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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-09-09
He Feeds His Horse by Alarm Clock.

George W. Belt, OF Auburn, Ne,
has invented al ingenious device Tor
feeding his horse, and he does it with
one of the ordinary alarm clocks. The
horse gets its feed grain when tho
alarm goes of. For instance, if Mr..
Belt wants the horse to have its morn
ing feed of grain at 5 o'clock and he
himself does not care to turn out till
@ O'Clock, he sets the alarm at 5
o'clock, and when tho morning come,
the horse gets its breakfast an hour
before its owners eyes are open. 1t
is so arranged that the alarm pulls the
slide, letting the grain run through
sluice to the manger. Portland Ex-
press.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-09-09
A RUNAWAY MATCH.

n n X. SHELDON was the pInci-
NI pal merchant in the important
A 4 manufacturing town of Tor
mont He piqued himself on his wealth,
but he piqucd himself more on the fact
that he had made it all himself, and he
piGued himself still more because he
had made it by never allowing any
body to get ahead of him.
"Thats the secret of success in life.
Harry he said one day to his favorite
clerk. "Sharp, is the motto. if you
wish to rise. l don't mean you should
cheat that. of course, is both wrong
and ungentlemanly." (NIr. Sheldon
piqucd himself, also, on being what he
called "a gentleman" and above all
little meannesses). But always be
wide awake, and never let anybody
cheat you. I've noticed by the by, that
you've seemed rather down-hearted
lately. If its because you've your for
tune yet to make don't despair; but
follow my advice. An opening viii
come ut some time for something better
than clerkship, and though shall be
SOllN " ioSe y out Yet L II give you up, IL
its for your interest"
Thank you" said Harry, apparently
not Il bit chccred UP by this cool way of
being told that he had nothing to ex-
pect from Mr.. sheldon; but it's not ex-
actly that. | suppose | shall get along
somehow"
what is it, my dear boy, then2 !
really take an interest in you, as you
know" and he did, so far as words were
concerned. Perhaps I can give you
some advice"
"Well, said Harry, with some hcsita-
ton, I'm in love, and"
"In love- exclaimed the rich mer-
chant "In love and with only a clerks
salary to marry ON. 1t will never do
never do Harry. Marriage for one like
you is fastening heavy milestone
round your neck, unless, indeed" and
he stopped, rs if bright thought had
struck him-"unlcss, indeed, the girl is
rich"
"She is rich, or will be, | suppose"
answered Harry, "for her father is
wealthy man. But that's just the diff
Guilty Her father would never let her
marry poor man, and she won't mar
ry without his consent"
"What miserable tyrantw said Mr..
Sheldon. cad. If was her lover, Har-
ry, I'd run off with her. I'd checkmate
the old curmudgeon in that way" and
he chucklcd at the imaginary triumph
lie --'ould achieve. "'Pon my soul, |
would. | never, rs | told you, let any
body take rise out of me-"
but would that be honorable?"
honorable? Isn't everything fair
In love and war? l thought you had
some pluck, Harry. How | would like
to see the stingy old hulks rave and
stump about on his gouty toes-for lie
must be gouty-Whcn he heard of your
elopcmcnt."
And he laughed till his portly sides
shook at the picture he had conjured
up.
He'd probably never forgive me-"
said Harry, dcicctedly. "And what
could do, with wife brought up to
every luxury, and only a poor clerks
salary to support her onF"
"Ncver forgive you? Trash and non.
sense! They always do forgive. They
can't help it, BESIDES" with n conf
Dental wink 81 think I know your
man. It's that skinnint, Meadows. I've
beard Of your being sweet on his daugh-
ter. She's Il pretty mink, though she
is his child. Oh, you needn't deny IT,
saw bow you hun@ about her at our
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-09-09

When it is remembered that on the
lines of n single railroad system in
Georgia there are 2,0S8, 900 peach
trees that grow fruit for shipment,
something may be known of the pres
ent magnitude of an industry that
scarcely existed twenty years ago.
The peach belt now extends over the
greater part of the State, and somo
single orchards number 100, 900 trees.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-09-09

Herbert Spencer takes n gloomy
view of the future. He believes the
world is approaching an era of State
socialism, (which" he says, "will be
the greatest disaster the world has
ever known"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-09-09
The South American Tc1

One of the principal pro iucts of
Paraguay IS the yerba mate, which is
largely used as tea in South America.
1t was discovered recently that adul-
teration was practised in the com
merce and preparation of that plant,
and the Minister of the Interior, at
Asuncion, has recently taken severe
measures to detect and punish tho so
who practice adulteration. New York
Tribune.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-09-09

The San Francisco Examiner be.
Eeves that the English habit of carry
ing ones wife into an active political
campaign could be adopted in this
country without the wife being pelted
with stale cabbage or an utof-date
rat
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-09-09

The Chicago Times Herald offers
four prizes, aggregating $4,000, for
the best American inventions in the
line OF thorseless carriages" They
must be ready TO run from Chicago to
Milwaukee III November.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-09-09
Irrigation in the West.

Some notion of the extent and i'm
porance of irrigation in the West is
had from the fact that seventeen States
and territories will be represented in
the fourth national irrigation congress,
which is to be held in Albuquerque, n.
AZ, during the third week of next Sep.
tctIiGyrS
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-09-09

them into alleys of roaring flame.
The machine guns overhead were thus
rendered useless, the deck being un-
tenable, and the bow and stern guns
were isolated from each other and
from their magazines. AS n forlorn
hope, tho ill-fated vessels made for the
nearest land.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-09-09

Some of the republics south of us
are said to order good deal of rail.
road iron from the United States. "If
these States would buy more railroad
iron and fewer guns they would get
ON much more comfortably" remarks
the st. Louis Post Dispatch.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-09-09

'My mamma got ever SO many falls
when she was learning to ride the bl-
cycle yesterday" explained the little
girl to the caller, ''and that's why she's
SO long coming down. She's got the
blues all over her."-Cnicago Tribune.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-09-09

il appears that canned horse meat
is really to come on the market. 1t is
said, in the New York Sun, to be
sweetlsh and not SO good as dog, but
it is not nasty.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-09-09

Marriage seems to the New York
Mail and Express to be a failure in
Switzerland, where one divorce is
granted for every twenty-five we'd
liucs.
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1895-12-27
ASTORIA dc EZuznG1uDcn
EN Ell SIGLOXIX
POR D. EMILIO CASTELAR,.

Es un libro lamado a alcanzar gran 6xito en- todos
los paises donde Sc liable ell casteano Su impression
exceente; las amnas que conteno ejecuadas
lores por los mei0res artstas espanoles.
Sc reparten cuade)nos mensuales de 81 pAgnas
cada uno en- cuarto mayor excelento pape sAtn;tdo
Preco de cada cuadernO: 30 centaVos,
Para obtener suscripciOnos dirjjirse ( sus 1nicos
Agentes en- la lsla los Sres. 3r0@Jo Ee2wam05 &c.
San Francisco 95, Capital.
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1895-12-27

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La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1895-12-27
Ell euEw ausTO,--Uno de los mejo-

mas eegans saones de BaTbera estabecdo en- Plerto
admen abonados Hay sempre complete surtdo de
que vsiten CAPITAL Puerto Rico dsben aoOitar
Bn~I>artF al RIJEN C1TTSTc
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-23
THE PASSING OF
THE PHANTOM CAR.
JUDGE HEBBARD DECIDES AGAINST
THE OLD BUSH : STREET
FRANCHISE.
WHAT THE DECISION MEANS.
THE RAIL TRACK BECOMES A Null
sANCE WHEN Nor USED FOR
PUBLIC BENEFIT.

The demurrer of the Sutter-street Rail-
way Company to the suit of r. H. Warfeld
to declare the Bush-street franchise for
feited has been set aside by Judge Heb
bard, before whom the case was set for
trial, and the defendants have been given
ten days to answer and prepare their de-
tense.
The cause of Warfeld's suit is the unused
franchise that, since 1885, has incumb ered
Bush street. 1t was originally granted to
Abner Doble, William Center and William
ID. Hanson in August, 1885. From them it
passed first to company known as the
Bush-street Railway Company, and then
to the Sutter-street Company the present
defendants
In his complaint, to which the State was
made party. Warfield charged that the
holding of the franchise was illegal, be-
cause there has never been any attempt
to run cars on the track for the benefit of
the public. and that the running of car
over the track once a day was so palpably
a ruse to hold the franchise and to escape
the duty owed to the public as to defeat its
own object. Warfield therefore asked that
the franchise be forfeited. The defendant
demurred on general grounds. In over
ruling the demurrer the court says: eff
the defendants had operated their cars
over the track there would have been no
cause OF action for forfeiture. In main
tanning the tracks and switches the
defendants are not maintaining nuisance,
because they are exercising a right, but the
complaint plainly shows that while the
defendants exercised part of their rights,
that of laying the tracks, they failed to ac-
complish the ultimate object of the fran
chise-the practical operation of the road
as passenger railway"
On the last ground of the demurrer, the
statute of limitations, the court declares
the right to public streets is a right of
public character which cannot be lost by
lapse of time; that there can be no pre-
scriptive right to or in a public street, or
to maintain anything which amounts to
public nuisance.
"lf the people, through the Attorney
General the opinion reads, "have been
indulgent to the defendant since August 4,
1889, they are not bound to indulge them
any longer, and it is apparent that such
INDULGENCE ceased when this complaint
was filed on November q, 1894. The de-
PENDANT cannot complain that it has been
shown more leniency than it deserved in
the matter of the. continued violation of
its contract to operate this road nor may
it now insist that it should be allowed to
uselessly hold, occupy and incumber these
streets against the public interests forever"
This practically decides the case, for the
question is mainly one of law, and the de-
murrer brings these points of law directly
before the court. By the overriding of the
demurrer it is practically decided that the
franchise should be forfeited.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-23
GRAND JURY
[Sketched for the "CaW" by Kal

The Court-Mr. Monteith is asking about q
Pullman pass. Al understood.
Mr.. Monteith-Was your Pullman pass an an
nual or trip pass? Am annual,
with you? A.-No, sir, it does not say any
thing.
Q.-See if I cannot refresh your memory.
Does it not say on it "Pass Frank NJ. Stone on
If you would like TO be enligh tened l can show
you my pass and bring the other. Here is'Mr.
Huntington's pass:
Southern Pacific Company. Pass Frank M.
1894 until December 81 unless otherwise
ordered. C. P. Huntington"
1t is as good in Texas as it is in California,
and over any line wherever a Southern Pacific
engine runs, and has been given me something
like ten years by c. P Huntington personally.
There is nothing issued to me any other way.
Q.-You are not employed by the Southern
Pacific Company? AIN no way, shape or
manner.
Q.-By any other railroad company? A
No, sir.
Odd you ever advise Mr.. Huntington
that the issuance of that pass was in contra
vention OF the interstate commerce act? A
No, sir.
Q.-Those other passes thatyou spoke about
those books of passes-were all on your per-
sonal account? A.-Absolutely to me, person
ally. No one could have issued one under any
circumstances, except by myself, and they were
given TO me personal favor and at my per-
sonal request.
When the above testimony was sworn to
T. J. Roberts, one of the leaders of the
Oakland strike, swore to the following
complaint:
Coils P. Huntington on or about January 10,
1894, he then being president of the Southern
Pacific Railroad Company, did willfully, u n
lawfully and wrongfully make and give an I'M
due and an unreasonable preference and adj
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-23
More Testimony Will Be Taken in the
District Court on Monday.

The case of Cassidy and Mayne, the two
strikers, was before Judge Morrow in the
United States District Court yesterday.
The matter was not expected to come up
again before next Monday, but the United
States District Attorney discovered at the
last moment that he had not established
the fact that the Southern Pacific of Ken
lucky was an incorporated body and the
owner of the lines on which the trouble
took place. He therefore applied to the
court for permission to reopen the case and
introduce the necessary testimony. Mr..
Foote does not consider the establishing of
the fact an absolute necessity, but he is
taking the precaution on the idea that it is
better to be sure than sorry.
Attorney Monteith, who is defending
the strikers, vigorously opposed the mo-
ton. He contended that the case was
closed, and that if it was to be reopened he
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-23

vantage to particular person, to wit, Frank
NJ NJ: stone, residing in San Francisco; the said
known, make and execute certain instru-
ment In writing, commonly known as rail-
w.t. 20 os -0o"iAs' W
southern Pacific Railroad Company. Pass
r rlhIk M. stone over lines of Southern Pacific
otherwise ordered. C. P. HIJSTIN,sroN ),
1t further charged that the pass gave
Stone full and unlimited privilege of travel
ing without charge on ali the lines of the
railroad and that it was used by him to
travel from this M State into Oregon during
that he was not an employee and had notbing
to do with the railroad in any way shape or
manner; SO Huntington's violation Of the
IN interstate a commerce law was palpable.
Ine general impression among Federal
fore an impartial jury in the United States
District Court he will be convicted.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-23
HIS SIGNATURE
VARIES GREATLY.
SOME SPECIMENS OF FAIRS HAND.
WRITING PRESENTED FOR
COMPARISON.
THE JUNIOR FAIRS HEIR
AN ATTORNEY FOR THE EXECUTORS
SAYS He LEFT A NATURAL
CHILD.

James G. Fair Jr. left natural child,
who is now living in this city. This fact
was admitted by an attorney interested in
having the Photographic will declared a
forgery and the document stolen from the
City Hall the genuine one.
"It is true" said this attorney, ''that
young James Fair left a natural child. l
do not know that the child living with
Mrs. Gregory is the one. She may be or
she may not be, but there is child. That
I am willing to admit. Under the holo-
graphic will this child would inherit. In
the will which was stolen from the City
Hall provision was made against the child
inheriting any considerable share of the
estate. There is clause which provides
that any child who can establish the fact
that James G. Fair Jr. was its father shall
have $50 as its share of the estate.
1.-The will stolen from the City Hall was
genuine document. The Craven will, ~
continued this attorney, sis tracing and
a forgery. The very care which Senator
Fair took to free his estate from any claim
of any illegitimate offspring, as shown in
the genuine will, 4" continued this attorney,
sis one of the best evidences that the era
ven will is fraudulent, for, in that docu-
ment, this provision is nullifed."
Whether Charlotte Gregory is the child
of James G. Fair Jr. and Mary Ellen
Lampman or not, may be debatable
question. Charles Fair asserted positively
yesterday that she was not, but if she
should establish her claim Charles Fair
would be the loser by some $500 900, and
the estate OF James &. Fair Jr. would go
to this child.
The great contest over the estate still
turns upon the genuineness of the holo-
graphic will. The question is VIII Mrs.
Craven ties tify that this is Senator Fair S
will? Attorney Pierson is credited with
the statement that she will not do so.
There seems to be no reason for the mys-
terry with which she surrounds that will.
If reports be true, she has not yet told the
attorneys who desire to see this will main
tanned all that she knows about it, and
still holds in reserve information to be
given out only on the witness-stand.
Attorneys and attorneys for attorneys
connected with the Fair will case now
number twenty-six. The estate may reach
$27 000,0 600 in value. That is million for
each attorney to attend to, with an odd
million unrepresented. and the attorneys
who are out of the case are all striving to
represent this extra million, with fair
prospect of success for some one of the
multitude.
Then there is the question OF the fund
with which the estate is supposed to be
provided to meet the contest. OF this At
torney Mitchell says:
II do not say there is a fund. and do
not say there is not. Senator Fair was a
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-23
THE SHERIFF IN CONTEMPT.
ORDERED TO APPEAR BEFORE
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE
GROEZINGER.
He FAILED TO ARREST LEONARD
GROVER WHEN ORDERED
TO Do So.

Sheriff Whelan has fallen. foul of the
Justices Court and on Monday next will
have to explain to Justice of the Peace
Groezinger why he failed by deputy to
arrest Leonard Grover, the actor and the
atrical manager, when instructed to do so
by order of court.
Grover failed to appear in the Justice
Court to testify in a suit brought against
himself and J. Rial by J. Sachem to recover
Sal 80, money loaned, and was sentenced
to twenty-four hours in the County Jail
and to ''pay $50 into the city treasury" for
contempt. A Deputy Sheriff was intrusted
with the order and found Grover at Stock
wells Theater, where he is manager. The
genial actor convinced the representative
of the law that the Justice was mistaken
and that he had already settled the matter
and been purged of contempt. The deputy
thereupon took it upon himself to allow
Grover to remain at liberty and returned
the order to the Sheriff.
The attorney for Sachem, however,
was not to be so easily satisfied and so
stirred up the Justice to sense of his in
iured dignity that he issued the following
order yesterday:
In the case of Sachem VS.. Rial ct al
Whereas, 1t manifestly has been made to APP
pear to me by evidence introduced, given and
admitted this day in open court in the above
Sheriff of the city and county OF San Francisco,
State of California, neglected and refused to
serve and execute the order and Judgment by
me made and rendered on the twenty-first day
March, 1895 directing said Sheriff of said cit
and county aforesaid to execute and carry into
effect the order and judgment adjudging one
Leonard Grover, one of the defendants in the
above entitled action, guilty of contempt OF
this court, it is ordered that r. l. Whelan
Sheriff of said city and county aforesaid, show
cause, if any he may have, at my courtroom in
the new City Hall at 80 O'Clock in the after
noon of Monday, March 25, 1895, why he
should not be punished for contempt in
neglecting and refusing to obey the order OF
this court first herein mentioned and re-
ferred to.
G. c. GRoEzINGER, Justice of the Peace.
Sheriff Whelan heard of the order and
obligingly allowed himself to be served
forthwith.
George H. Perry, the attorney, who is
also counsel for j. J. Rauer in the latter's
suit against Mrs. John Martin, says that
he will endeavor to have the Sheriff cited
to appear before Justice Kerrigan to show
cause why Mrs. Martin was not arrested bv
q. deputy when the latter had the oppor-
tllnity
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-23

shrewd and careful business man. He
anticipated that what has taken place
might take place. The public must draw
its own conclusion"
Attorney Mitchell declared that he knew
of no written statement made by Fair indi-
eating his desire to divide his estate about
equally among his children. Louis G.
Bresse on Thursday declined to say
whether he had seen such statement or
not, and referred questioners about it to
his attorney. His attorneys answer is
that he knows nothing about it, but the
attorneys for Charles Fair say that such a
written statement was made subsequent to
the making of the will which placed the
control of all the property with the exc
cutors.
Those who claim that the Photographic
will is genuine point to the similarity of
the signature to the. signature on admit
tedly genuine documents. Those who
represent the executors under the stolen
will declare that it is a forgery and that
the signature is tracing. When tine trial
comes up experts will swear that it is a
genuine signature, and experts will swear
that it is a forgery.
In order that the public may compare
the signatures admittedly made by Fair
with the signature of the Photographic will
an artist for the CALL, with the aid of q
camera lucida, has traced both.
The first signature is that attached to the
Photographic will. The others are Fair s
sign manual made on Geographic messages
and other business documents.
Mrs. Craven and Mrs. Haskins maintain
the most discreet silence in reference to
the Photographic will. Both said last night
that they would make no statement until
they appeared in court. They added that
torneys, what they knew of the will,
though attorney after attorney to the
number of twenty-six had called at the
Leavenworth-street residence to make in
quiries.
This number twenty-six promises to
figure as prominently in the Fair case as
the number twenty-three did in the Legis-
lature. The latter was the reported strength
OF the Senatorial combine but twenty-six
lawyers are quite likely to make more
disastrous raid upon the Fair estate than
the Legislature did with the affairs of the
State.
1t may be that Mrs. Craven has not told
Mrs: Haskins all that is to be told about
the Photographic will, but it is evident that
Mrs. Haskins knows enough to be wit
ness, and that she expects to be sum-
| moned to testify.
Mrs. Jane McAllister told story last
night in tue City Prison in which She un-
consciously exposed what, according to her
own statements, is scheme to get money
out of the Fair estate
She declared that the little girl at present
Iliving with Mrs. Gregory at 905 Bush street
was not the daughter BINARY Ellen Lamp
! man and James G. Fair Jr., as claimed by
srs. Gregory And she added to this
declaration that it was all plot against
the Fair estate.
| AS the story goes, the late James q. Fair
Jr. used to board at resort in Nevada
conducted by Mrs. Lampman. While
staying there he became infatuated with
the landlady's daughter, pretty girl, who
waited on the table and assisted her mother