty votes with him. Henderson represents to an exalted degree the stal- wart Western feeling which is the country's highest | inspiration. He was hardly a voter when he left a leg on the battiefield at Pittsburg Landing, and he and Colonel Thompson of the New York Highland- o hardly waited for their | stumps to heal and for nature to store up blosd in | place of that they spilled to go back into the army | and lead regiments to the end of the war. Recent martial events have in no way dimmed the | valorous achievements of such men in the great| battles, where more men were killed in one day than | have been in the ranks in all our junior war: * All the more that the sting of feeling has been drawn out of the history of that far time do the peo- ple seem to appreciate the mighty things done then, Surely the Northern enthusiasm which greets General | | Joe Wheeler, the Confederate cavalry leader, and Mosby, the Murat combined of the | Southern army, can rise to so full a tide as to reach this grizzled veteran of the Union army and give him las a reward for his military and civil service to his | country the leadership of the House. e The experts who predicted a prolonged fight over the Speakership of the coming House of Represen- | tatives are already hedging their prophecies, - for it now looks as if Henderson would virtually have it | before Congress meets. major membe section bee observer can deny. ers were the only two arre and | Colonel Bryan says it takes as much courage to | fight trusts in this country as it did to storm the | than Roosevelt. Some enterprising gentlemen have challenged the ! French to an automobile race to be held in this coun- try within the near future, so we are to have another | international complication on our hands before long. | was recelved by | department | ner. | County, and are in search of cert | Danes, has been revoked. | take temporary station at Angel Islanc | who has been critically apply a sufficient proportion of its receipts, now di- | One of the most satisfactory accomplishments of verted into dividends, to a sinking fund adequate to | the time is the promptness and the efficiency with the redemption of its obligations when they mature. | which the report of the Beef Inquiry Court has been canned, embalmed and buried. Admiral Dewey does not propose to be lionized by the British. He prefers to wait and be eagleized by lhis fellow countrymen. ‘What is the matter with Hanna? Some say it is rheumatism, others that it is Foraker, CITY OF PUEBLA AND ZEALANDIA MUSTERED 0UT - These Transports No Longer Needed. e FORMAL VISITS: EXCHANGED e MRS. W. 0. GRIGSBY WANTS TO AVENGE HER WRONGS. ——— . A Beautiful Army Wedding Solemn- ized Yesterday in the Chapel at the Presidio—Batery B Soon to Be Here. —_— The anxious walting of the Pacific Coast Occidental and Oriental Steamship companies is at an end. In a short while these two companies will have returned to them by the Government two trans- ports. City of Puebla and the Zealandia. The fate of these two. transports has been hanging in the balance for the past ten days, and the companies believed Government would still retain them. In a short time the vessels will again be | ready for thelr regular runs with their respective lines. Yesterday Lieutenant Colonel Long, the depot quartermaster, received. instructions from the War De- partment to discharge both transports. The Puebla belongs to the Pacific Coast and the Zealandia to the Occidental and Oriental Company. Majors J. M. Thomp- son and Hugh J. Gallagher and First Lieutenant John P. Hains have been ap- pointed a board of survey to act with he owners of the two ships in connec- tion with the removal from the trans- | ports of all property of the United States that the Government has placed upon these transports as fittings. The board will see that the vessels are in the same condition as-when chartered pefore turn- ing them over to their companies. Formal courtesies were exchanged yes- terday between Captain Betbeder of the Argentine Republic's training-ship Pres- idente Sarmiento and the officials of thi department. In the morning Captain No. ble, representing Major General Shafter, formally called upon Captain Betbeder. He was in full dress uniform, and was received with all due honors when he boarded the Presidente Sarmiento. He Captain Betbeder, and spent some time with him in his cabin. Promptly at 3 o'clock in the afternoon the v was returned I the captain, who received by Lieutenant Colonel Babcock, the adjutant ger 1 of the de- partment. When General fter returns, which will be to-morrow, Captain Betbe- der, being his junior, will call upon him and pay his respects, and the general will return the call. Mrs. Mary gsby, the first and legal wife of Sergeant Willis O. G by, who s held by the authorities ng more than his lawful share of w s, called at headquarters yesterday, a mpanied by her brother, W: H. They came from St. Helena dence against the only serve Castner s that his sister married Grigsby in Sacramento in 1872. Last April the sergeant went to St. Helena to visit his wife. He then came to this city and sent his wife $50. A few days later he red her that he was sick at the Golden West Hotel and requested her to send him $20. The money was sent by tele- graph, and Mrs. Grigsby also requested to be allowed to come down in order that she might care for her husband. The sergeant wired her that It was not nec ary, as he was better, and the same ning he used the borrowed money in sergeant which will says that Grigs fre his _aunt; that he owes a g money to many per: that he has evidence that will the sergeant altered his discharge papers in order to deceive his first wife, so that he might be able to escape some of the financial obligations that he owed her family. Companies G and L of the Seventh Ins | fantry, which are to go as the command lonel Ray to Alaska, have arrived at Benicla Barracks. Company A of the same regiment may be added to pedition. This company is now at Fort McPherson, Georgia. There is now no longer any chance of the Third Artillery having to go to the north. The order de- tailing Battery I, Captain Henry . Battery B of the Third Artillery leaves Fort Mon- roe to-day, and upon its arrival here will Lieutenant L. R. Holbrook. Fourth Cav alry, was married to Mis fin” of Boise, Idaho, in_ the sterday chapel at the Presidio by Chaplain Oliver | Miller. The edifice was heautifully decorated for the occasion, and the wed- ding was a typical army one in all its aspects. The wedding march was played by the Fourth’s band. The bride was given away by her brother, Craig Coffin. She was attended by Miss Faulke as her mald of honor. Lieutenant Munro was the best man for the groom. The offi- cers wore their full dress uniforms, while | the bride was clad In a traveling.gown of brown cloth. Lieutenant and —Mrs. Holbrook have left for a short trip. The young officer is under orders to sail for Manila in the near future. His bride will follow him In the fali. Captain Robert H. R. Toughborough, Twenty-fifth Infantry, has been ordered to Fort Bliss, Texas, to join his regiment. Major Edward Field, Second Artillery, ill, has been granted a leave of absence for one month from the 2ith of this month upon a sur- geon's certificate of _disability, with a bermission to apply for an extension of one month. Guy Kearns, of the casual detachment, died at the general hospital at the Pre- sidio on Tuesday night of cerebro spinal meningitis. | CONDUCTORS WILL PICNIC IN SANTA CRUZ MOUNTAINS First Annual Reunion and Family Excursion of the Order. The first annual picnic and family ex- cursion of the Order of Railway Conduc- tors of the Pacific Coast will be held Wednesday, June 21, at Sunset Park, in the Santa Cruz Mountains. ed to make the affair a general reunion | of conductors and their friends, and un- Capitan Division | derthe auspices of El No. 115, it bids fair to be one of the most enjoyable occasions of the year. A good band nas been engaged, and as there will be no liquor of any description sold on the ground, it Is expected that the pleasure of the day will be of a nature that will attract none but well-behaved people, who will take part in the pro- gramme of games 4nd Aancing that has been arranged by the committee. The committee of arrangements is com- posed of C. D. gahelf»s of the North Pa- cific Coast, W. J. Hunter of the Cali- fornia and Northwestern, George Smith of the Coast Division of the Southern Pa- cific, George Colémve of the South Coast Division of the Southern Pacific and Ed Dillon, general yardmaster of Oakland, representing the Western division of the Southern Pacific, The start will be made from the ferry landing at the foot of Market street on the narrow-gauge boat at 8:45 and a stop will be made at Park street, Alameda. Returning, trains will leave the park at 5 and,5:30 p. m. Tickets for the excur- sion and picnie will be sold at $1 each. —————————— Story of the richest clergyman in the world, in next Sunday’s Call. The vessels In question are the | the | i AROUND T | make it warmer for him, | the ex-| Henrietta Cof- | It is intend- | AN INCENDIARY OPERATING ON GEARY STREET e Two Suspicious Fires in a House. —_— THE SECOND IS SUCCESSFUL e BOTH BUILDING AND CON- TENTS OVER-INSURED. s e Fire Marshal Towe Is Making a Thorough Investigation Into the Affair, but With Little Hope of Success. e e TRIED TO KILL HERSELF AND HER CHILDR —_— 1 Italian Woman’s Des- perate Deed. —_— WANTED TO DIE IN PRISOH ST TURNS ON THE GAS TWICE, BUT IS DETECTED IN TIME. e When Her Three Children Are Taken From Her Shé Attempts to Beat Out Her Brains. s Fire Marshal Towe is investigating a suspiclous fire that occurred about 2 o'clock yesterday morning at 2405 Geary street, an old, one-story shack house, oc- | cupied by Gustav Haft, a partner in a saloon at 431 Bush street, and his wife. | They came here from Minnesota about | two months ago. | The house was totally destroyed by fire | early yesterday morning, but there are| circumstances that lead fo the suspicion | that an incendiary was at work. So far| the Fire Marshal has not been able to ar- | rive at a satisfactory solution of the mat- | er. He had hoth Haft and his wife at his| office yesterday and subjected them to a rigld examination. Their stories agreed in | every essential particular. They said they | left the house Sunday afternoon and went to the saloon, where they remained till | about 3-o'clock Monday morning. They started for home then. walking all the way, and on arriving they found the inte- rior 'of the house on fire, They succeeded | in putting the fire out without much dam- age being done. | “Harft did not return to the house after Monday morning, and his wife remained there Tuesday in the hope that the insur- ance agent with whom they had insured their furniture and effects for $500 would | turn wp and see what damage had been done, but he failed to make- his appear- ance. Neither he nor his wife had been | at the house since Tuesday evening, and when his wife went to the house yester- day morning she was surprised to find it | totally destroyed. There is no question in the Fire Mar- shal’s mind that the house was burned to the ground by an incendia He finds that Haft's furniture and effects were in- | sured for $500, but he is satisfied that so far as the furniture was concerned_$50 | would have covered the amount, but Mrs, Haft assured him that her jewelry and personal effects would have more than covered the amount of the insurance. The building, according to the Fire Mar- shal. was not worth more t n $300, but it was insured for $500 and it $ mortgaged to a San Francisco bank. There is a lawsuit pending in the courts about the ownership of the building. but who the real owner is the Fire Marshal has as vet been unable to ascertain. He has been informed that the owner 1s George Me- | Henry, but he has not been able to find him. HE CORRIDORS Dr. C. H. Bulson of Stockton is at the Grand. Lieutenant Governor Jacob H. Neff is spending a few days at Paralso Sprifgs. | Drury Malone, the Napa capitalist, is acwn from his Oak Knoll ranch. He is a | guest at the Palace. H. F. Emeric and wife arrived vester- day from San Pablo and have taken up their abode at the Occidental. S. F. Gill, a well-known merchant of Salinas City, arrived in this city vester- day and is registered at the Occidental. | L. Pritchard, a wealthy stockman of | . is stopping at the Grand. . C. Barnhardt, a Santa Cruz cap- italist, is registered at the Lick. | General R. L. Peeler, who recently transferred the records of the Adjutant | General's oflice to his successor, W. H. | Seamans, arrived in the city yesterday. Captain C. F. Taylor left the city yes- terday for a three months’ sojourn at his | country place near Capitola. He is an en- | thusiastic fisherman and has arranged fishing excursions for quite a number of his friends. Lieutenant Colonel and Mrs. von Win- nig of Berlin, who have been spending the past two weeks at Del Monte and other | peints in the State, returned yesterday to the Palace and will leave in a day or so | for New York City, en route for Europe. Among yvesterday’s arrivals at the Ocei- | dental was Mrs. Susan Harriman of Los | Angeles. Mrs. Harriman occupys a high | pesition among the theosophists on the | ceast and took a prominent part in the | recent convention at Point Loma, San | Diego. George F. Milliken, a civil engineer of | New York, is registered at the Palace. | F. X. Schoonmaker and wife of New | York City, arrived vesterday and are at the Palace. Mr. Schoonmaker was the | first president of the defunct United Press | | Assoctation, and during the last Presi- | dential campaign stumped the West for McKinley. _ CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. | NEW YORK, June 7.—Dr. Nathaniel | Law, Dr. Harland Law of San Francisco are at the Netherland. J. L. Howard of San Francisco is at the Imperial, W. T, Hovey and wife of San Francisco are at the Manhattan. Charles §. Drury of San Francisco, J. L. Oakley of Oakland are at | the Cosmopolitan. 5. R. Abadie, wife | and son were passengers on the St. Paul for Southampton to-day. —_——— CALIFORNIANS i1 WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, June 7.—J. M. AlexanJ der and wife of Oakland are at the Well- ington; W. T. Schabley of San Francisco is at the St. James. . ——————— GIMM IS GRATEFUL. | Beneficiary of Sunday’s Cycle Meet | Has Gone Home. | Louis Gimm, the beneficlary at the cycle | meet given at the Olympie track last Sun- | day, left for his home in the BEast last night, the meet having realized sufficient funds for him to do so. Before going he visited many of his friends here to return | thanks for their kindnesses én his behalf. Gimm expressed his gratefulness to tha public, the press, racing men and all others who helped him in his hour of dis- tress and says he shall never forget their many favors to him. The Association Racing Board may lose its popular chairman, W. L. Loos, who has resigned his position here and may go East shortly. John Leavitt is visiting the factory of his agency in Cleveland. g J. W. Kingsley of the Olymglc Wheel- men is sojourning in Siskiyou County. Henry urgotten, once prominent in San Jose cycling, Is now ship’s writer on the battleship Towa. Neither San Jose nor Sacramento has announced any intention of holding a meet on the Fourth of July, and the rac- ing men may find themselves without the customary holiday outing. | | | i | { i —————————— Gertrude Atherton’s new story, | wanted to take her three children Mrs. Pirto Palo de Cico, who attempted to kill her husband on Hinkley alley Mo day night with a hatchet because h from her, attempted to end her own life and the lives of. the children in the City Prison Tuesday night. Ever since her arrest she has been afraid that the children would be taker from her and given into the custody c her husband. She had fled from him frc Seattle in February last owing, as she leged, to his ill-treatment, and came this ¢ity with the childr He on cently ascertained her whereabouts came on here, and s soon as she him she attempted to kill him w hatchet and succeeded in cutting his open. 'She was arrested for assault to comn murder and the case was called fn Jud Treadwell’s court Tuesday and continu till to-day. She and the children we confined in the matron’s apartments, a: about 10 o'clock Tuesday night Matro Wright's attention s attracted by a strong smell of gas that came from the dcrmitory, where the woman and three children were. She entered the dormitory ard found one of the gas burners turned on full. She turned off the gas and ex- lained to Mrs, Cico how to use it, as she Believed that she had turned it on in igno- rance. About an hour later Mrs. Wright had again to enter the dormitory owing to the strong smell of gas and discovered that the woman had again turned on the gas. As it was believed that the woman in- tended to commit suicide and take her children with her, she was removed to the women's cell in another part of the prison and the children were left in the dormi- tory. She declared yesterday morning to alp that she did not know how to use gas and had no desire tc injure her children, as she loved them too mu but her story was'not believed, as she declared to Vic- tor Demartini, the Italian interpreter, that if the children were taken from her she would kill herself. Yesterday morning Judge Treadwell on being apprised of the clrcumstances warded the custody of the child: the husband. As soon as the wife wa tified of the fact > became hysterical and attempted to beat her brains out against the bars of the cell. She tore h Lair out by the roots and acted as if s were out of her mind. Sergeant Wolf d tailed a ‘‘trus to watch the cell so th any attempt made by her to commit s cide might be frustrated. The people on Hinkley alley say that the wcman was very kind to her ldren, and she had secured a position a canning factory so that she could support them. She claims that she had to leave her hus- tand owing to his cruelty ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. HALF DIME OF 1841-H., City. The se[lin%()prico of a half dime of 1841 is from % to cents. STREET RAILWAYS—H., City. The several car lines of San Francisco cover | nearly a hundred miles of the streets. CHICAGO FIRES--H. O. 8., City. “The two big fires in Chicago” occurred Sun- day, October 8, 1871, and Tuesday, July 14, 1874, NOT PREMIUM COINS—R. J. B, Au- burn, Cal. .None of the coins described 1n1your letter of inquiry command a pre- mium. ACCEPTED STREETS-H., City. The aggregate of accepted streets in San Francisco, which includes pavements of all kinds, is 176 miles. There are many miles of streets that have not yet been accepted. OVERTIME—C. H., Carters, Cal. This department is informed that those who worked at the navy yard, Mare Island, during the war with Spain and were al- lowed overtime will be notified by mail of the date when such payments will be made. WAITING TIME—A. H. H., Santa Rosa, Cal. If your employer has dis- charged you and has not pald you, you | have your remedy in the Justices” Court, where you can commence an action against him, but you cannot expect to ob- tain “payment for the time he is detain- ing me here till it suits him to pay me.” THE WINNER-T. E. H,, Oakland, Cal. As the two players in casino had agreed to play the hand out before count- ing, and both made enough points on the last deal to reach the number that would count out, the one who held rds would count first and go out. In case there wera no cards, then the one having spades would count first. In the case cited A, having three points to make and B en points, and A making his three—big ca- sino and ace—B making eight, must have had cards and was entitled to count first, and A won. BEET SUGAR—D. R., Los Angeles, Cal. The following is a list of the beet sugar works on the wi t and the cost of Spreckels Monterey County, cost of mill $3,000,000, capacity 3500 tons of beets per day; Western Beet Sugar Company, Watsonville, Santa Cruz County, cost $1,000,000, capacity 1200 (tnns *roc! vorks, kett, Contra Cos ‘Lfi%‘n'ii“ cose 500,000, ¢ 1000 ton! Union Works, bara County. cost tons; Alvarado Wo County. Co: e paeltic Worl 300, capacity Work: ‘&\;‘r-"v'l"‘ C i rity ) ton ‘nge‘;)(‘numy. €0 L Grande ity Ventura County, t $1,000,000, Works La ;‘1'."'000. capacity The siitace run for the s is about 100 day but nine tons of beets will produce one {'}‘wnl sugar. During the year ending De- cember, 1568, on account of drought the | production of beets was small and some of the factories were not operated. g i gt ot Cal. glace fruit 50c per 1b at Townsend’s.* poshabiive clar ol Important—Best eyveglasses, specs, 10 to 40c. Look out for 73 4thst., n stovestore.® B e Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allea's), 510 Moat- gomery street. Telepnone Main 1042 * —_————— Feast of the Sacred Heart. The feast of the Sacred Heart will be celebrated in St. Francis’ Church on Val- lejo street to-morrow. The ma will be at 6:30 and 7:30 a. m. In the ev ng at 7:30 the rector, Rev. T. Caraher, will reach on “Pleadings of the Sacred eart,” after which the congregation will be consecrated to the Sacred Heart. —_——— ‘The Rio Grande Western Railway | Take pleasure in announcing the inauguration June 1,.18%, of a complete dining-car service between Ogden and Denver on all transconti- nental trains. Service a la carte. General of- fice, 14 Montgomery st. “Cupid the Golden,” will be in next Sunday’s Call. i There are many imitations of Dr. Slegert's Angostura Bitters—most of them daugerous. The genuine is & household remedy.