The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 8, 1906, Page 1

WEATHER FORECAST. For San Francisco and Vi- cinity: Fair Friday; fresh westerly winds. : THE VOLUME C.—NO. COMPANIES: TO ACT. I Faflure of Adjusters to Meet With Pol | Chamber of Com - G BEVISING PLAN TO DEMANBS THAT ALL THE GIVE PUBLICITY TO | COMPANIES FURNISH ACTS OF INSURERS' LISTS OF GLIENTS. Chamber of Commerce to Commissioner Wolf Starts Work in Hz'armony \ to Enforce the New With Woll. | Law at Once. Commissioner Gives That Some Instgnce Com- Body Assurances of | panies Declare They His SJUppori- Cannot Comply. r Will Werk With Commissioner Wolf to Give Publicity Holders of Policies in the Traders’ Company Claims. | | 1ce Commissioner Wolf has compelled to make demand upon he insurance con.panies doing busi- “|ness in this State to furnish complete ists of all policies of insurance themr few Qays ago the rformed that all the would sign a e policy lists, ired for the sioner was stipulation which are information nd possibly thousands. of se policies were destroyed. as been passcd by Legislature the Califor- to compel the produc- sts. Nevertheless certain anies declare that they o supply the desired infor- because of che reinsuring of the co; matior polici As a result of this course, Commis- Wolf yesterday sent to the offices all the insurance companies deing business in California the folloiwng , | communication | Gentlemen: Pursuant to thé author- | granted by sections 597 and 597A f the Political Code, I herewith make | nand upon you to furnish me within prescribed by law, in writing, | d complete list of all of the policies of insurance issued by you on| property and risks locatad in the city and county of San Francisco, State {Q California. “which ‘Po.iciés “were (n r% effect and had not expired orce and = on April 17, 1906. Such Tist thust show number of each ‘pélicy, name in| = which the poliey Was . issued, the to| amount for which it Wwas issued, the hature and description of thé property | oo which the policy was. written or the nature of the risk assumed.by the ompany; ‘the location 6f the propertv, e idence of the insured, and t class of such pollcy as desig- nated on the policy by the company. Said list must be accompanied. by the several forms of policies 50 designated and classified by the company, and the 1s of riders, if any, attached to each rticular form of policy; and you are| ik fur equested to furnish any and fed ¥ data pertinent to the demand g and ve herein made. g You are hereby notified that if you r neglect to comply with this re- within ten days of the date here- | pro of the law applicable 3 . b instances will be enforced ] ed their FOr some reason hundreds of ‘persons who failed to turn in their proofs of | the representatives of the in-| companies. Insurance Com- misstoner Wolf urges that these proofs filed immediately, 50 -as to avoid | possibility of forfeiture. Not all of the | ! tompanies have signed the stipulation ting extension of time for the g of e claims, and in some cases ture very likely to” result-if e proofs are not filed at once. | nee th INSURANCE NEWS ON PAGE 3. LOUISIANA LEGISLATOR INTRODUCES A NOVEL BILL | Suggests a Law to Regulate Marri Contracts and to Prevent Race Suicide. NEW ORLEANS, June 7.—T. Spence | ith of Rapides yesterday introduced | the State Legislature a bill to reg- | marriage contracts ‘and prevent suicide. The bill'applies to whites and provides “It shall be unlawful for any young to attempt to court any young woman before he is 24 years of age. Before making such attempt he shall inform the parents or guardian of the n he proposes to.court of his in- n to do so. “He shall also make affidavit.before a justice of the peace that his courtship | be in good faith and for the pur- pose of trying to convince the young woman that it will be profitable for her to marry him. ‘It -shall be unlawful for widowers | over the age of 40.years to.attempt to | court any woman under the age of 18 | beyond the confines of the parish of their residence. “After the passage of the act all chil- dren born to legally married people jows ntr 40.00¢ dr so that and Canada may rece t retail > have nat Insur- >, Who is people beaten protec from being 3 r will find it In this State shall be raised and educat- effective co-operation €d at public expense. f are well aware that many of | “All boy children shall be sent to the ompanies will do the right thing |gtate University at Baton Rouge, and all girl children to the State Normal School at Natchitoches.” An appropriation of $17,000,000 to usters as the ope de they meed mof. sacri carry out this education feature is pro- ests for the sake of ready vided for in the bill. s nittee, thanks to the retail A i O SR s and their friends from every v - the Union, will stand by you | POC™.IN REALTY CIRCLES advice and the cash to de- IN THE SANTA YNEZ VALLEY mand your rights. A dressed a communication to the Cham- Sherwood of Oakland has ad-|rramsfer of “College Ranch” to New Owmers Causes a Noticeable Commerce in which he makes the ng suggestion [ Quickening in Land Deals. unGerwriters’ adjusting agents| BALLARD, ey - after about forty days from the o DT e i |ferred deal that culminated last night in the transfer by the Santa Ynez Land and Improvement Company to a group of Los Angeles and ban Francisco cap- g of proofs of loss, demur to the e and demand further compliance the terms and conditions of the thus extending the time for er sixty o V8 g i Will be Jexal, There is a meihod, (allsts of the “College Ranch: has properly applied in each case thaf c4used .quite a noticeable quickening in"| stop all trickery and force the real estate circles throughout Santa | rance companies to adjust their Barbara County. The beautiful Santa | losses immediately or waive any Ynez Valley, in which are located ,the |towns of Santa Ynez, Ballard and. Los Olivos, hag been at a standstill for ff- | teen years because of the inactivity of land owners. A recent survey showed | that the oil belt traverses part of the | valley, and it is expected that oil devel- | opment work will be commenced soon. and all rights the | have under the pol Sues Husband for Divorce. Josephine D. Yost has sued her bgnd, Albert J. Yost, for divorce. The complaint, which was filed yesterday, alieges failure to provide as the cause. hus- | which both fix |Bates was attorney for the Traders’, Commissioner Wolf Demands of lusurince Companies Lists of All Policies Issued by Them in This City. Holders in the Ferry Building, As Asxreed, Again Blocks Dusiness. President Nichols of the Natiomal Insurance Comparny Says Policy Holders Should Accept Twent: ~five Per Cent Cut. to Acts of Insurazce Companies. Are Advissd to Incorporate for Mutual Protection and Collection of 'POLICY-HOLIERS T0 INCORPORATE ‘Insured of the Traders' Company Plan Con- certed Action. Former Illinois Official | Advises Against a Compromise. The committee of seven representing the policy-holders of the defunct Trad- | ers’ Insurance Cédmpany of Chicago has decided to recommend the incorporation of the insured and the immediate as- signment of policies to the board eof directors for collection. The whole. scheme will be explained to the policy- holders at the meeting on Monday afternoon. The committee of seven met at Cen- tury Hall yesterday morning. Chair- man W. H. Humphrey stated that he had received no answer from the re- ceiver of the Traders’ Insurance Com- pany to his telegraphic request for a complete list of the policies held by that company in San Francisco and for permission to examine the books of the company to ascertain its exact finan- cial condition. John moved that the committee recommend the formation of the policy-holders into a corporation. It is the plan to have this corporation elect or have ap- pointed nine directors and to turn oyer the policies to them for collection. If all of the policy-holders will come into such a corporation the cost .of the suits against the Traders' Insurance Company will not amount to more than 3 per cent of the value of thie policies, declares O Hamphrey & Louis J. Behan of Chicago, attorney for a number of policy-holders in the | Traders’ and formerly assistant at- torney for the Illinois Insurance De- partment, has issued a statement charging Thomas Bates, representing some of the stockholders of the Trad- ers’ with insinderity. Behan claims that the policy-holders will fare far better in the courts than if they ac- cept the compromise offered by. Bates, | is as follows: ci 0 the ef- His compléte statement The news from your fect that Thomas Bates, as representa- tive of certamn Stockholders of the Traders' Insurance Company, had ap- peared before policy-holders of that company and offered a settlement -of fifty cents on the dollar, leads me to ask permigsion (o present a few figures to vour readers, many of whom, doubt- less, are policy-holders in, the Traders’ Insurance Company. The bill of complaint upon which the receiver was appointed is signed and > sustained losses by fire have |sWorn to by fifteen of the stockholders | and directors of that company, and it is but fair to presume tnat they would not sign so important a document with- out knowing the truth of the state- ments contained therein The_bill alleges that the fire loss ‘to the Traders’ in San Francisco was $3,748,000. Mr. Bates is reported as saying the amount to be $5.107,000. The bill alleges the surplus to be $2.- 000,000, Mr. Bates is reported as fix- ing_the amount at $1,300,000. trhe bill and Mr. Bates agree on the amount of reinsurance reserve fund, at $1,300,000. Mr. Bates tion. In C 3 ing legal advisor to the receiver, as such ought to be heutral, taking no y part in the controve In San HWran- cisco he says he is representing "mg{ht or ten humiliated stockholders.” Mr, am informed, before its failure, and therefore should know what the actual condition of the company is. He is either grossly ignorant of things he ought to know or he has deliberately attempted to deceive the stockholders and claimants in your stricken city. Either the allegations in the bill are true or they are false. If the bill is true, then Mr. Bates has been guilty of a misstatement. If the bill is un- true, then the stockholders and di- rectors are guilty of perjury, although some of the persons who asked for the appointment of a receiver and who swore to the bill, I am inforthed, are also some of the “humiliated stock- holders” represented by Mr. Bates. As attorney for a considerable: num- ber of claimants residing in your city, 1 shall oppose any offér of settlement made by the stockholders, unless it be on a dollar for dollar basis, and will fight the discharge of the receiver to the bitter end. believing that the claimants will fare beiter at the hands of the court than they will at the hands of ! these . self-same humiliated stock- holders. Under the administration of Gover- nor Tanner I was assistant to the at- torney for the Illinois Insurance De- artment and had large experience in xenling with insurance receiverships, and believe that the offer of settlement is not made with sincerity of purpose, for the stockholders who now ask to tettle should have thought the matter over before doing the very un-Ameri- can act of welching. Last night Chairman W. F. Humphrey of the committee of seven received a telegram from Receiver Byron L. Smith of the Traders’ Insurance Company. of Chicago in answer to Humphrey’s tele- gram requesting permission to look over the books of the company. The answer read: “Confer with my adjust- er, Moore, Oakland, concerning infor- mation desired.” Chairman Humphrey will confer with Moore today. s B NG AR e LOS ANGELES FUGITI B CAUGHT IN NEW YORK NEW 1uURK, June 7.—Frederick P. Wilson, aged 29, was arrested here last night on the request of the Chief of Po- lice of Los Angeles, Cal, who alleged that Wilson was a fugitive from justice. He is wanted in connection with the theft of a certificate of deposit of $2100 issued by the Security Bank of Havpé, Mont,, to the Title Guarantee and Trust Company of Los Angeles, of which Wil- son is alleged to be clerk. Five hundred dollars was offered for Wilson’s capture. He is said to have confessed his identity, FOR MUTUAL AID Partridge then | IMERICAN GIAL WEDS A BARON Miss Magee Becomes the Wife of Distinguished - Austrian, Bride's D;v:ry .Set;ded Upon Herself by Her Relatives, — Special Dispateh to The Call: PITTSBURG, Pa., June 7.—Francis, Baron Reid] de Riedenar, first secretary of the Austrian Embassy at Rome, yes- | terday wedded Miss Margaret Loufse Magee at the Calvary Protestant Epis- copal Church. The edifice, which was lavishly decorated . with flowers and plants, was crowded. |was performed by the rector, Rev. The bride entered | | | i- i |James L. Mcllvaine. |the church upon the arm of her step- !father, James Neale, who mave her |away. She wore a princess gown of white satin, trimmed with silver em. broidery and lace, a lace vell trimmed with orange blossoms and carried fwhite roses and lilles of the valley. {The groom wore plain evening dres: |without any decorations, of which h ;possesses several. Baron Hengelmul-, Ter, the Austro-Hungarian Embassador | at Washington. who was to have been | best man, was unable to come, and dele- | gated Baron Francis Haymarle, Secre-| tary of the Legation, to act in his/ stead. s Miss Magee, who is pretty and popu- lar, met the bridegruom in Italy whil a guest of her aunt, Mrs. Christopher L. Magee, who has a villa in the su- burbs of Rome. ' She is but 22. All her relatives are wealthy. | After a reception at the home of the: bride’'s parents, the Baron and Baroness left for Washington, where they 'will stay afew days, later leaving for Rome, | where the Baron will resume his duties. ‘While the bride’s' dowry, it is under- stood, was $100,000, It was settled upon herself and was not of the character of | s0 many recent international marriage settlements. Friends of both parties| WLLWM MOCLFFE 5 1800T 70 MARRY N WEALTHY WIDOW Man Who Barely Bscaped Mob Violence in Colorado to Become Benedict. Special Dispateh to The Call. DENVER, June 7. — Willilam Rad- cliffe’ and Mrs. Catharine Seymour, a wealthy widow, will wed in- London | Juiy 1. ; | Radcliffe, a barrister and Oxford graduate, owned an estate in Delta County, Col., several years ago. Thére was a fine hotel on the property and a fish hatchery. One day one of hié employes shot a® well knowh citizen | of Delta County, who was on the es-| ! tate and who was accused of trespass- |ing. The killing caused an uprising in the county, and the hotel and all| other buildings on Radcliffe’s country | estate were burned by a mob. Rad-| cliffe appealed to the British Govern- ment, and the State Department inves- tigated. Finally Congress gave Rad- cliffe $20,000 as compensation for his| loss. ‘ During /the 'excitement in Delta County over the killing. Radeliffe bare- ly escaped the vengeance of-the mob, which warned him never to return to the county. STEEL CORPORATION WILL BUILD A PLANT TOSTING $75,000000 Bond Issue Provides Funds for Construction at New City ; of Gary. Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, June 7.—Within a short time the United States. Steel Corpora- tion will issue $50,000,000 of bonds, the proceeds to be used fn the building. of the $75,000,000 steel plant at the new city—Gary, Indiana. The officials of the company have de- nied that there was to be an issue of bonds and in one respect their denial is slightly different .from the denials that usually are made by financiers. The bonds will not be sold to the pub- lic. The steel corporation will’buy the whole igsue out of ns large cash sur- plus, which is now around $90,000,000. The ceremony | insist that the wedding is a love matéh. | R B T S S ESNRE ot " The Call prints more news paper l Francisco. than any other published in San SN PRICE FIVE CENTS. T0 ALL CORNERS OF THE WORLD WILL GO APPEAL FOR SCHOOLY To all parts of the world will be sent copies of letters asking aid to rebuild the burned school structures of Sam Francisco. Tiirly-flvcgiflpupilsunheumnmhlm;iwnvevdu-wmwfluuduuulflenm Loyal Girl Students of Commercial High Busy at Typewriters Turning Out Copies of Letters Asking Aid to Rebuild. | TO THE GREAT FIRE. BRING FROM ALL PARTS OF THE WO! GIRL STUDENTS OF -HE COMMERCIAL HIGH SCHOOL HARD AT WORK TYPEWRITING MISSIVES THAT ARE RLD MONEY TO REBUILD THE SCHOOLHOUSES BURNED IN CUMES 00T WINDOW Fii.téen-Year-Old San Jose Girl Shows a Daring Spirit. Fpecial Dispatel to The Call. last night pretty little Emily Jeffries escaped from the com- unknown man. Deputy Sheriffs, and police are now searching for her. She is undoubfedly Oakland, where she reached early this morning. The. elopement adds ~ but career. A prisoner for incorrigibility when just past her fourteenth birth- Home in this city. there three weeks ago, apparently re- formed. Her conduct was. irreproach- able. Now she has disappeared and the authorities have traced her flight with a male companion whose identity is so far unknown. If found her com- panion will be brought back to this county and charged h:abduction. Y PR HEIRESS TO A VAST ESTATE IS WORKING FOR A SALARY Although Her Father Leaves $3,000,000 She Is Unable to Secure an Ac- counting From Executors. NEW YORK, June'7.—Heir to half her father’s estate, Adeline M. Mat- thews, only daughter of A. P. Sturte- vant, who died nearly fifteen years ago, leaving property at Broadway and Twenty-ninth street valued at about $3,000,000, is today employed in a dye- ing and cleaning agency at a weekly salary of $7. Bereft of friends who sought her society when she was in re- ceipt of a handsome income from her father, Mrs. Matthews is waiting for a long-delayed accounting from the exec- utors of the estate whereby she hopes to receive a small part of what her father intended she should have as in- dicated by his will. ‘Willis Briscoe, a lawyer of Norwich, Conn.; Charles Bard, president of a Norwich bank, and Edwin S. Studley, a carpenter, were appointed executors. For some reason, which Mrs. Matthews says she was never able'to understand, the executors have delayed final set- tlement and she is forced to earn her The yearly interest on these bonds will be about 32,500,000, byt this interest will go into the treasury of the com. ipany so that, all in all, the issue'ls | merely a matter of bookkeeping. | ~The officials of the company figure that the profits from the new plant will be close to $20,000,000 a year. The plant will be the'largest and most. modern in the world when completed. “Tt will take at least three years to' get it into com- plete operation. i x B BRUNDIGE OF ARKANSAS = ' * ATTACKS THE APPROPRIATION Says the Items' for the Care of the . White House and Grounds Are WASHINGTON, ‘June' 7.—An " attack on and a spirited defense of the Presi- dent were the features of.a busy day. grounds as grossly extrav venor of Ohio champ! priations. 3 ‘The na ! to conference. &n!fl _the appro- vagant and:in.|learned of the second marri omtrast to' “past ‘publicity Gros. |swore to & complaint charEing the con- Hving. A MUCH MARRIED MINISTER 1S SENT TO'STATE PRISON LOS ANGELES, June 7.—Rev. James R. Wylie, self-confessed bigamist, was sentenced by Judge Smith vesterday to pay a fine of $5 and to be imprisoned in Folsom for one year. The District Attorney’s office represented that the crime was not an aggravated case and dropped - prosecution - against the clergyman’s second wife, a Mrs. Green. ‘Wylie was a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church in New York, where he married his first wife eighteen years ago. Last-year the Wylies moved to a mining camp near Phoenix, Ariz, and were visited by a Mrs. Fannie M. Green of New York. - The clergyman sent his wife and an adopted - child to' relatives in Council in the House of Representatives, Brun- | Bluffs, Jowa, and during their absence dige of Arkansas assailing the items | married the Gree for the care of the White House .and | geles last August., oman in Los An- The first wife e and tracting parties with bigamy. = The clergyman and his second. wife were val appropriation bill was en route to Ensenada when intercepted o ’»brfmfuu, o AN ELOPES Wik WA AT MIDNIGHT | plan for rehabilitati SAN JOSE, June .7.—By climbing out |, of her bedroom window at midnight of 15-year-old | Would be required to e fortable home 'of - her foster parents| g, and eloped to San Francisco with some | in San - Francisco -or | day she was sent to the Beth Adriel | She emerged from | ,’lnx the acceptance of the moneys ' so another | chapter to the girl's already checkered | As one walks down the lower hallway of the Emerson - School his ears are Tacked by an incessant clicking of type- ‘writers. He opens the deor'to Super- intendent ‘Roncovieri's room'and sees thirty-five youn operators typing | away for déar life'on theéir machines to send out all over the United States and, |1n fact, all over the world, copids of let- | | ters which will bring to’San:Francisco i a shower of gold to rebuild her burned | | schoolhouses. | " These typewriter girls—numbering | ;almust eéxactly one for each schoolhouse | {burned in the great conflagration—are | Students at-the Commereial High School | who are assisting the school reconstruc- tion committee in carrying out its great on. After the recent tussle with b rute na- re the School Department. took stock its losses, and’found that' $6,000,000 rect fireproof | 0 house‘the “young tropolis. Even be- | | structures sufficient t. idea” of the new. me: ore this investigation had been con $ m- pleted, however, such a general move. | ment for the establishment of a rebuild. | ing fund’ had s gained neadway amon, the friends of education that tae d(’a:‘ partment felt no hesitanicy in sanetion- raised, since they were to such a noble use. A reconstruction com- | mittee, consisting of Mayor Schmitz, the | members of the Board.of Education and | Superintendent Roncovleri, was formed | todirect the.campaign. To Deputy Su- perintendent Macurda was intrusted the task of organizing a.practical system for co-ordinating the work throughout this and other.lands. . He has divided the work into several depar:ments, placing in charge of each some. teacher | who has thad particular experience in | that field. A LEADER CALLED TO SERVIC One of .the first ‘ones called upon for | service was Miss Garbarino of the ¢ mercial High School, who as-supe tendent of the office and operato malintains ‘the.same quiet but.effective supervision over the typewriter brigade which she, holds.in the classroom. : Dif- | ferent sections connected.with- the pro-. | duction and editing of the various kinds | of literary material- the committec is sending out have beea put in charzes of | Miss - Kelly of the sommercial High | School, . Mr. ' Barthel of the Manual | Training Department and Mr. loud of | the Lowell High School. while the offi- | cial photographers are Mr. Oliver of the Board of Education and Mr. Mitchell of the Girls’:High School. The personnel of the staff is completea with the names | of Mrs. Reeves of the Commercial High | School, who attends to the filing of the | voluminous ' correspondance, and Mr. | Felton of the Manual Training Depart- | ment, who is kept busy watcaing over the mailing lists. These workers have written and are disseminating north, south, east and west all attainable data regarding the educational’ sitnation in San Francisco. They are in communication with su- perintendents and other school officials in almost every county and city of the United States, and are preparing circu- lars to- séend. to ‘foreign countries, in which' they 'present to the friends of education at homesand abroad, the ac- tual facts regarding the recent losses sustained by the San Francisco School Department. Believing in the science of ocular demonstration they are-hav- be devoted to | schools draw pictures of trees and plants and other objects of nature by which they are surrounded. These will be put. on cards.and sent to other boys and ' girls of similar age in various parts of ‘the country, giving them the best possible illustrations of the con- ditions under which nearly 800 of their brothers and sisters are working now under the blue skies of California. Plans for entertainments,. for athletic meéts, for chain letters and for illus- trated magazine articles are now being matured by the'hard-thinking brains of “these half-d “men and women ‘who are Sitti ere in that room in ‘the Emerson School,. with the thirty- five machires clicking merrily around CONTRIBUTIONS ARE COMING. ' Contributions are already beginning to come more 2, Columa & ing the school children at the park tent ' EXPLOSION OF KEG OF POWDER CARRIED ON WAV SHOULDER Colorado Miner Marvelously Escapes Death in Peculiar Accident. Special Dispatch to The Call. FLORENCE, - Colo., June T.—A tere rific explosion of blasting powder oc= eurred in the Radiant coal mine, seven miles south of here. yesterday. Jo- seph Rankin -and Albert = Jomes of Rockvale were badly burned and lacer- ated. John Jenkins was burned on the ears and hands. _The explesion was of peculiar origin. Rankin was carrying on his right shoulder a keg containing twenty-four pounds of blasting powder down the mine. The keg came into contact with live wires carrying 250 volts. An ex- plosion occurred, the metal keg making a short circuit. The mine was slightly damaged. Huge clouds of dust and smoke arose, but a good current of air in the mine kept the enginemen from suffocation, The explosion occurred 1400 feet from the surface. Jenkins, who was twenty-five feet from Rankin, suffered a terrible nerv- ous shock. That Rankin's head was not blown off seems'remarkable. _—— WILL SACRIFICE HIMSELF AND FAMILY IF GUILTY Alleged Promoter of a Lottery Scheme Makes a Sensational Pledge in a Chicago Court. CHICAGO, June 7.—In the closing hour: of his trial yesterday Louis A. Gourdain offered himself, his fortune and his family as a sacrifice on the altar of justice. Should the jurors find him guilty, the alleged lottery man said, he would court the severest sen- tence, and when he came from prison he would turn his possessions over to the Government and proceed to efface himself and his family. Gourdain for several weeks has been on trial with John H. Dalton in the court of Judge K. M. Landis on a charge of using the mails to defraud. Gourdain, who is charged with pro- moting a scheme similar to a lottery, has conducted his dwn case and intro- duced no witnesses in his own defense. He declares his scheme is as legiti- mate as the operations of any board of ‘trade member. His statements and actions in the case have attracted much attention. < 3 Nome Navigation Opens. SEATTLE, June '7.—Advices from§ Nome announcing the opening of navi- gation there May 27 have been re- ceived here. The steamship Corwin, the first vessel to leave Seattle for the north this season, has arrived . The season is unusually early. Thé Corwin has been the first vessel to reach Nome for four consecutive seasons. RS AR T L T Operators and Miners Disagree. COLUMBUS., Ohio, June 7.—The joint conference of the Ohio miners operators adjourned this afternoom a disagreement. Both sides deec! tonight that the fight was now on a finish. i . o RIS, e T LY - Earthquakes Felt in MANILA, June T7.—Three earthquake shotks were felt on June 5 and §, the last at on the 6th instant. The believed to have been island of Samar, but no been received. ¢