The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 13, 1902, Page 11

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY AUGUST 13, 1902 11 MMOTH BEAR 13 UNEARTHED Shasta Fossil Beds Give Valuable Relics to University. Considered the Most Valuable Find in Recent History of Science. BERKELEY, Aug. 12—What is consid- ered one of the most important acquisi- tions to the geological laboratory of the University of California was received to- day in the shape of the skull and most of the skeleton of a mammoth cave bear, recently unearthed by Eustace Furlong, a student geologist, in one of the caves of the McCloud River. The only other speci- is arctotherium, or cave bear, his continent is a portion of a €kuli, unearthed in the same district by J. A. Richardson in the year 1879, whicn bas since stood as a notable example in all books on palaeontology. The specimen sent down by Furlong unearthed five feet below the surface the cave floor and is in excellent con- Not only the head of the an- t monster t, with the exception part of the lower jaw, but parts of the vertebral column, the limb bones and the toes a ws are intact The bones of the bear show him to have been considerably larger than the largest modern grizzly bear. His skull is two feet exceptionally broad and massive the incisors are almost the length of The leg and W the feet hig Profess s, when placed in pc have been near e tc Merriam, head eontology at the discovery rers to science. Besides the 1 the cave in 1879 no other k k covered out- in other rema ut fifty s gical history > be evidences discovered RECOMMEND CHANGES IN REALTY HANDLING Agents Adopt a Series of Rules for lation of Dealings in Property. 2 — The Oakland Association has board of B—Good, —Good ten- agent—covering adopt uniform or the momsspr et ol gt diy Licensed to Marry. 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THE LYCEUM, ¢ ACCREDITED PREPARATORY SCHOOL for the university, jaw and medical colleges: references, Pres't, Jordan or any Stanford pro- fessor, Phelan Blg. L. H. Grau,Ph.D.,Principal, CALIFORNIA COLLEGE of OSTEOPATHY 621 Butter st.—Osteopathy offers finest pro- fessional life kpown to ambitious young msa end women. Write for announcement and y particulars. IRVING INSTITUTE. [B2ARDING AND DAY SCHOOL —FOR young Iadies and littie giris, 2126 California .. will reopen August 4 1901 Accredited to Universities. REV. EDWARD CHURCH. A. M.. Principai, ANDERSON ACADEMY, Jrvington, Californie. A high grade military school angracter. for & limited number of boys of good . Next term begins on August 12. WILLIAM WALKER ANDERSON. HITCHCOCK MILITARY ACADEMY, SAN RAFAEL, CAL. A XMAS TEEM WILL BEGIN AUGUST 18 | s on prop- | the platform, and dreaded meeting 00 NOT FOLLOW GOUNCIL'S PLAN Bond Committee Makes Considerable Change in Project. Comparison of Report With First Recommendation Shows Differences. Osakland Office San Francisco Call, 1118 Broadway, Aug. 12. The City Council’'s recommendations when creating an advisory committee of citizens on a bond issue were not adhered to in the committee’s report, which was filed by Chairman M. J. Keller last night and referred to the committee of the whole. The citizens’ committee of seven de- clined to accept the Council’s proposition that the West Oakland marsh should be improved at a cost of $50,000. They tacked $10,000 on the Council's estimate of $75,- 000 for the purchase of the De Fremery property at Sixteenth and Adeline streets. John L. Howard, one of the committee, refused to indorse the increase, saying $75,000 was ample for that piece of land, The Adams Point park purchase at $290,- 000 was rejected, and the Sather property at $350,000 was substituted. The commit- tec put the “Willows” property, from Fourteenth to Oak sireets on the east side of Lake Merritt, in their report. They cut the Independence square im- provement allotment from $25,000 to $20,000. The boulevard improvement was also a new item. The parking of south of Twelfth-street dam was given $60,000 by the Council and lncreaseg to $145,000 by the committee. The estuary wharf build- ing got $75,000 from the Council. The com- mittee cut oyt that item. The new Clty Hall project got $500,000 in the Council’s recommendations. The committee allowed $400,000, and $220,000 ad- ditional for the purchase of the land west to Clay street on Fourteenth as a site. chool purposes the committee in- cased the Council's estimate of $206,000 to_$400,000. The fire department was given $6: over the Council’s figures of $57,500. improvements were enlarged from to $469,350. CLANS OF CHINESE JEWS IN INTERIOR PROVINCE Lost for Centuries, but Still Vener- ate Adam, Abraham and Moses. anghai correspondence to the Phila- phia North American says: Deep in the heart of an interior Chinese province nd of Chinese Jews. Now ed throughout Jewish col- opening com- an corelig- close rela- been known for some time that tribe existed. Occasionally trav- ave brought from Kaifeng Fu the f a stranze sect that did not fol- achings of Buddha, =, but worshiped Moses. An at- e to reach them some fifty it was thwarted by the vellion. Again within the last s the Boxer insurrection ure to a similar effort. with a m 140. ale mem- How they came descend is a problem wh have to decide, conditi deplorable, servances have de- ot surprising isolation from a They have scheols in which to edu but they have stanchly resisted the in- fiuen of Buddhist and Mohammedan s, and venerate above all things which is engraved the o ses, Abraham and Adam. They have a few traditional commands that v remember and observe. The never use heathen musical instruments in mar: ceremonies. They take out sin- cws before preparing the meat for their food and are prohibited to eat pork. They did not know until recently of the exis- tence in any part of the world of any besides themselves. Their first edge of their outside co-religionists when they received the message 1 Jews sent to them. GOOD fTORY ON HIMSELF TOLD BY MR. BRYAN Victim of Wit of the Republican Gov- ernor Whom He Had De- nounced. “‘Bryan told me a good story upon him- gelf last summer,” said Representalive Shafroth of Colorado recently. “He said that when he began his political career he stumped Nebraska against the Republi- can candidate for Governor. He uttered all manner of harsh things against the Republican nominee, and felt that if he should ever meet meet him it would be embarrassing. After the campalgn was over Bryan accepted an invitation to make an address at Ombaha, He was somewhat disconcerted on seeing the Governor on the man whom he had so savagely denounced. The chairman of the committee on pro- gramme introduced the singers and speak- ers to the Governor, who In turn, pre- sented them to the audience. ‘* ‘Introduce William J. Bryan,” suggest- ed the chairman to the Governor, when Bryan's turn came. ‘I have the honor,’ saild the Governor, was | which loc | ‘to present to you Willlam J. Bryan—' “The Governor paused. He did not seem to know what to say next. Then he leaned over to Bryan. ‘Are you a singer or a speaker?” he asked. ‘I speak,’ said Bryan ““Who will now make an address,’ added the Governor, as he agaln faced the audience with an alr of relief. “The Governor afterward told Bryan that he had never heard of him, nor of the speeches which Bryan thought had ;Urred the entire State.””—Washington ost. —————— BOSTON CLAIMS HONOR OF FIRST EDITORIALS Substituted Them for Letters of “Fabius.” ‘“Honestus” and Others. An essay on “The Boston Newspapers' in the June Bookman throws some 1light on the development of the modern edito- rial. The earlier newupa{)ers had no edi- torials. Attempts to mold public opinion took the form of letters signed ‘‘Publius,” “Junius” and like Latin names, such, for instance, as the letters which make up the Federalist. The writer in the Book- man claims for Boston the honor of orj, inating the present editorial form. The Boston Daily Advertiser and Repertory, the first successful Boston daily, was founded in 1813, and the next year passed into the hands of Nathan Hale, nephew of the spy of the Revolution. Hale began to substitute leading articles written in the office for those formerly furnished by the wart Romans, “Fablus,” ‘“Hon- estus,” “Nov-Angius,” “Laco” and “Mas- sachusettensis.” The fashion set by the Advertiser was widely copled and f{na.“y became general. Mr. Hale came to take such a pride in his innovation that when distinguished men like Everett and Web- ster offered articles for use as editorials he insisted on printing them as communi- cations, Only the staff men were allowed to write the regular editorial comment. ————— Congreve would prepare a drama for the stage in a week or ten days, though four or five times this period was given to the work of revision and reconstruc- tion after the play had been to the actors, from which of the urighml} OAKLAND PREPARES TO GREET EXPECTED PYTHIAN VISITORS Cordial Reception Will Be Tendered Knights and Ladies Who Will Invade Alameda County’s Principal City on Thursday and Enjoy Speechmaking and Luncheon on Public Lawns BERSEANT NMAVCHE ‘@ W S@UNN B smreeLy SuoTa | %= AKLAND, Aug. 12.—Free-hearted hospitality and the freedom of the city await the thousands of Knights of Pythias, their ladies and frlends who are to invade Oazkland Thursday. Everything is in readiness to receive the visitors. Nothing that the guests of the city desire will be lacking if the reception committee and citizén hosts can help it. There will be a spectacular parade of Knights along streets gaily bedecked with 7 the Pythians' tricolor, concerts in the luncheon on the sward, military literary exercise: fraternal “‘at homes” and other events, all in honor of the visiters within the city’s gates. At 10 o'clock Thursday morning the cele- bration will commence with the street parade, which is to start from the foot of Broadway. Two special ferryboats will arrive at the Broadway dock shortly be- fore that hour with regiments of the Uni- formed Rank of the Knights of Pythias from San Francisco. Four companies of the Second Battalion of the First Califor- ria Regiment, Knights of Pythias, under command of Major Max Muehlenbruch, will march from Armory Hall on Thir- teenth street and meet the regiments from San Francisco when they land. L e e e e 0 5K3 WHEELER Choate Desires Counsel Regarding Oxford Scholarships. BERKELEY, Aug. 12.—President Wheel- er of the State University has recelved from Joseph H. Choate, American Em- bassador to the Court of St. James, an appeal for advice on the question of the plan for awarding the Oxford scholar- ships recently provided for the American college man in the will of Cecil Rhodes. The Governor of the State has also re- quested the President to forward to Sec- retary of State John Hay a copy of his advice on the subject. The will of Cecil. Rhodes- provides for the awarding of two scholarships a.year, of the value of $1500, to each Btate and *Perritory in the Union He specifies that manly, athletic youths, such as are gen- erally "deemed typical college men, are the ones that he wishes chosen, but all details of the mode of choosing the schol- ars is left in the hands of Lord Milner and Joseph Chamberlain. It is for advice on this subject that these executors of the Rhodes estate are now addressing promi- nent educators in this country. President Wheeler would not give his views on the subject until after they had ‘been forwarded to the proper authorities. Professor H. Morse Stephens of the uni- versity faculty, himself an Oxford gradu- ate, has a decided opinion on some points in the mooted question. He says: It is presuthed that the executors of Mr. Rhodes’ estate, who understand his intentions, will try to get picked students from American scademies and endeavor to fix a limit of age for the: Rliodes . scholars, since it is: evident that he hoped to bring young Americans to Oxford at the impressionable age and not %0 REINHOLD IR IIATIIT a e FOR RIS VIEWS. SECRGE TAYIOR samEs swave L OAKLAND PYTHIANS WHO WILL WELCOME THE VISIT- ING KNIGHTS TO-MORROW. + = = The band of Liberty Company will fur- nish the music for Major Muehlenbruch’s command. Chief of Police St. Clair Hodg- kins, with a platoon of policemen, will head and clear the way for the marching Knights. Major General James R. Carna- han, the supreme officer of the Uniform Rank of the Pythlans in_the United States, will lead his fellow Knights. 8. S. Austin of this city will act as grand marshal for the subordinate lodges in the parade. The members of these lodges will 2 B e e S ] ] n;loll the number of American post-graduates there. The system of examinations pursued in many Congress'onal districts for nomination to An- napolis and West Point could be adopted in the awarding of the Rhodes scholarships. INCREASED ENROLLMENT IN SCHOOLS OF OAKLAND Several of the Buildings Overcrowded Because of the Large At- tendance. OAKLAND, Aug. 12.—According to the reports received by City Superintendent of Schools J. W. McClymonds to-day the enrollment of puplls for the opening of this term shows a substantial increase over that at the beginning of last term. Several of the school buildings are now overcrowded. the Durant school elfhty-e!ght beginners applied for ad- mission. Herewith is given the enrollment for the various schools: Bay, 416; Clawson, 434; Cole, 794; Durant, 841; Franklin, 595; Garfield, 595; Grove-street, 127; Harrison, Lafayette, 796; Lincoln, 812; Peralta, Piedmont, 2 Prescott, 718; Swett, 306; Temescal, 296; Tompkins, 355; Cen- tral night school, 142; Garfield night school, 48; Polytechnic High School, 255! total grammar school enrollment, §253: total night school enrollment, 190." The figures of the high school enrollment have not yet been reported. ————— First Baptist Church Meeting. OAKLAND, Aug. 12.—The congregation ef the First Baptist Church, which was burned Sunday night, will hold its regu- lar Wednesday evening prayer meeting to-morrow night in the Young Men's Christian Assoclation Auditorium. After the services a congregational meeting will be held to discuss the situation. All of the churches in central Oakland have sent offers of assistance to the church. —_—— Asks for Guardianship. OAKLAND, Aug. 12—Edhund G. Soule has made application to be appointed guardian of the estate of Leon Hunt, aged 17 years, whose mother, Nellle Hunt, killed her husband and then herself af Ukiah July 2 Jast. The estate is said to be worth $20,™). The petitioner is a brother of the deceased wife. wear white duck trousers, regulation dark ccat and tricolor hats. The line of march will be from the foot of Broadway to Seventh street, to Wash- ington street, to Fourteenth, to Broadway, to Sixteenth, thence countermarch to Seventh, countermarch to Eleventh and | then to Lafayette Square. There the| Pythians will hear an address of welcome | to be dellvered by Mayor Anson Barstow, who will be introduced by Colonel George | Sumuels. Major General James R. Ca nahan will respond to Mayor Barstow words of welcome. Another address to the Knights on matters pertaining to their order and California will be made by Dr. George C. Pardee. After the conclusion of the literary ex- ercises luncheon will be served the visitors | on the lawns of Lafayette Square. Thou- sands of appetizing lunches in baskets will be distributed among the Knights and their parties by the Pythians and citizens of Oakland. Open house will also be kept in Pythian Hall, Woodmen's Hall and at the Board of “Trade rooms. There will be a concert during the day in La- fayette Square and in City Hall Park. In the parade in the morning the members of | the City Council of this city and the| Trustees of Alameda, Berkeley and Cen- terville, together with the members of the local Board of Trade and the Mer- chants’ Exchange, will ride in carriages. Calanthe Temple No. 6, Rathbone Sisters, will tender a reception from 2 to 5 to East- ern visitors in Pythian Castle Thursday. Mayor Barstow will request the local mer- chants to close their stores on Thursday during the parade and exercises in order to permit their employes to witness the programme. Prominent among the workers on the Knights of Pythias committee that has arranged for Thursday’'s celebration are James R. Sloan, J. N. Bonham, Dr. Max Muehlenbruch, J. P. Abbott, George Sam- uels, Dr. W. H. Anderson, George A. Tay- lor and J. E. Holmes. BOY BURGLAR ROBS GROGERY Wendell Harris, Aged 11, Enters Store and Takes $3 60 ALAMEDA, Aug. 13.—Wendell Harris, 11 years of age, and who resides at 646 Railroad avenue, is the burglar who en- tered Hauch's grocery at the corner of Webster street and Rallroad avenue Sun- day night and took $360 out of the cash register. His capture is due to his inability to conceal from his schoolmates his fll-got- ten gain. From the school children word reached the police of the boy who was carrying considerable money. Detective George Brown called on the little fellow, who, when he realized he was talking to a policeman, confessed his guilt. goung Harris said: “I only went in to get some candy, and I took the money be- cause the drawer was open.” Wendell had $1 in nickels with him. He says that is all he took. , Entrance was gained to the store by breaking a window. Mr. Hauch refused to prefer charges against the boy, and his sister took him home this evening. ‘Wendell's father is dead, and his mother is away from home, working. ——————— | quirer is | months I have repeatedly offered to buy 300 Where Garbage Can Be Dumped. OAKLAND, Aug. 12—An ordinance was introduced ‘and passed to print by the City Council to-night that will empower the Board of Public Works to designate certain places within the city limits where garbage can be dumped. This is expected to break the existing tleup among the scavengers caused by a lack of dumping grounds. HADLEY MAKES AN EXPLANATION Gives a _Sbatemenb of His Relations With the Enquirer. Says He Did Not Conspire to Irjure or Control the Paper. Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 1118 Broadway, Aug. 12. M. de L. Hadley, the late business man- ager of the Oakland Enquirer, returned from a vacation to-day and has made the following statement in regard to his con- nection with the recent Enquirer-Dalton troubles: On my return to-day from the Santa Cruz Mountains, where I have been rusticating for the past eight days, I was shown the news- papers contdining the statements made by Attorneys Fitzgerald and Snook in their ad- dress to the jury that tried Assessor Henry P. Dalton upon the charge of defrauding Alameda County out of the sum of $1575. In reply to the charge, made under cover of argument, that I was engaged in a conspiracy t0_injure the reputation of Dalton and Danlels, I beg leave to say such a charge is absolutely false in every particular. I acted uvon the aavice of honorable attor- neys from start to finish and at no_time did 1 take an active part in either the Dalton or Danieis trials. 1 did not know that Russell R. Stedman had made the affidavit published in the daily pa- pers on June 4 until nearly midnight June 3,3 at which time I was informed by telephone that such an affidavit had been made. THINKS HE SAID DAN1ELS. ‘When subpenaed as a witness before the Grand Jury impaneled for the purpose of in- vestigating the charges made against Dalton and Daniels, 1 asked my attorney to try to get me excused, as I did not wish to testify against the men with whom I had been asso- clated. My request was of no avail and I was torced to appear. When I testified before the Grand Jury I told them flatly that I was an s and while I had nothing to conceal 1 was there for the purpose of truth- tully answering only such questions as might 1 honestly believe that my voluntary state- ment regarding G. B. Daniels saved him from being indicted by the Grand Jury. While Daniels was being tried in the Police Court I was subpenaed by the prosecution, placed on the witness stand and asked a few aquestions. Attorneys Snook and Hill then had an oppor- tunity to cross-examine me to their hearts’ Cesire and they exercived their right just as far Bs they dared. 1 was on the stand, all told, an_hour. During the Dalton trial in the Superior Court i was again subpenaed by the prosecution and I was constantly in attendance at the court- room until informed by the District Attorney that 1 would not be called as a witness. All tatements to the effect that I refused to go on the witness stand and testify are faise—ab- solutely alsc. Had the defense wanted me on the witness stand it could have had me at any time for the asking, but 1 would not vol- unteer my services as a witness. The attor- 1eys for the defense well knew that I feared them not. That 1 was engaged in a conspiracy to de- fraud any man or to obtain control of the En- also false. During the last seven not over haif shares of stock. refuses quirer stock or to sell my own In each case my offer to buy has been and my offer to sell met with the state- ment that he did not have the money with which to buy my stock. IS BITTER ABOUT “REWARD.” My offers to buy or sell were made in the inte bi rests of mony, as I did not wish the candal to taint the paper, the busi- ent of which it has taken me years to build up. I thought a great deal of the Enquirer that owed its being to F. A. Leach and A. B. Nye, and I was willing to do any- thing within the bounds of honor to save the paper from impending scandal. I did not furnish District Attorney Allen or Attorney Foote with written questions to ask Dalton. I did order the rd ‘‘Canceled” written seventy-five assessment rolls and thirty mortsage books three months after the county had paid for the bocks that had never been delivered, but this was not dis- covered by the Dalton-Daniels people until the evening of June 3 or the morning of June 4, and they did not know how or why it had been written there until I testified before the Grand Jury. The merchants of Oakland know that I keep my agreements to the very letter, pay my bills promptly, understand my business, am fair in all my dealings, and I cannot believe this absurd of “‘conspiracy”’ set up by Dal- ton and Daniels can or will affect my standing in_the community. My reward for refusing to perjure myself is dismissal from a position I have held for thir- teen years, removal from an office I have held ever ‘since the Oakland Enquirer Publishing Compan: incorporated and the threatened loss of § invested in Enquirer stock, to say nothing of the unjust assaults upon my char- acter. I am still ready to buy the controlling inter- est In the Enquirer and restore it to the plane occupled under the ownership of F. A. Leach, A. B. Nye and D. Edward Collins. Regarding Mr. Stedman, I think he made an error In making the affidavit published June 4. but at the same time I know him to be hon- ext and the vicious attacks made upon his character are in my opinion unwarranted, un- just and little short of persecution. M. DE L. HADLEY. “JARRED SOME” BY A FALL FROM TRAIN Hardy Irishman Has Narrow Es- cape Where Another Would Have Been Killed. Pat was assistant cook on one of the dining-cars on the Great Western road running into St. Paul. He was obstinate and ill-tempered. The chef was equally so, and as a result constant warfare waged between them. One day last summer Pat was making icecream, and in spite of the chef's warn- ings insisted upon sitting in the doorway of the pantry while he turned the freezer. The train, going up grade, made a sud- den lurch, and Pat and his can of ice cream fell out of the door, as his superior officer had predicted. Frantic with fright, the chef, in his white cap and apron, tore tbrough the train looking for the conductor. “Mon Dieu, Monsleur Conductaire,” he cried, wringing his hands, when he found that person, ‘‘ze icecream freezaire he fall out, and Pat go wiz heem! Stop ze tram- way or we will hat pas dessert pour le diner. Trouble, trouble always wiz zat Irishman.” The conductor pulled the bell and stop- ped the train, but it had already gone two miles past the spot where Pat had rolled out. They backed the train, fully expecting to find Pat's mangled body beside the track. Instead, they saw him coming over the tles 0 na run, carrying on his back the icecream freezer. He climbed on the train, looking fool- ish, but all he ever said of his miraculous escape was, ‘“‘Be gosh, it jarred me some, it did thot.”—Lippincott's Magazine. e St 5 ol vt Oddities in English Ads. A general servant advertised in a Bris- tol paper for a place the other day, but required “no inquiries; no caps or aprons; every evening out; good wages”; and a journalist advertised himself as of “no particular ability” as a recommendation. A clerk recently sought a place ‘“where great strength, personal appearance or ability are not required.” “Good butter, §d a Ib. Nobody can touch it was am- biguous and may have been wrongly in- terpreted by the gubllc; and a Gloucester- shire paper which inserted the advertise- ment, “Our one-and-nine penny dinner-at §:30 p. m. Funerals promptly attended to,” apologized next day for mixing up two separate and distinct announcements. But it is a fact that a church paper ap- pealed lately for “Old man, lame, deaf, epileptic. Will any Christian take him for a gardener?” and that In a leading Scotch journal. an advertiser asked for “£65 to pay debts incurred through losses at betting.'—New York Sun. FEWoiatad 2 d b Tk 0 S North America is credited with twenty volcanoes, Central América with twenty- five and South America with thirty-seves. Many of these are upon ilgmss, VIGILANTES ROUT GANG OF TRAMPS Law and Order Commit= tee Works Success- fully at Haywards. Band of Hobos Causes Reign of Terror by Its Bold Operations. Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 1118 Broadway, Aug, 12 Th continued presence and bold manu- vers of a colony of fifteen lawless looking tramps located between Haywards and San Leandro caused the old spirit of the vigilantes to be revived within the breasts of the citizens of Haywards, with the re- sult that a night attack was Plumed against the thugs and successfully - ried out. The tramps had been becoming bolder every day. They ralded farmhouses and dweiling houses In Haywards when they were aware that no one was at home ex= cept women. A_quiet meeting of a number of the leading citizens and farmers was held, and it was decided to rid the community of the presence of the tough looking cus- tomers. Armed with everything except the useful rope which played such a part in the proceedings of the “law and ordey committee of earlier days, ten stalwart eeded to the rendezv: of the At a given signal the ofislaught was made. For a moment the tramps pug up a show of resistance, but their cour< age was short lived. Three of thelr num« ber were stretched senseless by the club« bing they received. Since the rout the district has been rid of the gang. The affair was conducted with great secrecy, but it is understoo that the posse was composed of some o :ll‘e tleeui‘mg farmers of the Haywards dis< rict. EXTRA POSTAL DELIVERY OBTAINED FOR OAKLAND Postmaster Will Request the Council to Order the Census of the City Taken. OAKLAND, Aug. 12—Postmaster T. T, Dargie has succeeded in securing anothet mail delivery from San Francisco to this city, which will prove of great advantage and convenience to local merchants and others. Under the new delivery the last mail from San Francisco at night will arrive here at 1:01 a. m. Heretofore the latest night mail from San Francisco reached Oakland at 9:10, too early to in« clude matter arriving in San Francisco on late trains from the interior. Postmaster Dargle says he will soon re- quest the City Council to order that a census of the city be taken during the lat. ter part of October to ascertain definitely whether Oakland has more than 75,000 population, which Dargle thinks it has, Should it be found that the city has mora than 75,000 inhabitants the letter-carriers will be entitled to an increase of $150 pet year. It has been arranged that the car- Tiers will hereafter obtain three Sundays off in every month. —_———————— Says Her Brother Was Brutal. OAKLAND, ‘Aug. 12.—John R. Smith was arrested last night on complaint of Mrs. W. Street, his sister. who complains that Smith knocked her down a flight of twenty-four stairs at his home, 1123 Camp- bell street, because she shut off the water at the house. Mrs. Street declared that her brother had been collecting rents from house tenants and had failed tao make returns to her, although she was interested In the property. She retali- ated by turning off the water. Smith will have a bearing in the Police Court. —_————— Claim Check Is Worthless. OAKLAND, Aug. 12.—The police have a warrant for the arrest of 8. Friedman, who i¢ charged with passing a worthless check for $18 on D. A. Dowling, a saloon« keeper at 203 San Pablo avenue. e High School Students Organize. ALAMEDA, Aug. 12—The students of the Alameda High School organized to- day and elected officers for the ensuing term. They withdrew from the Academia Athletic League. ——————— Dredger Sinks in Estuary. OAKLAND, Aug. 12—Through striking on some old piles off the foot of Market street to-day a dredger belonging to An- son S. Blake was sunk in the estuary. ——————————— ‘Wise men bump up against a fool'y game occasionally. ADVERTISEMENTS. THREE (ilGAG0 DOGTORS Fahed to Do e for Miss Mabelle LaMonte What Was Accom- lished by Lydia E. Pinkham’s egetable Compound. “DEAR Mgs. Prvxmam:—1 was in 8n awful state for nearly three years with a complication of female troubles which three physicians called by dif- ferent names, but the pains were all the same. I dreaded the time of my MABELLE L. LAMONTE. monthl; riods for it meant a couple of dayayinpebed io awful agony. I final- ly made up my mind that the good loctors were guessing; and hearing from different . friends -::;nd re- ports of Lydia E. 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