The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 4, 1903, Page 14

14 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY. AUGUST 4, COURT - WILL SN UNTIE TRUST KNOT Judge Beatty Considers the Shipbuilding Situation. Serious Questions Presented by Attorneys Pillsbury and Wollman. —— Assurances That the Union Iron Works Will Continue Work Even if Receiver Controls. ng trust fig at Kirkpat- zick of Ne re weeks ago was ended bef Beatty in the United States « Attorney ¥ Pillsbur the TUnion won the e primary e payment « < to the amount « i esented the r stock eir behalf t the appol f a receiver. HAS NO JURISDICTION. inted was based ste providing for ent corporations, by the national able to manufac- the defendant, and strict Court alone e charge of the ndant. or wind up ADVERTISEMENTS. ‘Wanted! omenand Girls E CALIFORNIA FRUIT S’ ASSOCIATION FAC- AT Francisco and Taylor Streefs, Seventh and Berry Streefs, -Sansome and Vallejo Streets. AUCTION ANCIENT PERSIAN RUGS To-day, Aug. 4th 8 jection of ficed at unreserved auction to realize cash An opportunity to buy real antiques which cannot be found anywhere nowadaye 205 Post St BOHEMIA Pure, Pale and Sparkling. Bottled Only at the Brewery in St. Louis. HILBERT MERCANTILE CO., Pacific Coast Agents. CUTLERY BLADE i XCHANGE NAMES 175 GOMMITTEES | Prominent Men Selected for Work During Current Term. | All Leading Business Lines { ° Are Represented in | Membership. { —_—.——— 1 W. J. Dutton will be the chairman of {the executive committee of the Mer-| chants’ Exchange for the current year. | E. W. Hopkins heads the committee on finances, J. A. Hooper the committee on arbitration, Henry F. Allen the commit- tee on appeals, R. D. Girvin the commit- tee on grain, R. P. Schwerin the com- mittee on e and commerce, H. Sher- the membership committee, Wheelan the information and stati committee, W. A. Soule the floor commit- tee and Juda Newman the committee on argin fund. These anouncements were ade at a meeting of the newly elected wood s is a great ruction work on the big buflding on d Leldsdorff streets will be vanced. The grain business will e changes in rules, especially ap- plicable to warehousing. More than the ordinary interest has therefore attached | selection of the commit- thelr respective fields, do t of work for the entire n e new grain rules that have already been published have not been adopted, but have been recommended and will undoubtedly go into force soon. The membership of the standing com- | mittees of the exchange for the year is as follows . Chesenrough, mempership—H. Sher- 1 H. Hammer. ormation and <ruse, James A. Newell Henry Joseph H Allen, J. J Haven, "Wil- rvin, William Hogg, A. S. Newman, M Yiooper. Harrison, Henry Rosenfeld. Henry F. parles D. R. D. G Somers, Jam. margin fund—Juda J. M. Peftigrew flairs, or ing the same. he attorney said that the appointment grain H. ( of a receiver was unnecessary. He based | this statement on the fact that his client, the antile Trust Company, had filed its bt the Circuit Court and com- menced a sult on July 22, 193, for the closure of a mortgage upon the prop- of the defendant, and procured a sub- pena and mad ice of the same Unio Works. He said this was nmencement of the pres- o have a recelver ap- pointed, and his clients are therefore en- titled to the appointment of such receiver if such action is deemed necessary by the court, as the claims of the Mercantile | Trust Company are superior to those of complainants OPPOSED TO RECEIVER. Mr. Pillsbury argued that the appoint- ment of a receiver would be delrlmemu!i to the interests of all concerned in the property and affairs of the defendant, the | United States Shipbuilding Company, and further because the property affected is | under lease and because the appointment of a receiver would be contrary to equity. The Mercantile Trust Company’s coun- { sel wanted the court to deny the appli- | cation without prejudice. “I desire, your Honor_ to hold this situation just as it e at present,” said Mr. Pillsbury, “and | thus safeguard the rights of everybody.” | *““Whatever order I make will be made | with the qualification “that it can be opened at any time,” interrupted Judge Beatty Mr. Pillsbury continued as f llows with- out interruption: If in your iconscience you can see no good can be accomplished by such appointment your Honor must certainly deny it. Suppose your 7 Honor made You would do no g0od to anybody, but would jeopardize the situation. Immediately the United States Government would make inquiry. The Pacific Steamship Company would ask what s T would say, | the court has appointed a recelyer and 1t will be necessary to put a recelver in the works, which will cause delay in preparing vour steamships for service, Then the super- intendent of the company would say, ‘'No more ships of the Pacific Mall will go into the Union Iron Works—we cannot take any chances.” In other words, your Honor, you can prevent injury to innocent people if you | Gecitne now to make ‘any appointment. We | are perfectly willing that you do it without prejudice, with a right to remew it at any time. If you do the condition will be this: The Unfon Iron Works will be uncrammeled, | unaffected; but nition of the comolainant's petition you do | injury, necessarily and inevitably. Suppose your Homor recognizes the recelver here. The officers of the United States Government are direc Iron Worke. To whom will they pay the to your Honor? Just as quick as this applic comes up there will be trouble. I say it is the only safe course. It is an ex- ceptionaily happy situation for your Honor, because there is no obligation or trouble about it. By failing to act you can do muo harm. Yaou hold the situation. nocent, you protect the Union Iron Works, which Is not & party to these proceedings, and you protect the rights of all who have a claim to the protection of this court. Mr. Pillsbury expressed the bellef that Mr. Nixon was behind the complainants in their attempts to have a recelver ap- pointed. He sald no benefit would come to the Union Iron Works by th® appointment | of a receiver. He pointed out that the at- | torneys for the complainants had not at- | tempted to palliate it. He quoted extracts | from testimony given by Henry T. Scott last week. He sald: Now, Mr. Scott was asked if a receiver was | appointed would he (Scott) not act as i |agent and try to the * ship- { yard going, and he that he | would. “But Mr. Scott is protesting against the appointment of a receiver. He is the ex- ecutive officer of the Unjon Iron Works and his position is delicate. But Mr. Scott it not | the Union Iron Works. e is merely a di- | rector. Mr. Scott would sitmply become ar | agent of this receiver and the receiver the rep- | resentative of the United States Shipbuilding Company. M. Scott might be tempted to accept the { eltion of agent by the offer of a big salary. I m sure he would not object to such a remu- erative pesition. WOLLMAN DEFENDS SCOTT. Attorney Henry Wollman defended Mr. Scott, though Scott and he had not dis- | cussed the matter of accepting the posi- | tion of agent of the recelver. Mr. Pills- bury reiterated that he did not think that | Beott would refuse the position, as he | would be well pald, since: the receiver is | always highly remunerated. { “But, says Mr. Scott, receivers are not regarded with favor in this community,” added Mr. Pillsbury. | Judge Lindley followed Mr. Pillsbury and argued the question of this court's jurisdiction over the United States Ship- ! bullding Company and quoted many au- thorities to refute those submitted by Mr. Pilisbury. | SAYS PLAN IS DISHONEST. Attorney Wollman grew fervent in his statement that the plan of the reorgani- zation commjttee was a dishonest one, an1 he appealed to the court to appoint Senator Smith receiver, in order that an honest plan may be developed and innocent stockholders be protected. He spoke very fast and to the point, relterating no point that he had once made. He said: If the Mercantile Trust Company had not been under the absolute domination of Schwab's vear for the exchange. on | a qualified appointment. | if you take a formal recog- | d to take the receipts from the Union | You protect the in- | NIXON BEHIND PROCEEDINGS. | il B | THREE FIRES IN AN HOUR KEEP THE ENGINES MOVING Plant of Weston Basket and Manufacturing Cémpany Is Wiped Out by Flames and Only Efficiency of Department Prevents the Adjacent Establishments From Sharing a Similar Fate 1903 alarm—startled the city ea night | Just before 6 o'clock the bells | announced a fire at 960 Bryant, street. Two further calls and a general | i alarm told the gravity of the mnflam-i | tion and while fast runs to this spot of | danger were filling the streets with the | | clangor of many bells two other fires, added to the excitement. A fire on Brannan street, above Third, and a blaze in a lodging-house at 29 Eddy street increased the worries of the fire department and the fears of the public. Though the two last fires were .ot serious the multiplicity of simultancous calls | made the situation exciting. The first fire was’ the only serious one, | and it consumed the buildings of the | Weston Basket and Manufacturing Com- | pany, the losses reaching about $0,000. | The eall was turned in at 5:350 p. m. | from box 156, by W. H. Fuller of the Overland Freight and Transfer Company. | Upon the arrival of the department the | battalion chief saw that the limited num- | ber of engines and men at his command | could not cope with the flames and a | second call was sent in. The building, a two-story frame, on the north line of | Bryant street, between Fourth and Fifth, | became a veritable furnace and the # | lammable materfal with which it was | stored, fanned by a fresh westerly hreeze, burned like 8o much tinder. g | Chief Sullivan was on the scene within a few minutes of the second alarm, and, | acting upon his instructions, a third call was given. The three alarms brought to the fire fourteen engine-companies, four | trucks, two chemicals, one water tower {and two batteries. Even with this array | of fire-fighting apparatus it looked for a time as if it would be necessary to call | upon all the reserve force to keep the flames from creeping through the block bounded by Fourth, Fifth, Bryant and Harrison streets and duplicating the ter- ribie fire of 18%, which swept over the dis- trict and entafled several million dollars of loss. { SPECTACULAR FIRE. | In an incredibly short time a dozen | lines of hose were playing upon the burn- |ing building from all sides and the ef- | fects of the streams soon became mani- | fest. Within an hour the blaze was un- | der control, but it was not until 9:% | o'clock that the last engine left the scene | and every ember had been extinguished. | From a spectacular point of view the | fire at the start left nothing to be de- | sired by the thousands of spectators. Fed by the light material from which the | | product of the factory is made and 3,000,- 000 fruit basket stored in the buiiding, the flames shot skyward nearly 100 feet. The | powerful streams from the throbbing en- | gines turned to steam upon coming in | contact with the flames, but: the tons of | water soon began to have effect. > The Weston Basket and Manufacturing | Company, of which H. P. Martin is pres- ident and O. W. Crawford general man- | ager, occupies the building.at.660. to 670 | Bryant street as a manufactory of all | kinds of fruit and berry baskets. The firm is one of the largest of its kind on the coast and as this.is the helght of the frult season the factory had been run- ning full blast. More than three million baskets were stored in the bullding @-i-iiieiieeiinlielieieiieiek @ | | AR e FACTORY OF THE WESTON SCENES DURING THE BURNING YESTERDAY AFTERNOON OF THE BASKET AND MANUFACTURING COMPANY, WHICH THREATENED A SERIOUS CONFLAGRATION. awalting shipment. The = establishment shut down for the day at 5 o'clock and W. Jamd&on, who is employed in the ca- pacity of watchman, was left in charge. He was the first to discover the.fire and upon realizing the futility of attempting to combat the flames ran to the street to give the alarm. By this time others in the neighborhood had seen the fire and an alarm had already been turned in from box 186. WATCHMAN’S STORY. W. Jameson stated ‘that' it is his beliet that the fire started from the engine room. He made the following statement: All the employes of the factory stopped work at 5 o'clock and the machines were shut down. At the time the fire broke out I was In the foot-power room_ on the second floor and was about fo proceed downstairs when flames burst through the floor of the storeroom, Which is | in the rear of the buflding and directly over the engine-room. It took but a second to. see that any effort on my part to put out the fire would be unavailing, so I immediately gave the alarm, E. R. Crawford, one of the superintend- ents of the factory, stated that until an investigation was made he would be un- able to assign a cause for the fire. From the statement of the watchman and the fact that the fires in the engine-room are banked ‘at night it is ‘the consensus of opinion ‘that it had its start near the boll- ers.. According to Mr. Crawford the plant was valued at $50,000 and the stock at §25,000, and will be a total loss. Owing to the inflammable nature of the goods man- ufactured and the fact that the establish- ment has been destroyed by fire before the insurance companies have regarded it as a 7 per cent risk. ' The members of the firm were reticent as to the amount of reorganization committee it would have hailed the recelvership as a deliverance and looked upon the_appointment of Senator Smith as a godsend. "Every Interest was. represented- at the hearing before Judge Kirkpatrick of New- ark, and every possible and relevant question Was raised there. Our adversarles know. that every court' must give full faith to the New Jersey court’s order, and yet they are accom- plishing part of their designs by dilatory pleas. They really hope to prevent the receiver from getting the assets in time and would prevent him from ralsing money to pay interest, avoid default, and rehabilitate the company. ‘After they were defeated honorably at New- ark they gave notice to all their local mana- Eers to pay no attention to Judge Kirkpatrick's order. - They -thus forced us to go into each Juriediction to ask the Federal courts to recog- nize the receiver. The Sheldon reorganization committee repre- sents Schwab's bonds, also some of the first mortgage bonds, and the interests of the two are in direct opposition to each other. These tacticians desire to wipe out the first mortgage bonds in favor of Schwal's. The reorganiza- tion committee, through the same attorneys that represented the defendant company, bring this fake sult, for if it were in good faith it would make the second mortgage Deople a. de- fendant. There are no $5,000,000 of bonds, outside of {the Sheldon committee, that hope for relief from the courts. Every asset of the Union Iron Works belongs to the United States Ship- bullding Company. The lease, of which so much has been sald, calls for no rental, and it expires by its own terms within a_week. All the claims about work ceasing It the re- celver is appointed is absurd, The Sécretary of the Navy will let the work go on and ail Questions as_to the stability of contracts will be settled. receiver has recognized in all other jurisdictions and we have no doubt of results here. Judge Beatty took the case under ad- visement and it is belleved that a decision will be reached very soon. P — Bank Stock paver is made from pure mate- rials. Mysell-Rollins,22 Clay, are agents for it.® insurance carried, but as near as can be ascertained it'is in’the neighborhood of $25,000, distributed among the following companies: Thuringia, = Pennsylvania, Aachen and ‘Munich, Hanover and Ham- burg-Bremen. STABLES JUST ESCAPE. The stables of the Stetson-Renner Draying Company = are immediately in the rear of the burned building, and had a close call and escaped with a $500 damage to the sheds. It so happened at the time the fire broke out that the majority of the teams and drivers were in the yard. As soon as it was seen that the flames were breaking through the sheds which shelter the trucks for the night J. W. Stetson, one of the propri- etors, called for volunteers to.save the valuable rigs. All of the employes, who are members of the Brotherhood of Teamsters, responded, and the wagons were quickly drawn to a place of safety. On the east side of the Weston Manu- facturing Company D. Bucking conducts a cooper shop in the basement of a two- story frame structure. The upper floor is divided into two dwelling houses, one of which is occupied by Bucking, who owns the building, and the other by W. C. Robinson -and family, who only moved into ihe house on Sunday. Bucking esti- mates the loss to his building and coop- erage at $2000°'and is fully insured. The Robinsons managed to save some of their cffects, but the majority were ruined by smoke and water. GOOD WORK OF FIREMEN. The stables of the Overland Freight and Transfer Company again miraculously es- caped burning and damage to the sheds will approximate $500. The employes of the firm kept the bulldings wet down with several lines of hose. Taking into consideration the naturg of the material stored in the blazing struc- Iture and the fact that a strong wind was blowing, it is regarded as remarkable that the fire was.confined to the building in which it started. Chief Sullivan, in addi- tion to superintending the fighting of the stubborn fire, personally responded to the | two other alarms. Several of the engines at the Bryant-street fire in addition to those expected “to cover'in were dis- patched to the other boxes. The police arrangements were admirable and the | crowds were not allowed to hamper the | firemen, | At 6:19 o'clock last evening an alarm was turned in from box 53 for a roof fire on Brannan street, above third. The blaze was quickly extinguished and the loss was not over $20. 4 At 6:34 o'clock last evening an alarm ! was turned in from box 47, Eddy and Powell streets. The blaze was eonfined to some rubbish in the basement of the Ad- ams, a lodging-house at 29 Eddy street. The fire ‘was soon ' extinguished from a | stream from the chemical engine. The engines and hose carts that responded to the alarm were dispatched:from the fire that was raging down on Bryant street. —_———— Passing of Prominent Mason. OAKLAND, Aug.: 3.—Charles Alson Farnum, a resident of San Luis Obispo, died suddenly to-day at 581 Twelfth street. The deceased was a prominent Mason, being past master of King Solo- mon Lodge, 260, -of San Francisco, and a member-of King David's Lodge, No, 209, of San Luis Obispo. He was also prelate of the Knights Templar, and a member of the Royal Arch Masons of that city. Deceased leaves a wife and one son, Edmund T. Farnum. Mrs. Far- num.is past grand matron of the Order of the Eastern Star of California. The funeral will be held Wednesday at B o'clock at the Masonic Temple, under the auspices of Live Oak Lodge No. 61, F. and A. M. F] ——— Names G. A. R. Committee. BERKELEY, Aug. 3—President Rick- ard of the Board of Town Trustees has appointed. as .members.of the committee to receive the Grand Army of the Repub- lic veterans when they visit Berkeley on August 21: G. A. Wanger, G. H. Chick, ‘W. H. Waste, M. P.-W. ‘Albee, Francis Ferrier, F. L. Naylor, W. E. Knowles, Clyde Abbott, -R. C. Staats, Thomas Dowd, Christian Hoff, Robert Grieg, Fred F. Connor and M. L. Ryder. This com- mittee Wil co-operate with the follow- ing named committee, representing Look- out Mountain Post of Berkeley: John H. ‘Wilde, J. R. Ayves, N. L. Freeze, Gilbert Shepherd, R. Rockwood Flint and W. H. ‘Wiseman. R . The San Francisco Eye Is" almost constantly. irritated by wind and mineral laden dust. Inflammation, redness, itching and burning, followed \)'}'Ui?““uéaydxg”i:gd.' are the results. EDY gives quick smart; soothes eye pain. Your druggist t 50c. » relief. Mak L‘k eyes stron; or optic sell Murine HONOLULU, Aug. 3.—The dredging of the channe] of Pearl Harbor under the direction of the United States Government was finished 13 WITNESS Testifies About His Firm but Memory Proves Quite Hazy. Ach Instructs Him Not to Tell Who Financial Manager Was. —— Jacob ‘Eppinger testified before Milton Green, referee in bankruptcy, yesterday | that the business of Eppinger & Co. ran into millions of dollars, but that no bal- | ance sheet of the business had been made | since 1888. Whenever he needed funds for | his personal use he instructed his son, Joe Eppinger, to draw checks. Joe did as | he was directed and sometimes Frank Mitchell, the bookkeeper, might also have been instructed to draw checks for Jacob Eppinger’s use. } Other statements made by Jacob Ep- | \pinger were of more than common inter- | est to the creditors of Eppinger & Co., who were represented by attorneys. For | instance, Jacob Eppinger testified that Joe Eppinger had overdrawn his salary | to the amount of $1000 per month for a considerable period and that between $50,- 000 and $70,00 had been charged up against Joe Eppinger on this account. Jacob also testified that he had lost about $57,000 since September, 19%2. He borrawed $30,000 on' his life insurance policy of $0,- 000 and gave his wife $5000. He borrowed $7000 from Rosenfeld & Co., $7000 from his | wife and $5000 from the Wells, Fargo & Co. Bank. The sums drawn by him on personal checks amounted to more than $170,000. He could not tell how much more glthout seeing the books of Eppinger & 0. Mr. Friedenrich asked Jacob Eppinger | whether he knew when the firm was making or losing money in any particular year. His answer was that he could tell within $100,000 in any year by cbservation, but he could not estimate any closer than that. He never had given any order to have the making up of a trial balance omitted. He never gave any order con- cerning a balance sheet down to 1903. He never prepared a statement of checks drawn\for him and not entered up: nor had he examined the books of Eppinger & Co. to ascertain the total amouny of such checks. He did not know how much | money he personally drew from 1893 to | 1903 nor how much he drew in May, 1903. | His losses had been $188,000 since 1897. The testimony of the witness was of | the general hazy and indefinite sort indi- | cated by the foregoing. Attorney Henry | Ach was present and advised Jacob Ep- | | pinger not to answer certain questions on the ground that the answers might tend to incriminate him, Jacob being under in- | dictment. It was testified by Jacob Eppinger that the firm was organized in Dixon, Solano County. in 1865, and that the pariners were Jacob Eppinger, Herman Eppinger and Bernhard Ettlinger. Otto Fox and Schulze of Dixon had an interest in the firm for a period. Here his memory fafled him and he could not tell when Schulze went out of the concern. Jacob Eppinger, so he testified, did most of the | buying of grain for the firm. It was de- veloped by the testimony that Jacob Ep- pinger engaged in some private specula- tions, but he said that these were intend- €d for the benefit of the firm. ‘When Attorney Friedenrich asked who had charge of the financial part of the | business of Eppinger & Co. Attorney Ach interposed and instructed the witness that he could stand on his constitutional rights and refuse to answer. Attorney Friedenrich grew sarcastic | and said that “all one has to do is to com- mit a crime and seal his lips against the bankruptcy court. While the honest | man has to disclose his business, the di honest man may escape.” There was considerable argument. Ref- eree Green finally decided that as Jacob Eppinger had been indicted in the State court he need not answer who was the financtal head of Eppinger & Co. ————— PROTECTS CHINESE AND IS BRUTALLY BEATEN Edwin Orritt of Southern Pacific Pur- | chasing Department Seriously Injured by Hoodlums. Edwin Orritt, chief clerk in the pur- chasing department of the Southern Pa- cific Company and who lives at 1521 Ben- | ton street, Alameda, came across the bay | on the 9 o'clock boat on Sunday night. After leaving the ferry he saw a crowd | of hoodlums beating a Chinese at Sac- | ramento and Market streets and inter- | fered to protect the Mongolian. The | crowd attacked him and he shouted for | help. Policeman C. B. Harris heard his cries and when the officer appeared the crowd scattered. Harris arrested Tony Josephs and Frank McDermott and |- booked them on a charge of battery. | When the cases were called in Police | Judge Conlan's court yesterday the Judge | |was informed that Orritt had been so | brutally beaten that he was confined to | bed at his home and serious complica- tions might develop. The cases were con- | tinued till Friday and the Judge ordered | the defendants into custody, pending the | result of Orritt's injuries. | e G L POLICEMAN WATCHES AT WILLIAM BABHWS‘ BEDSIDE | ‘Would-Be Murderer and His Wife, Whom He Shot, Still Hold | On to Life. Willlam Sabins, who made a desperate attempt on his wife's life at 1512 Mason street on Sunday morning and then shot himself and cut his own throat, was re- moved from the Central Emergency Hos- pital yesterday to the City and County Hospital, where he lles under the careful watch of a policeman. Sabins was in no immediate danger at an early hour this morning, but Mrs. Sabins, who is still at the Emergency Hospital, rematned in an unconscious and critical condition. During the evening the woman's first husband, E. M. Johnson, called and asked | to be allowed to sit by the side of his ! former wife. . His request was granted | and /for hours the man never left the cot on which Mrs. Sabins lingers between life and death. —_——— Policeman Hyland Suspended. Chief Wittman, after making himselt conversant with the case of Policeman F. W. Hyland, suspended him yesterday, pending the hearing before the Police Commissioners. Hyland, as already pub- lished, is accused by Mrs. Nellle Wad- hams of keeping her purse, containing $125. Mrs. Wadhams w; arrested for drunkenness and Hyland went with her to the Property Clerk's office after her discharge to get her money back. She and Hyland went to a restaurant and she alleges that Hyland got her purse for safekéeping and refused to return it. Hyland denles getfing the purse. ———— Will Adjudicate Claims. In accordance with an order issued yes- terday by Judge Murasky, the Board of Public Works will appear before him on August 28 to settle the claims of property owners who allege they were injured by the recent change in the grade of De Haro, Twenty-fourth and other streets. ::r:rder ‘was fissued in a sult filed by the | »— 1 | | into a small sized trust. JACOB EPPINGER (PLAN JOINING OF INTERESTS Owners of Big Redwood Tracts Considering Project. Hammond, Smith, Nelson an% Johnson Prime Factors in the Deal. —_— Theé owners of the big redwood timber tracts in Northern California are plan- ning to pool their interests with a view of securing control of the market and regu- lating the prices to suit themselves. Among the more prominent factors in the move are C. R. Johnson of the Union Lumber Company; Hyram C. Smith, president of the Pacific Lumber A Com- pany; A. B. Hammond, president of the Hammopd Lumber Company, and Charles Nelson of the Nelson Lumber Company. Among them the companies, represented and practically owned by the mén men- tioned, control the output of California redwood, Their annual cutting amounting to about 70 per cent of the total number of feet cut in this State. Their interests, with those of the Nei- son Company, lfe éntirely within Hum- boldt and Mendocino counties, the rich- est timber section of the State. Ham- mond has about 75,000 acres; Smith, who is supposed to be backed by the Santa Fe Company, has 5,000 acres; Johnson, 40,000 acres; and Nelson, whose company only recently purchased for $1.000,000 the Korbel tract and consolidated it with its Riverside property, is supposed to con- trol about 25,000 acres. Nelson was not in the original plans for the consolidation of interests, but was invited to join the other big holders of timber land afte: he had acquired possession of the Kotbel tract and was in a position to annpy them should they carry out their project. Although Messrs. Johnson, Smith and Hgmmond have been endeavoring to keep their movements a secret, it was learned yesterday that they have been holding frequent meetings at the Palace Hotel and the office of Hammond & Smith of late and hawve been making steady progress toward a permanent com- bine. Their plan is to establish an-of* fice for the four companies in this city, independent of the regular offfices of - the concerns, and through this office transact all business pertaining to the sale of the lumber product of their respective mills in the north. Some mofths ago the sugar-pine men formed an association in this city, which has since served as a \medium for- all sales of pine lumber from their various mills. Now the redwood men purpose to go a step farther and organize themselves During the last two years the price of Californla clear redwood at the mill has steadily ad- vanced from $I8 to 30 a thousand. and the main idea of the proposed trust is to maintain this price. The four firms mentioned are the biggest factor in the sale of California redwood and can eas- ily effect a combine that will have no dangerous competitor in this State if they"see fit to agree upon terms, ———— Petitions 'in Insclvency. Charles_Alpers, an involuntary insol- vent residing in this city, filed his sched- fa | ule of debts and assets yesterday in the United States District Court. He owes $19,3%0, and has $40,000 unliquidated claims as assets. The petition was filed on Octo- ber 18 of last year. E. L. Berry, a rallroad conductor of this city, filed a petition stating his Habilities | Market, San : to be $398 and no assets. —_————————— Mrs. Bingo—Oh, dear! do you think that death ends all? Bingo—All but the estate. | The lawyers end that.—Judge. ADVERTISEMENTS. BABY'S EGZEMA Top of Head Covered with Scales Which Peeled off Taking CURED BY CUTICURA “ My baby was about six weeks old when the top of her head became cov- ered with thick scales, which would peel and come off, taking the hair with {t. It would soon form again and heas bad as before. I tried several s aad then went to thedoctor. He was Eczemsa, and prescribed an olntment, which did not do any good. A friend spoke-of Cuticurs Sosap, I tried it and read on the about Cuticura Ointment as a remedy for Eczema. I bought & box and washed her head in warm water and Caticara Soap and gently combed the scalesoft. They did not come back and her hair grew out fine and thick. She Is now a year and a half old and has no trace of Eczema. You have my permission to publish my letter.” Mgs. C. W. Buraxs, €89 Iranistan Ave., Bridgeport, Conn. Feb. 21, 1898. Iirs. Burges Writes, Feb. 28, 1903. s T MR on a8 you Remedles was it made its appearance again, the same treatment it very quickly dis- appeared. She is now six years old and has thick hair and a clean scalp.” SKIN TORTURED BABIES And Tired lMothers Find Rest and Comfort in Caticgra. Tostant relief refreshing sleep for .Hn-tonnxe;:;biu and rest for tired, worried mothers in warm batbs with CuticuraSoap, and gently anoint- ings with Cuticura Ointment, it of emollient skin cures, to be ed in severe cases by mild doses of Cuticura Resolvent. This is the purest, sweet- est, most speedy, permanent and eco- nomical treatment for torturing. dis- figuring, Iwh::s. , bleeding, scaly, crusted pimply skin and scalp humours, wish loss of hair, of infaats / and children, as well as adults, and is sure to succeed when all other remedies and the best physicians fail. T g vl ot O 3e. I-%tcu-r Columbus ‘Humour Cure.” SANTA CLARA COLLEGE The_next season_begins ROBERT G. KENNA, 8. 4. MAYERLE.