The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 15, 1901, Page 9

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1901. C NO MONEY FOR ST, MARY'S PARK Supervisors Sustain Mayor’s Veto of Bill Making Appropriation. Lot Transferred for Use of Normal School—Repaving of Three Downtown Blocks the bill providing lands for St sined by the There cept- r the final pa otwithstanding £ 32500 out of 2 r a building v and County Hos to the cases infectious dis POX or leprosy was te Normal Sche by the eity street adjof lector e to the low- dth of the from Po- to twelve # the wi eet, the repaving of “sky scraping’ be maintained astitutionality of ) effect on before Judge he amended ory aintenance of nly dangerous and was necessary t nt Works was requested to t certain wheth- he Spear- andard called orks requested rdance with rchitect County - request was Hospital Com- d limits to referred to g the Alta The- a fe struc- postponed urned to meet Saturday clock. ated that the wheat crop in Downs distriet, Queensland, all records, the yield in some s reaching fifty-two bushels per GRAPE-NUTS. " FRAGRANT GRAIN FIELDS. Food That Takes One Back to Child- hood. odor that comes when 1k or cream over Grape- one back to childhood and harvest fields when the nd blew in your face the scent of rip- ed grain and made you oh, so hungry! “Of all the appetizing foods, Grape- Nuts food is the chief. I was led to change my diet and take up Grape-Nuts the fact that I had a very serious, g-standing case of constipation, which “The del zr hof us I originated from coffee drinking. Constant headaches, backaches and a stomach that 1 ead was the condition; while the mind was filled with misgivings of and 1 verily believe I would e gone insane if it had not been for temporary relief from various cures ion, but there seems to be no lief except in good food like for ¢ perma ent re pe-Nuts. & food is the same to a weak stom- as kind words and a gentle touch to an aching heart. All my doubt and fear and distyess of mind disappeared as soon #s I found a food that I could digest and which relieved my difficulties. Life be. came brighter and better, my home a ‘sweet home.” 1 have proved conclusive- 1y that the food is reaMy predigested and that it is a great nerve and energy bufld- er. Of course I can hardly express my gratitude for the relief I have had.” Emma Kauffman, Bismarck, Mo. r be re-referred to | and Harrison | al ABEUMENT HEARD N BOND CASES Supreme Court, Sitting in Bank, Listens to Able Addresses. Mayor Phelan and Other Officials Pay Close Attention to the Points of the Lawyers. —_— Department 1 of the Supreme Court was | erowded yesterday with attorneys, politi- | cians and taxpayers who were yitally in- terested in the arguments on the bond cases which are being heard by the Su- 1 preme Court sitting in bank. Mayor Phe- lan was an interested listener and other city and county officials strained their 1 fo the reasons set forth by counse and against the issuance of the b Ther vita wa nds. wete two cases bearing on this estion and they were combined In as the questions involved ch were alike. One of the actions that of Eugene N. Fritz against the and county of San Franeisco, which the validity of the panhandle bor hd the other is the suit filed by Felix McHugh against the city and coun- wh volves the validity of the sew- olhouse and hospital bonds. In ca demurrers filed by the City County Attorney were sustained and rendered for the city. Appeals by Fritz and McHugh and ar- heard yesterday. sented by Arthur H. E. Naylor. Garret and County Attorney e and Assistant City and G. W. Lane represented city and county. Briefs in favor of e bonds were filed by Joseph M. Roths- 1, D. C. Murphy and J. C. Chetwood. McHugh case, the attorney for the fs Willlam T. Baggett and the i county is represented by Attor- Enerney, Lane and Lane. s were submitted together, as involve three points: That the pro- gs in relation to the issuance of the not having been completed when charter went into effect, the Board pervisors had no power to proceed sue bonds, as the charter intervened; y, that the bonds in both cases alid because there was no spe- ation of the result of the elec- third question is confined to the panhandle case. The appellant contends that the proposition to condemn for pub- lic use these separate pieces of property should have been submitted as one thing, and that a notice of election for the pan- handle bonds should have specified that the bonds were payable in a specific kind of money—gold coin of the United States. | MANY NEW ONES ENTERED IN THE MIDWEEK STAKE Sixty-Four-Dog Coursing Contest to Be Decided at Union Park To-Morrow. A sixty-four-dog midweek stake will be run off at Union Coursing Park to-mor- row. A number of new dogs are entered and a great deal of interest is centered in the contests. Lopez & Son have entered he Levite and Pawnbroker, two likely looking dogs. Lord Chesterfield, by Grand Fashion-Lady of Fashion, gives promise being a good dog and Loyalist, by Firm end-Wee Lassie, second, is picked tc his initial course. Following is the uments, dgment ¢ last night's drawing: R. Smith" McKinle: Midweek stake, 64 entries—J. ] Password vs. Curtis & Be M. & 3 ) ys vs, F. Brown's Tam- Lopez & Son's Warragal a0 de B, B. Lopez & Son's Minnie Wa »r's Freedom’s Banner vs. Curtl A. Deckelman's Belle s. T. W, Bartels' Best Brand; Pasha Royal Anne vs. D. Dillon's_Chal- vie: Stray- ran’s Gold Dollar; Curtls & Sons' Cash vs, Sterle & Knowles' Rusty Gold; Russell & Allen’s Scotland Yet vs. J. Carroll's terfield; Pasha Kennels' Belle Claire Dreadnaught; Y Moo R. L. Taylors Sir Van: ogg’s Crawford Belle vs. Pasha Kennels’ & Knowles Ripi away vs. F. B Zahl's Tony Bowers; J. Kane's Victor Dean's Gallant; O. Z: A. Johnson's Tod S m’ Temple vs. Sterl ara; J. Bmith's Bony Boy ve ¢'s Sweet Emma; Curran Brothers' Loyalist Curtis & Sons’ Echo; J. nte v R. E. de B Lopez & Son's The te: '3, Kane's Master Davenport v Kennels' Racy Anecdote; J. H. McNell's Pearl Nat vs. Pasha Kennels' Random Aim; J. H. McNell's Black Hawk vs. A, nderwaite’s Master Gordan: H. A. Deckelman's Ben Kirby Curtis & Sons’ Kibosh; G. Lennon's Jenny Notse ve. J. Sutton’s (names) ~Gameboy Aeneid Kennels' Aethra vs. Sterl & Knowles Oleta; J. R, McCarthy’s John Dos vs. H. A Deckelman's Flya J. Sutton's (names) Herschel's_Pride vs. Aeneld Kennels' Aga- memnon; Sterle & Knowles' Amarosa vs. cahn's Gold Ore. | —_—————————— SALVATION OFFICERS TENDERED A FAREWELL Richard Evans Bid Good-by to Their Soldiers. Tieutenant Colonels Willlam and Rich- ard Evans and their wives were tendered a magnificent farewell banquet by the Salvation Army at the barracks on Mar- ket street yesterday evening preparatory to their departure for the East, whither they go to assume command of the de- partment about Boston. The occasion will long be remembered in army circles, but not without a tinge of regret, for the departing commanders were very popular among their subordinates. They had been at the head of affairs in this division for over three years and were known in near- Iy_every town of the State. Delegations from the towns about the bay were present to (Bk:dpll"t in the pa- rade, which was preceded by the head- quarters band, and the street parade was the most pretentious of its kind witnessed for several years. 2 | During the course of the banquet many touching speeches expreulns regret at the departure of the officers and commending their work in this State were made. | tumultuous scene of enthusiasm occurred when Colonel Willlams arose to thank his comrade: Lieutenant Colonel French of Chicago will succeed to the command of this de- partment. He will arrive on the 224 and i will be given a reception. —_——— | GREEK REPUBLICANS | HONOR THE NEW YEAR | Banqueters Review the Progress of | the Organization and Make | Plans for Future. The Greek-American Republican Club | celebrated Its first anniversary last night and honored the advent of the Greek new year in a general reunion and banquet at Druids’ Hall, on Sutter street. This club js mow perhaps the most influential so- clety of its kind in the city. It has more | not simply for political purposes, but for the improvement, encouragement and ad- vancement of its members. among whom are numbered some of the most influential | members of the local Greek colony. * The banquet last night was in every | way a success. The members and guest: | Weze ‘welcomed by President N. Vallanos: ’ who delivered in Greek an address which | was treqll:ently applauded. The speaker tu | congra | which it had made, w he mem- | bers to greater efforts of union and or- ganization, A. G. Kosta, the vice president, also spoke briefly but eloquently upon thé need of organization. Speeches were made by E. Antoniades, Alex Feros and M. D. Vanvales. O, C. Pratt, the legal adviser of the club, complimented the members which they had their own behalf. Greek instrumental rendered. Kane's | v Attempt; F. A. McComb's Frosty Morn | Keenan's Mira- | Lieutenant %I:;rwfllhm and | than 600 active members, and is organized | ted “the club upon the progress |- BIG LUMBER SCHOONER FEARLESS ONCE MORE COMES BACK TO PORT IN DISTRESS Damaged in the Southeaster, She Repaired Here and Went Out Again, Only to Be Run Down by the Pomona. UNTIL TOO LATE. WHILE AT ANCHOR OFF BOLINAS LAST SUNDAY AFTERNOON THE LUMBER SCHOONER FEARLESS WAS | NEARLY SENT TO THE BOTTOM BY THE STEAMSHIP POMONA, WHICH DID NOT SEE THE SCHOONER | 3 HE new four-masted schooner Fearless came back to port yes- terday. This ie the second time she has made San Francisco in distress and Captain Lilyquest s now certain that there :s a hoodoo perched aloft somewhere. In the great southeas- ter she lost all her ceckload, and after being overhauled and reloaded here, sh made another start onlv to be run down by the steamer Pomona. On December 9 last the Fearless was put in commission at Grays Harbor and made a start for Guaymas with a full load of lumber. Off the coast of Mendocind she was caught in a gale and over 60,000 feet of lumber was washed away. On December 29 she made San Francisco in distress and the capiain reported one of the roughest times he had ever experi- enced on the coast. The agents of the vessel putanew deck- load aboard and last Saturday the Fear- less made another start for Guaymas. When off the heads it fell a dead calm and a dense fog came up. There was ab- solutely no chance to make any headway and navigation was dangerous, 8o the Fearless was anchored. Along came the Pomona bound, for San Francisco from Eureka and crashed into the schooner, al- most cutting ner bow off. The first news of the disaster was brought in by the steamer Sequofa. She reported the Fearless five miles off port with her port bow stove in and signaling for a tugboat. When the schooner cams back to port Captain Lilyquest reported as follows: “January 13 was lying at anchor five miles southwest of Bolinas. There was a dense fog and no wind. We were at anchor and about 3:40 p. m. we heard a steamer’s signals. The fog horn was go- ing all the time and we did our best to answer back. We could not get out of the way and they could not hear our sig- nals. Suddenly the Pomona loomed up and the next moment she struck us on the ort bow, culungh(hrouzh the forecastle ead and to within a few feet of the water line. “Captain Shea of tue Pgmona stayed by us, and passing a iine began to tow us back to San Francisco. Twice the haw- sers parted, and it was not until 6 R m. Sunday that the Feariess was anchored off the North Bank buoy. Then the Po- mona put about and made a fresh start for Eureka.” ‘According to Captain Lilvquest the Po- mona is considerably. damaged and will have to go on the drydock when she re- turns to San Francisco. The load of lum- ber on the Fearless will be discharged | and that vessel will go on the drydock for | repairs. | The Pomona Damaged. | BUREKA, Jan. 14.—The steamship Po- | mona came into port to-day with the for- ward part of her guard rail torn off, a | portion of her cabin near the social hall smashed in and one of her boats broken in as a result of a collision with the | schooner Fearless ahout 4 o'clock yester- | day afternoon. The schooner was lying at anchor near Duxbury Reef and a heavy fog prevented the officers of the rom seeing the schooner until | Pomona. the steamship was too close to avoid a collision. Captain Shea sheered -off as soon as he discovered the schooner. This action resulted in hitting the Fearless a glancing blow instead of striking her amidships as 1 ould otherwise have been the case. the arrival of the Pomona, Agent Baird has been compelled to change her sailing | time from 7 a. m. to 3 p. m. This acci- dent makes the third the Pomona has met with within a month. The first was while she was crossing the bar December 16, when a wave broke in her cabin. The second resulted irom a severe windstorm, which forced her on January 3 to take shelter at the Farallon Islands. — e NO NEWS FROM THE ANDRADA. Big Four-Masted Bark Now Listed as Among the Missing. The chances now seem to be that the British ship Andrada has gone ashote somewhere on the coast of Vancouver Island. She left Santa Rosalla on Novem- ber 12 for Oregon and arrived off the Co- Jlumbia River about three weeks ago. Pilot Cordiner was put ashore and then a gale came up and the Andrada was driven to sea. Since then nothing has been heard from her, and seafaring men fear that she was the vessel sighted bot- tom up oft Flattery. The Andrada was a sister ship to the Andelana and Andorihana. The former capsized In Tacoma harbor two years ago and all hands were drowned. For ten months she had lain al anchor awaiting a charter, and just when the contract was signed and the work of “stiffening” had begun, she turned turtle during a storm mfi went down. The Andorthana was in the fire that did so much damage to New York's water front last yéur and was almost totally destroyed. She has been refitted and wiil be out here next year, The “Air” line seems to be Flnyin‘ in hard luck and its friends are still hoping that the Andrada will turn up. —_— Water Front Notes. The steamer San Jose was in a bad plight yesterday. Coming down from Port Costa she got a hawser into her propeller and that caused a stoppage of the ma- chinery. Luckily the steamer was near | to her berth at the Mail dock. so the an- | chor was dropped. A diver will be sent down to-day and he wiil cut the rope off close to the hub of the propeller. Then the portion that has become entangled ! in the blades ‘will be ailowed to wear off, The steamer will not be delayed and wiil get away on her regular sailing time. There were only two arrivals up at 5 p- | m. yesterday. There is a dense fog out- | side and vessels will not attempt to come in. The arrivals were the Newark from | Bowens Landing and Bequoia from Fort ragg. The following notice to mariners has | been issued by the Hydrographic Office: |. Notice is hereby given that beacon No. 8, |'nearly opposite Hortons Wharf, San Di Bay, Cal., has d . This beacon will be_rebullt’ as soon as practicable. This notice affects the “List of Beacons and Buoys, Pacific Coast, 1901,” page 12. stetad o sind etz Repairs to the Iaqua. The steam schooner Taqua, which went on Duxbury Reef last 'eeok. l:h being dually straightened uj ver < m hol; fn the ho:!onp'olnvu h'b{?l'; tched by divers and the water has a! pumped out of ‘the after comoart. ments. It is that the cost of On account of the lateness of | putting the Taqua in a thoroughly sea- worthy condition will be $35,000. This sum will cover the towage, dockage.and gene eral repairs to machine: d hull. NEWS OF THE OCEAN. \ Matters of Interest to Mariners and Shipping Merchants. The Winslow loads lumber on Puget Sound | for Callao, 63s; the British steamer Caithness, lumber at’ Port Blakeley for China. Shipments of Grain. The British bark Invercoe cleared for Queenstown for orders with 5 wheat, valued at $53,165, and 16,000 feet dunnage, valued at $240. The British bark Bermuda cleared yesterday esterday ctls lumber for Queenstown for orders with 89,250 ctls | wheat, valued at $59,250, and 18,000 feet lumber as dunnage, valued at $270. The British bark Pericles also cleared yes- terday for Queenstown for orders with 47,192 ctls barley, valued at $42,100, and 19,000 feet lumber as dunnage, valued at $255. pladi s i Notice to Mariners. WASHINGTON. Notice is hereby given of the following changes In the alds to navigation in this dls- trict. The following affects the List of Lights and Fog Eignals, Pacific Coast, 1900, page 40, No. 191, (List of Beacons and Buoys, Pacific Coast, 1900, page 80.) Semtahmoo Post Light—On January 8, 1901, the three-pile beacon from which this fixed red light is shown, in twenty-four feet of water, close to the steep sand bank In Semiahmoo Bay, in the turn of the channel leading to Ba- line, and the entrance to Drayton Harbor, Gult of Georgla, Washington, was replaced and the light re-established. The following affects the List of Beacons and Buoys. Pacific Coast. 1900: Sinelair Inlet, Puget Sound—Bremerton buoy No. 2—A red first-class spar was established January 6, 1901, in twenty-seven feet of water to mark the outcr edge of the muibank near the entrance of the dry dock of the Puget Bremerton wharf (outer s E % E: Long whart at Sidney, 3% E; Flagstaff at Naval Station, W % N. By order of the Lighthouse Board. W. P. DAY, United States Navy, Lighthouse Inspector. Commander, e Shipping Intelligence. ARRIVED. day. Mon January 14. mr_Greenwood, Fagerlund, st 4 hours from Point Los Angeles. Stmr Brunswick, Andresen, 38 hours from San Pedro. Stmr Geo Loomis, Bridgett, 32 hours from Ventura. Stmr Sequola, Winkel, 17 hours from Fort Bragg. Stmr Bureka, Jessen, 26 hours from FEureka. Schr Newark, Beck, 16 hours from Bowens Landing. Schr Fearless, Lilyquist, tress. CLEARED. Monday, January M. Stmr Bonita, Nopander, San Pedro; Goodall, Perkins & Co. Br ship Pericles, Henderson, Queenstown; G from sea. in dis- MecNear. Br_shin Bermuda, Kohn, Queenstown; L Kauffman. Br bark Invercoe, four, Guthrie & Co. SAILED. Monday, January 4. Stmr Brunswick, Andresen, —. £hip Santa Clara, Lindberg, Oyster Harbor. Br ship Alcinous, MacCormalg, Queenstown. Rark Coloma, Beck, Eureka. TELEGRAPHIC. : POINT LOBOS, Jan 14—10 p m—Weather thick; wind calm. SPOKEN. Dec 25, 11 N lat, 22 W long—Br ship Crai- gerne, hence Sept 1, for Antwerp. MEMORANDUM. Per stmr Sequola—Spoke &chr Fearless about 5 miles out, anchored, with port bow stove in. Was in collision with stmr Pomona and wished to be reported. DOMESTIC PORTS. BUREKA—Arrived Jan 14—Stmr San Pedro, hence Jen 13; stmr Pomona, hence Jan 13. Sailed Jan 8—Schr Irene, for Sydney. FORT BRAGG—Arrived Jan 14—Stmr Noyo, hence Jan 13. HONOLULU—Sailed Jan 5—Schr Okanogan, 4—Stmr _ Aloha, ,_from Pe- Lewis, Queenstown: Bal- u my Beattle. PORT TOWNSEND—Passed out Jan 14—Br stmr Braemer, for Yokohama. PORT LOS ANGELES—Arrived Jan 14—Stmr San Mateo, from Nanalmo. SAN DIEGO-—Arrived Jan 14—Nor stmr Hero, from Ko be. COOS BAY—Arrived Jan 12—Stmr Bmpire, hence Jan 0. HADLOCK—Arrived Jan 14—8chr Reporter, from Port Townsend. Sailed—Schr Marion, for San_Francisco. PORT TOWNSEND-—Passed in Jan 14—Stmr Aloha, from Alaska, for Seattle. "Sailed—Schr Expansion, for Port Pirie; schr Wawona, for Ban Pedro; schr Ethel Zane, for San Fran- cisco. TACOMA—Arrived Jan 14—Nor stmr Horda, hence Jan 9. BOWENS LANDING—Sailed Jan 13—Schr Newark, for 8an Francisco. E KAHULUI-Arrived Jan 2—Schr J D Tal- lant, from Pisagua. SEATTLE—Arrived Jan 14-Ship Isaac Reed, hence Jan 5. PORT TOWNSEND-—Arrived Jan 14—Ship James Nésmith, from Honolulu, BANDON, Or—Sailed Jan 9—Schr Nettie Sundborg, for San Francisco. FOREIGN PORTS. WESTPORT—Arrived Jan 11-Br bark Bow- man Biaw, from Oregon. o CALLAC-Sailed—Br ship Senator, for Royal Roads. NEWCASTLE, N § W—Salled prior to Dec 2/—Ger bark Baldur, for Panama. YOKOHAMA—Sailed Dec %—Nor stmr Bva, for . LIZARD-Passed Jan 12—Ger bark Athene, from Tacoma, for. Queenstown. MANILA—Sailed Jan 10—Br stmr Bucking- . for Portland, Or. CALLAO-Sajled Jan 10-Bktn Willle R Hume, for P« Townsend. SYDNEY—Arrived Jan 14—Bark Sea King, trom Moodyville. OCEAN STEAMERS. NEW YORK-—Arrived Jan 14-Stmr SRR e e s:&moflg;;x}’ Arrived Jan l—!;m Kh.:: ven, from Portland, Or. % GIBRALTAR—Arrived Jan 14—Stm B rron New Mock Baled e B henzollert, from for New York LIVER! Jan 14—Stmr Nymi- aian, from Portland. (MANILA-Salled Jan 10-Stmr Buckinghara for. or. MBI led Jan 12—Stmr te !A.' g Grat WA.Y el v -+ LONDON—Arrived Jan 14—Stmr Minneapo- ew York. lis, from X LU Sun, Moon and Tide. United States Times and Waters at Fort Francisco Bay Coast Heights of Point, Published by official au- and Geodetic Survey— High and Low entrance to San thority of the Superintendent. NOTE—The high and TUESDAY, JA low waters occur at the ity front (Mission-street wharf) about twenty- five minutes later than at Fort height of tide is the same at both place: Point; the Sun rises Sun sets. Moon rises. [Time] g | Ft. g g LW \ 6.0, 5:31/—0.9 3 11:30| 60l 6406 NOTE—In the above exposition of the tides the early morning tides are given in the left hand column and the successive tides of the day in the order of occurrence as to time of day, of “the day, the third time column gives the last tide except when there are but three tides, as sometimes occurs. The heights iven are in addition to the soundings on the United States Coast Survey charts, minus sign (—) precedes the height, except when a and then the number glven is subtracted from the depth given by the charts. The plane of reference is the mean of the lower low waters. i STy Steamer Movements. TO ARRIVE. Steamer. ‘ From. Coquille River. |Nanaimo ... Coronado. Grays Harbor. Progreso. | Tacoma Czarina. G. W. Elder....| Portland Pomona. * Humboldt ", Empire Corona. Umatilia. Hongkong |3 |Panama & Way Ports. |Crescent City. Steamer. | Destination. _[Sails.| Pler. | January 15. Argo... Coquille River .....| ¢ pm|Pler 2 Robt. Dollar. |Seattle ..............| 5 pm(Pler 2 Bonit 9 am|Pier 11 Arcata. y 12 m|Pler 13 | Jdanuary 16,7 | |Humboldt .. 9 am|Pier 13 . San Diego . 9 am|Pier 11 1 1 pm|PMSS {11 am|Pler 9 5 pm|Pler 20 9 am|Pler 2 9 am|Pler 2 10 am| Pler 1 .. 5 pm|Pler w .| pm|Pler 2 January 18. | Corona........ Newport .. 9 am Pier 11 Zealandi Honolulu 2 pm/Pler 7 Newpor ./Panama & Way Pts|12 m|PMSS G. W. Elder..| Astoria & Portland/1l am|Pler 24 Czarina. Seattle & Tacoma.| 5 pm/Pler § Pomon: Humboldt .. 2 pm|Pier § January 19, | Polnt Arena.. Point Arena . 2 pm/Pler 2 Jannary 20. Santa Rosa../San Diego. am|Pier 11 — Time Ball. Branch Hydrographic chants' Exchange, January 14, 1901, The time ball on the Office, San ' Francisco, U. . N., Mer- Cal., tower of the new Ferry building was dropped at exactly noon to-day— 1. e o'clock (3 Lieutenant Commander, U. S. at noon of the 120th meridian, or at § G. CALKINS, N., in charge. . m., Greenwich time. BEACH OF CORSICA IS STREWN WITH DEAD Bodies of Men Supposed to Be From the Steamer Leone Are Washed Ashore. LACHIAPPA, Island of Corsica, Jan. 14.—The Italian steamship Lore has been lost. Many bodies from the wreck have been washed ashore. . The vessel mentioned In the dispatch Leone, of 3610 tons net from Lachiappa is prohabli (. Denaro of Catania. the steamship ster, owned by e was 201 feet two inches long, her beam was twenty- five feet one inch and she was fifteen feet three inches deep. She was built at Greenock In 1864, No information as to the movements of the Leone gan be ob- tained from any of the shipping books at hand. i SRR BRITISH TROOPS ROUT REBELS AT DUMBUTU BATHURST, Gambia, West Africa, Jan. 14.—The British punitive exbedition ar- rived at Dumbutu January 11 and com- pletaiy surprised and routed the rebels. The troo; hour's fij 6 wounded and 200 captured the town after an ting. Sixty rebels were killed, captured. Six Impor- tant chiefs will be brought to Bathurst. The British :5“““” were six West In- dians wounded. e BRITISH CASUALTIES IN BATTLES AT BELFAST LONDON, Jan. 15.—The official list of British casualties in the recent fighting at Belfast shows twenty-nine Killed, fifty- three wounded and This does not account seventy-two missing. for the Britis] losses at other points of simultaneous at- tack by the Boers, tein, Nool more than porte » Wonderfon- tgeddacht and fiumm ly shows that u:lhlrl in_that &x‘:fls:l 'len'e ed them to be. A OBJECT T0 STATE PRINTIN OFFICE Employing Printers’ Asso- ciation Says It Injures Their Business. They Adopt Resolutions, Which Will Be Forwarded to Sacramento, Requesting Its Abolish- ment. b s | . 3 | The Employing Printers’ Association cf | California at a meeting held yesterday | discussed the State Printing Office at Sac- | ramento. As a result the following reso- | lutions were adopted and will be forward- | ed to the Legislature, now in session: | Whereas, The State of California is now en- | gaged in the printing business, in competition | with the regular printers and taxpayers of the | State; and Whereas, The furnishing of the State Print- ing Office has cost the taxpayers of the State | hundreds of thousands of dollars, all of which is now claimed to be worn out and useless, | and a demand is to be made upon the Legls- lature now in sesslon to make an appropria tion for the refurnishing of said printing of- | fice, all of which will be useless again In a few years; and ! Whereas, The State Printing Office is run entirely at the expense of the taxpayers, pay- | ing no rent, ‘Insurance, interest on investment | or any other expense ich as has to be paid on | private business, and still it costs infinitely more to have work done there than y pri- vate printer in the State would charge for the same work, | Now, therefore, the printers of San Francisco 40 resolve that we protest against the continu- | ance of suaid printing office in opposition to | legitimate private business, and as an un- nNecessary expense to the taxpayers of the [ State. Resolved, That we most resqectfully request the honorable Legislature to pass an act to abolish sald printing office and that State work be given out by comtract on competitive bids from printers all over the State. JOHN PARTRIDGE, President. ROBERT W. NEAL, | Secretary-Treasurer. PROCEEDINGS OF ASSEMBLY Dissatisfaction Regarding Assignment of Com- mittee Clerks. | CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Jan. 14.—The Assembly met at 11 o'clock this morning with a rather full, attendance. Introduction of bills was/ passed in the order of busine: as the clerks were not prepared to receive them. A flood of resolutions was turned loose on the Assembly, in the main relating to unimportant matters. Resolutions by Ralston and Merritt dis- played dissatisfaction regarding the as- signment of committee clerks. The Ways and Means Committee has been assigned a clerk who is not a competent steno- grapher and typewriter, and other com- mittees with important functions find themselves in the same predicament. The resolutions were referred to the Com- mittee on Attaches. Stewart of San Diego introduced a joint resolution urging upon the Senate of the United States the necessity of refusing to ratify the Jamaica reciprocity ftreaty, which it 1s clalmed is inimical to the cit- rus fruit industry of California. A message from the Governor was re- ceived announcing his approval of Assem- bly bill No. 1, appropriating 3500 to pay the expenses of the electoral colleges, and of Assembly bill No. 2, appropriating $50,000 for legislative printin PETITION OF THE MINERS Explains the Need of Aid for the Debris Com- mission. CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Jan. 14—A petition from the California Miners’ Assoclation was pre- sented In the Assembly by Assemblyman Irish and in the Senate by Senator Tyrrell of Nevada this morning. The document is explanatory of bills already introduced, providing for the appropriation of $150,000 additional for the construction of im- pounding and restraining dams in the hydraulic and placer mining region. Fol- lowing is the petition: The California Miners’ Assoclation, through | its executive committee, begs to call your at- tention to the following faets: 1. In 1893 the Legislature of this State appro- | priated $250,000 to be used in the construction of works for the restraining and impounding of debris resulting from mining operations, natural erosion and other causes. | . This appropriation was not to become | avallable until the United States Government should have appropriated at least an equal amount for the same purpose. - 3. In 189 Congress appropriated $250,000 for the above purpose. | 4. After a most careful and painstaking ex-{ amination and study of the matter the Fed- eral engineers submitted their plans for the contemplated work. 5. These plans involve an expenditure of | $500,000 instead of $500.000, leaving a deficiency | of to be made up by the State and | National Governments. | 6. Through the emergency river and harbor bill of June 6, 1900, Congress made provision | for the immediate commencement of the con- templated work and its prosecution to_the ex- tent of the then avallable State and National appropriations, amounting to a total of $500,- 000. To this provision, in the emergency river and harbor bill of 1300 there was added a | proviso to the effect that one-half of the cost | of the contemplated work should be paid by | the State of California. 7. The plan of the Federal engineers for the | entire work, involving an expenditure of $500),- 000, has been approved by the State Board of bution to the contempl been introduced in the Senate and Assembly. | These bills are known as Senate bill No. 127 and Assembly bill No. 45, and were introduced by Senator Tyrrell of Nevada and Assembly- man_Irish of Sierra. 8. It is well understood that further appro- priation by Congress is contingent upon the action of your honorable Hes. We therefore most respectfully and earnestly request early and favorable action at your hands upon the measures above noted. . C. VOORHEIS, President California Miners' Association. EDWARD A. BENJAMIN, Secretary. RAILWAY BACKING FRANCHISE BILL Los Angeles Companies Carry Their Rivalry to Sacramento. LOS ANGELES, Jan, 14—Los Angeles’ present law affecting municipal franchises is, according to the best authorities, in- valid, and it has been recommended that the City Council grant no franchises un- til it is repealed. W. S. Hook of the Los Angeles Traction Company worked hard before and during the district and State conventions to piedge delegates in favor of a new law which would enable the Council to award franchises to the high- est bidder. Hook has allied interests di- rectly with the Terminal Railroad, and | consequently with Senator Clark. Hook and Gibbon, Clark’s agent and attorney then worked to obtain contral of the new City Council, and believed they had got {t. "Hook accordingly a week ago flled pe- U(.lglnz tlor foltll‘blfltl;lchllel. ::\’i mediately met by the ngeles Rail- way (Huntington's com; y)"f‘ollovnn‘. their example. The Los Angeles Railwa; is now efldentl{ anxious that the new Hook's original idea, should be passed. Italian Bakers’ Union. The Italian Journeymen Bakers' Union No. 117 held a2 meeting at Washington Hall yesterday afternoon. Resolutions were adopted indorsing the schedule of :1=.d,ul’ ‘work in the week and ten hours | “Baron™ | H. Chapman, that Lady Buller is a res | ager. origi | Vine: SONS DECLARE MOTHER INSANE New Moveby Family of Lady Yarde-Buller in Asking for Guardian. ——— Petition for Letters Filed by Baron Baroteau Is Opposed and At- torney G. T. Wright Is Recommended. TR RS Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 1118 Broadway, Jan. 14 Attorney R. M. Fitzgerald in presenting W. B. Greenebaum's petition to have a guardian appointed for the person and estate of Lady Yarde-Buller, before Judge Ellsworth to-day, introduced the testi- mony of her Ladyship's sons to show that she is not only incompetent but insane. He said that he adopted this course in order to show that the claim of the Baroteau and his attorney, W. dent of San Francisco, was a pretense adopted for the purpose of getting her away from the jurisdiction of the Ala- meda County courts. But if she was in- #ane, he contended, she was incompetent to change her residence, and was there- fore amenable to the decrees of the courts on this side of the bay. He argued that the case should be dis- posed of at once as Baroteau had filed a etition for letters of guardianship in San rancisco. Lady Yarde-Buller appeared in court heavily veiled and attended by her maid and “Baron” Baroteau In opening his case Mr. Fitzgerald said that the object of his client was to have Attorney George T. Wright appointed as Lady Yarde-Bulle and that the appointment ws sons, by her sister, who lives in the Eas by both_ her and by her brother-in-law, Dr. P. L. Wheeler. The first .witness called was Ralph Blair, Lady Yarde-Buller's older son. FHe was asked what he thought of his mother's mental condition. Chapman at_once objected to the ques- tion. Judge Ellsworth ruled that it was permissible only if Fitzgerald proposed to submit proof of insanity. Fitzgerald de- clared that this was just what he pro- posed to_do. The witness answered that he thought his mother had been insane for the last two years. He testified that she was en- tirely under the influence of any one who attempted to control her for any purpose, en strangers having' no difficuity in persuading her to sign notes and guar dianship papers. She had told him that her property was worth $11,000,000 and wanted to go to erty which exists only Arthur Blair confirmed testimony and told of his mother’s to San Franciscg, where he lives, two months age, In Baroteau's company. The next morning after they arrived he was informed by telephone that she was lost and did not know where to go. He found her alone in a saloon in the west- ern part of the city and intoxicated. On cross-examination Chapman wanted to know whether she was insane all the time. The witness testified to seeing her do many queer and boisterous acts In the boarding-house at 712 Van Ness avenue, where she is being kept at presemt. At times she would spring upon the foot of the bed and kick it, imagining she was riding horseback. “But has she never done ome intelligent act_during these two years?' was asked. “She calls E. H. Wakeman all the names she can think of,” replied the boy. Chapman said that he didn't want to ask any more questions. A. A. Baroteau was called and asked whether he had taken Lady Yarde-Bul- ler from the house where she was living in Oakland up to the middle of November, and had gone with her to Alameda and thence to San Francisco. The “Baron™” denied the charge, but ad- mitted that he was at the house for some time before her Ladyship went away, and that they happened to take the same car to Alameda and also went on the same boat to San Francisco in the morning. “Did you not go with her to a notorious house in Alameda?’ asked Fitzgerald. “I did not.” “Did you not admit having done so in conversation with me? Remember, you are under oath.” “Honest, I never did.” “Your Honor,” said Mr. Fitagerald, “I am utterly at a loss to comdrehend this answer.” The hearing will go on to-morrow. PERSECUTED BY YOUTH SHE WILL NOT MARRY Miss Loretta Ward Secures a War- rant for the Arrest of Ed- ward Milan. Miss Loretta Ward, a prepossessing yung lady living at 1109 Van Ness avenue, secured a warrant from Judge Caban yesterday afterncon for the arrest of ward Milan, 322 Ellis street, on a ¢ of battery Miss Ward said that she had known Milan for years. He had been pestering her with his attentions, and wh would meet her on the street h insist upen accompanying her. Friday evening he met her on Van Ness avenue, and because she positively refused to have anything to do with him he struck 5 breaking her hat and bruising her face. She thought he was a fit subject for ex- amination by the Insanity Commissioners. She had borne his perseciition so long that she was determined to stop It. Milan_used to be conmected with Alpha Trained Male and Female N Agency, of which his sister is the man- e agency is at 1117 Van Ne nue, a few doors north of the Wa =i dence. Milan gave himself up last night end was placed in fail. —_— e STEALS A BARREL OF PORT FROM A WAGON Frank Brannon was arrested yesterday afternoon on Twenty-fifth and Howard streets by Sergeant Blank and Police Of- ficer Taylor of the Seventeenth-street Sta- tion vlt{ a barrel of port wine, which had been stolen out of a wagon. The wine ally belonged to the St. George ard and was on ils way for delivery under charge of W. J. Healy. Healy stop) at a grocery store on the corner of Howard and Fourteenth streets, and while absent the barrel of wine was abstracted from the wagon. He reported the loss at the Seventeenth-streat Station just as the night watch was re- porting on at § o’clock. Sergeant Blank and Police Officer Taylor were detalled Lieutenant Anderson (o inguire into the theft, and they intercepted Brannon, wh) had the wine in a wagon hurrying along the street. e ——e—————— Bold Thief Caught in the Act. A man named Jim Sweeney telephoned to the Carmen Island Salt Company yes- terday representing himself to be a mem- ber of a prominent wholesale firm and saying that he would send a_man down for a load of sal He then drove down to the company’'s wharf and had loadea up his wagon when one of the clerks be- came suspicious and rang up the firm which Sweeney claimed to represent. All knowledge of the affair was denled, ana Sweeney was arrested just as he was driv- ing off with the load. He was taken to the harbor station, where a charge of grand larceny was placed against —_— e—————— Swiss Relief Society. The Swiss Relief Society held a meet- ing last evening and the following-named directors were elected for the year: C. A. Berton, E. de Coulen, J. Freuler, Ulrich Gingg, A. Huguenin, Monotti, E. Pohli, G. E Porta and Dr. H. Sartorl. It was unanimously decided zt the meeting to incorporate the soclety with a capitai stock of 5 1‘:;” dlub:rn:n:nu dufl'n the ear in ing the sick amoun tor B0 To Abolish the Whipping Post. The law-makers are wrangling over the abo- lition of the whipping post. The man who succeeds in passing such a bill, will prove a: great a benefactor to the breaker of man' laws as Hostetter's Stomach Bitters has to tha breaker of nature’'s laws. It you've neglected stomach until indigestion. constipation, Yiliousness, liver and kidney troubies are upon there's but one cure. Hostetter's Stomach Don't fail to try it for la