The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-24
pIcMcs AND EXCURSIONS.
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

Colonel Bush has appointed his non-com-
m1ssloned staff.
L. B. Cosper is trying to have has VIE ue'
cree OF divorce annulled. ;.
Several bold burglaries have recently been
perpetrated in the Mission.
Judge Wallace has set aside Judge LOWS oe-
cision in the poolroom cases.
Local items, bright and brief, can be found on
this page of the CALL every morning
Judge Wallace has sentenced Mrs. Worthing-
ton to twenty-five years in San quentin
Partners in the firm of Neville & Co. are
fighting in the courts ana a dlSsolutloh may
result.
Labor Commissioner Fitzgerald states that
the anti-Japanese cody agitation is spreading
all over the State.
The Santa Clara Railway Company was in
corporated yesterday TO construct road from
AlvlSo to San Jose.
O.W. Winthrop. charged with the murder
of Mrs Jennie Mathews, was acquitted on the
first ballot yesterday
The old Tyro Club has reorganized for the
purpose of assisting the Ursullne Indian mis-
sion at st. Peter, Mont.
Timetables of the railroad companies are
published free of charge in the CALL for the &C.
.fommodation OF readers.
The color line is being drawn at Colma On
one side are the white citizens and on the
other the only negro family in the township.
The department of industrial and decora-
tive art of the University of California makes
q creditable showing at the Mechanics Fair.
Burglars stole about $1,000 worth of jewelry
and money from the residence of John NJ.
Chretien, at S04 Bush street, about two weeks
ago.
At the meeting of the Senate Committee on
Improved Methods OF Legislation last night a
mass OF valuable correspondence was consid-
cred.
The new railway from San Jose to Alviso will
connect by line, OF steamers and schoonerS
with this City and give the Santa Clara Valley
cheap rates.
Judge Low ordered Andrew Berg, q cigar
dealer, into custody yesterday for perjury. He
swore he did not sell cigarettes 10 James Col
Inns, a minor.
The Endeavor Society of the African Third
Baptist Church is giving a series OF entertain
ments for the purpose of raising money 10 pay
the chzuch debt
The nominating committee of the Olympic
Club made its selections last evening, heading
its ticket with the name OF F. w. Eaton. Oppo-
sition is assured.
The Manufacturers and Producers Assoeia-
citation has requested ali the doctors ana drug
gists in the State TO patronize home industries
whenever possible.
Two favorites won at the track yesterday,
Uncle Giles and Rose Clark. The other winners
were Lady Leinstar filly, Silver State, Fred
Gardner and Sir Walter.
number OF residences in a small district
glars in the last month, but no captures have
been made by the police.
Caesar Ceryanti, a Spaniard, and Vincent
Monga, Cuban, had street row over
National question, and they have gone 10 the
courts to settle the trouble.
The body of the man which was found in the
bay at the foot of Harrison street last Thursday
was identified John 0Brien yesterday. He
was widower and destitute.
Property-owners on Thirteenth avenue and
n tpd " q
Board of Supervisors against certain street
work on those thoroughfares.
The Wilmerding bequest of $500, 600 to
build and maintain technical school was
paid yesterday by the executors OF the estate to
The Regents of the University OF California.
Forecast official W. H. Harmon predicts fair
weather, with nearly stationary temperature.
for to-day. Slight variable winds may be
expected in the afternoon, growing brisk
toward evening.
A San Francisco architect has stated that an
agent from Santa Cruz had offered him the
courthouse contract on payment OF $4,000.
This is the most startling phase IN the court
house complications.
A. A Mclean complains that Sheriff Whelan
and his deputies are not making the proper
effort to serve the warrant issued by Judge
seawell for the arrest OF Mrs. Jennie Himmel-
mann, his divorced wife.
Christian Union Mission on probation, ran off
and married a San Jose man. She is not OF
legal age, and the consent OF only one OF her
parents had been secured.
The railway company is preparing volumes
of testimony against reduction of local freight
rates. Railroad Commissioner Stanton's
friends say he will move that Californian
tariffs be cut down Is to % per cent.
Armine Boutin has petitioned the Probate
Court TO compel Mrs. Edna Dean, H. W. West
phal and E. H. Wakeman to tell what they
know OF Louis Coriveau's estate An order
was issued in pursuance OF the affidavit.
Edward Campbell is in the City Prison
charged with vagrancy. He was the running
mate of Sidney Bell at the time OF the Jacob
son murder and was allowed TO go free upon
turning States evidence and testifying against
his former partner.
No satisfaction was given by Superintendent
Vining to the committee OF South Side resi-
dents which called upon him yesterday morn
ing to ask that the Clayton street metropolitan
car-SerVice be resumed: Another conference
will be held Monday.
At its meeting last night the Civic Fedora
ton adopted articles Of incorporation and also
a resolution requesting the Grand Jury to in
yestigate certain charges made by Harbor
Commissioner Colnon against several un-
named local politicians.
Andrew ]. Collins, an ex-employe of the
Southern Pacific Railway Company, wanted to
kill General Superintendent Fillmore yesterday
at the company's building and got thrown
downstairs. He is crank with an imaginary
=. grievance against the company.
The Boys Brigade of the bay counties will
decide Monday evening whether they Will con-
tinue TO have military officers and civil officers
in command of all the branches OF the organi-
cation, the Eastern departments having done
away with the higher civil officers.
The West of Castro Street Improvement Club
held a spirited meeting last night at Judson
Hall, on Douglass and Diamond streets, on the
Noe heir suit. They called mass meeting for
next Thursday night at Twin Peaks Hall, at
the corner of Seventeenth and Noe streets
There is now hardly any doubt but that the
committee will select the Sutro site for the
Affiliated Colleges. Nine OF the committee
-: have expressed their preference for this prop
ertv and there is no reason to believe that they
will change front when the final vote is taken
The trustees of the Chamber of Commerce
yesterday expressed approval OF Colonel H.
s. Spaldng's project to connect san fran
cisco with Hawaii by cable, and promised sub
stantiaf aid should the colonel succeed in OBJ
tanning the Government subsidy which he
desires.
Twenty-three veniremen were examined IN
the Durrant case yesterday, but no additional
Jurors were obtained. The yenire was ex-
hausted and Judge Murphy ordered 200 more
names drawn from the box, Teturnable Mon
day morning, to which time the trial was adj
journed.
The railway passenger ticket agents were
aroused yesterday by a new sign over the
Southern Pacific ticket Office announcing that