The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 6, 1901, Page 9

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, APRIL 6,7 1901. TEACHERS GUESTS 1T A RECEPTION Mrs. Kincaid Entertains the Faculties of the High Schools. —— i President of the Board of Education | Hostess at Gathering of Peda- | gogues, Who Discuss Edu- cational Topics. | | | with her custom inau- ginning of this year, sident of the Board of was the hostess at a charm- | 18l reception dast night in the s ‘of the board at the City } | - - ok of the hospital- | ! is guiding the d tinies Board with recog- nize the principa eachers of - arious high sch. m m was tastefully adorned with cf flowers which were t less profusion. Mra the Den- in receiving by ors Mark » lend dignity to ans much to the ment. as it is M ation to bring them in h by means of these tly ral toy spent in an cs per hful upon io high school subject suggested discussion was exercis shouid schools. Some etter to have ose of the term rfere with the was the senti- were held at to have them bearing racter the hostess and her light repast which enjoyable ev present we 1 of the Girls" O"Connor. principal Iter Bush, School, Lowell teachers ALLEGED BUNKO MAN REGAINS HIS LIBERTY of Sustaining a Conviction Again Exemplified in Ma- honey’s Case. The aiff nvicting an alleged ko ste exemplified again yes- whe ' nd Lawlor, > appeal In the who was con- been nVic wat arrested but recentl to ound that ay_taxes filed a vesterday h would be in- of (suspected r divorce K against and Abbie es for cruelty, | nits 1. E C. ¥ desertion s R POSTUM CEREAL. “S0 DROWSY.” When True Natural Sleep Comes. changes take place in the little he blood, and these changx y changes in our the coffee habit is | thickened condition of | is. under the !‘H((‘l’(‘SCOFIG\I corpuscles show apparent | unnatural condition, which ble with the heart in cases of | soning. It also affects the com- | sently bringing on heart dis- | and stomach and | common with coffee | cases, are | me very badly indeed. | t have a good night's for five years. My eyes duller than my a great coffee were also ns told me T ha acute kidney was nervous sterfa and my der trouble. 1 verge of } memory me. 1 had growm so thin I was little m than a dow and pec- ple were continually asking me how much nger my husoand was than myself. 8 ting "0 a woma you know.) r is five years my senior. s a forlora hope I left off coffee p Postum Food Coffee about a n became so sleepy that | stay awake long enough my baby. I did not real- sleeping naturally and ost time. Finally, I got up,’ the drowsiness dis- | felt a decided improve- health. In three or four weehs 1 and only needed to re and complexion. I waitcd for an improvement in but it was about five I was rewarded, then an s change took plas became clear aa weight quickly arkable cl g have been constantly growing bettes | ow am feeling in finer condition | r before in my life, and I can | t 1 owe it all to leaving off | using Postum Food Coftee. | vear-old sister, like ~myself, coffee from a child. For the last < she was =ble to go to schovl | f the time and the docto: | uld not study at all. T in- it coffice and now her fresh, fair complexion | A | noticed that it took some | this woman secured the | e wanted in the matter of coma- | nd fiesh. The change from coffee | change in this particular | mth usually, but it is evideat | se that it required time to| before her o in change the corpuscles of the blood, and | t when change was made the re- Y very rapid. Neme and address can be given by the Postum Cereal Co., Ltd., at Battle Creek, aich. L] | Peer; | cation in the matter of Ella Thomas and | | nis clerks did not know what to do with | | turbed until the scandal | together. | made in the courtroom clerk’s books, al- | with' the Treasurer and drawn out on a | forged order by Sullivan. | ber, which number would be entered on | jve to prevent fraud of any kind.” | money SULLIVAN MAKES |PICTURE OF DUCHESS HEW STATEMENTS Furnishes Police With List of Admitted Forged * Bail Orders. AU PR, Peery Unearths Large Sum of Bail Money Long Held and Clerk Groom Is Again Under Fire. —— A partial confession by Dan Sullivan, discoveries by experts of irregularities in methods of handling funds and of J. J. peculiar entries in the books Groom, clerk of Judge Fritz's Police Court, were the features of the day at the Hall of Justice. While Sullivan’s con- fession is not as full as the police and members of the Grand Jury like it to be, it .\'hn;.\‘& he had prepared for wholesale operations, Thursday afternoon Sullivan signified to Captain S8eymour his desire to go over the bocks of the different courts and to point out the names of the parties upon whose alieged orders he had obtained morey. When he awgke in the morning he was not feeling well and asked to be excused from undergoing the ordeal. Captain Sey- mour was insistent and had the books sent up to the prison in charge of De- tective Coleman. After a desultory examination of over an hour he handed in the following list of admitted bail withdrawal orders, claim- ing it covered ali his delinquencies on those orders to which he had forged the Judges' names: Department 1, Judge Mogan— J. C. Wilson, November 15. Jennte Foster, March 25.... Gertie Raymond, March 16 Total essnpssan Department 2, Judge Conlan— Ching_Sue; D. 3250 Ella_Thom: i 250 Mershall 2 Brooks 200 | Kenny burn ... al 5 . Department 3, Judge Fritz— Frank Nugent, March B. C. Park, March 3 al T - Sr full total of $15 Sullivan said he was unable to say what portion of these orders bore genuine sig- natures of Judges and which forged unless he saw them. He said he was sure this covered all, but he would go over the books later if he felt better. There was | no change for the better during the after- | noon, and the work will be taken up at a later date. Together with the orders that Sullivan cashed, c is known to have previously with those he admits, total Tuns up to §2000. But as there is a dupli- | four bunko men, Marshall, Brooks nny and_Alburn, whose money was | withdrawn in two orders under the name . Mack, the total will be $2000 approxi- Sullivan’s Indisposition. | Sullivar’s. indisposition is the result of | cold and the sudden breaking off from liquor. He is not in a serious condition, though not as loquacious as heretofore. Bef many days it is expected he will tell what he did with the money and who shared it with him s of | is on the calendar Sullivan’s cas Judge Cabaniss’ court for this morning, but it may be postponed. distinguished himself by turning 0 which he had kept in his safe st October, when it should have nsmitted to the Treasurer through the County Clerk at that time. Charles Mahoney was arrested for vagrancy on July 2 of last year and later was convict- ed.” He was defended by Judge Graham. Fie took an appeal to the Superior Court fter and $250 cash bail was put up. s, according to Peery’s statement, w -ed in an envelope and left in his saf ’s case was dismissed ye: made haste to hand him quire: the bail money must be transmitted with the notice of appeal to the County Clerk. The County Clerk retains possession of |. the bonds and places the money in the ty treasury. Cne explanation made by Peery is that , as it was the first appeal case that came under their notice. So after many lengthy consultations it was de- d to keep it in the safe and treat it as a special deposit. It reposed there undi broke out, when, Peery says, he did not like to turn it in to the treasury on account of the fuss that would be made. this mone: Groom to Be Superseded. Clerk J. J. Groom was 11 at the desk | in Judge Fritz's court yesterday, al- | though Chief Deputy Goddard was pres- | 1t to watch proceedings. Groom will be | superseded by Ambrose Watson on Mon- | day. The change would have been made yesterday, but as 1t was law and motion | day in the Superior Court Watson had to | remain at his desk in Judge Hunt's court. | The irregularities in Groom's books con- sist mainly in failures to properly note the deductions of fines from bails and | other discrepancies, which the expert is | endeavoring to solve. It is not known to | what extent Groom has erred in this mat- | ter, but the Grand Jury will insist on a | full explanation of every transaction. All the books of the clerks are being experted ; in the record room of the Police Depart- | ment. Cyril Willlams, the expert, assisted by | Sergeant Charles McDonald, are working It was discovered yesterday that in the Kemppe case no entry was deposited | though the money, $0, was in the hands of Peery up to 3 o'clock vesterday were deposited with the City Treasurer. No demands for the payment out of ball money were signed by any of the Police , nor were any_ discoveries of ad- forgeries made. A nice legal estion as to which of the parties to! these crooked transactions is responsible | for the money that has been paid out will | be at fesue in a few days. St WARRANTS MUST BE AUDITED HEB.EAF'IER All_money Colonel 8. H. Brool City Treasurer, decided yesterday that he would not pay any more orders for bail money unless the orders had been passed by the City and County Anditor. Inspeaking of the | scandals and forgeries in connection with | bail money in the Police Courts Colonel | Brooks said: | “I do not propose lo take any more chances in cashing the orders of the Po- lice Judges for bail money. I have given orders to my deputies that after this date | all orders must be passed by the City and County Auditor. If bail money orders.are presented at this office we shall refuse to pay them unless the Auditor has passed | them. This taik about persons being put to trouble to come here and cash orders | is all stuff and nonsense. Any one having a check on a bank has to go to the trou- le to be identified in order to get the check cashed, and for my own protection ard also for that of my deputies I pro- pose to take the precautions. “1 think that a proper step in connection with the payment of bail money would be to require that a lithographed receipt | should be given when bail money is ac- cepted. This receipt should bear a num- the books of this office when the money is recelved. t “When a person desired to draw out bafl money the order of the Judge should be ijssued, and my office would only pay the | money on presentation of the original re- ceipt, together with the order of the Judge exonerating the bail. We would return the original receipt to the bond and war- | rant clerk and keep the order of the Judge. This method would be most effect- Bond and_Warrant Clerk Peery, when told of the decision of the City Treasurer, | aid: | “Well, I suppose I will have to make out | auplicate papers for the City and County | Auditor. giving an account of all bail T receive and pay. into the ecity ! treasury. It will be hard on me to do it, | but under the circumstances I shall have no alternative. If the District Attorney would give me & bookkeeper all' this trou- ble might not have happened.” . | most | time, but © | several year: OF DEVONSHIRE FOUND Gainsborough Portrait Lost Famous ~in 1876 Recovered by Pinkertons at Chicago From American Thieves —t THE FAMOUS GAINSBOROUGH ¥ PICTURE STOLEN BY AMERICAN THIEVES YEARS AGO. Y L | | | | | | | | | £ — HE famous portrait of Georgianna, fifth Duchess of Devonshire, stol- en in 1876 from a London art gal- lery by American thieves, has been recovered through the instrumen- tality of the Pinkerton Detective Agency. The theft of the picture, its subsequent history and the remarkable persistency of William A. Pinkerton in trying to trace it for twenty-five years makes a tale that would discount most fiction and make a living Sherlock Holmes jelalous. A peculiar feature of the crime lies in the fact that the almost priceless canvas was not purloined with any intention on the part of the thieves of.accepting the large reward offered for it or with any idea of selling it once it was in their pos- session. Instead it was to be used by the conspirators as a means of compelling its owners to provide bail for a notorious crook who had been arrested in France on a charge of forging drafts for a large amount against English banking houses. The Measrs. Agnew, art dealers of 39 Bond street, London. paid in 1875 the then fabulous price painting and placed it on exhibition in their establishment. The portrait had been recognized for al- - ‘century as the masterpiece of Gainsborough, the greatest of English painters. During a severe storm on the night of May 15, 1876, thieves entered the Agnew establishment and cut the picture from its frame, afterward making good their escape. The theft of the renowned portrait created a great sensation at the trace of it was found until later, when Joe Elliott, alias a New York forger of in- “Little Joe, ternational reputation, sent for William of 10,500 guineas for the | A. Pinkerton and offered to divulge the whereabouts of the Gainsborough portrait on condition that he be pardoned from the Albany penitentiary, where he was serving a long sentence for forgery. Pin- kerton” declined to have anything to do with the matter on such terms, but noti- {|‘ed Scotland Yard of Elliott’s proposi- on. Several years ago the convict was dis- charged, after completing his term, broken |in health, and he again opened negotia- tions with the Pinkerton Agency. It was ascertained that the portrait had been brought to America fifteen years ago, and the Agnews were induced through the English detectives to renew their offer of a substantial reward for its recovery. Last month 2 member of the firm vis- ited this country in search of the miss- ing portrait and was sent by the Pinker- tons from New York to Chicago. There, on March zi, the picture was recovered and is now on its way to England. No specific details of the transaction re- storing the portrait to its rightful owners are given by the detectives further than the fact that it was surrendered on_the understanding that the reward would be paid through a third party and no at- tempt would be made to prosecute the men who gave it up. It is sald that Charles Becker, alias “the Dutchman,’ a forger, now serving a sentence at San Quentin, was a member of the gang that originally stole the picture in 1876. A prominent sporting man from New ! York, who visits the English race tracks | annually, is sald to have finally got defl- nite trace of the portrait last year from a party of American thieves then in Eu- rope, and reported the matter to Pinker- ton, who agreed to pay the reward and ask no questions concerning its theft or subsequent wanderings. @ similviirleefriirinoininiifulnininiel @ + Want New Firehouses. The Fire Commissioners have petitioned the Board of Supervisors ta include ip-the tax budget a sum aggregating not less than $100,000 for new firehouses. iseven new houses _are asked for, on Stockton street near Broadway, Pacific street near Polk, Main street near Foisom, Douglass | street near Twentieth, Post street near | ‘Webster, Howard street near Third and San Bruno avenue near Twenty-fifth street. . 1 ———— | Recommends Its Passage. { The Supervisors' Judiciary Committee | | vesterday recommended the passage of the ordinance making it a misdemeanor for any one to secure or endeavor to se- | cure the benefits of the pupils’ half-fare ordinance by falsely representing himself to be entitled to the privilege. 000000 0000000000000 ©000000000000 500600000000004 EASTER TIDIY VD VB STV OB RV D T VR Y VDD 000000000000000000000000000000000000600000000000000006000 EASTER 000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000OO0| 000000000000000000000000060000000000000000000000000000000| 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000, 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000006600000000000000000000000000, 000000000000000000000600000000000000000600000000000000000 0000000000000000.000000000000000000006060000000000000000FC ©0000000000000000060000000000000000600000000000000000000 ©000006600000000000000000000000G0VLUVUIOLVOV0000 ©00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000006000| ©00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000090) ©0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000| e e e S T T GRAND EASTER FICTION NUMBER. ©00£00000000000600006006000000000000000000000000000000000, 00000000000000000000000000000006000000000000000000000000| 00000000000000000000000000000600000000000000000000000000 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 THE SUNDAY CALL ©00000000000000000000 ©00000000000000000000 000000000000000000000 0000000000000000000003 THRILLING STORIES By Marion Harland Joha Strange Winter Mary E. Wilkins and Other Noted Wrilcrs. BY ELOQUENT DIVINES. DAZZLING . FULL-PAGE DRAWINGS RY CALL ARTISTS. STORIES OF GREAT HUMAN INTEREST. ————— 0000000000000006000000000000, 000000000000600000009060000000 0000000000000000000600000000] 0000000000000000000000000000| 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000C000000| 00000000000000000000000000000060000000000000000000000000| 0000000000000000000000000600000000000000000000000000000 0! 00600000000000000000000000000000000000000000000080000000 0000000000000 0000000000000 0000000000000 o o ol SERMONS FASHIONS. 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000| 000000000000000000000000000000000C0000000000000000000000, 0000000000000000000000000000000600000000000000000000006000, 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000006000000000| 000000000000000000000000000060000000000000000000000006000| 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000| 0C000000000000000000000000000000000000000000008000000000 000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000006000| 0000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000| 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000k *| accused of willfully making a false report MAY STOP OVER ONLY ON BUSINES Supreme Court Knocks Out Robinson and Other Contestants. Appellate Court Decides That a Con- spiracy Was Entered Into to Mulct the Railroad Company. e S ‘With one fell swoop the Supreme Court vesterday blighted the hopes of W. H. Robinson and a dozen other plaintiffs from ever collecting $600,000 from. the Southern Pacific Company for an alleged violation of section 49 of the Civil Code, which compels corporations to give stop- over privileges to its passengers or pay a penalty of $200. The importance of the de- cision can be better appreciated when it is known that more than 3000 cases are pending before the courts of the State and were dependent upon the decision of the appellate court. The opinion of the court was written by Justice Garoutte and was concurred in by a majority of the Justices. It appears from the opinion that action was brought to restrain W. H. Robinson, L. S. Robin- son, Thomas D. Poole, C. W. Bassett. C. H. Loomis, Aaron Bretz, W. N. Griswold, Frederick Hiller, John Doe, Richard Roe, Willlam' Smith, Edward Jones, Samuel Wilkins, James Grove, Thomas Adams, Henry Jackson, Peter Stone, Josiah Bond, Jonathan Edwards and Joseph Black from prosecuting about 500 suits which, it was alleged in the complaint, they had al- ready commenced, and from beginning any other- actions based upon claims for penalties of $200 each which they claimed were due them by reason of the alleged violation by the Southern Pacific Com- pany of the provisions of section 490 of the Civil Code. The railroad company alleged that Rob- inson et al. comprised a confederacy of in- dividuals who had been seeking to extort money from the railroad company by lay- ing apparent foundations for claims to penalties. Upon the trial the court found as a fact that 674 of these actions were pending in varlous Justices’ Courts, and also found that 2300 other alleged causes of actfon of the same general character were held by Robinson and others. | 1t appears that Robinson et al. held about 3 alleged causes of action against the railroad company, which they were either prosecuting or threatening to pros- ecute and upon which they were claiming about $600,000 in penalties, or, as they termed it, “liquidated damages This important litigation rested upon section 490 of the Civil Code, which grants a stop-over privilege to passengers. The section alluded to is as follows: Every rallroad corporation must provide, and. on being tendered the fare therefor, fixed as provided in this preceding section, furnish to every person desiring a passage on their pas- senger cars a_ticket which entitles a purchaser to a ride, and to the accommodations provided | on their cars, from the depot or station where | the same is purchased to any other depot or | station on the line of their road. Every such ticket entitles the holder thereof to ride in | their passenger cars to the station or depot of destination, or any intermediate station, and | from any intermediate stations to the depot of destination designated in the ticket, at any time within six months thereafter. 'Any cor- poration failing to so provide and furnish tick- ets, or refusing the passage which the same calls for when sold, must pay to the person so refused the sum of $200. The foregoing section was construed by the Supreme Court as granting stop-over | privileges to the passengers in the case of | Robinson vs. the Southern Pacific Com- pany. which is reported in volume 105 of the California_Reports, page 52. It has been strenuously contended that the sec- tion had no such effect, but the appellate court determined that the railroad com pany was mistaken in its contention as to the law. Justice Garoutte, who wrote the opinion, continues as follows: Pending the decision of that case these ap- pellants most industriously engaged in the busi- ness of manufacturing the 3000 alleged causes | of action here involved. No case is found in | the law books where an undertaking of this character ever assumed such proportions and Where the spirit of speculation was carried on daily for weeks, months and even years with all the method of a great business undertaking; and it may be well to suggest right here that the law and the facts should be very pliin befare any court would assist appellants car- rying out this questionable venture to a suc- cessful end. In the enactment of the sectlon of the code the Legislature only intended to give the stop- over privilege to holders of tickets desiring to exercise it. It would be a reductio ad ab- surdam to say that it was intended for any other purpose. That is the entire force and effect of the act: and it stands the same as it it had said in plain and direct words: ‘'A pas- senger holding a ticket and desiring a stop- over privilege Is entitled to it by virtue of this ticket,” but a desire to exercise a_stop-over privilege, and a desire to lay the foundation for a cause of action by securing the refusal of the stop-over privilege, cannot exist in the mind at the same time. They are wholly ir- reconcilable and cannot stand together. The evidence in this case is sufficient to sup- port the material findings of fact made by the trial court, and we will not deal with it in detail. It shows that these appellants combined and concerted together to create these alleged causes of action Wwith the sole end in view of securing the penalties or damages provided for in the aforesaid section of the code, and that fact is a vital polnt in the case. The findings further establish that these ap- pellants did not desire the stop-over privilege, but on the contrary, in making their demands | for such privilege, a desire that those demands should be refused. It is further found that ap- pellants stopped over in Oakland in_ transit to Alameda, for the single purpose and object of Becuring a refusal upon a subsequent train of the stop-over privilege, and thus lay the foun- datlon for a cause of action. There is some general evidence that upon twenty of these occasions when stop-over priv- fleges were denied certain of these appellants had business in the city of Oakland. But the evidence to this effect Is not clear and explicit, and in view of the fact that 2980 of the sto overs were made when the parties had no busi- | ness, did not desire to stop over and demanded | the privileges simply to lay the foundation for a sult based upon a denial thereof, we feel that | the court was entirely justified in placing these twenty refusals in a common receptacle with | the remaining 29%0. The Polytechnic Business College in tha Y. M. C. A building in Cakland has just | ordered ten New Century typewritors. from the United Typewriter and Supplies Company, 327 Montgomery street, San Francisco, Cal. . B SERIOUS CHARGES MADE AGATNST OFFICER BROWN Accused of Drinking, Engaging in a Fight and Making a False Report. Charges were filed with Clerk Cadwala- der of the Police Board yesterday by Cap- | tain Wittman against Policeman George 0. Brown. From the nature of the charges Brown may have considerable difficulty PAINE’S CELERY COMPOUND. s HEAD OF BUREAU OF PUBLIC PRINTING. Chas. C. Whitney has been at the head of the Bureau of Public Printine, State of Minnesota, for many years. Hi is also secretary of the Republican Staie Central Committee. His duties in these two capacities are at times so exacting that he finds himself worn out and in a low nervous condition. At all such times he confidently turns to Paine’s celery compound, and has never been disappointed. He says of this wonderful remedy: “St. Paul, Feb. 16, 1901. “Dear Sirs—T have been familiar with the merits of Paine’s celery compound for a number of years, and have used jt when seriously ‘run down’ from ove-- work, both mentally and physically. But its good qualities never appealed to me so forcibly as during the last cam- paign. The hard work devolving upon me, as Secretary of the State Central Committee, affected my nerves greatly and made it difficult for me to sleen. Paliie’s celery compound immediately re stored the tone to my nervous system and enabled me to secure refreshing sleep. “It benefited me at once, and I do not hesitate to recommend it to my friends who find themselves in the same nervous condition. “Very truly yours, “Chas. C. Whitney." Paine’s celery compound marks a tre- mendous stride in the cure of disease. No other remedy has ever succeeded in driving out the underlying causes of ner- vous and organic trouble so surely and rapidly. No remedy represents so com- prehensive a knowledge of nervous ex- haustion and the best means for its alle- WITH A Arm During a Scene The blood spurting from a deep gash in the right arm of Tragedian Robert Down- ing served to srouse the audience at the Central Theater on Thursday night to a high pitch of excitement. It was a sensational climax to an ex- citing scene in “The Gladiator,” where the two antagonists rush in with a fury apparently unrestrained to cleave each other unto death. The clashing of the broadswords had wrought the audience up to a high tension, and it was then that the weapon wielded by George Nicholls overreached_its mark and slashed Down- ing’'s arm. For a moment he stood dazed, then, hastily recovering his composure, he | continued with his part and reassured the audience. When the curtain fell, how- B ot S CORPORATION FORMED OF STUDEBAKER BROS. Important Change Made by Well- XKnown Firm of Carriage-Builders Interests Local Capital. The local branch of the well-known firm of Studebaker Bros. & Co. of South Bend, Ind., has in the past few days become a in_retaining his star. It is alleged that on April 1 Brown visited several saloons dn the. water fro: and several times neglected to pay for | the drinks he consumed. Between 3 and 4 o'clock in the afterngon of that day he entered the saloon of J. H. Lunsman, 631 Davis street, and while drinking there engaged in a dispute with Charles Reed, a boatman, over the payment of drinks. A fight ensued and Brown was cut in the face and received other injuries. Brown should have reported for duty at 5:45 p. m., but failed o do so, and sent a written_report to Captain Wittman that he had been injured by ialling downstairs. the report being accompanied by a doc- tor's certificate to the effect that he would be incapacitated from duty for some days. In addition to other charges Brown is to a superior officer, which is a serious offencse. e Rauer's Law and Collection Co., re- moved to 313 Bush st. B e In of St. Dominie’s Church. Mucl rest is shown in the dramatic entert: ent and recention in aid of St. Dominic’s Church next Monday evening at Golden Gate Hall. The drama, “A Fighting Chance: or, For the Blue or the Gray,” will be presented by members of the Rosarian Society. After the play a re- ception will be held. The music for the evening will be quite a feature -of the en- separate corporation under the name of | Studebaker Bros. & “o. of California. | " Frederick S. Fish. one of the lead ug | members of the Eastern firm, has, ar- | rangea the detalls of the incorporatién of | the local branch, similar corporations be- | ing established in Salt Lake, Portland aud | other Western citles. | ”The object of the central office in estab- | lishing local corporations is to make them local concerns with home management |and home capital invested. The South Bend firm will retain a controlling inter- | est in the new corporations. The local di- | rectors of the new corporation are Lloyd | F. Weayer, George H. Newhall. Danie | W. Earll and George M. Studebaker. i —— New Fish Commissioners. W. W. Arsdale of this city and W. ¥. Gerber of Sacramento took thelr seats as Fish Commissioners at the meeting of the board_ vesterday afternoon. They suc- ceeded Alexander T. Vogelsang and C. B. Gould, whose terms had expired. H. W. Keller was elected president and John P. Babcock, the present secretary, was left undisturbed in his position. —_—————— Body Found Floating in Bay. The body of an unknown man, evidently about 65 years of age, was found floating !in the bay off Washisgton-street wharf afternoon. was nothing tertainment b2 . There g:d(he bedy by which it could be identi- Chas, C. Whitney Uses Paine’s Gelery Gompound Whenever He Is “Run Down,” It cures where other remedies—becausa they are either silly nostrums or well meaning but old-fashioned and ignorant preparations—have been tried and found futile. Paine’s celery compound was first pre- cribed by Professor Edward E. Phelps, M. D., LL. D., of Dartmouth College, in his private practice. It has been recom- mended by learned specialists in nervous diseases. By its merit alone It has earned the highest commendations from physi- clans, the press and the public. It not only regulates the nervous system, but nourishes it; sends more and better blood to supply the wasted nerves and takes the killing strain off the kidneys. When pains appear in different parts of the body and one feels tired and de- pressed, the use of Paine’s celery com- pound will drive away the rheumatism pain or the attack of indigestion and cor- rect the failing appetite, which keeps pace so closely with the digestive powers. Paine’s celery compound has proved it- self to be the most advanced remedy yet discovered for tired brains and worn-out nerves. Nerve ‘tension is disguised under a good many symptoms that lead thoughtles persons to apply some useless local rem- edy when the only lasting rellef will coma from purified blood, kidneys aroused t» work, stomach secreting abundance of digestive julces and a toned-up state of the nerves. 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