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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-25
RHOADS' DOCTORS BILL,
The Sacramento Politician In
sistS That He Is Being I'm
posed Upon.
An Array of Attorneys VIII Be
Present When the Case Is Called
in Court.

Frank Rhoads, the well-known Sacra-
mento politician, Is in trouble. He has
been sued for $3.50 doctors bill, and un-
less the case is settled to-day it must come
to trial in the morning, and that is some
thing that neither party to the suit de-
sires. Rhoads does not want the notoriety
and the plaintiff wants his money.
According to the records of the Justices
Courts, DR.. J. J. Clarke wants fee of $3.50
from Frank Rhoads for medical attend
ance upon his wife, Jane Doe Rhoads.
This was all right as far as it went, but
when the attorneys for DR.. Clarke began a
hunt for Mrs. Rhoads they could not find
her. They hunted high and they hunted
low, but she had vanished into space.
Nevertheless they did not give up hope
and began suit to recover the money. E.
Crisp and ex-Judge Cobb will represent
the prosecution and at least three pToml-
nent attorneys will defend Rhoads. The
principal witness in the case will be Mrs.
Austey, who lives on Eddy street. Justice
of the Peace Cook will decide upon the
merits of the case.
The woman in the case is the most inter-
esting party in the suit. She has been
located by the prosecution and served with
subpoena. She refused point blank. TO
attend and said she would "cut her
throat sooner than appear in court. She
is very determined woman and the at
torneys for the prosecution are keeping a
close watch in order to see that she does
not carry out her threat.
When the case is called tomorrow morn
ing by Justice of the Peace Cook there is
expected to be quite a gathering OF polltl-
clans, attorneys and others.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-25
SCORED BY THE JUDGE,
An Insurance Company Criti-
CiZed for a Refusal
to Pay.
Judge Sanderson Uses Vigorous
Language Regarding a Fight
Over an Accident Claim.

Mrs. Esther Grennan sued the Preferred
Mutual Accident Association of New York
for $4,000, life insurance on policy held
by her son, William Grennan.
Giving the plaintiff judgment for the
full amount, Judge Sanderson yesterday
filed an opinion, in which he severely criti-
cized the action of the company.
The evidence in the case was that on Oc-
tober 3, 1894, Grennan went fishing at
Tiburon and was drowned, it being sup
posed that he accidentally fell from the
boat. He held an accident policy for $50OO
and the company refused to pay the
money, alleging suicide. Mrs. Grennan
began suit. One point of defense was that
death by drowning was not death by ex-
ternal, violent or accidental means. as
called tor in the policy. Said Judge San
derson:
This defense is not tenable. The policy did
not except death by drowning, and that is as
much death by violent and external means"
as death by gunshot. Death by drowning left
visible mark upon the body, as provided
am well aware that insurance companies
are frequently duped by fraudulent and de-
signing persons and by reason of well-organ-
lied and successful villainy no doubt have
often paid claims which ought to have been
defeated, and therefore of necessity insurance
companies are obliged to proceed with great
caution and exercise a vigorous scrutiny in
examining and paying presented claims. But
there is no reason why a claim of this charac-
ter should De forced into litigation.
On every ground of open and fair dealing
between the insurance company and the
parties in interest, this claim ought to have
been paid without driving the plaintiff into a
court of law to collect the money legally and
justly due her. No defense worthy a moments
consideration by an individual or corporation
DESTROYS or willing of meeting its honest obli-
cations was interposed, or could possibly have
been interposed, under the facts within the
common knowledge of all concerned, to the
prompt payment of this claim for insurance.
How an insurance company can expect to
carry on and successfully conduct its business
and contest claims of this character is a prob
lem more difficult to answer than is submitted
to me herein for solution. 1t was bad enough
in all conscience, to contest this claim at all
in court, under the proofs submitted to it and
open to its knowledge and inspection equally
with that of plaintiff, but its conduct at the
trial in needlessly and wantonly assailing the
memory of the deceased, by seeking to cast
upon it the undeserved and unwarranted as
PERSON of drunkenness, debauchery and sui
cide was doubly reprehensible, and deserving
of more severe rebuke than was capable OF
administering.
1t naturally follows from the foregoing that
the judgment in this action if for the plaintiff,
and it is so ordered.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-25

The. vice. principal, Miss Sullivan, put
the children through the fire drill, and its
fourteen classes released themselves from
the building in perfect order in a minute
and a half-exhibiting a discipline worthy
of better surroundings.
The Buena Vista School, on York street !;
the Columbia School, on Columbia street !;
the Horace Mann, on Valencia street; the
Irving Primary. on Broadway, and the
Cooper Primary, on Greenwich street,
were visited in turn, and the same i'll
smell decay and air of malaria and desola-
ton, with here and there more emphatic
complaint about leaky roofs, was discov-
cred at them all. Everything wore the ap-
pearance of absolute neglect not of one
but MANY years.
Now" said Chairman McElroy of the
Building Committee. ':the need of money
for the department will be appreciated at
least by you who. have witnessed it. What
you have seen is only that which can be
found at nearly every school in the City
The 81, 100000 allowed us is nearly all
eaten up with running expenses. The
schoolhouses have been allowed to so run
down that they can't go much further
without falling to pieces. 1t will require
600 alone to put the vaults into ordi-
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been told the board regarding the I'M
healthy condition of the schools was in no
case overdrawn.
He will recommend the closing of the
Sutro Primary School and possibly others.
The whole tour was disheartening one
to the entire party, placing as it did by its
revelations an effectual check upon the
natural pride in the public schools with
which they began 1t.
The Lincoln Grammar and Webster Pri-
mary School on Fifth street were first Wis
tied. Here they found age, neglect and
decay to have laid its slow, despoiling
hand upon everything; broken, rotten,
loose planking serving the children as a
Playground basement rooms used by the
schools that smelled of mold and required
the burning of gas in daylight, ill-smelling
vaults and surroundings that call up Wis
ions of the more congested tenement dis
tricts of New York-the rear end of high,
Market-street buildings abutting directly
upon the schoolyard and the alleyway by
which the children come and go from this
ill-favored place.
They next went to the Richmond Dis
trict School, where they found a building
having plenty of light and air, for the
reason that there are no others near it, but
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-25
THE LATE ORIENTAL WAR,
An Instructive Lecture by War
Correspondent Walter
Clifford Smith.
Japan's Great Political Strength
Versus China'S Vast Territory
and Weakness.

A large and deeply interested audience
listened last night in Golden Gate Hall to
an instructive lecture entitled "The War
Between Japan and China" delivered by
Walter Clifford Smith, assistant City editor
of the Chronicle and war correspondent of
that paper in Japan, China, Korea and
Hawaii. A hundred stere opticon views
from photographs, taken while on the
march or under the fire of Chinese guns,
were displayed during the narrative, bring
ing the Oriental campaign wildly before
the mind.
MIR. Smith was introduced by Fred w.
Evelyn president of the Geographical
Society, and said in part:
The war between China and Japan, although
it seemed to come suddenly, was in prepare
ton by the japanese as early as 1870. For q
hundred years the relations between the two
nations were strained; but China, then in her
bow-and-aTrow stage, was not anxious to en-
gage in hostilities.
Not until the summer of 1894 did any Euro
pean Cabinet believe it possible that Japan
would take the offensive. China was always
regarded as brooding lion by all the world
that needed only to be awakened to cause
havoc among the greater nations
The Chinese at first refused to received the
ambassadors of foreign nations, and afterward
only on the condition that they crawl before
the Emperor's presence. They held the Japan
csc to be not men but ''baboons," and worthy
of no consideration whatever.
A great change came over Japan near the
year 1870. Her court was transferred from a
fantastic orientalism to condition bordering
on the modern European. Her Emperor was
CARRIED in European uniform. His wife was at
tired after Partisan mode. Japan knew the diff
ference between political and geographical
greatness. She was ambitious to become the
England of the East.
Her army was well clothed, well rationed
and well armed. 1t was under the finest dis
cipline, and had educated officers at its head.
Japan, by system of espionage begun years
before the war, had thoroughly acquainted
herself with the enemy's country. When her
troops landed in Korea they even found bun
dies of fuel stored up, prepared for their use.
The speaker concluded with glowing
eulogism to Japanese valor, and prophesy
of the coming greatness of the island king
dom. It's generals possessed the same fire of
patriotism that Marion had when he fought
for Americas freedom, and its soldiers
went to the field Of battle hoping that they
might die for their country.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-25
TEACHER KENNBDY's PLACE.
Aspirants for the Post Left Vacant by
His Death.

Aspirants for the Post Left Vacant by
His Death.
Who will get Professor Kennedy's place
as principal of the San Francisco Normal
School? That is the question that is be-
ing asked by good many ambitious mem
bers of the School Department.
The friends of Miss Laura I. Fowler, the
assistant principal, believe that she has a
very excellent chance for the position. AT
the time of Professor Kennedys election
to the place two months ago Miss Fowler
was his strongest competitor. William S.
Monroe of Los Angeles was the only other
person who really figured in the contest.
When the vote was called School Directors
Comte, Carew, Clinton and McElroy voted
for Miss Fowler. Director Murdoch voted
for Monroe, and Directors Dodge, Barrett,
Scott, Stone, Hawley and Henderson voted
for Kennedy. Before the vote was an
nounced Directors Carew and Murdoch
swung their votes to Kennedy.
From this showing, and because she is
the present assistant principal and is next
IN line of promotion, the friends OF Miss
Fowler think she will get the place.
Other candidates are working hard to
get the place Just the same.
The Normal School has been ordered
closed by the Board of Education till after
the funeral of Professor Kennedy.
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ney-General Fitzgerald to aid those eleven
thousand depositors to get hold of por-
ton, at least, of that capital stock.
Suit will be brought this week on behalf
of 2600 of the depositors representing
about half of the 81, AS 900, to remove the
directors and bring them to an accounting
to show cause why the order of the Bank
Commissioners to call in the unpaid capt.
tai stock has not been obeyed. In connec-
ton with this suit, it is asserted by those
interested that the Attorney General is to
institute Joint proceedings against the
directors under the criminal clause of Sec
ton 10 of the amended act of March 26,
1895, creating the Board of Bank Commits
sloners and prescribing their duties.
The clause under which suit is brought
to remove the directors, Messrs. Stone,
Thornton, Phelps and Davidson, and Sec.
rotary Sheehan, reads:
That if it shall appear to the court at any
time during. the liquidation hereinafter pro-
yided for, on petition of one or more of the
Bank commissioners or any interested party,
that the directors trustees or officers of said
corporation have been guilty of fraud or GRIM
1nal carelessness or negligence the
court shall cause to be issued an order to show
cause why they should not be removed.
Under the other-the criminal clause of
section 10-if the directors refuse to call in
the unpaid capital stock in pursuance of
the order of the Board of Bank Commits
SloHeIS, IneV snail De IaDle TO line not
exceeding $4,000 or imprisonment not ex-
ceeding term of one year.
Under the latter clause, it is said, the
criminal proceedings will be instituted.
1t is to be set forth in the complaint that
the directors, in subservance of their in
terests and those of the heaviest stock
holders, removed Merrill from the presi-
dency and elevated Director Phelps in his
place, and that the latter refused to call
In the unDald stock which constitutes
almost the last hope of the depositors.
Suits will be filed to-day or tomorrow
and 1000 persons await the issue with
eager interest.
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and Plumbing Inspector Sullivan of the
Health Department, and CALL reporter.
The tour was projected by the Health
Officer and the School Directors were with
him OF their own motion to show him the
courtesy of their department and make
his duty as easy for him as they could. He
was looking for what there may be in the
public schools that is dangerous to the
scholars.
The new Health Department, like the
new School Department, is disposed to be
radical 1t closed up the Richmond Dis
trict School because the vault was not con-
nected with the sewer ana tainted the air
the children were compelled to breathe
They had heard much about the other
schools and yesterday they went to see.
Health Officer LoveIace is a quiet, OBJ
serving man, not given to quick preiu-
dices, but he will report that what had
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-25

bling down, the planking of the children s
playground is broken, loose, decayed.
Its cellar is dry now, but Miss Magner,
its principal, says that with the first rain
it fills up and remains pond under the
building filed with polliwogs until the
summer dries it up again.
The school will probably be closed and
the children taken care of in the next
nearest schools.
The Everett School, on Sanchez street,
was visited. It's vaults are in bad shape,
but the comparison with these others IA
vors it.
The Mission Grammar School, Mission
street, between Fifteenth and Sixteenth,
discovers this fault, and that of rotten and
broken planking in the yard, dilapidated
sheds, leaky roofs, and encroaching upon
the grounds of the Marshall Primary
School a frame building that would dis
grace Alaska if devoted to the purposes of
public school.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-25
of the Emmanuel congregation will Join
forces against you and make you uncom-
| fnrfa hle y
GRACE CHURCH PASTOR.
Mr. Colburn's Friends Hope the
Southern Conference Will Be
Courteous

The Tennessee conference of Methodist
Episcopal churches will meet to-day, and
the matter OF greatest moment to Califor-
mans that will come before that body will
be the question of the transfer of Rev. I. j.
Warner to this conference.
j. Truman, acting in behalf of the
trustees of Grace Methodist Episcopal
Church, has telegraphed Bishop Goodsell
that Rev. NJ. F. Colburn of this City is
the preference OF the church for its pastor
This is not necessarily an affront to the
appointee of Bishop Warren, but an ex-
preston of Californian loyalty to those al
ready upon its soil.
"If the Southern conference makes the
transfer" said Mr. Truman last evening,
Grace Church will receive DR.. Warner as
pastor. 1t will for it must There is no
appeal from the Bishop's decision in Meth
odist church government" The hope of
those most earnest in their desire for Mr..
Colburn's occupancy of the passionate is that
the Southern conference, out of courtesy
will defer to the wishes of the church
Meanwhile Mr. Colburn will occupy the
pulpit till his successor comes.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-25
THE PEOPLES BANK COIN,
Another Effort to Be Made by
Depositors to Regain Their
Money.
Suit to Remove Directors and a
Prosecution Under the
Criminal Code.

Another effort is about to be made to
regain possession of some portion, if not
all. of the money belonging to the unfor-
tunate depositors in the defunct Peoples
Bank. There are over eleven thousand OF
those depositors.
There is at present 81 ,445,000 OF de-
posts unpaid. The principal claim OF
these deposits is against the unpaid capital
of the bank, which the depositors want.
The legal availability of that unpaid
stock is their last resort in more senses
than one, and it is the purpose of Messrs.
Gunnison, Booth and Bartnett and Attor-
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-25
TO CLOSE MORE SCHOOLS,
Health Officer LoveIaoe Makes
aTour of the IIl-Favored
Buildings.
sUTRo TO FOLLOW RICHMOND.
A Revelation of Decay, Neglect and
Desolation That Constantly
Threatens Health.

A little procession of three vehicles made
a rapid circuit of certain City schools yes
terday morning, alarming some, carrying
comfort to others and, for themselves,
passing from one evil smell to another.
1t was the Health Officer, DR.. A. S. Love
lace, and an escort of the Building Com
mittee of the Board of Education-Messrs
McElroy, Henderson and Hawley-to-
gether with Inspector of Buildings L. p.
Kincaid, officer of the Board of Education,
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for the reason stated still closed 1t will
be some time before the repairs necessary
to correct the nuisance can be completed
and the school reopened.
The Sutro Primary School, with three
classes. was found in the same if not a
worse plight, for besides having no sewer
connection and being situated in basin
below grade it is Old, its sheds are tum-
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-25

nary condition under sanitary require
ments. The planking and other necessary
repairs will require much more. Now that
the Health Board has gotten after them it
will simply mean a reduction of the salary
of the teachers in order to devote the
money to this purpose or the closing up of
the schools, | suppose"
ut will be difficult job to bring about a
reduction of salaries in this board, said
Director Henderson. For one, l am
AGAINST IL -
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-25
Jailed a Sandbagger.

E. Frank Johnson, alias "Piggy' Johnson, q
notorious ex-convict and sandbagger who was
mixed up with the Allen murder at Sacra-
mento three years ago, and afterwerd with
another murder in Chinatown, was arrested by
Policemen Barry and Freel last night for sand
bagging 0. F. Pierce hoppicker, in Hinckley
johnson had two pals with him when he
sandbagged Pierce.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-25
Fatal FaI, From a stairway.

Michael n. Keogh, an old musician, So
years of age, fell from the stairway his re ST.
dence, 919 Powell street, at 1850 P, NJ. yester-
day, striking the sidewalk. The fall was fatal.
Carpenters had removed the banister during
the afternoon. Accordingly In inquest will be
held. Keogh was native OF London, Eng,
and widower
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-25
Word with the wise.

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Decorated Tea Set, Is pieces. w
Cuspidore, Maolica Decorated each. ........ 2O
Gold Illuminated Lunch Set, 1S pieces ...... oo
You can't duplicate for double the money.
GREAT AMERICAN IMPORTING TEA CO.'S
BRANCH STORES EVERYWHERE.
Headquarters 52-5S Market street. San Francisco.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-25
False Alarm in the Cafe Zinkand.

The alarm from station AZ shortly before IL
o'clock last night was for a supposed fire in
the Cafe Zinkand in the Spreckels building, on
Market street. A defective electric-light wire
caused little smoke The affair occurred in
the ladies' department., but the ladies present
were hardly aware that anything out OF the
Way had occurred
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-25
The Lawton Divorce Suit.

Grace E. Lawton has flied her answer in the
divorce suit begun by her husband, William j..
Lawton. She admits that she left the plaintiff $
home in Oakland on February IL, 1898, but
denies that her action was without cause.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-25
A Victory for the CITY.

Judge Daingerfeld granted nonsuit yester-
day in the case of John H. Sievers against the
City. Sievers, the florist claimed damages for
the overflow of his property resulting from
change OF the Van Ness avenue grade.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-25

USE BANK STOCK paper if you value your
eyes. Mysell-Rollins Company, % Clay
street. print and bind it any shape.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-25
NEW ro-DAY-pRY GOODS.
DOMESTIC DEPARTMENT.!
NEW GOODS JUST OPENED!

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widel in Tans, Browns, Nays, Olive, Cream and
Black Price, 75C yard
cases 54-INCH IMPORTED BOUCLE CLOAKINGS, in all
the solorings, also black
Price, Sl.5O, $500, $500 and $3.50 yard
cases SCOTCH TENNIS FLANNELS in a great variety
of new patterns Price, 25c, 40c and soc yard
, cases FRENCH PRINTED FLANNELS all designs
Price, 35c and SOC yard
cases FANCY SAXONY FLANNELS, elegant patterns
EMBROIDERED SKIRTING FLANNEL, all
patterns Prices, 75c $500 a yard
S cases 52-INCH LADIES' CLOTH in all the Fall
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-25

Samples forwarded any
Country orders receive
delivered in
Mill Valley, Oakland, Alameda Berkeley.
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ses GENUINE ENGLISH MOREEN, in Tans, Grays,
Browns, Nays, Red and Black Price, sic yard
The herald., 1895-09-05
Mail TRANSFORMATION Notes

WASHING Ton, Sept. a. 4.-Assistant
Postmaster General Nelson has returned
to his office after trip to Europe on the
new steamship st. Louis, which he pro-
nounces the best vessel afloat and well
fitted to carry the mails.
"The British are growing little, be-
cause we are giving bounties to our ships
instead OF paying them to the fastest ves-
sells which happen to be ready at any
given time. They will not send any
mail by our subsidized steamers unless
it is especially directed to go by them. |
conferred with the postal authorities in
England in regard to the sea postal clerk
service. We now semi clerks on the
steamers who sort the mails coming over
to this CT untry. l wanted the British to
divide this expense with us and have the
mails going to them also sorted at sea.
They would not agree. however. Their
force IN the London Office is twice as
great as ours In New York and they can
clear Up anv mail in hurry, ana do not
care to go to the additional expense of
sorting on the voyage. France probably
will join us soon, however, for service
from Havre. Now most of her mail goes
via England"