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FLIGHT OF A MURDERER
Search of the Santa Clara
Sheriff on the Steamer
Gaelic.
WAR NARROWLY AVERTED.
The Assassin of Lum Dl Escapes.
An Officer's Ignorance
Saves Trouble.
The Occidental and Oriental steamer
Gaelic sailed for China and Japan yester
day afternoon with very few passengers
and a large volume of freight. Among the
passengers we.re I. C, Grubb; Captain Bid
del and Lieutenant William M. McKelvey,
V. S. If. C, 6. Matsuo, Mrs. Lange and
two children, and the Chevalier de Kontski
for Yokohama, and Thomas M. Boyd for
Yokohama.
Just before the steamer sailed the Sheriff
of Santa Clara County appeared on the
dock and wanted to know where Chew Ah
Fong was.
There was nobody on the dock who
could give the Sheriff the desired informa
tion, so the officer went on board with a
Chines* guide to point out the hunted
man. The Sheriff and the Chinaman
searched the ship and then went ashore
with the firm conviction that the mur
derer was on the steamer.
■•I have hunted the whole ship," said
the Sheriff, "but I have been unable to lo
cate my man. You see, I got here too
late to make the search I woud like to
have made."
"Well, you have only a suspicion that
the murderer is on board?''
"Oil, no: I have a direct charge that he
is on board, but how ran I find him among
the hundreds- of Chinese who are on
board?"
"Did you muster the steerage passen
gers?"
"No, I didn't examine every Chinese
Who went on the steamer."
"Well, don't you know that that was the
only way to find your man?''
•i didn't think I could do that."
The information was extended to the
Santa Clara Sheriff that he had the right
to muster the men, and that if the Chinese
passengers did not all answer to the roll
call he had the privilege of enlisting the
engineer's department in his service.
"Why, yes," said one old stager on the
■water front, "if the steamer is going to be
delayed in her departure because of the ab
sence of one Chinaman you can bet that
the engineers will get in and rout him
out."
Then the Sheriff went to work. He went
to Detective Gibson and asked if such
things could be done. ' I.
"If you have a warrant, yes," said the
officer "of Durrant fame.
"I've got a warrant all rignt," replied
the officer.
At this juncture Captain Anderson, the
detective of the Mail dock, came up and
the predicament of the Sheriff was recited
to him.
"Why, certainly." said Anderson, "if the
man is on board' we will get him for you.
The gangplank is now being hauled* in,
and the only man who can stop the ship is
Secretary Stubbs. There is the gentleman
coming off the steamer now."
The Sheriff rushed up to Stubbs and
explained the case. On the night of May
3, he said, Lum Di was shot by Chew Ah
Tone at Mayfield, and the authorities of
Santa Clara County had evidence that the
murderer was to take passage on the
Gaelic.
Mr. Stubbs assured the Sheriff that the
ship had been searched by the ship's
rs and'no one who was not a pas
senger on the regular list had been found.
As Mr. Stnbba spoke the gangplank was
hauled in and the Gaelic began to back
out into the stream.
| l"lt's too late now," said the Sheriff, "but
Chew Ah Fong is on board just the same."
And the Gaelic went out into the stream
unmindful of the Sheriff of Santa Clara
and the murderer she carried away. Had
the Sheriff understood his business and
attempted to stop the boat another serious
international complication might have
arisen between Johnny Bull and Uncle
Sam. The Gaelic is a British ship, and
the Sheriff's ignorance saved him from
twisting the lion's tail and thus immor
talizing himself.
FORMING A BIG COMBINE
Transcontinental Railway Mag
nates to Agree on Pas
senger Rates.
The Southern Pacific Notified of an
Important Meeting of All
the Lines.
General Passenger Agent T. H. Good
man of the Southern Pacific Company re
ceived a dispatch yesterday from Chicago
which informed him that a meeting of all
the lines interested in transcontinental
passenger traffic would be held in Chicago
on May 23. The telegram was signed by
B. D. Caldwell, chairman of the temporary
organization, who stated that the report of
a committee recently appointed on plan of
organization would be considered and
other business would be transacted at the
meeting.
The meeting; was first called in Novem
ber last for all lines in the transcontinental
passenger business to form a general asso
ciation. Since then, however, this propo
sition has been found altogether imprac
ticable, the proposed combination being
too unwieldy to be managed or bound by
one set of rules. The many varied inter
ests could not be subserved at one and the
same time, and consequently the only pos
sible prospect would be one of dissatisfac
tion and discord. Now it is proposed to
organize four associations ox railway pas
senger departments that will have the de
sired effect of setting a standard of rates
for the traveling public to pay without the
least fear of reductions. The plan is to
form a Missouri River Association, a South
western Passenger Association with head
quarters at St. Louis, a Transcontinental
Passenger Association and to reorganize
the Western Passenger Association, which
affects California. It will be discussed at
the Chicago meeting, and as the general
sentiment favors combining, prospects are
very fair for a comprehensive compact that
•will cover the whole country and put an
end to cutting passenger rates for a long
time to come— so long at least as the rail
wuy corporations pool their issues in a
common cause.
Vice-President J. C. Stnbbsof the South
ern Pacific Company has been in Chicago
and St. Louis for nearly two weeks, and
has a great deal to do with the work of or
ganizing the combine. It is likely he will
remain and attend the meeting on May 23
at Chicago.
A MISSING BOY.
Mrs. Sophie Olsen's Only Son Thought
to Have Been Drowned.
Arent Olsen, the 12-year-old son of Mrs.
Sophie Olsen, has been missing since Sun
day, and his mother fears he has been
drowned.
The mother lives at the corner of Kearny
6treet and Hinckley alley. She is very poor
and the missing boy is her only child. At
1 o'clock Sunday "she sent him to the
water front to gather driftwood for the fire,
ami be has not since been seen.
When he left the house the boy wore a
trray soil with long trousers, heavy shoes
and" a blue cloth hat. His mother says he
was a good boy who never stayed away
from home at night.
FIVE BOY BUEGLAES.
They ('nnfe.sn to Breaking Into Seven
Different Houses Within the
Past Month.
Five boys whose ages range from 13 lo 18
years appeared in Judge Low's court yes
terday to answer to charges of burglary.
Their names are John O'Keefe, Eddie Mc-
Qnaid, William Pierce, Sam Schneider and
John O'Keefe, and they were as hardened
a lot of youngsters as ever appeared in the
dock.
it came out in evidence that there was a
gang of tifteen of them handed together to
plunder houses. They had as a "fence"
Jake Schneider, a tailor on Tebaina street,
who was practically the leader of the gang
and engineered their movements.
They confessed to breaking into the fol
lowing houses within the past four or five
weeks: I<>ll Bush street, 201(5 Van Ness
avenue, 1313 Hyde street, 930 Ellis street,
1732 Pacific avenue, 1724 Broadway and 1104
Fillmo-re street. They admitted there were
several others, but they could not remem
ber them. They were all held to answer
before the Superior Court.
Schneider, "the fence," will appear in
Judge Low's court to-day to answer the
charge of receiving stolen goods.
TRIED TO TWIST FACTS
Queer Statement of the Mc-
Clintock Shooting Dictated
by Somers.
Attorney Ames Offended by Re
fusing to Swear to a
Falsehood.
The strange veins of double-dealing,
falsehood and still more serious charges
which have been revealed in the suit of
Loomis against Somers to recover $100,000
for malicious prosecution, now pending in
Judge iJaintrerfield's court, continued to
crop out yesterday.
Witness Fisher Ames was on the stand
all day, and round him Attorneys Rix,
Mhoon and Watt waged incessant w;ir.
Occasionally through the sharp volleys of
objections could be heard stray scraps of
testimony from the witness shedding more
or less light on the springs of action which
are movinc the present bitter controversy.
There was considerable sparring over the
admission of the testimony of Mrs. Tread,
well in the case of Ames vs. Treadwell to
recover the amount due for personal ser
vices.
It was shown, however, that she had de
nied that Ames was employed in the case
against Loomis, that she had wanted to be
a witness and that she had wanted Ames
to be a witness.
In this connection Ames had offended
her because he had refused to go on the
stand and swear to a lie. The nature of
the lie required was gathered from a curi
ous statement of the line of prosecution
which was to be submitted to Ames for his
guidance in prosecuting Loomis. The
statement was written in the handwriting
of Mrs. Somers, but it was shown that it
had been dictated to her by Somers, show
ing his animus against Loomis, although
he knew he was innocent. The object of
the statement, which was to throw the
onus of aggression upon Loomis, ran as
follows :
The prosecution will show that Joseph Mc-
Clintock was employed by Calvin Somers ns a
detective to ascertain whether one George
Hudson, an attorney of this City, had in his
possession a volume of testimony, part of the
record of the Superior Court; that McClintock
was introduced to Somers by Loomis* that not
withstanding- McClintock* was employed
directly by Somers, I.oomis was meeting Mc-
CHntock and endeavoring to have McCJintock
report to him such progress as he might make
in his employment: that on the day of the de
fendant's committing the crime 'Loomis ex
pected to meet McClintock at the Dividend
saloon on Leidesdorff street for the purpose of
having McClintock report to him; that Mc-
Clintock did not desire to report to Loomis,
but went directly to Somers at his place of
residence; that while McClintock was there
Loomis entered, and finding McClintock re
portingto Somers said, "What, you here?" and
subsequently remarked, "I have a bone to pick
with IfcClintOck"; that Loomis proceeded to
join in the conversation between Somers and
McClintock, and accused McClintock of not
doing his <luty, that McClintock replied that
whoever said he had not done his duty told a
lie; that for this outspoken remark Loomis
instantly rose and, aiming at the head of Mc-
Clintock, proceeded at once to "pick the bone,"
and shot McCliiitockin the jaw, fracturing it.
Ames' examination consumed the re
mainder of the day.
PAYING DIVIDENDS.
Very Encouraging Reports of the Hutch
inson Sugar Plantation Com
pany's Affairs.
At the annual meeting of the Hutchin
aon Sugar Plantation Company held yes
terday at 327 Market street reports were
presented that show the condition of the
company to be more prosperous than at
any time during the preceding live years.
The plantation is at Kau, Hawaii. It
covers 55,000 acres of land, 5000 of which
are in sugarcane. The remainder is pas
ture land, on which roam 5000 head of cat
tle and 500 horses, colts and mules. The
secretary reported that the crop for 1894
was about 5000 tons. The season at the
islands was the dryestin five years and the
price of raw sugar in the market was the
lowest ever known.
In spite of all this the company had re
sumed the payment of monthly dividends
for the first time in five years. Last
month the first dividend was declared,
and the prospects are that they will be
continued every month hereafter. The
stockholders feel very much encouraged.
At the meeting yesterday 31,000 out of
50,000 shares of stocK were represented, and
the old board was re-elected. They are:
Claus Spreckels, president; John A. Buck,
vics-president; Nicholas Ohlandt, Myer
Ehrman and Leon Sloss. J. D. Spreckels
& Bros. Company is the treasurer, and E.
H. Sheldon is the secretary.
POOLING THE STOCK.
The Valley Road Management Is Rap-
idly Arranging the Financial
Affairs of the Company.
The directors of the Valley Railroad will
return to the City to-day from the San Joa
quin Valley, where they have been con
ferring with citizens' committees and in
specting the country in which the road
will be b\iilt. In their absence President
Claus Spreckels is busily occupied with
the stock certificates which he ha? to sign.
The following letter was sent out yester
day to subscribers, calling their attention
to the stock-trust agreement:
The San Francisco and Pan Joaquin)
Valley Railway Company, >
-May 14, 1895. >
The pooling apreement adopted by ihe sub
scribers to the capital stock of the San Fran
cisco and Ban Joaquin Valley Railway Com
pany at a meeting held in th? Chamber of
Commerce on April 5, 1895, Is now ready for
signatures at the office of the company, 321
Market street. Please call at your earliest con
venience and oblige, yours very truly,
Clais Spreckels, Chairman.
E. F. Pkkfton, Secretary.
There is a gigantic "rocking stone," or
balanced bowlder, on the pinnacle of Tan
dil Mountain, Buenos Ayres. It is 24 feet
in height, 99 feet long, and will weigh
twenty-five tons.
What Is It?
To Santa Cruz Mountains and return for
$1 00. Next Sunday mornins boat leaves
foot of Market street at 8 :45 A. m. sharp.
Iroquois Club outing. *
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 1895.
MRS. WORTHINGTON TALKS
On Trial for Her Life She
Pleads Her Past Irre
sponsibility.
HEARD FOR THE FIRST TIME.
Her Counsel Make a Decided Hit
by Calling Her to the
Stand.
HFor the first time since the tragic shoot
ing of Henry Baddeley in 1893, his slayer
had an opportunity yesterday to tell her
feelings in the matter and explain the cir
cumstances leading up to the rash act.
Acting under the advice of counsel she
had hitherto refrained from testifying.
Yesterday, however, her attorneys, Haskell
and Guilfoyle, resolved on a bold coup and
called her to the stand.
William Wortbington, the defendant's
husband, was first on the stand yesterday
and cross-examined as to his knowlege of
his wife's peculiar mental and ph3 T sical
condition at the time of the shooting. The
prosecution failed to shake his simple
statement that his wife's health was abnor
mal at that time, and that she had been
led away by her naturally weak and con
iiding nature in her dealings with Bad
deley.
His testimony was born out by that of
William Gaynor, Ed Jennings, Mrs. Sarah
Dennis, James lirilh'n, Flizabeth Brennan,
Mrs. Worthington on the Witness-
Stand.
[Sketched by a " Call " artist.]
Dr. P. S. Stambaugh, Otto turn Suden, C.
R. Holliday, John F. Hanlan, Dr. Alexan
der Mcßoyle and T. A. Rottanzi. The
medical testimony as to the possibility of
such a crime being committed by a person
in Mrs. Worthington's condition was par
ticularly strong for the defense.
Mrs. Brennan, the defendant's pister,
testified that Mrs. Worthington's uncle
had died in an English insane asylum,
that a sister of herself and the defendant
had died at an early age, having been
"soft ' and afflicted from birth with apha
sia, caused by brain trouble, and that
Mrs. Worthington herself had always been
considered weak-minded by her family.
She was unshaken by cross-examination.
Mrs. Worthington herself was called.
In a weak, faltering voice she told the
story of her connection with the shooting.
She admitted the strange fascination ex
erted over her at first by Baddeley and
how her feelings had changed to disgust
and positive repulsion.
"I wag sick in my head all the time,"
she said simply, "and he would come
round bothering me. One time he insulted
me by proposal?, and I trifd to shoot him.
I aimed at him three times, but I did not
hit him. Then I saw him watching the
house, and I thought — I don't know what
I thought. My mind was a blank. He
dogged me around."
The defense then proceeded to question
her as to the events more nearly preced
ing the tragedy, but the apparent agita
tion and weakness of the defendant-wit
ness prevented their getting very far in
this line.
Mrs. Worthington will be on the stand
again this morning.
A NON-FOULING ANCHOR.
The Cutter Perry's "Mudhook" That
Never Entangles Itaelf in Its
Chain.
How to keep an anchor from fouling
with its chain is a problem that has been
occupying the minds of nautical experts
for ages and many kinds of "mudhooks"
have been molded looking to a solution of
the problem.
The revenue cutter Perry carries on her
port bow an anchor invented by an officer
in the service which comes near solving
A Non-Fouling Anchor.
the difficulty. The end of the iron stock
of the implement is bent down and in to
ward the shank. This prevents the cable
from winding itself around the stock.
Another change is made in the cutter's
anchor in that curved pieces of iron extend
from the lips of the flukes along the
crown, further preventing the chain from
catching on the corners of the spade-like
points. By these new features the anchor
always comes up from the moorings clear
and feady for catting and securing for sea.
FOR CLEAN SCHOOLS.
The New Board Making Close Inquiry
Into the Condition of
Things.
The new Board of Education has entered
upon a spring housecleaning campaign.
Under the direction of the Committee on
Buildings and Grounds Superintendent
Moulder has sent a circular to principals
requiring them to answer a good many
questions touching the condition of the
schools with regard, chiefly, to their clean
liness. He wants to know if the rooms
and hallways need whitening, or if the
buildings need paint, or the Jyards plank
ing, etc.
The answers are expected to be returned
before May 20, and they will be submitted
to the board at the meeting following.
o^. HBNLEry^
NATURE'S BUILDER AND TONIC
RELIEVES IMMEDIATELY : —
Nervousness, Indigestion, :
Headaches, Kidney, Liver
Sleeplessness. and Stomach Troubles.
TO TEST CIVIC POWERS
Suit Brought Against the City
to Circumscribe Its
Credit.
Wallace Bradford Asks the Courts
for a Perpetual Injunc
tion.
In the present juncture of municipal
curtailed credit an interesting suit was
filed yesterday by a citizen, who expects
the City creditors to intervene, asking the
Superior Court to enjoin the City officials
from incurring indebtedness for the next
fiscal year.
The suit is entitled Wallace Bradford vs.
The City and County of San Francisco,
and then follows the names of the indi
vidual Supervisors and William Broderick
and James H. Widber.
The plaintiff sues as a taxpayer, and re
cites the fact that the Board of Supervisors
in July, 1894, estimated the sum to be paid
out of the general fund during the present
fiscal year at $2,(501,757, including an item
of $1,803,760 to be raised by taxation, and
levied a tax of $0.5643 on every hundred dol
lars of taxable property assessed at $320,
--000,000.
The complaint then recites that the reve
nue of the City and County for the vpar
will not exceed $2,503,000; that up to May
1, 1895, the claims against the City aggre
gated $2,423,000, and that after this had
satisfied there only remained in the
treasury $30,000.
He further maintains that the salaries
provided by law will amount to the sum of
$140,000 for the months of May and June,
1895, and the sum of $280,000 will be largely
in excess of the aggregate amount of the
money in the general fund on May 1, 1895,
and all other sums io be paid into the gen
eral fund in the fiscal year; that the board
largely overestimated the receipts and
underestimated the expenditures.
Then he recites the amounts required for
the various public institutions, aggregat
ing about $145,000, and states that the
board is taking stops to order supplies,
although it has already exceeded the reve
nue provided in the sum by about $205,000
—all this without the assent of two-thirds
of the qualified electors required for the
incurring of any indebtedness exceeding
the income provided for such year.
The complaint prays for an injunction
against the Supervisors levying for the
deficiency on the next fiscal year as unjust,
illegal and oppressive. He declares that
the Supervisors. Treasurer and Auditor
have solemnly pledged themselves to carry
out such a levy whereby he estimates that
such a deficiency for the year 1894-95 will
ensue to the amount of $350,000, of which
$145,000 will result from the action of the
said defendants in causing the needed sup
plies to be furnished.
Therefore Bradford asks that the Super
visors, Treasurer and Auditor be perpetu
ally enjoined from incurring any further
indebtedness or imposing further expenses
on the City during May and June, 1895,
and from levying any tax for the fiscal
year of 1895-96.
His Skull Fractured.
William D. Magorty, who drives a wagon for
the Son Bros. & Co., met with a probably fatal
accident yesterday. He was turning his wairon
aside at Sansome and Market streets, to avoid a
streetcar, when one of the hind wheels caught
in the car track and was wrenched off. The
waion capsized and Maijorty was thrown to the
ground. Throe heavy boxes fell upon him. He
was taken to the Receiving Hospital, where it
was found that his skull was fractured. lie
lives at 8 Knight street, and as he is an old
man, his recovery is doubtful.
HOTEL ARRIVALS.
GRAND HOTEL.
Mrs R Sanders, St Paul Dr G W Cox. Or
J W Hnrizt'l!, Stockton J D Bancroft, Chicago
J H BaH'ht-r. Saeto H B Tomkln, Loomis
W H BartleU.Snn Mateo Mrs A Bonnhelm, Sacto
G Morgan, Duncan'B L A Jacox it w, Sjacto
(' M Weber, Stockton Win Ash, Berlin
W A Ryan. Los Antreles W Nicholl, Dutch Flat
DrMSehmldt, Newcastle J Calkins, Cal
WII Lomoz, Stockton F B Grander, Alvarado
J X Murphy. Stockton O M Ladd <fc fy, Denver
It II Mllley, Monterey J F Brown, Colfax
J Clemeshlre <few, Pleas- M B Martin, Pacbeco
anton G \V Pierce, Davlsville
W M Gibson, Stockton J T Sullivan, Mauta < tut;
Dr B Warren, NY J II Wythe Jr, Los Gatos
J F Wilson, dau cfc m.Ariz J B Hopkins & w, Napa
W II Peck, Carson L B Seymour, Petaluma
X C Davidson, Mich S W Co'nklin, Salinas
J J Roche, Sioux City J G McMillan, San Jose
CRowell, Fresno J A Anderson. Lo<ll
J D Simpson, Los Ang A Haines, >ladison
C L Russell. Tulare J J Bullock, RedwoodCity
W WhittiDgton. Tulare G D Plato, Modesto
X KiTey, Santa Cruz "W B English. Cal
J F Cooper, Santa Cruz C G Painter, San Diego
D N Hershev, Yolo J M Levee. ValU'io
L Ensel, Cnf E H Ford, Sauta Cruz
j>r EPReed A w.PetalumA L Bnrbank, San Jose
F Bnckner, Highland W F Brown <fe w, Cal
W B Haskell, Petaluma J A GUI, Sacramento
RUSS HOUSE.
Mrs T S Toboy, Boston J S Morrison, Bakersfield
(4 \V Morrison, Win \V J Hofchkiss.llealdsbrg
W H Crooks, Gertrude Eli Snider, Davlsville
JAVelasquozAw.S Diego Thos Taylor. Uuih
C S Oliver. Olymplu O X Tonne <fe w, Chicago
M\V Savage. St Louis Miss HB Newton, Biikera-
Mr.sjrtSmith.Bakersflfeld Held
\V Hughes, ISnkersileld R E Fisk &s, Mont
F Smith. Berkeley J Sullivan, Berkeley
G W Whitman, Concord S W Johnson, Concord
C B House, Stockton .1 L Talboit, Stockton
J V Deveney, Ht John LW Moore, Ant-loch
Mrs M J Durand, lowa C H Holmes, Kellogg
J J Wlxhtmun. Ohio A Allen, Arizona
Mrs J B Armstrong, Cal H \V Long, Truckee
Miss OTrells. San Jose D A McKay &w, Cal
O W Brewster, Paso Bob R P McOleney. Cal
X L Morse, Stockton H G Ellis & w, Sacto
G W Kerr. N V City D Cholfant, N V City
E "W Kerr, ft V City AY E Vaughn, Colton
Mrs Clark, Redding CH Davis. Redwood
A Waddell, Sant Cruz Miss Smith, San Miguel
PALACE HOTEL.
Mrs C H Phillips, Cal \V E Smythe, Chicago
Miss Hammond, Boston J Porgade. Boston
H I Wilson, Butte W Phdps. N V
S J Menzics <fe d, Eneld I M Barbour, England
W Lethvin Aw, England N PChipman. Red Bluff
E H Cox, Madera Mrs Meier, Portland
Mrs E Elstng, N V Mrs X H WaricCoronado
B S Boßfrt, U S N Miss Wacle, Coronado
J R Davis &w, Neenah H Krans, >' V
J G Booth it w, Trnckee Mrs E X Graham. H I
H P Gray it \v, Chicago \V G Blatt it w, Mich
G Rebel, Antwerp Mrs Lane Jr. Chicago
vv J Beache&u-.Topeka C J Rellly, Denver
L Rodgers, Salinas O M Ladd <fe w, Denver
LICK HOUSE.
J B Berces, Bakersfleld ,T C Her, Sacramento
H Lewis. Santu Kosa 8 H Barnhlsel, P Robles
A T Lipmi.n, Berkeley Mrs L H Oarrigns,.«aliuas
S Jewett, Bakers Held G H Berry. Lindsay
W E Duncan, Oroville Mrs J WMoore, Cal
T W Woo.l &w. Suisun J >' Abbott, Antioch
T W Wood Jr, Suisun L W Schulliff, Ogden
II B Hlckey, Albion Miss Rossi, Lodi
R II Bramer, Woodland O D I>orncn, Fulton
J Copeland, Vallecita C J Trer, N .1
F Andreas, NY H Smith. Modesto
W Andreas. NY F M Miller, Fresno
Mrs Breu, flollister G V NortUey, Sulphur Ck
MissAßreu, Holllster
NEW WESTERN HOTEL.
C H Bennett, Los Anns G B Hart, Portland
J F Nelson, Nevada City H Thompson, X V
C W Harthon, N J City 8 Humoud. Central City
F SLeeie, Providence.R I T Mason, Boston
J Hpraitue, NY B Devrlll, Chicago
F C Hill, Stockton L W McCoy, Chicago
T H Walte. Anffel Island A Sydenharu, I'hilaUel
A Peanler, Brooklyn P Clark, Vermont
J 8 Clarke, Augusta, Me P de Martin, Louisvl, Xv
T Barnes, Cincinnati W H Graham, ttalem Or
M O Little «fe w.Long Isld
BALDWIN* HOTEL.
J P Andrews, Modesto X J Molloy <t f, Chicago
A C Wetted w, Aberdeen C Cunningham, Ukiah
J Sevex, Alanvda II Silberstein, Chicago
A B Dowdeil, .-St. Helena J Ailams, OlPnia
\\" II Wilkinson, San Jose . I M I tall. Los Angeles
H K:ius. NY J II Bnrten, S V
.Mrs I. X Mosher.Los AngC S Hyde, Vallejo
F F Watkins, San Jose
THE DEACONESSES.
Sleeting of the Home Mission Society.
A New Badge.
A meeting ot the deaconesses' board of the \
Home Mission Society of the Methodist |
Episcopal churches of this City was held |
yesterday afternoon in the Japanese !
church, Mrs. L. J. Sims, president, pre- i
Biding.
The superintendent of the deaconesses' i
home at 315 Castro street, Mrs. Helen I. j
Benson, presented her report, showing in j
detail the amount of work done during the
past month. The work of the deaconesses I
is to visit the sick, the poor and the dis- j
tressed under instructions from the pastors ;
of the several churches, render such aid as :
they can, and teach those they visit to be '
Christians. They visit all creeds, and j
while they teach Christianity they make \
no proselytes. The deaconesses are four in >
number, and they have under their care at •
this time five students, who are preparing !
themselves for the work their teachers are j
engaged in.
The superintendent stated that with the
approach of the close of the school year
wo had increased in a marked degree,
thai excellent lectures were being given by i
ministers, and that the churches are taking
a great deal of interest in the work that !
the deaconesses are engaged in. She cited {
a number of cases she bad visited, particu- i
larly at the Home for Incurables, where •
the inmates, who by reason of disease are ■
unable to move, declared that their visits '
were like sunshine. Like the young ladies :
of the Fruit and Flower Mission the dea- !
conesses distribute flowers, fruit and deli- I
cacies to the sick, and also distribute read
ing-matter, and in addition act as nurses
to rich or poor.
Mrs. Benson during the meeting received
a silver badge, on which is engraved "Dea
coness Bible Training Class," and exhibited i
it to the ladies of the board. "The car I
companies," said she, ' refuse to allow us '
to ride free on the mere evidence of our |
dress probably because it is so much like the i
ordinary street dress, but I think they will I
let us ride on these badges."
THE ORIENTAL BOABD.
Progress of the Chinese and Japanese
Missions in This City.
The Oriental Board of Chinese and Jap
anese Missions, Mrs. L. P. Wiiliams presi
dent, met yesterday forenoon in the Japan
ese M. E. Churcfcon Pine street.
The missions are in charge of Mrs.
Hewitt and Mrs. Howell. The former has
five girl s and two babies in her charge and
the latter has twenty scholars in the mis
sion school and nine girls in the rescue
home.
Each of these missionaries visits the fam
ilies of the nationality to which she is as
signed and teaches them Christianity. At
the Chinese Mission, where Mrs. Howell is
making her house to house visits, the
school is in charge of a Chinese minister,
who instructs the pupils in the Chinese
language, as it is a custom that a child of
Chinese parents born in this country
must be taught the language of his par
ents. *
In the schools scholarships are founded ;
the amount for such being $30 a yoar. The
auxiliaries of the M. E. churches pay for
as many scholarships as they desire and
send one pupil to the school for each $30
paid.
PROTECTING- THE RIVERS.
Hydraulic Miners to Be Sued for Not
Complying: "With the Anti-
Debris Law.
A snit nnder the anti-debris law will be
begun in the United States District Court
to-day.
During the last session of Congress an act
was passed which requires all hydraulic
mines to be examined by the Anti-debria
Commission. All mine managers and
mine-owners have to tile a petition to have
their mines examined, and those failing
are liable to fine and imprisonment under
the act.
The North Bloomfield Mining Company,
which operates on the banks of the South
Yuba River, has been derelict in this re
spect and Uncle Sam will now proceed to
enjoin it from being operated until the
commission can inspect the ground and
ascertain whether the navigability of the
river is endaneered.
In talking about the matter yesterday
Assistant United States District Attorney
Knight said:
It is the first time in the history of California
that a snit of this kind has been brought. The
owners of the North Bloomfield mine must
obey the law. however, and we will compel
them to operate their holding under the super
vision of tne California Anti-debris Commission.
Their impoundings to keep back the tailings
and other works to secure the navigability of
the river will have to be put in thorough order
and so maintained, and then the ctse will be
dismissed.
ft PERCENTAGE
\c^7 PHARMACY,
,^JL 953 MARKET ST.,
Upr Bet. Fifth and Sixth,
One of our FIVE DOORS ABOVE
Customers. HALE BROS.
We Belong to No Combination of
Druggists or Physicians.
50 PER COT SAYED?S PRESCRIPTION,
as Vie Pay No Percsntaga to Physicians.
Quinine Pills. 2 cr. per 100. 25c. 3 trr. . ■ 35
Homeopathic Tinctures and Pellets. 15
Allrorks and Belladonna Plasters. . " IO
Lola Moiitez Cream und Yale's Hair tWc.' 05
Orance Blossom and Celery Beef andiron.. 0 75
Chlchester'a Pennyroyal Pills " 1 iS
Mrltine p;ain and with C. L. Oil S-t
Witchhfizel per pint...... . 22
Camelllne Cream de Ms and MalvinaCream 35
linkham's Compound and Beef Iron Wine 75
SchlfTman's Asthma Cure and Xestle's Food 40
Cit Magnesia, Lane's and Uarlleld's Tea.. 20
Pu« C. L. Oil and Cuilcura 5a1v0. ...;.". 40
Cuticura Resolvent ,X
Trusses, others ask $5 to $ 15, our price
swings::::::::::;;:;:;;;- -• 175io g»g
Joy's, Hood's or Parson's Sarsaparlila.' '.'.'.'.'. 60
. c W^ 'r — . ",-' ': ;'
Same prices as abor« at Ferry Cut
Bat« Drug Store. No. 8 Market street.