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nine weeks at Sc "a week. He is always
going TO win; that is his abiding conviction
and hence the poolrooms.
One OF the most attractive features of
poolroom gam bling Is the wagering on the
number of rounds fight will last. 1t is
shown elsewhere that this wager is of all
the unsafest. But it is, on the surface, the
fairest and the man who deyoutly believes
a fight has been sold will not hesitate TO bet
on the number of rounds the loser will last.
Which brings to mind the old Scotch saying
that ''he must have a long spoon who would
sup kali with the dell" and the man who
shares the financial soup with the pGolroem
proprietor must have long spoon, -
This mighty struggle for quick wealth
soon tells its tale; the poolroom habitue OF
90 looks to be 80; the man OF 80 is prema-
turely pinehed and gray, having always dis
sipated his winnings on the principle that
money which comes over the devils couu-
ter goes into the devils pocket" The man
OF 30 looks old. indeed
And meanwhile the feverish stream of
humanity flows nightly in and out of the
Stockton and Ellis street poolr00ms, OBJ
structing the sidewalk and grayitating be-
tween the halls of gilded sin and the broad
road that leads TO the Morgue. Not the
most sanguine advocate of California
luck" and the days Of '''49' can draw any
other conclusion. Let him who appeals to
Cesar visit one OF the pOolroomS and rem
der his verdict. He has appealed TO Caesar
and TO Cesar he must go.
While poolrooms flourish the statistics
of crime show that petty larceny, grand
larceny, felony, embezzlement and forgery
flourish also. A corrupt tree cannot but
bring forth corrupt fruit.
There are many parents who flatter them
selves with the idea that their boys are at
the night school or practicing athletic exer-
cses when, if the truth is known. the poor
lads are risking dubiously obtained money
through knavish Intermediates in the pool
b.
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OFFICE. HUNTERS.
They. Gather in Force at
.>:. Sacramento.
WANT EVERYTHING IN SIGHT.
Several. Senators ard AssembIymen
Have Already Reached the Capi-
=, tai and Are Besieged. -:
Specialize. THE Mo;RNrNe GALE

-.-. 49, e. D.
: SACRAMENTO, Dec. 90 AS the time for
the opening OF tile Legislature is drawing
near. The. city is rapidly filling with office
seekers, who want everything in sight
: from. keeper of gates o=sergeant-a in
either. II onse. !. Local members are corr
stantly besieged with place-hunter; and
scores upon scores of small boys, generally
accompanying by fond mammaS. are asking
: for positions. of pages. :: = ~. -
=. Several Senators and Assemblymen have
already reached this city and are being i'm
J.; portuned for their influence. Printers from
all points in the State imagine there will
also be fat places for them in the State
. Printing Office during the session. Not
withstanding the fact -thatthe city is already
filled with idle cOmpositors, printers are
coming into town in droyes. Besides this
Superintendent Of Printing Johnston is in
;. receipt of dozens of telegrams asking for
!: sits" and his mali is also freighted with
applications. There is no need of more
printers coming to Sacramento. for they
will. surely meet with disappointment if
-:they:do. There will be no work for them,
S4hepresent force can handle all The work
ON hand and do whatever is necessary dur
=. ing the session of the;LegiSlature.
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TELEGRAPHIC BREyITIES.

Navigation on the Rhine, MoselIe, Neckar
and the Main is stopped by floating ice.
A man named Sumter beat his wife's
brains out with the butt OF a revolver at
Des Moines yesterday. He is believed 10
be insane. He made no effort to escape.
In Leon. Butler County, Kans., Farmer
Thomas Griffin locked his three children in
the house while he went to town. The
house took fire and the children were cre-
mated.
The engagement of the Eatl Of Craven to
the daughter of Bradley Martin of New
York is announced. The Earl was born
Decem Der 16, 1863 and succeeded his iather
December z. 1883.
The Mississippi River is frozen opposite
St Louis and all business along the river is
Mt a standstll. From the United States
arsenal south to Carondelet the river is
gorged solid with ice.
Rev. William Grave Gray, recently elected
Bishop of Southern Florida, was conse-
Grated at Nashville. Tenn, yesterday with
the elaborate and impressive ceremonies of
the Episcopal church.
The following deaths are reported: Elias
I. ingalls,, father of ex-senator J. j. H.
gals of Kansas. aged 8, at HaverhilI,
Mass; Judge Barton Bates, ex-Judge of
the Supreme Court of Missouri, 10 St.
Charles County. Mo-; Richard b. Kimbali,
q well-known writer, at New York
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HAVOC OF THE STORM.
What Oregon Got the Big
Blow.
Trees UprOOted and Miles of Railroad
Track Covered With Fallen Trunks.
Houses Wrecked.
Special TO THE. MoRNISs CALI

ASHLAND. Or, Dec. 29.-The canyon
along the JiBe of the Southern Pacific Rail-
road north OF Grants Pass were the scene of
The most violent windstorm recorded in
Southern Oreg0n's history last Saturday
evening. The storm was almost equal TO
an Eastern cyclone for a distance of about
thirty miles along Grave and Cow Greek
canyons. People who have been upon the
ground since the storm say that not half
the trees were lett standing and in the big
canyons big frs we're torn loose from the
ground and slid root downward to the all
road in such numbers that in many places
a temporary track was built around the OBJ
struetion to allow trains to pass while the
trees We're being removed. Nothing like ii
was ever known in this. region before
Telegraph lines also were just buried under
green timber. Jack MeeGan, Western
Union lineman, says there must have been
500 trees across one mile of line just south
of Wolf Creek, while Postal lineman re-
ports that out OF thirty miles of line not
five miles was left standing. The northern
end of Rogue River Valley caught some of
the hurricane also, fences and rickety
buildings, a church and blacksmith-s hop
being generally wrecked near WOodyile and
Gold Hill stations, though all southern and
central portions of the valley escaped any
serious blow.
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noted as the proprietor, and Marshall Bros.
as tie booksellers.
The Ivy House is fighting house. pure
and simple.
On the walls are the contemporary por-
traits OF Cribb and Mendoza, Humphries
and Molineaux, and even Broughton and
Figgs, not to speak Of Jack Randall, Dutch
San, Slack, Deaf Burke, Jem Belcher and
host OF istic heroes. Glazed-eye youths,
just past the inevitable twenty-one years.
gaze at these in mute rapture.
II is fine training school.
They are acquiring the inestimable privi-
lego OF betting on prize-hght aud being
'rOped iD."
Those pictures on the walls are merely
object lessons. Allen. Goss, Paddock,
Sayers, Heenan, Morrissey, are all there.
and the same fatuous admiration which
begins in the gladiator aud ends in the pool
room sharp ropes" these poor youths in.
The gaudium certaminis leads up. or rather
down. to the 10 on Fakir Flunkey or
Soapy ShiDpy.
Corbrtts and MarshalPs are not far away
| from three or four places Just around the
corner on Stockton street Where the meat
| IS the flies gather. A very little sugar
sweetens large number of flies.
Right around the corner on Stockton
street, going from Ellis. is the General Keyes
| az No. I3
1t has pooiroom attachment, and, In
| TACT, II looks as If the p0olroom were to the
| bar as ninety is to one.
Gamblers are. "a a rule, sober men, but
| drinks cost two for a Quarter--soda or
| whisky, lemonade or gin.
The poolroom in the General Keyes Is run
| by Curtin & Slocum. booksellers. 1t is a
| better class OF place than most pOolrooms
| has fine counter and cashiers desk, and
| does not give itself away" as badly as the
rest of the concerns. AS sideshow is seen
| an announcement OH large dodgers as fol-
| lows: Bridge. George & CO.. Is Stockton
street. Buy sureshot tips, % cents. Win
| ners selected every day."
There is another sure winning concern OF
| the same kind under the Palo Alto at Is
| Stockton street 1t is the fault of the youth
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There are in the poolrooms call sorts and
conditions of men," Some are seemingly
not over 21 years of age; just old enough TO
be inside the limit Some are 80. some are
40. 80 and even 20.
Said one old man to CALL reporter:
Il cannot hope to gain even competence
by honest labor; / am going TO take chances,
IL Is put up or shut up."
The law on .he gambling proposition ia
pretty plain. and excludes horseraces from
the category OF poolrOom events. But the
majority OF the poolroom sharps frankly
declare their willingness TO take money FOR
investment on all kinds of sporting events
or anything on which money can be- won or
lost
"The trouble" said Chief Crowley SIM
ply, when the case was submitted TO him
yesterday, us there is no law on the sub
Jeef. The poolroom people are careful TO
admit no minors, though the minors may
bet all they like on the outside and get
somebody to place the money for them. As
to the wagers on pugilistic contests we have
no means of dealing with them. But we
have hopes that the new Board of Supervi-
sors will pass law that will enable US to
deal with the evil"
The time seems to be ripe for action in a
matter that concerns not only ''our boys"
but "our girls"
The fake fights and fake races have pretty
nearly reached the zero Of their popularity.
loo many people have been deceived.
IT was bad case at best. and the worst
has not been told.
just in proportion as races and fights
have been sold. poolrooms have grown up
like mushrooms.
Let any citizen 60 into poolroom on the
eve OF fight or the night of fight He
will be apt to ask himself whether the Pill
grim Fathers did not ma ke great mistake,
or whether they came here to gamble at the
expense OF the fools unknown of future
ages.
Such an assemblage of hard visages, sad
yisages and bad vissges in course of trans
formation can seldom be found as In pool
room. Crrdat Jsfeus. "iet the doIbser try It. :"
Ia tho po0lTooms Of San Franeisco is
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GENERAL. RosEcRANs BETTER.
The Trip Across the Continent Has a
- Beneficial Effect.

>. REDQNDo. Dec. %. .-t1enerai w. s. Rose
Grams, Register of*the United States Treas
uTy; arrived at .Red0nd0 on special train
:oyer the Santa Fe road at half past ? This
afternoon and Immediately took up his
quarters in: an elegant snite Of rooms whieh
hadbeen reserved fer him at a hotel.
The general LETT Chicago Sunday evening
last and arrived in LIS. Angeles four and a
: half hours late to-day. The trip was un-
evehtful. but remarkable from the fact that
trains leaving a few hours earlier and as
close as fifteen hours later, met with vari-
Gus and serious accidents.
;. The general stood the journey rPmarka-
bly, well and is looking strong. His i'm
provement since leaylRg the East has been
marked. An atmospheric change from two
degrees below to sixty degrees above has
had rejuvenating effect on him. RedoDdo
will be the generals home until his return
to Washington. He is accompan ed by his
daughter, Miss Ros &c rams, aud by Mr.. j. l..
Adams.
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There is an enemy with whom thousands are
familiar all their lives, because they born with
a tendency TO biliousness With this enemy they
are constantly battling with Intellectual weapons.
HostetteE's stomach Bittefs Will battle it, Mere
purgatives will not reform a disOrdered condition
OF the liver Indicated, not by constipation alonef
but aisa by sick headaches. yeIlowpeSS of the skin
and eyebalis, nausea furrea tongue aud uneasiness
more particularly upon pressure on the Right side
upon and below the short ribs. Avoid drastic pur-
gativeS which grippe and weaken the Intestihes all
substitute this wQrld-ranous sntEb1lious cordial
which likewise removes malarial, stosnachic and
kidney eomp'a fnts rheumatism and nervousness.
AS a laxative of the bowels painless but eneetuaE
IL improves appetite sleep the ability to digest
and possesses the additional advantage OF a stand
ara tonic. :. 49,. 1
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An Enemy BaMed,

II is reported that somebody has discov.
cred that pigeons have been used as: mail
carriers for about 700 wears.
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STOLE HIS OWN SAILS.
The Captain of the Excelsior in Trouble
at CedrOS Island.

SAN DIEGO. Dec. 29-Skipper Forrest of the
yacht Excelsior, now at this port, tells of an
experience at Cedros Island which nearly re-
salted in the loss of his boat. Being out to
search for the body Of George Neale, who
was murdered off Coronado Islands some
weeks ago by Captain Smith, he was driven
by the gale to seek refuge at Cedros Island.
There he was visited by the NJ Sican Gus
toms officer from Ensenada. who. finding
that he had no papers. seized the yacht.
The sails were removed and the officer went
ashore where he locked them In black
smitE-shop belonging to the Cedros Island
Mining Company. then going on to the min
ing camp for the night Tie schooner
Queen came in that night and rendered aid
10 the Excelsior. but the skipper went
ashore in skiff and stole his own sails
and put to sea. As the Queen had no papers
authorizing her TO land at Cedros Island
he thinks that she was probably seized the
next day, she having put in At that place on
account Of sickness OF the captain.
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RAILROAD TALK.
1t Is Said the Burlington VIII Reach
Portland.

PORTLAND. Or. Dec. pa prominent
railroad man said to-day that within two
years trains will be running over the
Chicago. Burlington and Quincy road into
Portland fhe road is now graded from
Merino. Wyo., TO the Idaho line and it viii
be extended to Boise nexty year: From Boise
the road viii run west to Snake River,
where a spur will be run up to connect with
the Hunt system, while the main line will
run west. and connect with the Oregon
Pacific. The line will also be run down
g: WLllamette Valley. If the Burlington does
not. purchase the Hunt system it will be run
through Washington. connecting with
Tacoma; Lake Park and Columbia River.
surveys for the extension Of which are now
being made in the Cascade Mountains. This
line is considered Burlington interest and
will give that road. an outlet to Puget Sound.
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SALES OF ENGLISH WIVES.
Various Cases OF Such TransactianS
Within the Last Fifteen Years.


In 1877 a wife was sold for $40, says All
the Year Round tEondon], and what is
more remarkable the articles of sale were
drawn up and signed at solicitors office,
the money paid and the chattel handed
over with all the gravity of law.
In the course of a County Court ease at
Sheffield in May. 1881. a man named Moore
stated that he was living with the wife of
one of his friends. and that he had pur-
chased her for quart of beer. This trans
action was brought under the notice of the
Government by a. NJ. Sullivan, who re-
Quested the Home Secretary to take meas
ures for preventing such repreheEslble
transactions. This had ne effect evidently,
for siuce that time many sales have been
recorded. .-: -:
Daring the hearing Of school board case
in the course of1SS1; at Ripon, a woman in
formed the bench that she had been bought
for % shillIn gs and had assumed the name
of the purchaser.
AT AlfretOn in 1882 husband sold his rib
Tor 4 glass oil beer in pubhc-house and the
rib gladly deserted her legal lord. One can
not expect wife for less than twopence
halfpenny. =:
Two years after this brfckayerat Pleas
holme Green. Yorkshire, sold his wife for
! shilling 6 pence. Illegal document being
drawn up to make the bargain binding on
all SIDES. -
In tile Globe Of May 6. 1887. there appeared
an account Of well-te-Go weaver at Burn
ley who was charged with having deserted
his wife and three children. He admitted
the soft impeachment at once, but urged
that. inasmuch as he had sold the whole
family to another man before the alleged de-
sertien. he be acquitted of all responsibility
for their maintenance. It:was nothing to
him whether their purchaser provided for
their wants-the.law had better see to that.
For himself he had duly received 8 half
pence, the amount of tie purchased money.
and there his interest in the affair began and
ended,
During 1889 a paragraph went the round
OF the papers to the effect that a man con-
nected with a religious body in a village in
the. midland counties had disposed of his.
wife for the small sum Of shilling.
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HE. STRUCK THE .rlINIsTER
And Got Fined Only $40, but Was
: - Not Satisfied.

Los ANGELES. Dee. 29.-An old appeal
case. in WHICH Rev. L. P. Crawford, a noted
divine of Pasadena. v as assaulted by W. <.
-Pardee. at Newhal June last, is on trial in
tile Superior Court. The complaining wit
ness gave, his.versiou of the dispute with
.Pardee: AS minister ~of the gospel he
deemed 1t necessary. to console all the
women in his charge On the day in ques-
fion. he WAS consoling Mrs. Pardee.. He
left and had gone about 100 yards when he
met Pafdee. Pardee used vulgar language
and said: 81 allow no old moss back of a
minister to foot around my wile;- they've
. raised enough trouhlein tte community al
rehdy. and don't propose to have my wife
and family mixed up with them"
=: Defendant said he was sorry he dldi' thit
the minister harder.
Pardee was fined $40. -
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very genteel affair. made of hard wood,
carved. with a cashiers desk heavily grated
at the right hand. You make your bets ac-
cerding to the odds quoted. or perchanee
according to tip given you by some purely
dIsnterested Individual always loafng
around the poolroom. You might have
wondered preyiousy-sadIy wondered
how these men could afford to loaf and
loiter all day long But their business is
decidedly less fatiguing than shoveling sand
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wise it would hardly
be possible for these
places to be kept
open. They have to
pay n big rent. and
gas and taxes. and no
one ever yet accused
a man who sold
events and issues on
The morning call., 1892-12-30
At the Teachers Convention.

FRESNO. Dec. 29.-The Teachers Asso-
citation resumed sessions this morning in
three sections, as yesterday, and also held a
general session in the afternoon. A large
number of papers on educational matters
were read and discussed. This evening Hon.
ID. NJ. Delmas gave a lecture on "Educa-
ton." Tomorrow the visitors will be given
a drive through the vineyards:
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went on. and the dol ............
lars were switched in. us-S-a.
II was like the tale d:
of old the vestigia money mat goes In:
nullu retrorsum. and
There was nothing
coming back-nothing '0' e'''e oaek'
at least to the visitors ''''---' -''-- --'.----.-
This thing Of poolrooms must necessar-
lily grow IL the Murphy-White fight is to
create precedent.
THE CALL reporter walked from A to B,
and ID to +, and G to K, and NJ TO Q, and r
TO on Stockton and Ellis streets, and
found poolrooms everywhere.
That is to say that poolrooms are not like
angels vlsits-few and far between.
Jim CorbetI tbs phenomenon, has place
on Ellis street.
On entering there is seen q bar on the
left hand. ard an exceedingly fashy and
suggestive picture. with life.sized figures,
on the right hand.
The picture is no part of the poolroom.
and is sui generis, although copies of the
subjssat are around town.
Wse Anthony Comstock dead 1t would
raise him from his grave.
Otherwise, Corbett's place is about the
most decent Of the poolrooms.
OF course. there is "prvate entrance"-
for "bookies," presumably. or course. too,
there Is ''furnished-rooms" staircase
within bowshot.
Right close by. on Ellis street. and next
door 10 MarshalPs Gaiety House. 10 another
poolroom, which Is interesting, because all
the pueilistic traditions Of century are con-
centered there.
1t is the Ivy House. with V. A. Vidal
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"A: CRAZY cHlNAMAN.
He Thought Devils Were After Him
-: :.:. :',:-.:' With Knives.

Los ANGELES. Dee: % Constable John
A. Johnson of - .Farmeunt Township
brought "a crazy Chinamah named Lem
Yem from Neenach this morning The
Chinaman has been cooking at German sta
ton for. ten months past: On the night of
December q he came where the boys were
playing cards and first asked for a butcher
knife and then asked Henry German when
he was. going TO kill him. He cried and
shouted, He insisted that all were trying
to kill him. = He went into. his room and
shot his pistol off to keep the devil awav,
and cried and groaned: The men were
afraidto open the door for fear he would
shoot. In the morning he was taken to
Constable Johnson's house and brought to
the city and placed in the County Jail.
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An illustration
IF how the
patrons are deceived


that Smith would win, three that the fight
would last tten, twenty or thirty rounds, or
would be finished. or not finished.
The house stood to win on all Of these ex-
cept as to the proposition that where fight
was declared no contest or draw all bets
were off. and the stakes would be returned
to the investors. But here arose little
wrangle. In one house the stakes were
withheld ION technical grounds" and there
was, OH such an amount Of swearing.
Meanwhile the house had the use Of the
coin tor other investments. The houses, al
a rule, pay all doubtful events where there
is a commission and none where there is
not.
The "fght substitution for horseracipg
has apparently only served 10 deepen the
element OF blackguardism, idleness and un-
holy longing for wages without work, which
has attended the lot of ingiorious humanity
from the days of the ''fervidis rotis'' Of
which Horace wrote.
Minors are not allowed in the poolrooms,
but they swarm outside. Boys from the
age Of 10 to 20 years collect outside the
rooms. Older and harder sinners "play"
for them. Honest wages, according TO
boys ability. are from SO 10 So a week. but
a boy can win IS day in the poolrOoms.
He will lose his own money for a time, as
long as IL lasts; after that he will lose some
one else's who is foolish enough to trust
him,
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On a Heavy Track.

NEW ORLEANS. Dee. 29.-The track was
heavy.
Five furlongs. Bobby Beach won. San
geree second, Balize Duke third. Time.
1:0724.
Six furlongs. The Judge won, Texas Star
second, Fleetwood third. Time, ;20h.
Five and a half furlongs, Miss Francis
won, Harry l. second. Dick third. Time,
1:l4R.
Six furlongs. Dixie Y wen. Emperor Bill
let second, Florence Slaughter third. Time.
1:I91z.
One miie, Bret Harte won. Gray Duke
second, Bonnie third. Time, :4S1s.
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NOT DONE YET.
An impudent Burglar Says lie Will
Crack More Houses

Los ANGELES, Dec. 29-Burglar Charles
Williams, the man who committed many
depredations ID this city last summer, was
examined before Justice Owens to-day.
There areforly-five cases of ofburglarv against
him. He has already been convicted and
sentenced 10 ave years in San Quentin. On
one charge he was placed under $4,000
bail. He laughed. and declared that lie
would not only gel bail. but would rob q
few more housPs