The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 26, 1901, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1901. LOSES HIS LIFE THE FLOOD NEAR BETHANY — Residents Hear Joseph Hat- i N field’s Despairing Cries at Night. FAMILIES LOSE THEIR DWELLINGS Some Houses Are En and Occupants of Others Are Driven to the Upper ries. ed 1z of town v The levee at Clifton - BEREAKS ON THE Ifen SACRAMENTO. Pat Guar Banks to an ext ree feet ed break been t emain up s weak- is a bad h and on the water is re reported to City enjoys ab- vee being perfectly worse front As -pendent although uable VAST TRACTS UNDER WATER. Break Through es Near Stockton. Feb. 25.—Th ton Court rents the head- and Re- om towed tire tract was caused er and Matthews ¥ ty Hospit not £ was ha ¥ red. . ALou eres Reciamation District No. v ded, it being a great i B the r side, where the bre . nd Bell tract, . ay and nds of received word t danger was ce. Men are tguns, fear- e place sur- effects the flooded ) escape with t water since red part of the Hope states that the White tract age from ad ut IADQUARTERS, SACRA- Ex-Assemblyman H. ¢ neisco a d on the afterward John- n the privileg, ay in Sacr upon that Dib. mber of the nber of the stration, Grand Army , and is here in the inter- in aid of the Veterans' ; but it is understood Francisco Assembly dis- — Action on Code Bills. HEADQUARTERS, ESACRA- >. 25 Assembly adopted r amendments to As- vising the Clvil Code, measure to third reading. readwell the three code re- 1y bills 653 and 764 and were made special orders night. bill 653, ssed the for Wednesday flooded dis- | ® ! the e the ramento River | ) interested in the reappor- | STUDENT BODY THREATENS T0 G0 ON STRIKE e \ | ‘Sends Ultimatum to Wash- | ington University’s _ Faculty. |SEQUEL TO A FISTIC COMBAT ——— e S rely Submerged | Classmen Object to the Suspension of | | Principals and Seconds in } an Affair of l Honor. ey = i Special Dispatch to The Call ¢ the faculty of gton does not re- 1 and Paul Harpe-, finitely suspended for fight over a question of will refuse to register. will withdraw from y. It was decided voice thai in case the thuse suspend- iis would retire from rtion is made by stu. t Graves, Professor Moore, Miss Hasel and 1id to have fully under- ion of the two students 1o morning. The had no author- a fight being 1y aves made following. e faculty: ening the faculty of the Uni- sgton actsd on personal encounter that wo of the students on Fri- ls were guspended in- nds were suspended rticipants are to a by the ne faculty was presumably in po- e facts before the meeting was the princivale and the seconds were viewed in presence of the entire action was taken the students invoived, they thought they w. all responsibt the it should t in any way affects aculty action t the cha ac and standing -of the particl- their good record during their en- SPECIAL FILE PROVIDED IN SENATE AND HOUSE Bills to Be Given Preference in Order in Which They Are Drawn by Chance. CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Feb. A special rule, ir ced by Dunlap of the Commitice )i was adopted by the Assembly to- day. By it the Committee on Rules is directed to prepare a special urgeney file Sisting of Dills to be selected in the following manner: FEach member shall present to the committee any particular bill which he desires taken up out order. When this list is made up the com- mities shall cause the names of all mem- | bers to be placed in a hat and drawn from it by made Up in the order in which the names are drawn. The objection of seven mem- bers at any time will stop the considera- tion of a bill on the special file. Debate upon a bill on this special file shall be limited to five minutes, to be divided be- tween those favoring and those opposing the asure. A similar file was provided for in the| otion of Leavitt, but it will be roll call instead of by com- roll will be called to-morrow n nd each Senator will then one bill, which he may have put on e file. It will be considered each morn- € after the reports of committees and until the recess, at 12:30. th | VOTERS TO EXPRESS CHOICE FOR SENATOR Intent of a Bill Introduced in the Assembly by Brown of San Mateo. ¥ HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- Feb. 25.—Brown of San Mateo ced in the Assembly this morning es the public opinfon that future Senatorial elections more atten- ion should be paid to the will of the peo- nd less to the wishes of the bosses. bill seeks to bring about this condi- spite of the impossibility of elec- direct vote, s measure directs the Governor sue a proclamation thirty days before general election of 1902, directing the ctors to express their preference for p nator. The bill provides ace upon the ballat for le a |in deta xpre tabulation of th returns and the on by the Secretary of State of t of the returns. B sion of such preference and for )r contemplates the nomina- ase the bill becomes a law, of United States Senator by ildates for S conventions. uce nomination uent expression of public opin- t, it is believed ipon _the Legisla- nt deadlocks pie 18 1gnored. JUNKETERS PUT IN BILLS. Assembly Adds Daily to Its' Record for Extravagance. HEADQUARTERS, eb. v wiil of the p SACRA- The Assembly is add- by day to its record for extrava- in junkets. The largest raid on the treasury to-day came in the form of expense bill of the Fish and Game -3 Committee fo trips to Monterey | and one clerk who made the trip, 1d can be seen | It fesulting legislation be wise ang the o dustry be properly fostered, it is belleved | that in time there will be returned to the tre y in taxee part of what this single junket cost the State. The mileage expense of the Assembly | Committee that attended Stephen M. | White’s funeral was $6£3 2. | “Brady's Committee Commerce and avigation made Its weekly tHp to San Franeisco and the State pald $144 for {t. The Committee on Commissions and Pub. lic Expenditures—or four members of ft— visited the Uklah State Hospital to see if the Lunacy Commissicn might not be abolished. Cost to the State, $164. - — - ANOTHER FRANCEISE MEASURE Broughton Presents 2 Bill at the Re- | quest of a Constituent. ALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- NTO, Feb. 2.—Broughton introduced other franchise bill in the Assembly this morning. The effect of it is to compel ad- vertising of the sale of special privileges | for terms of less than two years in coun- | lies and districts outside of incorporated towns and citles, in the same manner as regu franchises are sold. It is in the form of an amendment to the present statute and its object is effected by the omission of the clause of the original sec. tion by which special privileges are ex- | cepted from the provision making adver- | tisement mandatory. Broughton claims the bill was intro- duced at the request of a constituent of his in Pomona who has a grievance on account of a special privilege granted the Southern Pacific 1o lay a track in front of his propez*v, aculity knew tne fight was | students | the casee | jurisdiction over any | chance in the presence of the As- | sembly, and a special file of bills will be in | 'MENDOCINO COUNTY IS AGAIN PUT INTO SECOND DISTRICT 'Two Hours of Wra:lgling in Caucus Ends in Change in Congressional Apportionment. “THAE MONORABLE" DONALD BRUCE, INDIVIDUAL AROQUND | THE 1 | ASSEMBLYMA MERRITT-ALSO H A LISTENER .. YET REFUSED TO MOVE. . « ASSEMBLYMAN ? BAVER, THE JUVENILE F"ROM S.F, AAD AN AMENDMENT TOOFFER,.. SENATUR TYRRELL oF |\ 5 F~MEMBER OF THE AGRICULTURAL COMMITTEE CLAIMS NO KNOWLEDGE As BUT- T | MEN WHOSE GENIUS ILLUMINATES THE HALLS OF LEGISLATION. T A GRAFTER OF TREES. | ALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Feb. 25.—Congressional apportionment has taken another reversal of form and Mendocino | has once more been tossed from | one district into another. This time the proposed Second District gets it, and there It probably will stay for the next ten years. The change was not made | without a two hours’ wrangle over the question in caucus this afternoon. Frank L. Coombs came into town last night, declaring he had dropped in only to look | | at things, but with his pockets stuffed ifull of telegrams from persons wanting 1o have Mendocino taken from the First District and put with the Second. Sup- | plementing these, telegrams kept arriv- ing all day from the Superior Judge and | the county officers and many more of the prominent people of the redwoods, all demanding that the county be em- LEGISLATURE'S LAST DAY FOR PRESENTING BILLS Proposes a Constitutional | Amendment Affecting the Supreme Court. CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Feb. 25.—The last day for the in- troduction of bills brought into the As- sembly hopper several measures with radical -features. Fisk introduced a con- stitutional amendment, amending section 2 of article 8 of the Constitution, relatin, to the Supreme Court. By Its provisions the court commission is abolished and the number of Assoclate Justices Is Increase.l to nine. Three depariments are estab- lished. The three additional Assoclate | Justices are to be appointed by the Gov- ernor immediately upon the adoption of the mmendment, the appointees to hold | cffice only until the next general elec- tion. The Legislature is empowered to | reduce the number of Assoclate Justices to six and the departments to two wheu- ever such action shall be advisable. This amendment was introduced in the Senate by Devlin. Johnson is the author of a bill—836— making only a bare majority necessary to the adoption of a constitutional amend- ment. This was Intrgduced in the Sen- ate also. | Johnson also introduced a bill repeai- ing the present acts relating to Building and Loan Commissioners and establisk- | ing a new commission, to consistof two members, to hold office four years, with salaries of $2400 each. The commlission is to have a secretary with a salary of | $1200 per year. The bill establishes an claborate and detafled system of super- | vision of the building and loan associa- | tions of the State. | Milice introduced a counterpart of Caldwell's Senate bill to appropriate $15,000 for the establishment at or near San Jacinto, in Riverside County, of a reform school for girls under 18 years ci age. The school is to be known as the “Girls' Institute of San Jacinto.” The object is to provide a separate - Institu- ton for the girls now committed to the ‘Whittier State School, | _ Treadwell introduced a till making it a misdemeanor to discharge firearms within a half mile of a State hospital for the insane. %o Senator Oneal has introduced a bill providing for the return to their own country or State of non-residents who may become insane in this State. A pre- vious bill by Oneal provides for the de- portation of insane person not citizens of this State who may be confined in State hospitals, but this later bill provid:s for the deportation of non-resident in- sane as soon as they may be adjudged su. ¢‘ Fisk LR | there will be no material objection to ‘l)k ‘that the university was a school for the Special Dispatch to The Call. counted up to quite a respectable num- ber and when the question came up the - of Mendocino was shifted. age made a hard fight to hold the ¢ in the First, and he was backed | by Laird and Lardner. Davis also took | a hand and sald it would be a good thing to have Mendocino in the First District. | Caldwell agreed to have Inyo joined to San Bernardino to form a Senatorial Clstrict, so an impending fight there was | averted. When the bill came before the Senate | it was amended in accordance with the caucus agreement and then it was laid over until to-morrow night, when the | San Francisco delegation will be able to give the line between the Fourth and Fifth districts. The bill will be through ihird reading at once, and when it reaches the Assembly, It is expected, | As it now stands the districts will as follows: UNIVERSITY “POLICY” BILL PASSES SENATE Rec:ives a Bare Majority After an Hour Spent in Warm | Debate. ALL, HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Feb. 2%5.—By a bare majority, obtained only after a call of the Senate, the university “policy” bill slipped past | the Senate to-day. It was the cause of | an hour's debate in the morning, during which the form of the bill, the policy of it and the principle of it were assalled. Smith of Kern objected to the proposi- | tion of attempting to bind future Legis- | latures to the wishes of this one. Short- ridge objected to the amount as being too great. Davis, answering the argument rich, declared that the greater percentage of the siudents were poor. He sald that, as a declaration of policy, the measure was a good one. Rowell spoke of the need of some stated income for the institution and supported the bill as being the bes* means to obtain such income, Taylor and | Lukens lent their support to the measure | and Stmpson opposed it. 1he rollcall showed but twenty-four | Senators present and voting, and six of | these were in the negative. A call of the | Senate was ordered and two “ayes' were rounded up, and then by Greenwell's | change from ‘no” to “aye” the necessary | twenty-one were obtalned. The final roli- | call was as follows: ves—Belshaw, Burnett, Byrnes, Corlett, Da- vis, Devlin, Flint, Lardner, Leavitt, Lukens, Oneal, Pace, Rowell, Selvage, Shortridge, Smith of Los Angeles, Taylor, Tyrrell of San Francisco, Welch, Wolfe and Greenwell—21. Noes—Cutter, Gead, Nutt, Simpson, Smith of Kern—s. Absent—Ashe, | Bettman, Caldwell, Currler, | Curtin, Hoey, Laird, Luchsinger, ~Maggard, Muenter, Nelfon, Plunkett, Sims and Tyrrell of Nevada—I4. e CHINESE SLAVERY BILLS PASS Tolmn READING No Dissenting Voice Is Raised When They Are Considered in the Assembly. CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Feb. 25.—The Knowland Chinese slavery bills were called ug out of order to-day in the Assembly by the author, and by unanimous consent were read a sec- | ond time and passed to third readin Knowland, Schlesinger and Macbet spoke briefly in favor of them, and not a voice was raised in opposition. . K. Baker of S8an Francisco and Miss Lake and Miss Cameron of the Chinese mis- slons of San Francisco were present in the lobby. | was supported by Belshaw and C: Amador, Alpine, Calaveras, Mono, Tuolumne and Moriposa, with a population _of 139,000, Second District—Mendocino, _Glenn, Yuba, Sutter, Colusa, Lake, Sonoma, Napa, Marin, Yolo and Sacramento, with a populs ion of 200,000. Third District—Alameda, Contra Costa and Solano, with a population of 172.000. fourth District—Part of San Francisco, with a population of 207,000, Fifth District—Part of San Francisco, San Mateo and fanta Clara, with a population of th District—San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Mer- ced, Santa Cruz Monterey, 'San Benito, Ma- dera, Fresno and Kings,, with a population of 160,06 Seventh District—Inyo, Tulare, San Lufs Obispo, Santa Barbara, Kern, Ventura, San Bernardino, Riverside, -ange and San Diego, with a population of 190,000. Eighth District—Los Angeles, with a popu- lation of 170,600, The bill providing for Assembly and Senatorfal districts was read the second ime. Amendments were made putting in the lines of the San Francisco and the > irst_ District—Humboldt, Del Norte, Stski- | braced In the Second District. When the | Jlrsy DiatrictiHumpoict, g} Rorte, SISK | Alameda districts. | This, too, will come caucus was called these telegrams had | Plumas, Sierra, Nevada, Placer, El Dorado, | up to-morrow night. e 0 0 G L e e e S M aa e INCORPORATION FEE BILL GOES THROUGH No One Votes A.gai_nst the Measure in the Lower House of the Legislature. CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- | MENTO, Feb. 25.—Senate bill 559, fixing fees for the granting of articles of incor- pcration, was made an urgency measure in the Assembly this afternoon and was given a second and third reading and put upon {its final passage under suspension of the constitution. The bill was passed by a vote of 59 ayes to no noes. An elaborate system of fees is estab- liched, and in addition the following fees for articles of incorporation, according to the amount of capital stock: For filing articles of Incorporation, if the capltal stock amounts to $25,000 or less, $15; if the capital stock amounts to more than $25,- 000 and not over $75,000, $25; if the capital stock amounts to more than $75,000 and not more than $200,000, $50; if the capital stock amounts to more than $200,000 and not more than $500,000, $75; if the capital | stock is more than $500,000 and not more than $1 000,000, $100; 1f the capital stock is more than $1.000,000, $150. For filing arti- cles of incorporation without capital stock except co-operative assoclations, $5: or filing articles of incorporation of co- operative assoclations formed under the act of 15% or acts supplementary thereto | or amendatory thereof, $15. Assembly bill 849, reported by the Com- mittee on Ways and Means, and appro- priating $12,500 additional to pay the con- tngent expenses of this session, was made an emergency meaure, given a sec- ond and third reading and passed, by | unanimous vote. e LOCAL OPTION LOSES BY BUT TWO VOTES | et Nineteen to Eighteen the Record Against Caldwell’s Bill in the Senate. CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Feb. 2%.— After much argu- ment a call of the Senate and rustiing for votes Senator Caldwell's bill to pro- vide local option in municipalities was beaten this afternoon by a vote of 19 to 18, 21 being necessary to pass it. The bill was opposed by Shortri d lrll;! well. On the roll call it came within one vote of passing, but at the last moment Tay- lor changed from aye to no, and then the Senate refused to remain longer locked “E under a call-of the house. Caldwell changed his vote and gave notice of a motion to reconsider. | penditure. gl MRS WURIERS BABES DIE BY STRANGULATION Six Little Ones Are Lifeless When Cast Into the Well. CRAZED MURDERESS AT LARGE Couses Terror Among the Residents of Uniontown Before She Is Recaptured and Placed in ‘Prison. AP Spectal Jispatch to The Call. UNIONTOWN, Wash., Feb. 25.—At the conclusion of the inquest to-day over the | bodies of the six children of Mrs. Rosa Wurzer, who were thrown into a well and i drowned by their mother, the Coroner’s | jury returned a verdict charging Mrs. Wurzer with their deaths. ‘While preparing the little ones for burial fingermarks were found on the throats of all, indicating thai they had been strangled before t were thrown into the well. The rudd 1ot of the skin and | the absence of the tiow of water from the mouth during the preparation for laying out indicated that all were dead before their bodies touched the water. The necks of all except one were broken. After having thus murdered her little ones the insane mother hurled their bodies into the well and held the heads under water to make sure of her work. The insane murderess escaped the vigil- ance of her guards at 10:30 o'clock last night. She first went to the home of Peter Jacobs and broke a window, fright- ening the inmates of the house. She then | l\'ls‘.led the residence of Mr. Koester. All | had retired but Mrs. Koester, who was | sitting at a table writing a letter. Upon hearing a knock at the door Mrs. Koester asked who was there. The reply can *“Please let me in. nt to tell something.” | Mrs. Koester theh unlocked the door. | he insane visitor, clad only in her night dress, seized her with both hands. Mrs. Koester screamed and ran to the room where her husband was asleep. He sprang from bed, caught the crazy infruder and called his brother, who was asleep up- stairs. Together they led the poor wo- man back to her home. To-night the demented woman was 1 nce she will be sent 1 ) WORKS A DUPLICATE i SYSTEM ON MILEAGE‘ “Colonel” Brady Induces the State to | Pay Double When He Travels. CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Feb. Colonel” Martin Bra- dy, the man of many junkets, the tender- | loin statesman, who has recelved more money In mileage during this sessfon than | {any other of the class of greedy legis- ! lators whose chief service has been to de- vise plans whereby the State treasury, could be further looted by means of jun- keting trips, succeeded this morning in getting through by frregular method res- olutions which give him $1S more than he could clalm even under the statute. The | i same form of petty larceny is planned by | others, and legislators whose consciences { have become seared by the rank frauds that have been perpetrated in the way of » no cause for indignation | The Ellis_street statesman went last | Friday to Ukiah with a part of the Com- mittee on Commissions and Public Ex- Bligs, Hasson and Stewart of | | Amador accompanied him. The trip ftself | was only one more of the indefensible junkets the exrense of which this com- | | mittee has saddled upon the State, until | now it is looked upon as needing investi- | gation itself fully as badly as the Paris Commission, whose inquisitor it was, { Brady return=d to San Francisco and | met there his Committee on_ Commerce and Nevigation. Last evening he returned to Sacramento, and this morning his name was inciuded In both resolutions for mileage. ile receives $41 mileage for | the Ukiah trip and $18 for the San Fran- cisco trip. As the $41 covers the distance | | actually traveled by Brady ghe $1$ claim | | was plainly an illegal one. | Because of the claim’s illegality, pre- | | sumably, Bliss, McWade and others of | | friends insisted that the resolu- | | should be acted’'uvon at once, though { the regular nrocedure is to refer the | | | claim to the Committee on Mileage, and | the resolutions were accordingly adopted. | The Committee on Mileage wonld approve | any claim, and reference to it was to be | feared only because some one else might | enter a protest. Bliss has become too | good a programmer to let his colleague, | | Brady, be placed in danger of losing | good, hard coin, and so the resolutions { went through. Assuming that Brady pald | his rallroad fare, he is about $40 “to the | 80o0d” for two days of doing nothing, in addition to his salary as semblyman. If he did not find it necessary to pay fare he cleaned up $59 in the two days. | LUKENS TEXTBOOK BILL. | Provides for Buying and Compiling Copyrighted Matter. [ CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- RAMENTO, Feb. %5.—Senator Lukens has | taken another try at the textbook ques- tion with a bill to provide a new com- mission- for buying and compiling copy rghted matter. His bill apprug‘rlates $10, 0 for the purchase of copyrights and for cxpenses of the commission and then pro- | vides as follows: | The State Board of Education ie hereby au- | thorized to compile, or cause to be compiled, | such textbooks on such subjects as are neces | sary for use in the public schools of this State, {and for that purpose, to procure the use of | copyrighted matter and the plates thereof from which the €ame may be printed, either by pur- | chase, hire or otherwise. The sald board may | { appoint & separate expert commission to assist | | In the selection of each book; provided, that | | the amount pald any one commission for its | assistance in the selection of any one book | snall not exceed %00 1 | | | | INTERESTS THE COAST. Postofice Changes and List of Pen- sions Issued. WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.—Postoffice es- tablished: California—Robinsons, Cala- | veras County, James S. Owens; Postmas- ter. Postmasters commissioned: California— Winslow L. Rideout, Lakeport; Marietta Loftus, West Point. Oregon—Albert D. | Pettyjohn, Croston. Appointed: California—J. F. Carney, Monrce, Mendocino County, vice C. P. Higgins, resigned. Oregon—H. A. Brown, Argenti, Marion County, vice J. 8. L. Ros- | sell. resigned. | The United States Civil Service Com- mission will hold an examination at Pasa- dena, California, April 10, for clerk-carrier at_that postoffice. Penslons issued: California—Original— | Lewis Hell, Bolsa, $6; Albert Lane, San Francisco, $6. Increase—Frederick Moen- nigheim, Soldiers’ Home, Los Angeles, $i0. Widows—Special February 13—Gertrude 8. ‘Wilkinson, Los Angeles, $30. Mexican war widows—Sarah Moore, San Francisco, $8. Original—Asher P. Brown, Los Angeles, $6. Additional-Nels F. Axelson, Santa Ana, $10. Increase—Alfred A. McLean San Francisco, $8. Original widows, re- issue—Minors of John Robker, Pomona, $16. Augusta E. Nash, Auburn, $12. War with Spain—Original—Rolla L. Drake, San Francisco, $17. Oregon—Original-Willlam Hyde, Mount Tabor, $6; Jesse T. Thompson, Coles Val ley, $6. Increase—Schuyler Sumner, W, liams, $10; Daniel E. Jones, Central Point, ‘Washington—Original—William Lee, Sol- diers’ Home, Orting, $8; Octavius A. Dick- inson, Orting, $12. Additlonal—John Knox, Dayton, $10. Increase—John D. Chandler, Soldiers’ Home, Orting, $i2. Benjamin F. Brown, Napavine. $10. Original widows— Sarah A. Tuttle, South Tacoma, Naval orders—Surgeon George Pickreil ll-ldeaached from Cavite station to Marc sland. | two had nec | nans” went to an a | mutual conjug: SEEKS 10 AL HIS DATGATER BY ADOPTION James Tynan’s Parental Al- fection Undergoes a Transformation. OBTAINS A MARRIAGE LICENSE Court Is Asked to Set Aside the Pa- pers That Give the Pair the Relationship of Father and Child. LA Speclal Dispatch to The Call. LOS ANGELES, Feb. %.—James Tynan S | would like to marry his adopted daughter, Gracte Tynan., Mr. Tynan has the license and Gracle's consent, but just what the law -in the matter is no one seems to know. James Tynan and his wife Annie in 1593 adopted In Fresno a little girl, whom they took into their home as their own. The family moved Los Angeles, where in 1598 the first shadow feil on thé threshold in the death of the wife and mother. After a time parental love on Tynan's o affection of another kind, r 4l-year-old father with procure a license. The questioned Mr. Tynan 1 the names wers her declared the ¥ found the one another. next step clerk who closely w alike, but t They was cense was Issu H. Tynan to marry of eighteen summ The two went to the priest. Here all was not smooth sailing. The priest re- fused to tie the knot until he learned whether it as lawful for a father to marry his adopted daughter. The Ty- who advised be done was set aside the them that the b to appeal to adoption. The It contains th to was flled to-day. he pet following The pate nd_filial affection exist- ing between James Tynan and Gracie Ty- nan at the time of adoption has, since the death of Annie Tynan, ripened into affection. and it has be- come and now Is impossible for the said parties to maintain the relationship of father and daughter. They therefora pray that they be restored to the status they occupled prior to the adoption. JOHN C. BUNNER'S BODY MAY NEVER BE FOUND Sacramento’s Coroner Believes It Rests in the Muddy Bottom of the River. TO, Feb. 25.—Desultory ef- forts were m ¢ to find the body of John C. Bunner of San Francisco who stepped between the ties in the riv wned, buf fruitless. Coromer sht that he had ad- appling irons to drag friends of the unfor- talking of offering a ment for fishermen SACRAM river, and the te man were reward as an ind to_recover the bod The that Mr. Bunner's was in the mud at the r, although the cure rried it_a considerable and that it would dov: not be surprising that the body should become buried in the debris hich fills the water at this time and never be found. SIS LICK'S OBSERVATION OF THE NEW STAR Spectrum Has Few Points of Re- semblance to Those of Pre- vious Discoveries. LICK OBSERVATORY, Feb. 25.—The new star in Perseus has diminished in brightness about one-fifth of a magnitude in the past twenty-four hours. A careful of the red, orange, yellow and green s of its spectrum was made this results of great regio: evening, leading to ms technical interest. The presence of hydrogen in the star is shown by the broad, bright bands of that c.ement. The orange line of helium s dark. The orange sodium lines are dark and extremely narrow and the fact that they occupy this usual position shows that the star's distance from the earth 18 not changing rapidly. The spectrum has very few points of resemblance to the spectra of previous new stars. — CONTEST THEIR MOTHER'S WILL SANTA CRUZ, Feb. 2%5.—Nellle Galla- gher and Fannie Estrada to-day began contests in the Superior Court against the probate of the will of their mother, Mry. Catherine Gallagher, who dled in Watson- ville, leaving an estats worth $30,000, They claim that undue influence wis exerted by Sfdney Gallagher and Mrs. Jane Klee, also children of the deceased. It is alleged that the will was not signed in the pres- ence of the attesting witnesses, James G. Maguire and J. Leggett of San Francisco. Mrs. Gajlagher left the bulk of her prop= erty to four children, cutting off the con- testants with small becuests. ADVERTISEMENTS. Topsy-lupvy. That’s a favorite attitude of the small boy. And in this again “the child is the father of the man.” The man does not essay to walk h life on his hands, but he creates for a king- dom dom, Bem ng into day. He eats re- gardless of time and g: ical mecessities. e e food he eats does not nourish him be- velops in one form U or another, Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery cuses diseases of the stomach and other organs of digestion and nutrition. It cures through the stomach which originate in a of the stomach and its allied organs. Hence, it cures “weak” lungs, “weak” heart, "weak” nerves and other forms of so-called weakness. «I had been troubled with catarrh of the stomach and heart trouble,” writes Mr. W. D. Merchant, of Tylersburg, Clarion Co.. Penn'a. aaary. 1 took seven botties. Before 1