The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 1, 1900, Page 11

‘'l SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1900. 11 UNICIPAL LIGHT |FRATERNITIES PLANT QUESTION | 70 COOPERATE LEFT TO PEOPLE| WITH NATIVES s to Be Given Chance|Navy Yard Will Receive to Express Wishes at All Visitors During the Special Election. Celebration. iy = Committee on Public Utilities Will So Recommend. Offer of Electrical Concerns v visors® List of Larger Contributions That Have Been Received by the Finance Committee Up to Light City. 5 Dato. o o A ~ Anadent Order of Drulds, The Urited through » a Eecretary: Graves, notified » grand marsh sterday that it had ed to accept the invitation to | that the order would be repre- | ugh Gran streets and build- g stated that his assc 1ted by two emblematic floats. To date ill construct the pi the - las nal organizations that | 0 arc lamps and have decided to co-operate with the order | mps at a cost of $1,000,00 which the eity is 10 iip of the plant are as The Ancient Order ot . the Improved Order of ters of America, the 1y to lease the plant for twe Ancient Order of Foresters, the. United | nnual rental of Asiclebi i Draids, the Hermann's | of the term of th lent Order e ey | ¢ Honor. } g e o , commandant of | S'Island, has writ- | tachment of ma- | , will_take part | er agreed nt 10 any ghts. Th pla Kahn promises to visit | in the near future to secure n the naval parade of | is. | of the joint committee | ¥ t the meeting ¥ ext Friday motion will be made to | < ave & bay excursion at the time of the | nehing Jof the Wyoming, on Septem- The paid fire department division of the will Include the following appara- st fire engine and hose . fully equipped; new water tower, mical engine and one monitor bat- p- | wago: epts | One © he naval militia of Santa Barbara has doned fis annual cruise in order to d the celebration, and it promises a g turnout in the parade. consulate for Norway will submit design for a national float to the com- mittee to-night. | » French eolony, through the com- per night | mittee that had charge of the fall of the Bastile celebration, has promised to make up a division, in which there will be an amps shall 2. | that in twenty he city will | appropriate float $1,00¢ y it the | The bay excursion on September 11 will r cepted. Fur-{inciude a trip to Mare 1 and Com- and, vy yard has no- Boldemann that . welcome, and it ary xcursion steamers will be plied with water. Members of Quin TS Was post-|mandant Miiler of the n { the com- | tified Assistant Secretar. 1t a recom- | th the board. | ion so that the - Parlor No. 131 have ided to parade th rysville Parlor, Bequc Parior No. 160 of this city will | parade 130 strong. The parlor uniform o | will of a white shirt, gold sash ers and white crush hat c band. . J. Alpen has been named as aid to the grand marshal. Golden Gate Parlor No. 29 has secured | headquarters in R'nai B'rith Hall. It has olden Gate Drill Corps band ces and_the Eintracht Drum P of Crescent ed to join with Gold: . The Veteran Gua invited to accompany an escort Corps in the parac A. R., has been the parlor a 3 A special Golden Gate parade feature will be old prairie wagon just as it ap- crossing the plains in early he wagon will be drawn in the y twelve oxen. P. A. Kerrigan, r member of the parlor, residing ty, promises & live bear as a headquartérs will be the t rous entertainments. A ball cn the night of Monday, er 10. F, H. Suhr Jr. hasbeen id to the grand marshal ; Suhr hav sented him 1 ald’s hat elaborately decorat- ed with black ostrich piumes.” The celes | bration arrangements of Galden ~Gate ~ Parior are in th !hu‘:\d\‘ of l\l\w‘[-_\.lhmhlfl Wit ] named officers: Chairman, Adolph Eber- BUY STATIONERY - B 3 L H rt; viee chairman, Joseph J. ing- 1 | cretary, T. C. Comny; treasurer, IN THE OPEN MARKET | Pasauale, - Olympus Parlor No. 182 announces new | par: features. Arrangements have been The ervisors’ Printing Committee | m: ave the banner carried on an | e. Another feature will consist s a Way to Avoid Injunec- tion Proceedings. 1 representa ornia in 1846 d riding a donke of tr . the get-up to nsportation in has decided 1o join resno. The uniform pariors will be both novel and It will consist of white duck white silk shirt, Mexican som- irge red silk sash trimmed with | gold fringe, and a silk nec Bamboo canes trimmed with red, white and blu ribbon will be carried bt ® - el o executive councl) of finance has JORTINE B3-1he 14 city into f ix districts. ders at the ent of various sub-committees to & ral districts was made sesterday. the Allied | pregident Kilburn of the Harbor Commis- : p ested that | sjon i5 chalrman of a committee which the low has been engaged for a week in canvass-| ted blanks ing among the shipping men. The com- rown out and | mittee promises a report to-morrow and it ations | js satd the books will show generpus sub- inters’ | scriptions. rchase fund for the celebration commenced which ¥ to assume encouraging propor- com- At a meeting of the execulive last night it was discovered that more than $6%0 had been subscribed in amounts of $100 and upward. The official list of early subscriptions announced yes- Allied Pr ended the pu mark v the. terday foots up 0, and is as follow: Brewers’ Protective Association, $1500; James D. Phelan, $1000; Mrs. Phebe earst, W. R. Hearst and the Emporium, $500 each; Baker & Hamilton and the Mer- chants’ 'Association, 3250 each; Miller, s & Scott and Dunham, Carrigan & 1vden, $200 each; Chamber of Commerce, Raphael Weill & Co. and Holbrook, Mer- Stetson, $150 each: California Street Merchants' Exchange, s Comzany, e Moore: Wilmerding-Loewe Com- ley Water Works, W. P, lifornia Fireworks Com- Montague & Co., $100 T CHOREL AT RULE FOR REINSTATEMENT OF DISRATED POLICEMEN Commissioners Cannot Reappoint Un- less Petitioners Have Taken Civil Service Examinstion Spring V Aier & Co. € any and W. W. each. The Southern Pacific and Santa Fe roads agreed yesterday that the one-fare rate | | should be good from September 6 to 17, inclusive, Instead of from September § to 12, as heretofore announced. | PROFESSOR BURRILL MISSING IN ALASKA | ation. But in the 5 b o % v 21.—Fourtee : et ) cord-| OAKLAND, July 2L—Fourteen school County pecting organized Company . former board, w When the board can- could not oking the teachers of Alameda diemiss. Alaska-Nome Pro: This vhich it not by re = bo not sard indirectly ef- 2id mot Ao by direct act. o BOARD OF WORKS TOLD TO TAKE HALL OF JUSTICE Ordered by Supervisors’ Committee to Accept Building at Once for the City. nformed the Supervisors’ Buildings yesterday pon receipts being ¥ thers, the original Hall of Justice bufld- 1 audit any demands however, that his 1 {liegal or haz- w buflding over to the ¢ ims of sub-contractors must o Brothers before - Board of Public the committes ion of the bulld- with two. other ir to work the beach sands, When the trio reached the goid fields they | were detained in quatantine. After some | delay they got their freedom, but since then nothing has been heard of them. When Professor Burrill left Oakland he gaid that If he did not succeed at Nome he would go inland. Those who are anx- jous to hear from him are inclined to think that he bas gone to some point in Alaska and has not yet found means to | communicate with the outside world. His wife has heard from him several times, but not since he was released from qua antine. She is apprehensive about his continued stlence. The members of the company are: Miss K M. Wertz, Miss £. Johnston, Miss M. Bunker, Miss Grace Fisher, Miss Cora Williams, H Miss A. L Galbraith, Miss Annie Brown, M , Miss M. Shaw and Miss H. i orse i eoa Mary Corltss; Burglar Neatly Caught. Peter Nelson. alias Johnson. an ex-con- yict, was walking along Californfa street yesterday morning, when 8. H. Carter; who lives on East street, him. Carter. recognized a coat was Wearing as one. stolen from. his room some days ago. He notifted Policeman Davids and Nelson was Want Islaj he Nue: 2 s Creck Dredged. rero Improvement Club * meeting at the home of Barduhm, 2% Twenty- its attorney to draw on to Congress ask- reck be dredged by the 10 a sufficient depth ion as fd'r as the old a charge of burglary. He was also wear- ‘19( a 5’(’51 that had beon - stolen from | arter. Battered a Policeman. Elmer Miller, ‘a_ “tough” ‘who has: seve eral times been arrested, was sent to the ‘ub also wants the South- | County Jail for six months by Jm.}fn Mo~ s ¥, whose tracks on the | gan yesterday for b-u}rmg Policeman new bay shore road will span the creck, to | Herlihy at Ocean Beach July 22, wcl?llam ercct a drawbridge at that point so as to | Hill, who was charged with a similar of- permit of navigation. fense, got off with thirty days. ] | our erafy), 11f it is to give | on the w arrested and booked at the Uity Prison on { wh “THE RED LAMP” GLOWS BRIGHTLY Nihilistic Melodrama at the Grand Opera House—Rare Musical Treat at the Tivoli. e D0 BLdh fo o o e e b e U g dn e i S T ot o B e R e o ] Ban andn on o0 oo Zn o o ge 2o o 2 A SR S - Mr. Morosco duction of “The Great Ruby, to be regretted that it did not hit for more blic run. taste ir we than w harmiess and gas FTER all the time and money which and we can can the 10-cent magaszine—such ety-producing perform- KEITH WAKEMAN AS THE PRINCESS CLAUDIA VALERIAN IN “THE RED LAMP,” (Thors, Photo.) -G+ 0-He-O+o of Mr. his pro- it is spent upon ing; than are to’ have no more escape a two melo- it ewbauer, lic efforts. so well from t He has a tremendou y ev contracted last hear w the immense unfortunate effect the flautist, ded Signorina Repetto’s night- et et et et erebete@ who so ignor Ferrari is the barytone whom we remember he Lambardl s voice, abso- en in timbre from top to bottom, an occaslonal which_serves ume off key, with But 'tis a great we saw last week should certain- | Yiice "Alessandro Nicollni got & momens tary opportunity in Raimondo, and it ted, Mr. Morosco last splendidly used, He received a per- “The Red Lamp,” a Nihilis- Miss McNeil was apparent red lam by the P agalin: Nihilistic conspirators of whom her att brother fs chief. ~Demetrius, Chief of K Tiv Pollce, suspects her design and has the lamp removed, and the Princess then goes in person to warn frien by th of "Police of the most v takes Its name from a ¥ cess Claudia Valerian to warn, projected police raids, the band of her brother s and s discovered in their society omniscient Demetrius. suspicious situation she is extricated byl the quick wit of her friend, Allan Villiers, an_American journalist (re who, by the cle bogus letier, turns the table re the audience becomes pronounced daced in her window 1 and his From this iy, a credit to er trick of a on the Chiet en- thusiastic and the newspaper men present &l Lamp n astray). Th wretch (reall the Nihilists ¥ biot the - fourth second acts w made Lackay his example, actors. Such unmeaning st givings t in reality ten Cues 1 am s disagreeable make-up! | Petersburg Chief of Police—surely a type of cleverness, if ever there were one—be | made up to reépresent a retired butcher af- | | flicted with a combination of kidney dis- | rheumatism? utely nothing in the lines to indicate such travesty or probability as this, and Mr. in falling into such grotesquerle, | runs the same risk of offending the taste s he does when he em- repulsive aspects of the er of Svengall. ease and Lackaye, of the audience s - the M nity, intelligene a good actress almost as bad a ere is absolutely pl With such an ex ny as Mr. Re; and Roberts the principals, and ed The real triumph in *“The Red Lamp" lies with Mr. King, the scenic artist, and Mr. Phillips, the stage manager. have provided a scene as first act they beautiful the first Sunday— Aida” ¢ 80, tenor h as. the *Aida™ rarely beautt thréad of & tane: po truly great. actor among the cro: single eéxception of Nice d spirit ose” ETIR enre from i Signorina. by o4 ut sings through her part mfortable. unexeited fashi ~ AL variance with. the tragle Lugjas h lige, Tut she ea;;lal QW with, conscious pride). nearly all newspaper men are g e bad, among these bad |'Wakeman, in a pose truly Junonian, ex claims, “For Russia The action of the play in the first and terribly well-nigh rgy which seemed to (Demetrius), eemed to affect his fellow- nterminable pauses, pensions, cemed to indicate (though, re they did not) forgot- And what an extraordinarily Nance O'Nelll's (they eem to be deaf in Australia). t volce can be trained and must be trained easure to the audience. llent villain in the com- | 10lds it is both strange | nfortunhate that the part of Zazzulic should not have been entrusted to him. | The gentleman who essayed it last night was evidently out of s Villiers, concludes the list of | them who seemed absolutely and satls- | | factorily In touch with his part. Among | | the minor characters Miss Cahill playe the part of a French maid showing a decided talent for ligl as” anything Mr. glven us—with the exception of “A Mar- riage of Convenience’—and that Is saying | a great deal. hope sincerely that the conditions of night performance will shortly disappear and that ‘“The Red Lamp" wiil run long enough to repay the evident care that ‘has been gh'eanDI‘g! T S e G Tivoli. Last ‘night the Tivoll Opera-house set- tled down serfously to the grand opera business of the year. The atmosphere had a little the air of “lights fled and garlands dead”—the afr of Monday morning after ith the ghosts of:the flown' en- thusiasms of Monday night blocking the way to appreciations of The audience was cold, until wakened up by the -big * sextétto in dct second, and then it thawed into vociferous applause. The cast, with the ‘excey Nicolint, Was & complate © ast, with Repetto, s 1-and. for-barytone ofe, was almost as satistactory contingent. R fine tenor, his: pianiss ful, the smajlest, sweetest, softest ssibie to im: fortes are magnificeny. and ¢ hen again b W id—with dimd, an; that. . dn the tripping src*! arda’in Servacall o xh.EJngJ bird Jease). Tp to hi; sweet as & must her¢ be pecarde zation . was t she went, nd a’ word But though | 0od, a few ) is an editor named azzu'ic’ (perhaps his name led him pugh the a m‘scrwm to our craft), brother is killed; the editor him- self iz shot by a former accomplice and curtain treachery of this revealed and the descends as = Mis For Russial” [:the slow; this slow- intolerable by | ossess Mr. and which, from auth such such blank mis- been ‘Why should a St. The able There is abso- | For this | no excuse, since the his depth. . | was the only one of g gremly. t com- very For the Miller _has eparation. NT SYLE. ‘wesday evening. tion of Signor ange from the ano; Rus- errarl, and, it 7 | dnce s imo d_!llcu!e‘l; agine: His his’climaxes aln . he'is the only perhaps the. i he {t: was’ the “condition, attel iiemp an - 4 AtHsy 65 N6 Lucia's Aouht odr mad scene higher: it you Deautiful, clear and ? C, cof prase | B che. good: w tone a ed to; “In Paradise,” iel Frawley has been pi out the United States, has brought him trouble—a quantity unknown in the lines [ of the play or the wuman congeption of ris Amusement Com rison of New York Superfor Court of this $9000 delphia, 28 years h?!&“é al .splendid Heno 8 ear : RT:‘: ol | A -MOITOW _evening. Dffi_néfitn. and 1 fairly good > of Hearts. th the enterprise and fon to detail that ch lf manageme this e nd quite incapable of supply- ds of her part. Mr. Arthur Arthur Buck- | and looked comically like Caldecott's conscientious atacterize the 's grand opera arrange- | ments, Mme. Marquardt, the harpist, has been secured for the season. the second scena received an enthusiastic encore and gladdened the hearts of an audience more usually accustomed to the piano subterfuge for word is used advisediy—of orchestral in- struments, prettiest—the T. DANIEL IS CHARGED WITH FILCHING A PLAY the Comedy. a comedy, future life in paradis royalties and to ain presenting the ority. hav! ting pre: compensation for the dise™ out the country and has taken in at the varfous box offices the sum of $150,000, sum of $9000, they say, Alleged Owners of “In Paradise” Sue Him to Recover Royalties on that T. Dan- :nting through- e he Dar- any and Louis Har- ave filed suit in the city enjoin T. Daniel to. recover play ‘without | Plaintiffs allege that they are the law- ful owners of the play, the copyright from the author. their consent, ing purchased Without has through- Frawley is a renson- Se of the play, and tbey pray judgment as stated. {WILL HELP THEM TO GROW STRONG the Y M.sC Arrives. - MATTHEW C. O'BRIEN. L e e R SRCER S S ATTHEW C. O'BRIEN, the new physical director at the Y. M. C. A., arrived in the city yvesterday and will begin his duties here at Mr. O'Brien comes from ‘Cam- bridge, Mass. He is a native of Phila- old. He is si na Welghs, 177 potnds. HaLoian i mms as a of striking uate- _“Pfhe associ at Springfield, Mass. he physical work at ‘been -in char; The ‘limited to 200, which 1i ‘besn 'tzmiy been -disposed . of. chatrma will preside, and the Genfirfll Se I.Bxh ork n.of the gvmnasi; Tacks ot Oakiand, Al -Pérey, Rolla V. W ¥, - There will be the Y. M, C, geof G. A. Mattern of ndzredfl’i Uiekets “have uénber ‘has o A New Physical Instructor of A R R O i SRR SOSY SRCRY SCRS S ) He holds gymnast and i rsonality. Mr, O‘Br.lt: ation trainin, For the A, er; m committes, Kers will include Se “oy. Secr, fred T Blagk, ‘Black. att and Dr.: B, . music by n,n:.‘_ B B R R e B O SR SR SO SO S Her solo in | al- PHILBROOK IS DENOUNCED BY * THE MERRITTS File Answers to His Peti- tion to Be Appointed Guardian. Brothers Declare the Disbarred At- torney Is Financially Irrespon- sible and Mentally In- competent. PRy S Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 1118 Broadway, July 31 | Answers of James P. Merritt and Fred | Merritt were filed to-day in the Superior | Court to the petition of Horace W. Phil- | Boehnke of San Francisco, who have | brook, the disbarred attorney, to be ap- | Deen divorced for two years, were reunited | pointed their guardian. Every charge of | in marriage to-day, and the cause of the | Philbrook is met by a specific denial,.and | Funion, Arthur Boehnke, was one of the | counter-accusations of attempted black- | Witnesses to the ceremony which made il hie tE Gl mAds: DY | his parents agaln husband and wife. The story is one of a simple German Philbrook is also declared to be financial- 1y lrrespoxislble and mentally incompe- | SoUPle, middle-aged and for years happily bt wedded. In time, however, little domestic | difficulties arose, and a breach was cre- | Philbrook objected to the filing of the | ated in the family. Perhaps both were te | answers, but the County Clerk directed blame, but whatever the reason, Mrs. | that they be received. The answers are Boehnke at last resorted to the divorce | separate documents. Among other mat- | court. In 189 she was legally separated ters James P. Merritt recites: from her spouse. The custody of the boy | “The sald Horace W. Philbrook fs not | Was s0 arranged that both parents had ample opportunity to see him. It was this LOVE FOR A 50N THE CAUSE (F HAPPY REUNION Parents Who Were Sepa- rated by Divorce Again Husband and Wife. e e Mother and Father Pledge Their Troth Upon the Altar of Affec- tion for Their Youthful Offspring. i Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 1118 Broadway, July 31 Because of their affection for a 15-year- old son, Arthur E. Boehnke and Caroline | the brothers. | now and for some years last past has not | arrangement which to-day led to the | | been a friend of him, the said James P. | hap;fi' termination of their domestic | | troubles. | Merritt, and was not at the time of filing | | his_ petition in the above entitled matter and is not now qualified to institute these | or any proceedings for the appointment of | a guardian to the said James P. Merritt. | “He is informed and believes, and there- | fore avers, that the said Philbrook is fin. ancially irresponsible and insolvent, and that the said Philbrook by reason of un: soundness of mind and infirmity of tem. per is incapable of properly performing the duties of a guardian of the person or | estate of any pers The sald Philbrook The lad was old enough to fully realize the position of his-parents. He had ample vidence of the love they bore toward him. He decided to use his endeavors to | bring his father and mother together again, and success has crowned his ef- forts. By mutual consent the boy arranged a meeting a short time ago between his | parents. A few later interviews settled the difficulty. To-day the youth escorted them to Oakland with a friend. The mar- | riage license was procured and Justice | John Stetson performed the ceremony with the boy as witness. The Boehnkes | will reside on Twenty-third street, San Francisco. EXCITING RACE AFTER RUNAWAY SWITCH ENGINE | OAKLAND, July 31.—A Southern Pacifie switch engine got away from its crew at Port Costa this morning and started down | the main line. As soon as the alarm was given an extra engine was started out in ursvit of the runaway, the railroad of- fearing ious colliston would occur at Vallejo Junction. An ex- citing chase began, the pursuing locome tive being put through its best paces for the three miles between Port Costa and | Vallejo Junction. As the escaped engine neared the latter station the pursuer closed up behind and was coupled on the tender. The fireman then climbed into the cab and got the maghine under control. The switch engine was brought back to Port Costa without any serious damage being done. An Investigation into the matter will be instituted by the division superintendent. S CHARITIES OF THE STATE | | Merritt, but is maliciousiy and vindictive- | ly seeking to annoy, harass and extort | | money from him.” The answer further states that Phil- | brook bas threatened to sue Merritt for | attorney’s fees, and should not be ap- pointed guardian for this further reason. | Merritt denfes that he or Frederick Mer- | ritt is weak-minded, that he is under the | control of any person or that his prop- | erty is in danger of being despoiled. | | _ Frederick H. Merritt _and his wife, Louise Brown Merritt, the parents of | three of the Merritt children over whom | | Philbrook seeks a guardianship, allege | the competency of the elder Merritts, de- | clare that the three children of Frederick | Merritt have no interest in any property whatever and that the only interest pos- sessed by the two children of James P. Merritt is the beneficlary one which they | have under a trust deed, held by George | W. Reed and Emil Nusbaumer. | | The actions of all parties in the Knowles | trust case are related at length to show | ! that the interests of the minors were properly cared for. The Merritts are will- | ing_that a guardian should be appointed if the court deems it necessary to do so in | | order to determine the Interest of the | minors in the Knowles trust property. | Philbrook is described as “of an exceed- | ingly litiglous, avaricious and grasping disposition.” Tt is alleged that he has |lately sought to be employed by James P. | | Merritt and on being refused wrote black. | | mailing letters to Emil Nusbaumer and | George W. Reed. In these he demanded that the attorneys named should help him obtain emplovment and fees or be | tles here this year. The object of the | denounced in court. | conference will be to take up the matter | Judge Hall sat to-day in Judge Greene's | Of a complete amalgamation of all the re- fdb;mr(mem and declined to hear any of | llef societies of the State and to form a ‘\thF matters in the contest, feeling dis- | State Board of Charities and Correction. | qualified because his brother-in-law, A. | The suggestion for the conference comes | A. Moore, Is one of the persons attacked from Catherine Felton, superintend- by Philbrool The hearing was continued | ent of Assoclated Charities, Her views until August %4. | were entertained last evening at a meet- S SRR ing of the executive committee council. CHARGED WITH VIOLATING The call for the conference will be made THE EIGHT-HOUR LAW after the next meeting. | Labor organizations are determined to SEVENTY YEARS OF AGE enforce the Federal statute which forbids AND §IIL—LA CRIMINAL | contractors to work their employes on | | Government jgbs more than elght hours| OAKLAND, July $1—Seventy-year-old | Jobn Kearns was landed tn jall this morn- per day. Several convictions have been | had in the United States District Court in | Ing charged with petty larceny. Besides being old in years Kearns is old in crime, this city, the last being that of the At-| S nhe b x 3 lantic, Gulf and Pacific Company, which | thoUgh he has never risen to the dignity case {s now before the United States Cir- | p oy STone, I$eqeniat, Most of his life has cuft Court of Appeals, The defense here- | gffenses he has committed s Kearns was arrested by Policeman | tofore made in such cases has been that Langworthy, who saw him prowling in a | the work was one of emergency and | therefore not affected by the Iederal | back yard on Telegraph avenue. In his possession were two monkey wrenches, | statute, but the contractors have not been | He was looking for more plunder when the officer grabbed him. !abletto establish that defense by legal roof. :'Tl‘:gd new complaints were fled in the et S ot T | Unf ates Dfstrict Court vesterday, | the complainant being E. L. Reguln, spa: West Berkeley Girl Eloped. clal agent of the State Labor Bureau.| OAKLAND, July 3l.—Thomas N. Noble of 1400 Sixth street, West Berkeley, ap- The first case Is that against Darby Lay- | o peared at the County Clerk’s office to-day, d‘on, w{‘m li-ll sccuaedd v:or&ng his em- ployes ten hours per day in the construc- f hi Tion of @ drawbrldge and 1ts approaches | Neble® The Eirl. thoush snis 16 Somarors: over the tidal canal near Fruitvale av- |js thought to have eloped with a deserter enue, Oakland. The second complaint 1S | from the army named McManus. The filed against Clark and Samuel.f“h,,.y(,:r, that the two have gone tg | New Yorl | OAKLAND, July SL—Steps have been | taken by the Associated Charities of Oak- | land to hold a State conference of chari- Henery for working their men ten hours daily in the work of changing the channel g ST ot AP SRR e of Sausal Creek, contiguous to the canal. Ex-Mail-Carrier Insane. —_— . OAKLAND, July 3L—Edward G. Dono- van, for fifteen years a malil carrier in this' city, was committed to the Mendo- cino Insane Asylum to-day by Judre Hall. Donovan, though conscious that his ae- tions are often irrational, is unable to con- | trol himself, and joined with his wife in the petition for his commitment. Pacific Parlor’s Initiation. Pacific Parlor of the Native Sons last night Initiated many new members in the presence of Grand President R. C. Rust, Grand Marshal 8. V. Costello, Grand Trustee Percy V. Long, District Deputy Grand Presidents Daniel A. Ryan, James 0. Gara and one hundred and fifty mem- | bers of the order. Those who were in- ducted into the mysteries of the oraer are: Police Commissioner George H. New- ball, D. Dougherty, James L. Fallon, James Gagan, George A. McCourtne; Alex McCullough, C. L. Ochs, W. G. Mo rison, T. J. Foley, J. Moynihan, W. C. Lawson, George . Lillie, Frank Stac pole, Richard Gnd(refi. George E. Com- stock, Emil Dahl, Thomas J. Murphy, Frank C. Elbin, F. S. Gilbert, George H. Stern and J. J. Welch. As many more will be initiated at a future meeting. The work was by Presi- dent Dorn and a full corps of officers, as- siste? by D. A. Ryan, George B. Stanzen- berger, J. E. Manning and D. L. Fitzger- ald. all past presidents. After the cere- monies there was a banquet. —_———— Chinese Observe Festival. The Chinese festival of feeding thelr poor countrymen will be observed to-day. Stands were erected throughout China- town last night and the ceremonies will be continued for three days. During the t_two days the Chinese have observed he Feast of the Seven Sisters, historical maidens who breathed the breath of life about the second centu:x and who formed great deeds according to the lian mind. All the women and chil- fren, daressed in fantastic garments, cele- brated the feast by vlsmnfi one another and distributing fruits and flowers amogs their neighbors. The souls of the de: are also supposed to be feasted. Stole McMillan’s Pin. George West and John Shaughnessy, who stole a dfamond pin from J. A. Me- Millaf, a horse dealer, in the Olympia about twa weeks ago, had the charge of Sequoia’s Anniversary. Sequoia Parlor No. 160, Native Sons of | the Golden West, celebrated its tenth an- | niversary last night by a banquet in an | O'Farrell-street .restaurant. There were | present nearly 130, including Charles B. orres, E. F. Donnelly, W. P. Johnston, 3.A. Bpilier, James H. Dohohoe and W E. Linsley of the first board of officers. After the menu there were responses to toasts by Grand President R. Rust, Grand Trustees Percy V. Long and J. L. Gallagher, Deputy Grand Presidents Wynn, Hanley and Egan, James Fraser, President F. H. Cranz, W. P. Johnston, | L. C. Pistolési and Louls Bannon. There | Were also songs and instrumental music. | ———— | Stanford’s Smoker. Stanford Parlor No. 7, N. 8. G. W, gave a smoker to its friends last night in Shasta Hall, Native Sons’ bullding. More | than 200 attended and were treated to an excellent programme, prepared by the 0od of the order committee. of which ruce Cornwall is the chairman. There was @n enchilada supper, light refresh- ments and cigars. Fred H. Jung was the sire of the evening. _——— Grocer Severely Injured. Enrico Bottini, who conducts a large grocery, fruit and vegetable store at the corner of Clay and Leavenworth streets, was thrown from his wagon and injured while returning from the market to his glace of business yesterday. The acci- jent was caused by one of the wheels striking a rut in the street. Dr. ori, who atténded Bottini, found that his right leg had been broken in two places. —_———— | | grand larceny -against them reduced to | petty larceny by Judge Conlan yesterday | Lieutenant Hayes Off to the Orient. and’ each was sentenced ‘to ~Serve SiX | pieutenant Webb C. Hayes, In the vol- en ‘months in the County Jail. McMillan had the pin: returned to him by a meusenxler boy a few days. later. Accident to a Schoolboy. Arthur: Free, the 15-year-old son of Michael Free, an employe of the Union Tron fio;lu. r';:?hfwl at filfidllllnols street, et t] 'ul Tore £ he Lick School: The: oy, unteer service, arrived in the city yester- day and is stopping at the Palace. Mr. Hayes served in the Spanish war and was wounded in the battle of San Juan. He | also had some experience with the Fili- | inos. The young man is the son of the Ptte ex-President Hayes. He will sail on the next transport bound for the Orfent. ——— ety An Ungrateful Beggar. Thomas Morris went into the store of E. Harris, 826 Kearny street, on Monday and asked one of the clerks for 25 cents with which to buy a meal. He got the money and while walking out stole a palr of énoon st the Li E who was attending the school, was amus- '}ng himsalf bg climbing upon a fenc when he iost his balance and fell a dis- | tance of twelve feet. In his fall he struck an obstacle which caused a severe con- tused wound in his left groin. He was | trousers. Morris was ed and taken to the City and County Hospital, bm‘i’ofiomn andlei. y,..',,d.‘;“}‘,‘.'d';fl ‘where his injuries were attended to, after dyl.bnnlsl ve him four months in the his home, County J: which he was removed to {all the asa | Gregorian rule | which | fm J ice, wi BETRAYED INTO MARRIAGE THAT WAS FRAUDULENT Young Weman Discovers She Is the Vietim of Base Plot. Deserted by Supposed Husband After an Impersonator of Justice Stet- son Had Declared Them Man and Wife. pris R Ta Oakland Office San'Francisco Call, 1115 Broadway, July 31 According to the story related to-day to Justice of the Peace Stetson, Miss A. Cole, a comely young woman, who carefully concealed all other evidence of her iden- tity. has been the victim of a fraudulent marriage ceremony, and has been basely deserted by the unscrupulous man who decelved her. With much emotion she unfolded the de- tails of the plot, which was exposed by her discovery that Judge Stetson had been Impersonated at the celebration of the marriage by some one nOw unknown to Miss Cole called to-day at the Justice's office to procure a certified copy of the marriage certificate. She declared she had been married by the Justice on June 21, at the Windsor Hotel. But the Judge at once corrected his caller by saying he had not conducted any such ceremony, and the visitor agreed with him that he was not the man who had claimed to be Judgs Stetson Then she went Into hysterics, realizing that she had been basely deceived. She told the Judge she had supposed her name was now Kent, but she refused to tell who was the man in the case. Her susplelons had lately been aroused because her sup- posed husband had left her, and had not returned. The records of the County Clerk's office show no issuance of a li- cense in the names that she gave. Judge Stetson has commenced an inves- tigation of the story and was assured by his caller that later she would render him stance she could to discover the culprits. The impersonation of a pub- lie officer for the purpose of performing a fraudulent marriage is a felony, punish- flihlo by imprisonment in a State peniten~ tiary. THE RUSSIAN CALENDAR. A Proposed Improvement Upon tha Gregorian Reckoning. It s stated that the Russian Govern- ment i{s proposing to effect an alteration in its calendar, the dates in which, since the end of last February, have differed thirteen & from those of Western Europe and America: We are, however, told they do not propose to adopt the Gregorian reckoning, but to bring into use a scheme more simple and accurate, and to invite other nations to accept this. It is then to be presumed that the plan in question is that of dropping a leap year regularly ndred and twenty- eighth year, which would keep the calen- dar right and in accordance with the trus length of the tropical year for 30,000 years. Obviously this is far more simple than the ich is this: Drop a leap year in each year the num- ber of which is divisible by 100, unless it is also divisible by 400. This would keep the calendar right for over 3000 years, but if It were further modified by dropping a leap year in each vear the number of is divisible by 4000 it would pre- serve the year in accordance with its true length for 100,000 years. So that the modi- fled Gregorian rule, with an exception of an exception of an exception, would be scarcely more accurate than the above simple rule, according to which the next leap vear dropped, after the present one, would be 2028. Ta prove Its accuracy it is only necessary to point out that it implies having. in- every period of 128 years, ninety-seven common years of 365 days each. and thirty-seven bissextile years of 388 days each. This makes iIn all 40,751 days in 128 years. or the averaze length of a year 165.24219 days, which dif- fers only in the fifth decimal place from the true length of a tropical year.—Lon- don Notes and Querie: —_—— Easy Style to Catch. A good story is told of how a few vears ago a reckless, careless but brilliant Scotch journalist got a position on the London Daily Telegraph. For some esca- pade in Edinburgh he had lost his place on a paper there. He had scarcely a penny in his pocket, so, although he feit himself not at his_best mentally, he went off at once to Fleet street and asked the editor of the Telegraph for work. “What can you do?" asked the editor. And the applicant, feeling he must make a tremen- dous bid, replied, “Anything.” ‘““Anything?" “Yes. Anything.” “Very well, I think probably you're the man we want. I will leave you quite alone for a half hour, then I will come and you must have an article “On anything.” answered the editor. For five minutes the young man sat de- spairing. He didn’t seem to have even tha ost of an idea In his head. Finally an pudent inspiration came. Around the room were files of the Telegraph. He ulled one out, about eight years old, and Purriedly turning the leaves came to an article by George Augustus Sala on Lon- don streets. Seizing copy paper and a pen he raced the clock, and jammed the file back into place only a minute before the grave editor returned. This gentleman looked over the article which the Edin- burgh man had “just dashed off" and said?_“T think I can find a place for you, sir. You seem to catch our style."—Sat- urday Evening Post —————— New Industry in the South. The Little Belle furnace of the Tennes- see Coal, Iron and Railway Company at Bessemer is now making ferro-man- ganese, it being the only blast furnace in the South turning out that product. Ferro-manganese is largely used in the manufacture of steel, it forming about 1 per cent of the product that goes into the making of steel. This has heretofors been imported at considerable expense. For some time past the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railway Company has been ac- cumulating manganese ore at the Little Belle furnace. it having been brought there from Bartow County, Georgia. A stock of about 1500 tons has been accu- mulated, and in the early part of last week that furnace was put to work on it. For the four days it has run on ferro- manganese it has made from thirty-five to forty tons dnlg. Manganese is worth in_the market $100 per ton. The six steel furnaces at Ensley, which are now making about 600 toms of steel daily, require six tons of ferro-manganese daily. —_——— From th» Mare’s Mouth. Sir Robert Finlay, the new Attorney General, like most counsel with a large practice, knows what it is to receive a disconcerting reply from an apparently guileless witness and tells a good story against himself in iilustration. He was en; on a case of breach of warranty of a horse, the age of the animal being the chief matter in dispute, and had to eross- examine & hostler, a yokel with every appearance of simpiicity. “Upon what au- thority do you swehr to the age of the mare?" he asked. “I'm sure of it,” was the reply. Half a dozen more questions failed to elicit from the witness any more specific answer. “But how do you know?" thundered Sir Robert at last.~ “I had it from the mare’s own mouth!™ re- plied the hostler.—London Chronicle. v G Ot American French: They are telling a story in Paris of an American woman who tried to make use of a rather doubtful grade of American Ollendorff French in the hotel, although QU the employes spoke English. Fina iy one of the waiters asked the manager for a leave of absence, and the maitre d'hotel himself went up to solve the mystery. After a violent tirade against the inactiv- ity of the garcon. she declared that his French was so frayed out at the odges that he did not understand what “a bot- tle of embonpoint” was. And it took the manager twenty minutes to discover that she had intended to ask for stout.—New York Tribune. ————— n got its first telegraph line in 1869, T y it has 144570 mil, 14 ol Bas JATE miles & line in serv-