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BACK AT THE RAILROAD
Answer to Be Filed To-Day in
the Famous "Stop-Over"
Cases.
CONSPIRACY CHARGE DENIED.
Nearly Three Thousand Claims
Against the Road Under
the Code.
There is a big surprise in store for the
twenty-six attorneys employed by the
Southern Pacific in the famous Dr. Robin
son "stop-over" cases. The answer of over
300 pages will be tiled by the attorneys for
Dr. Robinson and his co-litigants by their
attorneys, Thomas V. Cator and C. M. Jen
nings, in Judge Sanderson's department
to-day.
The "bill of peace," filed in equity by
the Southern Pacific a little while ago
against Dr. W. H. Robinson, his son, L. S.
Robinson. Thomas D. Poole, C. W. Bas
sett, ex-Assemblyman Aaron Bretz, Dr. C.
W. Loomis and Dr. Frederick Hiller, all of
Alameda, and Dr. W. N. Griswold of this
city and twelve other persons who were
designated by fictitious court nomencla
ture, asked the court, it will be remem
bered, to omnibus all the "stop-over"
cases into one cause of action and to en
join the defendants from going on with
their cases separately. In that paper Dr.
Robinson et al. were accused by the rail
road of conspiracy, and the company, ac
cordingly, prayed for a perpetual in
junction from separate proceedings and
also for $5000 damages, in toto.
The defendant * answer will show the
court that the separate causes of action
based upon section 490 of the State Code
aggregate 2869 altogether, and that the
claims in all these actions, at $200 apiece,
foot up over $570,000. The Southern Pa
cific attorneys thought there were only
474 such cases, so when they see the actual
figures it will be something like a shock to
them.
The action of the Southern Pacific charg
ing Dr. Robinson and the others with con
spiracy was considered a very strange one
at the time, and it afforded the public
some amusement. It was the first "Dill of
peace" ever tiled in this State. Lawyers
saw that what the railroad was getting at
was to have the whole question of its re
fusal to recognize stop-over rights consid
ered in one general controversy, and thus
save itself from being made a party de
fendant to a suit every time it violate'!
section 490 of the code. It gained its point
BO far as getting the question before the
courts, but has not obtained any advan
tage in a pecuniary sense, considering this
big counter-claim of the defendants.
The defendants in their answer natu
rally deny the charge of conspiracy, and
avt'f that all the separate proceedings are
sustained by the law. Their attorneys will
follow it up with a motion to dissolve the
temporary injunction against them which
the court issued pending a hearing, and in
their argument upon the motion to dis
eolvc, they will take the ground that the
court cannot, under the law, consider all
the cases in one action. If, however, the
court should hold that it has such jurisdic
tion, then there is the counterclaim of
|570,000 to be separately apportioned
among the defendants. They will base
their contention upon section 490, and
Chief Justice Beatty's decision, ihe last
part of section 490 reads :
Every ticket entitles tne holder thereof to
ride on the passenger ears to the station or de
pot or destination, or any intermediate station,
and from, any intermediate station to the depot
of destination designated in the ticket at any
time within six months thereafter. Any cor
poration failing to so provide and furnish
tickets, or refusing the passage which the same
calls for -when sold, must pay to the person so
refused the sum of $200.
Chief Justice Beatty's decision, in which all
the other Supreme Court Justices concurred
except Justice McFarland, was plain enougn
as to the stop-over rights of passengers des
tined to Alameda and leaving the train at
Oakland, and naturally each passenger refused
the passage irom Oakland to Alameda to
which he was entitled by the ticket and under
the law feels that he has a perfect Individual
and separate right of action against the rail
road for the $200. Judge Beatty then said:
"so far as the law fixes the terms of the con
tract it cannot be varied by rules of the com
pany, known or unknown, unless assented to
by the passenger. We have held that under
the law o* California the ticket issued by a
railroad company, upon receipt of the regular
iare from one liepot to another, gives" the
holder the right to stop over at an intermedi
ate station and to resume his journey at any
time within *ix months."
Accordingly the answer of the defend
ants will embrace separate schedules for
each defendant, eaoh giving a detailed
statement of the particular cause of action,
the date of stop-over ticket, the station
where the same was purchased, the depot
of destination, the station of stop-over, the
date of refusal to allow completion of ride
to depot of destination, the date of filine
complaint and the particular Justice's
court in which action was brought.
From the grand total of 280"9 separate
causes of action it can be seen that each
litigant has brought distinct and separate
proceedings running well up into the hun
dreds.
Since Dr. Robinson brought his first suit,
in September, 1891, the points involved
have been heard successively by Justices
Brittan, Cook and Barry and Superior
Judges Hunt, Trout, iSewall and Murphy.
In Judge Green's court in Alameda Editor
Halstead was convicted of* criminal libel
for calling Dr. Robinson and other com
plainants blackmailers. Twice has the
controversy been decided by the State Su
preme Court, Justice McFarland being the
only dissenter each time.
The railroad company attempted to knock
the law out entirely during the last Legis
lature in a bill, No. 882, which Speaker
Lynch introduced in the House "by re
quest," and which was killed by Senator
Biggy's expose.
THE GUN AND OAE.
University Rowing Club Regatta.
Dangers from Poisoned
Wheat.
The Rowing Club of the University of
California will have a gala day on Saturday
on Sessions Basin, where several races will
be decided among the crews of the club.
The races will commence at 2:30 p. m.
The Empire Gun Club is making consid
erable preparation for a clay bird shoot at
Alameda Point on Sunday, and the Lin
coln and Electric Gun Clubs will hold a
team shoot on the Lincoln Club grounds
on the same day.
George Crocker of the Country Club en
tered his kennel of English setters yester
day with the secretary of the Pacific Ken
nel Club. Mr. Crocker states that he will
also have one or two of his French Griffons
in the show.
Some of the farmers of Moraga Valley,
Bolano County, have been scattering wheat
steeped in phosphate around squirrel
holes, with the object of poisoning squir
rels. A gentleman who returned from an
outing in the valley last Sunday, states
that he picked up several dead quail in the
Vicinity of the place where the poisoned
wheat Wd been scattered.
Some men who shoot for the market are
very liable to bag squirrels that have eaten
the deadly grain, but as lonp as they can
sell the little animals in the San Francisco
and Oakland markets it does not give them
much concern whether the squirrels had
eaten poisoned food or not. Farmers who
scatter poisoned wheat on the ground can
be made to buffer, as the law is very clear
on this point.
The Country Club is figuring upon a plan
lor ti»e etockiug oi its preserve wif h wood
cock. Many sportsmen are of the opinion
that the woodcock would thrive in the
club's demesne, and especially in that part
of it through which meander the cool and
sparkling waters of Bear Creek.
N. Rowe, editor and manager of the
American Field, is visiting Los Angeles.
Mr. Rowe has been in poor health for some
time, and he hones that a change of clim
ate will materially assist in building up a
failing constitution.
The Olympic Gun Club is in hopes of
leasing the land through which Lagnnitas
Creek flows for a term of years. If it suc
ceeds it will stock the stream and stop all
fishing in it for two years.
PIKE DEPAETMENT AIT AIRS.
Damages Asked for a Wrecked Buggy.
Xo Money for Hydrants.
At the meeting of the Fire Department
Committee of the Board of Supervisors
yesterday afternoon J. H. Mitchell pre
sented a claim for $50 for damage done to
his buggy by chemical engine No. 2 while
on its way to a fire on the 18th inst. He
claimed that his horse was properly
hitched on McAllister street, that the
buggy w &s close up to the sidewalk and
that the engine ran into and smashed it to
the extent of the sum asked for damages.
Acting Chief Engineer Dougherty said
that he had been informed that Mr.
Mitchell's horse was not properly tied and
thought the matter ought to be investi
gated. The matter was referred to the
acting Chief to hear witnesses and report.
The request of property-owners, in the
vicinity of Sixteenth "and' De Haro streets
for a hydrant was laid over for action
until July for want of funds.
C. M. S'hortridge was granted permission
to replace on the building in which the
Call office- is located a portion of a firewall
torn down by the firemen on the occasion
of a fire in a'building adjoining.
The committee approved of advertising
for coal and forage for the Fire Department.
FORTUNE CAME TOO LATE
The Strange Disappearance of
Ansel White in the
Sixties.
An Officer Tells an Interesting
Story Bearing on the
Mystery.
A dispatch from Santa Cruz, under date
of April 19, to the effect that the search
for Ansel White, who, while staying at the
St. Louis House, San Francisco, some time
in the sixties, suddenly disappeared and
was never heard of afterward, was pub
lished in the daily press. White was a
California pioneer.
He had sold his place, near Santa Cruz,
for $2000 and came to the city, where all
trace of him was lost. The supposition is
that he was murdered for his money. His
strange disappearance is recalled by reason
of his having recently fallen heir to a
$4,000,000 estate in New York.
John F. Teague, chief of the Teague
Detective Agency in Oakland, made some
interesting statements yesterday which
may lead to the unraveling of this mysteri
ous" disappearance. Mr. Teague said :
In the sixties my father owned a ranch in
Contra Costa County. I went to work on the
ranch driving cattle and the like. One davit
■was necessary for me to go down near the beach
in search of some stock which had strayed off,
and about 100 yards from the beach I came
upon the body of a man which was in an ad
vanced stage of decomposition. I drageed the
body down to the beach, and then returned for
my father and the Coroner, William Baldwin.
When they arrived the body was searched,
which disclosed a San Francisco paper, the
ri»t<* of which was three weeks prior to the
time of the finding of the corpse, a small
amount of money in one of the vest pockets
and a plain silver watch and chain, the
trousers pockets being turned out, which
gives strength to the theory that he was
robbed and then murdered; and an envelope,
on which the address had been almost obliter
ated by the action of the salt water, but yet
with close inspection the address proved to be
Ansel White, St. Louis House, San Francisco.
The postmark was Santa Cruz, which showed
that he had friends living in that city.
; The skull: of the corpse had been crashed,
presumably by a blow from some blunt instu
ment, a club "or sandbag, but it might have
been caused from the body striking against a
rock or log while it was in the water.
The Coroner summoned a jury from my
father's men and held a.n inquest with the re
sult that a verdict of "Died from unknown
causes" was found and the body was buried as
an unknown on the spot where it was found.
The body appeared to be that of a man be
tween the age of 45 and 50 and as thi3 was in
the fall of either 1865 or 1806, I think that
there can be no doubt in regard to the identity
of the man as being the same Ansel White for
whom a search is now being investigated. If
it were necessary I could now go to the very
gpot where he is buried and exhume the re
mains if it would be of any advantage In his
reidentification.
PETEE BOONS' HOKSE.
Its Description Causes an Argument
Among the Harbor
Police.
The harbor police yesterday received no
tice that a horse and wagon belonging to
Peter Boons of 153 Tehama street, had been
stolen. Mr. Boons sent the following de
scription of his loss to the police, and from
it very little difficulty is apprehended in
finding the lost vehicle and animal:
Bay horse attached to an old express wagon.
Stolen to-day. Horse had white face, No.
15,0120, blue body, red running-gear.
"That is the most remarkable horse I
ever heard of," Raid Captain Dunlevy.
"The officers should have no trouble trac
ing him from his description. I have
heard of blue-blooded stock, but never be
fore heard of a horse with a blue body."
Sergeants Avon and Malioney had quite
a dispute as to what constituted the run
ning gear of a horse.
"That means his legs," said Avon. "His
legs is red."
"Not at all," said Mahoney; "it refers
to his harness. He had red reins."
"You're both wrong," interjected Officer
Eugene Harrigan. "The running pear
alludes to his mane and tail. It should be
his flaming gear. His hair is red."
"Get off the corner. Harrigan," said Ser
geant Mahoney, "and let that white-haired
girl pass. Red hair, indade."
And the look of superior intelligence
which lighted up the features of "one of
the finest" made the palms in Chadbourne's
flower garden wilt.
DEMURRER SUSTAINED.
The Case A gainst J. IJ. Vining and J. L.
Willcutt Dismissed.
When the case aeainst Manager J. B.
Vining and Secretary J. L. Willcutt of the
Market-street Cable Company, charged on
the complaint of Mayor Sutro with ille
gally tearing up O'Farrell street, between
Scott and Devisadero, was called in Judge
Low's court on Tuesday of last week, At
torney Kelly, on behalf of the defendants,
interposed a demurrer to the complaint.
One of the main points was that the
ordinance under whicli the charge was
made could not be enforced against a cor
poration, because it provided imprison
ment only as the penalty and a corpora
tion could not be imprisoned.
A continuance was taken till yesterday,
when the Judge sustained the "demurrer
and dismissed the case.
Three Meu Injured.
An express wagon driven by J. Wilson was
descending the grade on Pacific street, between
Taylor and Mason, yesterday afternoon, when
the team bolted. Fred Yehl of 8 Jansen street
and Peter Hanoppel, two cement-layers who
were in the wagon, and Wilson were pitched
out. Yehl had his left arm broken and Han
oppel was badly cut on the scalp. Wilson
escaped with a slight cut on his face. Yehl
and Hanoppel had tueir injuries attended to at
the Receiving Hospital.
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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1895.
THE FARMERS' COLUMN
Injurious Effects of Frequent
Irrigation on Trees
and Vines.
THE TRAMP dUESTION SOLVED-
Hollanders Have a Labor Colony
Where Those Who Are Out of
Work Are Sent.
The value of land depends as much upon
its location as upon its productiveness.
In the future we must farm more with
our heads and less with our hands than
we have in the past.
The Dutch have worked out the tramp
question to what they consider a final con
clusion. The state maintains a farm of
five thousand acres, and every man ap
plying for relief is sent there to
earn his living. If the man will not
work ne is sent to a labor colony, where he
has to work ; but if he shows a disposition
to get ahead and learns to cultivate the
soil the state rents a small farm to him,
where he is left to his own resources.
Here is a suggestion from the Bakers
field Californian which should be remem
bered by irrigation farmers: "Trees
and vines which are irrigated fre
quently and with small quantities
of water develop a tendency to keep
their roots close to the surface, and in
order to keep the plants in good condition
frequent irrigation becomes essential. If
the water be applied at wide intervals
and in great abundance, so that the soil
becomes saturated to a great depth, the
roots are obliged to go downward in the
search for moisture, and the result is a
tree or vine of great drought-resisting
power."
The Los Angeles Times advocates the or
ganization of growers; of deciduous fruits
in Southern California on the exchange
plan. The paper says:
The deciduous fruit industry has grown
rapidly in Southern California during the
past four or five years, and promises to
grow still more rapidly in the near future.
It has been found that such fruits as apri
cots, peaches, prunes and waluuts, when
carefully cultivated and properly attended
to, are capable of yielding almost as large
profits as the average orange orchard, with
the additional advantage that they can be
grown on cheaper land and that it is not
necessary to wait so long for returns; also
that they need not be marketed at once if
prices are unfavorable, but can be dried
and kept for a good market. The growers
of these fruits should not wait until the
product is too large to be handled success
fully, but should organize at once and meet
regularly to discuss the question of mar
kets. The fruit exchange in Santa Clara
County has accomplished a vast amount of
good for the growers of that section, and
has undoubtedly saved them many thou
sands of dollars.
Farmers, orchardists and vineyardists
should take care of refuse manure, straw,
pomace, etc., and have them properly com
posted. In order to make the best com
post heap, one should have a cement re
ceptacle with sides about two feet high. In
it should be put a layer of straw, manure,
weeds, pomace, or anything and every
thing in the way of vegetable matter ex
cept woody fiber, to a depth of about
twelve inches. After it has been thor
oughly wetted, a layer of land plaster
(sulphate of lime) finely ground, upon
which may be placed another layer of or
ganic matter, covered also with plaster.
Then if the whole heap is covered with
good heavy soil six or eight inches thick,
the lime will decompose the vegetable
matter and retain the ammonia and moist
ure. Grape pomace and alfalfa are espe
cially good for composting. The elements
in a ton of manure would cost about $3, if
supplied artificially, while those contained
in a ton of grape pomace could not be pur
chased for less than $10.
Theoretically, one should apply as much
of the expensive elements as the crops
raised will remove. If less is applied, the
soil will finally be exhausted. As there is
always some loss, due to natural causes, a
little more than the amount consumed by
the crops should be supplied. On the basis
of giving to the soil as much plant food as
a crop will remove, according to the best
authorities, one should apply per acre the
amounts which appear in the following
table when the crop is uot greater or less
than the amount mentioned. Otherwise,
proportionately.
In this table an average is assumed con
cerning soil, climate and plants. Circum
stances are likely to alter individual cases
to a very great extent, but the table will
nevertheless be found approximately cor
rect.
Phosphor-
Potash.
ic Arid.
Cost.
Grapes, crop of 10.000 pounds
Prunes, crop of 30,000 pounds
Apricots, crop of 30,000 pounds. . .
17.00
44.40
25.42
1595
64.61
89.10
$ 7.10
9.56
68.70
21.38
84.08
12.80
♦Oranges, crop of 20,000 pounds. .
36.60
10.60
42.28
6.30
Olives, crop of 2200 pounds
200.43
37.54
101.32
26.11
Wheat 20 bushels 1
Straw, 3600 lbs../
42.00
19.80
43.92
7.66
Barley, 20 bushels 1
Straw, 1340 1b5.../
22.42
10.02
21.44
3.86
Corn, 50 bushels
39.90
35.60
97.95
11.52
Potatoes, 500 bushels I
When the Grangers' movement was
started in California a number of years ago
it was thought that the meetings would
afford an opportunity for mutual improve
ment through the reading of papers upon
special subjects and the interchange of
ideas regarding methods. For various
reasons, however, the practical waß lost
sight of in the promotion of parliamentary
rule and the detail of lodge work, and al
though some good was accomplished the
result was far short of anticipated benefits.
Recently farmers in various portions of
the State have held farmers' institutes, no
tably at Azusa, Ferris and Tulare. and at
each valuable papers were read, Farmers'
institutes for the discussion of topics relat
ing to practical husbandry are of very great
value to those who choose to avail them
selves of the benefits to be derived. The
agricultural editor of the Call wishes to be
notified of contemplated meetings in Cali
fornia of this nature and will endeavor to
be present.
The dairyman's magazine known as Up
to Date Dairying, published at Chicago,
says: "More than twenty years ago Mich
igan farmers had such institutes, they be
ing held in each county and addressed by
professors from the State agricultural col
leges and others. At the meetings the
range of subjects was very wide. In the
wheat-growing counties the subjects bore
upon plowing, fertilizing, reaping and kin
dred matters, while in the fruit belt every
thing from grafting an apple-tree to yel
lows in peaches was the subject of valua
ble addresses.
"A bill has been introduced into the Illi
nois Legislature appropriating $6000 to be
expended in holding farmers' institutes
under the direction of the trustees of the
University of Illinois. The appropriation,
while too small to enable the trustees to
do all they might like to do, is very well
for a beginning. New York devotes $15,
--000 to these institutes, Wisconsin $12,000,
Minnesota $10,000, and other States, like
Missouri and Indiana, smaller sums.
"One of the most beneficial features of
these institutes is that they tend to pro
mote diversified agriculture, and by ena
bling farmers to make experiments intelli
gently they encourage variety in farm prod
ucts. With diversified agriculture the
failure of one crop is not so serious a dis
aster to the State as it is when the farmer
expends his whole labor and devotes his
whole farm to a single product. Cotton has
kept the South poor, tobacco has made
Virginia far from prosperous, and it is
probable that less corn and more of other
farm produce would have benefited Illi
nois."
There is now comparatively little land in
California suitable for pasturage that is not
owned by private parties, and nearly all of
it is more valuable than much of the land
in Utah, Wyoming, Nevada, Arizona and
Colorado. As a rule, cattle may be pur
chased in most any of the States named
and shipped to this State more cheaply
than they can be raised here. This is not
the case this year, however, extra demands
in the East making cattle higher than
usual. The freight being less from points
east of the Sierra Nevada, most of the
stock called for has been shipped from the
States named. Ordinarily, however, cattle
can be shipped from Arizona to points in
the San Joaquin Valley for $4 per head.
Here they may be fattened upon alfalfa
and sold at a profit. They should be
brought during the winter months, how
ever, immediately after the first frosts,
and must be placed on dry feed (to give
them green alfalfa at once is most disas
trous}, pumpkins, beets, or similar vegeta
bles that will act as a gentle laxative, and
fresh water. The last is particularly essen
tial, as nothing will disease unacclimated
cattle quicker than impure water. After
about two months on dry feed they are in
proper condition for any rich food that can
be provided, and the process of fattening
can begin without delay or fear of disease
or death from any cause. Alfalfa will fat
ten them quickly.
A sheep law was recently passed in Ne
vada compelling parties who engage in
the sheep industry to pay a license of
the first, second, third, fourth, fifth,
sixth and seventh classes. A man who
herds 5000 sheep must pay $500 li
cense annually; for 4000 or less than
5000 he must pay $200 license; 3000 or
less than 4000, $150; 2000 and less than
3000, $100; 1500 and less than 2000 shall pay
$75; for 1000 and less than 1500. $25; pro
vided, that any man owning one acre of
land for every two sheep he has may not
pay any license. The Yerington Nevada
Rustler says the law will kill the sheep
industry of that State.
William Moore of Lakeside, Kings
County, writes to the Hanford Sentinel
that if he could reach the broom manu
facturers without the intervention of mid
dlemen, and if the freight rates were lower,
the raising of broom-corn would be profit
able. In 1881 he sold broom-corn for $100
per ton. Finally commission men fniled
to keep agreements as to prices and he
stored the broom-corn at considerable cost
for storage and insurance, and eventually
sold for from $40 to $60 per ton. He says
there is a combination which prevents the
dealer from securing fair prices.
The tendency in wheat is to develop
smut. Farmers in California almost with
out exception bluestone their wheat prior
to planting. Some claim that wheat al
most invariably becomes smutty if the
seed is not bluestoned. Others never use
it. Those who farm most extensively as a
rule use the bluestone, while some of them
say they do not know whether or not it is
effective. The editor of the agricultural
department of the Call will be glad to
have readers give their views concerning
the matter.
E. Bartholomew of Kansas writes to the
American Agriculturist concerning the hot
water treatment:
The hot-water treatment of seed grain
recommended in May 16 issue will certainly
prevent smut in wheat and oats to a large
extent. This is the result wherever it has
been carefully tried by farmers or at ex
periment stations, and in my own case I
get less than half of 1 per cent of smutted
oats, against 10 to 15 percent if the seed is
not treated. When you have once
thoroughly treated your seed the process
need not be repeated for a number of } r ears
if care is taken to keep it from being im
pregnated again. Dipping seed oats held
in a basket or gunny-sack, the usual
method, is a tedious job, but I treat ten
bushels of seed oata for hours in this way :
Bore a 1%-inch hole in the bottom of
a kerosene barrel, cover with wire screen
on inside, fit in a 4-inch water-tiftht bung
so as not to push up screen; punch thirty
or forty quarter-inch holes in a joint of
6-inch stovepipe from top to bottom (by
slipping it over a round post or pole); put
put into barrel oats to depth of six inches,
get pipe in center of barrel and till oats
around it to top of pipe (which will require
about live bushels) raise barrel about eigh
teen inches from ground — and you are
ready to apply the hot water. Have on
hana twelve or fourteen gallons of water
heated to 130 degrees. Pour this into the
pipe until it rises to the top and covers
the oats. If there is any inclination to
swim, press them down and spread a cloth
over the barrel to keep in the heat. Let
stand ten minutes, then draw water off by
spigot at bottom. The temperature will
be found to have fallen to about 100 degrees,
and should be immediately raised to 133
degrees by adding boiling water. When
that temperature has been secured, pour
the wkter again into the pipe, cover as be
fore, let stand ten or twelve minutes, draw
the water off, and the seed is ready to be
turned out to dry.
•Amounts required for wood and leaves not estimated.
Experience ol recent years has shown
conclusively that the American wool-grow
ers must pay more attention to the man
ner in which their wools are prepared for
market. The increased importation of for
eign wools, in spite of higher duties, was
due in a measure to the supeiior manner
in which these foreign wools are prepared
for the inspection of the buyer. With the
duties now entirely removed the domestic
grower must inevitably improve his
method of preparing wool for the market.
Keep out of the fleeces all dung locks,
loose tags, sticks and stuff from the floor
of the shearing-pen.
All of these tags and refuse should be
packed separately, as also the bucks'
fleeces, and sold on their merits. If dung
locks adhere to the wool in shearing, either
clip them off and throw away or pack
them separately. The grower will get an
immediate advantage in price by trying
this course as well as by keeping out of
his fleeces the refuse of the shearing shed.
Growers are also cautioned against using
tar or paint in marking or branding thfir
sheep, as the paint and tar locks must be
clipped off and thrown away before the
wool can be used. Sulphur dips are also
to be discouraged, as they make the wool
hard to scour. In preparing your wools
for market, roll up the fleece without the
use of a box, keep out the tags, use a small
quantity of light twine, aud you will take a
very important step toward "improving the
popularity of American wools.— Cincinnati
Enquirer.
An Insolvent Saloon Man.
A default was ordered entered in the insolv
ency case of Frank E. Dietz, the Montgomery
street saloon man, yesterday In Judge Slack's
court. The amount of his liabilities is $2731 34.
Through his non-appearance, unless a stay is
granted, the creditors will probably now pro
ceed to levy on any property to be found.
Mark Hopkins Institute of Art, spring exhi
bition, open daily, admission 25 cents, and
Thursday evening, cdmlssion 50 cents. •
FOR A DOUBLE STANDARD.
General A. J. Warner to Do
Missionary Work on the
Pacific Coast.
WANT THE NATIONAL OFFICES.
Pro-Silver Men Asked to Join In
Electing: One of Their Num
ber President.
General A. J. Warner, who was the
Democratic Representative in Congress
from Marietta District, Ohio, during three
sessions, arrived in San Francisco to-day.
He is an earnest silver advocate and
his mission is to inaugurate a movement
to unite the silver forces of the country.
In this way he hopes to see a President
and Congress elected on a bimetallic plat
form in 1896.
General Warner was accompanied as far
as Denver by ex-Congressman J. C. Sibley.
There Mr. Sibley received telegrams call
ing him to his home in Pennsylvania.
This interfered with their programme
somewhat.
The intention had been for Mr. Sibley
and General Warner to come to this city
together. Here they were to have been
joined by Senator Stewart. The three were
then to have made a tour of the West, going
up to Tacoma, from there into Idaho and
Montana, and thence to Salt Lake City,
and on through Southern and Western
Colorado. On the way they would have
preached their doctrine of" silver. Their
programme has been delayed, but will
eventually be carried out.
The theory propagated by General
Warner and his friends is that the country
needs a bimetallic monetary standard.
This they urge will be the great issue of
the campaign of 1896.
"We don't want to form a new party;
that is, not permanently," explained Gen
eral Warner last night. - 'But we must
have a President and Congress pledged to
the free coinage of silver in order to bring
back prosperity to the country.
"The gold men are now united and con
trol the political machinery. The silver
men are divided among the three parties
and have been opposing each other as Re
publicans, Democrats and Populists.
"Why," he exclaimed, earnestly, "the
allied forces might as well have hoped
to beat Napoleon by fighting each
other as the silver men expect to
gain their desires under the present
state of affairs. They have been light
ing separately too long. They must
now be brought together. Not, mind you,
with the idea of forming a new party
permanently, but with the intention of
getting a President who does not owe his
election to the monometallists.
"If the Republican party would declare
outright for free coinage we'd want noth
ing more. Such a candidate would be
elected. But such a state of affairs is be
yond the bounds of possibility, as the
machinery of the party is controlled by the
gold men.
"The Democrats could not elect a pro
silver President if they nominated one,
that is, if they nominated him as a par
tisan Democrat. Such action would cause
a split in the party that would leave it
helpless.
"This is not a Populistic movement
either. It is greater and broader. Out of
the 13,000,000 or 14,000,000 men who will
vote in 1896 I am confident that 9,000,000
want the free coinage of silver. Our new
party would be designed only to effect lit
national representation of these men."
General Warner has been president of
the American Silver League since 1889.
There are now several thousand leagues in
various parts of the country. On February
22 of this year a conference of representa
tive silver men was held in Washington
and the American Bimetallic party was
formed.
J. C. Sibley, who as Congressman from
Pennsylvania has distinguished himself on
the floor by his advocacy of free coinage,
was decided upon as a fitting man for
President. No man was named for Vice-
President, but General Warner thinks that
candidate should be a Republican from the
States west of the Mississippi.
General Warner goes to Sonoma County
in a few days. There he will remain till
the arrival of Mr. Sibley. Then meetings
will be held in San Francisco, when silver
leagues will be formed, the members of
which will be pledged to disregard other
party issues for the time being and vote
for the nominees of the American Bi
metallic party for offices which control
national policy.
SILVER MEN MEET HIM.
General Warner Confers With Local Advocates
of the White Metal.
During the day a conference was held
with General Warner by P. O. Chilstrom,
the San Francisco committeeman of the
State Silver League, and other local silver
ites, among them Alex Majors, who
started the "pony express" across the
plains in pioneer days, his son Green
Majors, a well-known writer on silver coin
age, and Thomas V. Cator. General War
ner explained his position to the confer
ence.
He remarked that he feared the Demo
cratic party would not again nominate
President Cleveland. There was consid
erable irony in that observation, coming
from the general, as if a fourth nomina
tion of Grover Cleveland was a consum
mation devoutly wished for by free-coinage
advocates.
General Warner has promised to assist
Mr. Chilstrom in the selection of local
committeemen for the State Silver League.
He will meet in consultation with the
men with whom he has been in corre
spondence just previous to the silver mass
meeting, which is to be held when General
Sibley returns from Pennsylvania.
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HOME FOR THE
CARE OF THE INEBRIATE
(Incorporated 1863). •
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. A HOSPITAL FOR THE TREATMENT OF
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Habits and Nervous Diseases resulting therefrom*
also for the temporary care and observation of
persons suspected of Insanity. Terms $10 to $25
per week. . • •■ _• ■
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December 8, 1894: "While not a public institu-
tion, in consequence of complaints made to us by
the press : and others, thorough examination was
made of the conduct of the Home of Inebriates,
and as a result of our investigations we are satis-
fled that the same has been and is being properly
managed. The charges made to us of Improper
treatment of the patients were not sustained."
Trustees— H. J. BURNS . (President).
WM. MARTIN (Secretary), E. D. SAW-
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GIGANTIC SALE!
— —
TAN SHOES
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TAN KID BUTTON
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Price this Week $350 per Pair.
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In the week as possible
WE WILL ALSO PUT OS SALE 800 PAIRS
Of our own make LADIES' FINE TAN BUTTON,
latest style pointed Piccadilly toes and new
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Price this week, $2.50 per Pair.
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square toes, our own make,
$2.50 per Pair.
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$2.50 per Pair.
We will also put on sale 1000 pairs of Ladies' Tan
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LADIES' TAN SOUTHERN TIES,
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1894 — TAXES!— IB94
HOIICE TO TAXPAYERS!
mHE SECOND INSTALLMENT OF REAL
-*- estate taxes Is now due and payable, and will
be delinquent April 29, 1895, at 6 p. it., after which
5 per cent will be added.
DTJPONT - STREET WIDENING ASSESS-
MENT due and payable at the same time.
: The office will be open from 7to9p. h. on April
27th. v£ : -;£fv/
Tuesday, April 23d, POSITIVELY last day for
receiving CHECKS. All checks received
after that date -will be returned and coin
demanded.
JAMES N. BLOCK,
Tax Collector.
San Francisco, April 15, 1895.
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