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THE BUND BOSS IS REGAINING HIS POWER.
Tp the Democracy He Is
Now "The Old Man
of the Sea."
I MERRY BATTLE COMING.
The Buckley Forces Feel a Life
and Hope Unknown in
Years.
FACTIONS SHARPLY DIVIDED.
Their Strength Will Be Measured at
Metropolitan Hall This
Evening.
A hot meeting of the local Democratic
general committee at Metropolitan Hall
to-night will probably measure the politi
cal strength with which the party's "Old
Man of the S<a," the sightless ex-boss, has
returned to bestride its neck.
It is only "probable" that the meeting
to-night will measure Buckley's present
strength in the party, for there is no defi
nite forecast of what will be done or at
tempted to be done to-night. Perhaps the
Buckleyites will not stand up just yet to a
pitched battle with the powerful and more
respectable element of the party, which is
now in control of the machine and which
will resist to the death the efforts of the
Bucidey faction to wreat it from them.
Buckley has surely returned, and he
will not retire to the bowers of Ravens
wtxvd at any mild request of reorganizes
and purifiers. He is not thundering at
the gates of power at all. He has gently
seated himself at one end of the wires that
radiate just now from the corner of Bush
and Stockton streets, and with his master
ful shrewdness and powers of organization
lie is at work by his methods of old.
He has come like an apparition to the
faction in control. There was no an-'
nouncement that Puckley was about to
.. forth his hand in an effort to con
trol tbe local machine. Six weeks or so
aco he became a more frequent visitor at
vddental Club, und the pulse of that
WHAT IT WILL DO.
A Plain Statement of Fact, and One
Worth Reading.
Some Miracles That Dr. Henley's Celery
Beef and Iron Dock Not Perform— A
Word to Thinking People.
It is not such a very extra-
ordinary thing to hear people
whom you meet once in a while
nowadays talking about the re-
turn of "the age of miracles."
And perhaps there are some
dreamers who really give time
and thought to the possibility
of the reappearance of a holy
maJCt who will be able to say,
and wash three times in
the pool of Siloam and thou
shalt be clean.' But the man
of the "world as it is" is in-
clined to better his condition —
if he can — by means that don't
savor much of the mysterious.
Day after day we hear of this
or that preparation which is
guaranteed to perform miracles,
and that, too, in practically "no
time." The deaf are made to
hear, the blind see, lepers are
made whole, and those who
have lost legs are induced to
believe that they will graduate
as rinished dancers in a few
weeks.
The object of this notice is to
call attention to the fact that for
Dr. Henley's Celery, Beef and
Iron no such foolish or impos-
sible claim has ever been main-
tained or made. This prepara-
tion is not a bitters (creating a
false appetite); it is not a "com-
pound" ( the ingredients in
which no one knows), nor is it
a "cure-all/ and a two-ounce
vial of it will not remove a dis-
ease that has been coming on
for years. It is, plainly, a sim-
ple and accurately compounded
preparation of Celery (the best
nervine yet discovered), Beef
(undeniably the best sustenant
known) and Iron (the peerless
remedy for weak and impure
blood). A very great portion of
the lifetime of an eminent phy-
sician was spent in discovering
what the exact proportion of
each of these grand elements
must be in order that the
]< reparation should do UN-
MIXED and LASTING good;
and having completely solved
the problem, it is now found
that this preparation is the best
remedy in all cases of nervous
or general debility, insomnia,
"tfce blues," lack of appetite,
dyspepsia, indigestion, and the
ills common to women. But it
•locs not heal broken limbs, re-
>tore lost eyesight, or perform
any of the things that are com-
lnuiily called miracles. But that
it is a grand tonic, a perfect
nervine, a matchless system-
builder and an unequaled blood
purifier, every one w r ho has used
it regularly for any length of
time will readily testify.
I interesting social organization felt a new
| thrill. For two or three weeks there has
| been an air of life about the place, and the
j old henchmen of the blind boss have been
quietly talking politics with unusual in
terest for an off year. The life of the Oc
cidental Club grew somewhat as the fog
comes quietly to wrap the town. Directors'
meetings have been more frequent aitd in
teresting, and two weeks ago all delinquent
members received notice to come around
and pay up.
Then Popper, McNab and Braunhart
and those fellows suddenly realized that
Buckley had come to town somewhat as
the genius took form from the cloud and
stood on the shore.
The danger signal was sounded and
Chairman A. A. Watkins of the executive
committee was induced to call a meeting
of the general committee for to-night. It
is not usual to start up the machine about
the Ist of October of an off year, but it
wduldn't do to let Buckley and his exper
ienced generals and lieutenants work along
with everything their own way.
That is (he reason of the meeting to
night — to do something to head off Boss
Buckley before it is too late. Nobody
seemed to know last night what definite
propositions or business will come up to
night beyond the election of a chairman.
Involved in this business is, of course, the
control of the organization of the party,
uud the proposed election of J. A. Watkins
as chairman of the general committee
will give the machinery to the anti-Buck
leyites.
"I was requested by several general com
mittee gentlemen to call the meeting and
I did so," said Mr. Watkins last night,
"and I have no idea what will be done or
what business will come up."
Not a Buckley man could be found who
would make a guess on anything besides
the chairmanship.
But it will be a merry time, they say, as
bo tits a Democratic party gathering.
Metropolitan and other halls have seen
fun before since the revolution whicn
overthrew Buckley was begun by Deu
prey, Lynch, Sullivan. Dwyer and a few
other heroes a few years ago. Why should
it not be a merry time? The Buckleyites
have kicked up many a hot fracas, mainly
with the result of relieving their feelings,
but now there is a return to them of con
scious strength; they find themselves
openly standing together and their old
master is with them to inspire hope and
confidence. The other side must fight and
the bitterness is deadly.
But the general committee is composed
of 450 merfTbers, and it is not easy to pre
dict how things stand when both sides
claim victory in advance. Popper, McNab
and others of the faction in power declare
that there will be nothing left of Buckley
after to-night, when his friends will be
hunting holes to crawl into. Some of the
leading workers in the Buckley camp de
clared with equal conlidence yesterday
that they would win out. Others were
noncommittal. It is James H. O'Brien,
the contractor, who will be the Buckley
candidate for the chairmanship to-night,
unless it is decided to make no nomination
in opposition to Watkins. J. J. Flynn has
been pulled down.
The situation is a mess, and it is likely
to remain one with frequent developments.
The "Deuprey committee" ought to ap
pear on the scene somehow pretty soon.
This isihe committee of twenty-five ap
pointed by Chairman Eugene Deuprey at
the last municipal convention ro take
charge of the campaign and then reor
ganize the party. Now the Buckley men
who are damning the present organization
in a hundred ways are saying that the
convention didn't authorize it and that
the records in the possession of Secretary
Gavigan show no resolution creating it.
Sam Newman last night raised another
point against that half-forgotten Deuprey
committee that -was to do something at
some time. He declared that the last mu
nicipal convention had no power to create
it, anyway, because it was called by the
general committee for specific purposes, of
which the organization of the party was
not one.
Another point was raised yesterday by
P. F. Dundon and other Buckley men, and
that was that the general committee is not
a legal one. It was elected in 1892 for two
years, and the term of office of its mem
bers has expired, it was declared. Then
last year a new plan of organization was
adopted by the general committee, giving
each district fifteen members instead of
twenty-five. This was to be elected at a
primary, but afterward Chairman Mai
Popper refused to call a primary election.
"Now where are we, what plan are we
under, and who is who?" All this may
not amount to much in the face of the
fact that the only general committee there
is will meet to-night and probably do
something, but it illustrates the opportu
nities for a fight.
The Occidental Club building was filled
with light and life last evening. Buckley's
court was crowded. The handsome and
commodious building that was a home of
wealth until Buckley bought it and made
it a club retreat for his friends was ablaze
from roof to basement. By half
past 7 they began dropping through
the dark walled entrance to the
yard and mounting the granite steps.
The bell tinkled continuously an hour
later. Sam Newman, Heeorder Glynn,
Eddie Greaney and J. J. Maloney dropped
in early. They went up to the directors'
room and talked together like statesmen.
The affable ex-Supervisor, P. F. Dundon,
was on hand with wise counsel. Ex-
Supervisor Barry, once the head of the
Solid Nine, came also. These were among
those wbo confidently strolled into the
parlor when they wanted to and sat on
silk upholstered chairs. The scores of dis
trict henchmen, the lesser lights of Buck
leyism, who dropped in sat in the smoking
and reading rooms. Not all of the hun
dred there were members of the Occi
dental Club.
There was no meeting of the club last
night. There was life there because some
thing important was going on in politics.
Many were there to see Buckley himself,
and Greaney and Maloney were busy as
convention workers. "Has he come?"
was constantly asked.' Buckley was the
soul of the life there. But the boss kept
the boys waiting last night. He laft the
club at 4 p. M. and was due to return at
7:30, but at 10:30 o'clock he was still
waited for.
And A. J. Clunie visited the Occidental
Club last night and gossiped long with
the leaders. Perhaps he did not want to
see Buckley particularly. Perhaps this
pugnacious Democrat will lift his fiery
voice in Democratic councils again soon.
His presence there last night was a thing
of interest to many, but nobody knows
how Clunie stands. "Oh, I don't know a
thing about it," he declared last night. "I'm
wholly out of politics."
The Buckley men are being vigorously
rounded up for the meeting to-night. J.
J. Maloney, one of the most active hust
lers in the present Buckley campaign,
said : "Our men will all be there, and we
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1895.
will win to-morrow nignt. I know it, and
if we don't I'll eat your hat."
It is expected that the proportion of the
450 members present to-night will be very
large, for the anti-Buckley forces are do
ing some vigorous rounding up, too.
Mr. Dundon frankly explained the situ
ation, as far as Buckley is concerned, last
night. Of course Buckley had little to do
with the present movement.
"Some people seem to Have the impres
sion that Mr. Buckley is trying to resume
the position in politics that he held before,"
said Mr. Dundon, with sad regret that
such an error should get abroad. "Now
we of the Occidental Club.who believe that
the party has been grossly mismanaged
and want it justly and successfully run,
would not allow such a thing. I
will tell you that aboxit six weeks
ago when Mr. Buckley began coming here
frequently the directors met with him and
asked him what his intentions were. He
was plainly told that if he endeavored to
regain the position he held before we would
be forced to oppose it, for we believed that
it would be detrimental to the party. He
said that he agreed with us and declared that
he had no wish to regain his former posi
tion, and that he would not have the
strength if he had the ambition to do so.
He said that he would counsel with us
here whenever we wanted him to, and if
we didn't want him to come to the club he
would counsel with us elsewhere, if we
•wanted his counsel. That is all that Mr.
Buckley is doing— just counseling with us."
It is sometimes wondered what possi
bility Buckley and his chief lieutenants
see of making a successful fight for power
with the press and so great and respect
able an element of the party bitterly op
posed to anythine tainted with Buckley
ism. The answer is that the Buckley fac
tion is now mustering a large and en
couraging strength, and thereis a belief
tnat one victory would cause a rush to the
winner.
"They'll flock to us when they see us on
top," say the boys. "They" are largely the
political henchmen who once tasted of
Buckley's grace to his followers, and who
would be glad to leave the present "purity"
for a kind of practical politics "that lias
more in it.
J. J. Flynn, the Iroquois brave, said yes
terday that the way it looked to him'the
Occidental Club faction would win to
night. Mr. Flynn is steering a careful
course just now and avoids any open alli
ance with the Buckley faction.
Sam Rainey is sayina; nothing just now,
and it is not believed by leading Demo
crats that the split between Buckley and
him will be closed. Rainey will not do too
much talking either.
KENNEDY ESTATE MUDDLE.
II *■ as ohm Given AVhy the Property la Not
Worth a Million or Little
Less.
All concerned are looking for a speedy
and final issue in the Edward Kennedy
estate. Frederick T. Kennedy, the sola sur
viving direct heir, charged, four weeks
ago that the estate had dwindled
down from #250,000 in 1873 to less than
$25,000 at the present time; that various
persons interested in the handling of the
original and trust estates had mismanaged
the affairs and failed to do the heirs jus
tice. Various charges were made with
reference to the sale of certain properties
at a ridiculously low figure, which were
UNIVERSITY EMPLOYES LINK UP AT SEOSETABY BONXE'B OFFICE TO RECEIVE THEIR MONTHLY
SALARY WARRANTS.
afterward sold at an advance of thousands
of dollars.
Mrs. Chaigneau, young Kennedy's
grandmother, also asserted that she had
not received a cent of a $5000 legacy left
her by her daughter, Mrs. Edward Ken
nedy Sr., and also that a $2000 bequest had
been left to another daughter by Mrs.
Kennedy, and that the legatee under that
clause had not received a penny.
A report was tiled by young Kennedy yes
terday, the same having been prepared by
J. J. Roach, his attorney, in which the
former modifies many of the statements
made to Attorneys Linforth and McPike
and also repeated in the presence of
others.
This report prepared by Attorney Roach
for young Kennedy makes it appear that
the latter was either carried away by his
feelings in the matter or was not in" full
possession of the facts he discussed so
freely. After setting forth the circum
stances connected with the death of the
elder Kennedy in 1873, the provisions of
the will as already published, and the
appointment of Theron R. Hopkins and L.
L. Blood as executors of the estate and
also custodians of the trust established for
the children and to be held until the
youngest heir became of age, goes on to
state that after the probating of the will
the executors filed an inventory and ap
praisement of the property of the said es
tate, from which it appeared that there
were belonging to the said estate at the
time of the death of said Edward Ken
nedy the following pieces of land in said
City and County:
A piece of land on Gold street, appraised
at $35,000; property on the northwest cor
ner of Pacific and front streets, appraised
at 545,000; apiece of property on Pacific
street, $10,000; property on the corner of
Hyde and Bay streets, $4500; property on
Francisco street, $1200; property on the
corner of Bay and Hydestreets,s3ooo; un
divided interest in a piece of land known
as Point Penas, in Monterey County, ap
praised at $J00; making a total of $63,900.
That Edward Kennedy at the time of his
death was largely indebted and his execu
tors were compelled to sell all of the per
sonal property of his estate, together with
the property situated on Gold street, for
the purpose of paying the debts and liabil
ities of the estate"; that on the 25th day of
January, 1877, a decree of distribution was
made in the said estate, giving one undi
vided one-half of said real estate to the
Blood and Hopkins in trust for the benefit
of the children, and the other undivided
one-half was distributed to Amelia Maria
Kennedy ; that in addition to the said real
estate there were distributed to the said
trustees the sum of $176 31, and the same
amount to Amelia Marie Kennedy. • ♦ *
The sum of $352 62 divided between the
trustee? and Mrs. Amelia Marie Kennedy
is represented as being all the cash on
hand, after disposing of the personal and
some other property, to pay the debts of
the elder Kennedy.
WITNESS FOR THE PEOPLE
H. E. Snook Saw Durrant and
Blanche Lamont Approach
Emmanuel Church.
IS CONFIDENT OF THE DATE.
Testimony of the New Witness Con
sidered of Vital Importance by
Captain Lees.
The prosecution in the Durrant case has
at last found a witness whose evidence it
believes will establish beyond all room for
doubt that Theodore Durrant accompanied
Blanche Lamont to Emmanuel Church the
fatal afternoon in April.
He is Harry E. Snook, assistant man
ager of the Golden Gate Undertaking Com
pany at 242i> Mission street. He believes
he met Durrant and Blanche Lamont to
gether on Bartlett street, between Twenty
second street and Emmanuel Church, at
about 4 o'clock the afternoon of April 3.
Some days ago Captain Lees received a
note from a JMr. Percy, who is the secre
tary of the Junior Order of American Me
chanics, stating that he had heard Mr.
Snook say he had met the young couple,
as related.
Captain Lees sent Detective Seymour to
interview Mr. Snook last Sunday, and the
information obtained then is considered
of the greatest importance by the police.
Mr. bnook is a member of Emmanuel
Church and an active worker in the En
deavor Society and was well acquainted
with both Blanche Lamont and Durrant,
as he met them often at services and at
church gatherings. He could not there
fore be mistaken in his identification of
either. The reason he has not come for
ward as a witness before is that for a
long time he was not positive as
to the exact date on which he
saw the couple together, and although he
felt certain it was April 3, he was unwilling
to be a witness until he could fix upon
no me incident by which he could recall it
with certainty. He fixes the date now by
a meeting he attended a few evenings prior
to April 3, and believes he can account ac
curately for the intervening time. He also
fixes the date by the errand on which he
wus bound at the time.
He was on his way to call on Miss Daisy
M.Wilson concerning a money matter in
connection with a society to which they
both belonged. Miss Wilson lives at 205^
Bartlett street. "While walking along Bart
lett street, near Twenty-second, Snook
claims to have passed the couple as they
were nearing the church. He fixes the
time by rememberin.ee that he left his place
of business, only a few blooks away, at a
few minutes before 4 o'clock.
Snooks is said to have conversed several
times since on the subject with members
of the church and. other friends, and has
compared notes with Miss Wilson in the
effort to arrive definitely at the date.
Miss Wilson declined to be interviewed
last evening, saying that Mr. Snook and
the police are in possession of all the in
formation she had and that she preferred
they should do the talking.
Captain Lees was eiated last evening at
the discovery of this new witness, from
whose testimony he expects the people's
case to profit so much. He said:
"I have believed for some time that
Snock waa in possession of vitally impor
tant information, but we have been unable
hitherto to get at the facts, owing to his
disinclination to talk, until he was cer
tain of the date. There is no doubt as to
that now, however, and I think the defense
will find it difficult to combat the evidence
he will give. He is young; there is noth
ing the mutter with his eyesight and he
knew the parties well. I think his testi
mony will settle all doubt about Durrant's
takinc the girl to the church."
To-day's session of the trial will be de
voted to the examination of the students
of the senior class of Cooper Medical Col
lege who were classmates of Durrant.
They have all been summoned and will be
called to testify to-day.
The object in calling the whole class is
that the defense wisnes to settle the dis
pute concerning Dr. Cheney's rollcal!.
Following are the students who have
been subpenaed :
M. O. Austin, E. Barry, W. L. Blodgett, Mrs.
R. M. 0. Boydo, G. W. Burgess, E O. Campbell,
A. M. Carpenter, R. H. Carter, Miss M. S. Case,
F. H. Church, C.V. Cross, W. H. Crothers, C.
W. Dodge, M. R. Dow. C. A. Dukes, Miss M. A.
Fish, J. J. Gallagher, C.L. Garvih.E. F. Glazier,
<i. F. Graham, F. P. Gray, E. C. Gregory, H.
Gunn. C. E. Hablutzel. K. Haida, G. A. B. Hall,
F. A. Harlow, F. W. Harms, Miss E. G. Harri
son, E. E. Hill, Miss C. M. Holmes, James V.
Hughes, John V. Hughes, J. R. Jordan, R. Kod
ama, B. F. Korts, E. A. Kusel, Miss M. J. Ma
honey, H. J. McNulty, F. L. Mein
hard, \V. A. Meirdierks, J. C. Moor,
H. E. Morrison, R. \V. Murphy, N. M. Nelson, J.
H. O'Connor, A. C. Olmstead, H. Partridge, B.
Peters, W. H. Powell, A. D. Prentice, R. E.
Recce, Miss L. M. Ricker, F. B. Robinson, W.
W. Robier, F. W. Ross, M. E. Rumwell, H. J.
Schlageter, W. R. Scroggs, O. L. Sexton, K.
Sago, \V. Sombunit, E. C. Van Dyke, H. F. Wal
ter, H. S. Wafters, W. H. Wentworth, W. H.
Winterberg, W. W. Wymore, 8. Wythe.
H. J. McCoy was seen last evening rela
tive to his having been cited to appear for
contempt of court for uttering a threat to
I. J. Truman, one of the jurors. He said :
"I met Mr. Truman on the car. 1 think
it was coming down from the noon recess
last Thursday. I know him very well, and
we are very good friends. Unthinkingly I
*aid: 'If you don't hang that fellow, I'll
hang you.' I saw in a moment I had
made a mistake, for I was talking to a
juryman. Of course, I was only joking
and didn't think what I was saying. I did
not mean anything at all, and it wa*
merely a foolish slip of the tongue. I was
sorry the moment after that I said such a
thing, and am now. He made no reply
and I said nothing further on the subject.
"1 was very much surprised when I was
notified this morning of the action of the
court, as I did not suppose Mr. Truman,
knowing me as he does, could possibly
have taken me seriously."
Last evening a letter was received at
The Call office purporting to have been
written by the mysterious medical man
who has bobbed up at intervals all through
the trial, but whose identity has not as yet
been learned. It reads as follows:
Sacramento, Cal., Sept. 27. 1895.
Dear Sir: Wednesday p. at. at 3 o'clock I took
a Powell-street car at Washington street to
Market. I sat on the east side of car inside,
foing north, near the end. At Clay and Powell
Ir. Durrant and a lady, who I "learned was
Miss Blanche Lamont.got on the dummy on
east side. The lady sat next to the window
end of the seat, he on her right. She had three
books on her lap. He had his left arm on the
back of the seat. They rode to Market street,
transferred to the VaTencia car 34 about 3 :12
P. M. Miss Edwards got on at Clay and sat op
posite of myself.
I left the Powell-street car on the right side
from the dummy. I had to raise a bar of the
seat to get out of the car and walked behind
the co«pie to the Valencia-street car. I sat in
side of the car and saw their faces plainly on
both cars. 1 know Durrant by sight; he had
an dark clothos, a black soft hat. 1 noticed
them because lie was so attentive to the lady.
She had on a dark basket-cloth dress, cape and
straw hat, with feathers, and a ribbon bow on
it on the right side.
Do they want this evidence in rebuttal? I
thoucht they had enough, and as I was going
away did not want to be mixed up in it. I left
April 20. A lady writes me that the State
wants this evidence. 1 conversed of this to
Fatients in my office between April 14 and 20.
do not live on Powell street, near Sacramento.
I shall be in the City soon. I talked with Con
ductor AVest three times since. He has a scar
on his face between the cliia and under lip.
looks like a cut; he is about 5 feet 8 inches,
hazel eyes, brown hair, and wore conductor's
badge 107 April 3, Wednesday.
The Doctor Who Knows.
LATEST BERKELEY ITEMS
College Professors and Em
ployes Get No Coin on
Payday.
City Trustees Will Be Asked to Call
for Bonds of $100,000 for
Schools.
BERKELEY, Cal., Oct. I.— To-day was
university pay-day,, but the salary war
rants did not come from Governor Budd,
and as a result 170 employe*, all the wav
from the president to "Jimmie" the
janitor, must stand off their grocerymen
for a few days longer. A string of pro
fessors, instructors, assistants, gardeners
and janitors kept the door between the
corridor of South Hall and th« secretary's
office squeaking all day long as they fell
into line with looks of ardent expectancy
on their classic countenances, but they got
no coin. About $18,000 a month is paid
over the cou liter in warrants to the uni
versity people, which averages about $100
apiece, and a delay in getting their allow
ances causes in many casos more than a
slight disappointment, to say the least.
Two months ago when a similar tardiness
took place one of the rising instructors ad
mitted to a friend that he had paid his
last 10-cent piece for a baby rattle, and be
cause of this had to borrow a dollar to pay
his way home.
All theee things are not to be wondered
at when six days are the shortest possible
time in which a check for one of the pro
fessors can reach him after the payroll is
prepared. Toward the close of every
month the list of active employes and their
allowances is made out at the secretary's
office in Berkeley, itemized and sent to the
finance committee of the Board of Repents,
consisting of Messrs. Halladie, Miller and
Hellman. They audit it and send it back
to the secretary, who sends the roll to
President Kellogg. The secretary gets it
again and sends it to the Governor, who
signs each requistion, even to the armorer's
petty expense bilL Secretary Bonte then
fixes his signature to the Jot, when they
are sent to San Francisco again to be
signed by Treasurer Sloss.
Then they come to Berkeley once more,
and upon the signing of vouchers by the
employes themselves they become "legal
tender. No coin passes over the univer
sity counter, and so the checks must be
cashed elsewhere. Such is the course of
the little slip of paper through the agency
of which the State employes at Berkeley
are enabled to get their daily bread.
High-School Matters Discussed.
A joint session was held last evening be
tween the Board of Education and the
committee on sites from the Town Board
for the purpose of framing a set of resolu
tions to be presented to the Board of
Trustees at their next meeting pertinent
to the question of erecting a new high
school building.
Various pieces of property which might
be suitable sites for the proposed new high
and grammar school buildings were dis
cussed at length, but no action was taken
regarding them.
It was decided to ask the Board of
Trustees to call for $100,000 under the bond
system, $70,000 of which should be ex
pended on a high school bnilding and site
and $30,000 be put into grammar school
buildings for West Berkeley and Dwight
Way.
A Building Burned.
A two-story dwelling-house on Blake
and Milvia streets, belonging to J. N. Will
iams of the Four-mile House at Claremont,
has burned to the ground through an un
known cause. The single inmate admit
ted having cooked his dinner last evening
in the house, but said he turned out the
light in the oil-stove before leaving for the
night, and in consequence could give no
idea as &>■ the origin of the blaze. The
property was insured for $500.
Athletic ExecutlTe Committee.
The athletic executive committee of the
university has decided to retain instead of
relinquishing the honor of electing the
president of the Western Intercollegiate
Association, and will take immediate
action in that direction. This is an honor
which falls to the college winning the
championship of the Western Intercol
legiate, and. as the victors of '95, the Uni
versity of California will have the distinc
tion of naming a man for the office. It is
probable that some one now at Berkeley
will be chosen. Colonel Edwards, Profes
sor Clapp, Arthur North, '90, and Captain
Koch, '96, have been mentioned as suit
able men for the position.
W. F. Goad Not Seriously 111.
The announcement in one of the papers last
evening that W. FraDk Goad, attorney and
capitalist, had been stricken with paralysis
and was dangerously ill was somewhat exag
gerated. Mr. Goad was affected with stomach
trouble Monday and forced to retire, but last
evening he was very much improved and there
was no cause ior alarm.
LAUGENOUR'S NEW JOCKEY
A Youngster Who Has Landed
Thirty-Nine Winners in
Ten Months.
SUCCESS OF A SMALL EIDER.
He Lost a Place by Winning a Race,
but Won $800 for the Young
Woodlander.
Henry Wilson, a jockey, was brought
from the East by Henry W. Laugenour &
few days ago, and will, if he keeps up his
record, cut a wide swath at the races this
year.
Wilson is a bright-faced colored boy
who rides at 85 pounds. He has been rid
in? only ten months, and in that brief
time has landed thirty-nine ■winners.
"The boy is one of the best trackgenerals
I ever saw," sa.id Mr. Laugenour .yester
day. "He is small and light, but he can
Henry Wilson, Langenour'i Phenom
enal Jockey.
[From a photograph.]
lift a horse's head at the finish of a race as
few such light boys can, and thus help
the horse to win.
"1 saw the boy first at the recent meet
in Kansas City. He was riding for Henry
Simons, a Wealthy Jewish horseman, who
had a string of twelve horses. The third
day of the meeting Wilson was mounted
on Fanny Hunt. The betting stood 12 to
1 against the little mare, but I liked the
horse and I liked the boy, so I backed
them to win over $800. Then I went to
the boy and said: 'See here, if you come
in first I will give you $20.' .
"At the start, Wilson got off second. In
obedience to instructions, he held the
mare in, falling back to third place. There
he stayed till the last sixteenth was
reached. Then he gave the mare the
whip and forged ahead, going under the
wire with a half length to the good.
" The race cracked the association
cookies. They turned their boards around
and offered no more odds that day.
Simons, his master, lost, and, furious at
losing, took the boy into a stall and began
to beat him. I was just coming up to pay
the lad the $20, then, and arrived in the
nick of time to save the youngster's hide.
"'I at once took him into my employ.
He gets $12C0 a year and a special fee for
every race he wins. He has already won
eight races for me, though he has been in
my employ only five weeks."
Wilson "was born in Memphis, Term.
He ran away from home in ISKI and went
to work in the stable of Jim Brown, a noted
horseman of Jackson, Term, who was
killed a short time ago at Chicago. His
first race was run for J. T. Doyle, when he
landed May Blossom second at St. Louis
last November.
He then went to work for Bill Smith of
East St. Louis, anil his fourth mount won
him his reputation. He was riding Win
held, .it Nashville— a 50 lo 1 shot. The
favorite "Toots" was ridden iiy "Soup"
Perkins, a noted jockey. "Toots" took
the lead at the start with Winfield second.
This order was kept till the eighth post
was reached when Winfield went to tne
front winning the race for Smith and $100
for the game little rider.
Another big race won by Wilson was the
Christmas handicap, at East St. Louis.
The betting was Bto 1 against his mount,
Heraldine, the other twelve entries being
about even. The boy was given $50.
Altogether, Wilson won eighteen races
for Henry Simon. For Bill Smith he won
two. His other winnings have been on a
few mounts outside of his employers'
stables. He makes his first start in this
City on Saturday.
CALLED TO THE THIED CHUEOH.
Rev. William Kader of Oakland May
Succeed Rev. F. I'ullan.
The Third Congregational Church will
be informed this evening of Rev. William
Rader's acceptance or rejection of its pas
torate.
A committee of trustees, consisting of
Charles H. Ham, B. H. Madison, W. H.
Hyde Jr., Herbert B. Ward and E. Hale
RLx, waited upon Mr. Rader at his study
Saturday afternoon and proffered him the
charge. He asked time to consider it,
and promised that his reply would be sent
to the chairman of the committee in time
for notice to tne church this evening.
Mr. Rader is a talented young divine
who has officiated as assistant pastor of
the First Congregational Church of Oak
land for several years. His term of service
with thai church expires on the 15th inst.
THE GBEAT DOG KAOE OPF.
George Crocker Withdraw* Rod's Chaff
Because of Sickness.
Owing to sickness the trainer and
handler of Rod's Chaff, A. C. Wadell, sug
gested to George Crocker that he would be
doing a wise act to declare the match be
tween Glenbeigh and Rod's Chaff off.
Acting on the advice of Mr. Wadell
Mr. Crocker notified the stakeholder that
he would not run his dog as stated
in the articles of agreement, and as a con
sequence the greatest special field trial
race that would have taken place on tue
Pacific Coast has fallen through, much to
the disappointment of many fanciers of
pointers and setters. Possibly in the near
future the great proposed race may take
place, when both dogs are tit and well.
A Scotchman's brain has -an average
weight of fifty ounces and an Englishman's
half an ounce leas.
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jrive:away absolutely free 20,000 vials of his
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papers of the city to investigate and pub-..-
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them, either g6pd or bad. In this way "
Professor Munyon proposed to prove the ,7
efficacy of his cures Defore asking the pub- ■
lie to spend one cent.. Never before in the
history of medicine has there been a :
physician or company who has dared to •
risk their reputation in an actual test of
the remedies by the people. Such un-
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cine as shown by the Muriydri Company at.
once'gave " sufferers of this dread disease .
confidence in them, and the result haa
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commodated, and to-day there are 20,037
sick and afllicted tiersons testing the value '
of the cure. As the results are published
each day in the leading papers no doubC
thousands who have given up all hope of
being relieved will be tempted to try this
and other remedies just as effective manu-
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bottles of his cures from leading dailies all
over the country, and in no case have they
reported, after careful investigation, less .•
than 90 per cent out of every hundred
cured or. greatly benefited. What a con- ..
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from other places thousands of miles away,"
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provided com plication of diseases exists,
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heal the afflicted parts and restore them to
a natural and healthful condition. *.: . ;
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restores lost powers to weak and debilitated
men. Price, $1.
. Munyon's Homeopathic Remedy Com-
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put up specifics for nearly every disease,
mostly for 25 cents a bottle.
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