The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 9, 1906, Page 2

» The letter sent out yesterday by E. Myron Wolf, Insurance Commis- sioner, stating that the law would be br the bear on sght to panjes If they failed to send him a full| list of a scription effect of | tension their turned Wolf has if ot companies will grant the policy-holders jon of time in which to file loss he will not ist on the receipt from m of their s f policy-holders. Consequently any of the companies are now signing ders plenty time in which to file their proofs and save their poli- ble forfeiture out of the 112 ncisco have e request for t Insurance Commig- xpects most of the oth t once. The thir tou wave complied are Ae nsurance Company of Hart- " Alljance Assiurance Company, Limit- nsurance Company of Phil- sdels Atlas Assurance Company, Limited, of London Z British-American Assurance Compa- ny of New York ritish America Assurance Company s ce Company of Ti- Citizens' Insurance Company. Commercial Union Assurance Com- pany, Limited, of London. Gommercial Union Fire Company of New York. Continental Insurance Federal Insurance Co Jerse Insurance B mpany. ny of New an’s_Fund Insurance Company, Franklin Fire Insurance Company of Philadelphia. % Glens Falls Insurance Company. Hartford Fire Insurance Company of Connecticut. Helvetia Swiss Fire Insurance Com- THIRTY-FOUR COMPANIES HA POLICY-HOLDERS’ DEMAND GRANTED WOLF WINS A POINT Commissioner’s Letter Gets Concession From Insurancé Corporations. AGAIN ADJUSTERS FAIL TO APPEAR AT MEETING. Attempt to Arrive at Settlement of the Larger Losses. Assumes a Highly Farcical Aspect. Insurance Company quresentatives Shy at Worl( of Arranging to Pay Big Policy-Holders. ‘While the general adjustment com- mittee of the fire underwriters has ap- pointed 833 loss committees, each equipped with a chairman and domi- nated by some company that by reason of being the largest loser in that par- ticular loss is made chairman, not one loss in which several companies are concerned has yet been adjusted finally. Yesterday was the third day for the meeting of adjusters at the ferry building. the preceding two days. pany. Indemnity Fire Insurance Company of New York. Insurance Company of North Amer- ica, Philadeiphia. Kings County Fire Insurance Com- pany of New York Liverpool and London and Globe In- surance Company. North German 1 re Insurance Com- | Fire Insurance Soci- | ety | of Palatine Insurance Company, Limit- London. ed, of London. Pennsylvania Fire Insurance pany Queen Insurance Company of Eng- | land Rhine and Company. Roval don Springfield ance Company. New York Underwriters' Transatlantic ny_of Hamburg. Western Assurance Hartford London Com- | Moselle Fire Insurance Insurance Company of Lon- | Fire and Marine Insur- I Ageney. Fire Insurance Compa- | Company of | Assurance Company. | Teutonia Insurance Company of New Orleans. | The Continental Insurance Company has sent Commissioner Wolf a full list of its policy-holders in San Francisco, together with a description of each poliey CHAMB EROF COMMERCE RECEIVES COMPLAINTS. | Already Finds Much to Do Preparing Statements of High-Handed Tactics of Insurance Companies for Publication. »mplaint book of the Cham- Francisce, in ints of pei- merce of San compls fmsurance compa- pened yesterday. Secretary fc evised a fo m for the ¢ fication of & atters that are brought he attention of the Chamber of Com ree pra ¥ amounts to an once the name of nt the ompany com- & 2 t, the number and amount poliey and the grievance alleged he Chamber of Commerce has se- red the services of Professor A. W. 3 of the direet the in ance ofes tney has pecul- or this work, coming study of fire insurance actical experience in s reports made o the rwriters of the Pz 1 with the loc i has been in close touch ion from the day of the ance Commissioner, Phelan of the relief com- ing the Chamber of securing information. 1t a4 the Department of Fasnington, D. reports will be issued as con- ai ify, and the final report, P 1 in permanent form, will be of | great valtie to the commerei Tt is presumed that better insu companies will welcome this effort and ce ate with the chamber. as the en- deavor will be to give nothing but au- thentic information. A blank form of inquiry is being pre »y Professor Whitney asking fo nformation. This will be gen- ted to the merchants of whether members of the Mr. | leg that they would give him $17 ‘as a donation to a customer.” He de- lined to accept this sum for his poli. 1 he has made appeal to thé Chamber f Commerce to assist him to get what is due him. Another complainant has written to | the Chamber of Commerce that when he went to the office of the Law Unfon and Crown Insurance he was confronted with a flat offer of 10 per cent redue- | tion. He saw no reason to take this sum, a8 the loss was complete. He has cordingly communicated with the | Chamber of Commerce that the matter nay be given publicity, 5 SRR L LT el HE YOUNG IMPOSTOR SENT TO STATE PENITENTIARY Petty Thief Poses as the Son of a New York M{jlicnaire and ¥s Finally Unmasked. NEW YORK, June 8.—Posing as the son of Henry O. Havemeyer, the sugar man, also as the son of 8. Herman Oel- richs, as well as pretending to be pri- vate secretary to Clarence Mackay, Eu- | gene Lyons, son of a coachman, has | | bee n able during the last three years’| Secretary Mohrhardt of the under- writers was in Oakland. The members of the loss committees did not appear. The list of names on the bulletin board in the adjusters’ headquarters was in- creased by the addition of only firm name, that of the J, S. Turner Company, whose case is set for hearing next Wednesday. Less than a dezen cases out of near- ly 1000 in which loss committees have been appointéed have been listed on the bulletin board to date, and not oné final joint adjustment has been re- | ported. TRYING TO GET MONEY. A new explanation was given by sev- eral underwriters sterday, who talked about the delay that is holding | up ,all- business houses and owners of | real estate who had policies in several companies simultaneously. This is that the companies, or some .of them, are trying to turn their assets into cash in the East that they may have their money all available for use in San Franeisco and that until this is accom- plished no further progress will be made in adjustments. Every day some new reason for delay one. In the meantime the larger losers are becoming daily more dissatisfied and restive, and the tension is becom- ing greater. The following loss committees were named yesterday to take wup large losses: BIG LOSSES ASSIGNED. William Lewis & Ceo., 24 California street—Sun (chairman), = Caledonian, Home. M. Heineman, H. 109 Sansome street —Union of London (chairman), Penn- vania, Phoenix of London. Henry Rhine & Co.—Providence Washington (chairman), Fire Associa- tion, Niagara. Joseph 1. Walsh, 26 Sixth street— Michigan Fire and Marine (chairman), Insurance Company of North America, Hartford. Sherwood Estate Company, 1123 Cal- ifornia street—Aetna (chairman), North British, Fire Assoecfation. Chy Lung & Co., 640 Sacramento street—Royval Exchange (chairman), North America, North German. Mrs. Ethel W. Crocker, California and Jones strects—Royal (chairman), | Western, Fire Asociation. California Electrical Works, Folsom | street, near Third—Citizens' (chair- man), Connecticut, Scottish Union and Northern. John P. Cliese Company, 1121 How- ard street—Rhine and Moselle (chair- (chairman), German-American of New York, National Union. Boitz, Clymer & 418 Market street—Phoenix of London (chairman), American Central, Glens Falls. Sing Chong Company, California and Dupont streets—London and Lanca- |shire (chairman), North Geérman, North British. Ely Company, 17-19% Manufacturin Main street—Pennsylvania (chairman), to make an easy and luxurious living, according to a long account of his op- |erations read today in court. Lyons, who has bsen conapicuous in | the daily parade on Fifth avenue, was arrested May 19 on a charge of pett larceny, and today he was sentenckd to one year in the penitentiary and to pay a fine of $250. Lyons is 21 years of age, and the po- lice say the youth never warked longer than a week at a time, though his dap- per appearance and smooth talk always won for him a job whenever he took the notion to apply for one. ' |HEAVY WATER TANK CRASHES THROUGH ROOF OF BUILDING Glens Falls, Royal Exchange. Clabrough, Golcher & Co., 538 Mar- ket street—Fireman's Fund (chair- man), Hamburg Bremen, Royal Ex- change. No progress was made, as on | one | is given by some | man), Norwich Union, Northern. George H. Fuller Desk Company, | 646-650 Mission street — Germania | H. C. Levy, 3 Grant avenue—Phenix ! - | of Brooklyn (ehairman), Pacific Under- ‘ writers', Northern. J."D. Heise & Co.—Hamburg Bremen | (chairmay), Aachen and Munich, Aetna. | . San Francisco Hay Company, 530-32 | Seventh street—Law Union and Crown | (chairman), Prussian National. = | Drinkhouse Company, 223-29 Battery street—London and Lancashire | (chairman), Royal Exchange, Insur- |ance Company of North America. John Meierdierks, 768 Howard street (Niagara House)—Glens Falls (chair-| man), Girard, German of Freeport. Schwartz & Disbecker, 841 Sutter street—Germania (chairman), North- ern, National. _ Jules Levy & Brother, 7 Sansome | street—Liverpool and Londen ‘and |Globe (chairman), Fire Assoclation, | Union Assurance. | Hirschfelder & Meany, 14-16 Sutter | street—Springfield (chairman), Union | of London. H. Wolf & Brother, 208-210 Sixth street — London (chairman), Leondon |and Lancashire, Security. | Robert Kern & Co., 634 Market street | —Citizens' (chairman), Phoenix of | London, Phenix of Brooklyn. |, Castle Brothers—Phoenix of Hart- ford (chairman), Hartford, Sun. Studebaker Brothers, Market and | Tenth streets—London (chairman), At- | las, Syea. | M. Oser. Eddy street, near Hyde (Or- | mond)—Home Tire and Marine (chair- | man), American Central, Aachen and | Munich. | | lé'nul B'rith Hall, 119-121 Eddy street | —Connecticut (chairman), Pheenix of { London, . Transatlantic. Burns Brothers, 112 Geary street— St. Paul (chairman), German-American, National Union. 1121-25 'Stockton Hing Sing & C street—Transatlantic (chairman), Lon- | don and Lancashire, Pennsylvania. Chew Hing Lung & Co., 930 Dupont |Street — Transatlantic (chairman | Phoenix of London, Milwaukee M chanics'. . | Jckelheimer Brothers, 28-32 Geary | | street—Aetna (chairman), Royal Ex- | | change, Hartford. Consumers' Ice Company, 420 Eighth | —Scottish Union and Natjonal (chair- man), Hartford, Springfield. Pauson & Lowenstein, 200 Kearny— London and Lancashire (chairman), Hanover, Fire Association. D. H. McConnell & Co., 502-504 M | sion—Home of New York (chairman), Westchester, Caledonian-American. Fisher & Co., 9 Montgomery—Sun {chairman), German, Phoenix of Lon- on. s L. & M. Alexander & Co., 110 Mont- | gomery—Globe and Rutgers (chair- | man), Hamburg-Bremen, Fire Associa- | ion. | .De Laval Dairy Supply Company— 1 | i Norwich Union (chairman), St. Paul, Security of New Haven. American Chocolate Factory, 13-17 Clementina — Hambiirg-Bremen (chair- | man), Western Assurace, North Ger- 5 an. National Pharmacy Company, Town- send and Ritch — Royal Exchange (chairman), Fireman's Fund, Transat- lantic. . E. Revalk & Co.—National Fire (chairman), Phenix of BrooKlyn. Phillips & Vag Orden Companv—Ger- | man-American (chairman), North Brit- |ish, Insurance Company of North Amer- ca. __Herrscher-Samuel Company,-Inc., 521- #28 Market — Milwaukee = Mechancs { {echairman), United Firemen, German of | Freeport. | O'Rourke- |30 ubanks Hat Company, 28- | Sansome—North British and Mer- (chairman), Springfield, Glens | cantile | Falls. D. S. Dorn (Van Nuys-Holland), 1001 | Léndon | | jand 1067 Bush—Unlon of | (chairman), Home Fire and Marine, Phenix of Brooklyn. | G. Lindauer, various—Pennsyly | (chairman), New Hampshire, United | Firemen's. i Mrs. Abby M. Parrott, south side of | | Markeét, between Fourth and Fifth— {North British and Mercantile ‘chair- | man), New Zealand, New York Under- ‘wrllers. | ~Studebaker Bros, warehouse, 522-30 Townsend—Atlas (chalrman), Pennsyl- | vania, Phoenix of Hartford. M. Marcuse & Co., 125-27 Sansome— London and Lancashire (chairman),| London Assurance, Northern. CALUMET COMPANY WANTS. DISGOUNT Offers Compromise Ultimatum to Policy-Holders | The policy-holders of the CAlumetl'rhey claim that while the liabilities OE | Insurance Company of Chicago will be the company are not as high as $1,382,- [ | 000, they are high enough to present | ofered the alternative of mcosptiug 66|, settiement on s bstteribasis: than 88 not a BASST o8 THE STAND Denies Th; There Was Refutes the Testimony Given Before Inter- THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 1gue. - HATTERS 3 90N Favoritism in Car sta PHILADELPHIA, June conclusion of today's session the Inter- | state Commerce Commission suspended | Srer - taliay |its inquiry into the relations of rail- v shots at his stepdaug : roads with coal and oll interests until next Tuesday, when the investigation | ver, sought his wife in her farmhouse Distribution. te Commission. 3.—At will be resumed here. | Probably the most important feature of the session was the voluntary testi- mony of J. McClellan of Blairsville, P: contradicting the testimony of previ- ous witnesses who told the commission | | that it had been the policy of the Penn- sylvania Railroad Company to encour- age its employes to become interested in coal companies on the lines of the |Pistol at it. roads. Charles McFadden related the story of his troublés while he was a mine operator in the soft coal fleld. supply became so meager that he was compelled to rent cars from the Com- | mercial Coal Company, which General Superintendent Creigh ton of the Pennsylvania Railroad is in terested. a concern He was finally compelled to make an arrangement by Commercial which Company operates mines for one-third of the profits. Robert Cassatt, son of President Cas- satt, denied the sfatement made yester- day by S. T. Potter of the Donohue Coal and Coke Company that the Key- | stone's operations had been favored |bach.property left by her first hus- in the distribution of cars. stated that the Keystone Company '“I Wi “Cassatt concern.” G. Spangler, local agent of the : Pennsylvnania Railroad at Milton, Pa.. |her stepfather is insane. | said that he also acted as sales agent | e for the Keystone Company, receiving | SOUTHWESTERN COAL STRIKE | a commission of 2% cents a ton. o- KNIGHTS OF COLUMRBUS One Hundred Thousand Dollars to Be B4 of Joseph Scott, Ritchie, dean of t nesota, today ten VOTE BIG RELIEF SUM | Devoted to the Cause of Ald- NEW HAVEN, Conn., June 7.—Final | adjourninent of the delegates to the National Convention of the Knights of | Columbus here was | Norfolk, Va,, ear's convention, in August. The California delegates, consisting | George A. Connelly | | and N. Powers, presented an appeal to| | the convention on behaif of the San | Francisco members. | voted $100,000 for relief work. mioney will be forthcoming immediate- from the natiomal fund, which wiil | be reimbursed by asseseémonts. | further voted that the, California dele- | gation shall act as a natlonal relief | | tund committee for the Knights of Co- | lumbus, Iy Dr. ST. PAUL, Minn., Jun‘e &TDL 'Pirlks\ e university of n- fier:d his resignation | tion on May 3 invited him to resign be- | ing Callfornians. taken was selected for The o Parks Ritchie Resigns. to the Governor. His car He also | band. tonight. | next | conyention | This | It was | 909 Fillmore 909 Bet. McAllister and Fulton MAKES ATTEMPT T0 KILL FAMILY 'New York Man Shaots Wife and Fires at Daughter. ¥ | WHAT'S IN_A NAME? ! J. C. Meussdorffer Sons have always stood for good hats and always will. Complete assortment of Stiff and Seft Hats $2.50 to $4.00 | Bdward Eschbach reloaded his revol- Panamas $5.00 Dispute Over Property Said to Be Cause of Trouble: SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL. | NEW YORK, June 8.—After firing | the | |in Ferris lane, off Fort Schuyler road, | | and fired a bullet into her bedy. Then | ihe fled to.a barn near by, where he barricaded himself. When Captain Gray and three po- | | licemen ecalled on him to surrénder he "defied them. The policemen broke in | the door, to find Eschbaeh pointing his ‘Hschbach's nerve left him at the last moment, however, and the weapon was knocked out of his hand | | [and he was made a prisoner. Brassware Matting and Chinaware SPECIAL OFFERING IN THESE LINES OUR FIRST SHIPMENT NOW N STOCK SHIBATA FILIMORE STREET, CORNER CLAY Formerly 917 Marbet and 336 Kearny Mrs. Eschbach was taken to the | Fort Schuyler Hospital suffering from | a wound just below the heart. The in | surgeon says she will die. Eschbach |is the woman's second husband. They were married seven years ago and had | been separated for a year. Mrs. Lena | Kearn, the man's stepdaughter, that four years ago he was arrested for shooting at her, but was released on his declaration that the affair was an accldent. The troubles were due, according to Mrs. Kearn, to her| mother’s refusal to sign over to Esch- the | his Eschbach has a son by his first wife living on Giebe avenue, Williams | Bridge. Mrs. Kearn says she believes ||| s A SETTLEMENT IS RATIFIED | | Agreement Entered Into by Miners and ||} Operators Covers HKansas, Indlan ! Territory, Arkansas, Missouri. | KANSAS CITY, June 8 —The settle- | ment of the Southwestern coal strike | agreed upon late last night by a sub- commitieé of the miners and operators, SPRING VALLEY WATER WORKS assisted by John Mitchell, president (A CORPORATION). of the United Mine-Workers of Amsr-]‘ | | Notice of Maturity and Redemption of First, Second and Third Mort- gage Bonds. ica, was ratified by the full conference today. Orders to clean up the mines | have been issued and work will be re- sumed June 18. The settlement covers | Kansas, Indian Territory, Arkansas ; : Notive is_hereby given that the First and Missouri and Iavelves more than he ¥ 32,000 men. The 1903 scale is to pre- Ipysigs, Bonds of the SPRING Val- vail for two years and smdll difficul- several mines dre to be ar- bitrated. Mitchell alded very largely in securing the agreenient, being called in after the cohference had reached a deadlock. - Resigus When Pressed. LONDON, June 8.—Sir Bdward Clarke, | former Solicitor General and ohe af the | Conservative miembers for the city of London, today resigned his seat. The City of London "Conservative Associa- now outstanding, to the amount of fou million. nine _hundred and seventy thousand ($1,975,000.00) dollars, the Sec- ond Mortgage Bonds of sald corporation, now outstanding to the amount of four million nine hundred and ninety-one | thousand ($4,991,000.00) dollars, and the Third Mortgage Bonds of said corpora- tion, now outstanding to the amount of three million six hundred and ffty thou- sand (33.650,000.00) dollars, ach and allgmature and be REDEEMED on Sep- t T first, 1966, by pay that day, of ali principal and ac at the office of said Spring Valley Works, No. 126 Stockton et, in |eity and county of San Francisco, State | of California, United States of America, ties at th | cause of his attitude on tariff reform. » PARKSIDE Your interests and ours are mutual--we are bound together by our investments. & and that on and after said date INTER- EST an each and ail of s#id bond$s WILL CEASE. By_order of the Board of Directors of the Sprin‘; Valiey Water Works. Dated San Francisco, California, March 1 | \ ’Qm. 1906. N SPRING VALLEY WATER WORKS. | (Corporate Seal.) SEAL. | By CHAS. WEBB HOWARD, President, | “and by PELHAM W. AMES, Secretary. Baenr's Care Opcns‘ today better than ever. Music every evening from 6 jo 8and 10 to 12. KING SOLOMON'S HALL 1745-1749 Fillmor HARRY BAEHR MARTIN FINBERG * Commerce of ot The | Rear Wall of the Structure Falls Out, per cent of the amount due them on | per cent. meérchants or i on, and it is hoped and explicit response, value to all concerned. Tt is proposed to discuss the peculiar problem arising in commection with damage to buildings and stocks from earthquake and from dynamiting. The attitude of foreign and domestic fire insurance companies, the policy of mak- ing smaller adjustments through per- | sons not familiar with local conditions and w e compensation is based upon & percentage of the reduetions made | from the face of policies in the settle- ments, the necessity for a uniform style of policy from all companies securing a Yicense to write insurance in Califoraia, and all such questions will be consid- ered General questiqps, such as the con- flagration hazard, the possible economy of the larger corporations, with scat- tered risks carrying their own insur- ance, the llability of the stockholders of insolvent insurance companies—in fact, all questions bearing on the pres- ent situation, will be investigated and reporis issued from competent author- sties. A George E. Butler, one of the trus- tees and a retived Insurance man of high standing and wide experience, has volunteered to assist in the investiga- tion and preparation of the report. The chamber asks the co-operation of the entire community, whether profes- sional or mercantile, of the peculiar questions will be Lrate- fully appreciated, If signed with the full name and address. All communica- thons should be addressed to the Cham- ber of Commerce of S8an Francisco, room 16, ferry building, San Francisco. Every mail brings In some communi- estions that will need attention. Some letters tel] of high-handed dealings on the part of the corporations. Every story will be carefully investizated-be- fore it is given publicity by the Cham- ber of Commerce. A business man of Ban Jose has writ- ten to Secretary Burks that when he went to the office of the Continental Insurance Company with a policy call- ing for the payment of $2000 he was t0ld that the dogpument was worthless because he had taken out other insur- ance witbout the permission of the Con- tinental Company, When he read the policy after he left ghe insurance office he found that in the terms other inpurgnce was aliowed. The insurance people told him, he al- firms will not | be of the utmost | Written informa- | tion from {ndividuals bearing upon any | and Six Persons Are Badly Injured. PITTSBURG, June §.—A 10,000-gallon water tank crashed through the three- story brick building at 537-545 Liberty | avenue this evening, causing a, rear | sons badly. The building was occu- | pied by John Fite, a wholesale butter | and egg merchant; the 8. M. Petty Wali Paper Company and T. S. Moyer & Co., wholesale boots and shoes. The injured are T. his son George, three women and James Robinson, a teamster who was deliv- ering goods at the rear of the building. The women were bookkeepers and stenographers in the various establish- ments. All of the injured will recover. —_—————— | TAFT NOT A CANDIDATE FOR THE PRESIDENCY Anxious to Hemain Sccretary of War Until Philippine Affairs Are Settied to His Satisfaction. | WABHINGTON, June 8.—It is stated ]nn the highest authority that Secretary Taft will not be a candidate fér the | Presidency in 1908. He |s not hesitat- ing in the Supreme Court Justiceship | on account of any Presidential aspira- ! tions, but because he is anxious to re- main at the head of the War Depart- ment until Philippine afairs have been settled to his satisfaction. = Mo AR ARMY AND NAVY ORDERS, WASHINGTON, June 8. — Army or- ders: Captain Jesse M. Baker, quarter- master, will proceed. from San Fran- cisco to Seattle, Wash, and report to Ium quartermaster for temporary duty, relieving Captdin G. Maury Cralle of the Tenth Infantry. Navy orders: The following cable was received from Admiral C. J. Train, commander-in-chief of the Asjatic fleet, at Kobe: “Lieutenant Commander D. E. Dismukes snd Assistant Paymaster J. R. Hornberger have been detached from | Monadnock to return home. Assistant | Paymaster E. D. Stanley is detached from the Ohlo, to go to the Monadnock; ssistant Paymaster E. H. Van Patten goes to the Mohican, Assistant Pay- | master J. E. MqDonald and Assistant | Paymaster r. T. Foxwell go to the na- | val station at Cavite, P. L" ——— { Te Cure a Cold in One Day | Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. Druggists refund money if it fails to ‘ecure, E.W.Grove's sig-on each box. 25¢ | wall to fail out and injuring six per-| S, Moyer and | | their losses, or taking what the com- pany chooses to give them after. it | has taken advantage of the earthquake | clause included in the provisions of its| policies by réfusing to pay on policies | which were held by people located in | buildings damaged by the shock. Such was the agreement reached at a meet- ing of the stockholders of the company a few days ago. the company were approached with the above proposition and refused to ac- cept the 65-per-cent settiement. A fund of $500,000 has been raised by cash contributions from the stockhold- | ers to be used to pay the losses on a 65-per-cent basis. An official of the company said yes- terday that it was “up to the policy- holders.” The Calumet's capital ang !surplus is given as $456,000 and its | estimated risk at $1,382,000. The com- pany does not ee‘end to touch its capi- tal in paying off the losses. If this is done, the officiale ¢laim that the company will have to ceéase business. Some of the large policy-holders in/ “It is a question for the policy-hold- ers to decide,” explained the official. “We want to leave it to them. Whether they ac¢ept our offer of approximately | 65 per cent-or our ruling on the earth- quake clause is immaterial to us. We | want to do what is right, but have not the funds. The stockhdlders have raised $500,000 with which to pay losges. This fund is in cash and ready, awaiting the decision of our policy- holders. Our capital and surplus, ap- proximately $456,000, will not be used in paying losses. Should we use the money we would be compelled to re- tire from business. We offer our ul- timatum, accept the 85 per cent or ad- mit our legal right to enforce the earthquake clause in adjusting.” So far the proposition of the Calu- met Company has not mét favor with the policy-holders. Willlam Crocker of the H. S. Crocker Company was approached on the @5-per-cent propo- sition and flatly refused to-accept any such settlement. Many other large policy-holders have done likewise. MESIBERS OF HOUSE LABOR WITH SUNDRY CIVIL BILL Refuse to Consent tc the Transporta- tion of Siiver and Other Money by Registered Mail, WASHINGTON, June 8. — With the exception of an hour speat on pension legislation, in which 827 bills for the relief of civil and Spanish-American war veterans were passed, the House labored today on the sundry clvil bill, making much headway. Under the lead of Keifer of Ohio the House re- fused to transport silver coins and other money by registdred mail, insist- ing that their transportation shoulg be handled by the express companies. During the arguments it was contend- ed that the Wast and South need silver dellars for eirenlation. The conference.report on the bill to prohibit aliens from fishing in Alaskan waters was agreed to; also the Senate impertation, in interstate commerce of falsely or spuriously stamped articles of gold or silver or their alloys. These bills now go to the President for approval. —_—— | A Guaranteed Cure for Plles. Itcuing, Blind, Bleeding or Protrud- ing Piles, Your it will’ refund mon.iyi:' if PA MENT fails . to icure you in 6 to 14 days. 30c. amendments to the bill forbidding the E. exportation or carriage SENATE PASSES THE DAY IN LISTENING TO SPEECHES Se tor Morgan Is Anxtous to Have an Investigation of the Affairs of the Isle of Plnes. : ‘WASHINGTON, June 8.—The Senate today listened to two set speeches, one by Senator Morgan in support of his resolution providing for an investiga- tion by a Senate committee of the af- fairs of the Isle of Pines and the other by Senator Hopkinsh in\’?ppolmoq to the sea level canal bill. either meas- ure was acted on. Some time was also spent in consid- ering tue District of Columbia appro- priation bill, ———————— % San Franciscan Is Accused of Fraund. BOSTON, June 8.—The police Rere have under arrest Ge A. Cayevette, 63 <years old, of San Franciseo, who is charged with defrauding Miss Flarence ark of this city by selling her worthless stock of the Lake St. John Mining Company of .uebec. Cayevette is allegéd to have represented the com- pany owning a lease of 3600 acres of! mining lands-at Lake St. John, whereas the lease had lapsed, and.the stock therefore necome worthless. The po- lice claim they have. other charges against Cayevette, whe on his »m.rt’ claims he did nat know the lease had expired when he sold the stock. = * Parkside owners feel satisfied,and well they may, for pros- pects were never so good=--the plans for the larger develop- ‘ment work are being completed. - Come to see us in the new office, 500 Golden Gate Avenue, corner Polk Street. PARKSIDE REALTY COMPANY OF SAN FRANCISCO. J-D Co. W.&J.SLOANE & CO. Are Temporarily Located at 1760 PACIFIC AVENUE -'TAN FRANCISCO, —AND— 510 TWELFTH STREET OAKLAND. R. G. BROWN Stock and Bond Broker HAS RESUMED BUSINESS AT 314 California Street R. N. Nason & Co. BRUSHES, VARNISHES, PAINTS, OILS Potrero Ave., 15th and Utah Sts. Fillmore and 16th Sts. and 8th St. car lines.