The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 17, 1899, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY., NOVEMBER 17, - 1899, AEROLITE STRIKES AND PARTLY WRECKS A HOUSE One Sensational Inc_itfint Connected With the Falling Meteors, Which Are Viewed in Various Sections of the World. ASTRONOMER SEE.SAYS THE GREAT SHOWER WILL TAKE PLACE NEXT NOVEMBER Special Dispatch to The Call. CRESCENT CITY, Iil., Nov. I6.—By the falling of an aerolite, seven miles south of Crescent City, the residence of John Meyers was partly wrecked and the neighborhood was panic-stricken. The meteor came from a point in the sky a little east of south and struck the north end of the house, tearing away a part of the upper story. The aerolite WHOLESALERS MAKE A BIG FREIGHT ALLOWANCE To-Day and Meet Again on This Coast About Next January. Special Dispatel to The Call: Wwho ‘seemed. to- think - that. 8t. Louls ‘oc« 4 cupied aboiit the same position. fn lhAlCROSS EXAMINED BY worldl as: what ‘is. clatmpd.for Chicago.and | displayed. 1% much ‘jgnorance about rail- | Ui rates and how. they, should be ad< | usted i The greatest character of the day was | t0 e N. 0. Nelson, presidefit of - the -N. O, eXamination of Mr. Norvell, attempted to Nelson - Manufactiring . Company, - which #how that the raflroad rates were not re- makes’ plumbing wnres in St Loils and, | Sponsible for fluctuation in the volume of sclis’ them to jobbers, retailers and any oné else that can: be {nducéd to buy.. He said his company shipped goods to Call- i T, LOUIS, Nov. .16-—The eomplain- | ants in -the Inferstate: commerce case closed thelr {estfmony ‘thts aft- ernoen. Their princijial witness to- dav was S.:-Norvell, third viee presi- dent of the Simmons Hardware Company | He stated that their businass was larger {n Californfa this year than last: and | profitablé,. althaugh they ‘Bave ‘a freight allowance to their -customers of .37 cents {'on each hundred pouhds of goods bought: | that the busty *tober. was the highest known. in Calfornia’ that. their | salesmen were farbidden to call on jobbers the last eighteen months, since the rates had remalned the same during that pe- I . i Interstate Commerce Commission Will Adjourn ATTORNEY HERRIN | ST. LOUIS, Nov. 16—W. F. Herrin, at- | sraey for the Southern Pacific, in cross- | business transacted in Californta during | t ~ Sloane’s Removal Sale Special Sofa Pillow Sale Absolutely To-Day, Friday Only. | : 2 : farnia in -carloads ‘and distributed . them | 94, ! - and confined their sales to retallers. Ie . ey Perhaps 1t would make that chart K buried itself in the ground about three feet from the foundation of tbe;mmed b his hotss.alsa gy ehéighy] 0 fetallery crom, warehopien.tand -comif SRS Y woud makel et ehart). e e e e house f allowances to customers efist }nr sxhl,:‘mls. ";‘_’,‘ i '(;,",,;:11' ‘}‘1"“""“,‘;“"'("3" ""h'::”'!’t |'swer,. *if we would add another line, f ill I . I'bue - saté vas because they a-to | the stock, zF A e a o < % fe-Dé o i follows: but sald it wa 3 hey ha cost-him no more {o gt his goods there | MOWINE what our profits would have been | (24X24) sofa pillows, regular “Rikhoff's ascent was made in absolutely of 1000° mete twenty ‘of whi ar clear sky and reached a h were of ‘the first tude, were observed from the bal- it was an excellent voyage and n easy descent near the vil- f Ei hls was a splendld astronomical in- N.J., Nov. 16.—Attempts & and Professor Libby the meteors last night re- little: success. - Professor t meteors between 1 and 4 | this morning and exposed one meteors when: developed, by set up his camera L Are, ght mile saw t{welve meteors, but falled to obtain photographs. - Professor Reed exposed plates fraom theé Halstead Observa- Ty, but ha< not developed-.them. ~He nks his attempts were faflures also. YORK, Nov. 11.—A special ais- Jc tiser from shower of Leonids will not oceur n. The brilliant spectacle has 10unced one.year too soon s announcement has just been mad J. See. one of the most ad-|! mers in- the (Government See_has charge of the twen- yuatorial telescope Leontds b ons that he »n astronomical cal- would not harmonize with fore. held by . astronomers. with great positiveness that the ; which has been a mere year, ‘would be repeated at in November xt cy quite equal, if not super- f the tri-century displays modern world has been dat date which th omical calculations have not periodicy of the Leonids," am. thoroughly convinced passage is two years retofore belleved. ave been within the for a year now, and will re- us for another twelve month. o shower has not been as WHEN YOUR Jiotins time as there was good scien- P for belleving it would be. That P we have not yet struck the S £ the trail HE;‘PT FL“TTERS Lo alculations, this collision wilt i the middle of vember, 1900 o esultant of burning A DIZZY SENSATIONS, oo be as ant as the one A, 8 s Humboldt in Venezuela in visitation is a counterpart At that time there wera years, that of 1862 Le- as the present and directors In- addi above named, H. W. Harper, cents for w $1_for a white i Ung ¢ st 5 S w d up $192,00 from st in the substitution | Consult lhfd_\an doctors about |y, ek. Anvil, Snow s president In place of | your casc—Free of charge. Call eKs vielded about $1,50,000 J iurper, who become first vice | or write. kings. Barr Cre president, and the retirement of John h as the best of th | Harper, "whose: condition of - health | - -k b renders 1t impassible for him to attend. to | business. Mr. Harvey wll- enter upen | his duties on-Monday. | lined to state the terms | Jome, writes ich Mr. Harvey omes the n't like. to wrper & B t s learned, ! theorize as to - from snother source, which there 1500 to belleve 13 authoritative shareholders eold a large block | hich was appraised some time to Mr. Harvey at §15 b IL COMPANY. 0 Locate ™ 2 1. & t amount of ° stod Located in the Very Center of nt s purchased by ‘him cannot be nurfiflllnedk_‘ ithin a radiy wak sald (o be in. the vicinity of OIL BELT IN KERN COUNTY. 1 counted ab I e S . . - orted so onths ago that ~EIRRTE 2 and. u 6’¢o) ation: of ‘Harper & Bras. . g s Btarcion Agton Indial Doubleday- & McClure had been prac. 5 < 3 un almost )t Ten tieally. completed. It-was found, however. | 2 ¢ should th: e ‘wiirking | ‘w e time came ‘to put the suggested Coalinga and McKittrick Distrigts, |, %%, 4 ho0cR OF AR o into effect, that the. Haes o ACRES River and (ripp I judge very | publication of the two companies diferes Title United & 5 few men made $10.a wnid | £ widely that-the plan was impractfeable s. Patent. the average was a unce 4 day..tand:it. was. abandoned Limited quantity of ry Stock mow for know personall 0 who ok | Mr. Harvey. confirmed: the anmounee. | sale for development purposes only et out $13,000 betw iy 15 and October 1. | ment of Mr. Hprper, but further (han io E DOL These were Cummings and Missouts: Bill. ce-that he would continue aa th ON LAR PER SHARE, 5 San Francisco newspapes f the. North American Rexview he | X will be om lined to discuss -his" plans man, and three ates took out One hundred Leo- | is, Sainte Opportune, Depart- | get the goods out of here and then haul them back. Their traveling saleésmen’re- celved -sajaries: and a’ percentage of ‘the prafits on their sales besides. The.only things that he complained of not being | able to sell now at & Profit orn the. coast { were grindstones: and other stmilar arti- ¢les when shipped in lots less than car- loads. He claimed ‘that modern business was a scientific problem; that théy have two or than jt.did the } ; cost’ was the trader. He said the tiral. territory far St Fouls and that loral traders were not jus- (ified in.carrying farge stocks, as large ! local jobbing houses were not adapted to the .coast, as the cittes fhere were too 1o yield profits. for other: Herrin. ad the former freight rates obtained. I am_complatning of our profits there, not of our volume of business there.' “But we canpot regulate freight rates retorted Mr. Conrad Guinon, traffic manager of the small for them. He sald that £ the Pac | 1 ooie: sy )xlrr.oi'\'o‘rgml.“nhaofm'q.fi; cliic. Const jobbers were as smart as the | the point that Puéblo has a better rate S€.; Louls.men. they . wonld haye ria, néed | 1o Bacific: CRRst otais than or Lot of ‘differentlals.. He was the last witness | Bjc but savs he doubts if it will show | south of Princeton. He | for the compls it 'he carload rate from Pueblo to San 2t Franeisco 1s 55 cents per hundredwelght, #aid he, “while the carload rate from St, Louls fo San Francisco is 70 cents per hundredweight. - Certainly if Pueblo has a better rate than St. Louls, then St. Louls ought o have a better rate than Pitts- burg, but she has not.” Chatrman Knapp introduced a telegram from W. A. Hover, president of the Den- | three . hundred = salesmen scouring the cauntry for business, alming -to capture the best class of retailers: that they. sent carloads of goods to the coast and- dis- tributed them to customers; that they had.| unusual ticllities for doing business at the least expense, as the fracks of the yarious rallronds ran into their: storés and en- abled them to load and unload merchan- Thé dstendants then called H. . Jack- son_of ‘Flint, Dearborn & Co: of- New. York, who are engaged in shipping goods by clipper to the Paclfic Coast. He sald ‘they hs dispatched ten ships this year from New York to: 8an - Francisco, carrying 33,50 tons, -and two to Los An- & carrying {700 -tons.. They had no Professor | at Hamfiton jobbers. entered their protest against any dise on the premis that the {reiglit on | aprangements with any one and - made change in the present classification be the higher. classes of ‘g00ds cut’ but little | freights - Jow -enough to fll their ships. | tween carload and less than carload rate: figure, and they couid afford to make al- | He said ‘there was - competing line con-| , Attorney Pillsbury. representing the job- Jowances for all the freight. - e declared | trolled by parties - in- Philadolphia, and | P 1,,';{,“",‘;,n',“;,.’.‘;,,‘l;_"‘;;i,k’;";;‘ aced & ihat 7 on the coast were rather | their ships carried nearly ail classes San rrancisco, saying that thefr telegram extravagant and bought largely of high- | goods which go by rafl. Fis -firm ‘use every effort priced articles. He thonght an injustice | contracted for four steamers to run. be- d rates reduced” was done to his house because of the dif- | tween New York and San Franeisco, each prehension and was with- feréntials on_small lots, which caused | of capacity to carry 7500 tons wf freight, Nilnon: ‘Thesthent of ‘the N 'O their customers to & to the local obbers |- making the passage by the Straits ot Ma- | 3 Sanutactatilg Company. of" Bt to- fill up their stocks. Theiripolicy, Mr. | gellan In Sixty-three days. ‘One of these | Louis, was the last witness summoned by yrvell said, was to: build up the small | stedmers i now being built in San Fran- | the complainants. Asked to describe the ad- l'cisco, to be ready ne: ay ¢ effect of the tariff of June 20, 189, upon er and hold on ta him.. One of the ad- ['cisco, to be ready next May or June, and t ft o 3 rglw‘\ of being a big concern, Ke satd, | two In Pennsylvanta will be finishedq | his ln"{"ém:? h-l-dln;’s!. dh"o hlulr(lhh: ‘v;]:n: s that. they got -confldential rebares, about the same time and the other later. ‘“'y'~ "mhmula:r" nll'eurlr‘mn\"‘lv'.! for him from the manufacturers. . Theif. stock | The - commission . will it - to-morrow | efther retire from the fleld or ship in cear- tncluded 86,000 »s of articles, and ng to hear ane more witness for de-|ioad lots. If he shipped goods in less than they had no o gainst the rail-| ants- 8n.-the -question. of competitiod | tarioad Jota his whole “profit woutd e He ' was fc by -one Mulgnon.| later day for taking. lestimany. ofi ' the .oy excent the Pacific Coast by SRIpping freightm: or the Paddeck: Hawley Iron | coast, probably .In January or February less than carload lots, he replied in the firmative. Compa. ardwaré House In St Louis, | next 1 of land near Santa Yriez for the purpose a petitioner In Congress for a new post- {of developing ofl, asphaltum and gas. The | office, The rapld growth of business here L Ied hpe Casmalia rancho: | has made the present butlding inadequate. "Development on a very large ©OVer two hundred applications for boxes 8¢ will be commenced immediate! r the receipt of mall are unsupplied The oll indications are said to. be excel- | OWIng to the lack of room. lent —_— - = - Hobart Sits Up. | ARMENIANS AND KURDS He: had salid food and. spent’ mast of mel i day in sitting up in a chair in his apart- | BERLIN, Nov. 16.—The Franfurter ments. 1§ A SUCCES the Official Report on Torpedo Boat. ) ST e Wants New Postoffice. | fighting has HONOLULU, H: 1., Nov. 10.—As soon as | menians and Kurds in the village of Erze- annexation is completed Honolulu will be | roum, Armenia, fifty persons being killed. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, 16,—The OffiCIal I~ | e———— SRR I ias ports on the Holland boat from. Jchn | Lowe, captain U. 8. N,, and the ‘Beard of Inspection and Survey,:the pre of which is Frederick Rogers, U, i were made public to- Both reports nicalities of tke trials have deal at length In the te tri. nd both agree that th been . successful in almost ‘every particu- lar. The trial of the Holland ' boat. . took place on November S before the Board o Inspection and The: start was s made off ew g with run = - - ———] Sy Jur more than when ] , 4 fight were. thiee 4 torpedoes -on " beard:. - ‘The : tests comprised running on_the surface and under the water. diving and_ torpedo ; fir and they were. atl very successful. | Captain Lowe concludes his tec al res ) as follows PO feport my belléf that the Holiand 1s a successful and veritable sibmarine tor- | pe . capable of making a veritible B * at ipon -an nnwm’\ m{,\..x. ’ux ivi . . o I table and that therefore. sh. Costof Living, However, Change in Publication | & of Wil St 5 i g which the ‘Goverr ., mus £ Is Very High. Firm. adopt, nic atians, he savs: Three successive r AN than worthlesshess N e ’ of the D thoughts—wet weather, al Disg The Cail Speclal Dispatch to The ‘.‘.m_ arcovareoat:a "yeargood . the ¥ e o b, <, Nov, 16— Henry Har| surdit et Nor and dent of Hatpeér & Bros., gi- {:-\n-!"nu' of a-real torpedg’ system, such ¢ i compuny ti-uy. George | S1,une,UbmArine Ky | bave alrcady The weather has been d proprietor of the | | ~\Ve Hght .off, @nd right now. Ay : ¢ S teida “ © was elected | submariie torpedo, vessels in Long Isiand warning you ; now its de mor " naging director of Har- Sound to preservé the peace and to give mands are imperative— wh t Is la dded that Mr. Harvey | potency to our diplomacy ; 5. fror t wsed trom the sharcholdérs a | “It seems tqo me quite a recessity that vou will have to get that rext in the company. The or-~| this ';”\“r”m“]'“lx“"\.;'“;‘h\‘—‘n;;:i)n“g ;:;d J s ks anization as comple & me o and knowledge ¢ 0se ow! T-ud: e et B i LIS IR T im:,‘m\: (h-‘-ml{r‘llruull boat ta pass out of new overcoat. y horse President, G. B. M. first vice | its hands from hative to forelgn lands, i o charged | prestdent, Ju!;x\ R. ccond’ Vice | but should rnro:vrr‘ullnfl;;"\ ;-“flr-‘\’m-;l“rfill'll:; : YEal’gOOd overcoats an r . e, 3. Henry T R ehauing. (he Holland: andsp e : W, Selivain; secrés | the Holland people under some han where: sell for $1250, $15.00, cents. Tor e rne - Harper; treasurer, | by they will- be prevented from disclos- ing secrets to the disadvantage = of United States.” JOWA RETURNS THANKS TO 7HIS STATE Executive Council Expresses lu{ Gratitude for Attention Shown Tts Soldiery Hera. DES MOIN Nov. 16—The State Ex- | utive Councll to-d: dopted resolutions | thanking the people of -California, and especlally of San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley, for hospitality and kindness anifested toward the ‘soldiers -of 'the the | $17.50, $20.00, $22.50 and $2500; assortment of everything in overcoats. Remember our year’s re- pairing guarantee. Blue S—e_rge Suits $10 Ten dollars is what we are selling them for, but they are Fifty-first lowa 1(»:xhuam. 0 Governor not ten dollar suits. If it is Gage, Adjutant: General -Seamans and Colonel Beck of -the Governor's staff- are extended personal thanks for their cour- tesies to the soldlers and the lowa party | which recelved them on their return from Manila, while the good: women of San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley come In.| for special thauks for thelr care of the.| sick while the. regiment was encamped in San Francisco. | TROOPS TO BE fair to judge by drawing com- parisons, they are fifteen dol- lar suits. This is one particular item in our host of values. As suits they are really excelient—as ten dollar suits they are really REMOVFD ; 10 s i wondertul. %o Darthor o red except at an | in thirty days.and left the country. r!{,.'y' future. o ""E FROM FORT M'INTOSH : : " , ust worked one little ¢ his s coni- | = ——: = .S | The blue will keep its color to the last—it won’t ADVANCE IN PRICE, Levative E'mado, syselc undex fave franapoets st Homolul | / Lcos . 3 able circimstances $100 a day for a time HQNGLIL 23 T ok e T‘;‘ Presence of Colored Soldiers There Is fade. - The making in the suits is as usual inall our work Ofos 405 Soatnme: 8t o g L it el sy o | 50t Centennial 1ot to-day Tor Sun ran; | Besented by the White Popula- | —first class in every particuiar. g A el J 3 ¢ | on. ey I months - clsco after having unloaded her-cargo. of | ice A 'Ofl;g_fimfly Si.. Room | s B "(Ares | horses. The Turtar, Manatuense &nd Cloy | CHICAGO, Nov. 16o.A #pecial to the > i e __San Francisen,"Cay = ago of &¥ fever. T of Y'«Irirx:vx Ix‘n\r"inu& 3!{1 ‘I;’near,lgml.l_':‘a 'fiw‘:n} Record from Austin, Texas, says: The] Boys Middy Suits B o e brought down the Cleve it nd i yuret In-] recent conflict - between: the colored | Y fot—i & — DR CROQSM o interment in -San’ Francisco. - .’4' have 1"‘!‘::‘“:;:201:(:1““‘1]:' lh)ml:ng | soldiers statfoned at Laredo, Fort Mdn__{ Dark rough (\\il}l cheviot: raundi cornered ;o;! hsihorf collars, ! SSMAN'S T & L Vith horsas ir Manlly e ety |30 enin, anl the ‘llizess o Laredo, | large lapels ; "““_';gm b'“'l ";"’; "'_”p”t' shield ; pants— ~ z IC 3 T D R e discharg v - %in | has aroused’ such a bitter feeling againet lined ; tap=d s:ams, elas i: waistband ; ages 3 to g years. SIPCCIFIC MIXTURE, | 1ot Ittt Sl cronciol | e et bl (o o Borsetln| 158 Sopeet s Siir Tt gt L 1a800 a it ~OR THE oF « e e raakitalid — - | population of Laredo that. the W I F Gleux. atricoors sa_Sonon L i L AR S g Steamer Breaks Down. | Partment has ordered the: garrison o be L azai 0 et (The thihven: got he woik B 2o Ak { temporarily abandoned and the troops re- | [ sale by ‘draggists. By et Y e g oy | KINGSTON. ‘Jambica;. Nov. 16:-The | rovad to Fort Bem Hoprmils, roop An. | Murphy The Jatice was Hghtly cad. and | Steamer Admiral Schley, from Kingston | tonlo. The . colored trooss taiiosna ot | for Philadelphia with fruit, on Tuesday, | was reported last night to have broken down and to be drifting Pl“hl miles off Port Morant,. The-Admiral Dewey was dispatched at midnight to aseist her and | to tow her to Port Antonio. - These are all the details known as this dispatch is ) sent, it 1s supposed the exposure hastened his death Price 1 i HOUSANDS CK PEADACHE, GIDDIN oy N, Torpid Liver. Weak Stq ies and pur , the biood. s Indian have Marietta at Gibraltar. PORT SAID, Nov.- 16—The TUnited m- | States gunboat Marietta has arrivéd from | Gibraltar on her way to Man 'a. 4 Fort Ringgold. Texas, to Fort 8am Houston, il 0Oil Land Leased. SANTA BARBARA, Nov. 1f.—State Sen. ator Morehouse and three business men of San Francisco to-day leased 3350 acres 1l also be sent Out-ot-town orders filled--write us for our new fllustrated catalogue No. 3, ver Freight Bureau. stating that Denver ! _ | Zeltung announces that Dr. Bellek, the | | well known German traveler, reports that ken place between the Ar- | 'BRUSHES | Dreams, Wasting Di $1.00 grade, for S0C 3 regu- lar $1 5o grade, TSC 3 recu- lar $200 grade, $1.00. Down filled, interlined, cov- ered in rich velours and satin damask, regular $5 00, $5 00 and $7 5o grades at one-half regular prices. 041-647 MARKET STREET. FORTUNES IN OIL! CONTINENTAL OIL A DEVELOPMENT CO0. (Incorpoated.) ONLY 6000 SHARES, of which 1000 were put on market and over half sold the first ten days. This is a genuine opoortunity for t vestme The Company United States patent acre tracts in the “OIL BASIN, Kings County, the richest oll bear- entire belt. ve made arrangemen t improved machiner: shortly be boring for vill which time stock cannot be had at any price. NO ASSESSMENTS. A, E. RUDELL, Sec.. 222 Sansome street. WILLIAM CORBIN, Pres. tnantal tourists and trave lers from all over the United States #how their appreciatio the ¢ lence of the PALACE ann GRAND by making these hotels their heada: ters while In Ban Francisco. Fourtesa hund: rooms. %00 with baths—largest and finest in the world. JOHN C. KIRKPATRICK. Manager. VITALIS THE NEW FRENCH.. ' REMEDY.. P e . rmorcanaruen yaow Live. 1 Day. L L 10th Day. woe YiTALS,, o Amove RESULTS. 1iqui GOLDEN MEDICAL DISCOVERY BLOOD.LIVER.LUNGS:| REYNOLD'S BOUT == Few persons need be confined by matism, ifon the firstay Gt o I BITs Tecusatee o this ress- proach TOX dy - then: & single dose 1s often suficient. E-FOUGERA & CO,, 20.30 X Willlam S¢..% FOR BARBERS, P i ers, bootblacks, Lath- houses, billiard tables, brewers, bookbinders, candy-makers, canners, dyers, flour mills, foundries, laund paper- hangers, printers, painters, shoe factories, | stablemen, tar-roofers. tanners. tallors, etc. | BUCHANAN BROS.. | Brush Manufacturers. 609 Sacramento St. W. T. HESS, NOTARY PUSLIC AND ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Tenth Floor, Room 1015, Claus Spreckels Bidg. Telephone Brown %31 Residence, §21 California st., below COKE! COKE! P. A. McDONALD, Wholesale Dealer and Shipper of Coke. OFFICE $13 FOLSOM § 'Weak Men and Women s HOULD USE DAMIANA BITTERS. THE strength to sexual organs. ‘Depot. 323 Mar| Powell, great Mexican remedv; gives heath and ket. Weekly Call,$1.00 per Year