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MILLIONAIRES IN COURT.
Defense of John W. Mackay
and His Associates in the
Fox Suit.
SENATOR JONES' DEPOSITION.
Story of the Reopening of the Con
solidated California and Vir
ginia Mine.
The suit of Theodore Fox against John
W. Mackay, Senator John P. Jones and
other directors of the Consolidated Cali
fornia and Virginia Mining Company, for
an accounting, was taken up lor trial by
Judge Seaweil yesterday.
This is a case with issues similar in
some respects to those in the Hale & Nor
cross case, and the amount of money in
volved is |1,829,000. The demand for an
accounting was made in December, 1891,
and the case has since that time been in
the courts.
In the complaint Mr. Fox alleges that
the directors of the Consolidated California
JOHN W. MACKAY AS KE SAT ALONE IN 'iH£ COSNEE OF
JUD3E SEAWELI/S COURT.
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ana Virginia Company deprived the stock
holders of large profits by a contract under
■which the ores were handled. This was a
contract with Senator John P. Jones, who
worked the upper levels and caused the
ores to be milieu by the Comstock Milling
Company, which plaintiff believes was
controlled by Mackay. Flood and Jones.
Mr. Mackay was in court yesterday, and
he modestly sat in the corner furthest from
the witness-stand, upon which attention
generally was centered. Other defendants
•present "were: Charles H. Fish, president
of the Consolidated California and Virginia
Mining Company; Secretary A. W.
Havens, George R. Wells and Cornelius
O'Connor. These were represented by
Attorneys Deal, Tauszky and Wells, and
the plaintiff's side of the case was con
ducted by H. G. Sieberst.
As was" stated at the opening of the case,
Mr. Fox expects to prove that John W.
Mackay, Senator J. P. Jones and J. C.
Flood controlled a majority of the capital
stock of the Consolidated" California and
Virginia Mining Company; that they en
tered into a contract witn the ComsU"
Mill and Mining Company to mill the o: •
of the corporation first named at $7 a ton,
and that a large amount of ore was milled
under the contract. A fair price for the
milling of the ore would have been $4 a
ton, it is stated, but Mr. Fox holds that by
fraud in the contract the stockhoMprs
were overcharged to the amount of $1,929,
--000.
The defendants declare that Fox has no
standing in court, for the reason that he is
not a stockholder. They say that Fox
made a demand for an investigation before
the suit was begun, and that the directors
appointed a day for the investigation, but
that Fox did not appear.
The first of the testimony in the case
was from the deposition of Senator Jones.
The witness said in this deposition that he
' knew in a general way about his interest in
the Comstock Mill and Mining Company,
but he was unable to say whether stock
had ever been issued to him. He owned
about one-third of the property of the
company, while Mackay and Flood owned
two-thirds.
He could not name the offices of the
company, but he. thought that his nephew,
H. M. Gorham, was secretary. He testi
fied that he knew nothing of the profits of
the company. His interest was purely
financial, as he had never taken an active
part in the conduct of its affairs. Some
years ago the witness owned the Eureka
and Morgan mills, which were subse
quently acquired by the Mill and Mining
Company. Mackay also owned an inter
est in those mills. He was unable to state
how the title passed to the Comstock Mill
and Mining Company.
In 1885 or 1886, continued Senator Jones,
the idea occurred to him of reopening the
Consolidated Virginia mine, which had
been abandoned and was tnen a wreck.
Senator Fair had declared that there was
no ore in this mine.
The superintendent and foreman agreed
with Fair and friends declared he was
crazy to undertake the venture. Mackay
had no faith in the plan. In the face of
this advice Jones investigated, and found
that $75,000 would be necessary to retimber
the mine and that an expenditure of $150,
--000 would be entailed before a car of pav
ing ore could be hoisted to the surface.
Nevertheless, he went to the directors of
the Consolidated Virginia mine to get a
contract, and finally secured an agreement
upon which he was able to reopen the
mine.
The mining company agreed to pay $9 a
ton for the milling of the ore, while Jones
was to pay all expenses, including Sutro
Tunnel charges, and guarantee the com
pany a return of 50 cents on every ton. At
that time tne stock of the mining company
was worth about 10 cents a share. Pur
suant to the contract he expended between
$100,000 and $125,000, and developed a rine
body of ore, after which he surrendered
his contract. It was after the surrender
ing of this contract that the Comstock
Mill and Mining Company was incor
porated. Then the contractwith the min
ing company to mill ore at $7 a ton was
made.
Senator Jones declared that no attempt
had ever been made to defraud the stock
holders of the mining company.
Tne next witness was Secretary Havens,
who presented the full list of stockholders
in the Consolidated California and Vir
ginia Mining Company and the amount of
stock held by each.
He was examined at some length in re
lation to the books of the company and the
case was continued to Monday.
AN OFFICIAL STOREKEEPER.
Adverse Opinion Upon a Modoc Super
visor's Claim Against the Connty.
Attorney-General Fitzgerald has ren
dered an interesting decision relating to
the purchase of supplies for county offices
wherein a county oilicer was and is inter
ested in the firm from which the goods
were purchased. His opinion is based upon
an inquiry from John E. Raker, District
Attorney of Modoc County.
E. Lauer & Sons presented a claim for
merchandise sold to Modoc County. E.
Lauer was a member of the Board of Su
pervisors and owned a controlling interest
in the stock of thp corporation at the time.
The Attorney-General is of the opinion
that under the county government act of
1893 the claim of E. Lauer & Sons for mer
chandise purchased while E. Lauer was a
member of the Board of Supervisors is an
invalid claim anil cannot be allowed.
Mr. Raker asked for a second opinion
concerning the claim of Benjamin Lauer,
one of the sons and a member of the cor
poration. The latter purchased goods
from the corporation which he sold to the
county, and when paid by the county
credited the corporation with the amount
charged to himself for such goods. The
Attorney-General is of the opinion that
Benjamin Lauer's claim must be allowed,
as the District Attorne-y's statement shows
that Lauer purchased the property indi
vidually from the corporation and had the
same charged to himself on the books of
the corporation. The goods then became
his individual property, in which the cor
poration had no further interest; conse
quently Supervisor Lauer, a member of
the corporation, is presumed to have no
interest, direct or indirect, provided, of
course, that the purchase of the goods by
Benjamin Lauer was bona fide.
PRACTICAL CO-OPERATION.
The Successful Business of a
Los Angeles Grocery
Firm.
Employers and Employes Divide the
Net Profits and Are Pros
perous.
Several month's ago Labor Commissioner
Fitzgerald received from one of the pro
fessors in the university at Chicago a
letter requesting that he forward any in
formation he might possess upon the sub
ject of co-operative corporations in this
State. It was not until Mr. Fitzgerald
visited Los Angeles that he was able to
secure any information on the matter. He
said: "While I was in Los Angeles I dis
covered a model co-operative store in suc
cessful operation. It is the wholesale and
retail grocery-store of J. R. Newberry &
Co. I should have said stores, for they
have half a dozen establishments in that
part of the State all conducted upon the
co-operative principle.
"There are four members at the head of
the firm, and their plan is very simple.
They pay their employes good wages and
at the end of the year the net profits are
divided, the employers taking one-half
and the employes the other half. The
employes' share is divided pro rata accord
ing to the positions held and the wages re
ceived. This really makes the employes
partners in the business, and as such
every man is keenly alive to the interests
of the business. The division is made
every year when the firm takes in stock.
"Mr. New berry told me that he adopted
this system not as a matter of principle
but of business. The employes do not
allow anything to go to waste that can be
saved, and their care saves the firm from 2
to 5 per cent on the natural loss in stock.
For example, a barrel of olives worth $50
burst, and Mr. Newberry said that not
over $10 could be saved. To his surprise
he found every cent's worth had been
saved by the head man ancl a porter,
who had worked half of a night putting
the fruit up in fancy glass packages. In
the Los Angeles store there are about
fifteen men employed and every one is a
drummer for the "store. As a "result the
store does a very large business.
"The firm's other stores run from five to
ten men each. The store at Riverside
does a business of $150,000, and the others
in proportion to the size of the towns in
which they are located. Mr. Newberry
says that his father in Germany followed
the same system successfully, and the Los
Angeles man has conducted his business
on this principle for twenty-nine years.
He says that he would have been bank
rupt several times if it had not been for
his employe-partners who stood by him
in hard jtimes. Not one of the employes
could be induced to leave the firm. One
thing Mr. Newberry insists upon, and that
is that every one of his men shall get his
life insured. Mr. Newberry says he will
look out for the men when they are alive,
but the latter must make provision for
their families in case of death. This co
operative store in Los Angeles is the most
perfect I have ever seen. Its interior has
more the appearance of a bazaar or fair
than an ordinary grocery-store, and all the
men are well satisfied with their posi
tions."
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1895.
TO DEMAND A FORFEITURE
Property-Owners Organizing
to Fight the Market-Street
Company.
WANT STREET-CAR SERVICE.
South of the Park Citizens Want the
Ocean Boulevard Graded and
Improved.
The end is not yet. The Market-street
Railway Company has struck a snag — a
very laree, jarring, immovable sort of
snag, one of those kind that rip the tire
open and make the puncture past mend
ing. The residents and property-owners
of the district immediately south of
Golden Gate Park are thoroughly in ear
nest and mean to have their streetcar
service renewed on the Clayton, Waller,
Cole and Carl streets branch or have the
franchise forfeited.
Indeed the Market-street Company didn't
begin to appreciate what a very big snag it
had struck when it suddenly and almost
surreptitiously robbed these people of
their streetcar facilities. They have proved
themselves — these cheated property-owners
and residents — a determined set of men.
The meeting Wednesday evening at Mr.
Lang's residence, exclusively reported in
The Call, was only the beginning of the
big fight.
Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock there will
be a general meeting of residents and
property-owners of this district at the
office of Solomon Getz, in the Crocker
building. The meeting of Wednesday
evening was attended most largely by the
citizens of Ashbury Heights. At this Sat
urday afternoon meeting there will be
representatives from all the districts south
of the park. A permanent organization
will be formed by these gentlemen and a
carefully considered formal plan of pro
cedure laid out. The new organization
will probably be known as the South of the
Park and Ocean Boulevard Improvement
Association. Such men as Thomas U.
Sweeney, Judge Troutt, C. W. Pope and
others of wealth and prominence in the
community will be influential in the new
organization. The truth is that the dis
trict south of Golden Gate Park is inhab
ited and owned very largely, not only by
men of intelligence, enterprise and deter
mination, but by men who add to these
qualities the powerful potency of ample
wealth.
Now the Market-street Company will
find itself with a very large-sized fight on
its hands when these men are once thor
oughly organized. In order to spite an
old score against Adolph Sutro and make
unavailable his proffered gift to the
Affiliated Colleges the Market-street Com
pany has robbed these citizens of the
streetcar facilities that were assured to
them by the terms of the Metropolitan
Street Railway franchise.
Superintendent Vining's excuse for stop
ping the service — that, it did not pay— is
rooked upon as an insult by the property
owners. And his further reply to their
protests, his offer to run the cars in the
mornirfg and evening, which would still
hurt the site for the Affiliated Colleges, is
looked upon by these gentlemen with the
same feelings as one who sees a prostrate
man kicked by the same foot that knocked
him down.
But these sonth of the park people are
not prostrate. Far from it, indeed. They
are standing straiebt and looking their
antagonist squarely in the eye. They
are mostly " men of wealth and in
fluence in this community. They not
only want the streetcar service for
their own accommodation, but for the
financial prosperity of their valuable prop
erties. They offer'the Market-street Com
pany two alternatives: To run its cars
every fifteen minutes, according to the
terms of its franchise; or to forfeit the
franchise and give up the roadbed to others
who would be glad to operate it, even at a
loss. And if these men do not bring the
Market-street Company to time, then in
deed is the power 01 the octopus omnipo
tent in this City.
The meeting; Saturday afternoon pro-
Doses to appoint two committees, or per
haps a single committee with a two-fold
purpose. The first purpose is to visit Mr.
Vining to find out— if such a thing is pos
sible—just what the M ark et-Btreet Com
pany means to do in the premises. There
i 3 not much hope that the committee will
get much satisfaction from this source.
The appointing power foresees this proba
bility, and at the same time a committee
will be instructed to lay the matter before
the Board of Supervisors at its first meet
ing in September and demand a forfeiture
of the Metropolitan Street Railway fran
chise.
Another matter for which the South of
the Park and Ocean Boulevard Improve
ment Association- if that be its name
will organize for is implied by the latter
part of the title. The great highway, so
long a disgrace to the City and so long
used solely to the advantage and profit of
the Southern Pacific Company to the ex
clusion of all other citizens and the uses
for which it was years ago reserved, must
be improved, say these property-owners.
This improvement is of vast importance
not only to the property-owners south of
the park, but to the entire City. The plan
to make a great ocean boulevard of this
highway, if ever carried out on its original
terms, will give San Francisco one of the
finest thoroughfares in the City, will make
a continuous open driveway to the new race
track and also give the City almost a com
plete encircling boulevard. At the present
time the Southern Pacific has the ex
clusive use of the great highway, though
there is no warrant out that of possession
for their occupancy.
Thomas U. Sweeney and several other
wealthy men who have large land holdings
south of the park, will now, for a second
time, make strenuous efforts to have the
great highway improved, and the new or
ganization will have that end in view as
one of its main objects.
Of course this will mean the uprooting
of the Southern Pacific tracks, for even the
octopus, in spite of its assertion that its
tracks keep the sand from drifting, will
hardly dare to set forth the claim that its
tracks would improve a macadamized
boulevard. Evidently if the highway is to
become a boulevard the spur tracks must
go. Several other matters will, in time,
come before the new association, such, for
instance, as the opening of J street, the es
tablishment of sewer grades and such other
much-needed improvements.
GOETHE-SCHILLEB FESTIVAL.
Preparation* Being Made for a Grand
Affair in' the Pavilion.
A meeting of the ladies invited to form
an auxiliary to the Goethe-Schiller Monu
ment Association was held yesterday after
noon in Beethoven Hall, on Post and
Powell streets. Charles Bundschu pre
sided. About 150 ladies had been asked to
attend this preliminary meeting, and more
than half the number were present. Many
sent regrets for their inability to attend,
and several sent ca§h donations for the
fund to be raised for the purpose of erect
ing a monument in Golden Gate Park.
The president gave an interesting outline
of the character of the festivities to be held
in the Mechanics' Pavilion in November
next, and a general discussion, in which
many of the Jadies took part, showed that
a great deal of enthusiasm prevailed and
that the ladies will assist most effectively
in making the contemplated festival a
great success.
A committee consisting of Mrs. Fred
Hess, Mrs. Dr. Recensberger and Mrs. W.
C. Hildebrandt was appointed and re
quested to report at the next meeting the
names of twelve ladies who with them
selves will form the executive committee
of the Ladies' Auxiliary to act in conjunc
tion with the gentlemen's executive com
mittee of the association.
A general invitation will be tendered to
all ladies who are interested in this festi
val to be present at the next meeting of the
Ladies' Auxiliary, which will meet on the
26th inst. At that meeting the committee
of three will report their selections. The
next move will be to organize the different
sections to take charge of the booths.
McDonald is fokgotten.
The Five Cases Against Him Were
Dropped From Judge Murphy's
Calendar Yesterday.
With the coming of the Durrant case the
five cases against It. H. McDonald Jr.—
two of forgery, two of embezzlement and
one of felony — which were pending in
Judge Murpny's court have dropped into
oblivion. Yesterda-y the finishing touch
was put upon their state of retirement by
an order of court dropping the rive cases
from the calendar of Department 3.
Legally speaking, the cases, like Mo
hammed's cotlin, are between heaven and
earth. They cannot be tried in Judge
Murphy's court, they will not be tried
elsewnere if other Judges have as much
say as was formerly the case. When it
first cams to a question as to where they
should be assigned none of the criminal
Judges wanted them. All complained of
full calendars and long lines of waiting
prisoners waiting for that hearing which
the law is supposed to give them, and to
fix matters the five cases were assigned to
Judge Murphy, who had no criminal cal
endar, but offered to take a few cases to
help out the criminal department.
One of the forgery charges came to a
trial of some weeks, and after causing no
end of scandal and the subsequent convic
tion of William Hurley for attempted
jury-bribing, the jury in the case dis
agreed. Then Judge Murphy cried enough.
NEW OPESA-HOUSB, REDWOOD CITY.
He vowed that no more McDonald cases
should come within the doors of Depart
ment 3, and in pursuant to his determina
tion the cases were yesterday consigned to
comparative oblivion by the order men
tioned.
Who will take the cases now is a delicate
question, for all the Judges have declared
against them, and will not take them up
unless compelled to do so.
A CORNER IN LANTERNS
Chinese Speculators Have Se
cured Control of Decora-
tive Lamps.
Dogs Are Poisoned In the Seaside
Suburb at the Rate of Thirty
a Week.
An informal meeting w*as held on the
Sausalito yesterday morning regarding the
naval engagement fete. The City Council
was represented by General Dickinson and
J. W. Sperry, and J. B. Stetson ap
peared for the railroad and ferry company.
While the fete will undoubtedly take place
sometime next month, and while all the
preparations for the placing of the ships
and the building of the fort will occupy
but a short period, the difficulty of procur
ing Chinese lanterns for the civic decora
tions is going to cause some delay.
There is a corner in Chinese lanterns.
The wily Chinese, aided and abetted by a
ring of* shrewd Caucasian speculators,
have made a corner in lanterns. Those
fragile paper illuminators have jumped up
like a mining stock when rich ore is struck.
They are closely held, and 100 per cent
advance is demanded for even the most
modest quality. Now, as several thousand
dozens would be necssary to make a good
showing on the hillsides fronting the oay,
the expense of illuminating would be more
than the householders feel inclined to pay.
To obviate this J. W. Sperry has
suggested that he telegraph to the agents
of his company in Hongkong to ship
over the necessary number of lanterns by
the next Asiatic steamer bound hither.
This will defeat the rapacity of the specu
lators, and lighten by 100 per cent the
expenses of house illumination.
The head committee now consists of ,7.
B. Stetson, J. \\\ Sperry, General Dickin
son, C. P. Hamilton, j. T. Harmes, D.
Ross and C. C. Bruce.
This committee will meet on Saturday
afternoon and appoint sub-committees to
attend to the various details of the fete.
The Sausalito Borgia is again abroad in
the land. During the last thirty days the
average of dogs that have taken the potent
pill has been thirty a week. At this rate a dog
will soon be as much of a rarity in Sausa
lito as a white blackbird. Many valuable
dogs have been destroyed and their mourn
ing owners are wild to discover the perpe
trators of these dastardly murders. Sus
picion centers on an individual whose
progress by any home when a dog lingers
on the street is" strewn with canine corpses.
If he is guilty he does his work so cleverly
that it is almost impossible to prove his
guilt. But he is closely watched, and his
carcass, if not his life, will be in serious
danger when the dog-slaughter is brought
home to him.
PAVING POLSOM STREET.
Several Bicycle Clubs Will Join in the
Agitation.
The executive committee of the South
Side Improvement Club met representa
tives from seven bicycle clubs last evening
at Irish-American Hall, on Howard street,
for the purpose of devising methods for co
operating in making the mass-meeting a
success called for September 3, at Metro
politan Hall, to agitate the paving of
Folsom street from Nineteenth to the
water front.
The following-named bicycle clubs were
represented: Sun Francisco, Polytechnic,
Liberty, California, Imperial, Waverly and
Outing. In addition to the above mem
bers of three Folsom-street improvement
clubs were in attendance and one repre
sentative from the Golden Gate Improve
ment Club.
Dr. T. A. Rottanzi presided. On mo
tion of A. B. Maguire. seconded by M.
Haas, the chairman appointed the follow
ing gentlemen to constitute a visiting com
mittee to the various bicycle clubs of the
city, asking co-operation In the proposed
meeting: Henry Winn, J. W. Maguire, J.
Schwartz, L. Samuels, T. A. Rottauzi.
ALHAMBRA OPERA-HOUSE
Redwood City to Have a High-
Class Temple of
Music.
C. JOSSELYN THE BUILDER.
Fine Equipment of Scenery and a
Curtain of Surpassing:
Beauty.
The Alhambra of Redwood City may
never rival in grandeur and historic asso
ciation the famous palace of Granada, but
it will give to the progressive dwellers in
the capital of San Mateo County all the
comforts of a modern opera-house. Red
wood, as Paul said of the town
whence became, "is no mean city." There
is public spirit in the place. Beautiful,
broad ways— macadamized, watered and
free of dust — render it pleasant to drive
from town to the suburban villas. Water
communication with San Francisco snp-
plements railway facilities. Vessels draw
ing ten feet can come to the town, hence
there is traffic for freight and passenger
boats.
The population of the place is 3000; a
modern electric plant supplies light; the
water supply is pure and abundant, the
drainage system first class, and the health
of the town consequently good.
No wonder then that the people so hap
pily endowed with the solid comforts of
life should nigh for the intellectual pleas-
ures of music and the arama. and it is
■wholly in harmony with the spirit of es
thetic progress on the peninsula that A.
Page Brown should plan and C. Josselyn
build an opera-house worth}' of the city.
Now the plans have been accepted and
the contract awarded. The house is of the
mission type of architecture with the
blending of the Moorish. There is a series
of ornamental windows across the front,
heavy cornices project, and the tiled roof
lends poetry to the structure. The build
ing is to be of brick, sand finished. Seat
ing capacity for 500 people will be pro
vided. A spacious stage and fine dressing
rooms will delight the actors and singers.
Then the auditorium is so picturesque
with its quaint timbers overhead instead
of the finished ceiling. Gains in ventila
tion and opportunity for decoration have
been thought of by the owner and the archi
tect.
But this is not all. The drop curtain
will be a thing of beauty and therefore a
joy forever. The Josselyn genius in the
creation of this curtain will be refreshed,
stimulated and animated by the collective
genius of San Francisco bohemianism.
John Stanton is carrying the curtain in his
mind now. Other artists are making sug
gestions, and when Mr. Josselyn goes
abroad next month his plastic mind will
secure drop curtain impressions in London
and Paris.
The equipment of scenery is sure to be
ample and fit for the production of ODera
and the rendition of drama.
The desires of the young people of Red
wood City have not lacked consideration.
Dancing in the Alhambra is sure to be a
delight, for the floor is laid on lines to
make dancing agreeable. Below will be
stores and a cafe. Electric lights, gas jets
and lire escapes are to be provided for the
building. In truth, the Alhambra will
light up well.
Contractor Robert Brown, who built the
Burlingame Country Club, will construct
the new opera-house.
At the next election the people of San
Mateo will consider the proposition of
building a new courthouse in keeping
with the progress and wealth of the com
munity. The town has now one of the
finest school buildings in California, a bank
with a capital of $200,000, which Neighbor
Josselyn founded, and also three good
hotels.
RECEPTION TO A EECTOR.
llev. William Hall Moreland of St.
Luke's Welcomed Home After
His Vacation.
Rev. and Mrs. William Hall Moreland
were welcomed home after a four months'
sojourn in the East by a reception at the
home of Mrs. Theodore E. Smith, 1619
Washington street, on Wednesday evening.
The Ladies' Parochial Society, of which
Mrs. Smith is directress, tendered the re
ception, «nd all members of the parish,
other friends of the rector of St. Luke's
ana all the Episcopal clergy were invited.
There were more than 250 guests. Mr.
and Mrs. Smith and Rev. Mr. and Mrs.
Moreland received, and many members of
the church served as an entertainment
committee for the evening. Vocal music
was provided by St. Luke's vested choir,
Miss Winn, soprano; Miss Garlic, contralto,
and Mr. Ladu, tenor. Brandt's orchestra
played at intervals.
The drawing-rooms were tastefully deco
rated, and refreshments were served in a
vine-covered nook on the lawn, which was
brilliantly lighted and gay with bunting
and Hags.
A member of the parish said the recep
tion marked a new social era in the his
tory of St. Luke's. There have been few
social assemblages in the parish hereto
fore owing to the lack of church parlors,
but it is expected that the Ladies Paro
chial Society .will arrange for occasional
socials at homes in the future.
Ail were glad to extend the hand of wel
come to the popular rector on his return
and he has resumed his duties with added
vigor since his visit to his old home in
Charleston, S. C.
League of the Cross Cadets.
Company G, League of the Cross Cadets of
St. Brigid's parish, will give a grand compli
mentary entertainment at National Guard
Hall, on Ellis street, near Polk, next Friday
evening. The programme will include num
bers by the best local professional and amateur
talent. Rev. P. C. Yorke, the chancellor of the
diocese, will deliver an address. A feature of
the occasion will be an inspection and an exhi
bition drill. There will also be a competitive
drill for two handsomely engraved gold med
als, one for privates and one for non-commis
sioned officers. The awards will be mnde by
Rev. M. P. Ryan of St. Brigid's, spiritual di
rector of the company, and the judges will be
Sergeants Healey and O'Connell of Battery H
and Sergeant Kroppof Battery L, United States
Artillery, stationed at the Presidio.
NEW TO-DAY— GOODS. ___
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To-Day's Trade !
In connection with many other REMARKABLE CLEARANCE
BARGAINS we to-day make A SPECIAL OFFERING of the fol-
lowing
Extraordinary Attractions!
COLORED DRESS GOODS I
At 1 5 Cents.
37 pieces 37-INCH ALL-WOOL FIGURED DRESS GOODS, former price 50c, will be
closed out at 15c a yard. Bffß
At 35 Cents.
157 pieces 37-INCH MIXED DRESS GOODS, in pinbead checks, figured and tweed
effects, former price 50c and 75c, will be closed out at 25c a yard.
\ At 3 5 Cents.
125 pieces 40-INCH ALL-WOOL PORTEGO CHEVIOTS, medium mixtures, former
price $1, will be closed out at 25c a yard.
- At 35 Cents.
72 pieces 37-INCH ALL-WOOL NAVAL STORM SERGE, form price 50c, will bo
closed out at 35c a yard.
LADIES' WAISTS! -••■-
At 5 5 Cents.
LADIES'. LAUNDRIED SHIRT WAIST, in fancy stripes, checks and figures, full
sleeves, yoke back, regular price $1, will be offered at 55c.
At 75 Cents.
LADIES LAUNDRIED SHIRT WAIST, extra full sleeves, in all fancy shades,
made of heavy percale, regular price $1 25, will be offered at 75c.
At SI. GO.
LADIES' EXTRA GOOD QUALITY PERCALE AND LAWN WAISTS, laundried
collar and cuffs, blue, pink, plaids and all fancy shades, regular price $1 50 and
$1 75, will be offered atsl.
GLOVES! GLOVES!
At G5 Cents.
200 dozen LADIES' BIARRITZ KID GLOVES (with 2 hooks at wrist), Foster, Paul &
Co. make, in dark, medium and tan shades, good value for $1, will be offered at 65c
a pair.
At $1.00.
75 dozen LADIES' 8-BUTTON LENGTH MOUSQUETAIRE DRESSED KID
GLOVES, in dark and medium colors, also black, extra value for $1 50, will be
offered at $1 a pair. •) :._•■
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SAUSALITO THE PATIENT
Dr. Freeman Turns the Tables
on the People by
the Sea.
The State Board of Medical Exam-
Iners Gather Up Some Rec-
ords in Old England.
Sausalito has its little troubles as well as
any other city. This time it can be laid at
the door of Richard T. Freeman, who was,
up to yesterday, a practicing physician in
the State of California, having been issued
a certificate to practice by the State Board
of Medical Examiners in December, 1894.
Yesterday afternoon Dr. Wadsworth,
secretary of the board, went to Sausalito
and informed the diamond-decked doc
tor that he would expect him to deliver
that particular certificate up for cancella
tion, and Mr. Freeman proceeded to do so,
writing the words "Delivered for cancella
tion" across the certificate with his own
hand, using red ink to accomplish the
work.
In an interview with a Catx reporter last
night Dr. Wadsworth stated that he had
the following reasons for demanding the
certificate:
"Dr. Freeman came here in 1894 and the
State board issued him a certificate on the
ground ol his having been a licentiate of
the Royal College of Surgeons in 18(>4. We
did not know what became of him after
that until he turned up in Sausalito, where
he got into some difficulty recently. It
resulted in a local physician writing to
Dr. Miller, registrar of the General Council
of Medical Education and Registration of
the United Kingdom, 2v)9 Oxford street,
London, and he was promptly informed
that Freeman had been removed from the
register for criminal practice in 1893, and
to bear out the statement Dr. Miller sent
an extract from the minutes of the General
Council May 23 of the same year. The
extract contained information that Dr.
Freeman had by criminal practice caused
the death of Ellen Matilda Franklin at the
instigation of William Chaslwoo, and was
assisted by Annie Francis. He failed to
appear before the council to answer lo the
charges and his name was forthwith re
moved.
"I took this statement to Sausalito with
me and asked him what he intended to do
in the matter and he confessed that it was
all true I informed him that the State
association could not submit to having
him practice in California, and he forthwith
delivered his certificate, writing his can
cellation witli his own hand. We are try
ing to keep the medical profession in Cali
fornia clean such incidents, and I
assure you they are very unpleasant to us.
Before I left Sausalito his professional
board was removed and he is no longer a
practicing physician." »
Residents of Sausalito say that Dr.
Freeman was a man who jeemed very much
addicted to the diamond habit and* gener
ally wore them in profusion. He was a
man about 65 years of age and was rather
inclined to mingle with the bon-ton.
A Rapid Pilgrimage.
A telegram was received yesterday at the
Union Pacific office in this city, announcing
that the special train sent out by General Agent
D. W. Hitchcock of the Union Pacific with
Oakland Commandery had been running at the
rate of sixty miles an hour over the Nebraska
division of the railway, and had made such
headway it would arrive at Kansas City three
hours ahead of time. The Knights of Oakland
Commandery and their friends have been
treated to a most agreeable surprise in the ser
vice and attention given them under Mr.
Hitchcock's paternal supervision.
A New Memorial Hymn.
E. J. Stark, cantor of the Temple Emanu-El,
has composed and arranged for a solo and
double chorus a memorial hymn, "Why Are
Thou Cast Down, My Soul?" The hymn is de
voted to the memory of the composer's father,
Cantor Josef Stark.
OUTWITTED THE SHERIFF
A Houseful of Furniture Under
Attachment Spirited
Away
Whelan's Force of Men, Assisted by
the Police, Find It After a
Week's Search.
Sheriff Whelan has just passed an ex
ceedingly troublesome week, with enough
worry from day to day to keep him awake
at night, but he has come out successful
though with a determination to insist
upon strict discipline in his office.
Through some negligence in the case of
F. W. Gross, at 1012 York street, the Sher
iff's office was plunged into confusion ; every
man in it from Under Sheriff Clack to the
messenger was temporarily transformed
into a detective, and even the whole police
force was called upon to assist them in
every possible way.
Gross had furnished his house on York
street from a Mission-street dealer on the
installment plan. He failed, so it is de
clared, to pay according to contract and,
on August 12, was attached by the| Hard
ing Collection Agency for the amount of
the bill. The Sheriff put a man in charge
of the furniture, but it seems that the
keeper strolled away to see some other
property which had come under the official
lock and key. Incidentally he remained
away from Gross' place for a few hours,
altogether too iong for the safety of his
charge, for when he returned there wa9
nothing there but an empty, hollow cot
tage with an open door. The furniture
disappeared in the keeper's brief absence
with such rapidity and completeness it
was like a bit of magic.
The neighbors knew nothing, had seen
nothing, heard nothing, and all that re
mained for the keeper to do was to report
at the City Hall what had come upon him.
A search was at once commenced through
out the City. Some one had said that the
attached household goods went to Harri
son street, and then the hunt was turned
into the long thoroughfare. The police
took part in the search, with every office
assistant and outside deputy who could be
spared by the Sheriff. The assistant jailers
had double tasks to perform, for when
not actually employed in watching the
arisoners they were out on Harrison street,
[ore than a week was spent in the search,
and on Tuesday the property was discov
ered hidden in a back cellar in the Mission.
The owner of the house refused, however,
to allow either a policeman or Deputy
Sheriff upon his premises. Eventually
the furniture was recovered on a search
warrant and taken to the Sheriff's ware
house in triumpn.
But what troubled the Sheriff most was
that such a thing as attached property
under his lock and guarded by a keeper
should have disappeared on more occasions
than this particular one.
LIKELY TO RECOVER.
Charles Kane's Case Puzzling the
Doctors at the Hospital.
The case of the boy Charles Kane, who
was kicked by his father's horse and had
his skull crushed in Sunday in Gold en
Gate Park, is puzzling the doctors at the
Receiving Hospital.
A piece about four inches square was
taken from his skull and part of the brain
matter had oozed out. It was thought by
the doctors that he could not live many
hours, but he is still alive and there
are hopes that he may recover. Yesterday
morning he regained consciousness, and
when he opened his eyes and saw his
mother sitting at his bedside lie smiled ana
put his arms round her neck and kissed
her.
If he should recover a piece of silver
plate will be inserted to fill up the gap in
his skull. The puzzling question is
whether ttie loss of a portion of his brain
matter will permanently affect him, and if
so vi what way.