The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 25, 1900, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1900. MURDERER HOFF SENTENCED TO INMPRISONTMENT FOR LIFE Motion for New Trial Withdrawn—Hoff After Hearing Sen- tence Declares He Is Innocent and Denounces . Seymour and Lees. GBORGE F'REDERI(”!'( | :lk / VERE SCKOC K OCK-| ] F HOFF, called Hoft for short, | | 4 ) was yesterday sentenced to life | | risonment in Folsom peni- | | ry Judge Cook for the brutal | | r of Mrs, Mary A. Clute at her resi- | | on Guerrero street, in December, | | e was called Saturday At- e defendant, moved us grounds, but convened yesterday hooler be withdrawn, granted. He then should be sent udge remarked requested him had t to Folsom. Hoft stand and the e sentence upon him. | | pale as death and | | overspread his fea- ook like & demon left the bench “Well, Hoff, ay_ before you of Hoff's face 1 have to thank ur kindness to me rney hard_feelings, but Mr. Hos- kill Mrs. uth will come who killed nother thank- to a family name. | | | | | Lees gave was have been different if I had w glve I am with- OREST RESERVES TO STORE WATERS ——— does not hold itsel? responsible for the opinions published in this col- presents them for whatever value they may have as communications general interest. EDITOR OF THE CALL: 8o much has been said of late about the necessity of ment making large reservations of the timber lands on the mountains for r the water supply for the valleys that 1 desire to say a few important subject through the columns of your paper. I have the Slerra Nevada mountains and have observed many things tter of water supply which enable me clearly to know that the of preserving the timber to save the water supply Is a that no such necessity exists. It s not the timber which keeps the ground; on the contrary, the timber melts the snow off by its It is an easily demonstrated fact that in winter where the t the greatest degree of warmth exists. Go on the mountains e snow is melting off and the most casual observation will e trees are not only naked of snow but that a large space f each tree is also naked, and that every log lying on the ground covered of snow while huge drifts are piled up between them and away f the standing trees. And it is easily to be seen that the great nat snow is piled up in winter which furnishes our water sup- nd among the rough crags and peaks of the high moun- ere is little or no timber, and where what timber there is has whatever for lumbering purposes, for the reasons that the roughness of ¥ impossible or impracticable to get to it and it is of such be of no value should you be able to reach it. Northern California have only to look up to our grand old uge drifts of eternal snow look down upon them from nile the great forests around its base are not only desti- ent a most balmy and delightful atmosphere. And so it is nountains; just as soon as you get down to these bodies of tim- 1 a character as to be suitable- for lumbering purposes and reach of the lumberman’s ax, you are out of that snow from r supply of water is obtained. Take, for instance, the large and f tmber, consisting of sugar pine, red fir, cedar and several ne, which lle in the eastern part of Butte and Shasta counties ssen counties, and there are several hundred thousand acres s lying on broad tablelands easy of access and nearly on a beautiful mountain valleys which are surrounded by these n the winter snow is gore from these valleys it is also gone from 1 good wagon roads are found accessible’to travel through these he spring as such roads can be found in the valleys; and truth in the statement that these bodies of timber hold back the valleys in summer. Yet, it is these vast bodies of tim- et aside as Government reservations, under the mistaken no- will become deserts for want of water should the lumber- to gather In the vast stores of wealth which are embodied in ands by applying their products to the supply of the wants and neces- kind o wh save been thus placed within easy reach of the lumberman's ax se of adding to the wealth and comfort of man, and the improve- by their They were never intended by the Creator to idleness, just to grow up and then tumble down and rot on the here be any merit whatever In the claim that this tim- water supply for the valleys, the harm contemplated as a result amply provided against by nature’'s speedy restoration of the Through all these mountains wherever the timber has been cut tely springs up with wonderful rapidity, producing a for every old one removed. This fact is well known nowledge of the mountains. And -as it would require e these vast bodies of timber, it would result that before the e cut down a new forest, more dense than the old, would have f that which had first been removed. Thus, the forest would be is now, for trees, like men, grow old and dle, and as the oid ground, the young one rushes up to take its place; but st to the world, while if removed by the lumberman’s ax the lies a want of man, and the transformation of the forest from the old ew becomes more speedy and greatly more beneficfal to mankind. Then, b erman’s ax does not sweep the forest clean; it is only the matured or near- ¢ matured trees which are taken, while the young trees and undergrowth are left, furnish the largest half of the shade and of the snow or water protec- f there is any such thing. To this add the new growth, and very soon the sald- se. . protection is greater than under the original conditions. But there is another condition which should not be lost sight of. Large bod- {és of these timber lands have already been purchased from the Government, and id by individuals. These lands cannot be included in the contemplated and a Government reservation of the lands not held by individuals eat monopoly of the avallable timber to those few individual holders. of mighty outcry by the masses of the people against monopoly this great Government should not induige in any act which would create so great a monopoly in the distribution of those gifts of providence which are intrusted to i1s keeping for distribution among its people. And there are many reasons for believing that this clamor for Government reservations of timber lands is largely promoted and pushed forward by those who have timber and timber lands for sale. The people of these mountain valleys and mining camps feel that they have an terest in these grand forests, for they constitute a large share of the wealth of he country in which we live. This timber is largely required by us in the devel ment of our mines and in the improvement of our farms and homes, on lands ch we have bought from the Government without timber. Our mining Indus- ries in these mountains are in their infancy. We are just beginning to realize we live in & land of hidden treasures, the great storehouses of which we are jearning how to unlock; and the timber which surrounds and covers up mines is just as necessary to our future prosperity as are our mines and nomes themselves, These timber lands loom up conspicuously in'all our hopes P pectations of future prosperity. ed much of these vast fields of timber here, and the markets of the calling for their products. The people who live in these mountains and 2 & this day 1 are eye and mining camps, they who have opened up to the sunlight and to the rid 80 many of the hidden treasures of these eternal hills, and who have so ely enriched this country and the world by their energy and industry and ng adventures, feel that they have a right to share in the wealth which a proper a4 disposition of these vast forests will distribute among them; and that these forests apart as a Government reservation, to stand in silent, unused just to grow up and then rot down, is to unjustly tie our hands and to r industries, and destroy our prosperity and to cut off our best hopes of times to come. e foregoing lines T know I am expressing the ideas and wishes of every nd thoughtful man in all the mountain valleys and mining camps of the of the Btate, and in their names and Interests I most solemnly pro- <t the contemplated reservations of timber lands by the Government; . their names and interests I call the attention of our members of Congress to these matters of such vital importance to our people, and demand of them that they see to it that we are not wronged by such wholesale slaughter of our best interests. E. V. SPENCER. Susanviile, December 17, 1900. & a leer on his | | t George Fred- f retorted | Ju =3 | HOFF, THE MURDERER OF MRS. CLUTE, DRAMATICALLY DECLARES_ | | AFTER SENTENCE H PASSED UPON HIM THAT HE IS IN- NOCENT AND HAS B A VICTIM OF PEF “UTION. | 2 — - = woman? The motive that and | if he ever got any money he would yet | ;va. him for all that he had done for him, | he hoped that if anything arose to do not blame | my family name. Apparently bhis innocence that Schooler would - me. Bvery | out money and friends, but I am not.’ et greed stand in his way to help s wife. Why | As Hoff was led out of the indicate himself in the eves of the urder that poor | he blessed Schooler, ) I e o 2 2 g e e 3 e e e el Police Court Notes. | Thomas Nerton, Arthur Middleton and James Noonan, saflors, charged with an ttempt to burn the ship Litton, were | | held to answer before the Superior Court | | by Judge Conlan yesterday in $1000 bonds | each. | A warrant was sworn out in Judge Mo- | gan’s court yesterday for the arrest of | Andrew J. Dale, a baggageman on the | | Southern Pacific Railroad, on the charge of felony embezzlement. Dale bought a piano on the installment plan from W. C. | Hamilton, on which he pald $77, and, it is ! | alleged. he sold it for $250 to Captain | | Rodgers, a dealer in planos, pretending | that he was the owner. Harry Johnston, a sneak thief, saw a | | turkey” hanging from a hook_in front of W. R. Ward's grocery on Third street| Sunday morning and he could not resist | the temptation to steal it. He was ar-| | rested on a charge of petiy larceny and yesterday Judge Mogan sent him to the County Jail for three months. Edward E. Duff, the defrauding rent | collector for Benjamin M. Gunn Co., real estate_ agents, was held to answer | before the Superior Court by Judge Fritz yesterday on the charge of felony embez- zlement in $3000 bonds. John Rogonski, an old man, who was arrested some days ago for assault to murder for striking his landlord, James Rankine, 11 Silver avenue, on the head | with an iron bar, acted so strangely in | Judge Fritz's court yesterday that the Judge ordered him sent for examination | before the Insanity Commissioners. O, K. Olsen, H. A. Sundberg and Harry Smith, three sailors on the ship Crocodile, who were held to answer on a charge of burglary for breaking into the ship’s hold | and stealing cases of salmon, had a charge of petty larceny substituted by consent yesterday. Judge Fritz heard the evidence and sentenced each of the de- “f's-r;ldan(s to three months in the County ail. | Important Change in Trains. On Thprsday, December 27, a radlcal change in passenger train service will be made by the Santa Fe to and from San Francisco. A new morning train will leave San Francisco at 7:20 a. m. daily for Stock- ton, Fresno, Bakersfleld and other valley points. The California Limited between San Francisco and Chicago will be inaugur- ated, leaving San Francisco dally at a. m. and arriving dally at 5:55 p. m. This train will carry only first-class passen- §ors - Qne chair car will be run between an Francisco and Bakersfield to accom- modate first-class local passengers for Stockton, Merced, Fresno, Hanford, Vis- | alia, Tulare and Bakersfield. ¥ The Stockton train will leave at 4:20 m, instead of 4:10 as heretofore. The Daily Overland Express will leave at 8:00 p. m. instead of 9:30 a. m. as here- tofore. This trsin will carry the Fresno sleeper, and the dining car “will serve breakfast going into Bakersfield. Arriving In San Francisco, the hours will be 8:40 a. m. instead of 8: The local will arrive 11: . m. as at present. The Overland and the California Limited | will come over on the same ferry, arriv- ing at 5:55 p. m. dail —_———— HABEAS CORPUS CASES ARE TO BE EXPEDITED | Chinese Emigrants Will No Longer Board for Menths at Uncle Sam’s Expense. In order to put a stop to the practice of allowing Chinese habeas corpus cases to plle up in the detention shed or in the County Jail, United States District J: de Haven published the following “r‘fflfi yesterday: When a writ of habeas corpus has been fs- sued in behalf of any person claiming the right to enter into the United States as a citizen thereof, and the case has been re- erred, the person in whose behalf such writ was issued shall upon the return day named in the writ be taken before the special referee to whom the matter has been referred, and such referee shall immediately fix a time for the hearing thereof, and ghall proceed and hear the same lpon the day so fixed. and If at much time no_testimony is presented, and no suf- ficlent cause is shown for & continuance, the !Kscll.l referee shall at once report to the court the fact of the fallure to offer testimony and the sald writ shall be discharged for want of prosecution, and the person in whose behalf the same was issued remanded for deportation custody whence taken, unless for good hown the court shall otherwise order. ‘When the report of the special referee in a roceeding under the writ of habeas corpus has en filed with the clerk and the case shall be placed upon the calendar and heard by the court upon. the next day after the date of the filing of such report, unless the court shall grant further time within which to file ex- ceptions to the report of the special referee. ———— A Champagne Triumph. Unsurpassed and remarkable quality of G. H. Mumm's Extra Dry is cause of 109,- 321 cases imported to Dee. 1. 1900, or 72,13 more than any other brand. Special at- tention is called to the remarkable qual- ity of the Extra Dry. . ————— Murder Charges Dismissed. | The charges of murder against Drs. George W. O'Donnell and Ernest A, Boehm in connection with the death ot Mrs. Annie Glddh:in of Santa Rosa were dismissed by Judge Conian yesterday. The Judge remarked that there was no evidence whatever against the defendants, e The Challenge Is Out. ‘Wednesday, Janvary the 2d, the great challanga will take nlaca in this city. * | poned on recommendation of the Judi- | age of his ordinance limiting the helght | gerous to life and limb. Brandenstein said | On the ground that the work should be | | print. FRANCHISE MAY BE TRANSFERRED Amended Ordinance for Illi- nois Street Passed to Print. —— Supervisors Refuse to Rescind Central Theater Permit—Board of Works to Aidd in Spring Valley Investigation. pULE 2 T The amended ordinance granting the San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Railway Company the right to operate a raflroad on lliinols street from Fourth street to First avenue south was passel to print by the Board of Bupervisors yes- terday. The amendment merely allows the transfer of the franchise to the Atchl- son, Topeka and Santa Fe Raflway Com- pany, which controls the entire system. The ordinance will femain in abeyance for ninety days under the charter, when it will be taken up for final passage. Vice | President Payson of the Santa Fe road called attention to the interesting fact that the original ordinance granting the franchise was never legally adopted by the board as it was finally passed a week after it was passed to print, when final action should not have been taken for ninety days. The resolution rescinding the permit granted to the Central Park Amusement Company to alter a building on Market | street near Eighth was indefinitely post- clary Committee. Another resolution was passed to print directing the Tax Collec- tor to issue a license for the Central Theater. The resolution recites that it was an existing theater when it was al- tered and as such is not subject to the stringent provisions of the ndw theater ordinance. The committee reported that the bullding complies reasonably with the ordinance and is as safe it not safer than some other theaters. Booth made a strong plea for the pass- of fences to seven feet. He argued that fences higher than seven feet were dan- the ordinance was not in legal form and | the regulation of dangerous fences was a | matter for the Board of Public Works “Li.e ordinance was indefinitely postponed. Brandenstein gave notice that the Ju- | dietary Committee will draft an ordinance | compelling owners of adverusing fences | to give 4 bond to indemnify the city agalnst any damages resuiting there- | from. ‘The bill regulating the use of public streets for the purpose of placing therein | pipes and other condults in supplying gas, | water, electriclty, power, etc.; proviaing | for fees to be collected for inspection and surpervision of work of excavaung an restoring streets and the application the same to defray the cost of such in-| spection and providing for damages and indemnity for damages, was passel to print. McCarthy opposed the ordinance done by the Board of Public Works and | not by the corporations using the street; The ordinance providing for an expei diture of $6500 to refit various offices in the City Hall was referred to the joint Committes in Public Bulldings and Fi- nance. / The_expert of the Finance Commitfee was directed to report the amount of the | floating indebtedness of the forty-first, forty-second, forty-third, forty-fourth and fiftieth fiscal years and for the un- pald teachers' salaries for the fiftieth fis- cal year as specified in the constitutional amendment adopted at the last election S0 that the same mav be provided for in the budget of the ensulng fiscal year. Ths Finance Committee will determine the date that interest on the claims shall cease to be computed. The National Sporting Club was grant- ed a permit to give a boxing exhibition in January. The Clty Engineer and Board of Public Works were instructed to begin an in vestigation of the value of the lands and water rights of the Spring Valley Water Company actually used to supply water. If an expert is necessary to determine the values the requisite ordinance will be passed. Reed opposed the appointment of a land expert which prompted Comte to say that he would not give two cents for the opinion of the Public Utilitles Com- mittee on land values. The ordinance appropriating the sum of $1000 out of the urgent necessity fund fo= the purchase of an X-ray plant for the City and County Hospital was passed to McCarthy attempted to have an amendment inserted providing for the purchase of an apparatus of ~American manufacture, but it was lost. The ordinance authorizing the expendi- ture of $457 to heat the chambers of the board was defeated on recommendation of the Finance Committee. McCarthy introduced an ordinance pro- viding for the establishment of a public | ouns so as to Include the whole city. t was referred to the Police Committee. —_— Justice After Ten Years. | Probably there are but few cases described in | the annals of courts of justice in which we can read of euch an extensive Imitation of labels as in the case of Saxlehner vs. the Elsner & Mendelson Company of New York. Andreas Saxiehner of Budapest, Hungary, the late proprietor of the eprings which yleld the | well-known Hunyadi Janos Natural Aperient Water, introduced this water into the markets of cur American continent thirty years ago, and ever since Mr. Saxlehner's death his widow, Mrs. Emile Saxlebner, has been continuing the business. This natural water became a favorite with the medical men, as well as with the consuming public. The sweeping victory of this natural water over other aperients induced competitors to ( make use of the great reputation of Hunyadl | Janos, and the Eisner & Mendelson Company | of New York found it & profitable business to | put upon the market of the United States a water in a style of bottles and with labels closely imitating the bottle and label of the genuine Hunyadi Janos water, ‘About four years ago Mrs. Saxlehner die- covering the unfair competition, brought suit against the Eisner & Mendelson Company. This suit came to an end In the Supreme Court of the United States in October last by a decis- fon of that court, by which the Bisner & Men- delson Company was ordered to stop the using of such imitation bottles and labels and to pay over to Mrs. Saxlehner all the profits which they had made by the eales of the imitation since the inception of their business. The public will hereafter be safe in getting the genuine Hunyadi Janos Water, especiaily if 1t will take the trouble to observe that the bottle bears the well-known biue label with red center panel and the full nameé, Hunyadl Janos. ——— CONSCIENCE-STRICKEN MAN CONFESSES HIS MISDEED Unknown Man Pays for a Window Broken Over Four Years Ago. After all remembrance of the affair had passed out of the minds of Abramovich Bros., who formerly conducted a store at the corner of Clay and Polk streets, they were surprised yesterday to receive a let- ter containing $4. A brief note inclosed read as follows: “‘Some years ago I broke a window in your store at the corner of Clay and Polk Streets. Accept Inclosed in payment. “We have no recollection at all of the occurrence,” sald one of the brothers yes- terday. ‘‘We moved away from that neighborhood some vears ago, but the al evidently followed us up. We ln‘;%{'lemlly Tor his honesty.'" Sianle A Christmas Reconciliation. The suit for divorce brought by Mrs. Catheripe McSheehy against James Mec- Sheehy, filed last January, will not come to trial. Mrs. McSheehy alleged cruelty, and last Wednesday her husband filed an answer denying the charge, and also a cross complaint asking for a decrece, also on the ground of cruelty. But since the filing of the answer the parties to the sult have come together apd have made their peace. i e Ladies Are Especially Invited. To-morrow will be a gala day for ladies, Shoes that cost $2 5 a pair will be placed on the table to pick from for only 75 cts. a palr at bankrupt shoe sale of the Cali- | her way | teels mortified, and assures himself with | his possession are not sardines. | take when he explanis loftily to his do- ! as fast as they know how, and yet the | loni | salting factory, and the remainder are WHEEL OF A TRUCK CRUSHES HER HEAD Miss Monica Higgins Meets Death on Market Street---Driver Arrested. < rsT MONICA JHIGEINS, X | is terday afternoon at 5:3 o'clock while on home. The wheel of a truck driven by J. M. Forrest passed over one slde of her head, crushing in the skull, breaking the jaw and inflicting other in-| juries. At the time the accident occurred Mar- ket street was crowded with cable cars, trucks and other vehicles. Police Officers Cook and Roedecker were on the crossing, but their view of the accident was cut off by a passing cable car. Miss Higgins efther attempted to take a car or was on her way across the street to go to her room at 24 Sixth street, only half a block away. Forrest, who was badly intoxicated, was driving his team at what he claims was a fast walk. He says he did not see the woman, and the first he knew of any ac- cident was when some one checked his horses before the hind wheels had a chance to further add to_the Injury of the unfortunate woman. The spot where the accident occurred was just about six feet from the curb. The injured woman was picked up by bystanders and carried into Zeh's drug store at 1226 Market street. Dr. Wallace F. Raeding was in the store at the time and attended to the woman, but she died within a few minutes after having been brought In. The Coroner's office was no- tified and the body was removed to the Morgue. Ofticer Cook placed Forrest under arrest and took him to the Southern police sta- tion, where Captain Spillane ordered his name placed on the detinue book until it When the average Englishman feels that a taste of sardine is necessary for the purpose of enjoying life, unless he can get Peneau's “Sardines in Oil" he a conviction born of despair that those In So far he is right, but he makes a general mis- mestic circle: ‘‘No, they are not sar- dines. The real fish are now very scarce, so0 that what we generally have foisted upon us are sprats.” It is the bellef of many that sardines are a live fish that flll the favored waters round Cape la Hague, in France, and that in this seas alone they exist; but there 18 no fish called a sardine, any more than there is a fish called a bloater. In both cases the name 1s only applied subsequent to their having been cured, and the name of every fresh sardine is pilchard. Their permanent home js in the At- lantic, between Land's End and the coast of France, but with the summer a long-| ing for change, new scenes, new_ excite- ments, comes over the pilchard, even as it fills the jaded city man, and so he acks up and quits, and when the young Breton 15 supplying Peneau with young pllchards caught in the Bay of Biscay, shoals numbering tens of thousands are swarming up our Cornish coasts, and from Plymouth to St. ives the stalwart sons of the duchy are hard at work, spreading their nets and tossing nightly .upon the dark deep for the sake of t market value of the fish. They ‘‘hike” them In in thousands, but can never catch too rnB-n?'. for no man knows what to do with a pilchard better than a Cornishman. He kippers them, salts them, marinates them gor his Sunday morning breakfast, follows the lead of the Frenchman, and turns them into sardines, packs them into barrels and sends them off to Italy, boils them fresi ries them fresh, an a great point, eats them often fresh with cream. His confreres use them to bait their handlines and spillers, and, in fact, a West Country fisherman finds a pil- chard comes in pretty handy “inside and out,” as the American said. In days of the past fish were only salted, squeezed, packed and hampered off to Italy to feed the fasting Catholics, and at that time St. Ives was the chief center, but nowadays sardining has divided honors with the transportation business, and at Mevagissey and Newlyn factories are turning out the little square tix boxes cry of the buyer is: ‘‘Faster! More! We can sell "em if you'll let us have them.” 8o the drifters work nightly and the fac- tory hands toil daily, and it is good for the people. The method is this. When the sun be- gins to set, out go_the luggers from every port between tne Rame at Plymouth and the island at St. Ives; fleets numbering forty to fifty sail even at the small ports, and when Old Spl has been turned out for the night overboard go the nets, a mile and four fathoms deep beneath the surface, kept from sinking by cork buoys. Then down go the brown sa.s, and the luggers drift with the long walls of net till the small hours of the morning, when the capstan is manned and the nets hauled in. With them safe aboard homewaru go the ifleet little ships, and their little coast towns are filled with fish. As many as 12,000,000 have been landed at St. Ives in one day. The young fish go to ine sardine men, best of the older ones to the hawked around the villages—* cilchard, pilchard, six a ponny, =ix a ponny.” The curing for shipment to italy is somewhat simple. In the seventies the fish were stacked, with alternate lavers of salt, until a mound six feet high had been made, and there they staid with the brine and ofl oozing out of the heap until a foruia. 1506 Market near City Hall av.e | h But a c par: v SRR LT L IR ST o A g - THE UNFORTUNATE VICTIM OF THE ACCIDENT ON MARKET STREET AND THE TEAMSTER WHO IS BELIEVED TO BE RESPON- | SIBLE FOR HER DEATH. i * ad ISS MONICA J. HIGGINS, an) was determined whether to charge him elderly music teacher, was run lwm- munsl'ulmhw;: = ‘Turru;r_ e . BRaEy ctantly Killed | 1ater removed to the Hall of Justice. aver and aliver Wstentiy Kied| iy g4 know that hing hap- at the corner of Golden Gate| janad’ said Forrest after his arrest, in a avenue and Market street yes- | voice thick from the effects of liquor. *I gue: the wheals. jogging home on a fast walk because thére were {00 many ‘cops on the crossing to go faster. Somethin, woman got under the wheels, somebody stopped the horses and then they pulled the woman out and took her to the drug store."” Forrest is one of gaged in the teaming business. He lives at the Newport lodging house, corner of Franklin and Oak streets, and stables in that vicinity. Miss Higgins arrived in this city from Mexico about two months ago and took rooms in the lodging house at 24 Sixth street. She had taught music in a con- Vent in Mexico, and. through the aid of | friends here she had already secured a number of Fu"“’ in this city. She is said to have a sister, Sister Mary Clare, in the Presentation Convent in Gilroy. Several letters containing religious pictures and Christmas cards were found In her room. The dead woman was of a quiet and re- tiring disposition, and is spoken of most highly by the inmates of the house where she lived. Her identity was discovered by means of a receipt for a money order cashed at the branch postoffice in the Emgonum on December 18. In her purse she had about $13 and a few trinkets. W. Dwyer of 2300 Howard street made a statement to the police last night that the pole of Forrest’s truck struck the woman, and that when Forrest saw her in front he turned his horses toward the track. M. King of 20 Montgomery street and Al Rankin of 144 Fifth street support Dwyer in his account of the accident. ool SOME SECRETS IN “SARDINE” TRADE in vogue, the fish being placed loosely with salt and water in stone tanks five feet square until sufficlently pickled, when they are washed and packed into hogsheads. comes apress, and in go the fish to a third of their original bulk. Then the bar- rel is filled up again and the peated until 2500 nestle inside. The atmos- phere inside is rather close by then, so the tub is headed up and labeled ready for shipment. In some ports half hogsheads are now used, as they are a more handy size, and tnen 1300 fish will form a com- plement. sent to Naples, which means something like 112,500.000 fish. The next time a reader of this paper goes to south Cornwall and sees out at sea a long line of twink- | ling lights looking like a “town amid the waters,” he will know that the pllchard drifters are at worl Toasting Sir Francis Drake. Toasting Sir Francis Drake is an inter- esting ceremony. The town of Plymouth consumes 5,000,000 gallons of . water per day, and its first regular supply was given to the town during Sir Francis Drake's Mayoralty. Annually the town indul; in the quaint ceremony of toasting m memory, which is done in this way. The pious memory of Sir Francis Drake Is drunk in water at the head weir. But then the COI'ILIFBH_V drinks in wine, to the sentiment “May the descendants of him who brought us water never want for wine.”’—Pearson’s W eekly. just walked under the | three brothers en- | ‘When the barrel is full down | rocess re- | In 1871, 45,000 hogsheads were | INVESTIGATION OF A FRANCHISE People’s Mutnal Telsphone Company Must Give an Accounting. Amended Ordinance Submitted to Regulate Amateur Boxing Com- tests—Will Resist Removal of Telephones Used by City. —_—— The Judiciary Committee was author- ized by the Board of Supervisors yester- day to determine the advisability of mak- ing a full and complete Investigation as to whether any of the requirements and conditions imposed upen the People’s Mu- | tual Telephone Company in the order | granting it an extension of its franchise have been complied with. The resolution was introduced by Braunhart, who con- tends that the franchise has been for- feited, and the investigation is prelimi- nary to an attempt to collect the bond of $10,000 filed by the company. Reed submitted an amendment to the ordinance regulating boxing exhibitions, which provides that no professional spar- ring or boxing exhibition shall be held in the city oftener than once a month, and that no athletic club or organization shall give amateur boxing exhibitions oftener than once a month and that those given shall be held within the gymnasium of the sald club. Reed explained that the | amendment was intended to abolish all “fake” contests given under the auspices of so-called amateur organizations, and | the ordinance was referred to the Police | Committee. The Tax Collector was di- rected not to issue a license to any organ- ization to give amateur sparring exhibi- | tions. The board directed the City Attornay to take steps to restrain the Pacific Tele- phone Company from carrying out its threat to. remove telephones used by the | city unless its bills are paid. The Mayor's | action in notifying John Sabin. president of the company, that if any attempt I8 | made to remove the telephones the city will proceed against the company by in- junction was sustained. Reed suggestad that the ordinance imposing a license X | on nickel machines be re-enacted so as | to include specifically telephone machines. The matter was referred to the Commit- | tee_on Telephones. | The Board Works was directed to | furnish an estimate of the difference i cost per square foot of the following fout= dations for street pavements: 1. A six-inch concrete foundation, such as is generally used for the laying of street pave- | ments. A concrete cbtatned by crushing street cob- bles and using it for a six-inch concrete foundation. 3. A foundation of old cobbles, grouted with | 2 ‘binder course of asphalt or conmerete. The Board of Public Works was directed | to raise the bed of the roadway on Fifth | street, corner of Clara, to the official | grade! | " The City Attorney was directed to give | an opinion whether the city may be | charged with any part of the expense in- | curred in resetting curbings and corner cesspools when resulting from the reduc- tion of the width of sidewalks. The City Warehouse Company was | granted permission to construct a spur track from the beit road along Battery street for a distance of 200 feet. | The Chiet Engineer of the Fire Depart- ment was directed to report as to the ne- | cessity for additional fire protection in | the district south and east of the City | and County Hospital as requested by the | Potrero Nuevo Improvement Club. | The protest of various Scandinavian so- | cleties against granting to Charles John- | son under the name of the Bvea Society | a permit to hold a_masquerade ball in | Saratoga Hall on December 29 was re- | ferred to the License Committee. The Board of Works submitted a lans | ordinance prescribing general rules an | standard specifications for street and | sidewalk work and for asphalt and wood- | en block pavements. The two last men- | tioned pavements are not now included in standard pavements to be laid by prop- | erty holders and accepted by the city be- | cause they have not been laid in such a manner as to insure their durability. If | the property owners shall exact a proper | guarantee maintenance bond and transfer | the same to the city these materials may then be accepted. The ordinance was re- ferred to the Street and Judiciary Com- mittee. SANTA CLAUS VISITS NURSERY. Splendid Exercises and Frolic Round a Christmas Tree. Santa Claus, resplendent in a briiliant red coat, white furs and snowy whiskers, held undisputed sway at the San Francis- co Nursery for Homeless Children yester- day afternoon. A splendid Christmas tree, with its branches generously laden with gifts for the little ones, shared the honors with the old saint and brought joy to the seventy-five youngsters who are sheltered in_the home. The children had prepared a. splendid programme for the occasion, and carried it out in a most enjoyable manner. Sing- ing, recitations and fancy marching filled in the time until the tree was stripped of its treasures and the little ones were bountifully supplied with toys and can- dies and all the good things that makes | Christmas the joyfu! day it is. Mrs. Pew, the president of the nursery, was present, as were also the ladles who constitute the board of directors, and they ve ample assistance to oild Kris in the istribution of his gifts. Huntington Back From the East. H. E. Huntington, vice president of the Southern Pacific, returned from the East last evening. When Mr. Huntington wea< to New York three weeks ago it was re ported that his mission was to dispose of the Huntington estate's Interest in the Southern Paclfic. This has since been de- ‘nled. but Mr. Huntington declined | make eny statement on the subject I nig! 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