The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 13, 1904, Page 16

16 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, ~ WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1904. ADVZETISEMENTS. CLOTHED TIP TOP At low down prices---value prices. Man, boy or child clothed at Brown’s gets full return for his dollars in styles suitable to season and in fabrics and finishes unapproachable . elsewhere.| DON’T RE. EXTRAVAGANT BROWN 516518 MARKET ST. m?fi%'t’:‘finmy WILLIAM DEWET FALLS INTO HANDS OF THIEVES SONE OF VETERANS CAMP INSTALL THEIR OFFICERS | Many Well Known Members of Mili- tary Organizations Deliver Short Speeches at the Ceremony. Two camps of Sons of Veterans, Fair Oaks No Man Claiming to Be Nephew of Great Boer General Is Given “Knock- , out Drop: OAKLAND, Jan. 12.—William De- 15 and Lincoln No. 16, | wet, who claims the Boer general of | that surname as His uncle and Johan- held a joint installation of their newl) elected officers at Red Men's Hall last | nesburg, South Africa, as his home, night. The hall was crowded \H\h;“ns taken to the Receiving Hospital visitors from other camps and mem- | at 8:30 o'clock to-night, suffering, ap- bers o '\\m )::1“‘ ‘firmlr;fi:\—“‘_’“ i | parently, from the effects of “knock- Fai ak 3”:"‘ insta 5 »': Ol | out drops.” Dewet was picked up by lowing efoien: ~DSmmanger, Seers* ] Policemin *Sliery at ithie” coingr. of = g T e ey, . | Broadway and Sixth street in a semi- - ‘k am HJ““"I‘ oo "f"""“"“ “;” ; | conscious condition. After the patient . ”‘f;‘ - 2 ";f" b s, | had revived at the hospital he said: the owin pmmander, D. & . g - g 5 | “*1 came from the north yesterday Cahn; senior vice dommander, C. H i - R el ratarst s s STy and got a remittance at the San Fran- \_i‘ nior v e « 8| cisco Postoffice from my home in W «t grand com- | SOuth Africa. This afternoon I came x " “:_ ”zk!‘:‘_‘:‘“ s e Oakland and the last I remember e s T _h\':‘“. made | W2s drinking a glass of beer with a ta J v stranger. When I left San Francisco by mmander Ormsby 4 3 1 had a fine new overcoat with me‘and of Oakland A.J = p ¢ Fair Oaks Camp. | 320 in my pocket. I do not know - P-| what has become of the coat or the O RS S R L money and I cannot remember where _Announcement of Special Rates. |y grank the beer or met the stranger.” B e e s o | [Dewet 14 33 years obl. * 156 10I8 04 Toent ut Pase Retiee Hot Eprings Hotel oniy | D2d been left penniless and knew not n Privilege of 30 @ays | which way to turn while waiting for Rest fare at this famous b another remittance. springs . #xcellent drives in beaut! e - invigoraiing mountain air: warm sun. | Reduction of 25 Per Cent S8 TUAe iEin arbin +""| In our cloak and sult department during sh or credit. Eastern Outfit- 1320-1328 Stockton st. ———— January, ting Co., -~ Claims She Was Deceived. Caroline Bell, who purchased a z 3 A Sie i et nadl Canble Gaizian to Entortata, Marchand and A. H. Retsloff last June | _C0lonel Oscar F. Long Garrison No. for $800, filed a suit yesterday to re. | 101 Of the Army and Navy Union will cover her money and for $500 dam- | %ve its annual social and dance in the ages against the Marchands and Rets. | ASsembly Hall of the Alcazar building loff. She alleges that the defendants | thi® evening. . A good programme of Bt har | aances has bgen arranged by the floor i g s | manager. ———— All druggists sell ADAMS' Irish Moss Cough Balsam under a positive guarantee. —_———— LOS ANGELES, Jan. 12.—A test of the pat- ent on the process of making roads dustless b, the use of crude ofl has been begun in th Reluced rates on honsehold goods to & from | the East & S Eekin's. 11 Montgomery st. * | e | | | | Died of His Burns. John Foote. who accidentally set fire to his bed last Sunday while smok- United, States Circuit Court. The test is to b ing a his room at 248 st | made on a complaint against the town of Red- street the Marine Hogffital | lands asking 325,000 damages for infringement tal | on & patent el the: Dstien vesterday as the result of his injuries. | fhom 2 Pafept held by the Dustices Roads ADVERTISEMENTS. @.—,,¥ {:: 'Ql-':lel‘ty “l;em::ns lofnt afte:" the price is forgotten. € Vi > M"Nfl‘ ] ue of any other stove f_nr about one i ever since the first time fire was put into a pot have there been such stove offers as our department is now making. This week we offer a Quick-Meal Steel Range— a range lined with asbestos and covered with steel, a ran; that has no equal in all the worid—and we offer it al; leg than the price of an ordinary castiron stove with which our grandmothers used to have trouble in boiling water. You ‘have not seen a good stove till U AL £ you have seen the @ 233-235-237 Post, St. 25¢c, 50c. * | The regents of the State University met at Mark Hopkins Institute yester- day afternoon and devoted consid- erable tin.e to the work of es- tablishing defenses to prevent an- other successful raid on the treasury. The cheerless intelligence was imparted to the board by A. W. Foster, chairman of the finance committee, that the Pa- cific Surety Company had refused to make good its bond of $5000 to insure the good conduct of W. A. McKowen, the defaulting secretary. In this case the | ground of refusal to pay is that the {board did not not!fy the company of the defalcation within three months after the date of the bond's expiration. As the regents did not know of the defal- cation until the time limit had expired, { the notice was not given. Allusions to | surety company methods in the general | interchange of views were not compli- | mentary. The board being well equipped with good lawyers may make things decidedly interesting for the surety company. There is a report to the ef- fect that the regents intend to raise the money among themselves tormake good the defalcation of the secrétary, hence it is probable that nothing will be left undone to force the surety company to pay $5000 a year for three years. | A grand rally of all the lawyers on | the board is to be held sflortly to con- | sider the Turner mortgage. Among those scheduled or invited to attend the proposed conference are Regents Gar- ret W. McEnerney, Charles W. Slack, Guy C. Earl, James A. Waymire, Charles S. Wheeler and J. B. Reinstein. The story is current that Major Mhoon, as attorney of the board, nezlected to observe some little formality in the loan of $40,000 of the university’s money. A mortgage on Turner’s land in Merced County was taken to secure the loan. There is a muddie of some kind con- nected with the transaction and the | new attorney of the regents, Charles E. Snook, is to be reinforced by the ag- gregate advice of all the legal lumina- ries of the regency. ANOTHER FIGHT ON BONDS. | The university is the owner of fifty- | three Montgomery avenue bonds. The | face value of each hond is $1000. The | interest computed amounts to as much | as the bond. It happens that the courts ! have pronounced against the validity of the bonds, and the university can | get neither interest nor principal on the | investment. The bonds were purchased ! for the endowment fund many, many | years ago. There is still a glimmer of | hope in the situation. S. W. Holliday, |1awyer, requests that the bonds be | taker from the State treasury, where ! they are ndw deposited for safe keep- ing, and placed in the Union Trust | Company. He engages to open up an- | other battle in the courts and to sus- I tain all the cost of litigation. If he | 10ses the university will not suffer fur- ther loss, and if he wins the university is to get half the par value of the bonds and all the accrued interest. me of the regents were of a mind to propose thfee cheers for Holliday, but | no motion to the effect was made. The | proposition was accepted and the trans- fer of the bonds to the keeping of the Union Trust Company was ordered. | At the session yesterday Dr. Rowell was called to the chair. The rolicall | was responded to by President Wheel- er, John A. Britton, 1. W. Hellman, J. | B. Reinstein, Julius Taussig, Guy C. | Barl, John E. Budd, James A. Way- mire, Alden Anderson, F. W. Dohr- | mann, Peter C. Yorke, Dr. Ellinwood and A. W. Foster. | The proposed educational exhibit at the St. Louis Exposition was discussed. | President Wheeler reported that 1600 | square feet of space in the northwest corner of the Building of Education had been reserved for the exhibit of the University of California. It was men- tioned that the expense of the exhibit | would be $3000. Regents Britton, Hell- man and Foster at once signified that | the money was not available. The | president was advised to hold on to the | space for thirty days. Lieutenant Gov- ernor Alden Anderson suggested that | application be made to the California | Commissioners for means to make the exhibit. 3 He referred to the appropriation of 13130,000 at the disposal of the commis- sion to represent California at the ex- position. A motion requesting Dr. Wheeler to hold the space for at least a month finally prevailed. It was announced that James B. Angell, president of the University of Michigan, wounld deliver the address at Berkeley on charter day. Later on Albert Shaw, editor of the Review of Reviews, will speak on the “Morals of Trade.” AUDITOR LOSES SATARY. The Regents decided that they would not pay Auditor J. J. Herr any salary for the year 1903. The discussion brought out the statement from the finance committee that Auditor Herr did not demand payment. He ad- mitted that he had not examined the books of the secretary. A resolution declaring the office vacant was adopted. Regents Taussig, Dohrmann and Budd wanted to be informed whether the finance committee had directed Herr to exvert the books of the sec- retary. Regent Foster replied that it was the auditor’s duty to examine the accounts. In the course of the reply the Regent resented the implication that the | finance committee was seeking to shoulder the blame for McKowen's de- falcation on the auditor. Regent Taussig, chairman of the Wil- merding School committee, reported that Manday, February 8, would be ob- served at the school as Founder’s day. There will be interesting exercises o that ocgasion. A The Regents, at the suggestion of the finance committee, directed that the mortgages and insurance policies now in the secretary’s office at Berkeley be deposited with the treasurer at the Union Trust Company. /Regent John E. Budd moved that the election of a secretary be made a spe- cial order for the regular meeting n February, but withdrew the motion en the suggestion of the finance committee that no haste should be made. EXPERTS REPORT. The following expert report on the defalcation of W. A. McKowen was presented by the finance committee: To the Regents of the University of Califor- nia—Gentlemen: In accordance with your in- structions we have made an examination of the books of the State University. This, as will be seen from the report which we now have the honmor to submit, is stiil incomplete in_certain particulars. The accompanying schedule, which we have marked “A,'" under separate cover, is a state- ment of the defalcation of the late secretary which amounts to $51,429 28, s> far as ascer- tained ‘up to January 11, 1904 e have marked it ‘‘Provisional,”” because it is barely possible that additions may bave to be made } 1o it when one of the benefactors of the uni- versity, whom it has been necessary o ask for particulars, has been heard from. We have algo to complete our examination of the cesh disbursements from January 1, 1903, which has proved far more arduous than we anticipated. Only two men at a time can be employed to advantage on this work, and, owing to the defects of the system which has been pursued, this examination of the vouch- ers wi not be concluded to our satisfaction until about ten days hence. We have very little_expectation, howtver, that this will in any way alter the figures which we now pre- sent to you, for the reason that the entire shortage =eems 1o have occurred through the misappropriation of moneys received. Tne en- | tries relating to receipts of cash were made entircly from particulars furnished to the clerks in the office by the late secretary, and this was never. done until the end ofgeach month, when the treasurer's statement wis re- ceived. - Particulars of the disbursemenis, on the cantrary, were open to the inspection of those in the office and were written up in the cash pook so soon as the warrants on the {reasurer were drawn. Our examination so far has disclcs:d nothing irregular in the entries relating to disbursements, and we have pur- posely left them to the igst. < For similar reasons we have not yet ri- fled the payments representing students’ de- posits returned. These are all in petty amounts. and although the secretary signed the checks, the details were made up by the professors and the clerks in the office and were finally accepted as correct by the stu- dents. LEDGER NOT POSTED. On_ beginning work on December 17. 1003, we found that the university ledger had not been posted since June 39, 1005 and that the cash book had not been written up, %o far as concern:d money re celved, since August 31, 1903. best to leave the hooks exactly as they and opened a temporary set in which We thought It stood B under eeparate cover embody the income , 1903, and the halance sheet of the mentioned date. Inasmuch as we have had to adhere to the old system, these ac- counts represent the showing of the books as on November 30, 1903, with the addition of all recelpts of which any Tecord can be found which had passed through the office of the university Before the accounts fell into arrears the sye- tem seems to have been that when the state- ments rendered monthly by the treasurer were received at the office, then, and not till then, the receipts of money during the month were entered in the cash book, and, as has been al- ready stated, these entries were made from a distribution prepared by the secrefary. g These receipts included students deposits, fées and money received from other Sources, which had been paid into the secretary's office at Berkeley and later deposited with the treas. urer; but it appears that the late secretary never kept any record of this in_ permanent form, making his distributions, when the tres urer's account came in, either from stubs receipts or logse memoranda or from memory. y some little difficulty was found ng the distributions to the proper ac- couhts of the treasurer's statements for Sep- tember, October and November, and our balance gheet of December 24 1903, includes as a lia bility a balance standing mporarily at the credit of suspense account, $3189 §: All of this is in course of identifications. Most of it has, in fact, been already disposed of and hone of it will affect the shortage You will notice that neither in the incomé £tatement nor in the balance sheet does any account appear representing the shortage. in other wards, these (wo statements represent ex- actly the showing of the books. COIN MISAPPROPRIATED. The former statement appears to call for the followlag remarks: The balance against the department of anthropology appears as 310,- 961 15. 'The minutes show that Mrs. Hearst in- tended to support this department hersel it is proved that out of $12,822 90 already’ c tributed by her $8,622 50 has been misappropri- ated. Thus, xupposing the $8522 90 to be a loss to the . there will remain $11,438 25 for wh wiil _presumably depend on the generosity of Mre. Hearst. The matter Is men- tioned cn account of its bearing on the ulti- 1t hoit mate balance of income and expenditure ac- count 7f the year Another debit balance is that of the depart- ment of medicine, which amounts to $17,- 348 47. The sum misappropriated from this de- partment was $26,841 12, so that fhe books should have shown funds on hand to the extent of $9492€5. The “profit and loss” item, $1732 91, is not an accumulation of balances, but a apecific standing. and tha account called revenue has fulfilled the same function as does the profit and loss account in the books of ordinary busi- ness enterprises. To conclude our remarks on the income state- . we find that several minor adjustments will have to be made in some of the interes accounts. Two dividends of $300 each. payable in January, 1902, and in May, 1903, which have never been called for by the university, are now in_course of collection, Referring to the balance sheet, the cash in the hands of the treasurer appears $88,+ 37 49, but. as an offset against this n amount of over $100.000 due to ure: for advance payments made by him. This advance does not appear in the books of the university, again proving the inefficiency of the present system of bookkeeping. We are looking forward to having a consuita- tion with the treasurer regarding a great many matters before we finally report to you, and we shall hope to suggest a means of fncorpor- ating all the transactions in the boks at the time when they occur. All the savings bank depfsits. being the in- vestments of certain of the funds. have been found to be intact. As to the asset in the balance sheet representing bufidines, ete.. ned by the university the deduction of $2000 from the total of this arises from the sale of Oakland vroperty for $2000 more than the amount at which the property stood in the books, and the orlginal value included certain “The of appears on this slde of the balance sheet owing to misapprooriations af- fecting four of the accounts. The account representing a donation by Claus Spreck- els should have appeared as $5749 87 on_the other side of the account, his donation of $11,- 675 83 having been withheld from this account and credited to the department of medicine in order t he ‘latter should not appear on {he books as having been in receipt of so tew 5. FAULTS OF THE SYSTEM. The deductions from the total credits. of the scholarship accounts represent debit balance and these debit balances are caused by mis: appropriations, excepting in the case of the State of California scholarships, which remain intact. The amount standing at the credit of Californfa Hall bids represents certain certi- fied checks which have been tendered with the bids sent In and these will be returned in due course. The balance standing at the credit. of W. A. McKowen is his available Which he has hand. Y. It ‘is useless to dwell upon the shortcomi- Ings of the system which is emploved in the office or on”the lax as well as dishonest man- ner in which the secretary’s work has been done. Among the checks and other remit- tances amounting to several thousand dollars which wera found In the secretary’s safe and in his desk there were some $mall money or- ders which had been held for a long time and in many instances we find that he kept checks in his nossessioh for many months and then deposited them with the treasurer. This would indicate that he did not finally convert the Money to his own use ‘until be actually need- While we bave balanced the books and are enabled to vresent to you the statements on which we have been remarking, the books still need a considerable amount of overhauling in some particulars which do not bear on this de- falcation, ~We notice, for instance, that in one of the scholarship accounts the principal it appear in amount of two or three years' sum and the income derived from the same account, as also the payments to the beneficiaries of the scholarship. As a re- sult the amcunt appearing in the balance sheet is incorrect and misleading. The same remark applies to the loan funds. mmendations as to chi of are particularly needed in’the purcl - de- partment. We have suj 3 ng other things, that the verson in charwe of the cash’ shiould' be compelled to take vacations at sta times: that the books should be so and_the financial statements s> s to_show the outsandine bills and labilities, and-that the business system shoul laced as nearly Pl as possible on the foot Gfi that of a ‘large commercial enterprise. i ¢ 4 REGENTS REVIEW THE DEFALCATION OF FORMER SECRETARY W. A. McKOWEN Expert Accountants Present Elaborate Report to Finance Com- mittee---Measures to Prevent Another Raid on Treasury Company Declines to Pay the Bond of $5000 Given by It -Surety new scheme of account yours very respectfull KNIGHT, McLAREN & GOODE. ELABORATE SCHEDULE. The schedule accompanying the re- port of the experts is an elaborate document. Schedule A is a ‘“pro- visional . statement of the defalcation of W. A. McKowen, secretary, so far as ascertained, up to January 11, 1904.” It contains a history of each check, the number, date, the amount, to whom payable and where deposited. Some interesting facts are disclosed in thé column of remarks. It -appears that McKowen took $6000 of the $24,000 donated by D. O. Mills to the Lick Observatory. The donation of $11,675 83 made by Claus Spreckels to the university was never credited as a donation by Mr. Spreckels, but was credited on April 30, 1903, to depart- ment of medicine to conceal the short- age of funds in that account. McKowen appropriated to his own uses the Levi Strauss scholarship, Martha A Halliflie donation, Alumni Hall fund and Hearst scholarships. Schedule B is a statement of the income and expenditures. Schedule C is_the balance-sheet, from which it appears that the university’s mate- rial wealth on December 24, 1903, was $3,481,723 47 R PARTRIDGE DECLARES THE We are, gentlemen, MAYOR MUST APOLOGIZE | = 1 Reiterates Statement Over Signature as to What He Says Schmitz Told Him. John Partridge says Mayor Schmitz must apologize to him for declaring that Partridge lied if he said the Mayor told ‘him the pound hag been well conducted under the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Over his own sigMature Partridgs reiterates his statement as to what he | in | says the Mayor told him, stating one portion of a communication writ- ten by him on the subject, ‘I submit that I am not a liar and furthermore I demand from him (the Mayor) a tull apology.” The communication follows: Editor The San Francisco \Call—Dear Sir: 1 notice in tnis morning’s paper that the hon- orable Mayor Schmitz is published as having said that “the statement attributed to Mr, Partridge 1 now denounce as a malicious lis."" This 1 understand was in reply to testimony of mine given before a_meeting of a committes of the honorable Board of Supervisors in regard to his treatment of the San Franciseo Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and his' appointing. their nominee as pousdkesper. In order that there may be no misunderstan ing as to the question at lssue I will repe what 1 have hefore stated, that as one of a committee named by the society to cail on Mayor Schmitz I did, in the company of thr: other gentlemen, on the 2ith day of April, 19 call on the honorable gentleman at his offi in_the City Hall and was most cordially r ceived by him. His praise of the arrangs ment and management of the Animals’ Home, where the city's pound was then conducted, was most gratifying. peatedly promised ue that he would do nothing to_interfere with institution %o admirabls conducted and remarked that it was owing to tha fact that it was conducted by business me: and further remarked that it was a great that other offices In this building (the City Hall) were not in the hands of business men Owing to the sufiden death of our pound- keeper, Mr. Walton, we informed his Homo# that we would ask his indulgerce for a few davs' time to select the proper man for the place and asked to have our secretary ap- pointed in the interim. Mr, Schmitz then ap- pointed “our sacretary and told him to file a bond the following morning. We then shook hands and left the office. The next morning when our secrefary called on the same gentleman in the same place he was told that he need not go to the éxpense of filing a bond as he was about to appoint a poundkeeper. 1f, therefore, the honorable gentleman is cor- rectiy quoted as making the statement that he | never had any conversation with me on the subject 1 submit that I am not the liar Mad furthermore 1 demand from him a fall apology Referring to the statement that the pound has never been better and more fairly ggn- ducted thah under his administration 1 would refer him to the disgraceful quarters on the San Bruno road and to the sworn testimony of Mr. Irwin, given by Mr. Irwin before the came committee of the hoard, in which he stated that the piace had never been even Whitewashed during the time ne has occupied it, and that he released many animals on orders from the Mayor's office. This is something that the Grand Jury might act upon. Very resnectfully, JOHN PARTRIDGE. —_———————— Disputed Mining Suit. Thomas J. Duffy filed a suit yester- day in the United States Circuit Court against Jafet Lindeberg, John Brynte- gon and the Pioneer Mining Company of Seattle to recover $1,580,000, the al- leged value of gold taken by defénd- ants out of Duffy’'s mine, “No. 1 be- Jow Discovery, on Anvil Creek,” Alaska. ———————— Convicted of Burglary. Alfredo Colon and Pedro Rivera were tried by different juries in Judge Lawlor's court yesterday on & charge of burglary and were convicted. They will be sentenced on Monday. They were arrested in the jewelry store of Giuseppi Licata, 508 Broadway, on the night of November 15, by Corporal Fraher and Policemen Silver and Holmes. z —_————————— VALLEJO, Jan. 12.—Commander James H. Bull, United States navy, formerly on duty as iighthouse inspector for 'the Seventh District, as reported for duty at Mare Island as an aid to Rear Admiral McCa ADVERTISEMENTS. TIRED MOTHERS Wom out with the Care of Skin-Tortured Babies Will rejoice in the knowledge that warm baths with CuTicura Soap and gentle applications " of Curicura OiNTMmENT, the great skin cure, will afford in- stant relief, permit rest and sleep, and point to a speedy cure when all else fails. ete loeal and constitutional treatment infancy to age, of COTICURA E.vm-‘-’r.nflrm-ymhhl of all druggists for one doliar. i He then and there re- | ADVERTISEMENTS. e COLORED Dress Fabrics This week we will\place on sale a large shipment of “FRENCH CHIFFON SAMITE,"” 44 inches wide In a i full 1in2 of the new colors for 1904. This Is an Im- ported Sk and Wool material of a beautiful soft and sheer texture and very bigh silk luster. We ar: showling two styles of this cloth—ons plain, the other a small dot effect. Price $1.25 Yard . Fancy Wool Waislings. Ourentir: stock of FANCY WOOL WAISTINGS in Wool Oxfords, Cheviots, Prunellas, Armures and Crepes in a good variety of colorings. Reduced to 50¢ Yard Former prices 75c and 85¢ yd& ‘Black Dress Fabrics. In our BLACK GOODS DEPARTMENT we will offer this week 75 NOVELTY DRESS PATTERNS in Stripad Camsl's Hair, Panama Cloth, Camel's Hair Boucle, Nopp: Zibeline, Pebble Camel's Halr and Wirz Cloth. At $7.50 Pattern Regular value §10.50 and $13.50. | 15 pleces BLACK “VOILE MISTRAL,”-45 Inches wlide. | Price 50c Yard Regular price 75¢ yd. All REMNANTS and SHORT LENGTHS of Colored and Black Dress Goois marked at about half price. Orders by mall recelve prompt attention. Ail orders for sampiles or goods filled and shipped same day they are recelved. . NOTE i 9 o i 2222084 RPORAT, E g ’é 7/ ' ' i Tries to End His Life. Bérnard Cabrera, a young man re= siding at 1631 Broadway, attempted to commit suicide yesterday afternoon in a lodging-house at 223 Post street by swallowing a quantity of cocaine. Before the poison had taken effect he called for help and was removed to the Cenfral Emergency Hospital, | Civil Service Examinations. ! The United States Civil Service Com- mission announces that examinations | will be held at San Francisco, April 13, for positions in the Government Printing Office at Washington, D. C.: Bookbinder—Age limit (males only), 21 years or over. Compositor—Age | limits, male, 21 years or over; female, ! 18 years or over. Electrotype finisher | —Age limit, 21 years or over. Elec-| where restoratives were applied. De- trotype molder-—Age limit, 21 years or | o, ,gndency over a love affair is given over. Pressman—Age lmit (male|,, 4" cause of the attempted seif- qniy)y.-$1, yoars o 09ex, destruction. Cabrera will recover. Applicants for the positions of com- | positor, pressman, bookbinder or elec- trotyper must show that they hfn-fii served at least five years in the trade | in which they desire to be employed, | | three years of which must have been | served- as apprentice and at least one i = = year as a journeyman. No credit will | be allowed in the examination for | these positions for experience obtained ;below the age of 14 years. | Persons who desire to compete | should apply to the United States Civil Service Commission, Washington, D. C., or to the secretary of the Consoli- dated Board of Examiners, 301 Jack- gon street, for application form 1093, which should be properly executed and | filed with the commission at Wash- ington. —————,———— LONDON. 12 —Inquiry indicates that there is litfle hope that the Prince of Wales will be able to attend the St. Louls Exposition, Jan B — Harbor Commissioners Win. - In the case of Howard C. Holmes and Carl Uhlig vs. the State Board of Harbor Commissioners United States | Circuit Judge Morrow yesterday in- structed the jury to bring in a verdict in favor of the defendant. The suit | was brought to recover $27,685 for in- | fringement of a patent mode of whart | construction. The defendants proved | that Holmes was in the employ of the | State as engineer at the time he did the work and that the State was en- | titled to his services. —————————— Real Estate Firm Wins. The Supreme Court declared yester- day that E. S. Merriam, representing a local real estate house, was entitled to $750 of the estate left by F. C. Wicker- sham. It was claimed that deceased had contracted to pay $750 as com- mission provided that certain property should be sold by the real estate peo- ple and that when the sale had been arranged Wickersham decided not to sell and refused to pay the sum agreed upon. . We are forced to vacate in a few days—our store has been rented—and we MUST seli our stock. This is why we are offering the Greatest Shoe This City at Kast’s Removal Sale 104-110 GEARY STREET, i Forecaster McAdie Leetures. Alexander G. McAdie, the United States forecaster in charge of the lo- cal weather bureau, delivered an in- teresting lecture on thunder and lightning storms before a large crowd l | at the First Presbyterian Church, Van Ness avenue and Sacramento street, last night. The lecture was illustrat- ed with many superb stéreopticon views. —_——————— Thorsch Accused of Embezzlement. J. Blackett Whitney, 120 Sutter street, secured a warrant from Police Judge Fritz yesterday for the arrest of Rennie Thorsch oh a charge of misdemeanor embezzlement. Thorsch ‘was employed by him as a packer and shipper and he alleges that he gave him several bills to ccedect on Novem- ber 30. The bills were collected, but Thorsch neglected to deliver up the money. : ——————— A good cure for fever blisters on a girP’s mouth is for her mother to stay in the room when men call on her.