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TUESDAY...... JULY 2.1895
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.
The Methodist Preachers' meeting has taken
A month's vacation.
The Pacific Yacht Club starts this morning
6d a race to Santa Cruz.
The Board of Inspection officers say that the
cruiser Olympia is perfect in her mechanism.
The report of a split between Ed. Corrigan
and George V. Hawkins is denied by the latter.
A decision from the Supreme Court in the
Hale & Norcross suit is expected on Wednesday.
Dr. Gunsaulus will give a lecture at the Ply
mouth Congregational Church Saturday even
ing.
The winning horses at the Bay District yes
terday were: Amigo, Fireman, Faro, Fly and
Installator.
The indications for to-day are generally fair
weather, stationary temperature and 'brisk
■winds in the afternoon.
Miss Anthony and Miss Shaw addressed the
City ministers at the Young Men's Christian
Association auditorium.
The San Joaquin Valley Railroad Company
has aiked for bids to lay three miles of track
through the city of Stockton.
The hearing in the case of Leo Cardona for
forgery In Street Department warrants was
postponed yesterday until June 9.
Edward Magner was yesterday held to
answer before the 6uperior Court for the mur
der of Robert Moorhe&d on June 15.
Secretary H. J. McCov explained yesterday
why the Institute of Applied Christianity could
not meet at the Y. M. C. A. building.
Laon Beung, storekeeper, 414*5 O'Farrell
street, was arrested yesterday by Fire Marshal
Towe for illegally selling firecrackers.
Subscriptions for the Fire Department fund
are being made by the underwriters to pay for
extra service during Fourth of July wee it.
In Fourth of July finances there Is a deficit
of $900 which must be met, or some features
of the celebration will have to be omitted.
Louis Jorgerson, Lafayette Hotel, was acci
dentally shot in the right arm last night, at
the Fourteen-mile House, San Bruno road, by a
friead.
The letter-carriers of Ban Francisco are to
have a monster picnic at Schuetzen Park to
raise money for their sick and benefit fund on
July!.
The perpetual challenge cup, open to all
yacht clubs on the Pacific Coast, was placed on
exhibition yesterday at the Merchants' Ex
change.
The regular monthly meeting of the Califor
nia Camera Club will be held in the clubrooms,
Academy of Sciences building, this evening at
8 o'clock".
Labor Commissioner Fitzgerald has received
an order for 900 women and girls to work in a
large cennery where the work will be light and
the wages fair.
The Receiving Hospital report for the fiscal
year ending June 30 shows that 6704 cases
were treated during the year, 968 in excess of
the previous year.
The statements of the losers by the late fire
ere being taken by the insurance adjusters
and arrangements tor rebuilding are rapidly
getting into shape.
Captain Leei. Detectives Cody and Gibson
and other witnesses against Ivan Kovalev,
charged with the Weber murders, left for Sac
ramento yesterday.
United State* District Judge Hawley nolle
prosequied all the indictments against the
railroad strikers at the instance of the Attor
ney-General yesterday.
Four police sergeants commenced yesterday
to draw the Increased pay for lieutenants, but
so permanent promotions will be made till the
sew district is organized.
W. J. Sandborn was charged with burglary
yesterday in having entered the house of J.
Keilson, 1020 Sacramento street, and stealing
Eome money and jewelry.
Labor Commissioner £. L. Fitzgerald has
received a letter of thanks from the American
Railway Union lor securing the dismissal of
about 130 railroad strike cases-
There is a good deal of expectancy in China
town over news of the proposed treaty between
China and Mexico. It is learned that the Con
sul-General reported against it.
Harry Johnson and John Barry, two boat
men, were arrested last night ou the charge of
criminally assaulting Kate A. Sullivan, 17
years of age, living at 3 Zoe place.
The internal revenue fiscal year began
Yesterday and over one thousand paid their
retail liquor dealers' tax. The sum taken in
by the Government exceeded $60,000.
Deaconesses of the Methodist church must
now pay car fare on all lines owned by the
Market-street company. They were promised
badges, but so far have failed to get them.
John Lofdahl. charged with betraying a
young girl under promise of marriage, denied
fen Judge Campbell's court yesterday that he
was a married man. Afterward h« admitted it.
Public Administrator Freese has applied for
letters of administration over the estate of
Cornelius Stagg, who was killed at Ingleside
last March. The estimated value of the estate
is $300.
A three-story tenement-house on the corner
of Chestnut street and Montgomery avenue has
been the scene of some mysterious fires of late,
and the neighborhood also 6ays that it is
haunted.
Easton, Eldridge <fc Co. are interested with
the Wilson Steamship Line of England, and
other large capitalists, in a big scheme to
bring 10,000 immigrants of the better class to
this State.
H. G. Griffith has commenced suit against
the Griffith Consolidated Mill Company to re
cover $2847 14, which he claims he has ex
pended at various times under orders from the
company.
The bankers say the reduction of the rates of
interest in a few instances has no unfavorable
significance. There are large balances on hand
and the general outlook along all lines is en
co v raging.
Adolph Strecker, who Is winning laurels and
the highest honors at the Eastern shooting
festivals, is well known to the local marksmen,
and has the champion record at 200-yaru
target-shooting.
The ambulance j resented to tne Receiving
Hospital by Mrs. G?lrichs and Miss Virginia
Fair will In future 1-; in service day and night,
and an ambulance si rgeon will always be on
duty at the hospital.
J. F. Mahon, who was killed by falling from
a car last April, left an 'state valued at $7000.
Bo far there are no claimants. The estate wm
left to him by his pare: ts, who died shortly
before he was killed.
An opera-house capable of sea ting 3000 peo
ple is to be constructed ont of the Water Circus
by a company of local capitalists. The theater
will be opened in Decemoer with a season of
grand opera by Walter Damrosch's Wagnerian
company.
At a meeting of the Academy of Science* last
evening resolutions were drafted protesting
against the removal of Professor Davidson. In
teresting lectures on acetylene gas and de
scriptions of Lower California and Mexico were
delivered.
The Australia arrived yesterday from Sydney
and Honolulu. Among ncr passengers from
the latter pLace was William H. Johnson, a de
faulting ex-official from lowa, on his way back
to answer to the' charges of forgery and em
bezzlement.
A n Oregon Judge refused to accept a counter
feiter's plea of guilty. When the case came to
trial nis Honor instructed the jury to acquit,
and when the prisoner was rearrested on a
second charge the Judge let him go on his own
recognizance.
Indignation is expressed by the several so
cieties to which Professor Davidson belongs at
his summary dismissal from the Geodetic Sur
vey and step* are being tasea to insist upon his
reinstatement. The Academy of Sciences acted
in the matter last night.
Mayor Butro yesterday appointed Samuel
Foster, Republican, and P. N. Wellln, Demo
crat, for the term of four years, and James Den
man, Democrat, and Albert E. Castle, Republi
can, for the two-year term to form the Board of
Election Commissioners.
John 6. Macintosh, saloon-keeper, McAllister
end Leaven worth streets, swore out warrants
in Judge Joachimsen's court yesterday for the
arrest of W. B. Holland, John Holland and
Jacob Oppenheimer. now in Oakland prison,
on the charge of robbery.
General Dimond says that twelve additional
companies will be mastered out within the
next ten days. He does not tell where they
are to come from, but the impression prevails
that at least seven will be taken from this City.
Captain Ruddell oi Company C Is satisfied with
the result.
The suit of the United States vs. the Stanford
estate will probably be carried to the United
States Supreme Court on Judge Boss' decisiou
os the demurrer. It will have to go to the
court of last resort In any event and special
counsel McKitssick thinks he may as well carry
It there at once.
The Market-street Railway Company pre
sented before the Board of Supervisors yester
day petitions tor an extension of their lines
over Sunnyside avenue and the Ocean road to
the ocean, the lines over which Behrend Joost
»nd the San Mateo Railroad Company have
Men pleading for a franchise for months.
TO SAIL TO SANTA CRUZ.
The Yachts of the Pacific Club
All Ready for the Ocean
Race.
A GREAT UP-RIVER JORTTISE.
Corinthians and San Franclscos
Out for Fun— The Perpetual
Challenge Cup,
The Pacific Yacht Club will start for
Santa Cruz this morning for a holiday
cruise and incidentally a race down to the
city by the sea. Only five craft will start,
the original programme having been dis
turbed from various causes. Ten vessels
entered for the race, and the first to with
draw was the schooner Lily L. The rea
son for her withdrawal was that the heel
THE YACHT TRUANT, FLAGSHIP OF THE CORINTHIANS.
[Sketched by a " Call 1 ' artist.]
of her bowsprit proved to be too weak for
the trip, and Donald Host;, her owner, is
patting in a new stick. Mr. Ross confi
dently hoped to have the repairs made in
time, but yesterday he gave the job up as a
hopeless task and concluded to stay home.
Another vessel which had entered the
list was the Rover, but she left for Santa
Cruz on> Sunday and will remain there to
participate in the festivities of the fleet.
Yesterday afternoon the Annie, flagship
of the Pacifies, Commodore Cadu'c, the
Lurline, ex-Commodore Spreckels, the
pilot-boat Gracie 8, Captain McCullough,
the Idler, Captain I. C. Wilson, and the
Whirlwind, Admiral yon Schmidt, came to
anchor off the seawall, between Powell
street and Meiggs wharf, with everything
in readiness for a race down the coast.
All hands went on board the yachts last
night, and this morning, come time be
tween 6 and 7 o'clock, the fleet will be
towed to eea. It was intended to make a
beat of it down the bay, but the programme
was changed, as it was feared that the trip
might not be made in a day. The yachts
will remain at Santa Cruz until the Fourth,
when the start will be made for San Fran
cisco.
Every club on the bay will be represented
under sail over the hofidays, and the boats
will be out from to-morrow afternoon until
Sunday next The Corinthians and San
Franciscos will make the up-river cruise.
most of the yachts leaving Tiburon and
Sansalito on Wednesday afternoon. Three
of the Corinthian boats are already in the
river, having left on Saturday afternoon.
They are the Speedwell, DonoLoe's new
boat, which captured the Corinthian prize
this year, in command of Ed Howard; the
Belle, John and Joe O'Brien and the Har
poon, Captain Cook. To-morrow after
noon the following yachts will leave the
THE GBAC^FUL PILOT-BOAT GKACIE 8.
[Sketched for the. "Call" by Coulter.]
Corinthian Clubhouse for the river: The
Truant, Commodore Pew's flagship ; Freda,
Secret, Mignon, Dawn and Morrow, and
Westerfield's new craft JSolus, built this
year by Frank Stone. The fleet will sail
to Martinez and there spend the night.
Next day the yachts will go to Suisun,
where they will meet the Speedwell, -Har
poon and the Belle, and there spend the
night. On Friday the entire fleet will
comeback to Benicia, and on Saturday
leave for Valleio. Sunday the fleet will
race from Mare Island to Tiburon.
The Ban Francisco Yacht Club will also
make the up-river cruise, leaving Sausalito
on Wednesday afternoon. The first, leg
will be to Mare Island, where the night
will be spent, and on the following day a
run will be made to Haggin's ranch just
this side of Suisun, where the night of the
Fourth will be celebrated. On Saturday
the fleet will rendezvous at Martinez and
on Sunday the return home will be made,
the yachU coming down the bay in com
pany with the Corinthians.
The perpetual challenge cup to be raced
for by all legitimate yacht clubs on the
coast from San Diego to Puget Sound was
placed on exhibition at the Merchants'
Excnange yesterday. It will remain there
for a week and on next Wednesday at noon
it will be presented to the Encinal Yacht
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JULY 2, 1895.
Club, which will strive to hold it against
all comers. The presentation speech will
be made by Uncle George Bromley and it
is expected that all the prominent yachts
men in the bay will be present.
The California and Encinal Yacht clubs
have no regular programmes for the ob
servance of the holidays, and the yachts
will sail about the bay at their owners'
sweet will.
GAGAN HAS RETURNED.
The Foreman of the Late Grand Jury
Has No Comment on Justice
Beatty.
William H. Qagan has returned from a
little outing near Pilarcitos, to find that in
his absence Chief Justice Beatty of the
Bupreme Court has said some very un
pleasant things of the late Grand Jury, of
which Mr. Gagan was the head.
Since his return from the lakeside the
ex-foreman of the investigating body has
taken occasion to read up on Justice
Beatty's comment on the Grand Jury's
report, and was well informed on the mat
ter when seen last evening by a reporter
for the Call. But Mr. Gaeran positively
declined to comment on the Chief Justice's
remarks.
"That Grand Jury has passed out of
existence," he said. "lam through with
it and do not care to say anything concern
ing its work. That part of its report con
cerning the Supreme Court was made by
the committee on elections and afterward
adopted by the jury and incorporated in
the report. I cannot speak for the other
members of the jury, and as far as I am
personally concerned I cannot see that I
have anything to say."
The health authorities of a number of
States have recently made exhaustive ex
aminations of the baking powders witb
the uniform result of finding the Royal
superior to all others.
BETTER SCHOOLS NEEDED
School Directors Clinton and
McElroy Discuss the Bad
Buildings.
Improved Sanitation, More Paint
and Mora Flowers Required
In the Buildings.
The report which School Director A. Mc-
Elroy made upon the condition of the
school buildings of San Francisco inter
ested many. School Director Clinton said
yesterday :
The unsanitary condition of the schools is
deplorable. In many instances the lights are
«o badly arranged that the eyes of the pupils
are gradually ruined. It is stated that $ 1,125,
--000 is wanted for improvements. Some per
sons may think that sum an exorbitant one to
demand. As a matter of fact, it is insufficient.
We have legislation for cows, dogs, horses, rail
roado, for the maimed, (he sick and the blind-
It's about time to consider the crying needs 01.
our thousands of children. If the rooms and
yard are unhealthy and unsanitary, what must
be tbe result?
School Director McElroy was equally
forcible. He said :
Oakland is a model for San Francisco to fol
low. Over there you find commodious .brick
buildings located on lots amply large, and sur
rounded by lawns and flower beds. I assure you
that during my inspection of sixty-three school
buildings, the rarest thing that met my ob
servation was a blade of grass or a flower. We
have secured a great many plant bulbs from
the superintendent of the park, which.we pro
pose to plant in the school-yards, and this work
has already been commenced. The principals
and teachers have it in charge, but the work
will have to be amplified considerably before it
will prove effective. The subject of school
needs interests every parent. It remains to be
seen what relief the Supervisors will give us.
Th« Survival of the Fittest.
By retaining your baggage checks until
you reach San Francisco and leaving same
at any of our offices you will save money
in the transfer of your baggage. Trunks,
35 cents each. Morton SpeciaiDelivery, 31
Geary street, 408 Taylor street and Oakland
Ferry Depot. •
AT THE CITY THEATERS
The Performances That De
lighted Audiences Last
Night.
"A BLACK SHEEP" DRAWS WELL.
"The Senator" at the Columbia.
"Under the Lash " at the Grand
Opera-House.
The Columbia Theater was packed from
floor to roof last night to see the produc
tion of "The Senator," and incidentally to
witness the first appearance on the stage
of Miss Helen Kelleher, a popular local
reciter.
It would not be fair to judge Miss Kelleher's
future as an actress by her performance of
Mrs. Armstrong last night. Sue was suffering
from something very nearly akin to stage
fright, and was evidently too much awed by
her unaccustomed surroundings to throw much
personality into a part that at its best is rather
a thankless one.
In fact. Miss Kellaher seemed to be between
Scylla and Charybdis. She knew she must not
elocute, as of yore, and yet she seemed timid
about flinging aside the elocutionist's ar . and
acting. Tnis difficulty will be ea.silv overcome
with practice, and Miss Kelleher has an excel
lent voice in her favor.
"The Senator" was a spirited performance,
taken altogether. Maclyn Arbnckle, in the
title role, was full of the required exuberance
and bonhomie; indeed, there was never a dull
moment when he wason the stage. Miss Blanche
Bates, who is making a record for herself in
frivolous roles, surpassed her former efforts in
that line as the dashing Mrs. Hilary, and Miss
Hope Ross made a bright little Josie Arm
strong. Charles F. Wyngate rather fell 'Short
in his interpretation of the aristocratic Aus
trian Count. George Osbourne, who played the
Secretary of State, was warmly welcomed.
At the California.
"The Old Homestead.' with ita "Old Oaken
Bucket," "The Owi s.ud the Pussy Cat," the
quaint humor of Joshua, Cy, Setii Perkins, the
Hoboken tenor and the kindly old ladies, U re
peating its success of last season. The scenes
on the old farm, the homely ruial sports and
pastimes, the meeting between erring boy and
-loving father in the churchyard, appeal to all.
Wilson, Jose and the choir and quartet were
all apprecfated and encored. It will run this
and next week, to be followed by Hoyt's "A
Black Sheep."
At the Grand Opera-Honse,
"Under the Lasb," a melodrama of New York
life, hu a. plot which centers around the en
deavor of a villain to rob a blind girl, an un
conscious heiress, of her fortune, with the aid
of a criminal Italian, who claim* her as his
daughter.
The scene opens with a realistic view of a
New York railroad station. Another realistic
scene is of the East River, with the lights oi
New York in th« . distance. The free
fights that occur are even more free than
usual in the realm of melodrama. Miss
Hall, the blind girl, is at one time
literally "under the lash" in the hands of the
Italian and his wife, parts played very realis
tically by Edmund naves aud Jull« Blanc.
Miss Hall acts the blind girl pathetically, and
Charles Swain at the policeman is a pattern to
his kind— surely the most active and energetic
"copper" that ever graced the force. Walter
Saniord Is quite at home as the champion of
beauty in distress.
Tivoli Opera-House.
Those who applauded the music and
laughed at the hits and witticisms, of liar tman,
Branson and the rest of them when the "Tar
and Tartar" was at the Tivoli before, were
none the less hearty jn their appreciation last
night. Hartman as Muley Hassan, with bis
seven hundred wires and his thirteen hundred
and thirteen step-children, Branson- as the
Grand Vizier, Ed Torpi, West, Lama Miller,
Mis* Plaisted and Miss Royce were all In good
voice. The music was good and the local hits
amusing. The "Tar and Tartar" should have
a good run.
The Alcazar.
Alfred Dampier, who comes to us with so
many favorable notices from Australia and
England, was cast last night in the title role of
"Valjean," his dramatization of the popular
"Lex MUerables" of Hugo. Dampier is of good
presence, with a full voice and mobile face,
«nc as the galley slave at the table of the good
Bishop of Dijon and as the Mayor of Montan
ban showed much talent. The theater was
well filled by an appreciative audience. Next
week "Hamlet."
The Orphe-im.
The audience at the Orpneum last night was
pleased beyond expression with the excellent
programme presented it. Th» De Forrests,
known as "the whirlwind dancers," appeared
in whtt they call the nic-nac danca. It
proved a genuine sensation. It is a pas de
deux in which the young woman, who Is at
tired in very voluminous skirts, and the young
man, who does not wear any skirts, execute
souie very artistic yet eccentric steps. "Miss
Bcottie," the dog wonder, attracted a great deal
of attention by a display (of wonderful knowl
edge of card-playing, counting and spelling
simple words. The performances by Bartlett
and May, the loose-jointed man and the little
girl, were marvelous and they were the recipi
ents of much applause. The silhouettes vivants
presented by Dan Sherman were applauded
and proved quite a hit.
Thn Royal Baking Powder is mode from
the very: finest materials and costs much
more than any other brand, which accounts
for its superiority, although it is Bold to
consumers at the same price.-
Dowling Not Accused.
The misconstruction of » telegraphic dispatch
from Uklah concerning the reported death of
John Dowling at Colfax on June 26 made it
appear in the correction that Dowling himself
had with the undertaker tried to extort money
from his relatives. The denial of the charge
made by Miss Aggie Dowling and D. C. Heger
should have referred only to the undertaker,
McCullough of Colfax, and Coroner Mitchail at
Auburn, and had no reference to Miss Dowlfnp's
brother. They further state that the officials
and others did all in their power to find the
relatives of the deceased. Mrs. Heger says that
every kindness was shown her by the Colfax
people.
Tbe Macintosh Bobbery.
John S. Macintosh, the saloon-keeper on Mc-
Allister and Leavenworth streets, swore out
warrants in Judge Joachimsen'tf court yester
day for the arrest of W. B. Holland, John Hoi
land and Jacob Oppenheimer, on the charge of
robbery. They and Charles Ross, who has
already been held to answer, are believed to be
ihe four masked men who entered Macintosh's
saloon on the night of May 19. bound and
gagged and robbed him of $70 and three
diamonds. They were arrested in this City,
but as they were wanted In Oakland for rob
bing the night clerk in a drugstore they were
taken there. The case against them in Oak
land has practically collapsed and now they
will be brought here to stand their trial for the
Macintosh robbery.
IN PERIL FROM GAS.
Narrow £scape From Death of Joseph
Loehten, Captain Blair's
Butler.
Joseph Loehten, butler for Samuel Blair,
1375 Van Ness avenue, hovered between
life and death for several hours yesterday,
but is now out of danger.
He did not make his appearance as usual
yesterday morning, and one of tha ser
vants was sent to his room to ascertain
what was the matter with him. She
knocked, but received no answer. A strong
smell of gas came from the room, and she
reported that something must be wrong.
The door was forced open and Loehten
was found unconscious lying partly under
neath the bed. The room was full of gas,
which came from the open jet.
Dr. Gibbons, the famiiy physician, and
Dr. Bushnell were hurriedly summoned
and they worked on him for several hours
SCENE IN THEINTERNAL REVENUE OFFICE - DEPUTY GOLLEOTOB
LOXJP IN THE FOBEQROUND,
[Sketched by a " Call" artist.]
till they brought him back to conscious
ness.
He said be was not feeling well when he
retired on Sunday night, and had by som-e
means or other turned on the gas again,
after, as he had supposed, turning it off.
He had a faint recollection of gettiug out
of bed with the intention of calling for
help and then he lost consciousness and
probably fell underneath the bed, where
he was found. It will be several days be
fore he is able to attend to his duties again.
HALE & NORCROSS STOCK
A Decision in the Famous Suit
Expected by To-Morrow
Evening.
What the Defendants Are Said to
Want In the Way of Modi
fications.
A prominent stockbroker on Pine street
suggested yesterday that a petition be sent
by the men in that business to the Supreme
Court, urging that body to hasten its de
cision in the Hale & Norcross suit.
Wiser heads advised against it. "No,"
said tliey, "thai would not gain sympathy
for the cause. Too many people look on
the brokerage business as gambling car
ried on under another name,, all of which
the other brokers acknowle dge to be cor
rect."
Anxious stockholders lingered about the
Supreme Court building and around the
brokers' offices yesterday in the hope that
something would be heard from the dis
cussion. No word came to the stockhold
ers, however, though a rumor gained cir
culation through other sources.
Mr. Fox, the plaintiff in the famous case,
said yesterday afternoon that he bad re
ceived information from a pretty reliable
source that the decision, long expected and
longer deferred, would be handed down
to-morrow before 4 o'clock in the after
noon. If this information should prove to
be true there will be a great jubilation
among the holders of Hale & Norcross
stock.
"What will the delinquent assessments
amount to then?" asked Mr. Fox, with a
hearty laugh. "Nothing, nothing, to be
sure. Then people can well afford to pay
them. The stock will go up, and the
dividend, as I ' said the other day, will
amount to $10 or $11 a share.
•'As a matter of truth, I do not think fhe
defendants really wish to have the decision
of the lower court reversed. All they care
for is to have the fraud and conspiracy
clause modified, qualified or eliminated.
That clause reads, you know, as follows:
'That it appears' to the court that the said
Hale & Norcross Silver Mining Company
has suffened damage and injury by reason
of the wrongs, frauds and conspiracy of
the defendants in the sum of $1,011,025.'
That is all they are fighting for. But
there is a broader principle involved than
most persons seem to have discovered."
"Yes," broke in Attorney W. T. Bag
gett, "that ia too true It effects all
stocks and corporations. The question is:
'Can the officers of a corporation wrong
and injure the stockholders and then find
protection in the courtß?* It is a grave
question, and the. holding back of the de
cision has worked grave harm to the stock
interests in this street, in which hundreds
of thousands, yes, millions of dollars are
invested."
Repairing Car-Tracks.
The Market-street Railway Company has a
force of men at work repairing the damage
done to tracks, wires and poles by the big fire
in the Southside last Thursday night. The
property damaged is not within the district in
which the company is operating at present,
consequently it did rot interfere with the
working of the system.
Fireworks !
Save time, money, patronize home industry
by buying an assorted case of fireworks from
California Fireworks Co., 219 Front street. •
The Weber Murders.
Captain Lees,. Detectives Cody and Gibson,
Stenographer Heynemann, Arnold Levin and
W. Znkrewskie lett yesterday afternoon for
Sacramento. They are all wanted as witnesses
at the preliminary examination to-day of Ivan
Kovaiev, charged with the murder of Mr. and
Mrs. F. H. L. Weber on December 29 last.
There is an article on the market seldom
qua led and never excelled— Jesse Moore Whig
y. Moore, Hum & Co. guarantee its purity. •
PAYING THE REVENUE TAX
It Became Due Yesterday and
the Taxpayers Were Very
Prompt.
THE CLERKS WERE KEPT BUSY,
Over One Thousand Dealers Were
on Hand and Received Their
Licenses.
The internal revenue fiscal year for
1895-96 began yesterday. In consequence
the 8750 retail liquor dealers in San Fran
cisco and the 6250 others liable to taxation
nnder the Federal laws were fairly well
represented throughout the day. Over
1000 people paid the tax and Uncle Sam
was $60,000 richer last uight than when the
San Francisco Internal Revenue office
closed Saturday night.
Collector Welburn and Chief Deputy
Collector Loup are watching the collec
tions very closely, and there was not a
hitch during last year. During 1894-95
there was $218,000 more collected than in
189&-94. This is a very suggestive fact, in
view of the cry of "hard times'' that has
been heard during all of 1894.
The people who paid their taxes yester
day were from all classes of liquor dealers.
There was the distiller, the wine-maker,
saloon-keeper, the corner groceryman, the
restaurant-keeper and the dive-owner.
Women, old and young, and in some cases
children came to pay the tax imposed by
the Government and receive the license
which will allow them to remain in busi
ness for another year.
Everybody was in a hurry and the clerks
in the office were worked to the utmost. All
the arrangement's had been perfected by
Chief Deputy Loup long before the crowd
began to arrive, and there was in conse
quence very little delay. This fact can be
seen at a glance when it is remembered
that over 1000 people paid their tax and re
ceived their receipts in less than eight
working hours. One old gentleman got
very angry because a young man pushed
in ahead of him, tmt order was restored
when another clerk took his name and
made out his receipt almost before he had
time to cool down.
"Although according to our books there
are 8760 retail liquor-dealers in San Fran
cisco." said Deputy Collector Loup, "it
does not follow that tne City collects a
license from them ; but any person who
retails wine and beer is liable for the inter
nal revenue tax. Any restaurant that
ftivea wine or beer with a meal has to pay.
It do.es not matter if it ib a five-ceat lunch
or ass feast, all are included. Houses in
which champagne is sold to the patrons
also have to pay, and quite a number of
arrests were made last year for an infringe
ment of the law. A considerable sum of
last year's surplus' was from the fines in
flicted on these people.
"There are 13,990 wholesale and retail
dealers in the district yet to hear from, and
it will probably be a couple of weeks be
fore oilr rush is over. I think we will have
no trouble in handling them, as the staff
is in good working order and every man
knows just exactly what he has to do."
It does not appear that any baking pow
der, when presented in competition with
the Royal, either at the Government tests
or before World's Fair juries, has ever re
ceived favor or award over the Royal or
made an equal showing in purity, strength
or wholesomeness.
DAVIDSON'S DISMISSAL
Prominent Local Societies
Protest and Desire His
Reinstatement.
Senator Perkins Advises a Me
morial to the Secretary of the
Treasury.
Indignation at the summary removal of
Professor George Davidson, first assistant
of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, has be
come so marked that the several bodies of
which be was an honorary or active mem
ber yesterday expressed their determina
tion to take action in the matter of re
questing and insisting upon his reinstate
ment.
The feeling haß extended beyond those
public bodies which are directly interested
and yesterday there was a very general
expression by numerous foreign-born
citizens of San Francisco, especially
French, German and English. They
referred to the long service of Pro
fessor Davidson and compared the inci
dent of his dismissal with the more
satisfactory plan in their own countries of
retiring such officials after thirty-five
years of service on three-fourths pay, with
honors added. These persons stand ready
to do anything they may do toward aiding
in his reinstatement, when the time comes
to act.
And the time to act is now, according to
the view taken of the matter by Senator
Perkins. The Senator spent a good por
tion of his time yesterday in receiving
representatives of the Technical Society,
the Geographical Society of the Pacific,
the Academy of Sciences and the Chamber
of Commerce. These bodies, or their
representatives, had determined that
it was a duty they owed to the
people of "this coast and the good name
of Ban Francisco to protest against the
dismissal of Professor Davidson, whose
career has been/)f such an honorable char
acter, and whose service to the Govern
ment and this coast has been so long rec
ognized by all who were acquainted with
him intimately and affected by his work
directly, or who knew him merely in his
official capacity.
They called npon Senator Perkins as th«
chief representative of the people of the
coast, and when they asked his opinion ho
was. quick to respond that whatever should
be done ought to be done immediately
while the people are well informed of the
facts. Then his advice was that these so
cieties should formulate statements of the
work done by Professor Davidson on this
coast, reciting his long service under the
Government, and then address a memorial
to the Secretary of the Treasury on the
subject and ask that the California Sen
ators and Congressmen put the whole mat
ter before Congress at the next session and
ask Professor Davidson's reinstatement.
"Do this now," said Senator Perkins,
"and provide each of the Senators and
Representatives with copies, that they may
have them for reference, and urge that
action be taken without delay when Con
gress assembles."
Captain W. L. Merry of the Chamber of
Commerce presented the matter to Senator
Perkins on behalf of that body, and ex»
pressed himself pleased with the sugges
tions made by the Senator. The chamber
will hold its regular quarterly meeting on
the 9th inst., at which time the matter
will be duly presented and efficiently dis
posed of.
President Harkness of the Academy of
Sciences went to the Senator and stated
that the academy desired to act in the
matter, and upon receiving the sugges
tions of Senator Perkins he prepared the
following statement and presented it at
last night's meeting;
Ladies and gentlemen, members of the
Academy of Sciences: The public press has in
formed you that Professor Davidson, a member
of this academy and for many years its presi
dent, has, in defiance of civil service rules,
been summarily dismissed from the position
he has so honorably filled as director of the
Geodetic Survey of this coast: therefore It Is a
duty incumbent upon us that we, as a body,
should take some action in the matter — such
action as should express our sentiments upon
so important a subject.
I would therefore ask you to devise some
method by which we may, through our rep
resentatives In Congress, convey to the Govern
ment at Washington the sentiments of this
academy in the very important matter which
I now present for your consideration.
Hakvkt \v. Harkness, President.
San Francisco, July 1, 1895.
W. 8. Chapman, G. P. ,Rixford and Dr.
Gustavesen were appointed a committee to
draft a suitable memorial.
Members of the board of regents of the
University of California, and also some of
the faculty, called on Senator Perkins and
expressed the intention of entering their
Brotest against the removal of Professor
•avidson, and urging his reinstatement.
The Senator is in receipt of letters from" 1
Professor Howison and President Kellogg
of the University of California, in which
they write in the highest terms of Pro
fessor Davidson and desire his return to
his position.
Will Be Married This Evening.
The marriage of Cecil Wirt Mark and Miss
Susan Hert, daughter of Mrs. Anna Hert, will
take place at Grace M. £. Church, corner of
Twenty-first and Capp streets, this evening ,
Miss Hert is the soprano of the church choir,
and Mr. Mark is superintendent <>t the Sunday
school of Grace M. E. Church. They will be at
home after August 1 at 1012 Twentieth street.
The United Brethren in Christ of tb.
Old Constitution have 22,8 07 members.
° NEW . TO-DAY— AMUSEMENTS. , ' \
THERE'S~~ANOTHER
NO SUCCESS
LET LAST
UP NIGHT ;
NOTHING BUT ENTHUSIASM I : - ■
NOTHING BUT PRAISE ! ,\
CHEEKS! BBAVOSI ENCORES t
Special Matinee Thursday. July 4th,
THE FRAWLEY COMPANY
. Presenting the Greatest American Comedy.
"THE SHKTATOR"
. Magnificent Scenery and Superb Costumes.
Reserved Seats i
Night 16c, 25c, 50e and tf}9
Matinee............. 15c» 85c and 500
MOROSCO'S »
GRAND OPERA-HOUSE.
The Handsomest Family Theater! America.
WALTER MOROSCO....boIe Lessee ana Uaoatet
EVERT EVENING AT EIGHT, /°
FIFTH WEEK OF THE EMINENT——*
Author— Actor— Manager, •
WALTER SANFOKD —
' In His Great York Melodrama,
"UNDER THE LASH"
Evkj-'ixo Pbicics— 25c and 50&'
Family Circle and Gallery. 10c.
SPECIAL MATINKE JULY 4th.
Usual Matinees Saturday and Sunday.
TIVOLI OPERA-HOUSE
Mbs. Ebkkbtixx Kbeunu Proprietor & Manager
"HURRAH FOR THE FOURTH 1"
— —EVERY EVENING
Regal Freseutatloxi
. / Of the Glorious American Comic Opera, . :
! 4 TAR AND TARTAR
*>^^_rv>^J^J^jn_w_n_rcr^r^^^w^-O_^^J^-^~l-«**u~«^~>^~w**^**■ '-
••NOTHING IS LIKE IT USED TO BE."
EVERYTHING CHANGED
••FOR THE BETTER!"
. , "Look Out for the Stick.'*
: Popular Prices-— 2feo and sOc
CALIFORNIA THEATErf
Al Hatman & Co. (Incorporated) ...Proprietors
i 3d Week and Still Crowded •;
Matinees Fourth of July and Saturday.
DENMAN THOMPSON'S PLAY,
THE OLD
HOMESTEAD I
Management of E. A. McFAKLAND.
NEW SONGS THIS WEEK
BY THE DOUBLE QUARTET.
. Remember— Matinee Fourth of July.
,;;' ORPHEUM. V
, O'Farrell Street, Between Stockton and Powell.
'/-■ TO-NIGHT (MONDAY), JUI.Y 1.
nPARALLELED ARRAY OF NOVELTIES!
The Greatest! The Best ! The Latest I
. THE DE FOEKESXB,
.. ' The Famous Whirlwind Dancers.
"MISS SCOTTIE,"
The Calculating: and Card-playing Scotch CoUle.
BARTLETT AND MAY.
.-• Peerless Grotesque Comedians.
I.ES FREREB MARTINETTI,
THE MILLAR BROS.
And a Great Vaudeville Company*
Reserved seats, 25c; Balcony, 10c; Opera cnalrj .
and Box seats, 60c.
, Jt^-GRAND MATINEE JULY 4. ■ :
RUNNING RUNNING " ■
RACES! aJPB^v RACES
CALIFORHIA JOCKEY CLUB RACES,
SPRING ME E I N G I
BAY DISTRICT .TRACK.
Races Monday, Tuesday, ; Wednesday, t,
; Thursday, Friday and Saturday—
. _: or Shine. ;■: , r
I ■ Five or more races each day. . Race* start at 2:30
p. x. sharp. McAllister and Ueary street cars pass
the gate.
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