The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 20, 1903, Page 11

- LABOR OVER PERPLEXING LKW POINTS Supreme Court Justices Get No Aid From History. Southern California Water Suit Assumes Great Im- portance. < of Owne ship State’s Subterranean Agueou s and Mineral Deposits Is Involved in an Unprece- dented Case. —_— of the Supreme Court of s State are puzzling over what is sald to be the most perplexing problem ever presented to an American tribunal, . The case is absolutely unique in the history of the jurisprudence of the United States. There is apparently no suthority for a decision in behalf of ither of the litigants. The bers of the State's court of “ final appeal have pulled down all the dusty old tomes from the top shelves in a vain endeavor to secure some light on the subject over which they study. Draconian an law, English of the other civilized to be barren of in- would tend to eluci- The Justices would e o the jurisprudence of , but even Solomon's decisions ter of record, to say what happened in the tri- 1 of mystery and eded the dawn of his- law and the apy tountries ar resent case two score of Cal- sts have been en- n of arguments. capitalists are ent of the dis- sits medi- ning down in Leah J. Katz artesian well. , Who was the 1ing that on ell was located, P ve ethod, by which s ecured, and X neighbor's b ed moth: Mrs. Walkinshaw nerous supply of other to a were in ters zens of rights suits when it came s the law was as ation as the > County are aber of the rk on the i an opinion Van Dyke, d Chief Jus- 1 of assent trial court non-suit and merit in her & ordered. k to the t a new OIL MEN ARE ALARMED. The owr f oil producing proper- ties they were of the Su- n asking one other people's ! of petroleum. who first dropped enveloping strata Kern County? in Kings County st the fellow who was er k in Sonoma? If a mar 2nd beneath which was a wealth should he not have a right to get s of it? Perhaps the neighbor d bored the first well had mere K branch of the first man’s deposit of petroleum. If the L‘ st person who tapped ground river o would not the ent apply to possession the oil flowing in streamlets through the terrestrial 5t 2 A petition for a rehearing was filed the Supreme Court within the time owed by law. In this document the estion of percolation was the vital t. The Supreme Court immediately 4 to recomsider. That was more 2 year ago. 'hen the case came up for a hearing varjous attorneys appeared for tire supply, £ the gcores interested parties. After- ward the court had ordered the case submitted, briefs of great number, length a wisdom were filed. Inas-| much as zeological savants are un- able to explain exactly how fluids pass be to and fr earth, it ¥ - tices of the Supreme Court of Califor- nia have a right to puzzle over the an- swer to the question of ownership of - subterranean matter which is not sta- tiopary. Outside of the dispute over the oil and water phases of the ques- - tion, the mining men are wondering about detritus. The decision will be eagerly awaited, not only by those financially interested, but by the legal luminaries of two con- ii’nenu. The Katz-Walkinshaw suit now known &s “the percolation case” &nd the Supreme Court strives vainly to solve it. 8o deeply are the Justices engaged that no ether opinion has been banded down for several days. ecath the surface of the It was a case of a woman against the gas company yesterday that oc- cupied Judge Mogan. From 11 o'clock in the morning until the twilight fell he battled with his conviction that the defendant, who gave her name as Laura Trevor, should be committed for contempt, but he managed to last out an under- | be evident that the Jus- | |untll the closing Mours of the court, {end the woman went free until this | morning, when argument in the case | will be heara. The defendant is something of a re- markable woman in her way, which she evinced early in the proceedings. She insisted on being her own attorney, against the advice of Judge Mogan. During the morning and afternoon ses- | sions, through whith the case lasted, |all the colleagues of the able . jurist | wandered in and took front seats to | watch his discomfiture. Between his desire to be courteous and a determina- tion to maintain the dignity of his court he had a hard battle. Fhe wom- an was accused of the larceny of $3 from the San Francisco Gas and Elec- tric Company. Many of the office force sustained the allegation of ‘the com- plaining witness, Robert Bowman, who is cashier for the company. He said that on August 27 the woman came there and asked for her gas bill. She was given it by one of the bookkeepers and, taking it to the cashier's desk, put down $3, which the bill called fpr. He allowed the money to remain on his desk while he made out the receipt. After he had made his entries and handed the receipted bill to the de- fendant she grabbed the money and thereafter refused to return either. According to the testimony of the office force of the gas company, the woman persistently refused to return the money and made insulting remarks to several of the force when they tried to coax her back to reason. The de- fendant, bright-eyed and glowing, fol- lowed the witnesses with cross-ques- tioning so persistently that she had to be warned eral times against con- tempt of court. In such cases she ac- cused Judge Mogan of unfairness and he was finally compelled to fine her $20 for violations of respect. The fine was imposed more as a deterrent than a penalty and will probably never go into the record. The examination of trial jurors was | nev roc: conducted on lin before intro- duced into legal ¥ jure. The de- fendant wanted all married men and exhausted all her peremptory chal- lenges, either in fancied complaints against the prospective jurors or b { cause they were not married and had no families to feel the exactions of the gas company. The woman has a long record in the police and other courts. As a young wor she was the wife| of a man son, by whom she | has a s of age, who testi- fied that he accompanied his mother the office of the gas company and nothing that would indicate that was in trouble. A pretty little girl who was born to heér four years after son was also a witness. She knew thing material about the occurrence. was pathetic figure of the trial. After she had been questioned she went t saw into the was becomingly gowned heart out. She e in a sailor suit and showed every evi- dence of a careful mother’s care. Big hearted policemen and the attaches of the Hall of Justice hovered over her, trying to stop her tears. “They v\'ar.n to send my mamma to jail and she is ; friend I ever had,” was all the Janaticn she could make. ‘hen the case was finally adjourned sought a rear seat in the y into a valise she carried. The little ;r‘irl found her thus and broke down again. mother the courtroom and sobbed quietl “Oh, mamma, you're not gol are you?”’ she gobbed, as she threw herself into her mother’'s arms. The mother recovered herself instantly and carried the weeping child tenderly out of the courtroom. The mother has a remarkable record. After she was divorced from Gibson she was married to an engraver named Cunningham, who claimed that she substituted the little girl who was a witness in the case as a child of his. He maintained that the real baby was a boy and had died. On the showing he made he was granted a divorce. Next she married a man named Judd who runs a livery stable at Mission and Twenty-second streets. He claimed that she nearly ruined him and he obtained a divorce from her. Two years ago, when she ran a candy store out on Valencia street, she shot three times at a peliceman named Brown, who tried to arrest her for dis- turbing the peace of the neighbors. At present she is running a candy | store at 24 Hayes street. The officials of the gas company have had trouble | with her before and it was only after | they had forced their way into her place of business and taken out the meter that she condescended to visit the office and pay down the money which she is accused of having subse- quently grabbed up after she had been furnished with her receipt. The argu- ments in the case will be heard this morning. | K. W. Burton is a bad actor when he | has assimilated an upwonted amount of the kind of liquid that is handed out | by the bartender of a combined saloon {and grocery store. This much | he admitted to Judge Cabaniss i yesterday. But there was other evidence to sustain his claim that when he eschewed the allurements of the bartender he was a capable mechanic and followed his work sedulously. | The testimony went to show that he entered the saloon and grocery of Os- car Shoenfeld on Fulton street and be- cause the Martini cocktail he ordered was not “dry” sufficiently to satisfy | his taste he rendered the establishment | a discouraging wreck. One plate glass | window, valued at $50, was kicked | out in fragments on the street, the crockery on the lunch counter was ground up into an indistinguishable mass with the crackers and bologna, and the scales on which the ordinary disbursements of the grocery were made to the customers were rendered inoperative. Other ‘things might have happened from Burton's outburst, but the pro- prietor got a bung starter into action and temporarily put him into a state . lof desuetude. When he recovered he corridor and cried her little | ing to cry, | A CONTEMPT COMMITMEN Judge Mogan Has Lively Time With Laura Trevor, Who Insists on Being Her Own Counsel in Petty Larceny Case Prosecuted by the Gas Company—Police Items | { THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1903. WOMAN NARROWLY ESCAPES T was In the warm arms of justice and hugged up tightly. Juige Cabaniss was inclined to take a lenient view of the matter and after all financial claims had been adjusted satisfactorily he allowed the eruptive defendant to seek his employment again under a promise to avoid vol- canic imbibings in the future. S i Charles Taylor, who looks like a Jamaica “nigger,” was convicted on general principles yesterday in Judge Conlan’s court. The specific charge against him was exhibiting a deadly weapon. The testimony showed that he invited his Honolulu lady at a Pa- cific-street dance hall to go to supper with him. She didn’t really want to ac- company him, but he drew a razor and displayed such possibilities with it that she got her wraps and went along. ‘When she passed a policeman she broke away and called the officer’s attention to her peril. The weapon was recover- ed from the sidewalk and the insistent hospitaler lodged in jail. Judge Con- lan thought that sich strenuous invita- tions to a little supper for two should be abrogated and Taylor will probably &pend some months at a resort where mneals are offered regularly in a more seemly manner. P. J. Hastings was bound over to the Superior Court yesterday by Judge Conlan on the charge of assault with intent to commit murder. According to the defendant’s story, he engaged apartments at a lodging-house at 32 East street, where Joseph Davis, the complaining witness, occupies the exalted position of night clerk. Hast- ings says he was called upon to pay 60 cents for his room and when he arose in the morning he ascertained that the regular charge for such ac- commodations was 15 cents. In an ef- fort to recover the differential he tried to scalp the night clerk with a case- knife he had in his possession. This hasty method of redress may mean a term in the penitentiary for him. eiite Ta John O'Brien found himself without money or credit a few nights ago and with a thirst that would brook no de- Accordingly he accosted Theodore Dish, fresh from a career on the salt seas, and demanded money. Dish had & lone $5 piece in his pocket as the re- sult of a voyage to the Arctic looking for whales and he wanted to keep it. O’'Brien took it away from him. The hold-up occurred at Third and Market streets, and as the robber sprinted away with his booty he was followed by Policeman Jack Tillman and two citizens, who overhauled him. The ex- torted gold was found in O'Brien’s pocket and Judge Conlan held him yes- terday in $3000 bonds to answer to the T\Xp(‘ for Court on the charge of rob- bery. Harry Harnish will have to find two people willing to go his security for $2000 before he again walks the way of X‘h'e men. He was bound over yester- ¢ay. by Jjudge Conlan to the Sdperior | Court ‘on the charge of burglary. For- merly he was employed as a clerk in the drug store of G. W. Burnett and on the night of November 13 he was caught coming out of the store with a numl_:er of telephone slugs and nickels in his possession. Investigation de- veloped a rified telephone box. The proprietor testified to the fact that his place had been entered frequently and small articles stolen. He said he haad discharged Harnish some time before the arrest, but that the ge\'er ;eturnod his key to the front oor. The key was found on Ha when he was arrested, e i Jose Raymond is ter, so he told Ju a Mexican carpen- dge Cabaniss yester- day. His wife had h . im arrested for | breaking up the crockery of the house- hold a few nights ago. through an lnterpretgr e\'er(xiilngs ago he gathere rowdies and brought them b family roof tree at 91z Vallee';gn;:‘r::re A jug of wine and thou” made ali the trouble. Senora Raymond tore up a family album of her husband’s rela- ives that he modestly valued at $40, Then he threw the stove at the ching closet, put the dog in the fireplace, gave the bed a cold bath and went forth into the night to seek more congenial company than the wife of his bosom. She had him arrested and they fought it out before Judge Cabaniss. Jose was paroled for thirty days, with the un- derstanding, laboriously pumped into him through a Spanish interpreter, that he must not further demolish his house- hold goods which have been acquired by the joint labors of husband and wife. Bty o Johanna Mahoney was allowed to go at liberty on Monday by Judge Fritz on condition that she would appear each day in the week in a sober state. The allowance was fringed around by certain conditions that she would get six months in the County Jail, “pro- vided she broke her contract. Yester- day she tumbled into Judge Conlan's court in a vpainful state of inebriety, with an additional charge of petty lar- ceny against her. Some woman friend had found her wandering the streets and had taken her to a room. She evinced her gratitude by awakening early in the morning and decamping with a bundle of clothes belonging to her benefactress, which she sold to a second-hand dealer and spent the money for liquor. Miss Mahoney will spend nine months in the County Jail in consequence of her indiscretion. »- “miiil She testified that a few d a gang of Judge Fritz issued an attachment yesterday against the person of Robert ‘W. Mitchell because he refused per- sistently to appear in court to prose- cute David Baird. He had the defend- ant arrested some weeks ago on the charge of assaulting lim with a dead- ly weapon. Younc Baird is a some- what notorious character who inherited a large amount from his father's estate and has since then been going the pace that kills. On the cl e on which he was arrested he wi sed of forcing Mitchell, who is the general agent on the Pacific Coast of the New York Life Insurance Company, to drink with him at the Russ House bar. Subsequently Baird fired a bullet through the door of the barroom and was convicted of discharging firearms within the city limits. Judge Fritz wants Mitchell to prosecute’ the other charge or give some legitimate reason for dropping it. latter had | DEVLIN MAKES GORRECTIONS Attorney for Anti-Debris Association Gives Views. Tells Why Government Will Not Appropriats Big Sum. R s amm— Senator Robert T. Devlin of Sacra- mento, attorney for the Anti-Debris As- sociation, attempted to correct certain alleged inaccuracies made by speakers during the heat of debate at the min- ers’ convention on Wednesday last, but the privilege of the floor was denied him. "Mr. Devlin attended the session to hear the discussion on the resolution requesting Congress to expend $500,000 under the direction of the California Debris Commission for the purpose of constructing impounding dams. In discussing the matter last eyening Senator Devlin spoke as follows: “I dropped in accidentally to listen to the proceedings of the miners’ conven- tion, and arrived just as Mr. Ralston began his speech. There were certain statements made by him that were in- accurate, and I thought the Miners’ Association would desire to know what the facts were. With that object I rose to ask the privilege of addressing the body so as to set them right on these points, but Sendtor Voorheis moved | the previous question. I tried to obtain permission when the chairman put the previous question, and after the motion had been decided asked the privilege of zaying a few words upon the subject, stating that I was not a member of the association, but as some statements had been made that were erroneous I presumed the association desired to know the exact truth. This permission was refused, and as they did not desire to hear the other side I left, as I had no daesire to hinder them in their work. HOW THEY ERRED. “In the first place, it was stated that the Anti-Debris Association had used the Miners’ Association in securing the appropriations for building a dam on the Yuba River, and now the Miners’ Association has found that such dams would do them no good. The fact is | that the Hon. Tirey L. Ford went to | | Washington as the representative of | | the Miners' Agsociation to secure the | passage of a bill appropriating $1,025,000 | for the erection of dams for mining | purposes. He was very plainly told, | | however, by several members of Con- | gress that the United States Govern- | ment would refuse to appropriate one | | dollar for hydraulic mining or any oth- | er private interest, and the only way | in which such an appropriation could | be secured was by the insertion of a | clause in the river and harbor bill on | the theory that the dams would im-| prove the rivers by holding back the debris. already lodged therein by the| miners by hydraulic mining operations. “We of the Sacramento Valley recog- | nized that the éfection of these dams | would be useful o us in holding back | | that debris, pravided hydraulic miners | should not be allowed to resume opera- | tions, and joined in gecuring appropria- | tions for that purpose. The miners then | had the hope that they some day would | be able to obtain permission to resume | | hydraulic mining. If they have given | up that hope—and if they are wise they ! | will do so—that is their business, and | not ours. | ANOTHER ERROR CORRECTED. | “Again it was charged that the Anti- | Debris Association raised technicali- | | ties in court against permits issued by the California Debris Commission. The truth is that as attorney for the Anti- Debris Association I agreed, in the case of the county of Sutter against Jerry | Goodwin and others, to have the effect of a permit passed on by the courts, but when we came to trial the miners withdrew all allegations relating to| such permit and the matter was not | before the court. In a later case, which | I conducted as attorney for the Anti- Debris Association against the Polar | Star mine, the permit in effect was de- | fective, but I stipulated that I would take advantage of no defect and would agree that it was a good permit, so as to bring the question clearly before the court. The miners said they desired ! | the courts to pass on the matter and 1 did everything in my power to facil- | itate the decision. The matter was | | heard before Judge Davis of Yuba and | he .decided the mining company was doing injury and they could not hide behind a permit. They wished to ap- peal the case to the Supreme Court, | they said, but they failed to do so, and | | T am only too anxious that they should, | £o that the matter shall be adjudicated before the courts of last resort. : AS TO MINERS' DEEDS. “Something was said about compel- ling the miners to make a deed of their mines to the Gavernment to secure a permit from the California = Debris Commission. This provision was in- gerted by the miners themselves so as to confer ostensible jurisdiction upon the United States Government. When- ever they wish we will consent that they may strike that clause out of the law. “Relative to suits brought by the _Anti-Debris Association, we have no power except thz; which any other citizen has, of applying to the courts for relief and the grievance of the hy- draulic miners is not against us, but against the laws of the land. If the law does not justify us in the suits we will not ‘obtain judgment, and their proposition practically amounts to a declaration that the people of the val- ley must lie by and see their property destroyed without resorting to the courts for protection. The truth in a nutshell is that many hydraulic min- ers care nothing what injury they do | 80 long as their profit is secured. | HYDRAULIC MINING OPPOSID. “The Anti-Debris Association is- not opposed to any other kind of mining ' than hydraylic and is only opposed to hydraulic when it does injury. It would be only too glad to see some mode devised whereby hydraulic min- ing could be lucted without injury to the e rivers of the State, but it regrets to say that in many in- stances the miners are unwilling to in- cur the expense that the erection of works to completely restrain their de- bris would incur. == “The mining interests of California | are large and hydraulic mining is only » b . | sion when he had gone to the Philip- |—California: Sprigvills, Ventura coun- THE DISCOVERY Stanford Professor Tells of Malaspina’s Gal- lery. PR3 ES I Famous Cave in Vancouver Harbor Enlivens History. —_—— Special Dispatch to The Call. TACOMA, Wash., Nov. 19.—No doubt now exists that the wonderful natural gallery found several weeks ago at the north end of Gabriola Island in Van- couver harbor is the cave described as Malaspina's “gallery” in the Spanish prints of over a century ago. British Columbians famillar with these ‘}lg Spanish records have often wondergd if such a gallery as that de- scribed by Malaspina ever existed. A pleasure party last month came across the cave in question by accident. The i gallery was found to be a large cave cut out of solid sandstone rock by the action of the yaves driven by strong north winds. The records at Nanaimo and Victoria clearly indicated that the discovery was none other than the gal- lery described in Malaspina’s records. Professor Davidson of Stanford Uni- versity now writes to friends at Na- naimo, inclosing a copy of the old Spanish picture of Malaspina’s gallery, | which corresponds in detail to the cave | recently found. Professor Davidson | writes: “Malaspina himself was never in those waters, but under his commis- pine Islands there were two vessels sur- veying at Burrard Inlet. Vancouver came across them June 30, 1792, and | Wwas entertained by them.” I OF INTEREST TO PEOPLE OF THE PACIFIC COAST Several Changes Are Made in the | Postal Service and Army Or- ders Issued.. WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 19.—/ Postoffice to be continued November 30 1 | ty, superseded by rural free delivery, mail goes to Oxnard. Postoffice es- | tablished—California: Edward J. Blos- som;Blossom. ¥ Fourth class postmasters appointed: California, Wilbur W. Ayres, High| Grove, Riverside county, vice A. E.| MacBeath, resigned; Frank C. Pinnell, | Lodge, Fresno county, vice Silas Ruth, | resigned. | ‘Washington: Emerson P. “‘illiams,{ Hussum, Klickatat county, vice C. L. Gregory, resigred. Army orders: Captain William Weigel, ' guartermaster, now at San Francisco, is ordered to Fort Sheridan, Tllinois. Captain George W. Ruthers, commissary, now at San Francisco, is assigned to duty as chief commissary of the Department of California, re- lieving Major Charles R. Krauthoff. | ——————————— FATHER KILLS FAMILY IN FIT OF INSANIFY Wyoming Man Uses a Hatchet With | Terrible Effect and Then Com- mits Suicide. CHEYENNE, Wyo., Nov. 19.—A tele- phone message from Laramie, Wyo., says the police this afternoon found in their home here the bodies of Gus Olson, an | employe of the rolling-mill, his wifé and | their two boys, aged 3 and 1 years re- spectively. Olson and the younger child were dead and the others dying. 1t is’ supposed that some time last night Olson crushed the skulls of his family with a hatchet and then shot himself twice with | a revolver and once with a shotgun. | Olson is believed to have been insane. —————— Copyright Laws Extend to Cuba. WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.—Senor Don | Gonzales de Quesada, the Cuban Min- | ister, to-day called upon Secretary Hay | regarding the application of United | States copyright laws to Cuban | authors. It was ascertained that al- though the document had not been made public, President Roosevelt sev- eral days ago issued a proclamation in | which he announced the extension of | the American copyright laws to Cuban | authors. . S Earthquakes in the South. IMPERIAL, Nov. 19.—A series of light earthquakes, beginning at 6:05 o’'clock last evening, continued to-day. There were five distinct shoeks of short duration during the twenty-four hours. No damage resulted. @ il @ a small part or portion of that busi- ness, but I think no sane citizen be- lieves that the time will ever come again in California when hydraulic mining will be allowed to be resumed on the conditions that prevailed when it was In the strength of its prosper- ity.” 3 ADVERTISEMENTS. - MILWAUKEE. -A Good Hand t means “Elatz” Uniformly Pure Atways_the Same Good 014 Btz Blats Malt-Vivine (Non-Iatox) Tonis Weak Men and Women gooup it s wrms, 7ms o Depot, 323 Market. | 11 (REGORDS PROVE - |GOAST STEAMER A3 COLLISION BUILTY GUIDES FEAR MEXICANG Geo. W. Elder Smashes|Custodians of Contra- Into a Vessel at Portland. Wheelhouse of the Kellogg Damaged and Water Main Broken. —— Special Dispatch to The Call. PORTLAND, Or, Nov. 19.—With whistles blowing to give warning of her approach, the coast liner Geo. W. Elder, in tow of the Ocklahama, crash- ed into the river steamer Kellogg late this afternoon. The Elder was being moved from the dock of the Willamette Iron and Steel ‘Works, where she had a new forémast installed. Before passing through the draw of the steel bridge the Kellogg was noticed 1ying at| the south end of the Ainsworth dock ‘and “the Elder's whistle -was ‘blown for her to get out of the way. The steamer Northwest was moored at the pame dock, just below the Kel- logg, and it was impossible for her to move downstream. The Elder and her big escort were carried on the current at a rapid pace and the steamer In front of them was caught in a trap. The Elder crashed into her, splintering the Kellogg's wheelhouse. The Ocklahama managed to back off with her tow, but in doing so she threw the Elder over against the pilling be- neath the bridge. No damage resulted from this further than the breaking in two of a city water main. ——— TEXT-BOOK COMMITTEE MAY MAKE CHANGES Matter of School Reading Discussed by State Authorities at Sacramento. SACRAMENTO, Nov. 19.—The Text- book Committee of the State Board of Education, which is composed of Gov- ernor Pardee, Superintendent of Public Instruction T. J. Kirk and Professor E. E. Brown of the University of Cali- fornia, held a meeting this afternoon. It was decided that before accepting any plates for the publication of text- books the text should be read, by an examiner appointed by the committee. It was thought the committee might select a new geography for the public schools to-day, but Superintendent | Kirk stated it was doubtful if any such action would be taken. —_———————— band Chinese in a Predicament. —— Prisons Below the Border Await Violators of the Law. —_— Special Dispatch to The Call. SAN DIEGO, Nov. 19.—Twelve of the fourteen Chinese arrested last week after they had come across the Mexican line from Lower California have been ordered deported and the remaining two will be before the Commissioner on Saturday. Eleven of the contrabands were tak- en away from their tour Mexican guides by Chinese Inspector John Can- field and Constable Murphy after a battle in which twelve shots were ex- changed in the darkness. The four Mexicans got away and flvg or six of the Chinese, three of whom Rave since been brought in. Two cf the Mexican guides got across the line, but the other two stayed on this side because they are wanted there as badly as they are wanted on this side of the line and would be mora quickly arrested and more severely dealt with if caught. The entire band of contrabands will be started for San Francisco and rhe Orient early next week. ————— PANIC IN A CHURCH HAS FATAL ENDING In Rush to Escape From Fire Two Are Killed and Many Injured. SANTA FE, N. M, Nov. 19.—In a panic in the Roman Catholie church at La Punota, Rio Arriba County, caused by a wax taper setting fire to the altar trimmings, two children were tram- pled to death and fifty adults were hurt, having ribs and ankles broken or otherwise injured. The priest remained at the burning altar and succeeded in allaying the panic after the first rush. ———— Kills Himself in a Saloon. VENTURA, Nov. 19.—George E. Handley, 23 years old, employed in a restaurant, committed suicide in a sen- sational manner in a saloon to-day. ‘While standing before the bar he pulled a revolver from his pocket, fired a bul- let into his left temple and fell dead. Papers in his pockets show receipts from an A. O. U. W. lodge at Grafton, W. Va. Coroner Investigates a Death. T > SAN DIEGO, Nov. 19.—Coronef Mor- IHARESGIVING OF THE gan was dalled to Escondido to-day PLUMBER AND to investigate the death of W. A. Starr, THE BURGLAR. whose body was found this morning on 0CT. the ranch of Charles Reidy. So far N% AVE THANNE. as can be learned here, Starr had been Strangest Story You Ever Heard left in charge of the ranch while the of in the owner was in Los Angeles and when Reidy returned last night he NEXT SUNDAY CALL. ejected him because he was drunk. I - e ADVIRTISEMENTS. STATEMENT STATEMENT ——OF THE— —OF THE— CONDITION AND AFFAIRS- CONDITION AND AFFAIRS —OF THE— ——OF THE— AssuranceCompany National Standard OF AMERICA NEW YORK. IN THE STATE OF OFNew York, on the 31st day of December, A. D. 1902, and for the year ending on that made to the Insurance Commissioner 38Y, 1a® dtate of California, pursant to the provisions of sections 610 and 611 of the Polit. jeal Code, condensed as per blank furnished | by the Commissioner. CAPITAL. $200,000 00 ASSETS. ash Market Valve of all Stocks and Coonds owned by Company 8454, Cash in Banks .. Interest due and accrued on all Stocks and Loans . Premiums in_due Course of Col tion Total Assets ... LIABILITIES. Losses in process of Adjustment or in Suspense Losses resisted, including expenses.. Gross premiums on Fire Risks run- ning one year or less, $381.125 04; o o oo $48,745 00 850 00 reinsurance 50 per cent : Gross premiums on Fire Risks run more than one year, $80, B47%1 T reinsurance pro ra . 44,867 SO Commissions and Brokerage & d to beeo . 15,056 83 All other Liabilif L1734 14 Tctal Liabilities......coeeeses,..$317,816 83 INCOME. S A T Net cash actually recetved for Fire PreMIUMS. «.voveosceznnziss ve....$429,536 T2 Not ‘cash actually recetved for Ma- rine premiums ...... 474 Received for_interest and dividends on Bonds, Stocks, Loans and from all ‘other sources eeeeee 18,450 21 Received: for profit 13,204 31 Total Income ...... .$456,206 58 EXPENDITURES. Net amount paid rurl Fire I(Mles (including $———, losses of pre- VAOUS ‘FERTE) .ovsvescsssoracssasss 267,460 03 Net amount vaid for Marin: (including $———, Iosses of pre- vious years) ... 39 18 Dividends to Stockholde : 10,000 00 owt P okerage 118,316 50 for Sala T for officers, clerks, etc... 1,485 00 o Paid for State, National and Local taxes An tul i INSURANCE COMPANY F NEW YORK, IN THE STATE QF NEW York, on the 3ist day of December, A, D. 1062 and for the year ending on that day, as made to the Insurance Commissioner of the Stats of California, pursuant to the provisions of sections 610 and H11 of the Poiitical Code, condensed as per blank furnished by the Com- misstoner : CAPITAL. Amount of Capital Stock, pald up in Cash ASSETS. Cash Market Value of all Stocks and -$442,077 50 Premiums in due tion Total Assets . LIABILITIES. Losses In process of Adjustment or in Suspense 083 00 Tosses resisted, 35 Gross premiums on Fire Risks run- ning one year or less, $3S8,424 $6; reinsurance 50 per cent.......... 194,212 43 Gross premiums on Fire Ri: ning _more than one y 279 05; reinsurance pro 42,252 66 Commissions ard Brokerage d to become due .. « 16949 58 All other liabilities . 21,295 38 Total Liabilities ....... INCOME. Net cash actually received for Fire premiums ........ . $424,002 35 Net _cash actually received for M- Fin® premiums Recelved for interest and dividends on Bonds, Stocks, Loans and from all other soyrces Received for pfofit 47 Total Income . EXPENDITURES. Net amount paid for Fire Losses (including $——, losses of previ- ous years) $263,272 70 Net amount (inels ous years) 20 Dividends to Stockhoiders . 10,000 00 Paid or allowed for Commi: or Brokerage .. . 116,687 72 Paid for Salaries F charges for officers clerks, ete.. 1,335 00 ational and Local Total Expenditures ....... TS Losses incurred during the year. e n | Yol s RaL ) rume. | Fm | mire;, | Risks and Premiums. Fire Risks.| Premiums. QIR | N o Net amount of Risks T T i $T48.T 68 sk, 83,301 30 464,703 01 ¥ 5 ™ : - Net amount of Risks written during the year ... Net amount & CO. ] General Agents Pscific Coast Department, 215 SANSOME STREET, SAN FRAm. CAL.