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CsT STAND TRIAI.
COMPLICATED CASE.
A Three-Cornered Combat Which Re
mains Shrouded in Obscurity.

A Three-Cornered Combat Which Re-
mains Shrouded in Obscurity.
D. Montanya, the proprietor of pea
nut emporium, was found guilty in the
Police Court yesterday of battery upon
J. Raffeto, in having thrown a brick bat
which struck Raffeto in the back.
J. Noonan was tried for completely in
the affair, but was found not guilty and
discharged.
A great deal of complicated evidence
was introduced, in which peanuts.
tamales, the brick bat, red dog and a red
cat figured.
Noonan thought the trouble was about
a red cat which a dog OF the same color
wanted to eat. He thought Montanya
threw the brick to keep the dog from eat
ing the cat, and, being on his way to get
a tamale, he only stopped to look on.
George Davis was counsel for Mon
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HUNTING FOR WATER.
MuIhag Lewis Takes French IAaTe Of
the Chain-Gane.

HAuhhaS Lewis Takes French I6aVe 6f
the Chain-Gang.
Mulhag Lewis, who has been mem-
pers OF the unhappy family that l. NJ.
Smith has been taking out daily from the
jail to work on the ditch which drains the
hospital grounds, heard about noon yes
terday OF the decision of the Supreme
Court IN the Chinese registration cases
and came to the conclusion that if the
Chinese were to go, they were entitled to
no privileges which were denied to a
white man.
he therefore determined to "stand not
upon the order ofhis going, but go at once"
ana pelng sent to get some water for the
gang ne has not been heard of since, and
II IS supposed he is going yet. Possibly
he is still hunting for water, which is
very scarce at this time of the year, but
more probably wants to find it mixed, he
having leaning that way.
AS the time for which he was sentenced
lor battery would have expired on Satur-
day, 1t would seem that he might better
have waited till that time than TO have in
CURED the penalty which he has by his
action. No blame attaches to Smith, as
Lewis was trusty. and no one thought
OF such action on his part. The proba-
blllty is that he will be captured before
many hours roll by.
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OPPORTUNITY
Good Agricultural A Land for $40
to $40 per Acre.

The Pacific Improvement Company has r0A
Gently purchased twelve thousand ceres OF
land In the heart of Tehazna County, for the
purpose Of promoting subdivision and settle
ment. This land embraces lands from first
class sacramento Valley agricultural land, to
land of fair average quality, and is offered at
from $40 to $40 per acre, In subdivisions Of
40, So 12O, 16o and 32o 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, al which
time the purchaser can begin the payment of
principal by paying the first OF five equal an
nual installments. Thus no part of the prin.
clpal is 10 be paid for three years. and then
the purchaser is to have five years in which TO
pay hve equal annual installments, with in
terest at the rate of 7 per cent. per annum.
making payments extending over a period OF
eight years. Intending purchasers are as
sured that this is opportunity to purchase
land of fair average quality at SO per acre
and good agricultural land at $40 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 es-
pecially adapted for ffuitgrowing, cannot oe
had in California for less than from S6G to
500 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 $40
an acre, and for qualities grading down to fair
agricultural land at SO an acre, on terIns Of
payment which should make the disposition
Of these lands to actual settlers result easy OF
accomplishment.
The primary object of the purchase OF this
body OF land was the breaking up OF a large
holding for the purpose OF promoting its set
tlement in smaller quantities and its devotion
to diligent husbandry.
For further particulars, call upon or ad.
dress VIM. II. MILLS,
Land Agent of the c. P. r. r., Fourth ana
Townsend streets. San Francisco. Call
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Open-Air Concerts.

Yesterday the Canvassing Committees
for the open-air concerts We're about the
city soliciting subscriptions. and met with
fair success. George II. Clark, Frank T.
Johnson and Frank NJ. Woodson are
operating south of the alley between J
and X streets, while E. Hartman and
Frank Bergman are working north of
that line. In the eastern portion of town
}. NJ. Morrison and L. J. McGinnis are
the canvassers.
The first concert will be given next
Thursday evening by the Hussar Band.
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BRIEF NOTES

Last evenings train from the East did
not arrive until 4:3O o'clock.
The Engineer of the Water Works re-
ported q, ,S64, 900 gallons of water pumped
last week.
There is telegram at the police station
for Max Edwards, who is unknown to
the officers.
Benjamin O'Neil has filed in the County
Clerks office his appointment as Deputy
Sheriff by Sheriff O'Neil, and has quail
fed for the office.
Yesterday some more human bones
were unearthed in the vicinity of Ninth
and streets. The Coroner removed
them to the City Cemetery.
Yesterday an aged Chinaman named
An Tim was arrested for stealing zinc
from the sidewalk in front of house on
Imrd street, between K and l..
The opening and reception of the tbir-
teenth annual exhibition of the San Fran
cisco Art Association will be held at the
Mark Hopkins Institute of Art on
Thursday, the 18th.
Yesterday Deputy Sheriff J. A. Kid
ward of Santa Clara passed through the
city with J. w. Frost en- route to the
Folsom Prison, where he will serve five
years for manslaughter.
Governor Markham has been officially
nouhed by the Secretary of State of the
formation and organization of the county
of Riverside, which was created by an
Act of the last session of the Legislature.
The Governor had heard of it before,
however.
a baseball nine, composed of compos-
ltors, has been formed as follows to 90 to
Marysvllle and mop the diamond there
with the Appears champions: Brown.
catcher; Sheehan or O'Brien, pitcher;
Fennessy, first base; O'Rourke. second
base; Karcher, third base; Todd, short
stop: Preston, left field; Alvord, center
field; Boyne, right field.
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FRONT-STRBET WARRIORS

A Gang of Hobos Elk Up'' Patrick
Buck Last Night.
A man named Patrick Buck was taken
to the police station last night about IL
O'Clock badly cut under the eve and
bruised about the head. He stated that
crowd of hobos had attacked him at
Front and K streets and fixed him up"
without provocation.
His wounds were dressed by Jailer
Naghel, and after finding "where he was
att he seemed TO be not dangerously
injured,
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A Lady Run Down.

On Sunday evening a man mounted on
a wheel, and who imagined he owned the
sidewalk on L street, between Tenth and
Eleventh. collided with and badly in
jured lady who enormously supposed
the sidewalks were intended for pedes-
trians.
When will the City Trustees relegate
all riders of wheels to the streets, where
they belong?
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tanya, and at the conclusion of the evil
dGence he, City Attorney Post and an un-
known but luminous LEGAL lirht haran-
gued the court.
1he discussion covered a wide field of
research, natural history and philosophy,
all OF Which the crowd in the COURTROOM,
greatly enjoyed.
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CITY JAIL.

Arrangement of the Rogues' Gallery
The Hospital Renovated.
Jailor McManus has had a new addi-
ton made to the Rogues' Gallery at the
City Jail, consisting of cabinet arranged
with alphabetical compartments for the
preservation of photographs of criminals.
lie has, approximately, 5000 photographs
IN his collection, and it is no easy matter
to keep them ready for reference at any
time.
The Receiving Hospital at the jail has
been renovated and somewhat improved
with Wainstotng, new frescoeing and
fresh paint.
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All MOWS WARNING.

a Saloon-Keeper Who Knew There
Was Danger Ahead.
Chief of Police Rodgers was informed
by Chinaman yesterday that the keeper
of saloon near the place where All
Now was shot on the preceding might
warned him not to go in the direction in
which he was heading, or he would be
hurt
The saloon-keeper will be given a
chance to tell what he knows about the
affair
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The Registration Decision.

The news of the decision of the ST.
preme Court affirming the constitution
ality of the Geary Chinese Registration
Act did not cause any apparent excite
ment here yesterday. The general i'm
preston is that nothing will be done
toward enforcing the law until Congress
takes some further action in the matter.
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Mtsreiiutteul1a.
4 riiend

Wishes to speak through the Register Of
the beneficial results he has received
from regular use of Ayers Pills.
He says: II was feeling sick and tired
and my stomach seemed all out of order.
tried a number of remedies, but none
seemed to give me relief until 1 was in
duced to try the old reliable Ayers
Pills. I have taken only one box, but I
feel like a new man. I think they are
the most pleasant and easy to take of
anything ever used, being so finely
sugar-coated that even a child will take
them. l urge upon all who are
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COURT NOTES.

Lagier's Sentence Continued-LfncoIn
Scores a Point Against This City.
Henri Lagier appeared for sentence in
Judge Johnson's court yesterday, but his
counsel, w. H. Humphrey, asked a con-
tinuance until the 10Th, so that at that
time he could make a showing for a
motion for new trial. The court
granted the continuance asked for.
LIE MAISTRE WINS HIS SUIT.
Judge Johnson has filed a decree in tho
case OF George LIE Maistre VS.. Charles b.
Abbott, a suit to quiet title to lot 3, in the
block between NJ and \, Twenty-seventh
and Twenty-eighth streets, adiudging
the plaintiff to be the owner of the prop
erty and declaring that the defendant has
no right to il.
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In Need

of laxative to try Ayers Pills." -
Boothbay (Me.), Register.
Between the ages of five and fifteen,
I was troubled with kind of salt
rheum, or eruption, chiefly confined to
the legs, and especially to the bend of
the knee above the calf Here, running
sores formed which would scab over,
but would break Immediately on NOV
ing the leg. My mother tried every
thing she could think of, but all twas
without avail. Although a child, I read
in the papers about the beneficial effects
OF Ayers Pills, and persuaded my moth
er to let me try them. With no great
faith in the result, she procured
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BRowN's Bronchial Troches are ex-
cellent for the relief of hoarseness and
sore throat. They are exceedingly effect
i've. Sold only in boxes. Price Is cents.
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SACRAMENTO BANK.

TNHE OLDEST SAVINGS BANK IN TIE
i city, corner Fifth and j streets. Sacra
mento. Guaranteed capital, $500, 900; paid
up capital, gold coin, 100000. Reserve
$3,526tS93. Loans on real estate january l.
1898, So, 56O,657. Term and ordinary de-
posits received. Dividends paid in January
ana July. Money loaned upon real estate
only. Information furnished upon applica-
tton to w. P. COLEMAN, President
ED. Il. HAMILTON Cashier
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Sixteen Carloads.

The shipment of yearling colts from the
Rancho Del Paso, on Sunday, numbered
12S, filling sixteen cars. The youngsters
are all to be sold at auction in New York.
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HANLoN WINS HIS SUIT.

Judge Catlin has rendered his decision
in the case of John Hanlon VS.. Philip
Waggoner in favor of the plaintiff. The
suit was over the division line between
the two farms, which had been surveyed
four times with different results each
time, on account of the variation OF the
compass, and made a difference of about
six acres,
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Every Dose Effective
HU M PHR REYSs

This PRECIOUS OINTMENT is the
triumph Of Scientific Medicine.
Nothing has ever been produced to
equal or compare with it as CURATIVE
and HEALING APPLICATION. 1t has been
used4O years and always affords relief
and always gives satisfaction.
Cures Piles or HEMORRHoIDs-Ex External
or Internal, Blind or Bleeding Itching and
Burning; Cracks or Fissures; Fistula in Ano;
Worms Of the Rectum. The relief is imme-
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DRAINAGE CANAL SUITS.

In Judge Catlin's court yesterday. in
the case OF L. NJ. Lincoln VS.. City OF Sac
ramento, the defendants motion to strike
out was denied, and the demurrer over
ruled.
BERTAGNA MUST STAND TRIAL,
In Judge Catlin's court yesterday. in
the case OF the people VS.. {. A. Bertagna.
the defendants demurrer TO the informa-
ton was OYerruled.
THE GARDNER CASE.
The remittitur of the Supreme Court in
the case of the People VS. Daniel Gard
ner, appellant, was received by Judge
johnson yesterday.
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Ell the latest sheet music at Cooper,s. :
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8. MoOsER
WATERHoUsE & LESTER.

STOCK BROKER. OFFICE AT A. MA.
- than's cigar store, 2o5 X street.
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nEALERS IN IRON, STEEL, CUNfBER.
~ land Coal, Wagon Lumber and Carriage
hardware. zoe, 711, 7l3, 715 j street,
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Bltaittras UnroH.

TRY sPELTER1NE EOOF sTUFFING.
KEEPS HORSES FEET IN NATURAL
IN condition. A perfect remedy for corns,
dry and contracted hoofs. GRAFMILLER
BROS. 1O1 16 Ninth street. TeleDhone No. 366.
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THIS DRESS SHIELD

COMFORT, NEATNEss. DURABILITY,
CLEANLINESS AND BEAUTY.
For sale at all leading retail stores.
SCHWEITZER & CO., San Francisco, Cal.
Sole Agents for the PACIFIC Coast. TIE
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Nttnr1tepH-ut-8atxs.

T AWYERS.-OFFICES, e2o FIFTH 81
IL Sacramento. Telephone No. IA.
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II. T. ROOT. ALEX NEIIsoN 7 DRIsCoI.
ROOT, NELSON & CO..
HN1ON FOUNDRY-IRON AND RRASS
~ Founders and Machinsts, Front street
between and 0. Castings and Machinery
OF every description made TO order.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-03-09

snowdrift on "Buckhorn" Hill. a few
miles south of Milwaukee, and stuck
there twenty-four hours before 1t was
shoveled out. The engine was buried
completely except a small hole over the
smoke stack melted out by smoke and
gases.
On another occasion the same winter
six engines coupled together made a
run for drift. The snow was packed!
so hard that the engine carrying the
pillow left the rails and climbed up on
the snow. When they came to a stop
and got down to investigate, the other
engine men found the front engine stick
ing up in the air at an angle OF twenty
five degrees, and the engineer and fire.
man lying under the engine between
the firebox and the tank. They were
not seriously hurt.
In the good old days that veteran
railroaders tell OF -bucking was
done by means OF push pillow" which
was fashioned something like the plows
throwing the snow all to one side, as
big farmers pillow would do it, threw it
equally on each side. In other words,
the push-plow consists Of two concave
surfaces joined at All acute angle slop-
ing up at an angle of forty-flve degrees
from horizontal plate OF steel at right
angles to and two inches above the rail.
The pillow Is constructed Of heavy iron
and massive timbers. 1t is the width of
car and the top is on level with the
bottom of the headlight. 1t is bolted
on the front OF the engine where the
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-03-09
Lalrning Their Lesson.


Engine horses which are expected
to rush from their stalls at an alarm
of fire differ as much in their capabil-
ity for learning that duty as school
boys at their tasks. Half a minute
is the maximum time for companies
in first-class department to make
ready and leave the house. And the
ordinary time is fifteen or twenty
seconds. At night alarm the men
slide down on poles from the loft, the
horses scramble to their feet, the
doors in front Of them fly open, and
out they rush. Each horse goes to
his proper place, and the driver, from
his seat, let down the harness. Two
or three men, standing at the pole,
snap the collars together, fasten the
reins to the bits, and off they go.
The author OF "Road, Track, and
Stable" says that teaching a new
horse to come out of his stall at the
signal, and range himself alongside
the pole, is not SO difficult 3s might
be supposed.
Imagine pair Of new horses as
signed to an engine. The surround
ings are more or less terrible to them,
but they are very gently and carefully
handled, and gradually lose their
fear. Their tuition begins at once,
and the driver is their teacher, as
sisted by the other men.
The ordinary signal is given as II
for fire. The stall doors open, and
the horses are led out, put in position,
and in few minutes led back. This
pro ,ess is perhaps dozen times re-
peated. Great pains are taken that
the animals shall not strike against
anything, or be by any means fright
cned.
The unusual spectacle Of harness
ffpPs sne in air Is ant 70 fad ai",,
up to it, and induced to smell OF il
and inspect it on all sides.
After they have been led to their
positions few times, they are al
lowed to come of their own accord
when the signal strikes, though a
man stands behind them to touch
them up little, if they do not start
promptly at the opening Of the doors.
Two weeks constitute the average
period of instruction, but horses have
been known to learn in one lesson.
Others, however, are months in ar.
irving at equal proficiency.
A pair OF new horses in Boston
engine-house were led out three
times in this manner. They were
then left to themselves. The gong
sounded, the stall doors opened and
the pair trotted ont, each going tC
his place beside the pole. They had
caught the idea at once.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-03-09

ne KILLED Ducklings and Used Dead Rats
to Divert suspicion.

TO Divert suspicion.
James Gr0gan, Wortendyck, N.
j., peddler, who is familiarly known
as @Ginger" Grogan on account OF the
color OF his hair and the heat OF his
temper, owns large yellow cat that,
according to its owners story, should
either be deprived OF all its nine lives
as fitting retrlbution for It's stupen-
dous treacher or elevated To the
Hottest pinnacle of honor and emolu-
ment as the reward of hitherto un-
heard of feline sagacity.
"Ginger" says that some time ago
his house was infested with rats that
not only attacked everything gnaw-
able but established such familiar re-
latlons with the yellow cat that they
often ran over her back with i'm
punity. The peddler tried trough on
rats" which killed half a hundred of
the pests, and drove the rest from the
house to the barn. This was doubt
full victory, for the banished rats be-
gan to prey upon brood of half
grown ducks that Grogan Is raising.
They would not touch any more Of
the trough on rats" probably because
they liked the flavor of the ducks
better Recently the Cat took up her
quarters in the barn, and remained
there day and night. One morning
last week Grogan, going to the barn,
found the dead body Of an immense
rat, torn and bloody, with the cat
growing over 1t. She had killed 1t
but had not breakfasted from it.
Close to where the rodent had been
slaughtered lay the bones and
feathers of duckling. Everything
eatable about it had been consumed,
and the cat apparently had pounced
upon the rat just as he had finished
his meal. This was very praise
worthy thing for the yellow cat to do,
but when she did it on eight success
siye mornings her owners gratiflca-
tion was qualified by the loss Of just
that number of young ducks. He
thought she ought to kill the rats
more expeditiously, and he hid him
self in the barn to ascertain why she
was so slow in killing them. He
says that he saw his cat kill duck
ling, devour 1t, and then drag the
bones to a position near a rat hole
and wait patiently until the smell
tempted a rat to come within reach
of her claws. Then she slaughtered
it, and sat by its body growing until
her master saw her, hoping thus to
direct suspicion, that might other
wise be leveled against herself, in the
direction of the dead rat.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-03-09

lowing titles: aThe Solitary House
that was Always Shut Up" "The
East Wind" "The Ruined Mill that
Got Into Chancery and Never Got
Out, "The Solitary House Where the
Grasses Crew. No doubt Dickens
invented some OF the names OF his
characters, but many OF the most
remarkable were borrowed from signs
that met his view In his journeys. /
imagined that Chadband was made
name-it fits the character TO whom
the author applied it SO exactly; but
1t was the name Of either baker or
a grocer on the outskirts of the town
of Warwick. JUL was the name of
confectioner; Pickwick that OF q
job-master at Bath. In later life the
novelist collected and stored up
names for future use, making use of
such sources as directories and the
small towns in railway guides.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-03-09
An Absent-Minded Man.

Johns Hopkins University still gos-
sips of Prof. Sylvester, the marvellous
mathematician who came over from
England to teach the science in which
all his interests conferred His mind
was ever occupied with mathematical
problems, and all sorts of things hap
pened to him on the streets of Balti-
more. The mosG amusing episode Of
his life on this side, however, grew
out of voyage to Europe. While
abroad he made some highly impor-
tant calculations, but on reaching
Baltimore he found that the paper on
which he figured was missing. So
important were the calculations that
he took a steamer back to England In
order to look up the papers. He did
not find them, and started back to
the United States deeply disappoint-
ed; but during the voyage he acct
dentally discovered, in pocket of the
overcoat he had worn on the previous
voyage, the very thing he was iD
search of.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-03-09

ing down by-path leading to the
high road, suddenly saw the CLEAN of
the barrel of a rifle. One OF them
hastily put up his carbine and was
about to fire when his comrades ex-
clamation caused him to take sec
ond glance at the object. What they
saw was enough to make toughened
savage shudder. 1t was the sentry
Of death! A CHASTITY grinning skele-
ton, impaled on a sharpened pole,
with its feet skewered, and with its
gun fastened in hideous mockery to
give the effect of a challenging out
post, greeted the sight of the horri-
fed soldiers. From the make of the
rife it was easily surmised that this
victim was one Of the French prisI
oners that had fallen into King Be-
hanzin's clutches.
A photograph taken in Dahomey
and sent to the London Graphic illus
trates a method of torture and exc
cution OF war prisoners that equals
the Spanish Inquisition in cruelty.