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THE WOMAN OF MYSTERY
Has the Long-Sought Witness
in the Durrant Case Been
Found?
CHIEF CROWLEY'S ODD REMARK.
Durrant Passes the Time In Paint-
Ing Pictures on the Walls of
His Cell.
The mysterious woman in the Durrant
case who is alleged to have had a certain
very unpleasant experience with Theodore
Durrant in the church library will not
down, and reports as to her identity are
giving the police quite enough to do dur
ing the present interval in the court pro
ceedings. In this connection yesterday
Chief Crowley let drop a curious expres
sion which might be construed into an ad
mission that the police have already se
cured such a witness. He was asked point
"blank what the name of the woman vas.
ilis reply was:
"If I tell you the name of the woman
some one will pull her down : some friend
\of the defense will prevent her from tes
tifying."
"Then you have got such a woman?"
pursued the questioner.
The Chief laughed carelessly and re
xnarked, "Well, I did not say so."
Captain Lees became very testy when
fesked about the matter, and intimated
that he took no stock in any such story be
cause his men had run down two hundred
fiuch rumors and found nothing in them.
"I am not going to hang Durrant," said
the captain. "I don't hang anybody. I
am simply going to give him a fair and
impartial "trial, as has been my custom all
my life."
General Dickinson and his associates in
the defense continue to speak of their
client's prospects with the utmost confi
dence, and express their satisfaction that
the case has now got beyond the period of
rumor and sensation to the proving of cold
i&cta. The general lett last night to clear
the cobwebs from bis brain by a hunting
trip in the Sierras.
At the County Jail Durrant finds that
the days devoid of the excitement of the
trial pass very slowly, and his cramped
quarters seem even smaller than they really
are.
To better wile away the hours and to
relieve the monotony of the blank walls
of his cell he has resorted to the brush,
and has begun on the interior of his prison
house an ambitious chef d'oeuvre in oils.
The Durrant family is accomplished in
many ways. The sister, now studying in
Germanyis an artist of considerable local
repute and a clever woodcarvor, besides
being a musician. Durrant has also much
skill with the brush and pencil, and the
sketch from which the painting is being
done is very creditable. It represent? a
yiew of the* Sausalito hills and the adja-
JJUEEAMT'S DESIGN POB. IHB FUTURE DECORATION OF HIS CELL.
[Reproduced from the prisoner's original sketch.]
cent bay, and the clever arrangement of
tiillars and arches, giving the impression
of looking from under a covered portico,
will doubtless relieve somewhat the shut
in sensation of a prison cell.
SUCK'S TWO ASSISTANTS
The Trustees Have Appointed
Olney and Busley to the
Positions.
Both Were Recommended to the
Board by the New Head of
the Faculty.
The trustees of the Hastings Law Col
lege met yesterday and tilled the positions
of assistant instructors, which have been
created since Judge Slr.ck was promoted to
the head of the institution.
Judge Slack had been asked to recom
mend two men for the places and he sub
mitted the names of Warren Olney Jr. and
R. S. Busley to the board. It was upon
these recommendations that the board
acted yesterday, and both young men were
put in without question. Olney is the son
of Warren Olney, a well-known attorney
of this City. He is a recent graduate of
the Hastings College and was student
under Judge Slack. Busley is a graduate
of Yale and came to this coast highly rec
ommended by the faculty there.
The new instructors will each receive
$1500 a year. Their places are the result of
a new order of things at the college insti
tuted after the departure of McKinstry
from the head of the faculty. The faculty
then consisted of only McKinstry and
Black, but under the new order of things,
while Judge Slack's salary is raised con
siderably, and three instructors are pro
vided instead of two, the amount paid for
salaries has been cut down. The new ap
pointees take office at once.
The board also appointed two of its num
bers to form a committee to co-operate
with those in charge of the arrangements
fora site for the Affiliated Colleges. It
was done mainly to keep in touch with the
efforts being made and not with a view of
talcing any more active interest in the
matter, if that were possible, than at for
merly.
TANNIN EXTBAOT FACTORY.
The First One in California Established
in Mendocino.
C. T. Scammon recently retumtd to this
City from Mendocino County, where he
has been superintending, for the Califor
nia Tannin Extract Company, the construc
tion of the first tannin extracting plant to
be established in the State.
The factory is near Signal, in the heart
of the forest, and is now running full
blast. By means of a powerful evaporator
the liquid obtained from leaching the
gronnd bark is reduced from 15 degrees of
strength to 100 degrees, and shipped in that
strength, though used by the tanneries at
about 40 degrees.
H. A. Marian, the inventor, claims that
the evaporator will take the juice from the
raw beets and reduce it until it will gran
ulate.
SAFE ORAOKEBS AT WORK.
An Attempt Made to Kifle Kubl§,
Schwarke & Co. 'a Safe.
A desperate attempt was made early
yesterday morning to crack the safe in the
establishment of Kuhis, Schwarke & Co.,
tbe wholesale liquor merchants at 129 Sut
ter street. The burglars broke off the
handle with a sledge, but failed to get into
the interior of the strong box.
Desisting from that attempt they turned
their attention to the cash register, from
which they took about $5 in silver, and
cigars and liquors were also purloined.
"An attempt was made by the same gang
to break into Sullivan's cloak house, but
no headway was made and the effort
proved futile. The police are of the opin
ion, from the character of the work, that
the job was done by novices.
CIPRICO FOUND GUILTY
He Was in a Conspiracy to
Forge and Utter Chinese
Certificates.
The Prisoner Was Also Involved In
the Famous Certificate Frauds
of 1888.
Ferdinand D. Ciprico was yesterday con
victed of a conspiracy to forge and utter
Chinese registration certificates by a jury
in the United States District Court yester
day. His defense was a very peculiar one.
He contended that he was really in the
plot to aid the Government and obtain in
formation for O. D. Stidger, who was act
ing for the Internal Revenue Agent. Car
roll Cook, his attorney, made the most of a
bad case, but failed to do anything with
the jurors, who found the prisoner guilty
of a "conspiracy to utter Chinese certifi
cates" and a "conspiracy to forge and utter
Chinese certificates."
Judge Morrow set the date of passing
sentence for next Thursday. The chances
are that the last count in the indictment
will be ignored, as it embodies the other
two, and that Ciprico will get four years in
Folsom, where Foss, his partner in crime,
is now serving a similar sentence. The
latter pleaded guilty to one charge of con
spiracy and two of s'mugglins opium.
When the District Court opened yester
day morning Judge Morrow began his ad
dress to the jury. It was an impartial
statement of the facts, and everybody ex
pected a verdict would be reached in a few
minutes. The jury was out nearly three
quarters of an hour, however, the only
point discussed being the numberof counts
on which they should find the prisoner
guilty. Ciprico had hope to the last, al-
though his attorney had none, and the
verdict came as a surprise to him. When
removed from the court by the United
States Marshal he walked in a dazed man
ner and had to be assisted.
This is not Ciprico's first encounter with
the Government. In 1887 he and Billy
Boyd, Kip, McLean and others were all
employed in the Custom-house. They
formed what became known as the Boyd-
Ciprico ring, and the goods they trafficked
were the red Chinese certificates of prior
residence then in use. Boyd was in the
Chinese Bureau, and he stole the certifi
cates, which were sold in China. Kip was
the Chinese interpreter, and Ciprico and
McLean were the Custom-nouse officers
Ciprico Listening to the Verdict.
[Sketched by a "Call" artist.]
who passed the Chinese on landing. Thou
sands upon thousands of these certificates
were sold, and large sums of money were
obtained by the gang before they were
caught.
Ciprico was tried for this offense in 1888
and the jury stood eleven for acquittal and
one for conviction. He was tried again in
the early part of 1889 and found not guilty.
On tnese occasions the courtroom was
crowded with his friends and his wife was
by his side thronghout it all. On this oc
casion there was not a single relative or
friend in court during the entire trial. His
wife has never been near him and the
chances are that she will never have any
thing to do with him again. All his prop
erty is gone, and when he has finished his
sentence he will be practically a pauper.
The case for the Government was pre
pared by Assistant United States Attorney
Bert Schlesinger, who also managed the
Erosecution. This ia the first big case he
as handled since talcing office and it cer
tainly reflects great credit upon his ability
as an attorney.
Free This Week.
Xfi BIG PRESENTS-ONE GIVEN WITH
Each Pound of Our
EXTRA VAX.UK BU-CENT TEAS.
GREAT AMERICAN IMPORTING TEA CO.'S,
62-58 Market street, S. F., Headquarters.
BRANCH STORES EVERYWHERE.
THE SAtt FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 1895.
YOUTH HONORS THE FLAG.
Saluting the Stars and Stripes
Part of the Dsily Pro
gramme.
FERVOR OF YOUNG PATRIOTS.
Custom Introduced by the Grand
Army of the Republic Highly
Educational.
"I give my head and my heart to my
country. One country, one language, one
flag!"
The pupils of the Stanford Primary
School on Eighth street, near Harrison,
assembled in the schoolyard yesterday and
while the little color-bearer, proud of new
honors, held the stars and stripes aloft the
children saiuted the flag with as much ap
parent reverence as any battle-scarred
veteran ever showed. This is not an un
usual occurrence. It is a part of the daily
programme, and in that particular school
is an incident of the passing into and out
of the building, which is done with the
CHILiBEN SALUTING THE iLAU AT Tx-E HEABST 6RAMBAE SCHOOL.
[From a photograph by Taber.]
military accompaniments of marching and
music.
The salutation of the flag is a daily cere
mony in the public schools of San Fran
cisco and is regarded by teachers and
pupils as a most important feature of the
routine of the day. Every school owns a
Hag. and in most cases every class in the
school numbers one among its possessions.
Each morning the children recite in con
cert some quotation in laudation of the
Land and principles represented by Native
colors and as one of their schoolmates un
furls the silken emblem they give the mili
tary salute. They have been trained to do
this with remarkable precision and
unanimity, and their attitude, coupled
with the" earnest rendering of a passage
from so eloquent a burst of patriotic feel
ing as Henry Ward Beecher's "The Amer
ican Flag" or Daniel Webster's master
utterances is indeed impressive. Some
times a trite expression may be varied to
suit the circumstances or the understand
ing of the children. "Do you mean the
head or the band?" was asked of a fervent
young patriot who had pledged his "head"
to his country. "I mean my head," he re
plied, with emphasis; "my brain and my
thoughts, you know." he added in expla
nation. Evidently the lesson had been
deeply impressed.
There are illustrative gestures in con
nection with the recitations and the pupils
always give them as though they realized
the full import of what is spoken.
"I guard carefully against the possibility
of the exercise becoming mechanical/
said the principal of the grammar school.
"When one recitation has become very
familiar a new one is taught. In every
reasonable way we try to develop spon
taneity of manner and emphasis, and 1 do
not know a pupil who does not show pride
in the short ceremonial."
It is required that every class shall learn
Key's famous air, and the children of the
City sing " 'Tis the star-spangled banner,
0 long may it wave," in enthusiastic and
tuneful choruses.
The custom of the salutation of the flag,
and indeed the acquisition of starry ban
ners as part of the property of the schools
of this country, is said to have originated
in the historic town of Lexington, Mass.,
and to be due to the efforts of the Grand
Army of the Republic. The movement
soon'extended to the Golden State, and
when the wave of patriotism aroused by
the Columbian celebration in this City in
1892 subsided it left as its most substantial
trace the beautiful custom in vogue in the
public schools.
The daily ceremonial is unquestionably
bearing fruits of patriotism. The soldier
who obeys the order "attention" at the
hoisting or lowering of the emblem of
purity, loyalty and bravery will do so the
more reverently because of the old-time
training, and the sailor who sees the stars
and stripes amid the national emblems of
other lands will feel a warmer thrill of
patriotism as he recalls how they floated
above the schoolhonse of his boyhood.
THE HASKINS ALLOWANCE
Judge CoflFey Signs an Order Granting
to Mr*. Haftkius 9100 a
Month.
Mrs. Elizabeth Haskins has been granted
a family allowance of $100 per month from
the estate of her husband, James S. Has
kins. The order was signed yesterday by
Judge Coffey, though Attorney Ford ob
jected on behalf of the nephews who re
cently were defeated in the will contest.
The question as to what constituted the
last will of Mr. Haskins was argued yes
terday. Attorneys Deuprey and Wright,
representing Mrs. Haskins, contended that
the newly discovered will of 1894 cannot
in any way affect the will of 1888, being
merely a republication, as there was no
change in the terms. Attorneys Ford and
Abbott opposed that claim, as they want
to have the later will offered for probate,
so ns to make a n«w contest.
The question will not be decided by
Judge Coffey until Tuesday.
EEADT TOR THE CONTEST.
The Election CoininUnlon Meets and
Discusses the Situation.
The newly appointed Election Com
mission met yesterday, but as its existence
is to be tested very shortly before the
Supreme Court, little was done in a busi
ness way.
Commissioner Wellin of the legal com
mittee of the board reported that a test
case had been prepared to offer to the
Supreme Court. The complaint asks that
Auditor Broderick be forced to pay the
warrants for salaries of the Commissioners.
If the court declines to issue the necessary
writ compelling the Auditor to pass the
bills, the commission will go out of exist
ence.
Mr. Wellin also reported that Senator
Carpenter had agreed to appear for the
board before the court as the representative
of the Republican party.
Attorney Gavin McNab will look after
the interests of the Democratic party.
Attorney D. I. Mahoney will represent the
Non-Partisans, D. M. Delmas will act for
the Iroquois Club and Henry N. Clement
will talk for the Civic Federation.
Everybody present agreed that there was
urgentneed of getting an early decision
from the court as there was a great deal of
work on hand for the commission to
handle.
On the motion of Commissioner Castle
the appointment of an assistant secretary
went over one week.
Commissioner Foster said he would like
a little assistance in preparing the polls,
and Denman and Castle agreed to help
him.
The usual monthly bills were audited,
but they will have to be pigeonholed till
the Supreme Court has decided woetber or
no the commission is a legally constituted
body.
MOEE HEADS PALL OFF.
Several New Appointments Made by the
Board of Health.
The members of the Board of Health
held a quiet meeting in the offices of Dr.
Fitzgibbon on Thursday evening and
made a number of appointments within
their gift.
Mayor Sutro has not returned from the
country yet, and in his absence Dr. Morse
presided as usual. The nominations were
read from a slip of paper and went through
without the shadow of a protest. Follow
ing were the appointments made:
J. D. Sullivan, engineer of the quarantine
tug; John Dougherty, assistant machinist at
the County Hospital: Ch&rle* Delwig, baker at
the same place; Mrs. Mary Pattern (reap
pointed), ipstructress of the training-school for
nurses, and Dr. Louis D. Jiactgalupi, Dr. D. E.
F. Easton, Dr. (teorge E. Hyde and Dr. Thomas
A. McCulloch, internes at the County Hospital.
MRS. GALLAGHER'S ESTATE
Father Nugent Answers to the
Charge About the
Bequests.
Disposition of the Estate Made Ac
cording to a Plan Formed
Years Ago.
Rev. Dennis Nugent of St. Rose's
Church, executor of the Ellen Gallagher
will, tiled an answer yesterday in the con
test over the estate, denying that the be
quests in favor of the church had been ob
tained by undue influence.
Mrs. Gallagher left an estate of $144,000,
as will be remembered, and she bequeathed
it almost entirely to the church and the
clergy.
Father Nugent, in his answer, admits all
the allegations relating to the estate, in
cluding the sale of property at 213 and 215
Kearny street to Hirshfeldor, for $81,500.
He admits that he received from the estate
$36,827 70 as trustee, and declares that the
money was for the erection of a new church
in Bt. Rose's parish. He admits that
$22,500, in property on Folsom street, was
entrusted to him ior Archbishop Riordan,
and that the money is intended for the
education of orphans in St. Rose's parish,
as desired by Mrs. Gallagher.
A general denial is made in regard to the
charge that Mrs. Gallagher had been un
duly influenced. Father Nugent stated
that although he gave advice to Mrs. Gal
lagher about the disposal of her property,
the woman followed out her own wishes in
making the bequests. It had been her in
tention for years to dispose of the property
as she did, and no effort of any kind was
made to direct or influence her in the
case.
Attorney Hayes, representing Father
Nugent, appeared before Judge Slack at
the hearing set for yesterday afternoon
and declared that the priest preferred not
to resume the position of executor, from
which he had been temporarily suspended
by request of the contesting heirs. The
lawyer asked that a special administrator
be appointed to take charge of the estate
and to permit Father Nugent to render an
accounting.
The case was continued by Judge Slack
so that the attorneys could agree on a nom
inee for the position.
NO VALLEJO EXCURSION.
The Committee From the Young Men's
Institute Cannot Secure a Suit
able Boat.
The big excursion to Vallejo planned by
the board of presidents of the Young Men's
Institute of this City has been dropped,
for the committee in charge cannot secure
a suitable boat for the purpose.
It was the intention of the local councils
to charter one of the big ferry-boats and
take a run to Vallejo during the coming
session of the Grand Council. The steamer
Newark had been fixed upon, but when
about a week ago the United States In
spectors of Hulls and Boilers refused to
renew the license of the El Capitan the
railroad company found itself short of
boats, and so the use of the Newark was
refused.
Negotiations were then commenced with
the San Francisco and North Pacific Coast
Railroad for the I'kiuh, but the officers of
that road absolutely refused to allow the
Ukiah to go to Vallejo. The Tarnalnais is
too slow, the committee thinks, the James
M. Donahue is not obtainable and the
river steamers are too small. This com
pletes the list of boats available for such a
purpose, and as a consequence there will
be no excursion to Vallejo during conven
tion week, at least not by water.
Improvement Club Meeting.
The South of the Park Improvement Club
will meet next Tuesday evening at Foresters'
Hall, 20 Eddy street.
LIQUOR-DEALERS` MITE
A Proposal to Abolish the
Custom of Giving Christ
mas Presents
BY DONATIONS TO CHAKITY.
Orphan Asylums Will Be Benefited
to a Large Extent by the
Change.
The Baloon keepers and cigar-dealers of
San Francisco will probably make a new
departure in the line of Christmas gifts
during the coming holidays, and contribute
from $10,000 to $20,000, to be divided
among the various charities of the City.
This plan is the outcome of a quiet agita
tion that has been on foot for some time to
abolish the present system of giving cus
tomers Christmas gifts.
Like the custom of giving tips in restau
rants and hotels, the practice of giving
Cnristmas gifts by liquor-dealers has
grown until it has become an absolute
nuisance. The business man or clerk who
goes once or more each day to a certain
dealer for a cocktail or cigar has come to
expect a remembrance about Christmas
time, because he knows others who fre
quent the same places are favored in that
manner, and he feels hurt if he is left out.
To so great an extent has the custom
grown that it has become an absolute
menace to some and a source of discomfort
to all. To remember all the customers
who expect it costs the saloon man or
cigar-dealer from $.tO to $250 each year, ac
cording to the class and volume of his
trade; and he runs the risk at all times of
losing customers through an unintentional
neglect to give each his present of a bottle
of tine liquor or a box of choice cigars.
'•We would rather," said a man yester
day, who conducts a retail liquor-house on
a busy business street, "give a stated sum
in coin outright for some charitable pur
pose than to be bothered and worried by
thi3 custom of giving presents to our cus
tomers. It would be far cheaper for us,
just as satisfactory to the larger mass of
our customers and of vastly more benefit
to all.
"We cannot give a present to every man
who comes into the house, for it would
bankrupt us. and it is hard to know where
to draw the line. A man who may think
he is entitled to a present will leave his
money in some other house because he
thinks he has been slighted.
"Then it costs more than many are able
to stand as matters go now. It would be
no hardship for each dealer to put up $25,
and this would be cheap for even corner
grocers, who have to remember their cus
tomers as well as the regular liquor
dealers. If each one put up that amount
$10,000 to $20,000 could be raised, and that
sum would give each of the orphan asy
lums—Protestant. Catholic and Hebrew— a
handsome present.
"I know that the class of men who pat
ronize my place would be better pleased to
have the contributions go to that purpose.
Several dealers have spoken to me about
it, and a meeting will be called soon to per
fect plans to this end.
"It is proposed to have neat placards
printed and tacked up on the wall, stating
that the house will make a present to the
orphans instead of to customers. Some
prominent person or newspaper willing; to
undertake the trust will be made custodian
of the funds, with power to distribute
them to those who will be most benefited
thereby. We expect to make the fund a
permanent institution, to bo distributed
every year. 1 '
NEW SUNSET TEAINS.
Some Novel Features Adopted at the
Conference of the Southern Pa
cific Officials.
The officials of the Atlantic system of
the Southern Pacific, who were here for a
few days, ended their conference with the
local officers yesterday and left last even
ing for home. They were accompanied by
General Superintendent Fillmore, who
will go as far as Los Angeles.
The result of this conference is a
change in the daily overland train on
the Southern route, an increase in the
"Sunset Limited" trains and a general
improvement of the service.
The daily train leaving here via the
Southern PaciHc for the East and South
east at 9 a. m. will leave at 5:30 p. If., and
pull out of Los Angeles at 3:30 p. m. of the
following day. By this arrangement time
will be saved, and passengers will arrive
at Eastern points at more convenient hours
than formerly.
The understanding reached regarding
the "Sunset Limited" service is that two
trains shall leave each week from each
terminus. Tuesday and Saturday are the
days chosen for leaving San Francisco,
and the hour is 10 p. m. The train will ar
rive in Los Angeles at 2:40 p. m. next day,
leave at 3:10 p. m. and arrive at New Orleans
at 7:15 a. m. on the following Saturday and
Wednesday. Coming this way the trains
will leave New Orleans Monday and Thurs
day at 10 a. M. and arrive here at 1 :40 r. M.
on Thursday and Sunday respectively.
The new service will begin from New
Orleans October 31 and from San Francisco
November 2. The officials decided to
have a ladies* maid on each train, the
equipment of which will consist of a com
posite car, compartment parlor car, sleepers
and a dining car.
Held for Manslaughter.
Lee Hung, who is accused of having caused
tee death of Yip Dock, a follow-countryman,
by striking him over the head with ft cleaver,
was given a preliminary hearing in Judge
Low's court yesterday and was held to answer
before the Superior Court on a charge of man
slaughter. His bonds were fixed at s?50OO.
Hung and Dock had a row over room rent, re
bulting in a fight, iii which the latter was so
severely injured that he died.
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g INCORPORATED.
THE PRETTIEST GIRL OF THE
FAMILY IS THE ONE WHO SITS
OFTENEST AT THE WINDOW.
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IT'S THE MOST ATTRACTIVE THING
IN THE STORE THAT 15 PUT OFTEN-
EST IN THE WINDOW. I
NEW WINDOW EXHIBITION
EVERY SATURDAY EVENING.
Saturday's Money=Saving Hints.
Last day of the Great Summer Last Day of Remnant Selling at
' Clearance Sale. Close 'Em Quickly Prices.
TO-DAY. Does the Gentleman Want a
A job in BLACK SATIN RIBBON, all- ]AC New Tie?
and > 16 O fo 3 r oat - 25C Yard: K °- 15 i Yard HERE'S FANCY TECKS, latest knots in <
„ . *!''"'"■"' " '" fancy silk, light and dark patterns, "I QIC
See the Ribbon Remnants. take your choice from thousands. The JLiiS
values are from 26c to 35c. Sale price. Each
LACES. v Or the Lady a Waist ?
COLORED LACES, a large assortment OXC Come early, for to day we sell LADIES'
of colors, 9to 12 inches wide, pretty AO CALICO WAISTS, soft finish, large ICO
for lamp-shades, etc Yard sleeves, light jjround with dark stripes J-O
■'.'■-'. ; . _____ and figures, for • Each
VEILINGS. . " .
pick to-day from a choice assortment Or the Children Hosiery ?
Krena dlne blB a C nd a se™ Vl£'w h ffi' O'C HaleB ' 9 P«ces "brace up weak purses. 10 C
grenaaine ana sewing shk wiains, *j)~\j -„, «f*ir prvrrnw tmcc nnrmiv I\l
double or single, all tastes 8 "n1 purses -ZO ' seamless 5?o8V TnT Pair
suited, prices from $1 a yaid down to Yard ribbed, seamless, sizes 5 to By 2 . only.. rair
. LADIES' BLACK COTTON HOSK, a "I OIC
- • \ ■ . good quality ribbed tops, seamless and J- '-5 • •
Great Remnant Selling to-day. fast blucli - Sale pr^ :y Palt
GIVE. THE LITTLE ONES A CHANCE.
DOLL TRUNKS, brass covered, 'sizes<2jQ.2s Ctrt*ai- Vilmpc in
18x10 inches. : «jp^ — ureai values in
• •••• Kacll Remnants To-day.
: ~ " LADIES' COBSETS, made of fine black 7CC
PAINTED WOOD TRUNKS at a very G.l\V sateen and boned with horn, fancy silk 4 O
special price, sizes 18x10 inches, UV/ stitched top, a good SI value for Each
$135; 16x9 inches, 90c; 12^7 inches Each
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Dress Goods. . Last Summer Clearance Sale Day.
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937, 939 and 941 Market Stree? 937, 939 and 941 Market Street,
SAJf FRANCISCO. «AN FRANCISCO.
SOUTHERN HEIGHTS WATER
Board of Supervisors to Be
Asked to Build a Res
ervoir.
Petition Now Being- Circulated for
Signatures — The Highest
Elevation.
Having failed to secure anything like a
prospect of any improvement in their
water service from the Spring Valley Com
pany, the residents of the Southern
Heights are intending to appeal to the
Board of Supervisors.
The effort to get a little better water ser
vice began several weeks ago. The fact is,
this struggle for water has become an old
story with these people, but the particular
effort, begun several weeks ago, was per
haps of a more systematic nature than
provious ones had been.
At that time President Richard Pengelly,
Secretary James Glackin and others of the
club devised a plan by which it was hoped
the Spring Valley Company might be pre
vailed upon to take some notice of them.
They went after tne company time and
again, but all to no avail. They got ex
planations and excuses ad infinitura, but
ho promise of water. The following peti
tion has therefore been adopted and is to
be filed at the City Hall, signed by several
hundred names, on Monday, for presenta
tion to the board:
To the Honorable Board of Supervisors, City and
County of San Francisco— Gentlemen: Your
petitioners, being property-owners and resi
dents of that portion of the City known as
Southern Heights, respectfully represent: That
they are without sufficient water supply for
domestic use and for protection against fire;
that the present water pressure is insufficient
to force tne water to the houses on the higher
levels, such as portions of Connecticut, Arkan
sas and Wisconsin streets, south of Twentieth
(Napa) : that a number of residences have been
connected with the present mains and are un
able to obtain any water whatever; that many
other residences are located at points higher
than it is possible to reach with the present
water pressure; that if a reservoir were estab
lished at the highest point on the hills in that
district there would be sufficient pressure for
all domestic uses; that there would be suffi
cient pressure to protect the residences in that
section from fire; that the establishing of a
reservoir at that point would mane it practica
ble to supply a vast section of territory with
water that is now without any water supply at
all, and would enable many scores of house
holders to obtain a water supply at all times,
whereas at present they are unable to obtain
water during the daytime when it is needed;
that the highest point in that section is at the
southwest corner of Twenty-second (Sierra) and
Carolina streets, more than 300 feet above base.
Wherefore your petitioners pray that your hon
orable board will take such action as will result
in establishing a reservoir at a high point in
the Southern Heights district that they may
have water for domestic uses and for protec
tion against fire.
One of the gentlemen very much inter
ested said yesterday :
"We have never had sufficient water
pressure to be of any benefit in case of tire
and have always complained about not
getting enough for our domestic needs.
"To make a bad matter worse, when the
grading of Sixteenth street, from Har
rison street westward, was commenced, a
cut of about twelve feet was made in or
der to make a grade over which the
Market-street . Railway Company could
run its- electric-cars. This necessitated tak
ing the water mains out of Sixteenth
street, and they never have been replaced
in any way.
"If a reservoir were built on the highest
point, Twenty-second and Carolina streets,
it would supply water all over the heights
and the Potrero and to a large portion of
the Mission district.
"The only source of supply the heights
has been able to rely upon in cases of
emergency has been a tank on Antone
Raymond's building, at the corner of
Twentieth and Wisconsin streets."
Henrietta Goes to Jail.
Henrietta McCall, who has frequently made
the acquaintance of the police on variotia
charges, was arrested on cbnrges of grand lar
ceny and vagrancy for having "bunkoed" a
man named James White out of all the money
he had. When the c«s=e was called in the
Police Court yesterday White failed to appear
to prosecute the case and the heavier charge
was dismissed. The Judge evened up matters
by convicting her on the vagrancy charge and
sending her to the County Jail for ninety days.
LOS GATOS KEJOIOES.
Public Demonstration To-day Over Its
New Railroad Facilities — An Ex
cursion From This City.
The Los Gatos Board of Trade has made
arrangements for a grand celebration to
day over the completion ot a third rail or
standard gauge railway track from San
Jose to that attractive and enterprising
town.
Invitations have been extended to the
members of the Board of Trade and Half
million Club of San Francisco, the Board
of Trade of San Jose, the county officials
of Santa Clara County and other represent
ative people, and elaborate arrangements
made for the entertainment of visitors.
The programme of the day's celebration
will consist of a barbecue in the picnic
grounds, addresses by prominent men and
a baud concert and dancing.
The demonstration is occasioned by the
extension by the Southern Pacific Com
pany of its broad-gauge system from the
coast division railway to Los Gatos, which
gives the foothill country adjacent, and
the town itself, the advantages of standaid
rail facilities, an important factor in the
development of Los Gatos' industries.
A special train in charge of Colonel
William H. Menton, excursion passenger
agent, will leave San Francisco from Third
and Townsend streets at 9 a. m. and return
from Los Gatos at 6p. m., arriving home
about 8 o'clock. The rate for the trip has
been placed at $1.
Reading the
Riot Act
To riotous prices— big, puffetl-up prices.
§17 KA is our "Mission-street' 1 price
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Book Case and Desk. Very stylish design;
good all-around. We have 'em in Mahog-
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