The San Francisco call., 1895-07-20
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Western Addition Improvement Club
has been organized.
The work of filing in the late J. G. Fairs
eater lots is to be resumed on August /.
The Merchants Association is desirous of
having the streets sprlnkled with salt water.
Superintendent of Streets Ashworth yester-
lay fled his annual report with the Super
viSors.
Forrest seabury, the scenic painter, was
buried yesterday in Mountain View Gene
ery, Oakland.
The petition of the Richmond Improvement
Club to prohibit the sale OF burial lots was
denied yesterday.
Great preparations have been made for the
Manufacturers and Producers mass-meeting
Al San Jose to-day.
The CALL to-day publishes the full yenire Of
Jurors summoned for the Durrant trial, which
Is to begin on Monday
The winners at the Bay District yesterday
Tere Leonatus Spry Lark, Sir Richard, Silver
State and Greenback Jr.
A prize set of lantern slides from London
was shown TO the members OF the California
Camera Club last evening.
Legal proceedings have been instituted in
the Superior Court to impeach the Solid Eight
of the Board OF Supervisors.
Labor Commissioner Fitzgerald has learned
Of 8 big scheme by which thousands of labor
Ing men have been swindled.
The annual report OF immigration stradley
came here to settle IN this State.
There was a meeting of artists at the Me-
chanics' Institute last evening to arrange for
the art exhibit at the Mechanics Fair.
Professor Davidson, in an interview on the
Alaska boundary line, characterizes the de-
nands of Canada as an audacious steal.
The Judiciary Committee OF the Board of
Super visors decided to recommend the appro-
priation of $4,000 for the exempt fremen.
A. \. Towne's will was found yesterday to
beouea tn his property, valued at about $780,
900, TO the widow who is made executrix.
Wageworkers' unions are opposing the Saliva
ton Army's proposed cooperative farm, SO
Labor Commissioner Fitzgerald is informed.
James Comerford was driving wagon along
California street when he was run into by q
eable-caT. He received injuries that may prove
tstal
Dr. Winslow Anderson OF the State Board of
Health reports that the use OF the antitoxine
for diphtheria is general and successful in the
State.
The Finance Committee of the Board of SUI
pervisors had the lease of the Lincol n School
lot on Fifth and Market streets under discus
sion yesterday.
The police yesterday kept the new City Hall
corridors around the police courts free from
the gangs ofloungers and swindlers that have
infested them for so long.
c. B. Henderson, who is in the City Prison
on charge of numbering Clarence Barr in the
Baldwin Hotel bar, made q statement regard
Ing the trouble last night.
Frank DessoIa, convicted of driving a CLAN
dered horse, has been released by the Supreme
Court, on the ground that the complaint in the
Police Court was detective.
Work in cutting away considerable of the
hill on the Potrero 81 Napa street is to be COM
menced soon. The earth is TO be used for the
purpose OF filling in low land.
The Chinese tongs are quarreling over Mock
Fook, who is accused OF numbering Quang
Jong The Sam Yups want him hanged and the
Ming Yungs want him released.
The Half-million Club is preparing for
great move toward advertising this STATE in
the East, and establishing improvement clubs
In every large town in California.
Many lodging-house keepers have reported
to the police that they have been swindled
by q smooth-faced young man who passed
Confederate SO notes upon them
The Halfmillion Club and Merchants Asso-
citation promised the Mechanics Institute aid
in making the coming Mechanics Fair a sue
cess at a meeting held last evening.
One hundred and thirty five cases of charity
were investigated during the week ending
with yesterday, as reported by the Associated
Charities at its regular weekly meeting.
Mrs Hyde, aged 70 years, died suddenly at
her home, 141S Geary street, yesterday. The
Coroner found that death was due TO natural
causes, so no autopsy or inquest will be held.
All Sam, laundryman on the water front,
beats countryman ouL Of 800 at "China
bunko," game OF frightening the victim by
threats of the police forcing him to give up his
money.
Silks, satins and curios from China and Japan
ere sent 10 points in Mexico in transit. They
are then smuggled back into the United States
and Uncle Sam loses so per cent duty on the
transaction.
The 100000 damage suit of a. II. Brancroft
against the san Francisco Tool Company is to
be appealed TO the Supreme Court The suit
is the outgrowth of the terrible elevator acct
dent in 1888.
The semioficial plan for the proposed grand
music concourse in Golden Gate Park has been
completed and will be considered by the Park
Commissioners in few days. 1t is replete with
new features
The poolrooms are still wide open. Prose-
cutting Attorney John T. Dare, at the request
of the police, will submit amendment to
the pool-selling law to the next session of the
Roard of Supervisors.
The Southern Pacific Company's tariff on
crushed rock from Folsom prison has been
issued. San Francisco's rate is 50 cents, Oak
lands so cents, and to other points the charge
Is correspondingly low.
Arrangements have been almost completed
Nor an interclub regatta among the Cor1nth1an,
California and Encinal Yacht clubs which
promises to be one of the greatest aquatic events
ever witnessed on the bay.
Robert Capelle, a ticket agent of the Union Pa
eifc Railway, and an agent of the Burlington
Route, were heavily fined yesterday by the
local passenger association for selling tickets
TO the East under tariff rates.
Philip Gibbons, an oiler on the tug Sea King.
while filling a lighted lamp, exploded the
fluid, and severely burned himself on the head
and hands. He sprang overheard to escape the
flames, and came near being drowned.
A. L. Kurd Martens, who shot himself in the
saloon at 533 Sacramento street last Tuesday,
died al the Receiving Hospital yesterday morn
ing. The autopsy showed that the bullet
passed through the right lobe of the brain.
William Brown. alias George Donnelly, was
arrested last evening and charged with grand
larceny and battery. The first charge was be-
cause he snatched lady's purse from her
hand, the second because he resisted arrest.
Tomorrow afternoon at O'Clock Rev. Selah
Brown. ID, of Los Angeles will give an
interesting lecture in the Young Mems Chris
tan Association Hall, Mason and Ellis streets,
on The Fulfllment of Prophecy''-a special
talk to skeptically inclined. The seats win be
free to all young men.
The man-eating stallion, Jim Wicks. which
Professor Gleason will undertake to tame next
Sunday afternoon at Central Park Will arrive
here from San Jose this morning ut 10 o'clock
He will be guided, by strong men with gnv
ropes, up Third street to Market thence to tba
Golden Gate stables, where he will remain till
Sunday. '---
The filing in Of the late James G. Fairs
water lots at North Beach is to be resumed on |
August l. the heirs having signed a stinu1a
ton TO carry out the contract with Warren and !
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