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The morning call., 1892-08-28
HORTICULTURE EXTRAORDINARY.
What a Tu1sre County Man Did From
Eight Acres.
Fresno Advance,

j. c. Russell, who owns large tract of
land about 2h miles north of Traver, has
nearly completed harvesting his peach and
nectarine crop from eight acres on his ranch.
There are about five acres of peaches and
three of neetarines. From the peaches he
has now harvested 1900 pounds of dried
peaches which at 13 cents per pound. the
price now quoted. would net HIM S169O. 1t
Will cost him S26J 10 harvest this crop and
market it, which will leave him net profit
OF S1425 or S2S5 per acre. The nectarine
crop has done nearly as well. the difference
being only the difference in the price of the
two fruits. Mr.. Russell has hired all his
work done, and, therefore. the expense ac-
count rs correct and covers everything
This is good showing. and proves that.t
Is not necessary for man to drag his life
out trying to farm large number of acres,
but that an ordinary family can live cum-
fortably on from five to ten acres in this
vicinity if the same is properly cultivated.
Ihls IS not an unc0mm0nly large crop for
this section. bnt is only one out of many
that wo could enumerate this season. and
the orchards in this place are all eompara-
lively young yet, there being but very few
that tare more than four years old.
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John r. Griffith. of robbers that stopped
train 10 on the Southern Pacific Railroad
near Pixley on January %, 1890. and
robbed the express-car of $1,000 in coin.
In robbing the car one man WAS killed and
another dangerously wounded, and Grif-
fifth declared he was the robber that fired
the fatal shots.
tails of the robbery, and when the news
reached this city on April last it caused
no little excitement.
Investigation soon proved Griffith to be a
most prodigiOus liar, it being physical i'm
possibility for him TO have been anywhere
near the scene Of the robbery on the night
IL occurred.
Meantime the Consul at Honolulu had
become convinced that Griffith's story was
false, and returned him to his ship.
Nothing more was heard of Griffith until
on Monday last when the Northern Light
docked at this port.
He was paid off, and at on &C proceeded to
go on a "howling drunk"
He turned w in East Berkeley on Thurs
day night and went TO the clearinghouse
OF Deputy Sheriff FonZo of Alameda
County.
He rendered a check for $50 in payment
for room rent, and was so drunk he had 10
be helped TO his room.
No sooner had FonZo shut the door on
Griffitn than the latter began talking TO
himself about murders ana train robberies.
FOnZ0 listened minute and at once
jumped to tie conclusion that chance had
thrown in his way real train robber.
BE forced the door of the room, grabbed
Griffith, loaded him with handouts and leg
shackles and carted him off to the Alame la
County Jail.
Yesterday morning the Commissioners Of
insanity of Alameda County sent Griffith
to Stockton as hopelessly insane.
Griffith sat In the courtroom awaiting his
examination dressed as he came from the
ship.
When spoken to regarding his completely
IN the Pixey train-robbery he said:
"Oh, yes, I'm guilty. l killed that fell
low and robbed the express-car. OF course /
had help. There were eight of US, but |
led the gang and | carried away the bulk OF
the swag"
How much money did you get?" was
asked.
1--WE got a pile Of 1t. I've got most of it
buried down in Fresno County. Never
| mind, I'll get even with 'em yet"
Get even with whoP
''Why, the Southern Pacific peOple; that's
who. Say, I've laid ont three of them, /
have, besides the fellow at Pixley. They
| fired me off train once, aud I've got it in
| for all Of them"
But the man you claim you killed in the
Plxley robbery wasn't railroad man.
| What did you kill him for?"
| because lie was nOsin' around. You bet.
] we took no chances. Say. l can tell you
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greatly Increase our work. The records
show that fully 65 per cent Of the arrests
are made 10 the district around the old City
Hall. If we move, all these prisoners have
to be carted up there II they would give
US Police Court down here to try the ar
rests brought into this station 1t would help
matters.
You can talk about this old prison as
you like. but such men as General Brin cker-
hoff, Sergeant Thompson of the Chicago
police force and others who are familiar
tn the city prisons throughout the cOun-
try say this old City Prison compares IA
yorably with many Of the prisons in the
East.
''Say for me that it is because believe
the new prison is more unhealthy than the
old one. because 1t will make us double
work aud because I believe that it is 50
years too soon 10 move the prison"
DO we want TO move? well, rather"
said one Of the chiefs assistants "Up
around In. We won't be compelled 10 chase
the cOckroaches off of our books and papers,
and every bowling drunk that comes In
wont annoy us as he does now.
why. look az that" pointing out Of the
window TO the open court on which the win
dows OF the prison open. That is q tele-
phone with an echo and when a case of
ID. /. comes in downstairs and howls, we
get not only the original howl but a second
edition from the echo. You bet. we want
to move"
THE Coroner's Office will not be moved
from its present location" said Coroner
GarwOod. "The reason is simply because
they will not give US proper quarters In the
new City Hail.
IF We were to occupy the rooms they
want US to taxa and have case come in
like that one in there tie courts above US
would have to adjourn"
The ease In there" was one that al
though very dead. was still making its bres-
ence known. and the patrolmen were going
by the prison door with hands tightly
clasped over their nostrils.
"Do want to moye?" said prisoner
'Ye-es. ] aint particular where it is, but [
would like 10 move. want to see daylight
once in while even if am In Jail. Here
it's an eight-foot ceiling aud gaslight and
when they get about 100 OF us In here, ugh,
IT'S awful. No wonder people around here
get sick"
Aud so 1t goes. The City Prison Is
divided against itself on the move question,
and while everybody is waiting for a de.
cision one way or the other the dlngy, dark,
smoky. dirty old City Prison Is getting
dingier, dirtier and darker.
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just where 10 find Evans and Sontag. can.
But / wont, all the same" concluded he
with leer.
The examination as 10 the mans mental
condition Was brief. There were a duZen
witnesses ready to testify that the young
man couldn't tell the truth if he wanted to-
Ha seems to be afflicted with a desire TO
be a bad man and yet is known to be most
arJant coward.
With all his insanity John Griffith is
shrewd and in the hands OF desperate men
might be made dangerous tool
lie is the youngest son of 0ne of the best
known families iD Fresno County.
W. G. Grif1th. are engaged in the real
estate business, and I. }. Griffith. the we'll
known lawyer, who was killed In this city
two years ago By Market-street cahle-car,
was also brother OF the pseudo train
robber
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NOTES FROM SEA AND SHORE.
Transfer OF Comma anders - On Pleasur
Bent-Ships' Movements.

Transfer OF Commanders On Pleasure
Bent-Ships' Movements.
The whaleback c. A. Wetmore, from De-
parture Bay, arrived yesterday afternoon
after passage of 100 hours, an exception
ally long and tedious one. She carried 1850
tons of coal for the Oregon Improvement
Company.
The schooner John Ii. North, Captain
Carlien. sailed for Honolulu yesterday with
cargo Of general merchandise.
The bark Harold sailed for Queenstown
yesterday with cargo OF wheat.
The steamer Grandholm will sail for Ma
naimo to-day.
The Pacific Mail steamer Rio de Janeiro
sailed yesterday afternoon for Yokohama
and HoDg-Kong with Il cabin and 165 Chi
nese passengers. Captain j. Tremaine
Smith went in command, vice Captain Will
liam administered to the steamer Peru
Captain Smith has been with the company
for 10 years and Is considered one of the
ablest nayigators sailing from this port.
party consisting OF Rev. Robert Richie
rector CT ST. PauPs Episcoual Church, Oak
land; William Shattuck OF Hawks IL Shat
tuck Lewis Brown, +. NJ. Phelps, Edward
Hirschler and j. Homer Fritch left yestes-
day afternoon on the steamer Emily for
Coos Bay. The party is bent on hunting
trip and are going to hunting-grounds
famous for bear, elk and deer in Southwest
ern Oregon. Mr.. Friich, who is one of the
keenest sportsmen on the Pacific Coast is
at the head OF the party. All are crack
shots and experienced hunters. The party
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Nery Foolish Tories.

Some OF the Tories of Great Britain have
been making very interesting exhibitions
OF themselves in their chagrin over the re-
suits OF the late elections. The wear Of
Christ Church. Frome, was known as a
strong Liberal. On the Sunday after the
election, when the vicar entered the pulpit,
20 well-known Tories of the congregation
rose and walked cut of the church. few
nights previously some one smashed two
stained glass windows in the same church.
and. most Interestingly idiotic display of
all, all the red flowers on the graves in the
churchyard wore pulled up, red being the
Liberal color.
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despairing, with the wolf bowling at nv
door Betaking myself to a country town.
| found encamped upon the village green q
travelling circus. A storm had played sad
havoc. with the canvas of the sideshows.
and the alluring advertisements were en-
tirely destroyed. This gave me an idea. I
invested my last dollar in heavy sbeetin q.
paints and brushes, and upon the snowy
surface was soon displayed a monster sea
serpent. Fire blazed from its nostriIs,
menacing horns protruded, aud l intro
duced 10 distinct bodily curves. ending
with bow-knot at the extremity. My pro-
duction found favor; the effect was elec-
tricaL Small boys blockaded the grounds.
and an order for a talking babboon and a
living skeleton raised my spirits and filed
my purse. l no longer work as an impress
sionlst, but never has 81 brought greater
good fortune"
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RIVAL RIVER STEAMERS.
Extra Boat for the Old Com
pany'
AN INTERESTING OUTLOOK.
The Rush Of Travel Keeps Up-Country Mer-
chants Disgruntlsd Over the
Existing Situation.
AN INTERESTING OUTLOOK.

The war between the rival river steamers
continues to be the one interesting topic on
the water front. The boats are packed daily
with passengers eager TO take advantage of
the low rates of fare up the Sacramento.
The question of river transportation Is one
Of vital importance to the commercial inter-
ests OF San Francisco, and the leading mer
chants of the city are fully alive to the i'm
pOrtance of the existing situation.
Yesterday the old line brought new and
pleasant element into the contest by putting
on all extra steamer to run day trips, the
idea being to give the public better OppOr
tunity of becoming acquainted with river
scenery than is possible by the evening
boats.
The possibilities of still tfurther redue-
tiOns form a subject Of interesting specula-
tion. The times CT rate wars on 1.-THE upper
Mississippi are recalled when passengers
were carried for nothing by one line of
steamers and the other line met the ruinous
competition by carrying the passengers
free and presenting them with supper at
their point of destination.
The attitude of the up-river merchants,
which Is decidedly opposed 10 the existing
situation. may bear fruit In some organized
opposition. San Francisco retailers benefit
py the passenger rate war, but the country
dealers do not. 1t thus becomes a serious
question rs to whether the interests of the
San Francisco j0bbers are not jeOpardlZed
by the existing fight.
80 far as l am concerned" said promi-
nent merchant yesterday, 81 can see no
good In it. A freight war always results in
pool eventually. That is the history of
all Of them. In the meantime the war in
passenger rates, which enables up-river peO-
pie to shop eheaply in San Francisco. is a
direct detriment TO our jobbing trade, as it
hurts the business Of our country CUSTOM
ers."
Others, however, take different view of
the situation, and all look forward with in-
terest TO the events of the coming week.
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he ACHES IN EVERY BONE
Little Danny Eustice Beaten
Nearly to Death.
His Cruel stepmother Belabors Him With a
Heavy Cup and Otherwise Maltrests
Him.

Little Danny Eustice lies on a cot of the
Boys and Girls Aid Society with an ache
in every bone and black and blue marks at
close intervals all over his body.
lie has wan face. and his great, anxious
eyes look haunted as If with a fear of being
struck and beaten. to which treatment he
has been almost hourly subjected when at
home. The little sufferer was rescued
Friday afternoon from the clutches Of an
irate yirago who claims TO be his STEP
mother.
She was brutally beating him on the
head with q heavy cup when the llttl G
fellow was rescued from her.
Danny was taken 10 the Receiving Hos
pltal, where his cuts, bruises and aches
ere gently treated with healing ointments
and he was thsn given a home at the Boys
and Girls Aid Society.
In the evening the poor little fellow be-
came feverish and he kept crying out in his
delirium 10 be saved from his assailants.
In the morning his condition, which was
regarded at 1rst as pTecarious, improved
and by evening he was out of ali danger.
The poor little sufferer is only years OF
age.
lie has heretofore lived on Main street
with his parents, named Skelly. How he
came to bear the name Of Eustice IS not
known.
Ii Is surmised that when his mother died.
bis father married again, and when his
father died the widow again entered the
matrimonial state, so that the little fellow
Is not as closely connected with his parents
as those who yearn for affection might wish.
His father, Edward Skelly, frequently ln-
dulges In liquor, and his stepmother also
takes little" When they both get that
way" little Danny suffers. They vent their
anger on his thin wan frame. and leave him
covered with bruises more dead than alive.
When Officers Holbrook aud Wells heard
OF the case they at once took the Skeiys
into custody. Mrs. Skelly was charged
with assault 10 do bodily harm and heI
undutiful spouse, who was under the infiu-
ence OF liquor, was charged with drunken-
ness.
When 1t was found that the child would
recover the woman was liberated on SjOC
bail.
She departed from the prison with child
In arms. on whose account she was given q
berth in the prison hospital
The case against the brutal mother vii
be pushed by the officers Of the Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, and
the victim of their brutality will be provided
with home where, with good treatment
the child may grow up 10 be useful mem
Der Of society.
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DECLARES IT'S TOO damp.
Chief Crowley Will Not Move
His Prisoners.
THE NEW PRISON DON'T SUIT
His Assistants Want TO Move, but he Says
That It's Thirty Years Too Soon
for the Change.
THE NEW PRISON DON'T SUIT

To move or not TO move. that IS the ques-
ton that is agitating the officers, clerks and
detectives around about and in the old City
Hall.
Nearly all the officers from the CAPTAINS
on down to the patrolmen who ride In the
hurry-up wagon on emergency calls are anx-
ious 20 move.
They want to get away from the ram
shackel old shell with its disease-breeding
smells and filth.
But Chief Crowley don't want to 60 and
he has his reasons for it.
In vain the men talk about the garbage
tanks in the alley, behind the prison. where
all the refuse is dumped aud over which the
wind sweeps and watts through the grated
windows into the prison odors that are
strong enough TO get around without the
help Of a zephyr.
In vain they cry aloud that when three or
four drowned men are brought into the
The morning call., 1892-08-28
DYER'S TERRIBLE FALL.
The Coroner's Jury Finds Fault with
the Contractor.


Frank A. Dyer, who was killed on Friday
by falling from a platform that broke from
its fastenings on the Bush-street side ofthe
Mills building. might still be alive if the
contractor had taken the proper precautions
In securing the support
That is what the C0rOner's jury decided
last night after they heard the testimony of
the witnesses who saw the dead mechspic's S
frightful plunge from the ninth story OF the
structure against which the platform was
suspended
The facts brought out in the testimony
before the jury have been told in the news
papers. Following is the verdict:
Frank A. Dyer. aged 80 years, residing at
935 Fourteenth street. came to hts death on
August 20 from fracture of the skull and
rupture OF the th0racic aOrta caused by
falling from seaffold on the Mills building
on Bush and Montgomery streets, and
further that the contractors in charge of the
work should have USED better precautions
and tested the strength OF the ropes as the
work progressed.
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with an italian mosaic floor and deep mar
BILE wainscoting. 1t will have a seating
capacity OF 400 On the fourth and fifth
floors will be amphitheaters. which will be
used by the junior classes On these floors
will be the library, museum, professors
rooms. offices, laboratories. chemical, mi
croscopical and physiological working
rooms; also two fine dsseeting-rooms, with
asphalt floors. High up In the tower will
be the most unique feature Of this or any
other college. 1t is the bone library.
The building will be heated and lighted
with the latest appliances. IL will be fin
ished in hard wood. with hard, Georgia
nina fihors
The morning call., 1892-08-28
How One Doiiar BnI Was Spent

Bright young New York women are just
now engaged in telling the readers of the
New York World about the most profit
able. pleasurable and all-around satisfac-
tory dollar bills they ever spent, and re-
ceiying from that paper other dollars for
their trouble. Here is one of these dollar
stories, written by "Carmine'': II was an
artist, poar aud promising. An order for a
picture suddenly revoked lett me detected,
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BEALE'S PLAN FAILED.
The Quack Had scheme to Entrap HI
Women Accnmplices.

The ouack Had scheme to Entrap His
Women AccnmpIices.
"Dr." Beale-H Haven is beginning TO get
rather nervous in his prison quarters He
realizes that il may be difficult task to
SHIFT upon the shoulders of his wife, Nellie,
ana Lizzie Graham tho respon sibility for
Mary Carrolrs death.
George A. Knight. who has been retain ed
TO defend the two women, saws that Beale' S
scheme was TO have the women testify and
commit themselves. When his case came
up for trial ia the Superior Court he would
declare that the fatal malpractice had been
the work OF the two women, who had sent
the girl to him In dying condition.
Miss Graham said yesterday that she felt
Indignant that she had heen induced 10 pay
$500 for the services rendered by Attorneys
Ferral and Hubbs The money was more
for defending Beae than anything else. 1t
had done her more harm than good. mas
much as the attorneys had allowed her TO
testify at the inquest
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NEW MEDICAL COLLEGE.
Its Cornerstone Laid at Chicago Wit
Impressive Ceremonies.

Chicago Inter Ocean. Aug. 2l.
With impressive ceremonies the corner
stone of the new Hahnemann Medical Col
lege was laid yesterday afternoon in the
presence Of fully 1000 people.
AS seen in the illustration cut the build
ing is a remarkably handsome one. 1t will
avenue aud will run back 60 feet. The
structure will have five stories and base
ment The first story and half will be OF
cut Bedford sandstone, and above this
pressed brick and terra Gotta will be the
material used. In the southwest corner
will be handsome tower.
The entire basement will be devoted TO
dispensary clinics. On the main floor will
be the great amphitheater. two stories high,
The morning call., 1892-08-28
Mrs. skelIy Remains In jail.

Little Danny Enstice. who was so Sc
verely beaten by his stepmother, Margaret
Skelly, Is still In a serious condition. Mrs.
Sicily says that she was so much under the
influence Of liquor when she whipped the
chIld she did not reaiZe how badly he was
injured She was trying TO secure her re.
lease on a bond in $500 yesterday when
Officer Holbrook interIered. Whe, in
formed Of the chilPs serious condition
Judge Love refused TO release the wnman-
The morning call., 1892-08-28

land.
He at once went be-
fore the American Con-
sui at Honolulu and
told him be wanted to
surrender himself and
be returned 10 the
United States and tried
for murder.
In a written statement
handed to the Consul
by Griffith he said he
was one OF the gang
The morning call., 1892-08-28
Tore Down a DIphtheri. Notice.

A warrant was sworn out yesterday for
the arrest OF John Crimmins of 223 Church
street, who took down a placard from his
door announcing that there was diphtheria
IN the house The complaint was sworn 10
by Health Inspector George Mills.
The morning call., 1892-08-28
TulI,s Death was Acc,don,.,

The remains Of the unfortunate laborer
who was killed Friday afternoon by falling
with a barrow Of brick from the Aronsou
building on Post street, were positively
Identified yesterday as those of William
Tull. Deceased was an Englshman, ageC
80 years. and lived al s Hubbard street Al
inquest was held and a verdict of Academia
death was returned by the Coroner's jury.
The morning call., 1892-08-28
Koch Died From Natural Causes.
NEM wEsrEeN HorEI.

An autopsy was made yesterday on the
body of Heinrich E. KOCH the blacksmith
who died in squalor at 80 Natoma street.
Friday night 1t showed that fatty degen-
GRAFTON of the heart was the cause OF death.
Deceased belonged to several fraternal or
derS and is supposed to have left consider
able property.
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he BURIED THE TREASURE
Poor, Demented Griffith Tells
His Tale.
INSISTS HE is A R0BBER.
He Is Sent to the Stockton Insane Asylum
to Got Rid Of His Very Strange
Halluc nations.
INSISTS HE is A ROBBER,

On March 12 last, John r. Griffith. one Of
the crew OF the whaling bark Northern
Light escaped from that vessel while it was
lying in the harbor at Honolulu, and swim
Mug five miles TO shore, reached the main
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will be absent about four weeks. Rev
George Wallace of San Mateo will supply
Rev. Mr.. Ritchies pulpit in Oakland during
his nh
The morning call., 1892-08-28

The immigration last year amounted to
617, $50 souls.
The morning call., 1892-08-28

/, your blood poorg Take BnncHAns PILLS.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-09-22
TRIED ONCE TOO OFTEN.

Young Gustema!an Arrested for FoTg-
ing $1,000 Check.
A young man named Eduardo 4. Her.
naDdez was booked by Captain Lees yeSter-
day on charge of enlightenment
Hernandez Is a Guatemalan, and arrived
from that plac e about year ago. He is
said to be we'll connected in the Central
American State mentioned. Some time ago
Hernandez secured position in the firm of
!. j. Gunach &c Co., to attend to their
Spanish correspondence. He was recently
discharged. While in this position he
familiarized himself with the firms sig
nature.
About ten days ago he secured some of
the blank checks of the firm and drafted
one to bearer for $780, signing the firms
name, on the London. Paris and American
Bank. The paying teller Of the bank did
not like the looks of the person VINO pre-
scented the check and told the bearer to call
again. The firm was communicated with
and the signature to the check Was pro-
nounced forgery.
The police were notified, but could not
discover who it was who had forged the
check.
On Monday last the same man appeared
ut the bank and offered check for $500,
signed by Gnnlach u Co.
The paying teller endeayored to detain
the man until policeman could be called,
but the man became suspicious and fled.
a good description was secured, and il
correspondent exactly with that of Her.
nandez.
Hernandez had lately been DISCHARGED
from the firm.
He was arrested yesterday on Ellis street
and denied the charge, but was subse-
Quently identified as the man who presented
the checks for payment.