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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-20
WILL BE OF STEEL.
A Handsome Drawbridge to Be Built
for the Valley Road in
Stockton.

The Secretary of War has addressed a
communication to the chief engineer of the
valley road, containing instructions and
regulations upon building bridges across
navigable streams. Application was made
for permission to erect awbridge across
Mormon Channel, in Stockton, and the
first reply came in the shape of informa-
ton upon the subject. Permission must
come from the Secretary of War, and it
may be delayed through official ''red tape"
''If there is any delay" said Engineer
Storey, "we will have to get around it
somehow, at least until we get the per-
mission. We shall go ahead with the
work elsewhere and be ready as soon as we
are allowed to span Mormon Channel with
draw bridge.
1--WE have decided on a drawbridge for
Mormon Channel, which has a width of
about lao feet. The bridge will probably
have center pier, upon which it will re-
yolve, leaving two open ways for boats TO
pass through. We are considering the
erection of steel bridge there-not be-
cause wood and iron would not answer our
purpose quite as well and be less expen-
sive, but because the draw bridge will be in
the city of Stockton and we wish to please
the people by erecting something that will
be an ornament to their city. Perhaps
two or three drawbridges will have to be
erected later on upon the route from Stock
ton to Oakland
]. d. Spreckels and Captain Payson, the
committee on rolling-Stock consulted the
engineer yesterday and talked about loco
motives and freIghtcars. Different styles
of engines and cars were discussed, but no
conclus on was reached. A report from
this committee is expected at the next
board meeting.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-20
A UNION SAILOR SHOT.
SteVanus Sandberg Receives a
Bullet From John Canes
Pistol.
He Was Looking for Trouble and
VIII Lose a Leg-The
Strike.

The first blood was shed in the sailors
strike last evening when John Cane, a
clearinghouse master, nearly terminated
the mortal career of Stevanus Sandherg by
puncturing his epidermis with a bullet.
Cane has always been thorn in the side
of the union, having been for years ship
ping agent for non-union men. Sandberg
is a member of the union and was one of
the men shipped by Cane on the Wqchu-
sett. He jumped into the bay from the
vessel and was picked up by the patrol
boat of the union and brought ashore.
Shortly after O clock last evening Sand
berg and two friends went into Canes sa-
loon at 20 Steuart street, and, after having
a drink, invited Cane out on the sidewalk
Cane says that Sandberg told him that he
was going to kill him, and the boarding
house master pulled a pistol and blazed
away. The bullet struck the sailor in the
left leg below the knee, and the wounded
man and his friends scram bled out of the
saloon. Cane was arrested and the sailor
was taken to the Receiving Hospital.
After an examination it was said that
Sandbergs leg will have to be amputated.
The sailor, when searched, had no weapon
on him.
The ship Dashing Wave came to the
terms of the Sailors Union yesterday,
shipping a crew at $35 a month, but none
of the crew were union men. The crowd
was furnished by Cane. The ship Raphael,
which is going to Alaska, will take union
crew. The rate to Alaska is $40 a month.
The owners of the vessel will take the
union crew to prevent trouble in Alaska,
where there is a great number of union
men. Deep-water crews for the ships Ster-
ling and Aryan have been shipped, but the
Glory of the Seas is still waiting for a crew.
SPURIOUS coin has no ring Observe the ring
OF the Almighty Dollar Cigar.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-20
WILL HAVE NO BOARD.
City Insurance Agents SuS-
pend Their Combine
Suddenly.
The Fire Patrol VIII Live Though
the Pacific Coast Com
pact Dies.

The insurance troubles betwe en- board
and non-board companies are about at an
end, as it is firmly believed by the local
general managers that there will be no
compact after to-day. Business was so
completely demoralized yesterday that no
attention was paid to such restrictions as
the non-intercourse rule, or laws of the
compact regulating compensation of
agents or rates on city risks.
The local board" comprised OF city
agents and countermen in board compa-
MES, fell to pieces in the morning. These
busy men met to consider the exigencies
OF the occasion and agree on some method
for mutual benefits, but they could do
nothing to save themselves from the in
evitable Generalization of their business.
No arrangement of any utility could be
effected since rates have been suspended,
and it appeared certain that the Board of
Fire Underwriters of the Pacific will to-
dav suspend the non-intercourse law. and
thereby place all companies on an equal
footing. So there was nothing to be done
but go out of existence, which the local
board did without much discussion.
1t makes little difference what becomes
of the compa CT so far as the fire patrol is
concerned. The feeling is unanimous now
that the patrol shall be sustained, if
for no other reason than purely business
proposition of self-protection. Should the
compact burst up several insurance men
say that the general managers viii still
contribute their respective proportions to
support the fire patrol, alth ough they may
continue the war IN rates.
With free intercourse among the various
companies there can be no such thing as
distinction in placing and accepting large
risks, and then, with rates suspended, the
board will have failed of its primary object
of mutual protection and necessarily pass
away like Its predecessors.
How long the managers will continue
the rate war after this disintegration is a
question that none of them would attempt
to answer. 1t may be month, though
more likely it will be very much longer,
until transacting business at a loss be-
comes unbearable. Despite the wholesale
cutting of rates a great many people who
insure in large amounts have refused to
take advantage of the war.
Should fire come upon any of them
they may feel assured of reciprocity on the
part of the mpanies called upon to ad-
Just the loss. 1t is stated by agents that
the mpanles will in case of fire remem-
Der the men who cut them down so much
and so get even.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-20
FAIR WILL CONTEST.
Postponed Till Tuesday Afternoon-The
General Line of Battle as 1t
Appears Now.

Attorney Mitchell created a small COM
motion yesterday morning in Judge Stacks
court by announcing that the attorneys
for Charles L. Fair were not ready to go
into the contest of the will of the late
James G. Fair.
The matter had been set for o'clock
yesterday afternoon. Long before that
hour there was waiting crowd of curious
people in the corridor in front of the
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-20
SAN FRANCISCO ITEMS,
Contractors Argue Before the
Supervisors Judiciary
Committee.
LAW POINTS ARE EXPLAINED.
A Recommendation That the SUI
preme Court Be PetItioned
for Relief.

There was large delegation of con-
tractors, all having contracts to furnish the
various institutions of the city and county
with supplies and material, before the
Judiciary Committee OF the Board Of
Supervisors yesterday afternoon. They
were present in support of their notice
threatening to cease furnishing supplies
after April 80, owing to the reduced con-
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-20
ACTRESSES TO UNITE.
Women of the Stage Take Steps Toward
Organizing for Mutual
Protection.

The women of the stage now doing Gle
climate roles in San Francisco are about
10 unite. They intend joining the Ameri-
can Actors Association and are now in
doubts whether to form an independent
lodge or to affiliate with the Pacific lodge,
which was organized some months since.
A meeting was held Thursday afternoon,
which was presided over by Anita Fallon.
While quite number of ladies were pres
ent, there were letters from nearly score
who expressed sympathy with the move
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-20

courtroom, and when Clerk McElroy
opened the door they rushed to get good
places to listen to the legal battle. They
struggled out by ones and twos as they
realized the battle would not take place
the attorneys first, the court habitues
next, and the strangers within the gates
last and lingeringly.
While the crowd waited in the court
room a party of the lesser legal lights in
terested in the case held a conclave in
Judge Stacks chambers. They were evil
IDENTIFY taken as much by surprise as the
crowd whose curiosity had led them to the
courtroom.
From attorneys in the case it was learned
that the argument on Tuesday afternoon,
to which time the matter has been post
Roned, will probably be opened by Mr..
wheeler for the Craven" will, and will be
confined chiefly to authorities to show that
IN the probate of several wills the usual
ana logical way is to proceed with the
nearing OF the latest writing offered. If it
is declared in very fact to be the last will,
then the others must fail, while if it is
successfully contested the next last will
must be weighed, and so on till the last
will is declared
On the side of the 'Goodfellow" will, in
which Messrs. Pierson and Mitchell and
Goodtellow and McEnerney will be sup
ported by ex-Justice Paterson, the argu-
ment will be that the will of September n
is the only one before the court and that it
has never been contested by the proponents
OF the Craven will.
MI
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-20

men. All but Bush and Rumbold were
released, as they admitted they were the
proprietors. They conducted a place
known as the San Francisco Public Stock
Exchange on Market street. The business
was conducted on the lines of the old clock
game. Prosecuting Attorney John F. Dare
made a hard fight to secure conviction
and succeeded. The attorneys he had TO
battle were ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Hart, Ore
gon Sanders, Newland and Fawcett. The
defense asked for stay of sentence until
oath inst, in order to take an appeal.
The motion was granted.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-20
a BIG DAMAGE SUIT.
Sparks From a Southern Pacific Loco
motive Caused a Heavy Loss.


motive Caused a Heavy Loss.
An interesting suit is on trial in the
United States Circuit Court before Judge
Hawley. 1t involves the liability or nom
liability of railroads for fires that are
caused by sparks from a passing loco
motive. According to the complaint on
file in the suit sparks from Southern Pa
cifc Company's engine set fire TO the
premises OF John o. Welsh in Siskiyou
County.
His factory for the manufacture of boxes,
barrel heads, etc., the boiler-house, board
ing house, office and store, Toulouse and
lumber all went up in smoke, and Welsh
now seeks TO recover $35, 600, the value OF
the property, from the corporation.
John E. Foulds and Foshay Walker ap-
pear for the Southern Pacific Company
and Bull & Cleary of Siskiyou and Delmas
& Shortridge of San Francisco for the
plaintiff. A jury was secured yesterday
and the trial viii begin next Monday.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-20
SAN FRANCISCO ITEMS,
The Coal-Carriers That Come
In and Go Out of
This Port.
NOW THEY CROWD THE PIERS.
Tonnage of a Half-Month-Beg
ming of Commercial Pros
perlty.

When the vessels are wedged in the slips,
filling up all the dock space, the CONNER
cial standing of the port may be considered
as being on a sound and healthy plane,
and its market value as having an upward
tendency. The fact that San Francisco is
becoming great coal mart for the north
ern mines is evidenced by the large num-
Der of GOLFERS coming and going to and
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-20
-Sketehed by a "Cda :" a

ment, but who were unable, because of re-
hearsals and other engagements, to at
tend.
H Coulter Brinker and Francis Powers
of the Senior Branch of the Pacific Lodge
and J. H. w. Harris of the Junior Branch
addressed the meeting. A number of the
ladies also spoke. A committee, consist
ing OF Anita Fallon, Nina Gleason, Anna
DAILY, Kate Eckert, Lorraine Hollis, Pau
line Maitland, Maurene Clemson, Julia
Blanc and Mrs. Sara Stevens, was APP
pointed to formulate plans to present to a
meeting of the ladies at some undeter-
mined time in the near future.
The committee is to meet at the Hotel
Langham on Thursday afternoon. They
announce that no reporters viii be ad-
mitted to their councils.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-20
BUOKET-sHOP MEN CONVICTED.
The Jury Finds Bush and Rumbold
Guilty.

Bush and Rumbold, the bucket-shop
men, were convicted in Judge Joachimsen's
court Yesterday. The two men were
arrested on the Sd inst. for running So
called stock board. Officers McGrayne and
Davis made the raid and arrested nine
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-20
Two Sudden Deaths.

Two sudden deaths were reported at the
Morgue yesterday. John Callahan, aged 5s
years, was at work paving Fourth street. He
was taken suddenly i'll, and was removed to
the residence of his son, at $685. Clementina
Before assistance could be called he died.
His home was at SIS Twenty-ninth street, and
when the Coroner was satisfied that death was
due to natural causes the body was removed
there.
Thomas Mcdonnell, q sailor, Also died sud-
denly at 1927 Sansome street. An autopsy
showed that the cause OF death was perltonitis
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-20

from this port. During the first fifteen
DAYS OF April fourteen vessels arrived and
discharged their cargoes, amounting to
about 81, 600 tons. Wellington coal being
quoted at SIS or more a ton makes the
value OF the half months imports 1896, 600,
or almost $6O0, 900 as a months work for
the fast-sailing coasters.
The opening of new coal beds on the
Puget Sound shores. the building of the
great valley road and the successful labors
OF the Half-million Club, the crowding
into the bay OF laden ships means the
beginning of an era for San Francisco more
golden than the days OF the Ell Dorado.
aontinarta1 tarnrita is d. Price,s BAL
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-20

Patience is commended as the highest
form of politeness. DR.. Prices Cream
Baking Powder as the purest and best leav.
ening agent.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-20

He said that he could examine bill Just
as well as the Mayor.
No action was recommended until the
Mayor could be heard on the question.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-20

That satisfied feeling" always attends
the use OF Dr. Prices Cream Baking Pow
der. Judicious mothers always insist upon
it-purest and best.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-20

Competitors of DR.. Prices Baking Pow
der are growing weary of trying to equal it.
Their labors are vain.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-20

MARK HOPKINS Institute of Art Annual
Spring Exhibition. Open daily. Admission,
% cents.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-20

The Duke of Bedford has imported 1000
frogs from America to free the ponds on
his estate from parasites.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-20

a continental favorite is Dr. Prices Bak-
ing Powder.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-20

SPURIOUS coin has no ring. Observe the ring
OF the Almighty Dollar Cigar.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-29
The New Court HOnsc.

There Is a subsistence of interest in
the new court house question, and the
consensus Of opinion is that the pres
ent board of county commissioners will
not have the pleasure of even COM
mencing the work of construction. In
one way or another the commissioners
will undoubtedly be blocked in every
move they make. Architect Myers, Of
Michigan, will not have cause to break
his heart with grief even If the build
ing is not erected. He has already
gathered one $4,000 plum in exchange
for a secondhand plan, and his one
sided, iron-clad contract with the COM
missioners will enable him to gather
another of equal value. From present
appearances it would seem that the
county will pay the Michigan architect
$4,000 for which it will receive plans
for building that will never be erected.
In other words, the county will prac-
tically have made present of 500, 900 to
Architect Myers.
Some day Luzerne will have a new
court house, but it is fairly safe to pre-
dict that it will not be erected nor even
commenced by the present commission
ers, nor will it be a million dollar build
ing, after the plans Of Architect Myers.
1t Is also safe to venture the prediction
that none of he present commissioners
will be their own successors when their
present term expires. The new court
house question will enter very largely
into the election of the next board Of
commissioners.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-29
They Kick Auyway,

For years there was constant howl
heard because the county commission
ers would not offer liberal rewards for
the detection of the numerous murder
ers that were rampant in Luzerne.
Some time ago O. man named Barney
Reick was brutally murdered and
robbed. The commissioners resolved,
If possible, to hunt down the murderers
and placed the case into the hands of
the Barring detective agency. A num-
Der of arrests have been made and 1t
is said that the evidence of guilt is very
strong. The Barring agency does not
work for glory alone and the COM
missioners have had to pay literally for
the service rendered, hence the howl
now being heard. When the commits
sioners refused to spend money for the
detection of criminals they were de-
nounced for their parsimoniousness and
Indifference to the safety of the people.
Now, when they have employed the
best detective skill available and pay
literally for apparently successful SER
vice, they are denounced for extrava-
gance. It Is said that the commissions
ers have paid nearly $4,000 for the cap
ture of the alleged murderers of Reick.
II the right men have been secured the
money has been well spent, and the
kickers should stop kicking.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-29
A Debt That should BE Paid.

Visiting Grand Army men from all
sections Of the state invariably in
spect the magnificent Memorial hall
erected by lConyngham Post, Grand
Army of the Republic, in this city. 1t
is unquestionably the finest structure
Of its kind in the state if not in the
country. But while this hall is un-
doubtedly thing OF beauty" it is very
far from being "a joy forever" to the
veterans who make it their home. There
rests upon it q debt of $4,000, and this
debt is q grievous burden. The post Is
compelled to raise, in some way about
$1,000 a year to pay the interest on this
obligation, and it takes about all the
money which the post wants to pay as
benefits and relief to distressed COM
rades. Some time ago the old boys
conceived the idea Of raising funds by
means of a Kirmess. The result was
that they lost some hundreds of dol
lars, and are now worse off than befora
There ought to be liberallty enough
among the many well-to-do people of
Wilkes-Barre and the Wyoming valley
to wipe out this $4,000 debt on Memo
rial hall, and free this beautiful monu-
ment, erected to the memory of the
dead soldiers, from the incubus that
rests upon 1t. The boys of Conyngham
post will not be happy until they are
relieved OF the debt that consumes
nearly their entire income as an organi-
zatiOn.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-29
Death of Charles Douohuc.

Mine Foreman George Thomas, of
Clear Spring colliery, made his descent
into the mine at o'clock on Saturday.
On reaching the bottom of the second
opening he discovered the prostrate
form OF man. The body proved to be
that or Charles Donadue, n single man
who resided with his widowed mother
on Chapel street and was employed as q
company hand In the Pittston vein.
The exact manner in which Donohue
met his death has not been ascertained
but 1t Is supposed that from some un-
known cause he slipped or was knocked
into the pit, the bottom of which is
800 below the surface. His body was
horribly mangled. A short time before
the body was found Donohue was talk
Ing with the engineer at the head Of
the shaft. 1t Is reported that he went
down on the cage with two Polanders,
who were employed in the lower vein,
The cage was stopped at the Pittston
vein where Donohue alighted. There is
a very strong current of air at this
opening and as Donohue alighted his
light was extinguished. 1t Is supposed
that he turned to signal the engineer
b lower the cage when, in the dark
ness, he stepped over the brink into the
shaft, at the bottom of which his body
was found. The unfortunate man Is
survived by his mother and two BROTH
ers, John and Francis. The funeral
will take place from the family home,
on Chapel street, this (Monday) after
noon at o'clock, with interment at
Church cemetery.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-29
TUNkHANNOCk.

Deputy Prothonotary Myron Kasson,
Of Scranton, was here Saturday, en-
route to Auburn, to visit his father.
Miss Hannah Brown, of Lake Carey,
is clerking at Mrs. A. Z. Bucks novelty
store.
James Shiffer, of Dorranceton was
here Saturday looking after his busi
ness interests. He owns q house and
lot on Slocum street. for which, we un-
derstand, other parties are negotiating,
and sale is likely to be made.
Two or three solitary RATS Of mine
props floating down the Susquehanna
this spring are the only reminders left
of what was once an extensive busi-
ness in that line. Forty years ago n
freshet in the rivers like the ono that
has occurred this spring would have
seen millions of feet of logs going to-
ward tidewater besides the numerous
"arks' of potatoes, beef and other
farm products that found ready market
at Wilkes-Ba and other towns be-
low. There are still vast tracts of tim
ber standing on Dutch mountain, but
the lumber Is cut in the woods, and
the railways furnish much speedier
and less hazardous way of getting it to
market than rafting.
Mrs. David Jayne, of Meshoppen, WIS.,
tied at Fred Strupler's the latter part
of the week.
A telegram from Watsontown, Pa.
Saturday, brought the news Of the
death of w. Brady Piatt, a cousin of
the Platt brothers. of this place. Sew
eral of the family will attend the fu-
neral. which takes place at Watson
town tomorrow.
Jenkins Bringes Is home from Kings
ton commercial college. where he was
Graduated
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