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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

siArriyals at the Capital Hotel yesterday:
Mrs. Whillmore and child, Mrs. Thomp-
son. Newcastle; Marion Biggs, GridIey;
Clauss and wife, Miss Tillie Krauss, citv:
Emma Perrott, Woodbridge; A. Souie,
city.
Arrivals at the Golden Eagle Hotel yes
terday; Kate w. Bull, Alice NJ. James.
Grand Rapids, Mich; c. B. Lorne, Sid.
ney, y. S. W.; S. w. Stryker, Philadel-
phia; F. Hutchinson, New York: W. T.
Scudder, Chicago; J. J. Campbell, H.
Fugett and wife, Belle Carly, DR.. Mon
\. Gormond, Miss Hagan, L. Gormond.
L. Stabell, Boulder Island; Mrs. ]. A.
Kelley, Miss Bell, Miss Baxter. ]. r.
Dickey and wife, San Francisco; b. w.
Cavanaugh and wife, Miss Jane Thom-
son, city.
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TERRIBLE EXECUTION
Feats That Have Been Accomplished
With the sword.

feats OF workmanship, such as cut
tlng through triangular bars of lead or
carcasses OF sheep, are performed with
special weapons; and on this subject, and
that OF sword blows generally, MIR. Hem
derson, the well-known professor OF
sWordsmanshlp, and for many years con-
nected with Angelo's School of Arms. has
some interesting facts to relate Though
no longer quite so young as he was. he is
still acuve and hearty, and must have
been IN his prime very powerful man
weighing 100 pounds. He has. in his
time, at one stroke, cut throiIph two
sheep, one carcass inside the other; and in
similar manner through two and three
quarter inches of solid lead.
A specially made culrass. much thourbt
OF at the time by the Duke of Cambridge-
when tested by the redOubtable Hender-
son, was cut clean through. Steel plates
SIX to the inch-and ordinary pokers
have been severed at one blow bv the
same strong arm. These exploits were Ali
accomplished with sword made for him
by the old firm of Wilkinson. 1t is called
"ExcaIbur, "and weighs but four pounds
1t IS perfectly plain, slightly curved. has
hllt something like naval cutlass. and
Is tempered to perfection. Mr. Henderson
was present at the battle of ChiIlianyyaI-
Ian in 1919, and can testify to some re-
markable instances Of the power of n keen
sword. towards the termination of the
fight, as the British troops were slowly
retiring, Sikh challenged, by his gest-
ures and defiant attitude, an Irish soldier
to leave the ranks and engage in sinple
combat One thrust from his bayonet
went right through the Sikh, though
mOrtaIly wounded, instantaneouslv with
his razor-edged tulwar cleft his oppo-
nents head in two, as far down as the
base of the neck, both falling dead at the
same instant. After this engagement a
Sikh was found sitting on the ground an
parently unhurt yet holding his hands
up to his head. and when the SURGEON
bade him lower his arms, he fell dead on
the spot, with half his skull gone. the en-
tire upper part having been cut clean
through.
Elephants are completely disabled nv
one blow from the Arabs two-handad
sword, which almost sewers the hu0e
hind leg, biting deep into the bone. This
feat Is varied by slashing off the trunk
leaving 1t dangling only by a piece of
skin. A Ghoorka has been seen bv the
late Laurence Oliphant to behead buf
1alo with single blow of his cookrie.
And Sir Samuel Baker, a man powerful
enough to WELD, during his African ex-
ploratlon the Baby" an elephant-ritIa
weighing twenty-five pounds, once Glove
wild boar with his big hunting knife al
most in halves as it was making a final
rush, catching it just behind tho shout
der where the hide and bristles are at least
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PIONEERS BANQUET
The ArgoDauts of 10 Hold Their Gus
tomary Reunion,

The ArgoDauts of 40 Hold Their Chs
tomary Reunion.
The Pioneers kept open house yester-
day, as usual, and had many visitors. In
the afternoon they and number of in
vited guests partook of a BANQUET. over
which President James H. Stephenson
presided.
For several hours the Pioneers sat and
ate and drank and talked of the days of
old, the days Of gold, the davs of 80 -
There were also a number Of formal
toasts proposed and responses given. as
follows:
The Day We Celebrate"- by
p. =. Lawson.
1.-THE Worlds Fair; Go as You Pleasev
Response by Hon. J. c. Brusie.
The Golden State" - Response bv
State Controller Colgan.
"Husbandryr - Response bv Hon
William Johnston.
The Judiciary y'-Response bv Judga
Matt Z. johnson.
Gardner.
"Our Revolutionary Fathers, - Ra-
sponse by Hon. y. Greene Curtis.
The Pioneers Response by Janes
Mcclure.
Ficks. 90 w.
The Ladies"-Response by DR.. G. NJ.
How to Increase Our PopuIation,,-
Response by DR.. w. W. Light.
TO the Memory of George w. Ches-
ley and All Our Departed Rrothers,'-
Drank standing, and in silence.
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MUSIC TO DANISH INSOMNIA.
A Physicians Ingenious Plan for Ban
ishiug Midnight Torture.

IShAHS- LOIIuIes
Music as a curative agent has been
known and valued since the earliest ages,
and the recently established Guild of St,
Cecilia, in London, whose protessed OBJ
ject is to apply the soothing influence of
melody to patients in hospitals and else
where, is only carrying out the prescrip-
tions of physicians who hourished 2 900
years ago. The Athenian doctors ban
ished fever by song" Thaies found
music most etficacious in the plague, and
Aulus Gellius even went so far as to
maintain that it produced a beneficial
effect in cases of bites and stings In
their work on Psychological Medicine"
Drs. Bucknill and Tuke remark that mu-
sic is the first recorded remedy employed
for the relief of madness. 4 novel, and
possibly useful, suggestion in the same
direction is mentioned by DR.. j. g. Black
man in the latest number of the Medical
Mdgdzine. 1t is that music box, work ed
by an electric motor, might be advan-
tageously employed in cases Of insomnia.
Some care, no doubt, would have to be
exercised to see that tho mechanism
worked properly before 1t was started, as
nothing would be more likely to drive
sleep permanently away than musical
box out of tune or liable to unaccounta-
ble and abnormal spurts of energy. 1t
would also be trying to a nervous patient
in the Silly night if the electric current
were turned off altogether and the box
became suddenly silent. 1t is possible
that burglar in ones bedroom might
be soothed and induced to surrender his
booty by the unexpected strains of
Home, Sweet Home" but it is also pos
sible that he might not. One or two in
teresting instances are recorded in the
article of the benefit which has resulted
in hospitals from the musical treatment,
and the sleepleSS soul might do worse than
try the prescription contained in it.
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KRIPP'S CAPTURE.
Burglar Wilde Is said to Have Rec.
Ord-Conflicting stories.

Burglar Wilde Is said to Have a Rec
ord-Conflicting Stories.
1t was learned yesterday by Officer
Kripp that the burglar arrested by him
Monday morning, who gave his name as
August Wilde, has record.
1t is now known that he served three
years in San Quentin for the burglary OF
livery stable, and also was sent to the
House of Correction for six months. He
was sentenced in San Francisco under
the name of August Brohman or Broman.
Since being in custody he has been caught
in number of crooked statements by
The officers, one of which was that he was
just from the East.
lie says he had a partner who COM
mltted most of the robberies, but says
also he cannot remember his name or
give description of him. He is either
very silly or very crafty, and the officers
are puzzled to know which.
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NEVER FELT THE BLOW.
How An Asiatic Was Beheaded With
One Cut of a sword.

OAC C'tt VI a -NOIbs
I once saw a heavy executioner in
Turkey slide down the rope and fall on
the suspended mans neck with all his
avoirdupois to break the spinal column.
says writer i'll the Globe Democrat. Oi
course it was barbarous proceeding.
The most careful and conscientious eye
cuIioner | ever saw was near the dividino
line between Turkey and Russia. | was
riding through some woods, when / sud-
denly found myself in clearing before a
cabin. y man was at the door tying a
red thread around sleeps neck,
asked him why he was doing that. He
picked up cleaver and with a ouick
blow cut of the sleeps head, making
the cut exactly along the line of the
red thread. You see now' he said.
''why I did it. l tied that thread be-
tween the joints so that there would be
no bone to offer resistance to the passage
OF the blade" But why do you slanph-
ter sheep III this way?'i l asked. Come
tomorrow to naming nearby town.
and you will see.''
I was in the town the next dav and
met the sheepslayer. He was a public
executioner and had a man to bebead
that day. / saw him do it. He had. a
sword with a curved blade. The blade
and hilt were hollow, and there
was quicksilver in the space, so
that when the weapon was held
alott the quicksilver ran down into
the hilt and steadied the hand.
and when the sword was swung down
the quicksilver ran to the end of the
blade and gave added weight and impe-
tus TO the blow. The doomed man knelt
and bent his head forward. The execu-
TONER tied red thread carefully around
the barred neck, ard with one swing of
his weapon cut off the head. 1t was a
clean, scientific cut between the verte-
brae, and the unfortunate man. 1 pre-
sumo, never felt it.
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OUTLAW FREDERICKO.
He Doubled on His Pursuers on Mon
day Night.
Now Heading Toward Marysville-
Every Prospect of His Be-
ing Soon Captured.

Murderer and outlaw Fredericks is
proving himself TO be as cunning rascal
IN eluding capture as Chris Evans him
self
1t was thought on Monday night that
he was surrounded near North San Juan,
Nevada County, and that his capture,
dead or alive, would follow yesterday as
soon as his pursuers should have day
light by which to operate.
But the outlaw gave them the slip dur
ing the night, and like the Irishman's
flea, when they were about to put their
fingers on him he was not there.
1t seems the fellow does most Of his
travelling through the woods at night, and
keeps closely hidden, as a general thing,
through the day. In this way lie has
managed to elude the armed men who
are following him.
Early yesterday morning he was seen
to pass Mooney's Flat, heading along the
Smartsville Ditch toward Marysville or
Wheatland, having doubled on his pur-
suers during the night.
Word to this effect was received last
night by Superintendent Wright, who
telegraphed to have both bridges over
the Yuba closely watched last night, as it
was supposed the slayer of Sheriff Pascoe
would attempt to cross by one of them,
in the hope of striking the Oregon rail
road.
Railroad officer True left last night for
Marysville with the man Smith, who
knows Fredericls and can identify him
if caught.
The whole country is now on the alert
for the outlaw who shot Brakeman Bruce
and murdered Sheriff Pascoe, and it does
not seem possible for him to long escape
capture.
Every tramp found on the roads
throughout Nevada County has been
stopped and made to give an account of
himself.
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a span thick. Sir Walter Scott relates
how the Earl of Angus. with his huge
sweeping brand, challenged his opponent
to fight, and at blow chopped asunder
his thighbone, killing him on the spot.
There is story current in Australia that
a Lieutenant Anderson, in 1852, during
an encounter with bushrangers, cut clean
through the gun-barrel of his adversary
with his sword. And at Kassassin it is
related that ono of Arab Pasha's soldiers
was severed in two curing the midnight
charge. But in the opinion of experts
new regulation saber been in use.-Lon-
don Globe.
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NOW FOR BASEBALL
The New League Season to Open
Morrow.

The New League Season to Open To-
Morrow.
Snowflake Park will tomorrow echo
with Sacramento yells for the Sacramento
baseball team.
The season of the reorganized State
League will then be inaugurated by a
game between the new local team Gate
the Stocktons) and the Oakland aggrega-
ton. There will be four days series
Thursday, Friday. Saturday and Sunday
between these teams, and baseball ad-
mlrers will have a chance to get a pretty
good line on the abilities of the players
who are to uphold the Sacramento end of
the league series during the season.
Manager Moore is determined to have
good bail played. in the hope that Sacra-
mentans will take hold and patronize the
game as they used to.
Admission rates will be: Sundays, gen
tlemen, 90 cents; ladies, 25 cents. Week
days, % cents. Week day games viii be
called at 3 O'Clock, Sunday games at 2:30
o'clock sharp,
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ington that will probably dampen his
Fourth of July ardor for the rest of his
life.
He had a full-grown 39-caliber pistol
from which he was industriously engaged
in shooting blank cartridges, according
10 the prevailing custom. Another boy
wanted to investigate the mysteries of
the weapon, and young Carragher accom-
modated him.
He held the pistol in one hand with the
muzzle against his forefinger, and the
other lad, boy like, ''monkeyed" with the
hammer. The pistol was discharged,
and the cartridge plowed a big gap
through the finger close to the hand.
The physician who dressed the wound
thought the boy would be apt to lose his
finger,
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YESTERDAYS CELEBRATION.
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dren, whose names were not ascertained.
They were said, however, not to have
been badly hurt.
When the crowd arrived at Twenty
eighth and streets on its return the fun
commenced. The electric cars were in
waiting, the company having pressed
every available one into service, but they
were only drop in the bucket. They
were filled in an instant without any ap-
parent diminution of the throng, and a
number of those who were left streamed
over to NJ street, hoping to get car
there. BY the time a car arrived at
Twenty-eighth and Nj there were enough
to fill eight or zen cars, and another eX-
odus took place to the terminus of the P
street line. many boarding the Oak Park
cars and riding out there in order to be
able TO get home without walking. 1t is to
be hoped that next year more con-
venient place can be found for the dis
play.
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ARARE OPPORTUNITY
Good Agricultural Land for $40
to $40 per Acre.

Inc Paclf1c improvement Company has re-
Gently purchased twelve thousand =cres OF
land in the heart Of Tehama County, for the
p1rpose of promoting subdivision and settle
ment. This land embraces lands from drst-
class Sacramento Valley agricultural land, to
land Of fair average quality, and is offered az
from $40 TO $50 per acre, in subdivisions oi
40, so, 12o, 16o and $50 acres.
The terms upon which these lands are offered
are especially attractive. They will be sold in
subdivisions, as above indicated, by the pay
ment of interest only for three years, at which
time the purchaser can begin the payment Of
principal by paying the first OF I've equal an
nual installments. Thus no part Of the prin.
cipal is TO be paid for three years, and then
the purchaser is 70 have five years in which TO
pay hYe equal annual fnstailments, with In
terest at the rate Of Z per cent. per annum,
making payments extending over period OF
eight years. Intending purchasers are az
sured that this is an opportunity to purchase
land of fair average quality at $40 per acre,
and good agricultural land at $50 an acre,
with other grades Of land at prices to CORE
spOnd between these figures.
The assertion is frequently made that good
lands, suitable for general farming, and en-
pecially adapted for fruitgrowing cannot be
had in California for less than from $50 to
600 an acre. An examination Of the land
subject of this advertisement will prove to
home-seekers that this is an opportunity for
the purchase of good agricultural land at $50
an acre, and for qualities grading down to fair
agricultural land at S10 an acre, on terms Of
payment which should make the disposition
of these lands to actual settlers result easy Of
accom- plishment.
The primary object of the purchase Of this
body Of land was the breaking up OF large
holding for the purpose Of promoting its set
tleInent in smaller quantities and its devotion
to diligent husbandry
For further particulars, call upon or ad-
dress WIN. II. MILLS,
Land Agent of the C. P. R. R.. Fourth and
Townsend streets. San Francisco. Cal.
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FOUR FIRES
Two Residences Burned, One Scorched
and a Shed Consumed.

Two Residences Burned, One Scorched
and a Shed Consumed.
The Fourth Of July did not pass of
without the usual number of fires. The
first blaze occurred about o'clock in the
morning and resulted in the destruction
of a small barn in the vicinity Of Nine
teenth and 1 streets.
THE SECOND ALARM.
There were no more fire alarms until
about half-past o'clock in the even
ing, when flames were seen 10
shoot from a house owned by L.
q. Chandler on the corner Of
Seventh and II streets, 1t appears that a
boy put lighted cigarette in his coat
pocket and then left the coat in the house.
IL took fire and then the house was ig-
lnted. The department was soon on
hand. Very little damage resulted.
FIRE AT OAK PARK.
a two-stOry house, said to have been
the residence of Charles J. Thielbahr,
situated on the Louisiana tract near Oak
Park, burned down shortly after 9 o'clock
last night.
The origin of the fire was not ascer-
tanned, but the building, with its con-
tents, was totally destroyed.
The family was away at the time the
fire occurred and We're left destitute of
,
on.
\ FAMILY DESTITUTE.
The fire department was again called
out about 10 o'clock by fire in house
on the south side OF y street. between
Second and Third. owned by Eli MAYO
and occupied by an Italian named
Antoine Bochlich, ali employe at the rail-
road shops.
Bochlich has a large family, and like
good husband and father he took them
all ont TO see the fireworks, leaving the
house uuoccupied.
When they returned for the night thew
found themselves without a home and
with only the clothes on their backs.
How the ire originated is not known.
but 1t was apparently from the interior.
and although the tiremen saved the shell
of the building, frame structure, every-
thing in 1t was destroyed.
Mayo says he had a few hundred dol
lars insurance on the house, which is
damaged about $500, bat it is supposed
the tenants had no insurance on their
effects.
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MUSICIAN HURT.

a Member of the Foresters' Band
Struck by Plank.
While the Foresters' Band was playinp
at the boat races yesterday a memb of
the band was struck on the head by a
plank which fell or was dropped from
the bridge.
He received a severe cut which was
stitched at the Receiving Hospital by
Jailer McManus.
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GOT LEFT ONCE MORE

san jose Was Not In 1t From the
Beginning.
Two men engaged in an alteration last
night on IA street, near Fourth, one of
them being from the Garden Citv.u
After some words had passed the other
said: ''Nou tried to steal our Capital from
as, but you could not DO it; and now Won
come up here and think you can whip ali
US Sacramento fellows. Now l PROPOSE
10 show you that you can't do that either"
Tho san Josean accepted the gauntlet
thrown down to him, and for a short
time there was lively scrapping, which
ended by the Sacramentan saying: II
told you that you couldn't do it. You're
not in it.p
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UNRULY BOATMBN

They Wanted to Interfere With the
Races and Made Trouble.
A party of men in rowboat, said to
have been bent upon interfering with
some Of the races yesterday, insisted on
rowing into the course ahead Of the boats.
They attempted to cross ahead OF the
launch Naomi, with which they col
lided and were nearly swamped, and
when warned to keep away by officer
talbot they were very insolent.
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DOUSED THE GLIM.

A Fireman's Timely Discovery of a
Lady's Dress on Fire.
Last evening as Richard Heinrich, til
Ierman of the Hook and Ladder Com
pany, was walking along K street, in
front of Breuner' furniture store, he dis
covered lady's dress on fire, caused by
burning tirecrackers on the street.
The gallant fireman promptly set about
extingnishing the fire, and succeeded in
doing so before it had become famed
into blaze that would have endangered
the lady's life.
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nlREAsTRY DEPARTNENr 0EEIl,I. 81,

T1REASURY DEPARTMENT, OFFICE SU-
i pervising Architect, Washington, d. G.
June 16, 1S93.-SEALED PROPOSALS s will
be received at this Office until 2 O'Clock p. NJ.
on the 18TH DAY OF JULY, 1893, and
opened Immediately thereafter, for all the
labor and materials required for the plumbing
and gas-pping, etc, for the u. S. Postoffice,
etc, Building Mt SACRAMENTO, CAL. in
accordance with the drawings and specifica-
tions, copies of which may be had at this Of
flee or the office of the Superintendent at sac
ramento, California. Each bid must be ac-
companied by a certified check for a sum not
less than per cent. of the amount OF the pro-
posal. The right is reserved to reject any and
all bids and to waive any defect or informal
lty IN any bid, If it be deemed in the interest
OF the Government to do so. All bids received
after the time stated will be returned to the
bidders. Proposals must be inclosed in en-
yelopes, sealed and marked PROPOSAL for
Plumbing and Gas-piping, etc. for the u S
Postofice, etc, Building at Sacramento. Cali
fornia," and addressed to JEREMIAH
O'ROURKE, Supervising Architect.
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state Fair PriyIIeoas

The Secretary of the State Agricultural
Society will receive bids for various
privileges during the State Fair until
Friday, July 18th, at 10 A. NJ, as specified
in their advertisement.
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The Worlds Fair-The Chicago Inter
ocean,

This great weekly and the WEEKLY
UNION can be had for 81 a year. or the
DAILY RECORD UNION and the T11fer-
Ocean for S. 30 a year. All about the
great Worlds Fair will be elaboratelv
treated in the Inter Ocean. Can be had
for this price only by subscribers to the
RECORD-UNIoN and WEEKLY UNION,
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y Sound Bank,

The Farmers and Mechanics Savings
Bank of this city publishes its semi
annual statement showing the bank to be
in sound and prosperous condition.
Mention thereof was unintentionallv
omitted yesterday.
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The Wounded Girl.

At IL o'clock last night it was reported
from the Ridge Home that there was no
perceptible change in the condition of
Eta Walker, the girl who was shot
nearly two weeks ago.
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Drunkenness. s.

Those who have taken Simmons Liver
Regulator declare that it sets the liver in
action and invigorates the system in such
a way as to destroy the craving for strong
drinks
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--TFIE--s

Containing all the news of the
RecOrd-Union, has the LARGEST
circulation Of any paper on the
Pacific Slope, its readers beinq
found in every town and ham
let, with a constantly increasing
list in the Eastern States and
Europe. Special attention paid
to the publication Of truthful
statements or the resources of
California and the entire coast,
best methods Of agriculture,
fruit and vine growing.
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MAY LOSE HIS FINGER

Serious Accident to a Little Bov
Yesterday.
The eleven-year-old son of Ed. Cara
gher of the Saddle Rock Restaurant met
with an accident yesterday over in Wash
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Enr Balc.

EIOR SALE - a LONG ESTABLISHED
i dressmaking business; fixtures, including
cutting tables, glass, counter, shelves, chairs
ETC. for sale cheap; good reasons given for re-
lrement from business. Apply at this office
A \ UNUSUAL OPPORTUNITY
"A Sale-An elegant new style family car
riage. almost new (2-seated surrey; cost S4I5:
Melster'S best make, with lamps, pole, shafts
continuous tenders, patent spiral spring to
boxes; owner leaving cily; very desirable
and handsome carriage alta bargain. Address
II. w. T., 1l28 Q street. City. je29-1w
LIOR SALE-FINE TWO-STORY DWELL
l. ing of rooms, with all modern Improve
ments, including electric bells with burglar
alarms; also, speaking tubes; lot 4Ox6O; one
of the best locations in town. Inquire Of A.
II. ROTT 1905 Fourth street.
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NMANTED--A GOOD JAPANESE COOK
" wants situation in private family: mas
nag ia long experience. Address kOIANA.
90 o4ALA street. watts