The morning call., 1893-04-12
OVER IN OAKLAND.
The War of the Druggists
to End.
A BAD CONTRACT MARRIAGE.
Ratification Meeting in Alameda.
The Spring Field Day at the
University Grounds.

The long. cruel war among the druggists
Is about TO end.
1t has been raging for three months or
more. and during that time each dealer has
been trying to undersell the other. par:icu-
larry in patent medicines. When the latter
commodity sold for 81 a bottle or six bottles
for SIS, the poor druggist by force of COM
petition was compelled to bring the price
down TO Go cents per bottle. making no more
than % per cent profit and diminishing his
Golfers corresnondingly, whereas before he
made clear profit Of 60 per cent on every
bottle sold.
Hypochondriacs have profited by the war.
They have laid in such a stock of med cine
and have become so exacting that the drug
gists' business has begun to suffer. So
truce has been declared, and tomorrow
night there will be a meeting of Oakland
druggists at 1855 Broadway to make ar
rangements for restoring the old rates.
The war started in San Francisco and ex-
tended to Oakland. but the druggists of the
latter place have been the first to make
overtures for compromise. 1t threatened
at first TO disrupt the Oakland Retail Drug
Rists' Association. but The members man
aged TO hold manfully together by adopting
prices to correspond with the eut-rate fig
nres of the San Francisco dealers. It had
IN be done for protection, as Oakland peo-
cross the bay TO get their patent uostrums.
II am heartily tired of the war" said one
of Oakiand's most prominent druggists
last night land so are the other members CT
our association. If it keeps up l shall have
to 60 to selling coal or something, for tn ere
is no money in the drug business. as things
now are. Besides | need a new suit of
spring clothes. However 1t will he settled
next Thursday night. for the San Francisco
dealers have also seen the error of their
ways, and they will send delegates to meet
with us. If there are TO be any more cut
rates this year the railroads will have to
make them. The druggists have been fool
lug with themselves long enough, and every
dealer will tell you the same"
Congressman HilboTn drives down every
day 10 4l2 Tenth street, and gaZes help
leSsly at the thousands of volumes of con-
gressional, agricultural and other reports
recently sent him from Washington. They
filled three eXpress-cars, and called out the
entire mail department OF Oakland 10 ham
die them. Mr.. Hiborn had to dispose of
them IN some way, and so he had them
stored in d vacant store on Tenth street, for
which he pays 500 per month rent.
II don't know what to do with those
things" said Congressman HilbOIn yesler-
day Il have hired two men to segregate
them and pile them up, and they have not
finished their work yet. You see 1t is this
way: As [ was about to leave for Oakland
somebody came to me and said, Mr.. Hill
born. there is little mail matter at the
Government Printing Office for you, which
you might have sent out 10 your constitu-
ents now. If you like
oh, that's all right am assured in an
otfhand way, You just send them on to Oak
land-yon know where Oakland is, see
and I'll attend 10 the matters there
well. those mailbsgs began TO pile up on
me two weeks ago and they haven stopped
coming yes.
They are costing me more than I earned
in Congress, and at the next term l will
introduce bill to reduce the expenses of
the Government Printing Office"
Mr.. Hilborn Will open his case in the TAX
ing OF testimony in answer to the contest Of
w. b. English for his seat next Saturday.
The wife OF General E. d. Keyes arrived
yesterday from Paris. She was called here
by a cablegram announcing the serious i'll
ness of tho general who was expected to
die. He Is improving now, however, but is
still in Woolsey's Hospital, under the care
of his daUght ers and his wife.
George w. Browning, a switchman in the
railroad yard, slipped while coupling cars
yesterday and was run over. His right hip
was broken and the lower part of his bdo-
men was crushed. it is not expected that
he will recover. He was taken to the rail-
road hospital.
Colonel T. P. Robinson, the Oakland base
ball maguate. is TO become The husband of
Miss Mary Cahill of New York. The we'd
ding has been set for next fall, after the
colonel shall have won the baseball Dennant
Of the California League circuit Miss Cahll
is we'll known in Oakland, where she was
educated. She viii arrive here in May To
reside with relatives The colonel Will give
the young lady free pass to all baseball
games.
Joseph w. Warner, a nice young man
with soft hands. residing in East Oakland,
who always follows the fashion, fell in with
the contract marriage craze which ragged
about two years ago. He went down to San
Jose and signed contract TO become the
husband Of Joie A. Warner, a belle of the
town, who was ready for a lark of any
KIND so long as young man was concerned
IN It. joseph has raised n mustaehe since
then, and he Is very sorry for the fun he
had. he wants to get rid Of his contract
wife and has sued her for a divorce. He
thought he loved her very dearly then and
might have been deluded vet except for the
TACT that she went 10 Europe soon after
ward and took uD with a count OF some
kind, under whose smile Joseph says she is
still basking. He asks for a separation
on the ground of desertion. The young
woman will not fight 1t and will change
husbands by taking the Count as soon as
the court tells Mr.. Warner that he is free.
ii. N. Miller was seated as a member OF
the Board Of Police and Fire Commission
ers yesterday afternoon. j. I. Carothers
was reelected president. Charges were
preferred against a. Bailey for misconduct
at the Scannell funeral in San Francisco
and time set for hearing them.
The body Of Toy DoO Him, Chinese Ia
DulCls was taken W Iue lnoIRut lhsI hight
he died of spasms on the train between Niles
and Deeote.
Robert Wright of Seventh and Center
streets was knocked down by the locOmO-
tive OF the local train at the Center-street
station last night and was taken TO the
Receiving Hospital unconscious. His inju-
riPs proved not TO be serious.
Franklin Moss, the capitalist and owner
of the Moss Tract, was married last week
To Molle Briggs, a stenographer, living at
525 East Fourteenth street.
The estate of Julius Fischer was settled
yesterday, by which the divorced widow
and two children get all the property, save
$1,000, which was decided by the deceased to
Miss Pauline Gunst, to whom be was en-
gagged at the time he died suddenly OF
hem0rrhage at the Laclede House.
w. Il. johnson aud his whole family.
consisting of a wife and five children, were
taken 10 the police station Yesterday morn
ing. They had spent the nigh. in the streets.
They arrived from North Carolina penni-
less the night before, ana were on their
way to Ukiab, where they have relatives
johnson stated that his wife became i'll on
the journey, and that he broke his arm at
about the same time. which delayed them
and used up all their means Secretary
Sewall of the Associated Charities raised
money and sent them TO Ukiah.
ALAMEDA.