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that have made some statements when |
was angry that were wrong. Tillotson had
accused me of burning the house, and |
was angry"
"The morning after the fire did not Mr..
Tillotson tell you that he had made good
job of it this timer
''No, sir, he did not" answered the wit
ness.
Blanche Miller's was the only import
ant testimony offered during the day. An
adjournment was taken until Thursday
morning at 10 o'clock.
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A HANDSOME STRUCTURE,
1t Combines Architectural
Beauty, Durability and
Convenience.
EQUIPPED IN MODERN STYLE
Names Of the Educators Who Will
Dispense knowledge In the
Institution.

SANTA ROSA, CAL, Aug. 6.-The new
high-school building has beerabout COM
pleted and is one of the most convenient
and substantial in the State. 1t has been
constructed of the best material and in a
manner to make it stand the test of years.
The foundations are of brick and rest on
solid stone. All the piers and heavy up
right timbers which support the building
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RAVAGE OF PHYLLOXERA
Methods of Eradicating the
Destroyer SuccinctIY
Given.
MENACE TO FRUIT.GR0WERs.
Must Be Fought RelentIessly In
Order to Preserve the
Vineyards.

WRIGHTS, CAL, Aug. 6.-The proceed
ings at Camp Roache to-day were most
interesting to those who were present, as
they dealt with practical problem con-
fronting most of the audience. Professor
E. w. Hilgard being too i'll to attend, A. P
Hayne, instructor in charge of viticulture
and olive culture at the State University,
lectured by request on ''Phylloxera Prob
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Decree of Foreclosure E,,terea.

SAN JOSE, CAL, Aug. 6.-Judge Rey-
nolds this morning gave judgment to the
plaintiff in the suit of the Security Savings
Bank against c. NJ. Schiele et al. The
suit was brought to foreclose a $4,000
mortgage upon thirty seven lots in the
Phelan Tract on the Alameda. A decree
of foreclosure was entered and the defend
ants ordered to pay the money to the bank
according to the contract within thirty
days. Counsel fees of $500 were allowed
the plaintiff.
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FIRE DESTROYS Il RESIDENCE
The ErpEosion of a Lamp Caused Con-
fdgrGtio7l.


REDDING, Cal, Aug. Fire broke
out this morning at II :15 in a residence on
Court street, owner by F. Warner and
occupied by barber named Corser.
Corser has just moved into the house
Saturday, and was expecting his family
this week. About midnight be was taken
with a sudden illness and went to a drug
store for medicine. leaving lighted lamp
on a table. He had been gone but few
minutes when the alarm was given and
his house discovered in flames. 1t is
thought the lamp exploded.
A strong north wind was blowing and it
was with some difficulty that flames were
kept from spreading to adjoining resi-
dences. There was scarcity of water
which made fre-fghting difficult. The
loss amounts to about $1,000 with insurance.
Corser lost all his barber tools, fine gold
watch and blankets.
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NEWS OF MARE ISLAND.
Orer One Thousand Men BustIy at Work
the Yard.

Orer One Thousand Men BustIy at Fork
the Yard.
VALLEJO, CAL, Aug. 6.-The steam
railroad system of the navy-yard is being
extended southwark toward the sawmill,
to facilitate the transportation of heavy
timber 10 the docks where the Hartford
and Adams are being repaired.
The Philadelphia came out of dock to-
day to make room for the monitor Co
manche. After this craft has had her hull
cleaned, preparations will be begun to
widen the dock entrance.
Already arrangements are making for
the launch OF the new tug. In about three
weeks the event will take place.
The Hartford, Boston and Adams con-
tlnue to give employment to large force
OF men: A finishing-up crew are at work
on the Monadnock, which could, if neces-
slty required, be got ready for service in
one month. On Monday there were 1901
men employed at the yard, distributed as
follows: Yards and docks liz, construction
5S5 steam engineering 1872 equipment SO,
ordnance 45, stores and accounts %, medi-
cine and surgery 1.
On July all the Bell telephones were
removed from the yard, and since then
only three or four of the main points Of
the yard have been connected by wire. a
new telephone outfit, however, has arrived
and will be set up at once, giving the yard
a complete service.
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JUDGMENT for E.xobeth To,rnsend

SAN JOSE, CAL, Aug. 6.-Judge Rey-
nolds this morning rendered judgment for
| plaintiff for $1,000, with interest, costs and
| attorney fees, in the suit of Elizabeth
Townsend against Margaret Smith to fore
close on promissory note for $1,000.
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Santa Clara's Assessment.

SAN JOSE, CAL, Aug. 6.-The assess
ment roll of Town Treasurer Starr of Santa
Clara shows the total amount of taxable
real and personal property TO be ST. 593, 024
On $61, 491 of unsecured personal taxes 1863
has already been collected.
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DONE AT SACRAMENTO.
TtCo Children Badly Injured by the Col
Idpse of q House.

lapse of q House.
SACRAMENTO, CAL, Aug. 6.-While
Mrs. Andy Isom and her children were
sitting in their house on P street this after
noon they were suddenly alarmed by the
cracking of timbers, and before they could
escape the building fell down upon them
with crash. Help was at hand and the
imprisoned inmates quickly liberated
Mrs. Isom was found to be uninjured, but
two of the children received painful scalp
wounds.
The house was an old one, and was
undergoing repairs. The accident was
caused by the building being improperly
braced while the work was being done.
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from his bond. This withdrawal, follow
ing SO closely upon the report of Special
Referee Sherman concerning the wretched
condition of stock and other property on
Santa Rosa Island, which is part of the
More estate, is regarded as significant.
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1fore,s Bondsmen W9thdra,U.

SANTA BARBARA, CAL, Aug. g.
Henry Miller and Henry Meacham, the
two bondsmen of John f. More, admins
traitor of the estate of A. P. More, who
qualified for $4,000 each, to-day withdrew
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W. III. Clark's Body Found In tho Riuer
at Bear Talley.
SAN BERNARDINO, CAL, Aug. g.
Word was received this afternoon by tele-
phone from Bear Valley of the finding of
the body of w. FL. Clark in Santa Ana
River, three miles below Seven Oaks.
Clark is supposed to have been drowned
while crossing the stream on a log three
days ago. They then turned the stream
out of its course by damming it, and found
the body to one side, where there had been
an eddy. The remains were brought to
this city.
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IN FEAR OF TRAMPS.
Officials at the Irfrmary afraid to Re-
fuse them Food.

JNSe UeM Food.
SAN JOSE, CAL, Aug. 6.-At the Board
of Supervisors meeting this morning
Chairman Greeninger was instructed to
make on effort to collect $3475 25 due from
the State for support of indigents under a
legislative act of 1888, but since repealed.
The report of Superintendent Orcutt OF
the infrmary for the month of July, filed
with the board to-day, shows that 1072
meals were furnished tramps during the
month. Tramps are so numerous in the
vicinity of that institution that they are
afraid to refuse them meal for fear they
will set fire to the buildings,
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AUBURN, CAL, Aug. 6.-Father Tor
mey, rector of the Catholic church here
for the last twelve years, died suddenly
Sunday night. Father Tormey was one of
the pioneer divines of the West, and for
many years was located at Carson City,
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covery with his Pleasant Pellets So pro-
cured some and commenced using them
and soon began to mend. In six months
my sores were all healed up. 1 am forty
five years old aud believe am as stout as I
ever was in my life. used about one dozen
bottles of the Golden Medical Discovery
with the Pellets aud used nothing else
after began using your medicines
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SAN FRANCISCO, June 1, 1895.

SAN FRANCISCO, June l, 1895.
613 Geary street.
After three years Of acute suffering from bron-
chitis and insomnia and having been treated dur
ing this time by physicians of both the old and new
schools without the slightest Improvement L con-
suited DR.. Ii Pc Tai Jr., who at once found the
direct of the trouble. After course of treat
ment with him can pronounce myself cured.
feel owe my life to his skill. DORA LONG.
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DASHED ONTO Il TRESTLE.
A Runaicay Horse Delays Traffic on a
Railroad.

Il RundUay Horse Delays Traffic on a
Railroad.
SACRAMENTO, CAL, Aug. 6.--There
was lively runaway in the neighborhood
of the depot to-day that for time resulted
IN the stoppage of railroad traffic. A horse
attached to delivery wagon took fright
and dashing across the railroad bridge
which spans the river between this city
and Yolo county, kept on Gown the track
until 1t came to high trestle which it
tried to cross. Strange as it may seem the
horse ran over the ties on the trestle for
distance of fifty feet before it made mis-
step and fell, piling the wreckage on top of
the rails.
A freight train which was about to cross
was compelled to run back. and in order to
clear the track the wrecking train had to
be sent out. The horse was lifted out and
found to be uninjured except for a slight
scratch on one of his legs.
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patches to the Morning Union from vari-
Gus parts of the State report fires raging
over an area OF from $4,000 to $1,000 acres
of timber land. The western part of the
looked at with the naked eye. In the
Olympic Mountains many thousands of
acres of valuable timber is burning.
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Blood, Skin and Scalp Diseases, from
common Blotch, or Eruption, to the
gan into hea1thful action. In the most
stubborn forms of Skin Diseases, such
as Salt-rheum, Eczema, letter, Erysipe-
las, Boils and kindred ailments, and
with Scrofula, in every shape, and all
bloodtaints, no matter from what cause
arising, it is an unequaled remedy.
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Identified the CIothino.

SACRAMENTO, CAL. Aug. g. The
clothing which was found on the bank of
the Sacramento River last Saturday has
been identified by Alexander Coleman of
this city as having belonged to his nephew.
F. Hoffer, who, he says, lived in San Fran
cisco at IL Seymour avenue. The theory
is that the young man went into the river
for swim, was seized with cramp and
was drowned.
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OYER WHELMINGLY DEFEATED.
Voters Decide against the Establishment
of q SanttarH District.

u % t5""tV"TU DtStTICt'
SAN JOSE, CAL, Aug. 6.-The election
upon the question as to whether sanitary
district should be established, to include a
portion of East San Jose and the Second
and Third wards of this city, was over
whelmingly defeated to-day Little inter-
est was taken, but nearly 500 votes were
cast 463 being against the establishment
of the district and only % in its favor,
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A LADIES' GRILL ROOM
Has been established in the Palace Hotel

ON ACCOUNT OF REPEATED DEMANDS
" made on the management It takes the place
of the city restaurant, with direct entrance from
Market st. Ladies shopping will find this most
desirable place to lunch. Prompt service and mod
crate charges, such as have given the gentlemen's
Grillroom an international reputation, will prevail
in this new department.
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LOOK OUT FOR BREAKERS AHEAD

WhCu piulplcS,
eruptions, boils,
andl like NANTES,
tations of impure
blood appear.
They wouldn't
appear if your
blood were pure
and your system
In the right con.
dition. They
show you what
you need-a
good blood -puri.
fer; that's what
you getwhen you
take DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical
Discovery. It
carries health
with it. All
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Co., ". "a, writes :
I took scrofula, and
did everything that
doctors and others
prescribed, but only
got worse. Several
Assesses formed
about my neck and
breast, disharging a
quantity of matter.
/ got so weak / could
scarcely walk about
the house. I read all
the medical works 1
could get hold of,
and, among the rest,
read some Of your
works. You described
my case, and recon-
mended DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Dis
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WASHINGTON TIMBER FIRES.
Flames Stoeep Orer a Large Section of
flooded Land.
TACOMA, WASH, Aug. Especial dis
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Weak Men and Women

CHoULD USE DAMIANA BITTERS, THE
~ great Mexican Remedy; gives Health and
Strength TO the Sexual Organs
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-20
THE CIVIC FEDERATION,
A Special Meeting Has Been
Called to Consider the
Lottery Law.
Methods to BE Devised for the
Immediate Enforcement of
Existing Statutes.

The Civic Federation has decided to take
UP the lottery fight as outlined in the CALL
and demand that the law for the suppress
sion of this evil be enforced A special
meeting of the committee on enforcemen emit
of law has been called for this afternoon,
when the lottery question will be consid-
cred at length and plan of campaign out
lined. The struggle will be vigorous one,
and the committeeman declare that it will
not be abandoned until thorough test has
been made of the law relative to the SUBJ
iect of lotteries. If conviction is found to
be impossible under existing statutes, then
measures will be taken up looking to the
enactment of more stringent laws.
DR.. Ollie and other members of this COM
mittee have already expressed their views
on this matter quite fully in the CALL
Most of them agree that the present lottery
law is sufficient for the suppression of the
traffic if properly enforced. The clergy
men of the City are a unit in the matter
and fairly reflect the sentiment of the bet
ter element of the entire community. This
element has declared that the lotteries
must go.
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A LIVING OBJECT LESSON.
The President of the Young
Mems Christian Associa-
ton a Self-Made Man.
MR.. VALENTINES ELECTION
From Agent OF Wells-Fargo'S Ex-
press Company to the Head of
the Organization.

The new president of the San Francisco
Young Mems Christian Association, John
I. Valentine, is equally well known as
man prominent in business affairs or
leader in practical philanthropy. The
dual and yet we'll balanced characteristics
were shown by his remark yesterday in
reference to his election. at is an Office
which, in a pecuniary sense, means all
outlay and no income" he said laughingly;
"but, on the other hand, believe that ex-
penditure of time and money to be a wise
one. am enough of an optimist to think
the world is good deal better than in the
golden days of Old"
The members OF the Young Mems Chris
tan Association will have living object
lesson on the self-,nade man in their presi-
dent. They will also learn from the same
source that the union of strength and
kindness is not impossible in modern
man of affairs.
Mr. Valetine was born at Bowling Green,
KY, November u, 1910, and comes of
revolutionary ancestry. He received a
common-school education, to which he
has added much in the way of extensive
reading and keen observation.
When 15 years of age he went into the
employ OF stage and express line at
OON INK p1ScA' Leaving bHS hOdIIlS 1IA-
press Company in 1862 he came to Cal
ifornia.
He was agent for Wells, Fargo & Co.'S
Express, the Pioneer Stage Company and
the California Stage Telegraph Company
at Strawberry Hill in Ell Dorado County,
For time he was the Virginia City agent
for the Pioneer Stage Company and the
Overland Mail Company. He afterward
became superintendent of the Pioneer
Stage Company, and later superintendent
of the Pacific division of Wells, Fargo &
Co. In 1869 he was made superintendent
of the Well-Fargo Company, with head
quarters at New York. The growth of the
Pacific Coast branch of the business neces-
STATED his return to this City year later,
and since that time he has resided in Cal
ifornia. In 1882 he was elected director
and vice-president of the company, and in
1892 became its president, which position
he now fills.
He is a communicate of the Advent
Episcopal Church of Oakland, where he
resides, and has long been vice-president
of the Young Mems Christian Assoc alton
of this City and Oakland. He has been
prominent in many movements on a grand
scale for the relief of the suffering, among
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mulated considerably, and it is possible
that several schooners will be cha rteTed TO
carry away the overplus of stuff
The little sloop Trial, which is known
along the water front as the egg boat,
leaves this morning for the Farallon
Islands. This will be her third trip this
season. On the first trip she brought back
800 dozen eggs and on the last 1045 dozen
The owner and navigator OF the Trial is
the celebrated Clam Johnson. who has
been running out to the islands for several
years. The eggs are species about three
times the size OF the household article, and
are known as seagull and Farallon chicken
eggs. They retail at about % cents a
dozen and are used mainly by bakers and
acknowledgement iii the manufacture of
pastry, etc. They make very good pies
and puGdings, Captain Johnson says, and
one egg will make an omelet for three.
The ship Germania was hauled up on
the Merchants drydock yesterday for
cleaning and recoppering. Her bottom
presented woe-begone appearance. 1t
was the first time in a couple of years that
the old ship had been out of water. Her
copper was slivered and peeled off in
strips, and the teredos had got in their
work on the hull. 1t will take some DAYS
to repair the damages.
The schooner Glen attempted to go on
the old Merchants drydock yesterday
afternoon, but as she approached the dock
some bright individual on board let go the
pin of the centerboard, and the latter went
down in the bay, being held only by the
chains. For more than an hour the men
on board attempted to bring up the recre-
ant board, but they finally gave it up as
bad job and the vessel was not locked.
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ALMOST ASPHYXIATED.
Two Sailors Overcome by Charcoal
Fumes on the Steamer Santa
Rosa.

Six able seamen of the steamer Santa
Rosa came very near shuff1ing off this
mortal coil yesterday morning by the
asphyxiation route. On Tuesday night
number of pans of charcoal were set burn
ing in the hold to drive out the rats which
infested the ship. The matches were bat
tened down for the night and when they
were raised yesterday the hold was strewn
with dead rodents.
The instructions of Superintendent
Bennett were to allow the matches to re-
main off for three hours before any of the
crew were permitted to go below to stow
cargo. The orders of Captain Bennett
were disobeyed and the result was that six
men were overcome by the fumes of char
coal. About o'clock in the morning the
men were ordered into the hold by the
second mate and few moments later four
of them came staggering up to the deck.
Several men rushed aboard from the shore
and escorted the half stupetied sailors
down the gangplank and laid them on the
dock. 1t was more difficult job to get
the two remaining men out of the hold,
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The COL|MA'S SUCCESSOR
Inc Collier Aztec to Be Put on
the Panama Run to Garry
Freight.
EGGS FROM THE FARALLONES.
Clam Johnson and His Sloop Trial.
The Old GermanIa on the
DrydoCk.

The Pacific Mail steamer City of Sydney
is due from Panama and way ports on
Saturday, and the Aztec is due on Sunday
from New York by way of Central Ameri-
can ports. The Sydney will remain in
port until July Is, when she will sail for
Panama, taking the place of the Inflated
Colima. The Sydney's place will be taken
by the Aztec, which will sail on the 2sth.
The latter vessel was recently bought by
the Pacific Mail Company to take the place
of the collier San Pedro, which was lost
about three years ago near Victoria. She
has no accommodations for passengers, SO
she will carry away only freight. Owing
to the loss of the Colima freight has accu-
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to Engine Company 90, but before the ap-
paratus could reach the scene the building
was destroyed. The fire was quickly I'M
der control and its spread prevented.
The principal loss is in the damage to
eight 4-inch rifed guns. These were
new Iv acquired guns, four of them never
having been mounted. They were of the
latest design and were valued at upward
or $4,000 each. They were so badly dam
aged by the heat that they will be useless.
The destruction of the building will not
entail loss greater than $4,000. The Off
GERS OF the post are investigating the cause
OF the fire, but thus far are able to offer no
solution as to its origin.
An overheated bakers oven was the
cause of fire at III Brannan street early
yesterday morning, which did considerable
damage to property and gave two people a
severe fright, If not a close call to losing
their lives.
The building in which the fire started,
like the other in the same row immedi-
ately west of Clinton, On Brannan. is a
two-story frame facing on Brannan, with
one-story addition in the rear. The one
story portion of the building at III was &C.
cupied by the oven of Baker Michael Ham
mer. The fire emanating from this oven
communicated to the single-story addition
to the surrounding buildings, destroying
suC4i anu causing TOTAL loss OF ABOUT
$4,000.
OF the buildings damaged one is owned
by F. E. Peabody, whose loss is $1,000. Ba-
ker Hammers loss is about $500 Three
other buildings owned by Michael Curran
were damaged to the extent of $1,000 or
$500. Joseph Cusack, grocer occupying
one of these, sustained loss to his stock
of 5000 or $500. Three other buildings
owned by Mrs. Dalton and P Bailey were
slightly burned. The entire loss is covered
by insurance except the effects of the fam
lilies living in the buildings, which would
not foot up to any considerable amount.
The persons referred to as having their
lives endangered by the fire were Misses
Mary Cusack and Mary Hawkins. The
stairs leading from their rooms on the sec
ond floor of one of the buildings were
burned away before the two ladies were
assisted to safety by neighbors by the
means of ladders
The alarm from box 95 at 10 o'clock last
night was for small blaze in the basement
OF the Donohoe building on Market and
Taylor streets. 1t was caused by de.
fective electric light wire. The damage
was nominal.