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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-05
NO MONEY FOR SALARIES.
The Legal Fight Over the Tax
Levy Has Cut Off the
Supply.
ALL THE FUNDS EXHAUSTED.
a Tie-up in the Clty's Finances
Till the Court Settles the
Dispute.

The action of the Supreme Court in issu-
ing an alternative writ of mandate direct
ing the Supervisors to show cause why
they should not recognize the Mayors
right to veto the tax levy has in way
stopped the financial wheels in the City
government.
The assessment-books are in such con-
dition that the taxes may be collected, but
the officials are in quandary how to act.
One thing is certain. Treasurer Widber
will not pay out one dime of the money
collected till he is perfectly certain of the
law in the case. His official bondsmen
have too much at stake. So the municipal
officers will go without their salaries for
some time. So will a small army of mer-
chants who have bills against the City for
goous furnished.
Had no legal steps been taken against
the tax levy the assessment books would
have been regularly turned over to the
Tax Collector next Monday morning and
he would have begun collecting the taxes
for the forthcoming year. The money
would have been divided among the diff
ferent funds by the Treasurer, ne Auditor
would have Endorsed the proper bills and
there would have been no hitch in the
payment of money owed by the City.
Everything is different now. Au ditor
Broderick has had force of 100 clerks
working steadfastly in two shifts in order
to complete the assessment-books by Mon
day. The books are all ready to turn over
| to the Tax Collector. This will mean a
| complete tie-up in the payment of salaries
and bills owed by the City till the Supreme
Court settles the question of the tax levy.
The situation is very serious. The City
pays out something like $150,0O0 monthly
in salaries alone.
The schoolteachers will receive their
salaries this month and then the gates
will be closed against them. Under the
law certain money can be transferred to
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-05
THE THIRDS NEW ARMORY
A Palatial Home Planned for
the Local Militia
Regiment.
Officers Trying to Have Outside
Companies Chartered in
the Building.

Three plans for the Third Regiment
armory have been submitted, and of the
three those submitted by Martens & COT
fey have been declared the best. These
plans include building which is divided
into what are really two buildings, the
drillroom and that portion containing the
company rooms.
AS outlined in Martens e. Coffeys plan,
the regiment Will have the largest clear
floor in the City. The drill surface will be
98 by 1876 feet and be covered by an arch
roof Around the drill hall at the height
of the second story gallery ten feet wide
will be run, the outer ends of the floor
beams being supported by stay rods from
the arches in the roof. A band stand will
be erected on the north side of the gallery.
The lot, which is upon the south side of
Fulton street, between Van Ness avenue
and Polk street, is one of fifty varas and
what space is not taken up in accommodate
ing the drill-foor will be devoted to the
front building, where the company rooms
and parlors will be located.
This front will be three stories high,
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-05
DID IT FOR THE DOCTOR
Claim of a Man Convicted of
Robbing a Grave at Des
MOineS.
Affirmed by the Iowa Supreme
Court.

OMAHA, NEBR., Oct. 4.-The Supreme
Court of Iowa has affirmed the decision of
the lower court in the case of John w.
Schaeffer, convicted of robbing grave in
Des Moines, February %, 1892.
Schaeffer is one OF the clerks in the
United States Signal Office in this city, and
he said this afternoon that he had received
no official notice that the court had rem
dered its decision IN the case, but if it had
rehearing will probably be asked for
He said that he was not worrying about
the case.
The crime of which Mr.. Schaeffer is &C.
cused is robbing a grave for a medical
college in Des Moines. He says that
pauper died in Des Moines, and the next
night after the interment he was asked by
DR.. Overton of the college TO exhume the
body for scientific purposes. He was
shown papers, which the doctor claimed
were legal. and was asked to go in the
night, so as not TO excite public curiosity
He did so with two men, who went along
to do the digging.
The body was exhumed and taken to the
college. The three men were arrested, but
the doctor left Des Moines and fed to Lon
don, and thence to Rio Janeiro.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-05

to ambassador Bayard which will soon
Drlng the matter to an issue. This dispatch
is OF most positive and unequivocal ma
ture. AS soon as it shall be placed before
the British Government it will raise an
issue which can be settled only by the re-
treat OF one or the other Governments.
The stand taken by the United States
IN TINS dispatch is one which involves the
Oldest and most sacred traditions OF the
Government-an enforcement of the Mon
roe doctrine.
Secretary 0lney's dispatch is in sub
stance declaration in the most positive
language that the United States will never
consent to British occupation Of the dis
puted territory in Venezuela until that
nations right thereto is first determined
by arbitration.
The decision of the President and his
Cabinet advisers, after careful discussion
and painstaking investigation, is that the
bold and consistent policy shall be
adopted, and this policy shall be formu-
lated in the dispatch which ambassador
Bayard Will lay before the British Govern
ment as soon as he returns from his pres
ent Journey in Scotland.
This IS the substance of the dispatch,
which, in all probability, will soon become
one OF the most famous dispatches ever
sent out from the American State Depart
ment. 1t commits the United States to q
position which must be adhered to, and
the administration is prepared to stand by
it, and believes it will have the enthusiast
tic support Of Congress and of the country
therein.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-05
REVEALED BY A SHOCK,
Identity of a Woman Who
Worked in Bridgeport as
a Lineman."
After an Accident She Was Taken
to a Hospital and Her Sex
Discovered.

BRIDGEPORT, Conn, Oct. A curl
Gus effort at attempting to hide sex
identity was brought to the notice Of the
authorities here to-day. The force of
telegraph linemen was increased two weeks
ago by young fellow named Charles Nor
gan, who said that he had had experience,
and when trial had been given him it
was shown that he was speaking the
truth. He was of medium height and was
slenderly but strongly built. He had dark.
curling hair and very handsome face,
and was a general favorite with ali. AS
far as work was concerned he was the best
man on the force, being very regular and
seeming to know the business thoroughly.
Yesterday afternoon he climbed a pole on
Fairfield avenue, and was sitting on the
crosstrees making repairs when he touched
a live trolley wire with one hand, and
straightway the powerful current shot
through his body. He dropped to the
street with his body terribly burned. At
first it was thought that he was dead, and
he was taken TO the emergency hospital
and laid on the operating-table. The pulse
of his wrist was not noticeable, and DR..
Brennan unfastened and threw back the
shirt. He jumped away in amaZement,
and, looking at the smooth, delicate lines
of the body, he Immediately sent for one
of the nurses, saying that it was woman.
They tried all the remedies to revive her
and as a last resort threw her into an ice
bath, where she revived at once, and in a
few moments recovered enough to speak
When she had rested sufficiently she
said that her name was Minnie Howard
Briggs, and that she was professional
trapeze artist. Last winter the show to
which she was attached went to pieces and
she found herself long way from New
York without money. She had watched
the men fixing the electric lights in the
circus and had gained considerable of the
duties of the Hneman, and after some
trouble secured position and had been
at work since. She said that she had
worked at the big places in the State and
intended to stick to the business.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-05

the fund on which they draw. The last
transfer of that character has just been
made. Teachers and ianitors' warrants
will be ready for delivery at the rooms of
the Board of Education to-day.
Things have come to such pass on sal
airy warrants that the money-brokers are
beginning to refuse them even at exor-
bitant discounts. In the present muddled
condition of affairs they declare that ac-
cepting warrants Is too much of a gamble
even for them.
Treasurer Widber, in order to help out
municipal officials, drew some $500, COO
from the general fund some time ago and
paid most of it out in salaries. The State
may call on him for this money at any
time. In order to protect himself he is
segregating the collections as fast as they
come in from the fee bill and from licenses.
Placards are out in the Treasurer office,
giving notice that in the Street Depart
ment fund registered demands will be paid
only to No. 81. In the general fund regis
$50. All the funds are practically exhaust
ed, and little or no money will be hereafter
paid out by the Treasurer till the Supreme
Court settles the validity of the 81 rs tax
levy.
The Supervisors have been auditing bills
to carry on the City government. but these
bills will have to be pigeonholed under
u
worse fix temporarily than it was several
months ago when the inmates of the iails
and hospitals were threatened with famine,
because the merchants refused to furnish
food till their bills were paid. The Receiv-
ing Hospital fell short of medicine and
bandages at the time, and suffering pa
tients would have been in bad way but
for the kind offices of band of good Sa-
maritans.
Chairman Taylor of the Finance Com
mittee of the Board of Supervisors SAYS
that his hands are tied so far as doing any,
thing is concerned. The whole matter of
the tax levy has virtually passed out of the
hands of the Supervisors and now rests be-
tween Auditor Broderick and Tax Collector
Block.
"City and County Attorney Creswell is
OF the opinion that the collection of taxes
will be regularly proceeded with next
Tuesday. There has been no injunction
issued" he said, land consequently no
body has been restrained from doing any,
thing. Taxes become due next Monday
and delinquent some time in November
next. The Supreme Court is likely not to
decide the question till late in November.
If people do not pay their taxes then thew
are liable to the penalty imposed by law
don't think it will benefit any one to pay
taxes under protest"
According to Creswell the Mayors ap-
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-05

with a basement below. 1t is designed
somewhat upon the plans of q fortress,
and there are conveniences in it necessary
for any use TO which the hall may be put.
There will be two entrances, the smaller
one being designed exclusively for the use
of the companies housed within. The
main entrance is for state occasions. To
the right of this main entrance will be
ladies' parlors and cloakrooms. Between
the smaller entrance and the main door
way will be the armorers' room and the
stairways up and down stairs. To the left
of this entrance will be the officers par
lors, their locker-rooms and the ad iutant's
office.
On the second floor will be four company
rooms with side rooms for lockers opening
from each. long corridor will run be-
tween the rooms and the doors leading to
the gallery of the drill-hall and these
doors will be closed on social evenings,
thus etfectualIy dividing the two buildings.
The third story will be arranged in the
same manner.
In the basement there will be kitchen
and banquet hall, gentlemen's parlors,
shower baths, bathtubs, bowling alley
and shooting range. The walls of the
building will be brick and terra Gotta in
front.
The building will cost between $4,000
and 900 and will be erected by A. L.
Hooker, who owns the lot. Mr.. Hooker's
only anxiety, however, IS the prospect of
getting his rent regularly. There are now
six companies in the Third Regiment and
each of these expects to get but $50
month from the State. This gives the
regiment with the allowance of $50 a
month TO headquarters an income of $3.50
month. From the difference between
this and $425 must come the gas bills, the
ammunition bills, the cleaning and repair
ing OF uniforms, the armorer's salary, the
repairing of arms, company and regi-
mental stationery and other incidentals.
The amount left will not come near to
meeting these demands.
1t has been suggested, however, that the
two divisions of the Naval Battalion be
ordered to join the Third and fill the
eight company rooms and assist in paying
the rent Efforts are being made to have
the acknowledgement make such an order,
or failing TO do SO in the case of the Naval
Battalion, to assign other companies there
IN its place. Ii this be done the last OBJ
stacle will be removed and work will be
started as soon as possible.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-05
rs Lieutenant Paore fnsaneq

WASHINGTON, D. c., Oct 4.-The War
Department has received no advices re-
garding the attempt of Lieutenant Pague
to shoot Colonel Crofton at Fort Sheridan
yesterday. The case will not necessarily
come to the War Department. 1t occurred
in the Department of Missouri, and GEN
eral Merritt, commanding. will take what
ever action is necessary. In case court
martial is ordered and the court find Lieu
tenant Pague insane or recommend his
dismissal the case will then come to Wash
ington. If found insane he will probably
be ordered before retiring board for dis
missal.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-05

"Sweet eighteen" is going out of fashion, just
as "sweet sixteen" did some decades ago.
Many girls do not now enter society as soon as
woman's college or trip abroad or perhaps
merely stay home and perfect themselves in
some language or accomplishment for year
eighteen when they first make their bow to So
ciety. This is surely good arrangement, for
the days when bread-and- butter misses were
popular in the social world have long since
passed. Now the older women reign, and one
must know how to make oneself agreeable II
one expects to be success in Vanity Fair.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-05
WAS PROBABLY DRUGGED.
De ath of an Oakland Switchman After
a Spree.

De ath OF an Oakland Switchman After
Spree.
James s. Stevens, switchman. whose home
has been at 1916 Taylor street, Oakland, died
at the Receiving Hospital last night and his
BODY was taken to the Morgue. He had been
in the City since Monday, drinking heavily
and consorting with women, and on the Sd
street apparently drugged. He had about $50
when he started on his debauch, but only 30
cents was found on him when he was sent to
the hospital. 1t is supposed he was "doped"
with morphine and an inquest will be held.
The house at 627 California street is noto-
rious one. Three years ago q woman of the
Bella Union Theater, named Carrie Rodgers
robbed man of $50 there.
Police Officer Reynolds spent the night in
vestigating the case. l. E. Allen and William
Stevens was member OF West Shore Lodge No.
II, B. Z. T.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-05
auburn Mining Dtreou,e..

AUBURN, CAL, Oct. 3.-The following
delegates viii represent Auburn at the
State Miners Convention, October IA:
Hon. C. f. Reed, B. f. Hartley, T. J..
Nichols, A. X. Robinson, John Adams f.
h. Bell, NJ. T. Lawrence, Fred Deetken, w.
w. Rodehaver, ]. w. Morgan.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-05
COLD 1T rISALIA.
4 Rich Strike in the Old Barton Mine
Recently Bonded.

VISALIA, CAL, Oct. 1.-The old Barton
mine, twenty-five miles northeast of vi
salia, in Tulare County, has been bonded
by L. a. Johnson, ex-Sheriff ID. G. Over
all and ex-Deputv Sheriff W. H Hall.
The bond was $500. A shaft is now being
worked, night and day shifts
One hundred and fifty feet is now COM
pleted and a rich gold ledge has been
struck. The rock is of black color and
lined with flour gold valued at SIG per
ounce, an exceedingly high-grade ore.
This section has been worked with I'M
satisfactory results for many years. The
parties who have bonded the property are
well known IN mining circles and they are
elated over their discovery. 1t is but the
beginning of a general development of the
whole country.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-05
Our Society Blue-Book Now in Compi-
lation-Season 1S95-96.

The Fashionable Private Address Directory,
containing the names, addresses, reception
days and summer residences of the leading
families of San Francisco, Oakland, Alameda,
Berkeley, San Rafael, Sausaito, Santa Rosa,
Sacramento, Stockton, Menlo Park. San Carlos,
Palo Alto, Redwood City, Santa Cruz. Los
Angeles, San Diego, Santa Barbara. etc., with a
list of over $4,000 club members and their adj
dresses, the army ana navy, permanent guests
at the leading hotels, diagrams of the theaters,
ladies' shopping guide and business reference,
in sixteen parts OF 600 pages, all complete in
one volume. Sent TO any address C. o. d. !;
price So. limited number of first-cIass ad-
vertisements will be admitted. Address,
Charles c. Hoag, publisher, 179 Croker build
ing cor. Post and Market sts., San Francisco.
Corrections can be made at the stores of Hart
well, Mitchell & Willis, 225 Post st. formerly
Dodge's), or 1927 Polk st. Eureka Bazaar).
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-05
A WORTHLESS MORTGAGE.
Paul Pelton Claims He Has Been
Cheated to the Extent of
$4,000.

Warrants are out for the arrest of P Las
sen, L. w. Schnelle and j. II. Cummings,
upon charges of obtaining money and
goods under false pretenses from Paul f.
Pelton.
The complaint charges that the defen-
dants represented to Pelton that Cum
mings had bona fde mortgage upon 100
acres of the Rancho Roblar de Ia Missiria
il Sonoma County for $4,000. This mort
gage was transferred to Pelton for eighty
acres of land in Fresno County and 100
acres in Tehama County. He has since
found his $4,000 mortgage to be practi-
callv worthless, and he wants the perpe-
traitors of the fraud arrested.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-05
Hill He'd the Abdnctor.

ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, Oct. 4.-Miss Maude
Stedel, the 16-year-old girl arrested in
Chicago, and Father Dominick Wagner,
under arrest for her abduction. will be
married here to-day and legal proceedings
on the part of the mother of the girl will
be dropped. Father Wagner agrees to give
the girl $4,000 in cash and $4,000 in real
estate in order to escape prosecution.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-05

prevail of the tax levy is not necessary and
the Supervisors are right in their position.
Meanwhile both sides are preparing for
hard legal fight before the Supreme Court,
November 4, on the validity ofthe tax levy.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-05
NO PLACES UNDER DAGGET
Mcguire Nerer asked FdUors of the Mint
SMperfntendenf.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Oct. 4.-Repre-
sentative Mcguire says he has no appoint
ment in the mint under Daggett, and in
the face of the charge that he has two ap-
pointments there, he wants to deny the
story. He says he never asked for an ap-
pointment there and has none. Mcguire
leaves tomorrow for home
Ex-Representative English left tonight
for the coast. He has taken no part in the
mint trouble and has no appointment
there as he claims.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-05

Philippe I of France did not deserve the
title of the amorous any more than most
other French Kings, but in spite of this
fact 1t was bestowed upon him on account
OF his numerous intrigues with the ladies
of his court.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-05

Mrs. Frank Leslie has leased her inter-
est in the different Leslie publications to
syndicate for term of years, in order to
be relieved of the cares which she has
borne so long.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-05
THE VENEz UELAN BOUNDARY.
Firm Stand Taken by the United States |
Government.

NEW YORK, n. Y. Oct. 4.-The Her.
AIDS Washington special says: The great
International question of the hour is the
Venezuelan boundary line dispute.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1895-07-13

assures Mr.. Waterman that the men,
DRY of those courtesies is SO pleasant as
to compel him to forego doing even the
shadow of an injustice or rather emitting
to do justice to him, / simply, in a
moment OF absent mindedness wrote
The Bicycling World for the L. A. w.
Bulletin and l bow in humble apology
to the man who has written some of the
most popular newspaper poetry of the
day. No. nix pom honah. sab it amt
right and was not intended.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1895-07-13
FROM THE CYCLE EDITOR.

The COURIER has received the follow
ing communication this week from the
gifted associate editor OF the L. A. w.
Bulletin, Boston,: Dear Sir:-You
credit our Questions by a Beginner
jingle to the Bicycling World" Put
on your speckless specks, old boy.
Mighty glad to have you reprint our
stuff, but don't give it away to some
other paper, and thus send the children
Of our brain out into the newspaper
world with some other name blown in
the bottle, so to speak. By gosh, it
amt right. Now, honest injun, is it?
NIXON WATERMAN.
Nix" is not only poet but a gentle
man, and the Cycle Editor of The CoUR-
Ter remembers him as very affable,
kind hearted, jolly sort OF gentleman,
too, from whom he received a number
OF appreciated courtesies during visit
to Chicago some years since. And he