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\Y DECEMBER 8, 1895
AMUSEMENTS.
Bai.tvuin Theater.— Rice's Big "1492," to-
morrow evening.
California Theateb— " The Gladiator." to-
morrow evening.
Columbia Thkatfr— "A Fool for Luck."
Koßosco'a Opkra-house— "The Burglar."
1 ivoli OrißA-HorsE- "The Mikado."
( rriiny- Elgb-Claaa Vaudeville.
(iKOVER's alcazar.— 'The Governor."
Macdokouoh Tkfatkk (OAKLAND)—" \Vang,"
Thursday evening, December 12.
1-hcotthe Chutes— Dally at Halgnt street,
ere block east of the Park. r»\.o
Central Park.— Baseball.
Gol.den Gate Park— Golden Gate Park Band.
Pacific Coast Jockey Clcb.— Races to-morrow.
AUCTION SALES.
By Will K. Fisher & Co.— Monday. December
9, Pianos, Rugs, etc., at 6 Post st., at 11 o'clock.
By Easton, i.it}:ii>. v & Co.— Tuesday, De
cember 10, Rugs, at 625 Sutler street, at" 7:30
O clock v. M.
By Easton. Eldridge it Co.- Tuesday, Dec.
17, Keal Estate, at Salesrooms, 6?S Market street
at 12 o'clock noon.
By G. H. Umbsen & Co.— Real Estate. Saturday.
December 28, at 19 o'clock noon at salesroom, 14
Montgomery street. ■
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.
Wilbur H. Reaser has a plan for making local
aid more practical.
Sunday will t>o "fair," according to Forecast
Official \V. H. Jlammon.
The Afro-American vote has again been
pledged to the women suffragists.
The unions oi the building trades will meet
to-'luy and arrange for headquarters of their
own.
Frank Kloss was sentenced to death by Judge
Bahrs yesterday for the murder of William
Deady.
The mass-meeting to protest acninst the
funding bill packed Metropolitan Temple last
evening.
The last rarr-Beel concert of the present
year wag driven yesterday afternoon In Golden
oate Hall.
The retail poultry and fruit dealers formed a
protective association last Thursday, with Tom
Burns as president.
The Board of Supervisors will take up the
question of prohibiting burial within the City
nt their next meeting.
Judsre Belcher has denied W. E. Paulsell's
motion for a new trial and sentenced him to
fiiteen years' imprisonment.
Frank Farnion was sentenced to ten years'
imprisonment yesterday for criminal ussault
committed upoii Lillie White.
The store of M. H. Richardson, 7."") Market j
street, was entered by burglars on Friday night,
and about $200 worth of articles stolen."
The Dresden Keramic Club gave its first exhi
bition of china painting yesterday afternoon
and evening at Red Men's Hall on Post street.
The committee on plan of work for the j
Women's Federation for Public Wood will ask-j
for the appointment of a woman truant officer.
The Supreme Court has decided that when
Magnolia Lodge of the Odd Fellows expelled
Max Levy i; was done strictly according to law.
J. H. Campbell, attorney for the German
heirs of the estate of Miranda Lux, has an- j
nounced the terms under which he will com- '
promise.
Oin'i Dance won the Horse Show Association
stakes Rt Ingleside yesterday. The other win
• re: Princess Noretib, Installator, Col
lins and J OC.
H. Phillips demanded an investigation of
Mechanics' institute affairs at the meeting of
members last r.ieht and charged misappropri- j
aiioii of funds.
J. «'. Ryan, the fleet footracer, who won
$41,000 ai Leavt-nworth and $20,000 by beat
ing Billy Martin in Oregon, is in town to see
the horseraces.
When the next Board of Insanity Commis
sioners is appointed it is probable there will be i
at least one and maybe two women physicians i
in the membership.
F. Ramirez, a planter's son of Guatemala, who
swallowed a --nii-on Thursday, will
have charges of grand larceny preferred against j
Mm as soon as he reeo .
The Merchants' Association has addressed a
to the }''onrii of Supervisors against the
ling of the order prohibiting street work
p •• by private contract.
-iaie Development Committee will
shor'l • issue arid distribute a beautiful col
ored \.>poj»raphical relief map, which will be
&st to advertise California.
Th mas Ryan, whose domestic troubles have
tttly been aired in the Police courts, was j
■ • sterday sent to the County Jail for ten days j
by Judge Low for dibturbing the peace.
Nathaniel S. Chadwick is suing the Pacific
anil the Sunset Telephone Companies for $50,
--: the death of his father, who was killed
■ Telephone building on Bush street.
Elder EL S. Tanner has returned from a tour
of Southern California, and reports having
organized branches of the Mormon church at
Los Angeles, San Diego and San Bernardino.
•■ Campbell yesterday fixed the bonds of
Kmma Marchand and Lilly Breadhoff, two of
the eirls who testified against Captain Lane
and Leon R. Meyers, in sf-JO.OOO and $10,0U0
• ctively.
There was considerable excitement over the
election in Company F of the Third Infantry,
National Guard of California, last Monday
night, and there will be more when the second
election comes up.
The College of Practical Viticulture, which is
destined to be the successor of the present
Viticultural Commission when that body goe*
out of office on January 1, 189G, has liled
articles of incorporation.
Miss Minnie Viola, an actress formerly known
in this City, has returned from Australia with
the avowed purpose of passing the fails and
whirlpool of Niagara in a barrel. She will
be dropped into the river from a balloon.
The Supervisors have given up the idea of a
new safety-fender for streetcars after passing
an ordinance requiring such a device on all
t-treetcarsin the City. Manager Viningof the
railway company says the matter is in their
hands.
The importation of cheap-labor Japane-p
goods is troubling the Manufacturer.-,' and
Producers' Association, but the Labor Commis
sioner fears coolie immigration more than the
threatened ruinous Asiatic competition wiih
California productions.
■i Kagan wa<* sentenced to one year in
prison by Judge Bahrs yesterday for falsifying
election returns. Joseph J. Bagely, .;
P'ianuigan, M. Coleman, Andrew Jt»: .
find David L. Roach, also election fraud case.-,
were dropped from the calendar.
Coast Secretary Keeney of the American Bi
metallic League has received from President
Warner a call for a silver conference in \V«>;, .
ington on January 22, when a plan of affilia
tion on ihe candidates for President and Vice-
Piesident in 189H isto be discussed.
Mrs. Kate Muicahy, sf! years of age, was
arrested early yesterday morning on a charge
of burglary. She entered Fred Whol titan's
restaurant and stole a lady's cloak and other
clothing. She was captured as she was es
caping and handed over to the police.
The British ship Clan Mackenzie, vow In
port, ii the vessel that was tnn down in the
( olumbia River several years ago. It cost over
> 10,000 to raise and repairher. Captain Iddes
was at that time tiiird male, and he hi
I through many equally as perilous times.
Thomas B. Everett, formerly of Placer County,
and since 1893 oi Crlt<pie Creek, is here. He
gays th" camp has 20,000 people and will pro
duce $9,000,000 in gold this year. Up <!■
the craze in stocks, but think* it will injure
only the speculators and not legitimate
mining.
The will of the late Frank Gobey has been
filed for probate. He left an estate worth
$00,000. The saloon on Sutler btreet which
he owned Is left to his brother, Jesae Gobey;
:t_i-."<m> is left to hii sister, Klmira Gobey,
and the remainder is left to his daughter,
France* Camiile Gobey, now in school in
Canada, The will was executed May 17. 1883.
The Brittain ranch, a well-known farm of
Santa Clara Valley, was sold yesterday at auc
tion to J. C. Johnson, the .-<a<!dle and harness
dealer of this city, for $46,000. McAfee Broth
ers, who conducted the sale, report a good at
tendance and lively bidding, and say that the
amount realized is considered a fair price for
the property.
The estate of Benjamin H. Baird was before
Judge Coffey yesterday on the petition of Mrs.
Veronica E. Baird to have a certain portion of
the property set aside for the children, of
whom she is'the guardian. She said in her tes
timony, among other things, that Ebenezer
Scott, who is an executor of the will, offered to
withdraw from hi.- position lor #5000. This
Hcott denied, and after the wrangle subsiderl
Judge Coffey allowed £12.500 to be distributed
to the children. Mrs. Baird asked for $17,000.
L'ltalia has fUrted the initiative among local
Italian papers of lulling* .Sunday supplement.
The first number appeared last Sunday. It is
an tigbt-page magazine, entitled "La Vita,"
and it contains interesting articles on current
events, principally written by the editors, G.
Alrnagia and E. Patrizi. Among thrin Is an
article on -'Life in America and the Dignity of
Worit." I a Vita also contains pictures and
Doetry, etc.
THE FLEETEST MAN AFOOT.
Arrival of J. C. Ryan, Who Beat
M. K. Kittleman and
Won $41,000.
OTHER NOTED VICTORIES.
The Strange Story of His Life on the
Cinder Path as Told by
Himself.
J. C. Ryan, who vanishes on occasions
like a greased streak, is at the Palace. He
is the footracer who defeated the re
nowned runner, M. K. Kittleman, at
Lcnvenworth some time ago, and won
$41,000 by it.
He also won a race against William
Morgan of Yamhili County, Or., getting
$20,000 at a much earlier period, cleaning
out all the loose capital of the Yamhili
people. They didn't know it was Ryan
till after he had so e:isily won the money,
having taken him for a guileless farmhand
who was laboring under the mistaken ap
prehension that ht could run.
Ryan was the champion of the Council
Bluffs hose team also, ami beat Bethune,
who with Ryan at a tournment competed
with forty other men, lithe of limb.
He began by racing with the Indians of
New Mexico, quite accidentally, he says,
and until that time didn't know that he
could run much.
"I was a clerk in the railroad office at
Albuquerque," he said, "and during the
Territorial fair fifteen Navajo Indians
were down for a contest. 1 hadn't paid
any attention to it till the last minute,
when I asked if 1 could get in.
"They said I could, but that I would
have to run just as I was— in my heavy
clnthes. I couldn't get them off in time,
and ran in my drawers, on par with the
Indians. So i started out. I thought I
would make the tirst quarter of the half
mile stretch, if possible, before they over
took me, ana then I would stop.
"But when I got there I was still ahead,
and I thought 1 would keep in it to the
next. I was ahead then, much to my sur
prise, and I kept on and on, till I won out,
being fifteen yards ahead of any competi
tor.
"1 won some money in that race, and I
suppose, in all, I have won $10,000 of
Indians at one time ami another. Indians
I can't run. That i.s a mistake. I never saw
either an Indian or a Mexican that could.
They have never had the training, and are
not equal to it.
"I ran with the Fiatheads on Puget
Sound and won about $*00. There were
| about 10,000 Indians there picking hops,
and the several Flatheaas who ran with
me were the fleetest to be selected from the
various tribes. I would have won more
money, but this was all they had.
"One of my best races was with Dono
van at Brockton, Mass. In that I made
100 yards in 9s£ seconds and got a lot of
I money. At Indianapolis two months ago
I ran with John Hogan and won $4000.
"In the Yamhill race, which created a
sensation at the time, the father of Martin,
my competitor, lost $1150. A blacksmith
there lust $3000 also. They all thought
they had a sure thing.
"Probably the best racer we have ever
: hud was John W. Cozad of lowa, who died
!at Denver a few years ago. He used to win
: whole bands of Indian ponies at one time
lof the Indians by racing against the
! swiftest ponies. In those days almost no
record was made of the time, but his vic
tories showed what he wa>.
"I have also frequently run against
fleet horses and beat them." It isn't such
a hard thing to do when a man is at '
himself.
"To run well a man must eat what his
appetite demands., train hard and then
get off his legs at once so he can rest.
| Then when he goes forth again he will be
as elastic as a rubber ball.
"This thing of eating old moldy bread
and otherwise partaking o* hard* fare to
J. C RYAN, THE CHAMPION FOOTRACE* WHO DEFEATED M. K. KITTLE
MAN AND WON $41,000.
harden one's . Belf is all nonsense. Theyon
They know Sets"' 1 0 That -*" paSL I
The champion runner has come in from
New "York, He and-. M. K. Kittleman,
whom he defeated, have been in the horse
business t6eether for some time. Ryan is
an^^tliiiS a 0 a .7le V wif/be?n^ !
Francisco some time, as he has come on tS
attend ihe fast horseraces.
CARR-BEEL CONCERT.
The First Appearance in Thig City of a
New Octet.
The feature of the Carr-Beel concert yes
terday was an octet for strings by Svend
sen. It was played by Sigmund Beel,
John Josephs, Henry Siering, A. Solomon,
violins; Bernat Jaulus, Charles Heintzen,
violas; Louis Heine, Fred Gutterson,
cello.
There was no doubt about the success of
the octet; the audience applauded every
movement vociferously and the perform
ers fully deserved all the encouragement
they received. The delicate shading, the
precision and the excellent phrasing that
have made the Saturday Popular quartet
a feature of these concerts were as conspic
uous in the octet. The Svendsen number,
in fact, was only another proof of the suc
cess of Sigmund Beel and his colleagues
in chamber music.
A sonata by llaff, for piano and violin,
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1895.
! was well played by Mrs. Carr and Sigmund
! Beel. Messrs. Heine and Gutterson gave
an artistic rendering of a suite for two
I cellos, by Popper. The vocalist, Mrs.
Ernest H. Palmer, sang a dramatic aria,
by Bemberg, "La Morte de Jeanne d'Arc,"
and a song," "Good-Night," by Dvorak, as
well as two encores. This lady has a some
what guttural production, which gives her
voice the effect of a contralto in songs of
low compass. .She sang with a certain
amount of artistic feeling, but on one or
two occasions, particularly in her second
encore, she forced her upper tones and
sang out of tune. It is but fair to say,
however, that Mrs. Palmer's vocal efforts
were received with positive warmth by a
large audience.
The cry of "No programmes '" was sadly
echoed by all but very early comers yester
day. It is a familiar plaint at the Oarr-
Beel concerts, for, whether from accident
or design, there are frequently not enough
programmes to go round. It is possible
that to go programmeless is a punishment
designed by the management for late
comers, but yesterday the punishment fell
on the heads of the innocent, for many
people who were comfortably seated be
fore the performers appeared were con
strained to meekly apply to their neigh
bors to know what came next.
The Carr-Beel concerts will be resumed
after the holidays.
Chinese Felon to Be Deported.
United States Commissioner Heacock recom
mended yesterday the deportation under the
McCreary act of Ah Saw, a Chinese felon, who
THE BRITISH SHIP CLAN MACKENZIE THAT MAS CUT DOWN IN THE COLUMBIA RIVER AND WHICH COST
OVER 540.000 TO RAISE AND REPAIR.
[Sketched by a " Call" artist.]
ha? just completed r sentence of three years
and six months' imprisonment at San Quentin
for a burglary committed in Calav^raa County.
THE INSANITY BOARD.
Women Physicians May Find a Place
on the Next On* Ap
pointed.
A movement is on foot to secure on the
Board of Medical Examiners in Insanity
the appointment of some lady doctors.
This is urged on the ground of the number
i of women who come before the examiners
an inquts ition of lunacy, and who
I mi ht more appropriately be examined by
Physicians of their own sex.
Many of these cases are transient in
their nature, arising out of temporary con
ditions in illness peculiar to females, re
! T^ treatment, which can
? ever be 8S Buccessfull y B lven by men as
by women, whose intimate knowledge and
personal experience enable them to apply
those apt remedial 'measures, |moral and
mental, which may alleviate or abrogate
the ailments of alienism.
The common cause of alienation among
women are beginning to be studied and
understood much;: better than before, and
cases that were wont to be pronounced in
curable after a superficial examination by
perfunctory physicians of the opposite
sex now yield to the patient and tactful
care of women doctors.
On the Board of Examiners of San Fran
cisco are four men, appointed by the
Judges of the Superior Court at their an
nual meeting in January. At the next
meeting a proposition will be presented to
select from the numerous ladies practicing
medicine one, if not two, to act as ex
aminer of the female patients. If the lady
doctors unite on one or two of themselves
there can be no doubt that the Judges will
accept and appoint snch selection.
A Swiss scientist has been testing the
presence of bacteria in the mountain air,
and finds that not a single microbe exists
above an altitude of 2000 feet.
HIS REMARKABLE CAREER
Adventures of Captain Iddes in
the Clans Mackenzie and
Graham.
YELLOW FEVER IN COMMAND.
The Captain Died and the Young Mate
Had to Navigate the Ship
Home.
The British ship Clan Mackenzie, now
discharging at Union-street wharf, has
had a remarkable career, and th£ captain
is able to keep tag with his vessel. To be
gin with he is the youngest master in com
mand of a British ship in San Francisco,
and yet he has been through dangers that
would cause the bravest man to quail.
Captain Iddes has watched his vessel cut
down, and jumped to save his life as she
sank under his feet. In Rio Janeiro he
saw his superior and half the crew
die of yellow fever, and then undismayed
he took command and carried the ship to
her destination.
In 18S'J the Clan Mackenzie was in Port
land, Or. G. Iddes was third mate. He
had served his apprenticeship in the
"Clan" line, and on passing his examina
tion had been given his commission. The
Clan Mackenzie was almost read}' for sea,
and was in the stream prepared to receive
the last few tons of her cargo. While lying
at anchor one of the river steamers ran her
down, and the Clan Mackenzie sank to the
bottom of the river. Several attempts to
raise her were made, but all failed. Finally
T. P. H. Whitelaw was brought from San
Francisco, and he raised the ship, but his
efforts caused the insurance company $19,
--900, and the subsequent repairs $22,000.
When the Clan Mackenzie was cut down
two of the crew were killed and one seri
ously injured. A number of the men
went down with the ship, but managed to
reach the surface again and were picked
up by boats that put out from the shore.
Third Mate Iddes was instrumental in
saving the lives of several of the men and
when the ship linaily reached P^ngland, he
was made chief officer of the Clan Graham.
When the Clan Graham left Liverpool
for Newcastle, N. S. W., via Rio Janeiro,
Captain It. Wilson was in command. At
the latter port almost the entire crew was
taken down with the yellow fever. Iddes
attended to his ship.'nursed the captain
and saw that the sick men got every atten
tion. Captain Wilson died ana was buried
at Rio. One-half the crew succumbed to
the scounre also and linaily the young
mate was taken with the plague. For days
he hung between life and death, but tinafly
recovered. Then he took command of the
ship and after tilling the vacancies
caused by death, he sailed for Newcastle.
From Australia he brought the Clan
Graham to Ban Francisco and thence to
England. The owners were so pleased
with the manner in which he had handled
their affairs that they at once made him
master of the Clan Mackenzie, the ship in
which he was third mate only six years
ago.
Captain Hinds of the Clan Galbraith,
now lying at Howard 2, was the predeces
sor of Captain Iddes in the Clan Mackenzie.
The Clan Mackenzie has been in many
a heavy 6torra and has been dismasted
and on several occasions given up for lost.
She always turns up in safety, however,
and as a general rule. makes far better pas
sages than some of the clippers. Difring
this year only two vessels have made the
passage from England io San Francisco in
110 days, and these two are the Penmore
and the Clan Mackenzie.
The Clan Mackenzie is 1597 tons net bur
den, 259 feet 5 inches long, 38 feet 2 inches
broad and 23 leet 1 inch deep. She was
built in Glasgow in 1832, but was practi
cally made a new ship in 1889, when re
paired at Portland. The officers are First
Mate McMahou, Second Mate Merry,
Third Mate Vaughn. When the ship was
in the Bristol Channel Second Mate Slad
din fell down the fore hatch and was inter
nally injured. He was sent ashore in a
tug "and Third Mate Merry was promoted.
Vaughn was the eldest of the apprentice
boys, so Cactain Iddes made him third
mate. Now Vaughn says he is going to
work hard, and six years hence he hopes
to emulate the "old man" and be master
of a ship.
TO GO TO NEW YORK.
Ambrose Bierce Will Be Added to the
Journal Staff.
Mr. Hearst, the editor of the Examiner,
still continues to draw on the Pacific Coast
for writers and newspaper men.
It is pretty well settled now that he will
have Ambrose Bierce go to the Journal,
Mr. Hearst's Eastern newspaper property,
where the writer of Prattle will beexpected
to familiarize himself with the manners
and neculiarities of the Atlantic Coasters.
Whether or not Mr. Bierce can retain his
health there is not known, as for the past
few months he has been subject to asth
matic troubles. California is the most sat
isfactory climate to Mr. Bierce, and his
capacity to stand the violent changes of
the other side can only be settled by a trial.
Mr. Bierce has about recovered from the
shock and injury of falling off his bicycle
pome months ago, but since that time he
has given up wheeling altogether.
Mr. Hearst, since his purchase of the
New York Journal, has taken a great many
newspaper men from this City and pre
sented them to the New York public with
success.
COMPANY FS ELECTION.
It Raises Much Opposition and Some
Excitement Among Officers
and Men.
There were lively times at last Monday's
election in Company F of the Third Infan
try, N. G. C, and there will be another
lively time when the next election is held
there.
The election was for the purpose of elect
ing a captain to succeed Captain Frank W.
Warren, who has commanded the com
pany for some years. Captain War
ren ran for the place again, and op
posing him was Tim Sullivan, for
merly a private in the company, but now
inflamed with an ambition to command it.
At first, so Captain Warren says, the offi
cers under him expressed loyalty to his
ambitions for command, but when it came
to a vote he found that his first lieutenant
had gone over to the enemy and was act
ually supporting Sullivan.
It is the custom in National Guard elec
tions that when one officer is elected and
there are other vacancies to fill, these, too,
may be tilled at the same election. Cap
tain Warren decided to have some say in
this, however, and when it came to a ques
tion of voting for a first lieutenant he ob-
jected. He said that he was captain and
it was his right to have discretionary
power as to the officers who served with
him. He wanted to be assured of their
loyalty, and so he proposed that further
elections 4»e postponed.
There was a bitter conflict then. Major
Halsted of the brigade staff who pre
sided, objected, and so did Colonel O'Con
nor, but the men of the company were
with the captain and voted to postpone
the election.
When the election for lieutenant comes
up Lieutenant Judge may have some trou
ble in retaining his place, as there will be
much opposition. .Second Lieutenant
West is friendly to Captain Warren, and
these two will have considerable to say as
to who shall be third officer.
Trout Out of Season.
A. Paladini, a Merchant-street fish-dealer
was arrested yesterday noon by Patrolman
Bakulech on Chief Deputy Fish Commissioner
John F. Babcock's complaint for exposing trout
for sale out of season. He was taken to the
California-street police station and deposited
$50 bail for his appearance in court Monday
morning. This may possibly be made the test
case of the iamous salmon-steelhead contro
versy inaugurated recently.
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FOR THE CHILDREN.
THE AFRO-AMERICAN VOTE
The Women Suffragists Received
a Pledge of the Colored
Support.
COUNTY SEAT CONVENTIONS.
Advocates of Equal Suffrage Are En
couraged and Report Good Cheer
All Along the Line.
The women suffragists of California are
hard at work. If they are not enfran
chised next fall it will be on account of no
lack of faithful, persistent effort.
Their plans were outlined at an open
meeting of the State amendment cam
paign committee and the California
Woman Suffrage Association, held at
Golden Gate Hall yesterday, when it was
announced that Miss Anna 11. Shaw would
return the latter part of March to make a
second tour of the State in the interests of
equal suffrage. The plan is to have con
ventions lasting two days at every county
seat in the State, Miss Shaw assisting in
most, if not all, the conventions. Mrs.
Hester A. Harland, the State organizer,
will be active in the conduct of the meet
ings.
Attention was called by Mrs. Ellen C.
Sargent, chairman of the campaign com
mittee, to the petition-books being exten
aivelv circulated, in which all desiring that
the State political conventions be re
quested to put a suffrage plank in their
platforms, might insert their names.
The following report of Mrs. Hester A.
Harland was read :
In rendering a report of orgrnization work
in California it wili probably be in order to
give a resume of all items connected with the
same dating from my appointment and begin
ning July 15, 1895.
During the month to August 15, correspond
ence was begun and, with the help of the mem
bers of the press committee in Southern Cali
fornia, all of the newspapers in that section
were corresponded with, and items sent them
regarding the work of the Suffrage Associa
tions and other interesting items pertaining to
suffrage work in general.
After repeated attempts to form clubs in
various towns it was found impracticable at
that season, as the masses of influential and
progressive people were not at home, having
gone to the seaside resorts to remain until
October.
I visited some of the large assemblages, nota
bly Chautauqua meetings, at Long Beach, spoke
daily upon our work and plans and purposes,
and'in that way secured the interest of many
residents of six counties, securing names and
lists for future reference.
In the middle of August I went to Santa Bar
bara, where 1 remained four days. There I ad
dressed the Woman's Club, a literary club
composed ot prominent women of that city;
also the Working-girls' Club, the Temperance
Union ana a mass-meeting of about 200 per
sons, and lastly held a meeting for organiza
tion, at which time thirty-five members were
enrolled. (It has since increased to a member
ship of fifty.)
All arrangements had been made to form
similar clubs in Ventura and Santa Paula,
when a call came to go to San Francisco and
arrange to manage Miss Shaw's lecture tour.
This tour practically suspended organization
work until November lf>, although some few so
cieties were formed in the meantime and much
preparatory work done. A fine society of eigh
teen members was organized in Vallejo on
September "20 under most satisfactory and en
couraging auspices.
Having been advised by members of our
committee to attempt organization during
this tour I did so, but soon found that the
two could not be satisfactorily carried on
simultaneously. There was not time to work
the matter up. In this way, however, small
societies were formed in Santa Rosa, St. Helena,
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respondence in Ukiah.
In early November I visited the Oakland and
Berkeley associations; found these societies
anxious to co-operate on the iines laid down
in National and State constitutions, very en
thusiastic and doing good suffrage work.
Santa Clara County was the next field for
work, which I visited November 13. No pre
liminary work has been done in securing
names, but with the help of Mrs. E. O. Smith
and Dr. Avery, whom I have to thank for ear
nest co-operation, I called upon prominent
citizens, Judges, lawyers, educators, mer
chants, etc. ; addressed the Labor Exchange,
the Grange and "Woman's Club," and formed
a strong suffrage club of fifty-lour members,
temporarily organized November 14 ; perma
nently organized November HI.
After canvassing the town of Gilroy I held a
mass-meeting on November 18 and formed a
club of eighteen members.
November 20 I addressed the "Woman's
Club" of Palo Alto and formed acluD of thirteen
members, to be permanently organized after
the return of some ladies interested in suffrage
who were away at the time of my visit. I con
sider the suffrage work splendidly launched in
Santa Clara County. The pres3 of that county
is very favorable to our work. (Mrs. E. O.
Smith will organize the smaller towns.)
My first visits in a town are made to the edi
tors of papers, who in many instances have
been exceedingly favorable and obliging.
In some of these northern towns of from 500
to 6000 inhabitants I find the question has
never been agitated, spoken of or read of, and
often there are only six persons, or even only
two, who are interested in the subject.
In every town I make a canvass, and in many
I find it necessary to ko from house to house to
try to convert people who have hitherto givea
no thought to the question. Some places are
not ready for organization, but this is not a
matter for discouragement, since much good
work can be going on through the papers and
by personal visits and preparations made to
form clubs in such places in the spring and
then push on to quick and decisive action. In
the larger places and in the south work
promises to be easier, the seed having already
been sown.
Through experience in going about I have
been led to the conclusion that nothing can so
help to awaken interest and enlighten the
people, and thus help in the organization of
clubs, as giving the interior press information
of the aims, plans and methods of work of the
two associations; in fact, all kinds of informa
tion relative to the suffrage campaign.
My next visit will be in Auburn, where I
shall be when this reaches you. 1 expect good
results there and in Chico. From these places
I shall work along the line to San Francisco
and then go south. It will be my aim to have
the Suisun and San Diego clubs, already organ
ized, as well as the Los Angeles Central Com
mittee, become auxiliary to our committee.
They will be strong allies.
With great respect and thanks for your con
fidence, 1 am, very sincerely yours,
Hester a. Hakland.
State Organiser.
It was stated that a communication bad
been received from the Afro-American
League, pledging its vote of 2800 members
to suffrage for women.
Miss Hattie Cooper reported that twelve
towns have already asked for addresses
from Miss Shaw in the spring. "Interest
in the cause is bubbling up like artesian
wells all over the State," said the young
lady.
It was stated that the receipts of Miss
Shaw's lecture course in the State were
$2263.
A Judge of the Supreme Court of Colo
rado was quoted as to the salutary effect
of woman suffrage in the Centennial State.
There were addresses by Mrs. Sarah B.
Cooper, Mrs. Haight, Mrs. Anna Smith,
Mrs. Gregory, Colonel Dickinson and
others.
The viommittees in charge design to
have op ?n day meetings hereafter at least
once a month for ladies, and meetings
which will be addressed by both sexes in
the evening.
Racetrack Swindle.
W. H. Heffernan, who Bays he is an aotor,
was arrested at the Ingleside racetrack last
evening on the charge of obtaining money by
false pretenses. He represented himself to a
lady as a "tout," and induced her to give him
$3 to bet on a horse. The horse won, but Hef
fernan did not return with the money. It was
found that he had made a bet of 5 to 2 and had
pocketed the money.
Wanted for Perjury.
Mrs. Sarah J. Dunlap was arrested yesterday
morning by Detective Ed Gibson on a warrant
from San Luis Obispo charging her with per
jury. Sheriff Ballon arrived last night and
will leave with her this morning. She was in
dicted by the Grand Jury for making a false
statement to the Assessor of the value of her
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