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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-28
FINISHING A CITY HALL,
A Large Force of Carpenters EN-
ployed on Alameda's New
Building.
Strenuous Efforts to Complete It by
January Next-Many Social
Events.

ALAMEDA, CAL, Nov. PA special
effort will be made to complete the City
Hall so that city officials may take pos
session by the first of the year. This was
supposed to be easy enough, units the
planning mill in San Francisco which was
getting out the finishing material burned
down, with the completed work which was
ready for shipment. Then the work had
to be made again, and it took time and the
finishing was delayed. The plasterers have
about finished on the building and big
force of carpenters is rushing the final
work. They hope to have it done in time,
but there is no certainly about it.
Political Equality Club.
The following officers have been elected
by the Political Equality Club: Mrs. c. L.
Wood, president; Mrs. George Story, Mrs.
T. w. Hinchman, vice-presidents; Mrs. H.
Chapman, secretary; Mrs. c. w. Paxon,
corresponding secretary; Miss Clara
Bowen, treasurer; Mrs. A. W. Hissak and
Mrs. E. M. Smith, auditors.
Union Services.
There will be union Thanksgiving SER
vices to-day at 10 o'clock in the Presby
terrain Church. The Rev. f. D. Bovard
pastor of the Park-street Methodist
Church, will preach the sermon. AT Christ
Episcopal Church there will be special SER
vice. The Offering Will go TO the Old
Ladies' Home in San Francisco.
Native sons Ball.
Alameda Parlor No. AZ, Native Sons OF
the Golden West every year gives big
ball on Thanksgiving eve. Last night at
Armory Hail the biggest event OF the sea-
son in point of numbers took place. The
following committees had charge: Ar
rangements, j. Henry elias, Charles T.
Rose. G. NJ. Day, ]. j. Flynn; manager,
H. A. Reichsrath; floor, Max Gundlach,
L. Fischer, Joseph Moffatt, Henry Muller,
Edward Owens: reception, f. 0. Schuman,
]. f. Hanson, III. L. Trausue, w. Eek
stein, Max Glas.
Notes OF Interest.
Edward Louis, a Park-street liquor-dealer
is seriously i'll, and it is hardly expected
that he will recover.
Hugo Schroeder, coal-dealer, is i'll of a
pulmonary trouble, and his death is ex-
pected to occur at any time.
Mrs. II. V. Ramsdell and son have re-
turned from trip to Portland, undertaken
for pleasure. Mr.. Ramsdell is member
of Bullock & Jones, San Francisco.
The new church edifice OF the West End
German Church, on Haight avenue, will
be dedicated next Sunday. Rev. H. E. j.
Ongerrn, pastor.
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and it is believed that they convey valid
titles to their holders. In consequence OF
this the expedition has been fastened, and
the old bark is now an object of great in
terest.
81 think the Government is pretty well
assured by this time that we do not i'll
tend to do anything that will interfere
with the comfy of nations" said Baron
Baroteau to-day. 1.-The Mexican Govern
ment was considerably alarmed when il
was known that we were about to go down
to Mexico, and our agents there were very
closely watched for long time; but the
best proof we could have that everything
is likely to turn out satisfactorily is the re-
ceipt to-day of 5000 from them.
"We have been watched up here, too,
but there is nothing for any one to be
frightened at. If we had all the money we
need we should have left several weeks ago,
but we are nearly ready now and will sail
the first week of the new year. The bark
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CLAIMANTS IN COURT.
They Want to Collect $3.50, 900 From
the Estate of Thomas


The estate of Thomas Bell was before
Judge Coffey yesterday, in order to have a
number of claims adjudicated. The claim
ants asked that certain portions of the
real property belonging to the estate be
sold in order to satisfy their claims. To
this Theresa Bell objected. She said the
entire amount of the claims against the
estate will not reach over $780, 900. and
that it is not necessary to sell any real
property to pay them.
The claimants hold evidences of debt to
the amount of $3.50, O00 and there is $50 900
interest due on this amount. Mrs. Bell
says these claims are excessive and ficti-
tious, however, and so Judge Coffey must
determine the matter. The claims are
submitted from all kinds of sources, and
include provisions, wearing apparel and
luxuries of every character. None of the
creditors were quite ready to go on with
the case yesterday, however, and so it was
put over
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has been out of service for many years, but
she is thoroughly seaworthy now, and I
have no doubt will prove a very comforta-
BILE and safe craft.
at seems strange, but the islands in the
Gulf of Mexico are very little known, and
if we do not succeed in establishing our
claim to our land we can take enough An
CORA goats and timber to pay US for our
trip. But we have lot of work mapped
out and expect to locate some profitable
mineral claims"
Colonel Powell of East Oakland is we'll
acquainted with the island to which John
Breen lays claim, and says it is a veritable
paradise. He was left on the island once
for several days and says it must be COM
posed almost entirely of some metal ore
that can conduct sounds properly. When
lying on the earth Colonel Powell said he
could distinctly hear the bleating of An
CORA goats that were too far away to be
seen.
The Santa Anna IS an old wooden vessel
of about 1900 tons register. She draws
about twenty -four feet of water and has
an immense beam.
Among the men who will go to Mexico
and Lower California are Gus Wagner,
w. Sonberg, Louis Imheer and Alfred
Baroteau.
John Breen, who holds lot of deeds to
grants in the southern country, was
anxious to get divorce few weeks ago,
but Judge Ogden decided that both the
complaint and the complaint were
sustained and refused to grant decree, SO
Breen is still married.
Baroteau was served with divorce pa
pers by his wife yesterday and he also is
anxious to be single man when he leaves
to make fortune in the south. Among
other things the Santa Anna will carry a
oor,r1oto r,bnfnoro phic Ouffif and viou,o
will be taken of all points of interest
uicifad
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WANT HAGER TO RESIGN.
A Temescal School Trustee
Endorses an Obnoxious
Saloon.
His Conduct Has Proved Unpopu.
lar to Many Heads of
Families.
OAKLAND OFFICE SAN FRANCISCO CALL
QQQ prooduay Nov 81

OAKLAND OFFICE SAN FRANCISCO CALI
90S Broadway, Nov. q.
A saloon-keeper at Temescal has applied
to the Supervisors for renewal of his
license, and among those who have GER
tilted that the place is orderly and well
conducted is School Trustee Lewis n.
Hager. Several of the people in the neigh
borhood are opposed to the saloon and
have decided to call on Mr.. Hager to
resign.
Joseph Humphreys has prepared state
ment of the trouble, which, it is said, Is
Endorsed by many people residing in
Temescal. Every Sunday night" said
Mr.. Humphreys to-day, "the noise made
by the assembled crowd is an intoierable
nuisance. 1 made it my business to visit
the place last Sunday to be thoroughly
sure regarding the place and its char
acter. When got there dance was IN
progress, and upon the floor was a
party of dancers and observers ranging
from 8 to 40 years of age. The air
was filled with smoke and bottled stuff
was freely served TO both sexes. The
noise and indecent language could be
heard by the crowd who were coming from
church. and all agreed that such place
should not be licensed. Upon careful IN
onirv il was found that the place was
licensed upon the recommendation of
Lewis n. Hager, School Trustee. IN the
district. and a sufficient number of others
whose names are immaterial, as they are
private citizens There is at IT. present nv an
ors for a renewal of the license, and UPON
the request is the name of School Trustee
Hager. who recommends the proprietor as
a person of good moral character and
suitable and proper person to conduct such
place. .a;-.su.,
have no objection to his stand of morality,
Init as a School Trustee we deplore his con-
nection. Above all persons the ones en-
trusted with the selection of the guardians
of cur childrens morals while at the pub
lie schools should be governed by higher
code than that displayed by this wayside
resort. We, as parents of children,
guardians of public morals and as citizens
of this commonwealth, call upon Mr..
Hager 10 resign and not try to drag the
public schools down to the level OF the
saloons"
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A Grand Prix for Cyclists.

The Paris town council proposes to
found Grand Prix de Paris for cyclists,
but it will only be OF f4O0. Our Paris cor
respondent says: "Cycling seems to adj
vance in arithmetical progression. There
are cycling dress departments for ladies
and gentlemen in all the great shops like
the Bon Marche and at the merchant
tailors'. The Velodrome, at the Champ
de Mars, makes a fortune, though the city
receives from it a rent Of 10000 francs and
per cent of all the money taken at the
doors. This royalty last year brought in
10000 francs. The last census, taken with
a view to taxation, returned $4,000 in the
department. of the Seine. There are per
haps double the number now, as women
are taking up the cycle as means of en-
joying cool country air in the evening.
Every one who cycles is delighted with the
exercise and the sense of freedom that it
gives. 1t brings townspeople into the
country without any of the town condi-
lions. 1 have friends who cycle to Dieppe
on Saturday and back to Paris on Mon.
day."-London Daily News.
ctoa.o o,re Oh .pd TowpSpnd RIM tn InC1oeidA
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SINCERE ABOUT 1T.
Tisalia Is Doing Her Share for the Con
renfiOu.

Tisalia Is Doing Her Share for the Con-
rention.
VISALIA, CAL, Nov. 27.--Hon. J. w.
Davis of Tulare was in Visalia to-day, in
terviewing our citizens relative to calling a
mass-meeting in this city for the purpose
of passing resolutions asking the members
of the National Republican Committee to
select San Francisco as the place for hold
ing the next Republican National Conven-
ton, and had published the following card ::
NATIONAL CONVENTION MEETING.-A meeting
of citizens OF Tulare County will be held at
City Council rooms, visalia, on Saturday, No
vember 80, 1895, at 2:30 o'clock P. NJ, for the
purpose of taking action to assist in securing
to San Francisco the Republican National Con-
vention of 1896. This is matter of interest
to the whole State, and one in which Republi-
cans. Democrats and Populists are all taking
an active part. Everybody is invited to the
meeting irrespective of political faith.
J. w. DAVIS,
Member of the committee on promotion for
Tulare County.
The Times this afternoon says editor
tally:
In another column of the Times will be
found call for mass-meeting OF citizens to be
held in yisalia next Saturday afternoon for the
purpose OF auOptlHS IeooiutloIS iSidtiNS "
holding the National Republican Convention
in California next year. The meeting should
be o representative one, and If the voice of Tu-
lare County can assist in securing the conven-
ton it should be heard in no uncertain tones.
The committee having the matter in charge in
San Francisco will try to get both National
Conventions, but as the Republican National
Committee will meet on the 10th of December
to select the time and place for holding the
convention of that party, all our energies must
be exerted now toward showing the commit
teemen that all California joins San Francisco
in asking that the metropolis of the Pacific
Coast be named as the convention city.
The benefits to be derived from holding the
convention In San Francisco are many. 1t is a
long distance from Washington, New York and
Chicago to San Francisco and there are many
men who are called upon to legislate for the
country who really have no adequate idea OF
the immense territory west OF the Mississippi
River. A trip across the continent would
broaden the vision of many of the legislators,
and as MANY of the delegates will be Congress
men and Senators they would doubtless re-
main on the coast long enough after the con-
yention adjourned to become acquainted with
our needs, and thus prepare themselves to vote
intelligently upon all questions brought for
ward by our coast representatives. With the
| delegates there will come large army OF indi-
| viduals, who will take advantage OF the cheap
| rates of transportation offered by the railroad
| companies to see California and investigate its
| resources They will come from every State in
| the Union and the fame OF California will
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naturally creating much interest in legal
circles. Among the effects left by Mrs.
Jones was a shingle on which was printed
In rough manner, ''Cad Jones, hanged for
wlfe-beating." 1t seems that Cadwallader
Jones, the divorced husband of Mrs. Jones.
treated his wife with great cruelty when
they resided in the mountains. A vigil
lance committee arranged to hang him
and wrote his epitaph, but Jones LETT the
county in time His wife saved the shin
gle for trophy.
Acme Baseball Club.
The baseball enthusiasts in the Acme
Club are to organize a club headed by ).
Donovan. the well-known GREENWOOD d
Moran player. The players will assemble
Sunday morning at the old Piedm ont
grounds, where Colonel Robinson used to
shine in all his glor--. The Acme nine
will be selected from H. May, F. Cooper,
H. German. J. U. Bird j. H. Otey, A. H.
Agnew, D. J.. Cookery, F. t. Ag-
new, ]. V. Galindo, E. E. Laymance.
w. M. Owen, II. J. Tresselt, ]. s. Fox, H..
Selma, w. E. 2. Chambers and ID. }. Roth
erman.
George Ainsworth's Will.
The authenticated copy of the will OF the
late George ]. Ainsworth of Portland, Or,
was filed with the County Clerk to-day.
His estate consists of property worth about
Sl5O,OO0, which he left to his VIE ana chill
dren, share and share alike.
VIII of j. Reichling.
The will OF ]. ReichIing was filed to-day.
The personal property is worth SlOO,0OO
and the realty $50, 0O0. His three children,
Louis F., Albert II. and a daughter, are
made executors and benehciaries under
the will.
Foley Getting Well.
Richard Foley, who was shot at Pleasan-
ton, will recover. Detective Hubert has
been at PIeasanton investigating, but says
Foley has not made any statement OF the
story told by John Bernal about the shoot
ing.
A Berkeley Failure.
Francis Terrier of Berkeley, doing bust
ness as the Pacific Publishing Company
filed petition in insolvency this evening
He owes $3.50, and the unincumbered as
sets are about $4,000.
Crowley Has Gone.
Deputy Sheriff Al White has returned
from trip up the county and has failed
to find any trace of Phil Crowley. The
Sheriff's office is satisfied that the convict
is out of the county.
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BORAX SMITHS COMBINE,
It Will Enable Him to Complete
Many Local Improve
mentS.
DAVE REPLIES TO MOTT.
Men Summarily Dismissed From the
Police Force Without Any
Charges.
DAVE REPLIES TO MOTT.
OAKLAND OFFICE SAN FRANCIsco CALI
COS Broadway, Nov. p.

COS Broadway. NON' 4.
Private advices received in this city have
made it plain why F. NJ. Smith, the borax
manipulation, recently cabled TO oakland
for his attorney, ". Il. Chickerlng, to go
to Europe. The boraX millionaire has
made a gigantic deal which Will produce
the supnlv of ready money that he has
long desired to carry out his plans IN re-
gard to the California and Nevada Kali
road and EmeryviIIe pier.
According to the report Mr. Smith went
to Europe for the purpose OF making the
deal. and had prepared for it by having
drawn ND elaborate sworn statements
showing the extent OF the borax deposits
which he controls, the cost OF extraction,
the prices realized and the prohts. These
STATEMENTS. in the form of prospectus,
were laid before the English capitalists
whom Mr.. Smith desired to interest. 1t IS
stated that he has sold at good price a
large interest in his boraX deposits and IN
the Pacific Borax Works and the goodwill
OF the business-this interest being just a
little less than one-half, 50 that he will
still retain the control.
At the same time he has organized in
London a new corporation which Is to deal
in crude borax and borax products in
Great Britain and Europe. In this cor
poration F. NJ. Smith has less than a
majority of shares.
He has also made a contract with the
London company, whereby borax will be
furnished by the Pacific Coast concern TO
the London concern at specified rates. At
the same time Smith has tied up Coy, the
owner Of other borax deposits in Southern
California, in such manner that the
Smith concern is more of a monopoly than
ever The date of the return of Mr.. Smith
and Attorney Chickering is not yet
l.,
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Interesting Items From Important County,
total 81 s7s 921 7e. The silver discount wa:

total 81, 678, 921 rs. The silver discount was
$3.50, 1874 Is.
This testimony was offered to prove how
much the company paid out on the dis
count on silver, the object being in case
the plaintiff received judgment it would
enable the court to estimate the discount
during the disastrous Levy administration
of 1888-S9-90.
NJ. W. Fox testified as to the assays OF
Hale & Norcross ore. BY repeated tests
he learned that the coarse ore assayed $50
gold and $40 silver to the ton, and the fine
ore $25 gold and $24 silver.
This was in direct opposition to the
theory of the defense.
On account of several dispositions to be
received from Virginia City not having
arrived, the case went over to Decem Der 6.
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HALE & NORCROSS CASE
The Output OF Gold and Silver Bullion
During the Levy Admins
tratiOn.

A. B. Thompson, secretary of the Hale
& Norcross Mining Company, testified in
Department of the Superior Court yester-
day as to the bullion taken from the office
in Virginia City during the years 1888,
1889, to June. 1890.
According to the books the output of
gold was $71S,345 IL and silver $3.50, $40 GA |;
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La Grande Trappe, the parent of all
Trappist monasteries, was lately thrown
open to women for the first time in its
history, on the occasion of the conservation
of its new church by the Bishop of Setz.
Before that only three women had crossed
its threshold, James IFS Queen, Mary of
Modena, accompanying her husband in
1896. and Queen Amelie and the Duchess
de Nemours, who were with Louis Philippe
when he visited the convent in 1847.
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did object to paying $50 month for his
wife's support, so after some wrangling
the parties compromised, he paying $1,000
and she dropping the action for divorce.
Since then matters have been peaceful be-
tween the two, and neither has seen any,
thing of the other, so the sudden desire of
Mrs. Prestat to be free is somewhat unac-
countable.
There will be no opposition to her suit,
and the aged lady will soon be her own
mistress again.
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MARRIED AT EIGHTY.
Two Aged Persons Who Have Dragged
Their Matrimonial Woes Into the
Divorce Courts.

Marie Eugenia Prestat, wife of nearly
70 years of age, is suing her husband, Jean
Baptiste Prestat who is so years old, for a
divorce. She alleges desertion as reason
a decree should be granted to her.
The aged couple entered into the matri-
monial State eight years ago, and inside OF
two months they were fighting. A suit
for divorce was brought by the bride on
the ground of cruelty and she asked for
$50 a month alimony. The husband has
no contest to make to the decree, but he
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Rnilders, Cnntrants.

Mrs NJ A. Rosekrans with Riley & Loane, grad
ing. brick work ETC., on w line of Valencia street,
l40 S of Twentieth street: $685..
Mrs. NJ. A. RoseKrans with w. J. Field, concrete
work, ETC., same: $4,000.
Timothy Hopkins with William s. Snook d Son.
plumbing and gasitting work, ETC., in Panorama
Building on Market and Tenth streets; 1882.
s. Magnin with William Helbing, to erect a two
story building on n line OF Bush street, SO w OF
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By the use of mechanical devices now
EMPLOYED it is said that workman can
make the .bodies' of 400 hats day. BY
the hand process he could only prepare
four or five.
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PARIS USES ICE.
The Germ Sharps Say Natural Ice O.
tains Bacilli.

The Germ Sharps Say Natural Ice Con-
tains Bacilli.
Among the first of the many curious
things that impress the American summer
visitor to Paris is the way the French
have of doing out ice as if it were
diamonds and the horror which Parisians
profess for the American custom of icing
their drinks and thereby impairing their
digestions, says the New York World.
Notwithstanding all this, the consumption
of ice in Paris, especially for domestic
uses, has increased rapidly during the last
few years, and if it continues at the same
rate it will not be long before it surpasses
that of New York. The last twelve
months show total consumption OF over
10000 600 pounds.
Most of the natural ice used in Paris is
taken from the lakes in the environs at
Chaville, in the woods about Versailles and
st. Cloud, and even from sheets OF water
In the Bots de Boulogne and Vlncennes.
Ice is made artificially in large quantities,
however, and is sold at much higher
price than the natural article. Natural
Ice, indeed, the Academy of Medicine says
is full of bacilli in a state of suspended an
imation. and the doctors recommend that
only artificial ice be used for domestic pur-
poses.
The bighest-priced ice comes from Nor
way and from Switzerland, where it is
gathered from the glaciers and from the
mountain-tops. This costs from % to 80
francs ton Artificial ice costs but trifle
less but that which is gathered in and
about Paris is sold from to 10 francs a
ton. The city of Paris harvests the ice in
the lakes in the Bots de Boulogne and Vim
venues and sells the crop, safely packed in
the municipal icehouses, for 5000 francs
or about $11, 600 annually.
Men become bald more frequently than
women because of the cIoseness of the hats
they wear, which keeps the head too hot
induces perspiration and weakens the hair
The boys of the famous Blue Coat schools
of London, who never wear hats, never be-
come bald till late in life.
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ALMOST READY TO START.
The Mexican Expedition Receives
Support From the Lower
Country.
THE SANTA ANNA EQUIPPED.
Nothing Will Be Done That Will
Incur the Displeasure of
Officials.
THE SANTA ANNA EQUIPPED.
OAKLAND OFFICE SAN Francisco CALL

Twenty-seven hundred Mexican dollars
were received to-day from Lower Califor-
MIA to pay the preliminary expenses of the
bark Santa Anna, that will shortly sail
from Oakland Creek. The object of the
Santa Annals voyage has been told in THE
CALL, but recently the deeds to large tracts
of land have been carefully examined,
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spread to every portion of the country. 1t will
be grand advertisement for the State as well
as liberal education to the visiting states
men.
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Take electric cars to Inglesida
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Steam cars, Sd and Townsend, run to 1nglesids