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The St. Johns herald., 1895-01-24
Miscellaneous News.

Canada is likely to have an ear- ly general election.
 Louisianans are petitioning for the sugar bounty of 1894.
 The old fregate Constitution is to be re fitted for sea service. Leadville miners statistics show i an increase in the gold output.
 The cotton states exposition of Atlanta will open an office Tn Chi ergo.
 Galvaston'S terminal faculi ies are to be controlled by Galyaston citizens.
 John Schyler is the only Demo- crat in the Kansas house of repre- sentatives,
 Henshaw, Vinton county, Ky. .,has voted down saloons by majority of 10 1.
 An exchange says that Cleveland is the biggest sandbagger of the cen- tury.
 The New Mexico legislature has  to have an official Mexican inter- preter in both houses.
 The income tax question is now before the Supreme Court of the District of ColumbIa.
 A bogus iewelry swindle through the mails will be stopped by the |. seizure of all such packages.
 Mme. Leon Grandin, in book just published, says New York is a pigmy place compared to Chicago.
 The postoffiee receipts in Minne- apolis this year have been S463,- 900; those in St. Paul $163, 900 less.
 The southern corn crop is esti- mated at 5,O0O,0O0,OOO bushels, an increase of 48,OOO,OO0 bushels over last year.
 As a result of the closing of saw mills in the province of Quebec, Canada, many people are in deep distress.
 The New York Four Hundred have adopted the bicycle. This should make it good form-barring the hump.
 St. Paul, Minn., will expand $50,- 900 in public improvements for the purpose of giving work to its un- 
 The streams around Philadelphia are being restocked with fish that were plentiful when William Penn landed.
 Senator Sherman propose to re- quire that sleeping car companies shall provide a safe for yaluables of passengers.
 SALVATION itself is free. The ex-
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IF Breckinridge's audience con tinue to decrease in size he will be compelled to hold outdoor meetings to get anyone to listen to him.
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LIFE is full of compensation-do not growl when little things go wrong. Always bear it in mind that when the thermometer is low coal is high.
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The secret s'iety is again at work. Executive meetings have been held several evenings of late and as result the dogs and cats are being thinned out at an alarming rate.- Leader.
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Territorial Items.

F. X. O'Brien, the energetic min.
 Ing operator, has executed a bond
 to James Mahoney for several siI-
 yer properties in Black Rock dis
 trict on the Hassayampa. The
 mines mentioned in the bond are
 very rich and over which consider able litigation was had for own ship.-Journal- Miner,
 The 5000 reward offered by the Southern Pacific Company for the of Oscar Rogers, convicted at Flor ence several weeks ago for the rob : bery of the overland at Maricopa station, was paid on the 9th at Casa Grande to NJ. F. Wash, J. F. McGee, A J. Work and ". F.. Chapel, of Tacna and Chas. Ed wards of Phoenix, the. men who captured the bandit.-Star.
 Judge T. D. Satterwhite received a dispatch last evening from Gov ernor Hughes notifying him of his appointment as Attorney General of Arizona, and requesting him to qualify at. once. Judge Satterwhite has the congratulations of the Star and his many friends all over the Territory. That he will make one of the best Attorney Generals Ariz- ona eyer had goes without saying. Star.
 Monday there was quite an ex- citement in Nogales over the an alarm of fire telephoned from the residence of Mr. John Dessart, north of town. Vehicles of all des- criptions laden with citizens anxi- ous to assist rushed down the road. When they arrived they found the commotion had all been caused by burning out the soot in a chimney which caught from a paper thrown in the fire. No damage -Oasis.
 Simon Juarez, who was tried and acquitted for horse stealing at the recent term of court, but held for the next grand jury on motion of the district attorney, escaped jail sometime between noon and three o'clock. He sawed away one of the bars that extend from the top of the jail door to the ceiling and went into the hall and has not been seen or heard of since. Jailor Birchfeld was absent at the time getting his dlnner.-Bulletln.
 At Globe, says Frank Murphy, recently returned from there, pros poets are brightening for the reyiv- al of the camp to something likeits old-time prosperity. Superinten- ient Berray had just returned from Pima, the present terminus of the new railroad, to arrange for the of coke bins. Already with the shortening of distance made by the new railraad ofsixty miles from Bowie to Pima, a very saving may be made in hauling coke, merchandise and
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JULIUS C9sAR BURROWS will soon dump his picturesque form into a seat in the senate chamber.
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THE queen of Corea smokes American cigarettes. Here is a chance for the jingoes 10 apply the Monroe doctrine in the present China Japanese war.
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THE country is now passing through the season when the new crop of United States Senators is pulled.
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Boss PLATT's ultimation to the New York legislature appears to have been: Fish or cut bait. And they Fished.
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Congressman Bryan mas intro duced a constitutional amendment to make the president ineligible for re collection after 1898.
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THE Ph@nix Gazette has adopted 6 new style heading which gives it a decidedly improved appearance.
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The Seton Hospital for consump- tives at Spuytin Duyvil, N. Y. was opened for the reception of patients on January 1st.
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GENERAL WEAVER says he is above party politics. Somewhere about high water mark.
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WHAT a bleak and barren world this old world would be, to be sure, if there was no gold in it.
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By the way, what has become of the tariff question?
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TUCsoN appears 10 be suffering from a large dose of footpadism.
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SALVATION itself is free. The ex- pensive part is tipping the minister.
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Ex-Governor Waite's lecture tour does not take in Phoenix.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-31
COVERED AL me TINE
THE MISSION BAY SWAMP,

to the recent dredging of Channel street.
The Pacihc improvement Company has
leased some ground there between
Fifth and Seventh streets to the
Union Lumber Company, the Pacifc'Tank
Company and Cashier & Co., and the
dredging was necessary to make ground
would call Assistant Manager CARTS at
tention to it, and would inform the Health
Office of the railroad S intentions Monday.
I'VE contemplate filling in the swamp
sometime" he said.
According to Mr.. Kline the water is
actually green with stagnation. When the
channel was dredged all the sinkage from
the Brannan-street sewer was dumped
into the swamp. This sewer drains the
City all the way from Hayes Valley.
A similar complaint was made to the
Health Department year ago last spring
in the following way:
We, the undersigned, property owners of San
Francisco. ask your honorable body to declare
the district known as Mission Bay public
nuisance in it's present condition, owing to the
poisonous gases arising therefrom, causing 1t
to be menace to the public health of the
City, and that IL be filed in.
(Signed) William Hollis, John T. Dare, Bank
OF California, A. Hayward, Wilson & Wilson,
John Center, Claus Spreckels and George w.
Gibbs.
AT that time it was proposed to have the
City I'LL in with sand all the swamp land,
consisting of 1873 acres, covered by the
Mission Bay. City Engineer Fitzhugh
then estimated that it would require
about 2,9S1 900 cubic yards of sand, and
that it would cost about 100000.
g. III. Thompson, representing the Bank
of California and the San Francisco and
Fresno Land Company, George Center,
representing John Center's interests. and
E. ii. Clark, representing the Real Estate
Development Company and the Potrero
Land Improvement Company, were all
eager to have something done to abate the
nuisance.
The swamp district about which DIR.
Wemple more particularly complains is
that bounded by Channel, Kentucky,
Ninth and Mariposa streets. The grading
of Kentucky street left it no outlet. He
suggests that culvert be run somewhere
under Kentucky street to the bay so as to
allow the marsh to be partially purified by
the ebb and flow of the tide.
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of what should be the common enemy.
Perhaps this is not the case, but it GER
tainly looks so, and plays into the hands
of the enemy. However, our club repre-
sents all the large property -owners in the
district, and we are determined to be
quoted with no halfway measures. We
want the full service or a complete relin-
quishment of the franchise. There are
lots of other people who would be glad to
take that franchise and run cars every few
minutes on it."
Solomon Getz, the real-estate man, who
is also large property-owner in this dis
trict and prominent member of the
South of the Park improvement Associa-
ton, said ne was satisfied that the MEM
bers of the association would accept no
compromise with the Market-street Com
pany.
"All the offers of compromise, such as
increasing the service on the Ocean Beach
steam road, or running half-hourly SER
vice on Cole, Clayton and Carl streets
morning and evening, have come from Mr..
Winning and his friends. Understand that
a few people who live out in the neighbour
hood and are anxious to stand well in the
eyes of Mr.. Vining are in favor of accept
ing these compromises. but l am unalter-
ably opposed to them, and / know that
this is the unanimous sentiment of the
association, With us it is either the old
fifteen minutes service or else a forfeiture
of the franchise"
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of our society now, but once we begin our
mission work two or three of us will be
away from home nearly all the time.
Another work which we have very
much at heart and which we are doing IN
the East is our mission to the nom
Catholics. In this our desire is simply to
present an intelligent idea of Catholic doc
trine, which we teach, and let fair-minded
people reason it out for themselves. we
ask if it is reasonable, ineligible, scrip
tural, and we claim it is. Our purpose IS
not to make proselytes to the Cathollc
church, but to teach Catholic Christianity
from Catholic standpoint. We hold no
controversies; We don't controyert, but
intend simply to give kindly, frank and
honest information.
1.-THE practical business of it is this: We
rent hall or secure a schoolhouse for
these meetings. The service consists OF
the Lords prayer and reading of scripture,
after which a lecture is given. At the
door box with slot in the lid is placed
and we ask anybody who has question
for us to write it on a slip of paper and
drop'it into the box. Then the box is car
ried up to the platform and the questions
are read and answered before the audience.
This usually occupies about thirty min
utes. The lectures are upon such
subjects as What do Catholics Believe
in Regard to Holy Scriptures? Future
Life; What Becomes of Our Dead ?
The Divinity of Christ-Christ as Man
and as God The Historic Church. Can
Man Forgive Sin7 Duty to Our Neigh
bors. the Charity of Religion The Eu-
charist; What Is Meant by Holy Com
munion.' There are other subjects, of
course, and they occupy man about a
week. Everywhere we have held these.
meetings in the East the halls were packed
and it was astonishing to see the interest
taken in what we had to tell"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-31
WANT ALL OR NOTHING,
South of Park Citizens De-
mand Streetcar Service
or Forfeiture.
Why the Market-Street Company
Stopped Its Cars on Carl and
Cole Streets.

Members of the South of the Park I'm
provement Association think they have
discovered the real animus of the Market
street Railway Company in stopping the
streetcar service OF Cole, Carl and streets,
from Clayton to Ninth avenue.
And this animus is described as being
the desire of the Market-street Company
to kill the boom that south of the park
real estate is Just now enjoying and divert
public attention from that part Of the City
to the north side of the park.
1t is pointed out that the Southern
Pacific people have no property interests
on the south side OF the park, while on the
north side they have large holdings.
Croker, Huntington. the Hopkins and
the Stanford estates own the Bay District
tract, and the Market-street Company is
interested in booming that section OF the
City.
The property-owners south of the park
have no object ion to their neighbors on
the north side enjoying boom. They be-
lieve that boom in any part OF the City
would be beneficial to the whole, and they
are willing to rest securely on the merits
of their property for their own boom.
But the discrimination against them
they do not like-nor will they submit
without a struggle that will at least bother
the Southern Pacific officials good deal.
They consider it an outrage that they
should be deprived of streetcar service
the franchise of which was granted with
the distinct understanding that its opera
ton would be continuous for the benefit
of the property-owners and residents of
that district.
Tuesday evening next big mass-meet-
ing will be held at the old Foresters' Hall,
20 Eddy street. At that meeting COM
mittee will probably be selected to make
every possible effort to have the whole
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Metropolitan Street Railway franchise for


feited.
Eve shall certainly be content with
nothing short of forfeiture OF the fran
chise or a resumption of the streetcar ser
vice." said G. w. Pope, chairman OF the
South of the Park Improvement Associa-
ton, yesterday, land all reports to the
contrary are untrue.
II Know, or rather see oy some OF toe
newspapers, that there have been meetings
of persons who claim to represent this dis
trict, and that they have signed petition
requesting the Market-street Company to
furnish morning and evening haf-hourly
service.
These people have no authority to act
for anybody but themselves, and when
they pretend to represent the entire dis
trIct they make claims to which there is no
foundation.
And besides this, we are satisfied
mean the members OF the South OF the
Park improvement Association = that
many of those who signed this petition
praying for the very thing that Vining
wants to have the people contented with
did so without knowing the full text of the
document. Mr. Sweeney talked with some
OF those who signed the petition, and they
told him that if they had known the real
purpose of the document their names
would never have been put to it. Other
members of this organization have had the
same experience, and we are prepared to
say that the petition is not genuine, or
that the names to it were secured with
out full knowledge of the text of the
document.
at would appear that these separate
meetings and so-called new-club organiza-
tions were devised for the purpose of split
ting up the interests of the South of the
Park district and playing into the hands
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out here and examine these mines-not scien-
tifc 'euss," but a man who Will take off his
coat and use pick and shovel if necessary to get
at the true lnwardness of these mines, and at
the same time one who is capable of making an
Intelligent report 1t will be necessary for him
to start at once in order to visit the district be-
closed code when he will start. The place is
about $50 miles from Seoul, and it will take a
week on horseback to reach there. Possibly
Mr.. Townsend, who lives in Korea, will accom-
pauy him. Every protection will be given the
party by the Government, as one of the Kings
royal messengers will be sent along as guar
antee that they will in no way be interfered
with.
Mr.. Morse has already secured COM
petent engineer, who will leave for the
Orient on the steamer Peru when that
vessel next sails.
From a commercial standpoint this is
one of the most important concessions
ever secured in Asia. 1t not only opens
the way for future concessions, but it gives
employment to American miners and
allows the importation of American-made
mining machinery free of duty. The arti-
cles of copartnership between Mr.. Morse
and his Majesty, the King of Korea, read
in part as follows:
Whereas, his Majesty, the King of Chosen
(Korea), is DESTROYS OF having the mines be-
longing to the royal household developed ac-
cording to modern methods; now for that pur-
pose he DEGREES and agrees:
That he, through his Department of the
Household, associates with himself James r.
Morse, an American citizen, and his assigns, as
company for the prosecution of this work,
said association to be known as the Korean
Development Company. Said company shall
have as first privilege the right for twenty
five years from the date OF this decree to de-
velop and operate gold mine or mines in the
district of Nhusan, kingdom OF Chosen.
This mine or mines shall be selected by COM
petent engineers sent for the purpose by said
James r. Morse, and shall include all territory
within the limits of said district OF Nhusan.
His Majesty the King of Chosen, through his
Government, agrees to render said company all
possible assistance in dealing with the native
people and in affording rights of way for trans
portation purposes. Americans shall be al
lowed TO be employed for work in these mines
and their properties and they will be furnished
passports and protection. All materials neces-
sary for the use of said mine or mines may be
imported free of duty. and further no taxes
shall be levied on any of their properties.
This document is signed by Kim Chong
Han, acting President of the Household
Department, bears the great seal of state
and is further witnessed by II. n. Allen,
secretary of legation at Seoul. When the
machinery and other necessary expenses
are paid for out of the gold taken from
these mines, all of which is stipulated in
the contract, the net profits are to be di-
vided i'll the proportion of 3 to 1, Mr..
Morse holding the big end.
San Francisco WILL of course be largely
benefited by the opening up of Korea, for
that is bound to follow close upon the con-
cession granted to Mr.. Morse.
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man, forcible and eloquent as preacher
and most jealous priest. He has circu-
lated through the Eastern States, through
New England and the South, making his
western limit along the Mississippi for
several years. And now. in conjunction
with other enthusiastic members OF his
order, he will traverse the western half of
America, occasionally going beyond the
Rockies as far eastward as Nebraska.
While the missions on this side will be
mainly among Catholics Father Hedges
will give lectures and hold missions among
non-Catholic people throughout the coun-.
try just as Father Elliott has been doing
in Ohio and Illinois, introducing very
novel method which has pleased the au-
diences who have gathered to hear these
men discourse on doctrinal subjects.
1--WE will organize permanently our mis-
sions on this coast" said Father Hedges
yesterday. Before came here four mis-
sions were arranged for, in HOLSTER, Ne
vadas City, Carson, City and Marysyille.
These will keep.Ils going until N OVEN ber
when we shall go to Los Angeles. There
are five fathers in the San Francisco branch
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sWINDLING HOUSEWIVES.
A Clever Rogue Who Works on tn
Credulity of Women.


a slick swindler has been working the
old employment agency dodge on con6ding
housewives during the past few days, and
has succeeded in getting small amounts of
money in several cases.
He called at the house of f. Metje at 1929
Natoma street on Monday last, and said
that he was a friend of her husband and
had secured the latter a lucrative position.
He asked Mrs. Metje for 81 90 to hold the
job until he could see her husband. Mrs
Metje replied that her husband did not
want the position, as he already had one
that suited him, but finally gave the man
81 so. Her husband did not know the man.
The same individual called on Mrs.
Turner, 831 Treat avenue, and said he was
from an employment agency, and for SIS
would get her husband a position as iani-
tor at 800 per month. She gave him the
money and has not seen him since.
The swindler is described as a man about
Is years of age, smooth, full face, blue
eyes and light hair. He wears dark clothes
and is a fluent talker. The police are on
the lookout for him. 8
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italian Opera.

The Italian colony is greatly interested
in the production OF "La Traviata' to be
given at the California Theater tomorrow
evening by the Italian Philharmonic So
ciety, Giuseppe Verdi. The best voices
obtainable win participate and large and
fashionable audience will undoubtedly be in
attendance. The participants will be Sig
nora Carolina Beschieri, who. comes here
with an excellent European reputation !;
DR.. A. Hodghead of Berkeley, who has
been studying in Milan for number Of
years; Miss Jennie Nicholson, and Signors
g. Almagia, Cesare Crespi, c. VitaIini, E.
Merani and Hentra,
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FEVER FROM THE MARSH.
DR.. Wemple Makes a Com.
plant About the Mission
Bay Swamp.
SOUTHERN PACIFIC OWNS IT.
Inspector Kline Interviews Attor-
ney Ryan of the Railroad
Company.

DIR. Emmett l.. Wemple of the Potrero,
who recently purchased go by 100 feet on
the northeast corner of Kentucky and
Napa streets from the Southern Pacific, in
tending to put up $4,000 two-story brick
building there, has complained to Health
Officer Lovelace of numerous cases of
typhoid malaria, caused by the stagnant
water of the Mission Bay marsh.
Inspector Kline called upon the rail-
road company, which owns the marsh and
contemplates making it its terminal
grounds some day. He saw Attorney E.
B. Ryan. and that gentleman explained
that the condition of the marsh was due
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THREE ATTEMPTS ON HER LIFE.
Mrs. NJ. WoodIey Tries to Die by Drown
ing and Poison.

Mrs. M. Woodley, a young woman, 90
years of age, who lives with her husband
at South Park, made three attempts to
commit suicide yesterday. In the morn
ing she walked down to Folsom street
wharf and was about to jump overheard
when policeman, who was attracted by
her strange actions, caught her and re-
turned her to her home.
Then she made second attempt on her
life. She tried to swallow quantity of
rough-on-rats, which was snatched from
her hand before she could succeed.
Eluding the vigilance of those who were
watching her, she again made her way to
Foisom-street wharf and was caught a
second time by policeman as she was
preparing to plunge into the water.
Mrs. Woodley was taken to the Receiv-
ing Hospital, where the physicians pro-
nounced her mentally unbalanced and had
her put in a padded cell. She imagines
she is suffering from various diseases, but
is physically robust
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A PRESIDENTS DAUGHTER.
She Is Dusky but Chic and Drives 8
Stunning Tandem.

A dusky beauty is exciting great deal
of comment on the park boulevards on ac-
count of the extreme fashions in which she
INDUCES. Her identity was known to but
few friends, and it has only recently be-
come known that she is the daughter OF
Hippolyte, the negro President of Hayti.
He sent her to Paris on account of the
political troubles threatening the republic,
and committed her to the care of a friendly
diplomat. She is very handsome, her fine
profile being admirably set off by the dark
color of her skin. She drives a chic tam
dem rig to the Bots de Boulogne every tair
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