The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-14
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

rive5u will come up to-day in the Probate
Court.
" .cipfico and the others accused of forging
: ClIiGeSe certificates pleaded not guilty TO the
charges,
;. -Fhe programme of the woman's Congress
meeting to take place next week has been
made public.
!: Sixteen young men are going to Alaska on
the schooner Golden Gate in quest OF the
golden fleece.
The Folsom Improvement Club decided to
meet again next Monday night for the purpose
. OF permanent organization.
Colenet Graham explained yesterday why
General Kruger was ordered to duty in the War
Department at Washington.
-. The winning horses at the Bay District track
yesterday were Robin Hood. Perhaps, Gree,
slr-klcheZd and Tar and Feather.
The Southern Pacific Company's system
earned in 1895 over all expenditures, 81 ,474,-
4ss DO, ashrinkage OF 5.6I per cent
. James W. Waldie of 3O07 Fillmore street
Committed suicide early yesterday morning.
He was out Of employment and respondent.
Plaintiff LOOMS, in his suit against Calvin
Eomers, yesterday charged the latter with con-
spring with his sister to murder their mother.
:: S. H. Perkins was appointed local ticket
agent CT the Santa Fe system yesterday, in
Faso. 49,
:. Mrs Kate Schultz of Twenty-eighth street
and California avenue was found dead in bed
yesterday morning. Liver complaint was the
cause.
-. Professors Soule and Marx are going to tun-
mel ONE OF the piers OF the ferry foundation to
:. ITS center TO ascertain the quality OF concrete
therein.
: Miss Kate P. Oliver OF 234O Pine street died
:: yesterday from a fractured skull caused by
falling from a second-story window on Sunday
AFTERNOON.
..JF. Turner, the real estate dealer, was yes
terday held by Judge Low TO answer before the
Superior Court on the charge OF forgery in
$4,000 bonds
The weather forecast for San Francisco to-
day is fair with nearly stationary temperature
and fresh westerly winds, becoming brisk IN
the afternoon.
small fire in Head & Hinton's stationery
store at 142 Eddy street, at 1905 o'clock this
morning, did Slight damage. The alarm was
sent in from box SO.
The Harbor Commissioners, Governor, Mayor
and board of directors of the Valley road viii
meet next Monday morning TO confer on the
lease OF China Basin.
The Southern Pacific Company has been cut
out of an immense freight business in and
about Phoenix. Ariz by the Santa Fe's new
e branch line TO Arizona.
=. The case against Fred Warner for attempting
tQ@dqi mister poison to the Ledette FLY al the
::-racetrack was dismissed By Judge Low yester-
dayton technical grounds.
The Supervisors yesterday passed resolu-
tfon"fxihg the water rates according to the
sCheGQle- presented by the Water Committee
and FEeYiousl9 published.
Robert Vincent. alias James Wilson, was ar
rested yesterday for breaking into the house of
VIII. DaYis, 921 Capp street, and stealing a
quantity OF carpenters tools.
=: Judge Coffey yesterday fixed the collateral
inheritance tax on the Montgomery estate at
$637l Co.. County Clerk Curry at once ser we'd
noricss on the parties interested.
-; The defense for Mrs. Louise A. Worthington,
on trial for the murder OF Harry Baddeley,
opened yesterday. The deposition of Annie
kellt Will not be used according TO the present
Tuiing,
-. Katie L. Keller sued the Market-street Rail-
road Company in the Justice Court yesterday
" for 1929 damages for refusing her a transfer
from the Cliff House line 10 Powell and Market
streets.
The tale abott Rudolph schnsubelt, the Chi
cage socialist, and his recent alleged sojourn |
. in Vallejo, has been brought down to matter
of fact, and the fact is that he has not been in
California at al
Officers Of the Hotel del Mar Association were
elected by ladies of Oakland and San Francisco
at the Young Mems Institute Hall last night.
some OF the bonds were taken up by members
Of the;assoclation.
. The police want to locate Mary Gordon, who
left WobHrn, Mass, thirty years ago and came
TO tbls.city, where she married a boOkbinder
naaHed Bowen, and on his death seventeen
years ago married again.
=Eottery Agent julius L. Franklin is unable to
get has letters from the Postoffiee on account
Of an order from the department prohibiting
the delivery Of all letters to persons known to
re- be lottery dealers or agents.
Susan B. Anthony and Rev. Anna Howard
Shaw, who will be the leading attractions at
She second annual meeting OF the Woman's
Congress of this State, win lecture throughout
California after the meeting ad1ourns.
George ". Rumble, the put-and-can oper-
ator who was arrested for obtaining $500 from
Miss Maggie Kane by fraud, trick and device,
paid the money back to her, and the case
against him was dismissed by Judge Low yes
terday.
Hendrick Hendrickson, alias " Hoodlum
Harry was yesterday held TO answer before
the Superior Court by Judge Campbell in
$4,000 bonds tor assault to murder upon
First officer Nicholson OF the ship Title Z.
Starbuck.
The personal property of Mrs. Sarah Althea
HillSheron-Terry, consisting of jewels, silver
ware and clothing, was formally turned over
to Thomas H. Williams by Porter Ashe yester-
day. The ex-guardian and the new guardian
did not meet.
% Attorney Ricketts,, who was sent to Washing
ton by the California Miners Association TO
lay the facts concerning the patenting by the
railroad Of mineral lands, has returned from |
the National capital and reports complete sue |
cess in his mission.
The Methodist preachers were addressed yes
terdey by W. 6. Hubbard president of the Peace |
Association. Dr. Chapman addressed the |
Presbyterian Association on "Evangelists'' and |
a. A. Chipron told the Congregationalists |
about the Young Mems Christian Association.
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ton directing the Electric Light and Gas COM
panies to discontinue furnishing the City
streets with light from May ID TO June 80. The |
saving of 500, 900 by this means is found to be
Necessary to buy supplies for the City institu-
lions
Phones Mish, pioneer merchant, who for
twenty years prior to 1870 when he retired, |
was in the millinery business died at his |
home, :4G7 Devisadero street, last Sunday morn |
ing, after brief illness. For many years he |
WAS president of the congregation Sheriff. |
Israel. He was native of Posen, 20 years of /
age, :: He leaves widow and several children.
Joseph Harris, a jockey at the raeetrack, was |
backed at the City Prison last night on the |
charge OF Inisdemeanor embezzlement. He got |
S40'folay ona horse at to 1. The odds-rose |
TO 315to 1 and Harris gave the lady q bogus |
pool ticket at 3 to l. retaining the real ticket |
with the intention of poeketing the difference |
If the horse won. The horse did not get place, |
but Harris action became known and he was |
arrested.
Katie L. Keller brought suit in the Justices |
Court yesterday against the Market-street Rail- |
way Company TO recover damages, which she |
estimatesat 1899, for the refusal of the company
TO give her transfer ticket. She was one day |
in March coming from the Cliff House to Powell |
and Market streets. She asked for a tronsfer at |
Central avenue and California street and il |