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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-27
HISTORY OF A DAY.
Alameda County Happenings Told In
Brief CHAPTERS.

For months the city wharves of Oakland
have not been so busy as they are at present.
The Oakland Board of Education made its
assignment of teachers for the coming year on
Thursday night.
Mary NJ. Cornwall has sued j. E. McElrath
and others Tor $4,000 upon promissory note
made April 10, 1888.
Mayor Davie of Oakland makes his tours of
inspection on a wheel, the buggy not being
suitable Tor the purpose.
Bridget Green has sued the Farmers and
Mechanics Savings Bank TO quiet title to lot
on Seventh street, near Brush.
No credence is attached to the rumor that
Rev. Father MeSweeney of Oakland has been
appointed to succeed Bishop Manogue.
The ship Catherine Sudden, at present dis
charging at the Oakland city wharf, was the
scene of fierce mutiny two years ago.
In the suit of Della J. Walker against William
IT Walker to quiet title, decree has been
granted in favor of plaintiff, as prayed for.
Franklin Cooper. o native of Gettysburg, Pa,
coed 40 years. died Thursday at 1905 Sixth
avenue, Oakland, after residence OF eleven
years there.
Mrs. Lizzie Frances Massie the popular SOU
brette who became a favorite at the Oakland
Theater when it was first established, died last
evening at her residence, 1913 Linden street.
San Francisco creditor of Sholto Douglas
lately sent over to attach some OF his belong
ings. but the Deputy Sheriff who went to Ala
media could find nothing that was not exempt.
The bond of ]. Dalziel Brown and Edward
connoIIev as executors of the will of William
q Rousfield has been filed In the sum OF
81 3 600. with F. w. Lougee and John Tread
well as suretes.
WilliamyL Tomlins, distinguished must
clan of Chicago, who is visiting the coast, gave
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-27
LATE NEWS OF ALAMEDA,
The Proposed Pennant Re-
gatta of the EnCinals
This Afternoon.
A Fraudulent Check Operator
Wanted by the Police-DriVer
Harvey Injured.

The annual challenge pennant regatta
of the Encinal Yacht Club will take place
this afternoon commencing at 2 o'clock
over the clubs new course. The tide will
be up and it is hoped that breeze will
blow SO as to make possible trials of speed
between the competing craft. Therefore
the greatest interest is manifested in the
race.
Fraudulent Checks Abroad.
The police OF this city are industriously
looking for a smooth operator who has
been going about the county trying to
raise money on fraudulent checks. He
tried his scheme in this city, but failed to
catch any victims. One of his intended
dupes in Alameda was the firm of Strong
81 Daniels, of the Alameda Market, on
Park street, where he sent boy to collect
$40 on check with the signature of Gray
son, Owen & Co., the wholesale meat
men. The boy, who was not very bright,
informed Mr.. Strong that man had sent
him to collect the money, and Mr.. Strong,
preferring to deal with him direct, refused
to honor the check. The holder did not
present himself afterward. The checks
which the swindler presents are drawn
against the Central Bank of Oakland, and
bear the signature of Grayson, Owen Co.
Longfe1low School Building.
Inc new LOuSlellOW DCilOOl UuliuiHS az
West End will not be ready for occupancy
Thursday when all the schools of Alameda
will open after the summer vacation. How
ever, the old building has not yet been re-
moved or destroyed, and Superintendent
of Schools Sullivan will have to make use
of it for at least one week, by which time
the new building will be completed.
A Driver Injured.
Elmo Harvey, local driver for Wells,
Fargo & Co., met with an accident yester-
day afternoon in alighting from the wagon
in front of the Office. He slipped from the
wheel and struck the sharp edge of the
step, cutting deep cash in the right foot.
He will be laid up for several weeks as a
consequence. Burt Kinyon will be substi-
tuted in his place.
For Creating Disturbance.
Alexander Wallace, who created a dis
turbance at the Occidental Hotel when the
landlady made demand upon him to set
tie his account, was sentenced by Justice
of the Peace Morris yesterday to sixty
days Imprisonment in the county jail.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-27
ELECTION COMMISSIONERS.
Reasons Given for Not Electing Jacob
Steppacher Assistant Secretary
of the Board,

The new Board of Election Commission
ers will try again next Tuesday to elect an
assistant secretary. AS the board is now
organized the Democrats have the chair
man and secretary.
Several leading Republicans of the State
Central Committee have Endorsed Jacob
Steppacher for assistant secretary, but
Commissioner Foster prefers another can
didate. The motive assigned for opposing
Steppacher is the statement that twenty
years ago he went to the country with a
club roll, at the suggestion of William
Higgins, who was then the Republican
boss. Steppacher's friends say that even
if their candidate did bolt for the woods
with club roll in his pocket the act was
the indiscretion of youthful politician,
who regarded the orders of the boss as the
decree of the party. In Steppacher's behalf,
it is said that he worked earnestly at Sac
ramento for the passage of the Australian
ballot law and other bills to promote
purity in elections.
Many leading Republicans now hope
that the law creating the Board OF Election
Commissioners will be declared unconsti-
tutional. OF late little has been said in the
Union League Club about employing coun-
sci to defend the law.
At last accounts ex-Boss Dan Burns was
at Saratoga, n. Y. His wife left the City
last evening to join him.
Police Commissioner Moses Gunst is ex-
pected to return to San Francisco next
week.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-27
LATEST BERKELEY NEWS,
A. Boomer Ball to Be Given by
the Foresters Next
Month.
band, but Is Repulsed-The
Crescent Club.

Berkeley is to have a bloomer ball. and
the Ancient Order of Foresters has taken
it upon itself to see that the affair is
a success.
A gold medal will be presented the
wearer of the prettiest costume on the
floor, and the many devotees of the wheel
in Berkeley are already making prepa-
rations to carry away the prize. The
evening set for this exposition of bloomer
attire is Saturday night, August II.
Deserted His Wife.
Mrs. Burgess, who lives on Fair Oaks
street, San Francisco, has made complaint
to Marshal Lloyd that her husband de-
serted her about week ago and is now re-
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-27
For an Omcial Map.

F. W. Dohrmann. president of the Merchants
Association, has addressed q communication
to the Finance Committee of the Board of Su-
pervisors regarding the request for an appro-
prfation of $40 900 for an official map. The
committee is requested, if an appropriation is
made, that it do not exceed $4,000. Mr. Dohr-
mann states that the association Is satisfied,
on the report of its engineer, that the work
that the difference between that amount and
the $4,000 be turned over to the general fund.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-27
SOANLAN TO STAND TRIAL.
He Sent a Dunning Postal Card Through
the Mail.

G. A. Seaman will have to stand trial.
He sent postal card through the mail
saying a man who owed him $3.50 was
putting on airs at other peoples ex-
pense." His attorney introduced de-
murrer on the ground that the postal card
did not reflect iniuriously on the person to
whom it was written.
The case was argued pro and con for
over an hour. but finally United States
District Judge Morrow decided that the
demurrer was not we'll taken. Had the
language used been inclosed in an en-
velope, instead of being on a postal card
the demurrer would have been sustained.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-27
BUILDING MANY VESSELS,
Renewed Life on Both Sides of
the Alameda Estu-
airy.
OPENING oAKLAND's STREETS.
Many Square Miles OF Marsh Land
Made Into Good Commercial
Property.

The building yards on the estuary
are buster now than they have been for
some time, and the merry noise of ham,
mers and calking irons is heard from morn
till night. On both sides of the inlet there
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-27
Snad by tho WIDOW.

Mrs. Theodore Fronega, widow of a man who
was killed by the train near the Seventh street
crossing last January, is suing the Southern
Pacific Company for $4,000 damages.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-27
The Uission yerein Mortpape.

The Mission Turn Verein's application to
mortgage its property for $28 600 was gran ted
yesterday by Judge Ssnderson.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-27
CUNARD LINE.
New York to Liverpool, via Queenstown,
from Pier 40, North River.

from P1er 40, NOrth RlVer.
FAST EXPRESS MAIL SERVICE.
Aurania, Aug. 8, 3 PM Campania, Aug. 81, NJ
Umbria Aug. TO- 8 A NJ Umbria, Sept. z, ga NJ
Lucana, Aug II, 1PM Lucania. Sept. IA. Noon
Etrura, Aug. "a, AN Ftrura Sent. 81, A NJ
Cabin passage $50 and upward; second cabin
$50, $40, $40, according to steamer and accommo.
dations. =,
Steerage tickets to and from all parts OF Europe
at very low rates. For freight and passage apply
at couipany's Office, Bowling Green, New York.
VERNON II. BROWN & CO., General Agents.
Good accommodation can always be secured on
application to WILLIAMS, DIM0ND d CO..
Agents, San Francisco.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-27

siding in North Berkeley at the home of
Mrs. Brooks. She went to her husband
Thursday and urged his return, but was
repulsed with scorn, and she then sought
the assistance of Marshal Lloyd.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-27

A. 0. Putzker and George Woodsum were
elected to the board of directors and W. O..
Gompertz was chosen secretary.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-27
Borrows, but Never Returns

thursday and urged his return, put was
repulsed with scorn, and she then sought
the assistance of Marshal Lloyd.
Borrows, but Never Returns.
An unknown man, described as being
short and OF slight build, light complexion,
and wearing brown mustache, has been
going the rounds in Berkeley borrowing
tools, sush as hoes, axes, shovels and
spades, under the pretense of being en-
ployed near by and PROMISING to return the
implement in short time. A score or more
of South Berkeley residents have loaned
him tools, which he has not in single in
stance returned.
Crescent Club Doings.
Work was commenced yesterday fitting
up reading-room adjoining the Crescent
Athletic Club gymnasium for the use of
its members.
It is expected that the club will have
representative at the boxing tournament
which will soon be held in San Francisco,
as there are several promising men in the
club DESTROYS of fistic honors. The most
likely candidate seems to be J. G. Berry,
who weighs in at lbs pounds and is said to
be hard hitter.
At the club meeting Thursday evening
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-27

on Monday morning. Two of them arrived in
Berkeley two hours and half after their re-
lease at Fresno.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-27
OCEAN STEAMSHIPS.
ROYAL MAIL STEAM PACKET COMPANY

CLEANERS LEAVE ASPINWALL AE4n
- fortnightly .or the West Indies and Gz43zzzz3
Southampton, calling route at CerDourg1s
France and Plymouth to land passengers.
Through bills Of lading, in connection WIFE che
Pacific Mail s. 9. Co., issued for freight and treas
are to direct ports in England and Germany
Through tickets from San Francisco to Plymouth,
Cherbourg, Southampton. First class, $196; third
class, $o7 CO. For further particulars apply to
PARROTT & CO., Agents,
sos California At.
STOCKTON STEAMERS
Leave Pier No. 3, Washington Str
At p. NJ. Daily, Except Sunday.
EI Accommodations Reserved by Telephone.
STEAMERS:
Il. @. Walker. j. ID. Peters,
Mary CARAT, City of stockton.
Ielsphone Main SOB. Cal Nav. and Impt. Co.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-27

We Will SAVE YUU QUO
Homeopathic Tinctures and Pellets. ...........15c
Humphreys Specifics ................ 40c and SOC
Qunne Pills. 2 grains. per 100. 25c
Qunne Pills, grains, per 100. ................35c
Fountain Syrnges, 2quart. ....................70c
Fountain Syrnges, 3-quart ....................75c
Fountain Syrnges, 4-quart. ...................S5
Damiana Bitters and Sierra Kidney Cure. ......75c
Trusses others ask So 90 to SIS O0.............
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS price 81 rs to $5 90
Electric Belts ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 90 to $15 90
SILK Stockings. Observation-Disclosures so
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-27

! Special sunday FL campo service.
STEAMER UKIAH leaves Tiburon ferry every
Sunday-10:30 A NJ, 1910 200 and 400 P. NJ.
Returning-Leaye Ell Campo at 1:00, 500 and
100 .. NJ.
TICKET Offices, $50 Market ST., Chronicle building.
II. 9. WHITING, R.X. RYAN,
Gen. Manager. Gen. Pass. Agent
The Opelousas courier., 1895-07-13
RAIL RUM BILLINGS.

THE summit of Mount Vesuvius can
now be reached by a cable railway.
The Pennsylvania is preparing draw
!ngs for a compound freight locomo-
tive.
AT the end of March last year there
were $40 compound locomotives on tho
Prussian state railroads.
Or the thirty-eight street railway
companies in New Jersey only four paid
q dividend last year.
A MAP recently issued by the New
York Central shows that the Grand
Central station is u located in the exact
center of the metropolis.
UNDER the new rules Of the Pennsyl-
vania company all train men hereafter
employed must be five feet nine inches
tall.
THE steam railways are suffering
from the competition of the trolley
roads, and now the cry is raised that
the trolleys are being painfully de-
pleted Of their traffic by the bicycles.
THE whole length of Russian rail-
roads is now twenty-three thousand
one hundred and thirteen miles, Of
which twenty thousand eight hundred
and thirty miles belong to the govern
ment and are under the control Of the
ministry of ways of communication.
In all, the length of the track laid on
the Siberian railroad is now one thou
sand and twelve miles, whict is less
than oue-uuarter and more than one
fifth Of the whole length of the Siberian
main line flour thousand five hundred
and fftv milesl.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-07-13
DECORATION OF WALLS.
The Modern Taste Is for Plainness and
Simplicity.

The Modern Taste Is for Plainness and
Simplicity.
There has been a most marked Inn
provement in the last decade in the
decoration Of walls. The aesthetic
movement, which started in England
a score of years ago, though justly
ridiculed, has been productive Of
much good in calling popular taste
toward a higher standard of decora-
ton than that then prevalent. The
picturesque conventionalized papers
sent over from the London art decora-
tors have been copied by American
manufacturers and many novel and
beautiful patterns have been designed
in this country. The papers, which
can be purchased to-day for twelve
cents a roll, are superior in design to
those which sold we'll twenty-five
years ago at one dolla.M We do not
mean that all wallpapers are printed
in good taste. Snowy colors and loud
the exception rather than the
rule. Simple patterns in two or
three shades Of the same color, or in
two contrasting ~colors, are the rule.
Just at present many cartridge papers
in tints OF delft blue, pale green, dull
rose Or turquoise are used. These
plain papers are finished with a frieze
N,Tying from twenty to thirty inches
in'~Yidth. This may be of figured pa
per In a ground in the same color, but
a shade lighter than the body of the
wall. eat the bottom of this frieze is
fixed the picture molding, an incon-
spicuous molding in ivory white and
gold, or some plain enamel matching
the paint of the room. In bedrooms a
chintz is sometimes substituted for the
paper frieze. This is put On in the
same way as paper, but is tackled, not
pasted in place. A short, fluffy fringe
of cotton balls conceals the places
where the breadths of the chintz arc
Joined, and it is sometimes carried
around the edge of the wall, where
it meets the ceiling. The curtains and
other upholstery of the room arc
then of chintz. II is not SO ex-
seem, for very pretty chintz may now,
be purchased for twenty-five cents in
yard-wide goods. Blue denim, which
can be found at twelve cents a yard,
makes a good frieze for a blue and
white In this case the rule must
be reversed and the side walls papered
with a figured paper in blue and white,
and the frieze be made Of the denim
turned on its right side. There should
be some old willow, or old delft blue
plates, hung on the wall in such a
room, and drapery shoald be of denim
finished with a narrow ball fringe of
white cotton. The ceiling in all rooms
recently papered are finished with a
simple ceiling paper in a tint lighter
than the frieze, which is considerably
lighter than the rest of the wall.
Dados are seldom seen except in rooms
like the dining-room, where there is a
chair rail; the space between this rail
and the Dashboard is then finished off
with a paper darker in color than the
rest. These gqcrps, however, are more
often waiDscoted.-N. Y. Tribune.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-07-13
THE GHNMAKER OF LION
Jefferson M. Clough Refuses a
Tempting Offer from the Chi.
nese Government.
ais Health Was Too Poor to Permit At
tentlon to BnsIness-A Great Sufferer
for Many Years, But Has Now
Racovered.

AAoSotCEch
tFrom the Springfield, Ikass Union.)
There isn't a gun manufacturer in the
United States who does not know Jefferson
NJ. Clough, and wfyi Because he has been
Intimately associated all his life with the
development of the two best American
rifles, the Remington and Winchester. For
years he was superintendent Of the E.. Rem
lngton & Sons great factory at lion, N. Y.
After leaving there he refused a tempting
offer of the Chinese Government to go to
China to superintend their government fac
tories-and accepted instead the superin-
tendency Of the Winchester-Arms Co., at
New Haven, at a salary of $3.50 a year.
1t was after this long term of active labor
as a business mar that he found himself in
capacitated for further service by the en-
barge which rheumatism had laid upon him
and resigned his position more than two
years ago, and returned to Belchertown,
Mass, where he now lives and owns the
Phelps farm, a retired spot where he has
five hundred acres of land. =
Being q man of means he did not spare
the cost and was treated by leading physi-
clans and by baths at celebrated springs
without receiving any benefit worth notice.
During the summer of 1893 and the winter
of 1894 Mr.. Clough was confined to his house
in BeIchertown, being unable to rise from
his bed without assistance, and suffering
continually with acute pains and with no
taste or desire for food, nor was he able to
OBTAIN sufficient sleep.
Early in the year 1894 Mr.. Clough heard
of DR.. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People.
He began taking these pills about the first
of March 1894 and continued to do so until
the first part of September following. The
first effect noticed wasa better appetite and
he began to note more ability to help him.
self off the bed and to be better generally.
Last August Qs9A he was able to go alone
to his summer residence and farm Of 1863
acres on Grenadier Island, among the
Thousand Islands, in the river st. Law
renee, where from the highest land of his
farm he commands a view for Is miles
down the river, and 60 of the Thousand
Islands can be seen.
Instead of being confined to his bed Mr..
Clough is now and has been for some time
able to be about the farm to direct the men
employed there and he is thankful for what
DR.. Williams Pink Pills have done for i'm.
These pills are manufactured by the DR..
Williams Medicine Company, Schenectady,
N. Y, and are sold only in boxes bearing
the firms trade MARI and wrapper, at 90
cents a box or six boxes for $3.50, and are
never sold in bulk. They nay be had OF all
druggists or direct by mail from DR.. Will
liams' Medicine Company.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-07-13
OLD TIME BALL PLAYERS,

BILLY SUNDAY is an evangelist.
"TIM" KEEFE is a league umpire.
FRED DUNLOP is a landlord in Chica-
60.
"HAEK" O'DAY is q Chicago politician.
PETE BROWNING Is resting" in Louis.
vile.
JIM WHITE is farming near Corning,
N. Y.
CAL McvEY issa contractor in Cali-
fornia.
Ross BARNES is a,stock broker in Chi
cago.
JIMMIE CALVIN is q bartender at Oak
land.
JOHN REILLY is q draughtsman in
Cincinnati.
JACK NELSON owns a milk route in
Brooklyn.
JOHN CLARKsoa has q cigar business
in Bay City.
HANLoN is B%altiraore's president and
manager.
FRANK HARK1ssoN' owns q saloon in
New York.
DAN RICHARDSON has q dry goods
store at Elmira, Ohio.
HARRY STovEY seems to have dropped
out Of sight.
JOHN CoBKH1LL is In the grocery bust
ness at Camden, Ohio.
CARUTHERs is in tho hardware busi-
ness at Chicago.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-07-13
Sad Fate of a Ground Hog.

A freight cal loaded with grain was
si~de-tracked a few days ago in Phila.
delphia. One of the attaches about
the yard opened the door of the car
and left it standing ajar. Shortly
after this a little animal poked it's nose
out of tine door and then jumped to the
ground below. 1t vas a ground hog.
A little colored boy, who happened to
be near, saw the animal and gave
chase. The ground hog was so fat
from feasting upon the inexhaustible
supply of wheat that it couldn't run a
little bit, and the boy soon caught and
killed it. The animal had probably
crawled into the car in western Penn.
sylvania, before it was loaded. and had
simply gorged itself upon the wheat
with which the car was afterward
filled.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-07-13
DANGEROUS TOYS,
Children's Playthings as q Means OF
Spreading Disease.

Chiidren's PIaythings As q Means OF
Spreading Disease.
The London Lancet sounds a note of
warning hat should be echoed through
every civilized land on the face of
Christendom. 1t relates an instance of
a consumptive who had a stand on the
street for selling little toys with
whistles in imitation of birds. These
toys were sold for a penny. After
playing until the attention of some
youngster vas attracted, the toy he
had been using was bought by the
child, who put into his own mouth the
wet end of the whistle covered with the
saliva of the vendor.
This is but a sample OF the ways in
which diseases are spread. Who can
say but that all of these toys are
brought by the seller from homes
where diseases of all sorts run riot!
The petted darling of some household
where health and hygiene are observed
may take into his mouth one of these
pipes that some scarlet-fever or diph-
theritic child has played with the night
before.
Not long since, on a metropolitan
thoroughfare. a man selling these
bird-whistles allowed half a dozen
children to take a little loot at them.
No one seemed to realize that any one
of these little ones might be coming
down with some contagious disease, or
that the blast of a tiny trumpet might
be the call of the minister of death.
1t is quite time that some peremp-
tory measures were taken to restrict
peddling by persons who are simply
hotbeds of contagious germs, and
whose very touch is communicating.
1t is said that life is a choice of evils,
but at least parents can refuse to Sc
lect for their little ones toys that in
the nature of things are laden with
the very evils that they SO steadily
seek to avoid.-N. Y. Ledger.