The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-10
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.
Fair weather to-day.


4 rich ledge of gold Quartz is being mined
under Nevada City.
Get out your light clothes and leave your
overcoats at home to-day.
The first installment OF 10 per cent on Valley
ROAD stock Is nearly all paid in.
The school fund in the City and County
treasury has been temporarily exhausted.
Central Union w C. 7. Q. viii begin more
vigorous years campaign against tobacco.
Valley road directors left last evening on a
tour OF inspection in the San joaquin Valley.
The Press Club of San Francisco will hold A
ladies, night on the evening OF Thursday,
May I6.
Henry W. Little has perfected a rotary car
fender calculated 10 roll bodies away from the
wheels.
No action was taken by the Emmanuel Bap-
tist Church at its meeting last night as to its
future plans.
The Merchants Association propose to hold a
paving exposition at the coming Mechanics
Institute Fair.
Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson and her chill
dren, Mrs Strong and Lloyd Osborne, arrive
By the Mariposa.
Redwood Camp No. 81 held their announced
clog rolling and smoker" last evening at JUS
tice Hall, Pythian Castle
Colonel Chalmers Scott of San Diego is re-
ported TO have been decided upon by the Gov
ernor Tor adiutantge
The April bills OF the contractors supplying
the City with provisions and material were
audited yesterday and few paid.
The winners at the Bay District track yester-
day were: Soledad, Hy by, Finesse, Little
Cripple, Carmel, Mantell and Rear Guard.
President Claus Spreckels of the Valley rail
road denies the Governors insinuation that
the directors do not want China Basin.
Mayor sutro has Endorsed the Cooperative
Commonwealth, recently organized, with head
quarters at old 81. Markus Church, on Union
Square.
Ladies' night at the Y.M.C. A. gymnasium
was very pleasant affair. An excellent pro-
gramme OF athletic sports and exercises was
rendered.
Prince Franz Josef of Battenberg, a brother
OF the late Prince of Bulgaria and OF the
Queens son-in-laW, arrived by the Mariposa
yesterday.
C. W. Ashford, the Hawaiian exile, says that
the British Government will likely take some
Honolulu.
The Civic Federation has demanded of Man.
ager I. 2. Fining OF the Market-street Railway
company that the company comply with the
fender law.
A small and harmless blaze in rubbish heap
in the yard at 1442 Hayes street caused an
alarm 10 be turned in from box 3S7 ct 5 81
last evening.
The annual meeting of the Woman's Home
Missionary Society OF the Methodist Episcopal
Church was held yesterday in simpson
Memorial Church.
Captain Lloyd h. Ryder, a pioneer of this
CITY, lett Tor the East last Wednesday. He is
gong 10 spend MS last days IN his native place
IN Massachusetts.
Church-street property-owners last night en-
plOyed Attorney A. P. Van Duzer to Commence
quo weTranto proceedings against the Market
street Railway Company.
Francis J. Hubbard, chief clerk AZ the Rnss
House, who was arrested on Wednesday night
IS self-confeSsed embezzler to the extent OF
between $1,000 and $4,000.
Rev. Bishop Gulstan Ropert Bishop of Homo
lulu, arrived yesterday BY the Mariposa The
reverend divine will preach ct the French
chuIcn during high mass al II O'Clock.
Plaintiff Loomis in his suit against somers
yesterday retold the circumstances that fol-
lowed the shooting of Detective McClintock.
The case VIII be resumed this morning.
Assessor Siebe saws that the CITY will lose
$4,000 by being forced to make a second as
sesSment, under the provisions OF the new per-
sonal-tex law passed by the last Legislature.
The annual election of directors of the Mer-
chants Association viii be held in two weeks.
The nominating committee has selected q
election.
The Manufacturers and Producers will pro-
test to-day against polieemen's uniforms being
made OF imported cloth, on the ground that
municipal authorities should patronize home
industry.
Citizens and policemen advance some strong
arguments against the recent order for a
The helmet is in disfavor and the buttoned-up
coat Is not thought the right thing.
c. ". Bridges and J. S. Tanning, who recently
purchased job lot OF junk from the Raw
kton estste, and found among it q box contain
ing S212o and ruby ring, were arrested yes
terday On the charge OF grand larceny.
Property-owners have petitioned for the paw
ing OF Folsom street from Third TO Nineteenth
with bituminous rock. The idea is TO eventu-
ally have the whole thoroughfare paved from
the water front to Twenty-sixth street.
Members of the First Regiment fear that
complications may arise out of the coming
election OF a colonel should Governor Budd
muster out OF service one or more companies
as he has said he may do under the law.
Some one perpetrsted a heartless joke by
writing the Christian name and initials of the
missing girl, Stella Hughes, on an old pair of
corsets and leaving them on the beach, near
Har0or View, where they were found yesterday
morning.
Sixty-six men, formerly members OF Bayard
Lodge, X OF P, Joined the Franco-Americane
Lodge of Odd Fellows last evening because
they had been prohibited from transacting
business in the Pythian lodge in the French
language.
There was an old-time long line at the box
Office OF the Columbia Theater yesterday morn
opening of this house under the management
OF Friedlander, Gottlob & Marx, on Monday
next "Sweet Lavender" wiz be the play.
The committee of Valley railroad directors
appointed 70 communicate with the HarbOT
Commission about the lease of China Basin
met yesterday and drafted letter protesting
against the lease and stating there was no rea-
son for casting suspicion on the directors
motives.
The first steps taken toward opening First
avenue from Golden Gate Park to the Pre-
sidio and converting il into q beautiful boule-
ward have been encouraging, and Mayor Sutro
has promised TO relinquish his streetcar fran
chise if the Msrket-street Company will do
likewise.
Counsel for the Montgomery estate, ap-
praised at over g, 900, 900, have asked for
fee OF $50. 900 for their labors in arranging
settlement. The administrative, Mrs. Eliza
beth Montgomery, is willing to allow $4,000,
The matter viii come up in Judge Cohey's
court to-day.
John W. Denning, night-watehman on the
freboat Governor Irwin, who met with an &C
cident Sunday night by the breaking OF a lad
der lies at his home, 41515 Fillmore street, in
a critical condition, suffering from an injury
of the spine and also internal injuries. Partial
paralysis has set in
Prospects for a water supply on the higher
unoccupied hills OF the city before July seem
encouraging. The pumping works OF the
Spring Valley Water Company and the tunnel
ing system up Sixteenth street for the dlstrlo-
ution OF water from Clarendon Heights reser-