The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-13
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

Japanese laborers from Yokohama
Local items, bright and brief, can be found on
this page OF the CALL every morning.
The winners at the Bay District yesterday
Nero.
j. d. L. McGaughey is on trial in Judge
Belchers court for the shooting of DR.. John E.
Plouf.
Justice Groezinger holds that q lien on a
signed.
A proposition, to make telegraph companies
pay d munlclpal license Will be resisted by the
companies.
Howard Presbyterian Society has decided to
move Its church on Mission TO the corner of
Baker and Oak streets.
The Chinatown police squad was changed
sergeant Jesse B. Cook.
-, MoSmons are being, prosecuted in Tahiti,
vices or even have schools.
s. o. Carter has instituted proceedings in the
JUSTICES Court to recover $I6S 81, claimed TO
De due on mining contract
The Railroad Commissioners want to know
II they have jurisdiction over motor lines ex-
tending beyond corporate limits.
The legal light for the Office OF Clerk of Judge
Conlan'S court was transferred 10 Superior
Judge Murphy's court yesterday.
The license committee of the Board of Super
vlsors decided yesterday to tax many people
who IN the past have not paid license.
The new rate on oranges to the Missouri
RlYer, made 10 relieve q glut in the local mar
ket. will go into effect on the 10th inst.
Two exciting games OF handball were played
at the Occidental handball court last night in
the presence OF large number OF ladies.
Monsignor Capel is arranging to bring fami-
lies from Europe and place them on small
farms near Arno in the Sacramento Valley.
Father Richard LIE Moiny is returning to his
home in France, after thirty years service
missionary OF the Catholic church in Tahiti.
Judge Slack has cut down by more than half
the fees ne had allowed the special admins
traitors OF the Fair estate and their attorneys.
The charges of battery against Dr. Marc Lev
ingston, DR. William Miner and Attorney Otto
tum SUDDEN were dismissed by Judge Campbell
yesterday.
Several prominent wheelmen announced
their intention yesterday of taking the matter
Of building boulevard TO San Jose before their
various clubs.
Rita Arguello, daughter of the Santa Clara
capitalist, has sworn out 8 warrant for the
arrest OF George Barron OF the Monitor Tor
felony embezzlement.
The turner's section of the Verein Eintraeht
Will send twenty-six men to take part in the
grand Kreis funniest, which opens in Los
Angeles on the 22d inst.
Justice Cook says it is the duty of every citi-
zen TO bring Wrongdoers TO Justice, and such
cannot be punished by judgments against
them for unlawful arrest.
this City on Thursday evening at the Japanese
Methodist Episcopal Church. 1929 Pine street.
He Will also answer questions.
Judge Hebbard expressed his Indignation
yesterday al the treatment of insane patients
in the Receiving Hospital, and made formal
complaint to the Board of Health.
P. Hansen, gripman on the Hayes-street
line, became violently insane over the loss of
his savings in the Peoples Home bank. He
was committed TO the Ukiah asylum.
The Richmond TmDrovement Association
met last evening and discussed the questions
Of further grading and lighting of streets and
OF securing adequate police protection in that
district.
Several passengers testified before the in
spectors of hulls and boilers yesterday that the
Colima's cargo shifted during the storm. No
was any danger
A fireworks company has charged that its
bid to the executive committee OF the Fourth
of July celebration has been opened and
copied. The preparations for the big holiday
are progressing rapidly.
Judge Campbell ordered an investigation
yesterday into the conduct OF Deputy Sheriff
Riley and Marion Wilson for receiving SIT and
gold watch and chain from Peter Newman,
an inmate of the City Prison.
Four mining companies, the Potosi, Best &
Belcher, Chollar and could Curry, voted yes
terdey in stockholders meetings TO acquire
territory on the Brunswick lode. They pur-
chased 253S feet of ledge and pay for it
$31, 731.
The shareholders of the Bodie mine adopted
resolutions yesterday condemning actions of
the directors in managing the mine. 1t was
charged that an attempt had been made to
ruin the stock, that il could be bought in at
low prices.
A Chinese was dangerously injured in China
town last week. His companions say Sergeant
Cook threw him downstairs. If the Mongol
dies the Six Companies, the Chinese Mer-
chants Exchange and the Consul will make an
International affair of it.
The Police Commissioners last night fined
Policeman Wells attached 10 the Society for
the Prevention OF Cruelty to Children, 800 for
unwarrantably arrestlng Mrs. Ellen Smith and
Mrs. Catherine Filgate on June and ordered
him to report for regular duty.
The japanese are sorely agitated by the cody
labor investigation. They are very anxious to
Deputy United States immigration Commits
sioner, because he interprets japanese too
truthfully TO suit their purposes.
Sparks from pile-driver engine ignited the
planks of the abandoned wharf of the Selby
Smelling Works yesterday afternoon. 1t is
near the foot of Hyde street. The fire burned
quite iercely for a time. There was no loss as
the wharf was OF no use.
Mrs Mary Moye of Evart, Mich, a very old
lady, is very anxious to receive information of
her son, Alfred s. Moye, from whom she has
not heard for nearly two years. He has lived
at Santa Ana, Orange County, Cal, and when
last heard from was in the employ of an insur-
ance company in this CITY,
Susie Helen Bernai has petitioned for letters
teStamentary over the estate OF William THOMAS
Kirby, valued at $4,000. Kirby is stated to
have met his death in the Colima disaster off
the coast of Mexico on May 81 last. He was
unmarried, and the petitioner is his sister.
G. Mounicut was arrested yesterday after
noon. The sidewalk of his place, on Drumm
street, near Clay, needed repairing. He there.
fore tore up the old planks and was putting
down new ones when he was arrested for VIOLA
ton of City ordinance forbidding the laying
of q wooden sidewalk within certain limits
Frances Jerome, student at the Hahnemann
College, was waiting for car at Powell and
Market streets last evening TO go home at 100
Haight street, when q man jumped off the
dummy of a passing and knocked her
down in front OF a coal cart. The wheel of the
cart crushed her back and hip, but not seri-
onsly. She was taken to the Receiving Hos
pitai.
The police station and City Prison in the old
City Hall were deluged at clock last evening,
and for a time it looked as though both
prisoners and officers would have to move out
into the street to keep dry. Shortly before the
time to stop work for the day the contractors
who are tearing down the old hall broke
water-pipe in the old property clerks room,
and within five minutes the first floor was
afioat Before the leak could be stopped the
water had gone through the hoor and il poured
stream into the assem- bly-rOOm. Another |