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The morning call., 1892-04-30

were also the Rev. J. Valley, an English
missionary. returning from the Woo-hoo
province. the scene of the religious riots in
q shattered state of health: Lieutenant Me-
Intosh of the United States steamer ALI
ance; c. j. Crudden and Mr.. Swan, re-
tired officers of the British army; Isaac
Sharp, veteran Quaker missionary. 80
years old. who has been all over the world !;
h. Merrill Jr. of the consular service at
Bombay; g. Coates. German Consul at
Hong-Kong. and r. j. Wilkinson of CAL
cutta. Little Pete" otherwise Wong
Ching. of unenviable notoriety In counec-
ton with forged certificates. was among the
Chinese passengers, and announces that he
has come back to stay.
AS soon as the Belgic had been tied to
the dock Inspector Hatch and Commits
sloner Mcpherson began tn size up the
Monaghan crowd on board. The Japanese,
t5o Ia nun Der. were promptly separated
from the other passengers and corralled on
the hurricane-deck. As % had been rejected
from the China's consignment and returned
on that vessel, IL seemed more than probable
that a number OF these anxious new arrivals
would share the same fate. They all wore
the ordinary garb of Europeans or Ameri-
cans and were notably dimlnutiye In stature
Commissioner Mcpherson told a reporter
that he proposed to be In no hurry about
the examination and it is not likely that
any will be landed until to-day. He stated
as an illustration Of the important issues at
stake that Of the % Japs returned by the
China thirteen had described them selves
as expert stonecutters, willing to work for
81 day, feeding and clothing themselves.
The difficulty is, however, to elicit infofma-
ton OF this character The Japs are well
posted In advance and furnished with
enough money TO evade the operation OF the
nauper law. Is was rumored that Al of the
Beigic Japs are engaged to work on the
Biggs ranch in Butte County, and IL this
can be proved the contract labor law may
close the door against them. or the 225
Chinese 144 are for this city, % for Panama.
81 for Havana and one for Honolulu. The
Havana contingent will be sent under
guard by the A. II. train on Sunday via
New Orleans.
The tramp steamer Sirius, which has been
several times detained on the point OF sail
ing by libels for salvage claims. has given
bonds aud cleared yesterday for Ocos,
Champerico, San Jose de Guatemala and
coffee from those ports.
The schooner Reliance, which went ashore
a. Fort Point few days ago and was towed
to the Mission Flats for repairs, sailed yes
terday.
The steamer Noyo OF the Fort Bragg Lum-
Der Company arrived yesterday without the
big lumber raft which she was to have
brought down. 1t was found that the raft
could not be launched IN time. and as the
steamer had cargo OF telegraph poles and
railroad ties she did not wait. The voyage
Of the raft viii be deferred fortnight
The Hawaiian bark Mauna Ala left for
Melbourne yesterday with a miscellaneous
cargo.
The American ship Kate Davenport, 70
day with 1000 tons Of coal for j. ID. Spreckels
IL Bros.
The repairs commenced on the approach
70 the Pacific Mail dock seem TO have been
The morning call., 1892-04-30
ENGLISH LUTHERANS.
Rev. DR.. BarniIz Addresses the Synod
the Home Missions.

Kew. DE-. Barnftz Addresses the Synod on
the Home Missions.
The First English Lutheran Church on
Geary street during the past week has been
the chosen place for the daily session Of the
California Synod. -.
Last night the Rev DR.. S. q. Barnitz, the
Western secretary Of Home Missions, in
terested the audience greatly by charts and
maps and mass of facts and figures in de-
lineating the golden opportunities and the
imperative needs. the difficulties and tri-
umphs, the vast territory and the made
quate force of the home-mission field. In
the last biennium 135 missions have re-
ceived aid. Isl missionaries were employed,
200 congregatio rs served. 30 new points
taken up, Sc new church organizations
founded and 36 new temples of worship
built. La these 135 missions meanwhile
1873 sermons have been preached, &c, 119
pastoral visits made, 1894 infants baptized,
2847 catechumens instructed and 1886 addi-
tons to mem bershlp.
The success of the work was fifty termed
a moral miracle, one of the illustrations In
which latter-day facts rival almost the
spiritual marveis OF Pentecostal times.
These 135 missions are scattered all over the
United States, from Connecticut to Cali
fornia. and are distributed as to languages.
thus: English 120. German 10, Scandinavian
g English and German g.
DIR. BarnitZ powerfully appealed to his
hearers to seize the dazzling prizes OF op-
portunity that are so invitingIy at hand, and
help turn the arid wastes of humanity into
the gardens OF the Lord.
The synod will convene this morning at
10 O'clock for business routine and discus
sion on the state of religion. Sunday morn
ing it will set apart to the holy ministry, by
the rite OF ordination. Rev. Victor A.
Tressler OF San Jose, and in the evening
the synodical yesper communion will be
caiehrafp6
The morning call., 1892-04-30
An Old Case Revived.

When Elizabeth j. Moore was granted
divorce from George A. Moore in 1879, In
the old Nineteenth District Court, she was
allowed $50 per month alimony. Some time
ago the late Judge Hoge reduced the amount
TO $40 per month. Mrs. Moore recently an
Piled to Judge Hebbard for an increase to
the former amount. but the application was
aenied yesterday. The Moores cane to
California In 1873, aud for time he practiced
Dentistry with DIR. Griswold. Soon after he
became associated with the Pacific Mutual
Li1e Insurance Company as travelling
agent, then he became vice-presdent of the
company. and finally president. which posi-
ton he now holds. While travelling for the
racine Mutual Lie Insurance Company he
the young man. Eugene GuindoD, who was
killed some years ago by George ID. Gardner
for having escorted his daughter from a
Skating rink one night. Mrs. Moore one
night discovered letter In her husbands
pocket that she believed was from Mrs.
Gulndon. At any rate there was scene.
and the divorce proceedings followed.
The morning call., 1892-04-30
SICK And DESPONDENT.
I" Harry" Small Cuts His Throat
i'm the Portland House.
A Pool Of Blood, Cory Razor and a Letter
Denouncing the Almshouse People
All the Suicide Left.

Having lost all that makes life attractive.
health, friends and casi', Harry Small cut
his throat with razor yesterday afternoon
and died with his head resting in pool of
blood on the floor of his little room in the
Portland House, on Kearny street above the
Bella Union Theater.
Small was a little white-bearded man,
quiet and unassuming, who came to the
house two weeks ago. He paid the landlady
for the eight by five room in which he died,
but told her nothing about his antecedents.
She did not know bis name. She could not
tell whence he came nor what he did to OBJ
tain living.
She saw him early yesterday morning and
late in the afternoon. About 6:2o o'clock
she sent servant IL make his bed.
KNocK-No REPLY.
The girl knocked at the door. and obtain
ing no answer, turned the knob. As she
pushed the door inward she became aware
that something had been placed against it.
That something she found was the feet of
Ledger Small, who lay on the floor with his
head toward the window. His white beard
was clothed with blood, there was wide
pool of blood under his head and shoulders
and bloody razor lay by his side. The
red life tide was still slowly ooZing from a
wide cash In the throat
lady. who, after visiting the scene OF the
tragedy, sent to the Coroner, whose deputies
found a letter on the washstand. just above
the head of the corpse.
LETTER
"My dear friend" the letter began, but
in no place on its four pages was the name
of the particular friend addressed mentioned
Ii continued:
have been In the Almshouse about eight
months and have come out uneured. ] nave
taken so much powerful medicine that have 40
use In my arms and my feet cold and the
nurse aud the ward help treated me so cruelty
aud would give me shoes TO wear for six
weeks, and they we've going 10 put me into
another ward which was cold aud unfit for COM
fort. So at last made up my mind TO leave.
nine hand and was unsigned. 1t had been
strokes Of lead pencil
A sCRAwL.
Scrawled In pencil over the remaining
pages the following was written:
My arms is so bad l cannot write. am sorry
to do this, but couldn't stand 1t any longer /
will not go back TO the Almshouse.
have TO DO this
i am going to take my life. ] am sorry 10 do
It. Ny name Is John J. Small. l was &c years
old ON the 23d OF January last. was born, In
1926. am not Insane. have my senses. but
am In so much pain cannot stand ii any longer
] am known as Harry Small.
April %. John g. Small, John Gray, Betsy
Scorner. Jim Fleet. sam Miner were good friends
10 me.
Neither money nor valuables were found
among the effects of the deceased. The in
quest will be held at 3 80 o'clock this after
noon.
The morning call., 1892-04-30
BRUNER ARRESTED.
He Is Brought Down From Sacra.
ment0 by a Deputy Sheriff.
Taken Before Judge coffey He Is Admitted to
Bail in the Sum Of 5000 The
Amount Furnished.

Eiwood Bfuner arrived In this city last
evening on the 7:15 o'clock train from Sac
ramento in charge OF Deputy Sheriff Stair,
and was taken at once before Judge Coffey.
w. III. Nelson appeared for the prisoner
and the people were represented by District
Attorney Hosmer and Associate Counsel
Henley, Lezinsky and Beatty.
After calling the case Judge Coffey ques-
toned the deputy in charge of the prisoner
concerning the time and manner of serving
the warrant Stair excused his delay in
making the arrest upon the ground that he
missed the first train to Sacramento on
Thursday morning by accident, and thus
was unable to find Bruner before o'clock
yesterday morning. The prisoner then de-
sired time to make arrangements for his
bail. and so the time of departure was post
poned until the afternoon train.
AN APPEAL FOR BAIL.
Judge Coffey then heard an argument
from Nelson in the matter OF bail. pending
the preliminary examination. Counsel for
the defense said that in view of the fact
that the bonds had on previous occasion
been fixed by Judge Wallace at 5000 ON
the same indictments, the same sum should
now stand as maximum.
Judge Coffey then liked the bonds in the
sum above mentioned aud set the time for
the examination al go O'clock on Monday
evening.
Nelson wanted to give cash ball in the
sum Of $3.50 In lieu OF the 5000 bond, say
ing that this method was generally accepted
as a correct and lawful one, Henley and
the other attorneys for the prosecution OBJ
jected, and Judge Coffey sustained the OBJ
lection. Bondsmen were not obtainable.
Nelson retired, and in few moments APP
peared with large roll OF greenbacks.
Five thousand dollars was counted out and
placed in the hands Of Clerk Kennedy, after
which Judge Coffey issued a certificate Of
release and adjourned court
INGALLS, CASE.
Henry l. Kowalsky and J. p. Kelly ap-
peared before Judge Coffey yesterday ana
asked him whether he had fixed the amount
of bail TO be given by Assemblyman Mccall
They stated that the report that Mccall had
left the State is erroneous. He was in town.
they said. waiting for the warrant to be
served upon him. and had employed them
to defend him. Judge Coffey stated that
although the complaint against their client
had been sworn to. the warrant for his
arrest had not yet been placed In the hands
of the Sheriff.
The morning call., 1892-04-30
SENTENCES CONFIRMED.
Three Cases Disposed OF BY Court NJ a,
tia1 at the PresidIo.

Three Cases Disposed or BY Court NJ ar
tis1 at the PresidIo.
Sentences have been confirmed in three
cases tried by the court-martial in session
convened at the Preside, and of which
Major Charles Bentzoni, First Infantry. is
president.
Private S. c. Brown. Light Battery A,
Second Artillery, was dishonorably dis
charged with the customary forfeitures and
confinement at AlcatraZ at hard labor for
one year. He pleaded guilty to desertion
from Fort Riley, Kaus., on the 10Th of Feb
ruary. 1890. He was apprehended at the
Preside on the 9Th of March, 1892
A like sentence with Imprisonment for
two years was imposed on Private Thomas
Foley, Company ID. Twenty-first Infantry,
who enlisted at Boston, Mass, on Noyem.
Der 2, 1887, deserted near Fort Bridger,
Wyo, on May %, $780, and was appre-
bended IN this city on the 10th OF March
last
Second class Private William Kearny of
The ordnance department will forfeit $50 OF
his pay and for two months will be confined
at hard labor at Benicia arsenal under
charge of guard. His offense was to be
found drunk at his post on the evening of
she 18th of March, after having been posted
- sentinel at the main entrance to the ar
seual,
The morning call., 1892-04-30
The CREMORNE is DOOMED.
Property-OWners Will Withhold Their
Signatures.
THEY DON'T LIKE CRIME HlTCHERIES.
"The Call" Cannot Find Twelve Property -owEers
:. Who Want the Cremerae Dive Per-
.petuated.

Nearly all the propsrty-owners In the
biockYin which the Cremorne Crime Hatch
cry is situated have now been interviewed
'"WiA you sign for the CremorneY was
the question put
"I viii not" the answer has been In
nearly every instance.
There are not twelve owners left who
could, If they would. sign petition for the
continuance of the Cremorne dive.
So the Cremorne is doomed.
There Is no getting around that fact now.
The CALL has canvassed the situation very
:. thoroughly and is prepared to announce
that if the property. owners adhere to their
verbal declaration not to sign the Cremorne
must close its doors when its present license
expires. on the 2Sth OF next month.
And the property-owners will adhere to
their declarations, there is no doubt about
that.
They ara mostly men of family; all of
them men of standing in the community,
and their word Is as good as their bond.
They depreeate the existence OF such a
plague spot in the very center of the city
and on its chief tboroughfare. Those who
signed before did so under mlsrepresenta-
tion in some cases, to obiige business ac-
.ouaintances in others and in others care
iessly and unthinkingly. They will sign no
more.
Not few Of the pronerty-owners on the
block are non-reSldentS and therefore not
entitled TO sign.
Those canvassed since the last list was
published are as follows:
MARY j. ANTHONY. nonresident
Cannot sign.
MRS. c. W. CRoCKER-will not sign.
j. C. HABERLING, liqnors-I always
have refused and always Will.
CHARLES MEYER-Will not sign.
!. ABBlE GERAGTH VI will not sign.
MRS. A. sWUNSCHE BY no means; the
CremoIns is disgrace to the neighbour hood.
TIMOTHY McSHAE-Mrs. McShae an-
swered for her husband in his absence.
I'VE have boys of our own." she said. ''and
. 1 know Mr.. McShae thinks too much of
them to give his Signature to such place
as the CFemorne."
MRS. j. MCCIBBON-I have always re-
fused ana always will.
EDWARD J. O'R0UKE, shoe-dealer-I
will not sign.
MARY N. TWOMBLEY, nonresident
Cannot sign.
CHARLES SCHULTZ, executor fer the
tC0ad estate-THe sooner vou close the Gre
morne the better. / will not sign.
JOSEPH ROSS. capitalist will not
sign.
e HENRY PHELAN. teiegrapher-I will
{ not sign; / want the place C losed
=. Cannot sign.
Il. f. REIDEL, nonresident Can OF
sign.
LEWIS II. STARR, nou-resident-Can-
. not sign.
G. NJ. HUGHES. Observation-Disclosures
sign.
NORA LANGD0N-Wil not sign.
WILLIAM EDE capitalist will not
sign.
= DAVID KEEL. merchant - Most en-
pbatieally no.
F. BARATY. capitalist have refused
before to sign and will again.
RICHARD g. T0BIN-I am entirely in
sympathy with THE CALL crusade against
the Cremorne. You may be sure they Will
never get my signature.
E. WATTS, builder and contractor-I
certainly will not sign.
E. ii. CAMPI0N, nonresident Cannot
. sign.
JOHN HARPER, paper-carrier - Viii
not sign.
AGNES BOWIE. non-resident-Canno OF
sign.
The morning call., 1892-04-30
WAR AGAINST BooDLERs.
The Citizens Defense Association Claims
to BE n Wig glance Committee.

The Citizens Defense Association Claims
to BE n igifance Committee.
The Citizens Defense Association Is en-
trenched at room 80. IA Sansome street.
The entertainment looks like committee
room, equipped with chairs, a long table and
the necessary stationery for business. Mr.
John p. Dunn. late State Controller, is the
salAried official. his rank being that Of sec
rotary. He it was who made affidavit to
the complaint upon which the warrant for
the arrest OF Eiwood Bruner was issued by
Judge Coffey. A CALL reporter yesterday
tumbied over the entertainments of the
Citizens Defense Committee, and found
two men behind the breastworks. They
were John p. Dunn and George Lezinsky |;
the latter is member OF the executive
committee. Neither gentleman had any
Information to impari. Mr.. Lezinsky was,
however, the more communicative Of the
two. He Informed the reporter that the
Citizens Defense Committee was simply the
old San Francisco Vigilance Committee re-
vived, minus the uncomfortable annex of
s0aped rope. Their deliberations, he said,
were to be strictly secret. As distinguished
from the methods OF the old-time Vigilance
Committee, the methods OF the Citizens
Defense Association were 10 be law
full. Mr.. Lezinsky pointed with pride
TO the names OF the gentlemen
who formed the executive committee.
Ancti CbdtdCicis dtlu socially, lie
thought, ought TO be sufficient answer to
all questions as to the integrity of purpose
which had called the association into exist
ence. Mr.. LeZinsky said that If anybody
had any evidence against boodlers OF any
party the executive committee OF the Citi-
zens' Protective Association was ready and
willing to take the necessary steps to bring
tho offenders to justice.
Mr.. Dunn was asked why no complaint
had been filed against Chris Buckley, mas
much as the association had started In gun
ming for boodlers?
Mr. Dunn lit a cigar, and, leaning against
one corner OF the mantelpiece, waited for
Mr.: Lezlnsky to reply.
Mr.. Lezinsky had none to make OF a rele-
want character. Then Mr.. Dunn interpolated
his opinion that there were no politics in
the action Of the Citizens Defense Com
mittee In causing the arrest of Republican
boodlers at this particular time. He de-
MED very emphatically that there was any
truth In the assertion that the association
had been organized to promote the fortunes
Of any political party at the present time.
The morning call., 1892-04-30

tinez, the bark Andrew Welch from the re-
finery to Mission No. i, the schooner
Robert Levers from Howard to the re-
fnery, the schooner Anne from the refinery
10 Folsom, and the schooner Mary Dodge
from Folsom to sea. To-day the ship w.
l.. Beebe will be moved from Benicia TO
the Merchants drydeck, and the Gardener
City from the drydock to sea-
The hne new ship Susquehanna has been
repainted, and looks LIKE a yacht.
The new pilot-boat built at Port Rlakelv
for the Pilot Commissioners will be brought
down by Captain Jordan. She has been
christened the Bonita. and is similar to the
America, but will spread more canvas
The vessels now under construction at
the Union Iron Works are all progressing
The morning call., 1892-04-30
On Equal Footing Now.

1t has just been discovered that Alexander
Campbell Jr. has been divorced from his
wife, Eleanor Marie. on the ground of
cruelty. The complaint was filed on the
18th ult.. not contested and the decree
granted on the Both. after secret hearing in
chambers before Judge Levy. The records
also show that they have been through the
mill once before. They were first welded
in June. 1877, when she was Eleanor Mary
aud aged 20, and he four years her senior
They lived together until June, 1856, when
she was divorced from him. They became
reconciled, however, in the early part of
1891 and, condoning his past offenses, she
married him again in February, 1891, nearly
IA years after the date OF their first marriage.
The morning call., 1892-04-30
PERSONAL NOTES.

j. G. Watson, a cattle-owner Of Denver,
Is at the California.
G. Coates. the German Consul at Hong
Kong, Is az the Occidental.
TIMOTHY Hopkins leaves this evening for
New York and Washington.
William Constable, n banker NJ New
York, is at the California.
Nestor A. Young, State Assemblyman
from San Diego, Is staying at the Grand.
Charles Merrill of Holbrook. Merrill g.
Stetson left on the China for a pleasure trip
TO japan aud China.
Baron j. Won Scheliha of London Is Mt
the Paiace. lie representa- a number of
English and German capitalists.
The morning call., 1892-04-30
A CobbIestene DimcuI,v.

John Connolly had little dispute with
Peter Kronhe on Beale street, near Folsom,
last night about 8 o'clock. By way of en-
forcing his arguments Connolly fired two
cobblestones at Kronhe. One missed the
mark, bat stove In the head OF barrel; the
other took effect on Kr0nhe's skull, CHANGING
off just above the ear. Kr0nhe had the
wound dressed attn South Harbor station.
while Connolly was placed In the cells on
three charges, of assault with q deadly
weapon, having lottery ticket 10 his pos.
session aud being in possession OF an OBJ
scene picture
The morning call., 1892-04-30

abandoned. The entire northwestern end
Is broken away. and the central portion
presents many holes IN which team might
easily take plunge into the water below.
TIE mouth Of the Brannan-street sewer is
exposed, and at low tide disgusting odor
Is emitted. The only present means of
access for teams is by driving around to the
southwest side. Tho conditions are oil
favorable for accidents and loss Of life,
especially at night.
The schooner Eva Is having her masts
scraped and overhauled at the Oceanic dock.
The Alameda will sail for Honolulu.
Samoa, Australia and New Zealand at 3
p. M. to-day In her cargo are II, 500 pounds
oil coffee Tor Melbourne. g. $50 pounds OF
coffee for Sydney. and 80, 600 feet OF lumber
for Apia.
Among the removals yesterday were: The
ship Dunfermline from Howard to Mar
The morning call., 1892-04-30
MARRIED.

THOMPSON-LOw-In this city. April "a. 1892.
by the Rev. w. ID. Williams, +. w. Thompson and
Isabelle }. Low. both Of Sau Francisco.
MISUNDERSTANDING this city Aprii o.
1892. by the Rev. Robert Mackenzie. ID d. James
Webster aud Elizabeth NJ. Richardson, both OF
San Francisco.
OVERFIELD-CLEAvE-I this city. April %.
1892. by the Rev. Robert Mackenzie, ID. D., Henry
ID. overfeld and Nellie Cleave, both OF San Fran.
cisco.
MCDANIEL-EELLS-Inth this city. April "a, 1892,
by the Rev. NJ. NJ. Gibson ID. D.. James Foster
Mcdaniel and Marion A. Eeiis. both Of San fran.
cisco.
The morning call., 1892-04-30

in this city in October. 1869. in the study Of
the pastor of Grace Church, aud the testimo-
ny was that their married life had been one
o: constant amity and contentment. He went.
however, on spree one day. turned up at
Portland, Or, where he is now, and never
since has contributed to her support. He
has frequently written In friendly tone,
promising to send for her when he had es-
tablished himself in business. but that was
all. Mr.. and Mrs. Grover have passed the
maridiou of ijfo
The morning call., 1892-04-30
Clark and His Son.

When Judge Hunt granted Annie e.
Clark divorce from James P. Clark in
June on the ground of failure to provide he
awarded their little boy to her custody, with
permission TO the father to see him at rea-
sonab!e times. Clark came into court yes
terday and complained that he was not
allowed to see the little one on Sunday.
Jldge Hunt made an order that she permit
him to take the child out every Sunday aft
ernoon in fair weather for four hours.