The morning call., 1894-01-24
many OF the cheap restaurants where the news.
boys aud bootblacks ate cigarettes were gwen
away to the customers'

many OF the cheap restaurants where the news.
boys aud bootbacks ate cigarettes were gwen
away TO the customers"
1.-THE proposition of the Duval Cluo people
or Jacksonville 10 tear up the rails In order TO
prevent pursuit and interference with the pro-
posed Corbett-Mitcbel fight might not De Ell
fectiVe IN this country, but IL would De oecioeuN
so In Florida" said III. A. Williams OF Tampa,
that State, last night at the Occidental. Inc
lew roads running out of JacksonVliie All
strike heavily wooded swamp lanos Out lew
miles out or that city, and it would pc practi-
caily Impossible for a party In pursuit vi ino
hghters to leave the railway and ma wagon
ROAD reaching dozens OF places Wnich couio NC
picked out within short ride OF the CITY,"
When the old Twenty-mile House on the San
Jose stage line was running years ago many
citizens OF San Francisco will recollect little
old man who was sort Of a general utility
man about the place and whose name was
Albert Wertz. MIR. WertZ is still hVing. ana
although SO years of age is as spriehtiy. he
says, as in the merry mining days of long ago.
He says his family is remarkable Tor the
longevity of its members. He has sister Nv
Ing near Newman, Illinois, who Is III years OF
age, and who, he says, has exploded the theory
that tobacco is injurious by both chewing ana
smoking the weed for eighty years past
s. c. Richards. a guest at the Russ, Is the
latest hotel victim of the fOotpad element. he
called on friend who lives on Tehama street,
near Fourth, last night, and as ne emerged
from the doorway of his friends house two men
attacked him. one of them holding his hands
behind him while the other rlfied his pockets OF
a few dollars. The robbery occurred little
after O'clock, and Mr.. Richards says that the
deed was done SO quickly the fellows got away
before he had recovered sufficiently from the
attack to give the alarm.
A. P. Cross of Baltimore was at the New
Western yesterday Mr.. Cross is an inventor
of some repute, and his latest continuance will
especially appeal to every hotel-keeper. II is
called the "Hayseed Gas Burner" and is so
constructed that If blown out II Immediately re-
lights itself. Mr.. Cross says that the FIRE.
quency with which even persons OF intelligence
persist In extinguishing the gas 10 that manner
before retiring suggested the practicabillty Of
the Invention TO his mind.
George 3. Hewes of Ophir. Colonel Keown
and e. c. Coker of Auburn, all Of them Super
visors OF Placer County. are at the Russ. The
county named proposes TO erect a new court
house and hall Of records during the present
year, and these gentlemen spent yesterday in
San Jose inspecting similar structures in that
city, and to-day will go to Santa Rosa for the
SdHc PuipOsc' lucy may WISH StOChlOu DS1Oic
they return home.
h"The ticket brokerage business in the East
Is going TO the dogs" said j. A. Hess, Boston
scalper, who is in this city, last night. "The
roads back there are going 10 adopt the plan Of
buying back at their full face value all unused
tickets of the first class, and all limited tickets
at such small reduction as to practically shut
out competition. II the rule goes through we
might as well shut up shop"
Ii. L. Rapelje Of Fresno. who is accredited
with the reputation OF having disrupted the
partnership between Evans and Sontag, and
who formerly exercised a supervision over a
portion OF the Southern Pacific system, is at the
Grand. He says that many people in Fresno
discredit the story that Evans has escaped into
Mexico, but believe he is still in hiding in the
mountains.
X. Moro OF Osaka, Japan. member OF the Inn
perial exposition committee TO the Worlds
Fair, is at the Occidental. The display of goods
from the province of Osaka at Chicago repre-
rented an outlay Of over 100000 and Mr..
Moro says all that has not been sold will be
brought here for exhibition at the MidwInter
Fair