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The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1895-09-20

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS
There is an Il in the month. Wbme
are the oysters2
No fresh cases to-day. No deaths
All patients are convslescent.
There will be no mail from here
for the Coast before the I'd OF Octo
her.
The District Cour' was not in
session to-day. No judge was forth
coming.
All the patients at the Cholera
Hospital we're discharged this morn
lug as cured.
Three natives we're arrested for
vagrancy yesterday. Where are they
to get work2
Burn your old hat and buy new
one from l.. B. Kerr. Warranted
without commas.
Mr.. E. Suhr, of II. Hackfeld g. Co,
left on the Coptic. Mrs. Suhr &C
companied her husband.
Read the letter from the Hawaiian
Hardware Company in another col
umn and pause, think and buy.
The Monowai is due here from
San Francisc on the 26th inst. and
the Miowera from Victoria (B. CA
on the oath.
We regret to learn that Mr.. Thos.
Sorenson, the well-known ship
wright, is seriously i'll at his home
GA Nuuanu street.
The Sanitary Committee held a
meeting this morning with the in
spectors, in regard to the cleaning
mp work on Monday.
The new machinery for the ice
and refrigerating plant of the Hs.
waiian Electric Company will shortly
be placed in position.
The r. g. G.. Corsets are extra
long wasted and best corsets in the
market for the price. For sale by
n. S. Sachs, $40 Fort street.
The many friends of DR.. w. Mon
sarrat were glad to see him around
again to-day, fully recovered and
ready to go into harness again.
Over forty Hawaiians will be en-
ployed in whitewashing the town.
Among the number are the fisher
men from Molokai de, aimed here.
Through the personal efforts Of
p G.. Camarinos, the California
Fruit Company succeeded in getting
a lot of Samoan lines from the Ala
media yesterday.
The attention of ship masters is
called to the danger in using water
from the harbor for washing decks,
bathing and any other purposes.
Fresh water is plentiful.
1t is generally considered that the
tabu on fish from the cloan pond at
Eva can safely be lifted, and that
staple food from such ponds allowed
to be placed in the market,
The Ladies Relief Society will be
pleased to receive any clothes suita-
BILE for number Ell children from
months to Ia years Of age, who
are known to be destitute OF clothing,
The rumor afoat yesterday about
a case of cholera in Manoa proved
unfounded. DR.. Wayson imme.
diately left for the place designated
and found native suffering from
cramps.
Persons who are willing to act as
sub-inspectors during the cleaning
of the town, are requested to leave
their names at the headquarters OF
the Sanitary Committee, Garter &
Kinney's ofice)
The Hall returned yesterday. She
landed freight in Kau, and brought
: besides sugar and other freight 81
head OF cattle for the Metropolitan
Meat Co. She did not touch a
Maui. She will leave next Tuesda,
for Kau.
A sub-inspector while entering
yard in his district the other day
had a nasty encounter with dol
that wouldn't be inspected. Tn
inspector wants to know to whom h.
is to send bill for pair Of trouser
and half calf.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-15
A LARGE DEFICIT.
Auditor Frederick Says the Election
Commissioners Fund Is Overdrawn
Forty-four Thousand Dollars.

Auditor Broderick is wondering where
the deficit in the city's funds will end if he
is compelled to sign warrants for any more
overdrafts.
"The Election Commissioners fund is
now overdrawn $4, 900" he said yesterday,
land the court orders fund several thou
sands more. Now, if Assessor Siebe and
Tax Collector Block are TO be allowed lot
more money for extra help to get them
through their years work I don't see
where we are going to get Off The worst
OF 1T Is that | have to sign warrants for
these overdrafts and defend myself in the
courts when called upon to put the money
back into the treasury.
Il have paid already $4,000 out of my own
pocket to compensate the counsel l have
employed, and L see no signs that the
money will be returned to me. Should 1
refuse to sign suppose I would also have
to defend my action in the courts, so that
in either case l am between a certain un-
mentionable person and the deep sea-"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-15
REAL ESTATE AT AUCTION.
A Variety of Houses and Lots Sold at
Fair Prices.

Considerable interest was taken in the
auction sale of real estate held yesterday
by Won Rhein & Co. Although some prop
critics offered were withdrawn bidding was
active for other pieces, and prices obtained
were satisfactory.
The southeast corner of Post and Bu-
chanan streets, S7:6xS7 :6 feet, with stores
and dwellings renting for 5000 month,
was SOLD for $17,350. Eight lots on First
avenue, between California and Clement
streets, brought from $1,000 to $11Oo each,
and the owner being dissatisfied with these
prices withdrew the remainder Three
new flats on the northeast corner of Ridley
street and Elgin Park avenue, with lot 25x
rs feet, sold for 5000. A two-story house
at APO Green street, between Kearny and
Dupont. renting for $50, lot 20x57 IS feet,
sold for $4,000. Three fats renting for $50
at Is John street, off Mason, between jack
son and Pacific, lot 22x61, brought $4,000.
No. 920 Howard street, between Fifth and
Sixth, lot % :6x80 feet, with front and rear
house, sold for $500. A cottage of six
rooms, with a stable, and lot 25x120 at 1915
Geary street, brought $1,000. A lot on Van
Ness avenue 25x125 feet, 81: IS feet north of
Francisco, sold for $1,000, and nine-room
dwelling at 1912 Jackson street, above Ma
son, lot 25x68 g feet, sold for $500.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-15
WILL LEAVE THE COMPACT.
The TRANSATLANTIC FIRE INSUR-
ANCE COMPANY WANTS TO
CUT RATES.
ITS MANAGER PRESENTS A Con-
OPTIONAL RESIGNATION TO
THE UNION.

The Transatlantic Fire Insurance Com
pany of Hamburg has grown FESTIVE under
the restraint of compact rules and has
threatened to cut loose from the Board of
Fire Underwriters.
V. Carus Driffield, Pacific Coast manager
of the company, cannot bear to see his
business impaired by competition of the
independent insurance companies, against
which he cannot show fight without break
ing his pledges to the cnmpact. He ac-
cordingiy notified the Board of Fire Under
writers yesterday that he will resign from
that body unless an agreement with the
outside companies is speedily effected with
regard to rates.
Following the withdrawal of Manager
Hugh Craig of the New Zealand Company
Mr.. Driffield's unexpected action has ag-
gravated the feeling of concern among
local board maagers, who cannot but fore
see the beginning of a rapid process of dis
Indignation in the board. The matter was
discussed in executive session and the re-
suit was that Manager George II. Tyson of
the German-American Company was asked
to confer with the managers of the non
board companies and urge upon them the
Importance of coming to some understand
ing on rates regardless of union rules.
In view of the position assumed by some
corporations not IN the com pact, insurance
men say that Mr.. Tyson's mission is
hopeless one, and that being so there is
but one alternative left for the Transat-
lantic corporation-to become an indie
pendent company unhampered in any way
regarding rate cutting.
Probably the most reckless cutting took
place yesterday, when stocks of merchan-
disc in the Baldwin block were insured for
l per cent instead of 81 and per cent, as
heretofore. Goods in the rattle-trap frame
stores of the Blythe block were insured at
rs cents, where the rate used to be So So
Summing up the situation a very poor
outlook faces the insurance companies for
this year. The receipts on premiums for
1894 amounted to almost $11 900, 600, and
the losses were S., 127, 100. Expenses of
conducting the business are nearly 40 per
cent on an average, and added to the losses
left about 81 SOC, 900 to be divided as profits
on Pacific coast business. This year the
total amount of premiums will not go
much beyond 100000. Expenses will be
about s., 500 900, and losses certainly as
much as they were last year, if not, in
deed, considerably more under the tempta-
tons to arson offered by low rates. A
clean loss of fully 100000 is predicted,
should the rate war become general and
continue for any length of time.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-15
MUST PAY A. LICENSE,
The Agents of Foreign Corporations
Liable for Taxes.

The Agents of Foreign Corporations
Liable for Taxes.
In answer to request from License Col
lector Lees that he give an opinion as to
the liability of agents of foreign corpora
tons having the principal place of bust
ness in sister State to pay license tax,
City and County Attorney Creswel yes
terday returned the following answer:
From the decisions have consulted in SINH
brought into this State from sister State and
offered for sale by itinerant peddlerS in broken
packages they become mingled with and part
of the general mass of property within the
State, and as such are liable with other prop
erty of the State to the burden of taxation and
persons engaged in the business of selling and
offering the same for sale can be subjected to
gagged in similar occupations. A license tax
upon the business of selling or Offering for sale
any part OF the general mass of property of the
State within the State cannot be in any wav an
interference with interstate commerce. If
then this license tax does not interfere with
interstate commerce there can be no question
under the constitution and laws of this State of
tax upon the business under discussion The
Supreme Court of California in the case of In re
Guerrero, 80 CAL 81, holds that sections II and
II, article XI of the present constitution of
this State, gives the right to municipalities to
impose licenses for the purpose of regulation or
revenue, or for both regulation or revenue.
Order No. 1889 of the Board of Supervisors of
the city and county of San Francisco imposes
license tax upon peddlers, and subdivision
OF section II of article XLVIII of the same
ordinance provides who shall be considered to
be peddlers.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-15

tons have occurred on account of shall
water on the bar proper. The channel is
straight and does not shift.
10 fully realize and appreciate the situa-
ton 1t Is only necessary to look backward
lew years. Between October Is and De-
cember q, 1886, a period of over seventy
Gays, there were detained, loaded in this
harbor, tfty-siX sailing vessels and steam
e1s, aggregating a carrying capacity OF
1885 tons and employing over 400 seamen.
These vessels were valued at 81, 1856, COS,
their cargoes at $500, 500. altogether an idle
capital of 81 ,575, 500, and mourning an ex-
pense of $685. 20 daily. 1t can be safely
said, baslng the estimate upon this daily
expense OF $2S85 20, that the numbering in
terests of this county suffered an actual
loss of at least $4,000 during that year
from this cause of detention.
The people do not need to feel alarmed
about the jetty. Every foot of its original
length is there and not a large stone or a
brush mat has been displaced. AS far as
the trestle is concerned it was never ex-
pected to withstand the action of the
breakers.
Major w. Fl. Heuer, the engineer in
charge of our bar improvement, has every
reason to feel proud and satisfied with the
success OF the work. He has carefully
supervised the work and successfully met
each problem that presented itself There
have been no mistakes made by the en-
gineers in planning and carrying out this
great work
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-15
Was NOT AFRAID OF DEATH.
DR.. A. G. BAKER WRITES TO HIS
NEPHEW ANTICIPATING
THE EVENT.
SUFFERING FROM CANCER OF THE
TONGUE AND No HOPE OF
RECOVERY.

DR.. A. G. Baker, brother Of Colonel E. D.
Baker, who was killed at Balls Bluff dur
ing the civil war, died in Barry, H., yes
terday. He was the last of his family,
his sister, Mrs. T. F. Jerome mother of E.
G. Jerome, special deputy collector of this
port, having died in Sausalito two years
ago.
The doctor was a surgeon of eminent
ability, well known throughout the State
of Illinois, and his loss Will be severely
felt by those in and about his place of
residence, as he was true philanthropist,
always ready to attend the sick and the
poor without pay or hope of reward. Dur
ing the war he served for four years as
surgeon in his brothers regiment. He was
an old man of 80, but was not afraid to
look death in the face, as the following let
ter to his nephew, Special Deputy Collector
Jerome, will show:
that you are we'll wrote you a short note, in
which intimated that in few months you
would have no old uncle. l will explain
About the LIST OF October felt a lump at the
root OF my tongue. | went down to St. Louis
and called on DR.. Mudd, an old friend and an
eminent surgeon. l told him l thought the
lump had come to stay and take me with it,
he promptly assured me | was not mistaken.
Whatl a cancerous tumor? Well, how long do
you give me to live? From three TO six months
was the reply.
This would not have been my choice, AND
am aware that you and my dear kindred will
be much distressed at the idea of your old
uncle dying death So horrible as the one or
dained for me; but do Qotworry; shall not,
for the simple reason that shall do nothing Of
the kind. The Enclosed fable will give you to
understand why. You may ask how long will
1t be before the Governor will be reminded OF
his promise. answer do not know. At
present am i'll pretty fair health, suffer but
moderate pain, and rest without opiates In
fact, it has not yet broken me down. Yours
affectionstely, A. c. BAKER.
The fable was as follows:
ganic law made it capital otense TO live be-
yond eighty years. He passed the limit and
was tried and convicted OF the crime His SEN
tence followed, viz: You are to die with can
cerous disease of the throat. After you have
suffered all that humanity may suffer you must
perish by starvation. The old man, as is COM
mon, appealed to the Governor for mercy. The
Governors reply was: 1t is no case for pardon,
but I will modify the sentence. AFTER you
have suffered until life has no longer anv
charm, when you become burden on your
friends and death will be q welcome messenger
then if you will apply to me again will order
your execution in any manner you may Sc
lect"
To this the reply was: Governor, that is Just
as good thing as l could ask.
Serene fold my hands and wait,
And fear not tide nor storm nor sea;
No more seek to know my fate,
For now my fate has come TO me.
And in due time the old man, with malice
toward none and charity to all, serenely folded
and peacefully away. Who condemns the old
MANI
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-15
FOUGHT. FOR A GIRL.
Two Youths PummeI Each Other fol
Two Hours.


Two Hours.
For two hours Al Bailey and James Rag
gett fought with bare knuckles in Alamo
square, between Grove and Fulton streets,
early last Sunday morning. Each had a
second and ring was formed by their sup
porters and hackers. Bailey is 20 years of
age and Raggett Is.
A telephone message was sent to the
central police station and the patrol wagon
was dispatched with several officers. SEN
tinels posted around the square gave the
alarm and when the patrol wagon arrived
nobody was to be seen.
Sergeant Nash and Policeman W. D.
Scott obtained the names of the principals
and seconds, and they arrested Bailey and
Raggett. Warrants are out for the arrest
of the seconds, but they are keeping out OF
the way of the police.
Bailey and Raggett appeared in Judge
CampbeIPs court yesterday morning, to
answer to the charge of disturbing the
peace, and the cases were continued till to-
day.
A girl caused all the trouble. She was in
the roller-skating rink on Saturday night
and skated with Bailey and Raggett, but
Bailey was more favored than his rival
Raggett challenged Bailey to fight and the
victor could claim the girl. Owing to the
appearance of the police, the point is still
unsettled.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-15
ARGUING THE ROCK QUESTION.
owners of Bitumen Mines Before the
Supervisors.

owners of Bitumen Mines Before the
Supervisors.
The Street Committee of the Board of
Supervisors heard arguments regarding
the proposed change in the specifications
Tor street pavements at its session yester-
day. Representatives of the Jordan Btu
mlnous Rock Company, whose mines are
at San Luis Obispo, and of the Santa Cruz
Rock Pavlng Company, were present to
watch their interests in the matter, the
former to oppose the provision making it
opllgatory to bring the rock to this city in
It's natural state
1t was contended that the extra ex-
pense OF mixing it in the hold of the
vessel in which it must be brought would
smut them out of city work. The Santa
Cruz people said that they had the same
obstacles to overcome, and that what was
1alr tor one was fair to the other
Inc discussion finally degenerated into
Dandylng of challenges regarding the
quality OF the work done by the rival COM
panles. and the board stopped the wrangIe
by taxing the whole matter under advise
ment.
Supervisor Spreckels offered resolution
that the Office of Inspector of Sidewalks,
which was held by John W. Reed, be de-
clared vacant. This was carried, but an
other resolution Immediately offered by
Mr.. Spreckels that the position be filed by
the appointment of George W. Elder was,
much to the surprise of the Supervisor
from the Tenth, beaten.
The committee reported in favor of re-
sclnding the resolution passed by the board
on February %, accepting Guerrero street,
between Eighteenth and Nineteenth. A
number of property-owners were present
to testify as to the quality of the work
done, and all agreed that it was of poor
quality and not up to specifications.
Superintendent of Streets Ashworth said
that the concrete was not of good quality
but that the lack of uniformity in the
the railroad company in repairing the
thoroughfare after tearing up its tracks
rather than to the carelessness of the con-
tractor. The company will be required to
place its portion OF the roadway in proper
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-15
SAVED FROM RUIN.
A Young Girl Who Was Educated in a
Convent Rescued From Den
of Infamy.

To be educated in a convent and then to
be thrown into the dregs of society beyond
even the color line was the singular fate of
15-year-old Sarah Smith, who was yester-
day taken into the custody of the Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
Sarah's mother, handsome woman of
3d. was arrested at the same time in a
lodging-hous near Broadway and Kearny
street. She belongs, it appears, to the
Vasquez family of Santa Cruz. and it was
there she married John Henry Smith.
A few years after the marriage Smith
was sent to San Quentin for burglary and
his wife lost her love for him. Sarah was
taken care of by her grandmother, Mrs.
Geronimo Vasquez, and was educated by
the Sisters of the Holy Cross at Santa Cruz.
Mrs. Belle Smith, the child's mother,
had drifted in the meantime to San Fran
cisco and had become a dive waitress.
Some time ago Sarah grew tired of living
with her grandmother and went home to
her mother 1t was the sort of home that
parent provided that caused the Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to interfere
For Mrs. Smith having found her white
husband a snare and delusion, had set
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-15

Hunters" is a bronze statue more than
nine feet in height, and as piece of strong
work has received strong commentator
at the Paris Salon, the Columbian EXPOSE
ton and the Palace of Fine Arts in Chi
cago. 1t is now in Berkeley, and Superin-
tendent Wilkinson of the Deaf and Dumb
Asylum is most anxious that the work be
kept there as an evidence of what man
robbed by nature of the senses of speech
and hearing may do as an eXpositor of all
that is best and strongest in art.
There will be bill introduced in the
Legislature asking for an appropriation of
$4,000 for the purchase of this statue and
asking also that it be retained by the Ber-
statue Mr.. Wilkinson said, Gas proof of
what deaf-mute may do, Mr.. Tilden's
Bear Hunters stands without single
rival in the world. AS peice of sculpture,
barring none, it is worthy of and has re-
ceived compliments from all the art critics
of the world. That this State should let SO
unusual and so valuable work of sculp-
tural art pass from its hands. even to pri-
yate house ownership, is to admit that all
chance for the establishment of an art
gallery in the State and by State represen-
tation, is to be given up because Califor-
mans refuse to encourage California art.
Unless this class of work is fostered by the
OJate Inat gives III Dlrtn IL would be as we'll
to give up the idea that California has an
art entity of its own"
Even failing the passage of the bill an
attempt will be made to secure the statue
to the deaf and dumb asylum by private
subscription.
Should this also fail the statue will, in all
likelihood, go East, where it has already
been viewed, and, while not presented for
sale, very warmly commended Mr. Til
denis early work is not new to San Fran
ciscans. His ''The National Game" "The
Tired Boxer" and ''The Young Acrobat"
are already known to the habitues of
Golden Gate Park and the members of the
Bohemian Club of this city.
The picture presented is the first ever
reproduced in this city from the completed
statue, and shows with completeness the
line and action of the work that has made
for itself place in modern sculptural his
tory. This is one chance that California
has to prove that she is not unmindful of the
claims of native genius. Should the work
go East or to Europe, as it is almost sure
to do, failing of appreciation here, then
the art critics of the East would have a
perfect right to howl and declare San
Francisco to be lay in art, if not in
everything else.