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FAIR HALFMOON BAY.
A Pretty Suburb That
Opposes the Boule
vard.
IT IS NOT IN ITS INTEREST
The People Want a Coast Rail
road Down to Santa
Cruz.
VIEWS OF LEADING CITIZENS.
The Silurians of San Mateo Counted
Upon to Fight Against
Bonding.
HALFMOON BAY, Cat.., April 22.— The
people of Ualfmoon Bay and all along the
coast line of San Mateo County are a solid
phalanx in opposition to the boulevard
proposed to be built on the ea*t side of the
county. One of the oldest residents, a
gentleman who has been thirty-live years
in Halfmoon Bay, said to a Call represen
tive in substance: "The boulevard ques
tion now agitating the county if carried
through would be a great detriment to us
all, and especially to the coast side. It
would be morally wrong and totally unfair
to tax the western portion for a road which
would not run within fifteen miles of up.
Why ? For the simple reason that it would
naturally divert and draw all the traffic to
the San Mateo side, and would not benefit
Halfmoon Bay or Fescadero in the least.
The west side has been fighting for years
to get a coast railroad which should go
right along by the ocean down to Santa
Cruz, and eventually join the Santa Fe
system. There are rive districts in San
Mateo, with five Supervisors, the First
District of which is the center, Colma, Su
pervisor Jacob Bryan; the Second, San
Mateo. Supervisor Brown ; the Third Dis
trict, Iledwood City, Supervisor P. H. Mc-
Kvoy ; the Fourth District, Halfmoon Bay,
Supervisor Peter Burke ; and the Fifth
District, Pescadero, Supervisor H. B.
Adair.
If the county were bonded for a boule
vard the scheme would have to be put to a
vote of the people, and would include*
every bit of taxable property in the county
to pay the bonds. To carry out the scheme
the proposition would have to be carried
by a two-thirds vote. Three-quarters of
the property is on the east side of the
mountains, and on the coast side there are
not enough voters to make even a decent
kick. But the hope of the coast side lies
in the knowledge that in the interior there
A GLIMPSE OF THE TOWN.
are a great many pilurians who would vote
against the boulevard if it did not run
through their property, and benefit them
pecuniarily. So the only thing to squelch
the proposition is to let the property
owners on the other side of the county
beat themselves.
Mr. Ferdinand Levy thought that it
would be manifestly unjust to tax any of
the citizens for a road that would be a detri
ment to them, lie also remarked that when
the ocean side wanted to run a coast rail
road the opposite bide of tfce county ie
ceived the scheme with arctic frigidity,
and that it was only natural that the coast
people Fhould oppose a plan which would
cost them money and hurt them if carried
through.
Frank H. Owen, proprietor of the
Coast Advocate, a paper entirely devoted
to the interests of the county, said regard
ing the meeting recently held at Redwood
City: "It was held to talk up a proposi
tion to bond the county for funds with
which to build a boulevard from San Fran
cisco to the south line of San Matto
County. It was conceded at this meeting,
as it is by all who have given the matter
any thought, that bonding the county is
the only way to obtain the necessary
funds." He doubted, however, whether
the people would vote the bonds. Oppo
sition from the coast side was both feared
and expected and it would be very decided
unkss the scheme embraced a good road
from San Mateo to Pescadero. Without
that every one would object to the building
of a road along the bay. The coast wanted
roads as much as any other section of the
county and demanded that its needs be
considered in connection with those of the
bay side.
The present highway was a disgrace and
was good only when the weather was good.
A smooth road was demanded from which
tourists and visitors could enjoy the ex
quisite mountain scenery between San Ma
teo and Halfmoon Bay and the delightful
journey to Pescadero, eighteen miles fur
ther on. If the whole county was to be
taxed, the whole county should receive the
benefit of the project. It will be seen,
therefore, that Mr. Owen is as practical as
he is progressive. He only wants fair play,
and would be glad to see a boulevard con
structed as long as the coast was not left
out in the cold. A road was wanted over
which every draught horse could haul a
ton winter or summer. It would not cost
more than the county could afford and
would pay for itself in actual cash, to say
nothing of satisfaction, within three or
four years.
It will be seen, therefore, that just at
present San Mateo Count)' is a house
slightly divided against itself, but it would
seem only just that if it be bonded to make
a boulevard the coast line, if equally taxed,
should be equally benefited.
There are thousands of San Franciscans
and Californians generally who have lived
here for over a score of years and who
think they know all about the natural
beauties and the glorious scenery of the
State. Yet not one of them, perhaps, ever
rode over the mountains from San Mateo
to Halfmoon Bay. To describe the ex
quisite beauty of the hills, gorges and
canyons would require the pen of a Pius-
I kin or the imagery of an Emerson. The
i entire drive is simply a succession of pano
i ramas. so varied and yet so beautiful as to
make the best descriptive writer pause be-
I fore attempting to sketch them. There
are hills which are almost perpendicular
! in their asceut; gulches, hundreds of feet
i deep, in which giant redwood trees mingle
with the great white flowers of the dog
wood, the crimson of the red currant, the
creamy tints of the ironwood and all the
other glories of a virgin forest growth.
The variety of timber is almost endless,
the foliage a dream of color and the air as
pure ana balmy as the breath of a babe.
In ascending, the hills rise above the visi
tor like majestic giants robed in perennial
verdure. From the summit the visitor
gazes down into richly cultivated valleys,
fields of grain and tiny brooks of silvered
water. The tourist is only twenty miles,
as the crow flies, from San Francisco, yet
he i? in a miniature Switzerland minus the
ice and snow.
The ride from San Mateo to Halfmoon
Bay is just thirteen and seven-eighths
miles in length, and every foot of it fur
nishes a scenic feast for the lover of
nature. For a considerable part of the
route the visitor drives by the series of
Crystal Springs Lakes, eleven miles in
length, and at one place crosses them.
The huge dam, 110 feet high, which con
tines the waters of the reservoir, is 60 feet
thick at the base and 10 feet wide on the
summit. The waters average a depth of
ninety feet in the middle and are the
home of the game trout and the equally
plucky black bass.
Sj.inishtown, or Halfmoon .Bay, was orig
inally settled about forty-tive years ago,
mostly by Spaniards, as its old name im
plier.. It has two churches, both liberally
supported, the one a Methodist organiza
tion and the other Roman Catholic,
known as "Is'uestra Senora de Pilar."
There are lodges of the Independent Order
of Odd Fellows, the Freemasons, United
Ancient Order of Druids. Ancient Order of
United "Workmen and Native Sons. The
leading hotel is the Seaside, kept by Mrs.
S. Cerrero and her husband, who is a chef
de cuisine of rare ability. Another hotel,
"The Occidental," will shortly be opened
and is now being furnished for the recep
tion of guests.
Halfmoon Bay is a charming summer
resort, for it affords amusement of all kinds.
The ocean yields every species of fish to be
found in the San Francisco markets, and
within four miles there is excellent moun
tain trout-fishing. The visitor can get sal
mon trout without leaving the city, and
game of all kinds is abundant in the hills.
Then comes th« beach drive of nearly
PICTURESQUE CHIMNEY BOOK.
seven miles with bathing that is equal to
the best dips in Monterey, Coronado or
Santa Cruz surfs.
Half moon Bay never having attained
railroad facilities is naturally peopled by
conservative citizens. But though con
servative they are in the main progressive
and full of energy, looking to a boom in
the New California of the future.
Where there are so many Bolid citizens
in this little community it is difficult to
know of whom to speak first, but the old
est settler is entitled to the honor and he
is to be found in the person of Don Pablo
Vasquez, for forty-seven years a resident of
Half moon Bay, and the son of the foreman
of the Mission Dolores ranch, established
by Jonipero Serra long before San Fran
cisco was ushered into existence. He told a
representative of the Call yesterday that
the Franciscan fathers used to run the mis
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 1895.
sion cattle on Government land and in tak
ing care of them his father had to live in a
mud house, called in Spanish a casa de
lodo. Asked how these were built he re
plied that first posts were set in the ground
on four corners and willow saplings placed
at close intervals all around. The inter
stices were then filled up with good old
fashioned adobe mud. Layers of tule tied
with rawnide formed the roof, and the
casa de lodo was an accomplished fact.
Don Pablo Vasquez was asked, jokingly, if
he was any relation to the dead bandit of
that surname, and he replied, seriously :
"Yes, he was my first cousin, but I never
saw him in my life." He has in his pos
session a copy of the Costanso diary of
1769, when Don Gaspar de Portola was Gov
ernor. The original diary is in the Sutro
Library and relates chiefly to the discovery
of San Fiancisco and tne settlement of the
Santa Clara Valley. Don Pablo has also
in his possession several very rare and
valuable Spanish documents over 200 years
old.
Festooned with foliage of every kind,
smothered in an indescribable wealth of
roses, and the windows hidden by creepers,
the visitor who pauses on the bridge at
Halfmoon Bay looks down on * deserted
house still in good preservation but utterly
abandoned. It was built years ago on the
bed of the creek which is spanned by the
bridge, and is to-day a picturesque home,
FOUR PROMINENT CITIZENS OF HALFMOON BAY.
1 although without doors or windows. The
owner was a Mr. Rockefeller, a cousin of
the Standard Oil king, but his home,
almost on the level of the creek, was one
day menaced by a winter flood. As the
waters rose the bank cut away from the
foundations and got behind the house. In
an effort to save the piano the instrument
was raised on wooden trestles four feet
high, but the flood was relentless and ac
complished its work of ruin, leaving the
house a relic of an unwise site, but to-day
standing as primly as ever, environed with
willows, clematis, and an unkempt wealth
of bushes and flowers. Heavy-bearing
fruit trees, now in blossom, surround the
doomed house, and the scene suggests
Goldsmith's "Deserted Village."
Halfmoon Bay points with pride to a
good grammar school equipped with five
excellent teacher?. The youth of the com
munity has no right to complain of a lack
of educational facilities. A month ago the
bicycle craze attacked the town, and last
Sunday ten of these machines were cavort
ing madly around the streets with more to
hear from in the near future.
There is no end to the deposit of lime
stone near Halfmoon Bay and petroleum
and bituminous rock are only waiting a
railroad to make their existence felt most
profitably. There are timber, endless
masses of granite, tanbark and other crude
staples all waiting for the coast railroad.
||Xorth of Halfmoon Bay is essentially a
vegetable country, although adapted to
various kinds of agricultural products and
dairying. Handicapped as the farmers are
with the necessity of hauling their crops
by team over the heavy mountain grades,
the section north of San Pedro Mountain i
has shipped 17,000,000 pounds of cabbage
to the Chicago market and sold nearly as
much in San Francisco in a single season,
besides enormous quantities of green peas,
beans and root crops, for the growth of
which the soil and climate are particularly
adapted. As to milk, butter and small
fniitß the supply is practically inex
haustible in a district where the grass is
green for nine months in the year and in
which four crops can be raised every
twelve months. A curions relic of early
days is an adobe house built in 1800 by con
tract by Francisco Barriesa.
Among the prominent merchants is
Ferdinand Levy of Levy Bros., who has
lived here for twenty-three years and con
ducts a store for general merchandise, be
sides owning a large warehouse full of agri
cultural implements. He is always ready
to push the interests of Half moon Bay and
is especially interested in the success of the
proposed coast railroad. In addition to
the other interests of the firm Levy Bros,
carry the agencies of four first-class insur
ance companies.
But if there is one industry more than
another of which Half moon Bay is proud
it is its Ci-eamery. The local paper says in
its issue of April 10: "The new Sharpless
cream -separator has been set up in the
creamery and works beautifully. Its
capacity is 2500 pounds an hour. The
creamery is making considerable cheese
now and will while the price of butter is so
low, the output beins about 300 uounds per
day. Last month the creamery bought
over 400,000 pounds of milk and the value
of the products was about $1500.
Another prominent industry is that of
R. T. Knapp, who is the patentee and
manufacturer of a side-hill plow, so neces
sary in the mountains. It is used for land
breaking, vineyard, orchard and general
farming work. Mr. Knapp established
water works in 1885 and enlarged his sys
tem this year. He has a reservoir holding
1,000,000 gallons three miles from town and
distributes water all over through 10-inch
m ains. It. is fine spring water. The gen
tleman is a strong temperance man and has
erected a drinking fountain for general use
and presented it to the town.
THE MOBS BEACH HOUSE.
Seven miles from Halfmoon Bay on the
beach and the road to Colma, in the town
ship known as the ''Colony," tnere is a
lovely resort known as the Moss Beach
House, where good bathing can be en
joyed, and sea moss, abalones, shells and
curios can be collected and gathered ad
libitum. The location is one of extreme
loveliness, and the resort is owned by a
most progressive German, J. F. Wienke.
Cottages surround the house and stages
connect it with Colma.
The legal and judicial interests of Half
moon are represented by Mr. John Pitcher,
Justice of the Peace, a pleasant and uni
versally respecte I gentleman.
The oldest settlor in the community,
without counting Mr. Vasquez, who was
born here, is William Pringle, who has a
harness-shop and thinks there is nothing
like leather.
It would require too much space to de
scribe the beauties of Purissimo Falls,
Chimney Rock, Seal Rock and other points
of interest; but it would be unfair to close
this article without a good word for the
Coast Advocate, the paper which is all in
all to Halfmoon Bay.
The editor, Frank H. Owen, is a native
of Oregon, and has been in the newspaper
business from his early boyhood. At four
teen years of age he was apprenticed as a
prnter, and six months after serving his
four years' "time" became a newspaper
editor and publisher, by reason of his em
ployer failing to pay the wages he had
earned. The voting man was compelled to
take the paper in settlement of the debt.
Later Mr. Oweij came to California and,
after marrying, returned to Oregon, where
for a number of years he was foreman of
the daily Evening Telegram of Portland.
Getting tired of working for wages, and
believing his talent as a writer would yield
a better income than that paid a printer,
he went over to Washington, then a Terri
tory, and bought the Chehalis Bee, and
soon made it the leading country newspa
per of Western Washington.
After engaging in several other success
ful newspaper enterprises, Mr. Owen em
barked in land speculation at a time when
all Oregon and Washington was wild over
boom townships, and, as might have been
expected, lost the money he had made
while engaged in the business he was
familiar with. He then came to California
aeain, traveled the State all over, decided
that while this was the garden of the
world, San Mateo was the gem of the gar
den, and there he has his home. Mr. Owen
is a stanch Republican and something of
a politician. If he has a hobby it is that
of county roads, and believes that the
building of first-class turnpike roads are
only second in importance in the develop
ment of a country to railroads. He is
heartily in accord with the Call on its
boulevard proposition, providing that the
scheme is broad enough to build a coast
turnpike at the same time. While his
newspaper, the Coast Advocate, is not a
large one, it is all home print and always
filled with original matter, a feature of
which is articles descriptive of the attrac
tions and resources of the county. He has
an accomplished wife, who ia also a writer
of considerable ability.
RIOTOUS X ECHOES.
They Terrorize the White I'ecplc in the
Town of Hath, Jf. C.
RALEIGH, N. C, April 23.— News has
reached here that a large mob of negroes
Saturday attempted to take possession of
the town of Bath.
They are employes at the sawmills and
were angry because some of them had been
arrested by town officers. They entered
stores and barrooms, helped themselves,
and threatened people with death.
They wounded four deputy Sheriffs, and
so terrorized the people that they locked
themselves in their houses to save their
lives.
Telegrams were sent to the town of
Washington, sixteen miles away, for aid
and a company of troops was put at the
disposal of the Sheriff. Sunday morning
the people of Bath started out to arrest
the leading rioters.
They captured five. One of them named
Lanler resisted and fired at the posse, and
was shot and mortally wounded. The
other prisoners were taken to Washington
in a boat.
An attempt was made by the negroes to
release them, but the attempt was foiled
by th« arrival of the militia on a steamer.
All was quiet at Bath to-day. The ring
leader of the mob, Thomas Renner, is still
at large.
An Informer Goes Insane.
NASHVILLE, Term., April 22.— A Chat
tanooga special says: Sam Frazier, the
man who had betrayed his' companions
who had entered into a conspiracy to hold
up and rob the train at Greenwood, and
which resulted in the death of Tom and
Jere Morrow, has become a raving maniac.
He was confined in the jail at Somerset by
the officials, who at first believed he was
feigning insanity, but he has developed an
unmistakable case of lunacy and has been
sent to the insane asylum near Somerset,
K y- -
W heseveb the Government wants the
most trust-wortby article and the best in
quality it prefers the Royal, as this brand
was found to be superior to all others in
levening power by the official chemical
tests, made at the instance of the Govern
ment, in the Agricultural Department, at
Washington.
KILLED AT CALLAHAN.
Henry Hayter Shot to
Death by William
Nulls.
THE CRIME UNPROVOKED.
Murdered Because He Refused
to Sign His Name to a
Deed.
WAS TRYING TO GET AWAY.
He Receives a Charge of Shot In His
Back While Riding From the
Assassin's Cabin.
YREKA, Cal., April 22.— Sheriff Hobbs
received the following telegram this
morning:
"CALLAHAN, Cal., April 22, 8:20 a. m.
W. L. Hobbs, Sheriff, Yreka: Henry
Hayter was shot to death yesterday even
ing by William M. Nulls, who is supposed
to be at his cabin on Sugar Creek. Come
to Etna. Nulls is a hard character.
A. H. Bar."
Hayter's dying words to A. B. Chambers
were that he (Hayter) rode up to Nulls'
cabin and Nulls came out and told Hayter
that he wanted him to sign a deed with
him to some mining property being trans
ferred to other parties. Hayter said he
would not do it and Nulls said he would
shoot him if he refused. They quarreled,
and Nulls stepped into the house and got
his gun. Hayter was not armed and
started to ride away when Nulls shot him
in the back. Hayter was but thirty or
forty feet away.
Hayter said that after he was about 200
yards away he fainted and fell from his
horse. Recovering later he remounted
and rode to James Sullivan's house, where
he died about 5 o'clock this morning.
Under Sheriff Radford and others are
scouring the country around Callahan for
Nulls, who fled to the hills. They are
confident of his capture.
Killed by His Father Near Salem.
PORTLAND, Ok., April 22. — Jacob
Swartz, the young man who was stabbed
in the neck three weeks ago by his father,
near Salem, has died from the effects of
his wounds. The father stabbed the son
in a.drunken rage.
CAS ADI AX PACIFIC COMPLAINT.
Officials Say Knstbound Sates Are Being
(ut by lowa Roads,
CHICAGO, 111., April 22.— The Canadian
Pacific has lodged a complaint with the
Western Lines Passenger Association
against certain lowa roads. The Canadian
Pacific alleges they are manipulating east
bound rates in San Francisco. It says the
offending lines have made large deals with
brokers and are paying them $2 commis
sions in excess of those authorized to regu
lar agents.
Chairman Caldwell has investigated the
matter and has found tnat second-class
rates are being cut $3 to Chicago through
the Missouri River gateway. It is also
said that the northern lines have been of
fending in the manner as flagrantly as any
Missouri Hirer line.
GRESUAX IN NEW YORK.
The Secretary of State Consults With
J'rotninent J-'inanciers.
NEW YORK, N. V., April 22.— Secretary
of State Greshum, who came to New York
Sunday, spent most of his time to-day
with the ex - Secretary of the Treasury
Bristow and J. W. Doane, a wealthy
banker, who is also receiver and govern
ment director of the Union Pacific Rail
road. Mr. Gresham was closeted with the
gentleman, it was said, until the very mo
ment of his departure for Washington.
To callers this afternoon and this morn
ing word was sent that the Secretary was
too busy to see anybody. Neither Mr.
Bristow nor Mr. Doane could be seen to
night.
CHICAGO INQUIRER.
Hi di la the Xante of the yew Democratic
Daily Newspaper.
SPRINGFIELD, 111., April 22.— Papers
of incorporation were filed with the Secre
tary of State for a new daily and weekly
Democratic newspaper in the city of Chi
cago, to be known as the Inquirer, the
capital stock being $1,000,000. Among the
incorporators whose names are given are :
Judge Samuel P. McConnell, president
of the Iroquois Club; Frank Wenter, late
Democratic candidate for Mayor of Chi
cago; ex-Mayor John P. Hopkins, Delos
P. Phelps and Edward T. Noonan. The
policy of the new paper on the financial
question has not yet been fully deter
mined. McConnell came out recently for
free silver.
Jtailroad Speed Record Broken.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa., April 22.— The
fastest time ever made between here and
Atlantic City and the fastest time ever
made by a railroad train in this country
for such a great distance was that accom
plished by the special newspaper train on
the Pennsylvania road yesterday morning.
The train pulled out of the Camden depot
ats:3G^ and 45 minutes later came to a
stop in Atlantic City. The distance is
58 3-10 miles, and the average speed was
76}{ miles an hour.
The fastest mile was made in 41 seconds,
which is an average of 87 8-10 miles an
hour. This is the most notable perform
ance in railroad speed which has yet been
made.
J7~ I < "it irari's Suit Against Mitchell.
MILWAUKEE.Wis., April 22.— The trial
of the suit against United States Senator
John L. Mitchell, whom Sculptor John S.
Conway sued to recover $25,000, alleged to
have been promised for work on a soldiers'
monument, to be erected in a local park,
began to-day.
Senator Mitchell denied that he ever
said he would spend $25,000 or $30,000 for
such a monument. What he did say was
to the effect tnat he would not spend more
than $25,000 or $30,000. Briefly, Senator
Mitchell's version is that he employed Mr.
Conway to do the work with the right to
discharge him at any time he saw fit.
Delaware's Senatorial Tiattle.
DOVER, Del:, April 22.— One ballot was
taken to-day for United States Senator. It
resulted: Higgins 6, Addicks 6, Massey 3,
Pennewill 2, Ridgely 10, Tunnel 1.
Duquesnesboro, Pa., Burned.
PITTSBURG, Pa., April 22.— Almost the
entire business portion of Duquesnesbbr
ough, opposite McKeesport, on the Mo
nongahela River, was destroyed by fire of
a supposed incendiary origin, which broke
out at 4a. m. The . loss is variously esti
mated at $80,000 to $100,000. Duquesnes
borough is wholly without apparatus, and
the bucket brigade offered the only resist
ance to the flames. The high wind drove
the tire up the hillside, and everything in
its path was destroyed. The town is panic
stricken owing to a lack of water and tire
apparatus. Little insurance was carried
by the property-owners, the insurance
premiums being almost prohibitive.
Will Eject Pullman Tenants.
CHICAGO, Ills., April 22.— The Pull
man Palace Car Company has begun serv
ing notices upon tenants who are behind
in their rents that unless they pay the
amount due the company suit will be
brought to forcibly eject them from the
houses.
One hundred and fifty notices were to
day placed in the hands of Constables to
serve upon tenants. Those who have been
served with notices say they have no
money to pay the back rents.
Some of them are in arrears ten months,
while others are only two and three
months behind. The majority of the ten
ants are discharged employes of the com
pany.
Texas and Free Silver.
AUSTIN, Texas, April 22. — About
seventy-live silverites in the Texas Legis
lature held a caucus to-night in which they
swore allegiance to a 16 to 1 ratio.
They appointed committees to formulate
plans by which an active silver canvass can
be made of the State, and decided in se
lecting nominees for the State ticket two
years hence the lines should be strictly
drawn as to silver.
Ex-Senator now Railroad Commissioner
Ragan, was in attendance and spoke in
favor of free silver. Governor Culberson
was present but took no part in the pro
oeedings.
Aymar Bound Over.
NEW YORK, N. V., April 22.— Samuel
E. Aymar, the defaulting bookkeeper of
the Shoe and Leather Bank, was arraigned
before United States Commissioner Shields
at 3 o'clock this afternoon and pleaded not
guilty.
At the Suggestion of the District Attor
ney his bail was fixed at $15 v OOO. Aymar
was taken to the Ludlow-street jail. In
the affidavit of Cashier Cole, on which the
warrant was issued, Aymar was charged
with having altered the accounts of the
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company so
that it read of $351,301 instead of $371,301.
This alteration was made March 1, 1895.
St. Louis Bridge Trust Investigation.
ST. LOUIS, Mo., April 22.— At 2:30
o'clock this afternoon the Illinois Senate
Investigation Committee opened its ses
sions in East St. Louis to hear further tes
timony on the bridge trust investigation.
Several witnesses were on hand in answer
to subpenas, and some very important
testimony is promised as a result of the
investigation of the Wiggins Ferry com
pany.
Attorney-General M. T. Malone of Illi
nois arrived from Springfield to-day to
conduct the examination of the witnesses.
A Priest Sued for Damages.
BRIDGEPORT, Conn., April 22.— John
Ford, a Roman Catholic undertaker, has
brought suit for $10,000 damages against
the Rev. D. J. Cremin, pastor of St.
Augustine's Church. He alleges that
Father Cremin has influenced his par
ishioners to deal with an opposition firm,
one member of which is a brother-in-law
of the priest. Ford has also petitioned the
Bishop to interfere.
.1 'Railroad Suit Dropped.
NEW YORK, N. V.,« April 22.— The
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad
Company has discontinued the action
brought against the Mercantile Trust Com
pany to restrain the defendant from selling
6 per cent bonds of the Atlantic and Pacific
Railroad Company. The plaintiff com
pany contended that instead of selling the
bonds by auction the Mercantile Trust
Company should have foreclosed its mort
gage upon the Atlantic and Pacific road.
Stole Church Funds.
CHICAGO, 111., April 22.— Alonzo Sny
der has confessed to having systematically
robbed the Second Baptist Church for over
ten years. He confessed to having taken
$2000, but it is asserted the amount is
nearer $10,000. Snyder was a general util
ity man employed by the church. The
money was taken from collections and pew
rentals. The culprit has been discharged
and will not be prosecuted. Snyder was
once well-to-do, but lost everything in the
great fire.
Dr. Buchanan's Last Hope.
SING SING, N. V., April 22.— Warden
Sage has fixed Wednesday, at 11 a. m., for
the execution of Dr. Buchanan. Hia wife
was with him for over two hours yester
day, lie made her promise to go to Al
bany this morning and ask Governor Mor
ton to grant him a respite for thirty days.
Lawyer Gibbons, Buchanan's counsel,
stated this forenoon that he did not see
how he could do anything more for the
condemned man.
Professor Spoth Dead.
NEW YORK, N. V., April
sor Edward A. Spoth died at Rondout,
N. V., on Sunday night in his seventy
nfth year, after a short illness. Professor
Spoth was well known in the musical
world as the composer of religious, classic
and concert music.
Had Hip Disease
Used a Cane and Suffered From
Painful Weakness
Broken Down Generally, But Hood's
Sarsaparilla Made Her Well.
"Hood's Sarsaparilla has cured me of
many complaints, and purified my blood.
I was troubled with my liver, had hip dis-
ease and female complaint. I suffered
much with the swelling in my ankles. For
a long time I had to walk with a cane. For
several years past I have been
Gradually Breaking Down.
I was taken ill with the grip in a very se-
vere form, and was confined to my room
for some time. Having previously* known
of the wonderful medicinal merits of
Hood's Sarsaparilla, I procured six bottles
of the medicine, and
It Built Me Up.
I did not have to send for the doctor and
my complete recovery I owe to Hood's
Sarsaparilla. All my" ills have gone and I
feel like a new person. lam now able to
walk without aid and go about a great
deal. I sleep well and eat heartily. 1 gladly
recommend Hood's Sarsaparilla to all who
are sick." Mks. Charlotte Kelly, Hay-
wards, Cal.
Hood's Sarsaparilla
Is the Only
True Blood Purifier
Prominently in the public eye to-day.
HnrkH'c Dillc are tasteless, mild, effec-
-1100(1 S FUIS tive . All druggists; 25c.
NEW TO-DAY.
LAST~WEEK
-BUT ONE- "
>£; of OUR
GREAT RETIRING SALE [
Greater Values Than Em!
1 Chicago
Clothing
Company
I 34, 36, 38 and 40
I Kearny Street,
1 Positively Retiring
9 From Business !
I STORE to BE VACATED
I MAY 1, 1895.
CLOTHING
THE MASSES
8 AT . . |
ENORMOUSLY
. | REDUCED PRICES.
CHICAGO
CLOTHING
COMPANY,
34, 36, 38 and 40 Kearny Street.
BIRDCAGES
CHEAPER
THAN EVER!
Painted Cages, 7y 2 x7%. height 14 Inches. 650
'• " 9x9, height 15% Inches.. 850
41 " 9%x9%, heigh* 14 inches.. ...?l 25
B rass Cages, 6x9, height 10 inches 90c
" " 6%x9%, height 11 inches *1 25 «
". " 7xlo, height 11% inches $1 50
( " " Bxlo%, height 12% Inches f1 75
Fancy Brass Cages from $2 00 to f 3 00
Large Variety or Breeding Cages, assorted
sizes, from 95c to ?3 50
Cage Sundries, Feed Cups, Bath Tubs, all sizes.
Wood Trap Cages ; 350
Parrot Cages, square and round, with zinc b0t-
t0m..;... ...§2 00 and $2 50
Cage Brackets, plain and fancy .....10c to 25c
Best German Canary Bird Seed (1-lb. pkg.). . . ..10c
Bird Gravel (%-lb. ptg.) • • 10 °
Electrical Construction and Repairing;
of All Kinds. Estimates Given.
NOTE.— Special attention paid to grind-
ing Razors. Shears and Edged Tools by
skilled mechanics. Prices moderate.
818-820 Market Street
Flaela-n Building.
Factory— 3o First Street.
y^^ Dr. Gibbon's Dispensary,
jL*#*J \ 653 KEABJIY ST. Established
Kg* mE an * Ss * *«>r the treatment o( Pi i vale
Iffl/lk. J6|Y Dr. Gibbon's Dispensary,
| 683 KF.AR.W NT. Established
fk In IHS4 for the treatment o( private
W Diseases, Ixist Muuhood. Debility or
BgS tttSEW A disease wearingon body and mind and
fiSlmPsy a Skin Diseases. The doctor cures when
SSSftW'S^fi others fail. Try him. Oinrftes low.
SSBShIseS Corearnnrantred. Call or write.
Or. if. F- CIBBOV, Box 1957, San Francisco
A LADIES' GRILL ROOM
Has been established in the Palace Hotel
ON ACCOUNT OP REPEATED DEMANDS
made on the management. It takes the piaca
j of the city restaurant, with direct ' entrance from
Market at. Ladies shopping will find this a most
desirable place to lunch. Prompt service and mod»
crate charges, such as have given the gentlemen's
Grillroom an international reputation, will prevaJ
iB this naw department.
