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The morning call., 1891-07-31
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

n -, oo a. 40, ~, .
PARIS, July Sat- the tuberculosis Con-
gress DIS. Jacob ana Page of New York
were made honorary Presidents for Amer
lea.
LIVERPOOL, July 30.-Saturday, August
LIST, and Monday, August Sd, will be HOLIDAYS
10 the gram market here.
NEW YORK, July 30.-The Republican
State Committee has decided to hold the
State Convention at Rochester, September
9th.
PARIS, July 3O-The railway company
will have TO pay 100000 francs for damage
claims resulting from the St. Maude dis
aster
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MAKING A BIG GUN,
Description of q Very Interesting Pr
cess at n NAVY Yard

Description of q Very Interesting Pro-
cess at n Navy Yard.
The third of the series of four great L.
inch guns was jacketed at the Government
shops at the navy yard. few navy officials
witnessing the success Of the work, which
was courteousIy explained to reporter Of
the Post by Lieutenant Commander f. w.
Deckins, and which marks a new era in
American ordnance. 1t is not generally
known, but 1t is nevertheless fact, that
the New Orleans incident stirred up the de-
partlnent somew hat, and while no order to
that effect was issued, the officers in charge
of the gun-shopS were quietly notified to
have all things in readiness so they could
put on night force Immediately upon the
receipt of orders to that effect.
The work now being turned out at the
navy-yard Is of class known as high-grade
steel guns, and one of the same kind is now
at the proving ground waiting to be tested
Yesterday the jacket was put upon the
third, and workmen now have the tube of
the fourth on the planning machine. The
magnitude Of these guns can be imagined
when 1t is known that it requires eight
months to turn one out fully equipped for
duty.
The process OF putting on this jacket is an
interesting one. The steel tube Of the gun,
So feet and eight inches long, is placed in a
receptacle, with the breech end up This
tube alone weighs $4,000 pounds. The
jacket, massive hoop of steel, also weighs
the same amount but is much shorter
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Looking After Clerks,

II had nearly my entire force employed
lot the past SIX or seven weeks in shad-
owing clerks OF banks and trust compau-
les, and you have no idea how thorough the
shadowing has been. My reports to those
who have given me the work to do have
been most complete. Faults In the private
lives OF men otherwise exemplary have
been unearthed that would not look well in
print. We have discovered no defaulte rs
nor confronted with evidences OF his guilt a
single embezzier, but we have learned
where many men spend their time after
business hours, and how.
know of one case where we found that
clerk in q banking house was the member
OF a social club, where he spent his even
ings. A pretty stiff game OF poker is played
In this club. and the clerk whom we were
watching was to be found around tho
green-baize table every night. He was a
pretty good player, but he met with losses
sometimes. Taken altogether, ] think he
was ahead of the game. He comes of an
excellent family, and has the full conf.
dence OF the officers Of the institution in
which he is employed. When made my
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RUN DOWN.
Josette Baisson Finally Located by San Diego
Detectives.

Iosette Baisson Finally Located by San Diego
Detectives.
SAN DIEGO, July 3o.-On the 18th inst.
Josette BaissOn. a pretty thirteen-year-ol old
French girl. elOped from San Francisco
with Pierre Canton. waiter The police
were at once notified by Mrs. de Villemeur,
Josette's aunt, and the wires have been
kept busy over since ;elegraphing for Il
clew to the runawsys. A detective of this
city has been watching the case, and yester-
day afte nom heard Of the young lady in
curling at different hotels for Canton. The
detective and his assistant at once set to
work on the case, and after several hours
hard work located the girl in the house of
French family about three miles from the
city. II was nearly midnight when the
detectives reached the house. The girl was
very much surprised, but took the matter
very cooliy. She SAID she left her aunts
home because she was mIstreated, and that
there had been nothing wrong between her
and Canton. In order to dodge the Los
Angeles police the couple had separated,
Canton coming ahead to this city. The de-
tectiye wired Chief Crowley of the arrest,
who replied to hold the girl for instructions.
Canton has not been located.
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A RUNAWAY WIFE.
4 Woodland Woman Deserts Her Husband
and Child at Santa Cruz

WOODLAND, July 30-0n the 18th of June
Kitty Winninger, wife of }. U. Winninger
of Woodland left a nice little note at Santa
Cruz informing her husb that she had
drowned herself in the blue ocean. Her
hat and shawl, found on the cliff, was strong
evidence that she slept in the briny deep.
Her husband mourned for some weeks, but
suddenly put of all evidences of mourning,
and the story fOated around that Kitty had
been resurrected from the dead of Santa
Cruz. To-day the husband filed papers in a
divorce suit and the whole story has been
told. Kitty fed from Santa Cruz with a
young man whose name she refuses 10
diYulge, and went TO San Francisco where
she has lived since. Recently she attempted
a reconciliation and asked her husband to
open his purse and his arms and she would
return 10 her first love and her fOur-year-
old child, and the susceptible husband came
very near agreeing to the proposition. Bat
Kitty was memorable in her demands for
diamond earrings and other trifles and Mr..
Winninger decided that he would let her 90
and seek q divorce. Her only reason for
the rash act at Santa Cruz was that her hus-
band was cross. When last heard from she
was living on Larkin street. Mr.. Winnin-
ger visited her recently in the city, but all
efforts TO induce her TO dvulge the name of
her young friend proved fruitlesS.
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Shooting ARRAY in a Hotel at
LOCkefOrd.
Termination Of a Farmers PrctTaCted Spree
by a Tragedy.
The PubllC-SChoOl Building at San MateO
Destroyed by FiTe-JOSette BaiSS0n
Located in San Diego.
srecial to THE MORNING CALL.

STOCKTON, July 3o.-Harry Patton, a
laborer residing at Lockeford, in this
county, this evening shot Pete Nelson. a
renter farmer, through the neck and also
through the body inst above the heart. The
doctors say that Nelson cannot live. The
shooting occurred in a hotel at Lockeford.
Last Sunday Nelson was drunk and noisy,
and Constable Dial of Lockeford, to quiet
him, put handouts on him with the assist
ance of Harry Patton and others. Nelson
was drinking again to-day and followed
Patton about the town. The latter told
him to 60 away, but he kept after Patton,
ana shortly after s O'clock tonight Nelson
took hold of Patton, and the latter shot
twice. Patton has wife and several chill
dren. but Nelson is unmarried. The shooter
is in custody at LocKeford and will be
brought to the County Jail in the morning.
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OBII U AIRY
HARRY s. ALLEN.


At an early hour yesterday morning Harry
S. Allen, aged % years, died at the home of
his mother Mrs. l.. A. Allen, on Eighth
avenue, near East Sixteenth street, East
Oakland. BE had been i'll but few
days and it was not thought that it was
dangerous. He had not been well when he
visited the baths on Saturday and was
taken down with pneumonia immediately
upon arriving home. So gently and quietly
did he pass into the unseen world that
those by his bedside thought he had but
fallen into a peaceful sleep Mr.. Allen
graduated from the San Francisco High
School in 1883 and Immediately stepped into
fine position with the Pacific Roll Paper
Company. The family already widely ac-
quainted in Oakland society, made its home
in East Oakland about a year ago. The de-
ceased was truly noble young man, ever
kind, genial. talented and thoroughly manly,
and his sad demise will leave an untitled
spot and hallowed memory at the fireside
of his home and in the hearts of his friends.
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In What Fund Will the Recovered Mo
Re Placpd9

In What Fund Will the Recovered Money
Be Placed?
Attorney General Hart is trying to wind
up affairs connected with the defalcation of
John S. Gray while he was Secretary of the
State Board Of Harbor Commissioners The
State held the Commissioners under the
Gray regime and their sureties responsible
for the delinquencies. A bill was passed in
the last Legislature for the relief of these
bondsmen, and the Attorney General was
authorized to compromise the matter for
S23,3Oo 10. This was the amount of the short
age as shown by Gray's books, and the
bondsmen have agreed to pay their portion
OF the amount demanded. Attorney Lang
horn demanded $1,000 for legal services rem
dered, and this claim is also to be deter
mined.
A question that is now causing contro-
verSy Is in reference to the fund in which
the recovered money is to be placed. The
present Harbor Commissioners think it
should go back to the Harbor Improvement
Fund, but Controller Colgan wants the
money turned into tho General Fund. This
point Is soon to be decided by Justice Beatty
of the Supreme Court.
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report in his case the old President sent for
the young man and told him what he had
learned. The clerk did not DENY that he
played cards, but he boosted of his pro-
ficiency and claimed that he was heavy
winner.
Money got that way, young man. said
the President, can never do you any good
The habit may eventually do you great
harm. Take my advice and drop it, L
WILL said the young fellow, and | have
every reason to believe that he is keepin g
his word, for he has dropped the club and
spends his evenings at home. Interview
in Philadelphia Enquirer.
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AFTER TWENTY YEARS.
An Indian Charged With the Murder of a
White Man IN 1871.

VICTORIA (B. c., July Cochin Ha Mot,
a stalwaIt Cowichan Indian, who speaks
English fuenty and dresses like white
man, was up for preliminary hearing
Wednesday, on a charge of numbering
Isaac Cloak, an aged white man, in 1871.
The principal witness was the discarded
mistress of the Indian, who stated that the
prisoner told her he knew that Cloak lived
alone in an isolated cabin. and had quite
told her he went 10 the house, choked Cloak
to death and then set fire to the house to
obliteTate the evidence of the crime. Only
a heap of bones was found in the ashes of
the house, and it was supposed al the time
that Cloak was accidentally burned to
death. Another Indian. said TO be impl-
Gated, is now at the Fraser River canneries,
and officers are hunting MIN up.
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Mr.. Reed calls attention to the important
fact shown by the figures that in five years
the business Of his office has nearly doubled
in volume, while the appropriation for copy
fiscal year of 1SS6-S7 the volume of work
was S42, 337, and yet with the appropriation
of $4,000 there was a shortage CT S10S2.
In 1890 the volume of work was 500, 0iS. with
the same insufficient appr0priation-S20,O COO.
"What wonder, them" asks Mr.. Reed.
that there is an increased shortage?
These folio clerks" he adds, have earned
for the city in the past six years Sl60,022
over and above their expenses, and yet this
is sometimes called a shortage i'll the Record
er's office -
The morning call., 1891-07-31
The Parrot and His Chin.

There's Cotton Exchange man who made
a mistake and got his chin cut for it.
He went into Carondeletstreet barber
shop and sat down to wait his turn. There
were several ahead of him. Presently he
heard parrot say, next" in very dis
tinct voice. He observed that at this mo-
ment fellow got out of the head BARRIERS
chair and another man took his place.
When the new man got comfortably fixed
in his chair he heard the parrot say, SHAVE
or hair ui?" and "Hot day. amt to" and
Got a pimple on your chin"
"Gad," thought the Cotton Exchange man,
''that's q wonderful intelligent bird. Re-
marks are so apt, it must be Grey. Where
the deuce is 1t ?'
Whereupon he began looking for the par
rot but did not find it.
Presently the fellow got out of the first
chair and the parrot said Next"
1t was the exchange mans turn. He
walked over, enseonced himself in the
chair. assumed an expression of profound
curiosity, and inquired of the barber, who
was fixing towel TO his neck, where the
devil that parrot was.
"What parrot?" came in small parrot
like voice from over his shoulder. The
truth flashed upon him in an instant. The
barber was the parrot and was evidently in
censed.
BEG pardon" stammered he of the Cot
ton Exchange. II meant-ah-where that
is-what time is itp"
But it was too late. The parrot remained
silent, shaved him and cut his chin.-New
Orleans Times-Dem0crat.
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The Pacific Mail steamer City of Picking
arrived at her wharf yesterday afternoon,
bringing Hong-Kong dates to July 9th and
Yokohama dates to the 18th, from which the
following summary of news is taken:
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FOR THE ORIENT.

Passengers Of the Empress Of India for Yoko-
hama and Hong-Kong.
VANCOUVER (B. c., July 3O.-The steam
ship Empress of India sailed at o'clock
yesterday for Yokohama and Hong Kong,
having on board seventy saloon passengers
and 143 Chinese. Among the passengers
were: Hon. F. Sugimua, late Consul for
Japan at Vancouver; G. A. Keefcr, C.E.,
who goes TO Siberia; Mrs. Large, Miss Rob-
ertson, Miss Schoulez, sent by the Metho-
dist Church of Canada as missionaries to
Japan. and Rev. DR.. Sheffield, Mr. and Mrs
Walker, Congregational missionaries to
China. The vessel took S75 tons of freight,
42 sacks of mail and one basket of postal
packages. Twenty-Five OF the sacks are the
British mail, which left LIVERPOOL July
The morning call., 1891-07-31
Had His Skull Crusbcd.

Robert Manceau, driver for the Joshua
Hendy Machine Works, was thrown from
his wagon in runaway yesterday morning
on the corner of Fifth and Mission streets
and sustained injuries which are thought to
he fatal. His head was crushed and he was
otherwise badly injured. He was taken to
the French Hospital for treatment and at q
late hour was pronounced near dea tn 8 door.
do has relatives in Grass Valley.
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SAN DIEGO, July So - An unusually
sharp shock of earthquake. lasting several
seconds, was felt throughout the city this
morning at 6;l5 o'clock. On the hill the
houses were made to squeak audibly.
YUMA (Ariz.),' July 3l.-At 6:20 o'clock
this morning shocks of earthquake, three in
number, We're felt here. The shocks were
quite severe, running from east to west. No
damage was done
The morning call., 1891-07-31
MARRIED.

PErERS-GERKEN-I this city. July 90, 1891:
by the Rev. j. NJ. Buehler. Detief ii. Peters ana
Camille Gerken.
ABEL-HARTM AMIN this city, July 90, 1891.
by the Rev. j. NJ Buehier. Emil Abel and Mar
garet Hartmann.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES this city. July %.
1891. by the Rev. j. NJ. Buehler, John Steengrate
and Louise Kloeter.
KoLB-FELDMANN-i this city July 81. 1891,
by the Rev. j. NJ. Buehler, Philip Koib and Ida
Feidmann
GLOISTEIN-BAUER-In this city July IS. 1891:
by the Rev. j. NJ. Buehler, August Glolsteln and
Lizzie Bauer.
HER-LUEDEMANN-In this city July
rs. 1891. by the Rev. J. Fuendeling Ferdinand
Schumacher and Maria Luedemann
GEoGAN-M LSING-in tn city. July 49, 1891.
by the Rev. J. Fuendellng, James w. GeoSan and
Elizabeth Messing.
APEL-wEHR-In this city July 80 1891 by the
Rev. j. Fuendeling, August j. APPEL and Wilhel-
nina l. NJ. wehr.
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A CONVICT WOUNDED.
Attempt of Two Prisoners to Escape by Over
poweriug Their Guard

PVWC44H5 4Ht4I OUdIU
YUMA (AriZ), July 30.-This morning
two c0nvicts in the Arizona Penitentary
attempted TO escape by overpowering the
guard, and one Of them was badly wound ed.
This morning about O'clock, when the
eighty convicts employed in building the
town levee along the ella River were
turned cut from the Territory Prison under
Francisco Lopez ana Galbrlno Lopez, at the
rear end of the line jumped upon Guard
Rice, took his rifle away and tried to brain
him. Rice drew revolver and fired,
wounding Lopez In the back. The other
prisoner attempted to run away, but was
soon halted by the Superintendent Of the
levee. Frank Hartlee. Both the c0nvcts
are in the penltentiary for long terms, and
are old offenders
The morning call., 1891-07-31
A Woman's Story.

Percy Chamberlain, a young sailor. was
convicted of battery yesterday, and Judge
Rix Will sentence him to-day. Some six
months ago he met Addie Burke of Col
Broadway, and lost no time in falling in
love. He recently returned from a north
ern cruise, and on Tuesday accompanied
her for walk. When she refused 10 be-
come his wife lie struck her singing blow
on the head.
During his trial yesterday, Chamberlain
admitted that lie had struck her without
prov0cation. The woman t0ok the stand
and said she had been approached by an at
torney named Highlander, who asked her not
to testify against Chamberlain, and that he
offered her money.
Chamberlain, who was out on bail, was
ordered into custody.
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MRS. SARAH A. TITUS.

Mrs. Sarah a. Titus died at the home of
her son, Fred Titus. on Bennett street, Grass
Valley. on Tuesday morning, July 2Sth.
Mrs. Titus and her family came across the
plains to California in 1850 and first settled
in Ell Dorado County. and from that county
the family scattered about, being in differ
ent towns of California and Nevada, says
the Grass Valley Telegraph. She had been
i'll for some weeks and her old age counted
besides her son. Fred, who is one of the en-
gineers at the Idaho mine, three daughters
Mrs. Bruce B. Lee Of Red Bluff, Mrs. Frank
Powers of Folsom and Mrs. Hardy, wife of
Judge E. A. Hardy of San Francisco. Mrs.
Titus was woman of sterling worth and
her death will be regretted by her many
friends all over the State The remains
were shipped to San Francisco Wednesday.
accompanied by Mrs. Bruce B. Lee.
The morning call., 1891-07-31
Reduced Freight Retes.

Union Pacific railroad companies have
finally agreed upon new joint rates from
Eastern Washington and Idaho to Portland,
Seattle ana Tacoma, aud the rates have
been made public. The reduction applies to
grain, flour, feed and millstuffs. From
points on the two lines where the old rate
was Sc 30 per ton the new rate is s. 70. TIE
new rate is cut of about ~ per cent.
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Suicide of a Former Journalist.

Los ANGELES, July 30.-George Reichert,
German, aged CO. committed suicide this
morning, at the Nadeau Hotel. with NOR
phine. Reichart had registered under an
assumed name, and tried to hide his iden-
tity. He was formally q we'll known news
paper man, connected with the California.
DemOkrat at San Francisco, but lately was
agent for the fredericksburg Brewery. He
leaves married daughter in Germany.
The morning call., 1891-07-31
Fatal Accident to a Miner.

SUFFER- CREEK. July 3O-Phillp Dough-
erty, miner working in an open cut of the
Hector gold mine, while wheeling ore on
trestle six feet high lost his balance and fell
striking his skull. and died an hour after
the accident. Deceased was 81 years of age,
a native of Ireland and was not married.
He came recently from lone City.
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THE KILLING OF POOR.
4 Question as to Who Fired the First She
in the Woollev Traoedv

4 Question as to Who Fired the First Shot
in the Woolley Tragedy.
PORTLAND. July 30.-A special to the
Evening Telegram from Seattle says re-
port from Woolley, the scene of Sundays
shooting of Deputy Sheriff Poor, states that
Terry, who is under guard, attempted to
escape last night The nine Cinnamon who
were brought to Seattle yesterday will be
examined before notary to-day. IL is ex-
pected their testimony will indicate who
fred the first shot. If it was Inspector
Baird, who was DISCHARGED from custody at
Seattle yesterday by Justice Terry, he will
be re-arrested. A well-authenticated rumor
from Woolley says there are 160 pounds of
opium buried there. Some of the customs
Inspectors are suspected of standing In with
tho smugglers.
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Funeral of Mrs. scrivnnr-

MODESTO, July 3O.-The funeral of Mrs.
Scrivner, wife of Hon. j. j. Scrivner, ex-
State Prison Director, of San Francisco.
took place this afternoon from the residence
of her mother Mrs. g. w. Branch, and was
largely attended. Her death occurred at
ClOverdale on Monday last and was very
sudden. Deceased was native of this
county and was well known.
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The Fire Bell.

Sparks from a chimney started fire in
Charles Bach's malt-house. at 2lO6 Stockton
street at $50 o'clock yesterday morning.
for which an alarm was turned in from
Box 1874. The loss amounted to SIPS
Engine Company 5, summoned OH still
alarm, put on blaze is M. Turber's Shoe
store at 706 Vallejo street on Wednesday
night. The damage amounted to S1O0:
origin Of fire unknown. w.
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P-nhahla Sninlda

SANTA CRUZ, July 30.-Tbe body Of an
unknown man about IS years of age was
found on the roadside near Sequel this
afternoon with bullet through his brain
fired from pistol lying near. Appearances
indicate case of suicide. The man had
been dead several hours. Nineteen dullarl
in money and some papers were found in
his pockets, but nothing to give clew to
his identity.
The morning call., 1891-07-31
JURY DISAGREED.

Result Of the Trial of Nellie White for Muir
der in Bakersfield.
BAKERSFIELD. July 3O.-The trial of
Nellie White for shooting and killing James
J. Jewell last February took place this
week and the jury disagreed. Jewell was
an old soldier. The woman. at the prelim-
mary examination. was acquitted in Justice
Old's court. The G. A. Il. post here. believ-
ing Jewell was murdered, one of its menu
bers had the woman rearrested. She will
he tried again.
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Lost a Toe.

MERGED, July 3O.-This morning Hal,
the sixteen-year- son of Supervisor
Shaffer, met with what may prove a serious
accident While working with a gun it was
exploded, striking his foot and blowing off
a great toe. The accident occurred at his
fathers ranch and he was brought TO town
immedistalv
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1. f. MASON.

l. F. Mason. an old. well-known and
highly esteemed citizen of Yolo County, died
at his residence near Dunnigan Tuesday
night, after an illness of several weeks
The Woodland Mail says: 1.-The deceased
was native of Maine and aged II years.
His early life was devoted to the sea, and
he spent several years as captain. He ADAM
doned the sea in the fifties and came to
California, where he engaged in farming
and for number of years lived near Cache
vile OH Cache Creek, where he met with
much success, but removed to his present
home ABOUT ten years ago. He was a man
of high character. strict integrity and was
universally esteemed by all who knew him.
He leaves large family besides host Of
friends to mourn his DEATH" The funeral
took place yesterday at o'clock at the Pres
The morning call., 1891-07-31

MERGED, July 30.-Nearly all the officers
from the Sherift's office are securing the
country near the Mokelumne River for
George Mason of MERGED County, the con-
Wet who ESCAPED through car window
while Oh his way 10 Folsom, Tuesday last,
in charge Of Z. Il. Patterson.
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The Church Conference at Santa Cruz

SANTA CRUZ, July 30.-The question of
he adoption of liturgy by the Church of
Disciples was the principle theme of dis
cussion at the convention at Garfield Park
to-day. There were several hundred new
arrivals to-day. The park presents very
animated appearance.
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The Cherokee Electinn

VINIrA Qnd. t., July 8O.-Next Monday
the Cherokee election for Chief and sub
ordinate Offices takes place. The sale of the
strip and allotment of lands, toge Their with
preparations for Statehood, are the princi-
pal issues
The morning call., 1891-07-31
Held for Larceny.

Charles Herth was brought over last night
from Alameda County by Detective Dan
Coffey and locked up in the City Prison ON
a charge of grand larceny. Some time aSo
Herth bought $500 worth of jewelry from
Hofing, the Market-street jeweler. and povc
n check on the Nevada Bank. The cheek
proved to be worthless,