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ANOTHER LOTTERY FAKE
Some of the Swindling Meth
ods of the Louisiana Corn-
pany Fraud.
PLACING A CAPITAL PRIZE.
Good Results of the "Call's" Cru
sade-Publlclty Killing the In
famous Traffic.
That the Caix's crusade against the lot
teries is bearing fruit is evidenced in many
ways, but in no way so strikingly as in the
large decline of business done by the agents
and peddlers. The police report that within
tCHE ENVELOPE THAT CONTAINED THE TICKET KNOWN TO BE
A PBJZE-WINNEB.
the last two weeks the traffic in lottery
tickets has decreased fully 50 per cent.
Any agent or peddler will tell you the
Eame thing, but you will find it more diffi
cult to talk to an agent or peddler now
than formerly. And the cause of this is
that there are fewer of these people in the
business now, and that those who still sell
lottery tickets do so more secretly than
heretofore. The business is not being car
ried on in the same brazen, open-handed
manner it used to be.
An agent will not sell yon lottery tickets
now unless he knows you, or you go to
him well recommended by some pal of his.
And all this is due mainly to the recent ex
posures made by the Call. Hitherto but
few people knew that the lottery business
was a fraud from start to finish ; that the
Louisiana Lotter y Company.
CAPITAL. . 52.00Q.000. ;
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& * sru.es p«s/«t*r. ■
< *K^> JSK*~*** April l<>r»H' L "
CONFIDENTIAL.
My Dear Sir: i.J^'*i
We want to do some business in your local
ity and have selected you to represent us
there. We fully understand and appreci
ate the reason why your people have almost
stopped buying lottery tickets; it is be
cause there has been no prize of value
drawn there for years, and many have thus
become discouraged and have ceased to pa
tronize lotteries entirely. There is but
one way to revive the old-time interest and
excitememt, and that is for some one to
draw a prize large enough in value to
stimulate and induce others to start buy
ing tickets again. We give three hundred
more prizes than any other company in the
world, and will guarantee that the sale of
; a few of our tickets will result in some
one drawing a prize, as in our company one
number in every thirty-three wins. If
some well-known man like yourself should
draw fifteen thousand dollars, four thou
sand dollars, two thousand dollars, or
even one thousand dollars in our lottery,
it would be the means of selling thou
sands of our tickets in your part of the
country, and would create an old-time
boom for us again. We will certainly do
our. part to again awaken public interest
in lotteries in your locality if you will
do yours. We enclose fifty one-dollar
tickets, and we want you to sell every
N one of them if you possibly can, as we want
. just as many as possible in your town in
terested in this May drawing. We will
send you prize lists of the drawing imme
diately after it takes place, and in addi_
• tion to this will telegraph you the Capital
Prize number on the day of the drawing, if
you sell all of the fifty tickets. / Your
commission will be 25 per cent. Read the
inclosed // Instructions to Agents 11 over
carefully, until you understand them thor
oughly, and be careful to start your re
mittance as early as is convenient, but not
: later, under any circumstances, than Mon
day, May 7. It being unlawful to use the
mail for lottery purposes, we caution you
against sending us any matter by mail, as
all such mail simply goes to the Dead
letter Office at Washington. Send money
and all other communications by EXPRESS
ONLY. Now do your best and leave the rest
to us. Yours sincerely, , ,
President.
tHJE SPECIOUSLY WORDED "CONFIDENTIAL" CIRCULAR SENT
OUT BY ONB OF THE MOST NOTORIOUS LOTTEBY FAKES.
tickets of all the genuine companies are
counterfeited, and that most of the lottery
companies are clean fakes, without any of
the elements of chance in them, and not
the semblance of a drawing.
Now, if the newspapers could be induced
to follow the example of the Cau, and
cease to advertise these fake lottery com
panies, and all lotteries, the pernicious
traffic would soon be killed entirely in San
Francisco, and only a few of the very green
and unsophisticated would Btill patronize
the palpable frauds.
Here is another of the fake lottery com
panies convicted of being a swindle out of
its own mouth, as it were, or from its own
literature. It styles itself the "Louisiana
Lottery Company." Pay attention now
to its methods of doing business, and then
ask yourself whether you want to invest
your money in such a swindle. Perhaps
the best way to illustrate the methods of
the "Louisiana Lottery Company" is to
present some of its literature and cite one
instance where a man in this City was
offered a prize for accepting the agency of
the concern. Not the prize alone was this
person offered, but the identical ticket that
should win the prize.
What kind of a lottery company is it
that says to this or that man "this or that
ticket will draw a big prize ; you had better
buy it"?
Do you want to patronize a lottery "com
pany" that does business in this way? If
the "company" will do it once it can be
trusted to do it again. Well, here is the
literature :
April 10, 1894, a package of fifty $1 tickets
was sent to S. S. Gordan of this City from
the "Louisiana Lottery Company." Ac
companying the tickets was a small envel
ope containing another ticket— No. 49758.
On the back of this envelope was printed
in penmanship the following:
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JUNE 30, 1895.
CONFIDENTIAL.
Bo sure to sell this ticket to some promi
nent person who would not object to hav
ing his name published should he draw a
large prize.
Another of the inclosures is a confiden
tial circular, a fac-siraile of which is pro
duced herewith. Of course, the circular is
rather deftly worded. It does not say, in
plain language, "We do not have a fair
and honest drawing, but doctor everything
to suit the needs of our swindling busi
ness."
It does not say: "All that about draw
ings and prizes is bosh. We have no
drawings, but place a few dollars here aud
there each month, just to stimulate the
swindle."
The circular of the company docs not
say these things outright, but any intelli
gent reader who cannot find as much and
more in the specious wording of this "con
fidential" document is very, very much a
greenhorn, and ought to have a guardian
appointed to prevent him or her from wast
ing silver dollars by trying to hit the moon
with them.
What remains of a lottery scheme when
the elements of chance and fairness are
taken from it? Only a swindle. The lot
tery business in San Francisco is a swindle
from first to last. There is not one chance
in ten thousand of a ticket-buyer winning
as much as the price of his ticket— and
this in spite of the paid advertisements in
the daily papers.
C. P. Reynolds, the "responsible" man
in this City for the irresponsible Spanish-
American Lottery fraud, who was recently
arrested at the instance of Detective
THE TICKET THAT WAS GUARANTEED TO WIN THE BIQ PHIZE.
Wright, has been fined $50 by Judge
Joachimsen. He has promised to seek a
more honest vocation.
RAILROAD ALTERATIONS.
The Donahue Company Begins
Improvements at Santa
Rosa.
Changes In Passenger Offices In
This Clty-The Santa F«
Makes a Move.
The San Francisco and North Pacific
Railway, which is familiarly known as
the "Donahue road," has made arrange
ments for improved facilities in handling
its passenger business. In line with its
new policy of improvement in every de
partment of its service changes for the
better have been planned, and for that
reason the public having any direct in
terest in the railway from Tiburon to
Ukiah may look for a general betterment
in whatever pertains to their welfare.
The management has taken an office for
its passenger department on Market
street, below Kearny, where the Santa Fe
Company has had its ticket office for some
years. The Donahue office on New Mont
gomery street, near Market, will move
next month to its new and showy quarters
on Market street, which are regarded
among railroad men as the best in town
for a railroad aeency.
it is the intention of General Passenger
Agent R. X. Ryan to furnish the new
office elegantly, and decorate it with pho
tographs of celebrated springs, resorts,
fishing and shooting strongholds, vine
yards, cities, hoplands, ranches and red
wood forests on or near the line of the road
in Sonoma, Marin and Mendocino coun
ties, and to utilize the window space for
advertisine the road.
Recently a committee of citizens from
Santa nosa waited on President Foster and
the other officials of the line, and asked
for better freight and passenger depots at
their city. Santa Rosans would like to see
a handsome passenger depot erected that
would be in harmony with the many im
provements which have been under* way
for months in Sonoma's capital city.
It will be only a matter of a little time
now until they have a station that will
surpass their wishes. Already the railway
company has begun to move the freight
depot further back from the main line.
The increase of the freight business of
Santa Rosa in wines, hops, flour and dairy
and farm produce absolutely demanded
this imi>rovement. So the railway freight
sheds will be doubled in capacity, and with
new aide tracks an open track for through
trains will be assured.
With regard to the passenger station, it
is intended to remove the present build
ings and erect suitable structures capable
of accommodating the demand made upon
the station bouse.
The Santa Fe Company's passenger
offices, on toe fourth floor of the Chronicle
building, will be vacated and moved to a
Btore further down Market street, where
the ticket office will also be located. As
sistant General Passenger Agent Speers
and General Ticket Agent Perkins will
have their offices in the new place, and for
the first time these departments will be
consolidated by the Santa Fe Company in
San Francisco.
After Eating Onions.
"Uncle Jerry" Rusk, when Secretary of
Agriculture, met a friend on Fifteenth
street, Washington, one day. The friend
looked puzzled and somewhat depressed.
"What's the matter with you?" asked
"Uncle Jerry."
"I'm in a quandary about an important
matter," said the friend. "Maybe you can
help me."
"Well," said the Secretary, "what is it?"
"I don't know," said the friend,
"whether I ever told you that I am subject
at intervals to the wildest craving
for beefsteak and onions. It has all
the characteristics of a confirmed drunk
ard's craving for the rum bottle. This
craving struck me a few moments ago and I
at once determined to gratify it when din
ner-time came. Then I suddenly recalled
that I had promised to call this evening
on some ladies who are here from my home
and I must keep that promise. Yet my
stomach is shouting for beefsteak and
onions, ahd I am wavering between duty
and appetite."
'•Can't you wait until after the call?"
askea "Uncle Jerry," solicitously.
"Never," said the friend, earnestly.
"Can't yon postpone the call?"
"Impossible," said the friend.
"Well," said "Uncle Jerry," "I'll tell
you what to do. When dinner time comes
you go up to John C 's and get your
beefsteak and onions and eat 'em. When
you get your check it will be so big that it
will take your breath away."— New York
World."
George Herbert declared that his mother
had more influence on his life than all
other causes combined. He said, "One
good mother is worth a hundred school
masters."
HALE & NORCROSS SUIT
The Delay of the Supreme
Court Said to Be Causing
Great Loss.
THEEATS OF STOCKHOLDERS.
Many of the Poorer Ones Will Be
Unable to Pay the Assess
ment.
Several thousand dollars' worth of the
Hale & Norcross mining stock yesterday
became delinquent.
The daily increasing anxiety of the sev
eral hundred small stockholders, who have
been awaiting the decision of the Supreme
Court, was wrought up to a climax yester
day when it was learned that the lonp
waited-for decision had not been handed
down as expected, and many and loud
were the expressions of wrath heard in the
vicinity of the stockholders' offices on Pine
street.
When M. W. Fox won his suit against
the directors of the Hale & Norcross Min
ing Company and the Nevada Mining and
Milling Company in May, 1892, and secured
a judgment for $1,011,000, several thousand
shares of the com pan y's stock were bought
in small lots by persons of moderate and
small means. This stock was a fine in-
vestment at the time, as the payment of
the judgment would have amounted to
from $8 to $10 a share to the holders of
stock.
Soon after Fox won his suit the stock
went as high as $3 and $4. After the case
was carried to thn Supreme Court, how
ever, and lingered there month after
month and year following year during the
multifarious legal processes too common in
such cases, the stock declined and assess
ments hau to be paid. The assessment
burden fell the heaviest on the small
holders, who since the levying of the last
assessment on May 29 have become des
perate. As the time approached when the
assessment became delinquent, there being
no sign of a decision from the Supreme
Court, these same small stockholders grew
violent in their expressions of feeling, even
going so far as to threaten to explode dyna
mite bombs under the Supreme Court
building.
Mr. Fox, the plaintiff who obtained the
million-dollar judgment for the stock
holders, said yesterday that he had been
approached by dozens of exasperated men
who have their all invested in the Hale &
NoTcross stock with threats of this kind on
their tongues. He continued :
Some of them seem to think that because 1
obtained the judgment in the lower court 1 am
to blamo for the failure of the Supreme Court
to render a decision confirming or reversing
Judge Hebbard. I do not exaggerate ac all
when I say that I actually fear that some of
these poor stockholders, who ere iv danger of
losing their Mock, will attempt something of
the kind suggested iv their desperation. lam
not an alarmist by nnv means, but I am so
familiar with every detail of the case and the
feeling and situation of wanv of these stock
holders that I feel justified in the expression of
an opinion.
It does not require much mathematical cal
culation to show what an effect the holding of
this decision back has had on the stock of the
mine, atid you will learn on talking to the
brokers that mining stocks all along the line
have suffered in consequence. The last assess
ment of 20 cents cannot be paid by many of
the poorer holders, and it win have to be sold.
There are something like 40,000 of the 110,000
shares that are held by the class to which I
refer, and you can readily appreciate what
that means. The stock sold yesterday at 90
cents, or more accurately speaking, *1 05 and
$1 10, as the assessment it> added. To-day
$1 05 was asktil and 850 shares were offered.
Then, again, there is the $1 50 which is
added to each certificate wh<Mi the stock goes
bo far as a delinquent sale. Whether the cer
tificate is for 100, ten, or even two shares, the
$1 50 has to be paid. It costs the holder of one
share as much as it does the man whoso ccr
tilicate calls for 200 shares. The Supreme
Court is two months overdue now, and the
members have not been drawing their salaries
inconsequence. On the 22d of next month it
will have been six months since the case was
last submitted, being three months in excess
of the time allowed in which to tile a decision.
I believe the majority of the Supreme Court is
honest, but, considering all things, there cer
tainly appears to be something wrong.
A number of prominent stockbrokers
were consulted as to the effect of the Hale
& Norcros3 suit and the delay of the Su
preme Court on mining stocks generally,
and they offered a consensus ot opinion
confirmatory of the views expressed by
Mr. Fox. They agreed that capital had
been deterred from speculation in mining
stocks. Much depends on the decision of
the Supreme Court. Hundreds of thou
sands of dollars— perhaps millions — have
been diverted from that channel of invest
ment.
With the accrued interest the judgment
will now amount to nearly a million and a
half. This would mean somethinß like $11
a share to the individual stockholders.
THE OLD TRACK DOOMED
Where Horses Race Now in
Richmond There Will Soon
Be Homes.
Racehorse Men Look With Longing
to the Opening- of the Ingle
slde Course.
Thomas 11. Williams, the lessee and
manager of the Bay Distriot racetrack,
does not like the prospect of the track
being converted into building lots, but he
recognized yesterday afternoon, when
talking to President Thomas (i. Parker of
the Point Lobos Improvement Club, that
that was only a question of time, and was
due to the force of circumstances.
He remarked to Mr. Parker that the
track would probably be platted and cut
up into lots for sale before September.
Mr. Parker has not been very friendly
for some time toward the racetrack, though
it was largely through him that Mr. Wil
liams had secured the privilege of running
the track so long. In Mr. Parker's opinion
the racetrack has been really a detriment
to the best interests of Richmond, attract
ing an element that did that portion of the
City no good in a true business sense.
The residents of Richmond are more or
less divided on the racetrack question.
There are two rival improvement associa
tions there, apparently representing oppo
site shades of opinion. The other organ
ization is called the Richmond District
improvement Association, with Charles
H. Hubbs as its head, and the Richmond
Banner as its organ.
Mr. Hubbs' organization and the Banner
have been friendly toward Mr. Williams,
and they rather favor the racetrack. Still,
if it could be made to appear more in keep
ing with the true advancement of the dis
trict they would not enter any protest
against the giving place to a pleasant tract
of pretty villas with front yards full of
flowers.
The general sentiment of the entire dis
trict seems to be that every effort should
be put forth toward making it a most de
sirable residence portion. Now the fact is
that it has really been built up away from
the track, as if home-seekers had been
afraid to get too close. This has not been
very agreeable to adjacent property-own
ers, and it was probably their influence
that induced Colonel Crocker to abolish
the track and put the land on the market.
The opinion of property-owners is that
the racetrack has had its day and served
its purpose. It is altogether too near
property which home-seekers have cov
eted.
The park is really the attraction that has
drawn the street railways there, as every
body knows.
The racetrack is too near the park. To
say the least, it is on the wrong side of the
park, being just where people want to
build nice residences.
A visit to the racetrack yesterday after
noon demonstrated that the horsemen
would not regret seeing the Bay District
track go, provided a better one could be
found at Injjleside, and they feel confident
that the Pacific Jockey Club's new track
will be a better one.
The story in yesterday's Call was the
talk of the track and of lovers of horse
flesh all over town. Horsemen are very
much dissatisfied with the Bay District
track, and declare they cannot make any
money. The only people, they say, who
seem to realize anything out of the track
are the bookmakers, and as a consequence
horse-racing has become demoralized into
a vulgar gambling business.
Take the man who by legitimate racing
has probably made more winnings than
any other one man this season, and who
does not bet at all— Charles Boots. He is
said to have cleaned up over $13,000 in
purses at this meeting, and yet ha 3 little
or nothing to show for it. It is all eaten
up in expenses — entrance money and dec
larations, and the stabling, feed and jockey
bills.
There is another man who has a string
of winners, and yet the meeting has proved
unprofitable to him. This is common talk
at the track.
The consensus of opinion is that the
track is not as fast a one as San Francisco
ought to have. It is too narrow, and al
though good time has been made upon it
the soil is of such a nature as to make it
frequently a little too heavy.
DAVIDSON IS DISMISSED
The Curt Official Note Arrived
From Washington Yes
terday.
Friends of the Famous Savant Mean
to Fight for His Reinstate
ment.
Not until yesterday, within four hours
of the expiration of his long term of ser
vice in the Coast and Geodetic Survey
work, did Professor Davidson receive the
official notification that after the end of
this month his services would no longer be
required by the department.
The formal dismissal was very brief and
pointed — about the kind of a missive that
one would expect to be sent to a subaltern
dismissed from the service in disgrace for
bad conduct.
"You are hereby notified that on and
after July 1, 1895, your services will no
longer be required."
This was the sum and eubstance of the
official document, and only the date, the
name and the position of the discharged
employe was written. All the rest was
in printed words. It was merely a dis
missal blank filled out. Had its recipient
been a dishonest postal clerk — instead of
one of the most distinguished scientists in
the world — he might reasonably have felt
that the curtness of his dismissal was
ample punishment for his offense.
Professor Davidson takes the matter
stoically enough and in silence. "I am
used to obeying orders," he said last even
ing. "I shall obey this one. Ido not like
to have my authority questioned when I
give a command. Certainly, I shall not
question this authority. That is all there
is to say.
"Some of my friends have come here —
there have been tears glistening in their
eyes — and that has been a little more than
I could stand. A good many have written
to me — such good letters, full of feeling.
Why, I didn't know I had so many friends.
Oh.no; I've not lost faith in man. How
should I, when the press and everybody
has taken up my cause so heartily and so
earnestly ?
"AH I have to say is this: Tell those
good friends for me, will you, that I want
a few days more in which to acknowledge
their kind letters. I want to think of
something else now, not myself. Besides,
I've got to straighten up my workshop a
bit before I go out."
There is some contrast between the
spirit in which Professor Davidson takes
his dismissal, and that in which his friends
view it. They call it an outrage. Some of
them swear wnen they speak of it. And
all of them are hot for fighting it.
Senator Perkins is one of these. Yester
day he sent this dispatch to the Nevada
Senators:
Ban Fhancisco, June 29, 1895.
To the Hon. John P. Jones and Hon. W. W.
Stewart, Vnited State* Senate. United States of
America, Washington, D. C: The people of the
Pacific Coast States earnestly protest In the
public Interest against the dismissal of Pro
fessor George Davidson from the Coast and
Geodetic Survey.
Please see the President and Secretary of the
Treasury and have order reconsidered.
No man Hying has done more for the public
service in his particular line than Davidson.
George C. Perkins.
Senator Perkins said yesterday that he
meant to do his utmost to have the action
rescinded and Professor Davidson rein
stated. "And I am sure," he said, "of
having the active co-operation of the en
tire coast delegation in Congress, besides
the moral sympathy and support of all the
people of the coast, irrespective of party
affiliation. Senator White has already
expressed his readiness to do all in his
power to have this matter righted, and if
it can be done we will do it."
The Technical Society of California will
hold a meeting in a few days to take action
on what its members call the unjustifiable
removal of Professor Davidson. The trus
tees of the Chamber of Commerce of San
Francisco are in consultation with Benator
Perkinß as to the most appropriate and
most effective action that body can take in
the matter.
Several members of the faculty of the
University of California, in fact, all of
them who are not away on vacations, have
corresponded with Senator Perkins for the
same purpose.
It may be that Professor Davidson's dis
missal is final and that he will not be rein
stated in spite of all the agitation, but one
thing is sure, California and the whole
Pacific Coast will be heard at Washington,
and in no uncertain manner, on this ques
tion.
Heretofore the field branch of the Coast
Survey and Geodetic Department has been
entirely free from the spoils system. Poli
tics have been necessarily relegated to the
wall in favor of ellic-ency and skill in this
one department.
The very essence rather than the letter
of the civil service system has heretofore
prevailed and reformers have considered it
a rno % del branch of the public service, so
admirable in its workings that it was un
necessary to enforce the civil service rule?
upon it.
By the friends of civil service reform this
uncalled for dismissal of Professor David
son is considered as another nail in the
coffin of the spoils system and another
powerful argument in favor of the system
that permits removal only for cause.'
LOCKED OUT BY DR. BROWN
The Sanctuary's Doors Closed
Against the League of
the Temple.
PRINCIPLES NOT APPROVED.
The Pastor Accused of High-Handed
Dealings With Members of
His Church.
Few ministers lock the doors of the
sanctuary against would-be worshipers,
yet that is the charge brought against Rev.
C. 0. Brown by the League of the Temple.
The league was organized last Novem
ber, and its avowed objects were "to pro
mote a true Christian fellowship among
the male members of the church; to ex
tend the hand of sympathy and encour
agement to the younger and newer mem
bers; to furnish unobtrusive assistance to
those of our communion who are in trouble
of body or mind or estate; to supplement
the work of the pastor, and to pray and
labor for and with him; to promote a re
vival spirit in the church and congrega
tion, and generally to co-operate in every
good word and work, as the Master shall
give us ability ana opportunity."
J. Howard Barnard and G. Gilbert Dexter
were chiefly instrumental in the organiza
tion of the body, and they with Theodore
H. Hatch, all deacons of the First Con
gregational Church, and Meyer Strauss
ana A. J. Dewing, members of what is
known in Congregational Church govern
ment as the standing committee, consti
tuted the council of the league. Dr. Crown
was named as a member of the council,
and according to the other members of
that body, he received a oersonal invita
tion to join in the movement, but he curtly
declined.
The same gentleman is authority for t!ie
statement that the pastor ignored the meet
ings, which were held weekly in his study,
until Dr. Herron's lectures were creating
interest. He commenced attending the
meetings at that time, and from the first
proved a disturbing element. He showed
small courtesy to the members and the
proceedings. '"If my son has twisted about
in his chair, rustled papers and talked as
the pastor of the First Church did at those
meetings I wonld have spanked him,"
said one of the council members. "At
last," this gentleman continued, "Mr.
Brown made the discovery that the prin
ciples enunciated by our "constitution are
anarchistic, and he found this article es
pecially objectionable:
An enlightened patriotism must take into
account the duty of every Christian man, by
voice and vote, and If need be by personal sac
rifice, to uphold the tilings which make for
righteousness in civic affairs. We hold it, then,
a matter of conscience to maintain the purity
of the elective franchise, the judiciary and the
public school system against encroachment
from any source whatever, and to advance the
interests of temperance, public morality and
good government in municipal, Htate and Na
tional affairs by every means in our power.
"Now, I leave it to any. minister or lay
man who is a — because the one
does not always insure the — whether
there -is anything in that article which
Christ did not preach and practice.
• "When Joseph Cook gave a lecture in
the church one Saturday evening we found
the door of our place of meeting locked,
and it was explained that this was owing
to the lecture being given at that hour.
When we came a week later the doors were
again locked. „'. ' V
; ""The sexton told us he was acting under ,
orders and that we must .apply to 'head- i
quarters' for permission to use the build
ing. . .'Headquarters' we interpreted to
mean 'trustees.' We laid the matter.be
fore these gentlemen and they said the
matter would be left to the pastor. We
didn't choose to ask him, I knowing well
what his answer would have been, so now
we are meeting in the office of Deacon Bar
nard in the Columbian block.
"I have just come from a meeting there
this evening, and Aye had a genuinely spir
itual evening. Rev. .7. E.Scott was with
us, and the Rev. Mr. Fergusson led the
meeting. Our numbers are increasing
again and we feel encouraged about the
prospect of opportunity for good works."
The members of the league insist that
there is no business transacted by the or
ganization, that its purposes are purely of
a spiritual nature and that it is making no
organized effort against Dr. Brown's re
maining in the pastorate. "His term of
service expires in August," he said, "and
while it is known that there is an opposing
element composed of some of the best peo
file in the church and made up chiefly of
adies, the league is not connected with it.
His name is never mentioned in our meet
ings, nor is he referred to except in our
prayers for the pastors of the City."
Dr. Brown could not be found'last even
ing. . ' ■ . . ,:Y Y,
TO BUILD A NEW TEMPLE
Ohabai Shalome Foundatlon-
Stone Will Be Laid Next
Sunday.
The Synagogue Will Be Ready for
Use In Time for the Hebrew
High Festivals.
The Hebrew congregation Ohabai
Shalome will, on Sunday next, witness the
culmination of their plans for the erection
of a new place of worship. The foundation
Btone of their synagogue, which will be
on the south side of Bush street,
near Laguna, will be laid next Sunday
afternoon at 2 o'clock.
Since its establishment the Ohabai
Shalome congregation has passed through
many vicissitudes. Its organization was
the result of a split in the Congregation
Emanu-El many yeara ago. When the
latter body of Hebrews developed ultra
reform tendencies many of the members,
including some of the French and Alsa
tian element, left. They purchased a lot
on Mason street, near Post. After the
lapse of years and the death of many
prominent members a decline in interest
in the venture was noticed. The plat of
land was last year 3old to the Native Sons
of the Golden West for $45,000 and with
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the proceeds of the sale it was proposed to
build the new temple.
The venture did not meet with quite so
liberal a backing as was anticipated.
Mainly through the energy displayed by
the president of the congregation, A. Alt
mayer, sufficient money has been realized
to warrant the erection of the new place
of worship. The congregation has for
some time r>ast been worshiping at Golden
Gate Hall, but it is thought that the build
ing of the synagogue on Bush street will
be the forerunner of a new era of prosper
ity for the Congregation Ohabai Shalome.
The plans for the new building include
a special room or hall for the use of the
auxiliary, with stage accommodation. The
whole of the interior will be illuminated
with incandescent lights, and a handsome
Eulpit will be a feature. The design of the
uilding will be Byzantine and the eleva
tion shows lofty minarets, a string of
Moorish arches below the spring of the
roof and the tables set in a sort of dormer
projection.
The programme for next Sunday will b«
a specially attractive one. A lam united
choir, composed of male and female singers
from the synagogues of this City, will ren
der appropriate psalms and hymns. Rabbi
Jacob is ieto, of the Congregation Serith
Israel, will read the service, and will de
liver the principal address of the duv, as
well as the dedicatory prayer. The Hon.
Julius Kahn, who has been prominently
identified with the committee, has also
signified his intention to be present and to
deliver an address. The band of the Pa
cific Hebrew Orphan Asylum will be on
the ground and will perform selections of
classical music. The arrangements for the
occasion have been placed in the hands of
a special committee, under the presidency
of A. Altmayer, president of the Congrega
tion Ohabai Sbalorae.
The building will be ready for occupancy
in time for the Hebrew high festivals ia
September next.
ON A HUNT FOR LIONS
Los Catos Sportsmen Are After
the Scalps of "Var
mints."
Wild Animals That Routed a Camp
of Pleasure - Seekers in
Moody's Gulch.
California lions, so called, are by no
means dangerous unless taunted by hunger
or cornered by an enemy, and then it hey
will right, and desperately, too.
Occasionally a report of the killing of a
desperate and ferocious California lion in
some part of the country is spread broad
cost and as a r.iult people who arc not
conversant with field sports and the game
of the country have a great dread of meet
ing any of those animals when rusticating
in the mountains.
Last Sunday a party of sportsmen tinder
the command of Henry J. Cattermole of
Wrights, Santa Clara County, left Wrights
in search of a lion that had been geen
quite frequently in the previous few weeks
in the vicinity of Los Gatos Creek. Seven
well-trained hounds followed the hunters,
who were mounted on horses accustomed
to mountain climbing.
A start was made at daybrea k, and when
the sportsmen arrived in the locality where
the hon was last seen two of the hounds,
which were the leaders of. the pack and
trained to chase "varmint," were cast off
on a rolling piece of ground near the sum
mit of a hill where lion was known to
pass in his nocturnal visits from place to
place. The old dog — a canine that could
not be purchased for any sum of money —
made several rounds of the mountain's
top, stopping occasionally to investigate, as
it were, an old track on the soft ground,
which was shaded from the aun by red
wood trees.
At least half an hour's time was wasted
in the hunt for a fresh trail, and just as
the sportsmen had concluded to retire to
some other locality one of the young dogs
partially trained to wildcat and lion hunt
ing gave tongue and instantly the re
mainder of the pack joined in the chorus
and ran to the spot where the first sign of
game had been discovered.
The hunters quickly removed their Win
chesters from where they rested on the
pummel of the saddles ana waited for re
sults. The old dog showed some signs of
anxiety when he ran his nose along the
trail, But his tongue was silent.
The sportsmen knew what that meant.
It is what is termed by old hunters of big
game, a dead sign, the game having
passed possibly over that spot on the even
ing of the previous day. The search was
continued along the mountain sides and
through the deep canyons until the sun
had ascended well above the horizon, but
no fresh tracks were discovered. Occa
sionally a fresh deer track was taken up
by the young dogs, but they were driven
back from the chase as the close season for
deer shooting is still in effect.
The hunters returned to Wrights before
the heat of the day had set in, so as to rest
tneir dogs and resume the chase on the
following morning.
It now appears from a dispatch which
was received by the Call on Friday even
ing, and which appeared in yesterday's
paper, that the lions had moved from that
part of the country in which they were
seen a week ago and are now located— if
not killed by this time— in a place known
as Moody's Gulch. The dispatch states
that W. H. Edwards ann party of Log
Gatos, while camping in Moody's Gulch,
were surprised on Tuesday night last by
the unexpected and unwelcome appear
ance of two lions, whose cries drove terror
to their hearts. The lion, as previously
stated, when not suffering from hunger, is
perfectly harmless, but its cries at any
time, and especially at night, are fearful to
hear.
Edwards, according to the report, seized
his rifle, and moving" to within safe shoot
ing distance of one of the animals, aimed
and fired the ball, striking the lion in tbe
head. The enraged lion dashed at his
enemy and Edwards to save himself from
a clawing, sought safety by grasping a
limb and swinging his body into a tree.
The report goes on to say that the two
lions remained at the foot of the tree all
night and left for their lairs at daybreak.
It is safe to remark, however, that if the
bullet tired from Mr. Edwards' rifle had
pierced the head of the lion there would
not have been any necessity for the shooter
to climb into a tree for safe keeping
On the following day the Deasts were
traced by the blood of" the wounded ani
mal to their camp in the woods, where
nine cubs were found. A party consisting
of Edwards, Cattermole and his dogs left
yesterday morning for the borne of the "var
mint," and it is presumed that lion scalps,
tails and paws will attract widespread at
tention in Los Gatos to-day if all goes
right.