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The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-01-01
VERY HAPPY BRAVES.
Tenth Annual High Jinks of the Iroqu
Democratic Club.

Tenth Annual High Jinks of the Iroquois
Democratic Club.
Several hundred braves participated in the
tenth annual high jinks of the Iroquois Club
last night. The rooms of the club were
nicely decorated, the front of tie building
was Illuminated with lanterns and the dawn
OF the new year was hailed by display of
fireworks from the balcony.
II was alter 10 o'clock when the fun be-
gan. John Ruddock wore the toga of Santa
Claus to the queens taste and little Willie
KrauSs imperSonated the new year. Their
entry into the main hail was the signal for
an overture By the orchestra and the re-
mainder of the ctlebratorS to follow. Then
the following programme was carried out &:
Song, Mr.. Cratic; duet, Masters Gingg
specIalties keogh and Mack; comic song j.
NJ. Ward; specalties, Felix Heeney; song,
Harry Warren; sDecialties, w. Fletcher and
j. NJ. Ward.
AL the conclusion of the entertainment
Louis Metzger. on behalf of the club, pre-
scented Larry j. Welsh, the retiring Presi-
dent, with a gold yest-chain and diamond
During the banquet that followed many
toaslS were proposed and responded to, land
JOY was unrestrained" until long after Jan
uary |, 1891, had made its appearance on
the calendar.
Fred Raabe officiated as master of cere-
monies, and the uther members who were
on the Committee of Arrangements were :
l.. V. Merle, Z. McGettigan, DR.. Setchel
and j. j. ElYnn
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A CHINAMAN RAGGEn
How Robert Syer Got the Better NJ
WILD rIopDoIi.n

How Robert Syer Got the Better of
Wild MongoIian.
Robert Syer's story OF how he came 70
shoot a Chinaman in the legs with hird
shot, bind him, load him into a wagon ana
unload him into Jail yesterday afternoon is
entertaining. Mr.. Syer lives on the Mini
tas road three miles from town. BE said
that the first time he saw the Chinaman was
two weeks ago, when he found him chasing
another Chinaman, who works for Mr.. Svar
with an AK and threatening to kill the fn1i'
tive. Mr.. Syer stopped the man with the
ak, and saw him enter his orchard and
begin to cut down his pear trees. Mi. Syer
says that he saw the Chlnaman cut down
four or five large trees, then walk
off with the ak on his shoulder. He did
not interfere, because he thought the
Chnaman crazy. He did not see the
hearing racket in his yard. he saw
this same Chinaman chasing his two dogs,
with knife. He called the dogs away and
the Chinaman attacked him. Mr.. Syer
barely had time to get into tie house and
shut the door. Then rocks came flying
through the bay window, and;he took his
shotgun and went out. When the China
mau came toward him he let fly at the Chi
naman'S legs. Then the Chlnlman went off
and laid down in the grass, when Mr.. Syer
and his hired man bound him fast with bal
ing rope and took him to Jail.
1t was found that the Chinaman's legs
were badly lacerated. but no bones were
broken. The gun was loaded with No. s
shot, and they struck him below the knee.
He was taken to the County Hospital. The
knife he was brandishing was broken
caSe-knife. The Chinaman is supposed to
be insane.-San Jose Herald, Dec. 31st.
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TO THE OLD YEAR.

Farewell, Old Year. farewell to you'
You've been for many day
friend most tried friend most true
And as we bid you our adleu'
We give our heartfelt THANKS 10 Sou'
And speed you on your way
we,ve had fun many merry time
Since first met oId rear
vo,,rya sunr for us the Christmas rhyme,
And RING for us the Christmas chime;
Ana many Joy at Christmas time
You brought with hearty cheer.
You crowned the woodland banks with bloom
OF roses, red ald sweet
You gave the yiolets their perfume,
Ripened the coynield's taSseled plume.
And flied the mtll-wheel's running finms
To grind the COLDER wheat.
You brought the yellow datfodil
To bloom out in the spring;
Strewed cuckoo flowers on every hill.
And cat-tails by the ripping rill-
And taught the lonely whip-poorwill
His vesper song to sing.
You turned theivy's green to red:
The maple leaves to gold
pnrnled the clusters overhead,
Ana showers OF ripened nuts you shed.
When fallen leaves lay thickly spread
Above the forest mold.
And if you gathered some fair flowers
That Dlossomed in your way
You bore them to fairer cline
Where neither cold, nor care, nor time
Could blight them in their golden primo.
Or touch them with decay
And All you brought, Old Year Old Yeart
One tiny baby flower,
To nestle on its mothers breast.
And close its blue eyes into rest
When sOng-birds seek their cradIe-nests
AT twilight's shadowy hour.
And now. Old Year farewell to youi
We grieve TO lose you so.
You've been friend both tried ard true,
And as we bid you our adieu,
We give our heartfelt thanks to Won
And sigh that you must go.
Oakland, Cal. Dec. 81, 1880.
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DEATHS FH0sT VIOLENCE.

Seminary Of the Causes Which Led to
Loss of Life.
HE violent deaths during the year num-
bered almost one for every day in the cal
endar. Among them were one legal execu-
ton, two cases Of justifable homicide,
THIRTY murders, 1O1 suicides and 1872 acct
dental deaIhs. Ofthe murders thirteen are
credited to the use Of the pistol, and were
nearly all the result Of highlander uutrages.
seven were the result of brutal attacks with
clubs or other blunt instruments, three were
committed with the knife, six were the re-
suit OF criminal malpractice and one was a
case OF inianticide.
Among the suicides fortv-two OF the num-
Der chose the pistol route to eternity, thirty
three took poison, opium being the most
popular remedy for their woes. ten used the
knife on themse Ives, an equal number pre-
leTred asphyXiaton, five hanged them
selves, and only one is recorded as having
Wllliully drowned himself. As, however
there were some twenty-five unknown
bodies recovered from the bay during the
wear 1t Is possible that most, if not all of
fhem, took this method of destroying them
selves.
n. of the accidental deaths on record eighty
Skne are attributed to the various causes
common to city life, such as runaway acct
dents, falls, kicks from horses and the like
the blame for fourteen of the number being
fdId at the door of the street-raiway cable
aud Southern Pacific Railroad companies;
tnere were also twenty-nine cases of as
phyXia, twenty-five of accidental drowning.
seventeen OF accidental poisoning, princi-
pally fr N oYerdOses of morphine and
laudanum, and fifteen deaths from burns.
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SOME TART WORDS.
Judge Spencer Jumps on the Just
the

Judge Spencer Jumps on the Justice.
of the Peace.
Yesterday afternoon judge Opencer,
before whom the suit OF q. Wendt VS.. d.
B. Hill for $4,000 damages, for malicious
prosecution on charge of maintaining a
= nuisance. was tried, decided the case in
favor OF the defendant. In rendering his
decision he said:
ut is clearly testified to that the plaintiff
allowed otfal, blood and animal refuse to
pass through a depression in his premises
and into the stream. That the smell aud
odor arising therefrom must have been
offensive is in the nature of the thing
Itself. 1t is true that some of the witnesses.
Including the plaintiff, having become ac-
customed to the delightful aroma, state that
the place was not at all offensive Hundreds
OF hogs were kept and fed upon animal re-
fuSe, blood and eXcrement, in a nine
acre lot by the side of q common hiuh-
way. The court in its simple observa-
tiOn as citizen believes that an estab-
lShment of this kind must have been an
unmitlgated nuisance and menace
and annoyance, not only TO the contigu-
Gus residents but to the passers-bv. The
court can arrive at no other view than
to believe that the plaintiff should have been
convicted OF the charge against him in the
lower court. Of course, he was not animad-
yertlng upon the processes or methods of the
Justices OF the Peace, but there is no excuse
III ehoui W hiCk sucn complaints out OF
court when suffering community looks to
them Tor relief. But these are some of the
experiences of very free government, whom
a man is free to violate the law. out the
people are not free nor enabled co seek re-
dress.
Courts do no. navor actions of this kind,
as there pr cases where actual malice or i'll.
win 20 the moving cause. In the present
case, however, if there has been any malice
shown 1t has been in the commencement of
this CIVIL action. The pnnrf q bot
plaintiff should have been convicted in the
lower court. The defendant has attempted
to protect the community and should not
now be harassed by civil action In con-
sequence of such praiseworthy course.
Judgment is found for the defendant for
costs, and his attorney may prepare findings
agreeable to the Judgment" = San jose
Herald, Dec. 31st.
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NEW YEARS THOUGHTS.

Farewell. Old Year, Oblivion calls thee hence
Thout disappear, in realms of darkness, whence
But little of thy former light shall come;
And all thy shadows shall have found a home
Welcome, New Year! with great oncOming stride
Radiant with light, and bubbiing DER with pride
Thy dawn was rosy and its beams were glad,
q God forbid that they should e'er be sad
But, art thou new? does this days dawn proclai-.-
That thou art not, as other years, the sanrer
Dost take thy title from times new Dirthf
Or is 1t in the circumstance OF earth?
Are heart hs joyous for thy coming onf
Have hearts comfort that were once alone,
VIII virtues reign proclaim thy time to be
Brighter than others? lotted unto thee?
Answer must cOme;-the hearts of you aud L.
Breathing prayer-heaying HEARTFELT sigh
For home or country, kindredssh0no fame
This VIII add luster to the New Years name.
i 1891 GEORGE MARTIN.
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ADJUSTMENTS.
BALDWIN THEATERR SPECIAL.

NIsy.I, X - ~ q, .,@.,>~c,-'
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1890 AND 1891.

AT the gate of the world two persons met.
ones hair was white, and the others was let;
And while there they stood In the midnight air
The rest OF the world were In silent prayer
"Thou art welcome, young man." the elder said
As he shook his whitened and hoary head.
1 have done my best can do no more,
IT'S time were OFF to the peaceful shore.u
" Then gOod-by, old man, will do what cam
Responded the lithesome and bright young man,
ITO enhance the worlds happiness as ia the past
VIII be my endeayor. ay until the last"
Then the trumpets blew and the joy bells rang.
And the rest of the world all joyfully sang:
While the young man entered in regal state
The old man strobe out at the postern gate
San FTdncisco Dec. 1897 MORLEY ASHTON
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nnnnArE nEPARrMENT.
Twelve Hundred and Fifty-two ""s'
Filled in 1890.

Twelve Hundred and Fifty-two
Filed in 1890.
The number of cases fled in the ProOate
Denartment for this city during 1890 was
1852. Among the cases in the Probate
Court which involved the ownership oil
SIMS of money close upon and over $1,000
091 we're the following estates: Nicholas Lu-
ming, Mrs. Croker, Thomas Ii. Blythe, R. G.
Johnson. James Whartenby, A. {; WHIT
comb, Thomas II. Williams, Mrs. Kate f.
Mclaughlin, Mrs Kate +. Macdonougn'
Pearsuus and Mrs. Mary O'Connor.
Judge Coffey, who has given his attention
exclusively to probate matters for over seven
years, states that during 1890 he mas Deen oce
cupied day and night with the business OF
his department.
Three interesting contests in the matter OF
the estates of Luigi &. Dana, Nancy Ha irn
and Captain Charles E. Mcdonald nfhe
occupy Judge Coffey's attention during
early part of 1891.
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THE OLD YEAR.

Across a cold and wintry sky,
The clouds are swiftly flying,
As IL to veil its sorrow, for
The old year lies a-dyin
The1noon has hidden her pale face,
The winds with grief are signing,
And now and then faI! bitter tears
For the old year that is dying.
Dying alone in the dark night,
While soft the sea IS soDbing.
Dying. an yes, the hour is late,
Its heart Is scarcely thrObbing.
Good-by, Old year. II you must 60,
My friend so true and tender,
The hopes, the fears, the joys you've borne,
To time you must surrender.
Good-by, say 1t with regret,
My tears for you are flowing.
A part of me must go, ola year,
With you, where you are going.
You must not go, my dear Old friend,
you've given so much OF gladness,
lou We stood by me so steadfastlv,
ana comforted my sadness.
Gush, ah me. its almost gone,
Th~ ,o'eath is short and feeting,
Ana ~ with merry chimes ring out,
e new year are greeting.
NJ -, eood-by, my brave old friend,
Wy he'rt Tor you is greyInp
pa, many rowing, tender thoughts
Denlhd you, you are leaving
Inc bells ring merrIly to greet
~ OF anger young aud stately.
my thoughts iinger lovingly
With one who left US lately
Regret is vain, III give my hand
10 the new year, bright and CAV.
ana drinkits health with BRIGHT word
And make it my friend to-day.
&C. 81. 1890. BrArprc,
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TRYsT OF ANGELS.


Something in the stiffness stirring
Wakes my soul from dreams delights
AS the pendulum is sounding
The late seconds of the night.
Low within my careened chimney
Leaps the sulphurous fiame-Iight pale
While some ghostly hand, extended,
Seems to part the sable veil
Pending 'twixt me and the silence,
And see, like specters tail,
Restless, moving shapes fantastic
Pictured on my chamber wall
Not in transport OF rapture,
Yet IN no alarm nor pain,
Do watch these forms mysterious
Disappear, then co ne again.
They are holy, divine it,
SO harbor not 4 fear;
Aud the passing wings of angels
Are the strange sounds that hear.
Hush, oh heart of mine, thy throbbings,
Let me to the legend list
That my specter hosts are weirdly
Chanting at their midnight tryst.
Now their mass is interrupted
Breaks a sudden, doleful kneII
On the night Till twelve are counted
BY the old cathedral bell.
Fading is the last faint echo,
And unconscious tears shed,
AS murInur in the darkness:
The beloved old year Is dead"
Something in the after stiffness
Wakes me from my apathy
And hear the pendulum sounding
Inc hrst seconds OF the day.
Low within my careenea cbtmpav
Lie the ashes-cold and nnle
While shadow-hand, extended
Seems TO part the golden veil,
Pending 'twixt me and the stiffness
And see shape appear,
Hal to thee, oh, beauteous being
Glad and glorious New Year!
San Francisco. Dec. 1890. ADA l.. UAIsTEAr
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A NEW YEARS GREETING.


TO MY ABSENT SON.
A happy New Year, darling!
May it bring thee higher grace
To achieve each true eudeavor
Toward the summit OF LIES race
Round by round We climb the ladder.
Which ascends to higher spheres.
one by one we coin HES jewels,
As we journey through tue years.
Some are wrought of patient effort,
Others spring from purest Joy;
But the jewels most enduring,
winch nor time nor change DESTROY
Are enwrought OF noble actions,
Deeds of pure, unselfish love.
which create the destined glory
Ihat must crown mans life aboye
All unconscious OF their value
DO we give these jewels birth,
AS arc born the fairest blossoms
FROM the dumb, unconscious earth.
In the universe is hidden "
An omnisclent, subtle power,
Which doth quicken into being
Natures myriad petaled flower
SO, within mans soul are hidden
Mighty possibilities,
Destined to unfold and blossom
Through the vast eteFnitiesi
And If we would learn to garner
From these blossoms golden fruit
We must seek to know the Author
of life's impulse, heart and root
When we find the priceless treasure,
Which shall all our being thrill,
And can measure our souls impulse
BY the nature OF Gods will
We Will pay each hour sweet tribute
To this presence pure and fair,
In some thought OF act OF virtue,
Born Of ioye-whlch angels share
January /, 1881 JULIA T. CHURcuILI.
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MORTALITY RECORD.
4 Large and UnwarraDted Increase in IL
Annual Death Rate.

4 Large and UnwarraDted Increase in the
Annual Death Rate.
r. The total number of deaths in San Fran
cisco for the year just closed was $3.50, Of
(Which 1888 were males. There were 1890
deaths at public institutions, Is homicides,
80 suicides and 228 casualties. Alcoholism
8 caused 81 deaths, Group 112, diphtheria 176,
& typhoid fever 1885, cancer 234, consumption
1910, pneumonia 1872, apoplexy 154, Brights
sesease 175, bronchitis 203, CONFUSION 1876,
: heaSs- diseese 4S7, paralysis 125, hamilton
ACT and old age 1919.
The total number of deaths In 1891 was
1884. showing an excess in 1890 of 1896. The
heaviest monthly death rate was in Janu-
e airy, when the number reachednearly 800. or
81 about one-third above the average. The prin.
8 ciBal cause Of such an unusual increase ina
spnti;. as all will no doubt remember, was
IS Az fearful prevalence of the dreaded " la
- r., Aside from the winters siege OF
Ape," however. there still remains
ewaIranted increase over the preced-
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THE HARB1NGEE OF THE NEW YEAR.

Cut OF the bold, black night
REESE bird from the foam
or the sea.
white as snow was its breast in the night;
Ana heard, Yes I heard moan
That aGrighted me.
/ watched 1t curve out OF sight,
And grieved at the sky
In its gloom;
For thought that the cruel night
Might Kill my beautiful bird HAT would die
In its bloom.
And cried aloud. think,
o bird, come TO me!
Come to met
7 ell me thy story: II Joy link
Thea viii. eqF Fe,NFi 1Jf Inv hama Is the
JOY 1t returns once again,
For see Its white breast, like the snow
In the night
Ne arer, yet nearer it flies; does It deign
Thus to please me does it know
All is right?
All, It falls at my feeti
1t is dead; rs tiny heat fiutters ne moret
All. dear!
1t died y ith the year. and joy shall repeat
Its sweet story ever before.
Joy OF the bright New Year
JdnUdTy I, 1891 ALMA ALDEN.
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CRIMES AND CRIMINALS.
The Annual List Sent to the State Re
Fyr,n-fpries.

The Annual List sent to the State Re
formatories.
The criminal record is always an interest
ing one. Without going exclusively into
details the following summary will give a
fair idea of what has taken place in that
line 10 this city during the past year:
Total number of informatons charges
against criminals filed, 6l5 OF this num-
l'r, Of course, the greater portion have been
tried, a small percentage were dismissed
without trial and a very large percentage
still remain untTied.
The best idea of what the three criminal
courts have accomplished during the year
, viii he gathered from the record Of commit
l.. nts 10 tile State and county refurmatorieS.
Sentenced to State Prison-F0r murder :,
mans aughter 8, assault To murder ., burg
larry 50, grand larceny 81, robbery 10. forgery
10, petty larceny 3, assault to rob 3, perjury
3, assault with deadly weapon 3, deserving
child ], mayhem >, ENLIGHTENMENT >, felony
.. receiving stolen goods l, assault to com
nit Cdumy !, assault 10 commit rape /.
I"tal re-, Of which 12S were sent to San
quentin and 81 to Folsom.
Sentenced to House Of COrrection-For
burglary p, assault with deadly weapon 10
grand larceny II, assault TO- petty larceny S,
forgery !, T. GbeTy l. elubezziement2, assault
u tOD = perjury l, obtaining money under
T. Is pretenses l. Tota! So
sentenced 10 County Jaii-For petty lar
~ J., assault Il, assault with deadly
S"t-u = iOel !, obtsi-,,rrz5 --.--rals,.-..-Iar
la.sr preteuses l. Total 80.
sentenced 10 Industrial School-Fur burg
lary !. grand larceny /, Total 3.
LeIe ala now IN the County Jail awaiting
tI4.l "a ler-ouS, against whom charges are
standing as follows: Murder >, manslaught-
ct !, assault TO murder 5, burglary Is. grand
larceny -, assault with deadly weapon 4
felony ., Oigamy l, embeZzlement /. rob bery
= petty larceny !, perjury >, forgery l.
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TIE NEW YEAn,s GIFT.

To every home on New Years night,
G cd sends an angel fair and bright,
In robes as white as winters snow,
With heavens glory on his brow.
A radiant messenger he stands,
with holy smiles and outstretched hands.
To each earth child book he gives,
A book unwritteu, stainless white,
With the command: LAS each day ends,
within this book the record write"
Whether or not we wish to take
The Angels mystic volume still
We must accept that New Years gift
And keep the record, good OF Ill.
But who can take the angels gift
Without conscious sense of slne
And who would wish, when tits complete,
That holy guest To read within
record that must sinful be:
A record over which one grieves.
With fearful eyes ON New Years night,
To find few flowers and many leayesR
Can any show that book when done,
With eUeyy page unstaIned and clear,
When the sad Judgment Angel comes
To claim the record OF the year?
Iidmedd, Cat, Dee. 81, 1890. ANELEu.
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NEW YEAR, 1891.
Gems in Verse Written for The
Morning Call.
THE OLD YEAR AND THE NEW.


EACEl Peace! The king is deadl
10 b He was whimsical and feeble ana So oiu'
TITS not strange cunning from him.
growing cold,
Wanting change
Dark the DAYS were, sad and dreary'
And his tired heart was weary
Very weary of IL ALL nodovs
And his dim eyes watched Ihe ~
ca+berinr DER hills and ne""o"',
u -, hin, his shroud ana pail.
=, " , ca, , ,.asn a merry monarch in his time,
stn, TOO. full cherrily once tina bells did chime
-. was feasting and rejoicing,
iieesome songs earth's gladnesS volcing;
There was loveand hope forsooth,
Laekaday for vanished youth
And he ruled his people as all monarchs WIFE,
Some he granted favors, some he treated Ill
He had doled out joy AID sorrow-
Let 1t pass!
Lo the new king reigns tomorrow
And the grass
VIII grow green above the grave
OF the past,
And the red rose viii blush brave
There at last. .ra good
FORGET we his sins and rememoet ~
Pemeuber the best in pity ing nioou'
Now mat he Iieth neglected. aiohe'
NO" ennt me hours, from HIN have flown.
M 10 us tarry beside him with kindly heart
ir,f one brief moment ere forever we part.
So come away Toll, bells, toll
Peace go with his passing SOUL
All he brought OF grief and pain
Nevermore can come again.
Peace Peace! The king is deadi
HALT Hall! The new-crowned king!
So turns the world from the dead to the living
King, all hail
The hope and the promise that thou art giving
Shall not fail!
What though skies are dark and dreary,
Earth is resting; she is weary.
She is dreaming, that is ALL
Thy bright eyes shall watch the shadows
Shrouding the hills and meadows,
From them like mantle fall.
For thy coronation in the halls of time
Listen now how merrily peal the bells and chime.
Ger the land their song is ringing,
Tidings OF thy advent bringing.
Love and trust are thine to-day;
n dark doubts faith betray.
So enter thy kingdom, and may it be
Blest ever by fair prosperity!
Unto those who grieYe and sorrow
without end.
Unto those W no dread the morrow
Thy peace send.
All that heavy hearted,
All the sad,
All whom cruel fate hath thwarted
Make thou glad.
And we who the storms of the past have withstood
No longer over our ills lei us brood
The future is waiting ii BROOKS no delay;
Let US conquer our fears and be up and away,
Forward, not backward, whatever betide,
The new may grant what the old denied.
Now for all, afar or near,
Happiness attend the year.
Ring, we bells! o, joyous ring!
Hall, hail. the new-crOwHed kingl
san Francisco, jan. I, 1891 SELMA SCHMIDT.