The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-11
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.


tate TO his wife and children.
The Press Club of San Francisco will elect
officers on the 29th of this month.
Dr.. Case has been honored by q 'write-up''
in the Treasury of Religious Thought.
The Manufacturers and Producers Associa-
ton. OF California will soon be Incorporated
Rev. F. B. Pullan will preach his last sermon
at the Third Congregational Church TINS even
ting.
The Board of Health met yesterday and filed
twenty vacancies which they made Tor that
purpose.
Labor Commissioner Fitzgerald wants
branch of the Free LABOR bureau established
at Los Angeles.
Mrs. Joseph Cook, wife of the renowned lee
turer. win give an address at Plymouth Church
on the 10Th pToX.
William G. Waters is the defendant in a suit
begun by his adopted daughter to recover
$1,000 inheritance.
The steamer Bawnmore sailed for Central
America and Peru by way OF Portland and
.Nsnaimo yesterday.
The winners at the raeetraek yesterday were
Gonzales Maid, Tim Murphy, Joe h, Wheel OF
Fortune, Hello and Mestor.
It is likely that branch to the Manufac-
turers' and Producers Association may be or
gained in Los Angeles soon.
The wonderful Victoria water lily in the park
conservatory has outgTOwn all expectations
and precedent and will bloom to-day.
The sufferers from the recent fire are amass-
ing strong evidence for their damage suit
against the City and Spring Valley Water Com
pany.
The Traffic Association will be recognized
tomorrow aud Messrs. Upham, Watt, Magee,
Hayward and Van Seeker will resign from the
directorate.
A match race between the yachts Queen,
Sappho and Ella is talked OF, challenge for
SI00 side having been issued on behalf of
the latter craft.
The railroad strikers, who were mainly in
stTumental in having the indictment found
against c. P. Huntington, are apparently OPP
posed TO its being dismissed.
Joseph NJ. Macdonough, the millionaire, has
taken house in SausalitO, and put his fathers
yacht, the Jessie, into commission. He in
Jends 10 make his home here.
The monthly meeting of the Board of Prison
Directors was held at san Quentin yesterday.
The consulting engineer was instructed to pre-
pare plans for an insane department.
Rev. Septimus Buss, the Dr.. Parkhurst OF
London, is in the City at the Palace Hotel. He
is on this coast for the purpose OF visiting his
son, who is farming al FL Caion, in Lower
California.
John W. Mackay, the millionaire. is in the
. City and says he is not on the coast for any
thing but pleasure. He is accompanied by
some friends, ana the party viii soon leave Tor
the East again.
Mrs. Mollie French, young widow, and her
mother-in-lsw, Mrs. Sarah French, were in
IL
the disposition OF the husband and sons per-
sonal property.
Railroad Commissioner Stanton in an inter-
view defines his attitude toward the Southern
Pacific Company and the people, alluding in
cidentslly to the question OF patronage, which
has divided the board.
A letter was received at the Labor Bureau
stating that Mrs. Stanford had discharged
nearly all OF her white help at the Nine tie
hama County, farm and vineyard and had en-
gagged 800 Japanese to FIJI their places
A dog owned by 5. Harper, fur manufacturer,
was ordered 10 be brought into JudgeConlan's
court Monday for having seized hold OF Miss
Mary E. Looks trousers while riding on her
bicycle and inserted his teeth in her leg.
Jack Reynolds, the Stanford hslfback, ac-
com panied by three companions, left the City
yesterday TO rough it in the mountains Of Men
.d0cino County in preparation for the opening
OF the college football season next month.
In the recent election for the eolonelcy Of
the Third Regiment Major James F. Smith was
the choice Of the caucus preceding the election
and nearly became the choice of the officers.
he was not elected because he refused TO run.
4 company has been formed to bore for oil
on the Miner Tract in Contra Costa County.
Oil is known to exist there, and If found IN
large quantities it viii be of great importance
TO San Francisco. The work viii begin in
few days.
The committee having in charge the selec-
ton of site for the affiliated colleges will
meet during the coming week. II is divided
twenty-six acres or the purchase OF tract OF
land ct the PotTero.
Lee Loo has several times been arrested by
the police for selling opium without physi-
Judge -Conlan on the same charge, and the
Judge sentenced him to pay fine OF $50 or
spend fifty days in jail.
Mrs Bridget Johnson, saloon-keeper, Harri-
son street and Madison avenue, arrested on
two charges OF disturbing the peace and one of
using vulgar language, was ordered into Gus
tody by Judge Conlan yesterday owing TO her
offensive conduct in court.
Heads are likely to fall in the Federal build
ing Places are wanted for Democrats, so the
Inspectors of Hulls and Boilers, Supervising
INSPECTOR of Steam Vessels, Superintendent OF
the Railway Mail Service and Deputy surveyor
Rudden are to be investigated.
The South Side Improvement Club denies the
authorship of the resolutions credited to it in
morning paper yesterday. The resolutions in
question asked for the retention of the spur
tracks on the Ocean boulevard, because they
'pIeYent the sand from drifting
petition to force George H. Lee into insol-
veney was filed yesterday. The petitioners
and the amounts of their claims are: Meyer IL
Miller, 1884 so; Neuberger: Reiss & Co,
SI99 IT; Goldstein Brothers, S415; Max Fin
derman, $64 50; D. Samuels, 80 TO.
Three new patrolmen were sworn in yester-
day. This fills up the seven vacancies caused
by the recent designations. They are Augustus
G.. Hostetter; millWright, 81 years of age;
Peter Doherty, teamster, 81 years OF age.
The police have ascertained that A. J. White
man, the convicted forger, who made an elo-
qgent speech to Judge Wallace in moving for
Q new trial, about week ago, made the same
speech 70 the Governor of Michigan with sue
cess. and TO the Governor of New York without
success.
An attempt to compromise the Knox Comp
ton and Mhllin suits for 100000 each against
the Southern Pacific has been unsuccesstully
made by. Byron Waters, claim attorney OF the
railroad He altered to reinstate the A. K. u.
men and pay them their wages from the time
OF the strike.
:. John @. Brown Jr. of the clerks Office for
the Board of Supervisors was notified yester-
day that patent had been granted for an in
veuuon OF his OF a new game at cards. which
ne calls the widows lawsuit and legal whist.
~ was suggested to him by the Martin will
case, ana IS said 10 be very fascinating. He
Will pupilsh 1t here and expects big run.
AttorneyGenera Fitzgerald is.preparing to
Dnng suit against the Southern Pacific Rail-
ROAD company Tor the recovery of sixty acres
OF land on Mission Bay. The land was granted
to the railroad in 1868, they agreeing 10 make
1t the terminal point of the road They were
also to spend 100000 within thirty months
None OF these conditions have been complied
with
Forty-three graduates of the Normal School
assem- bled IN the old High School Yesterday to
be examined in order 10 determine the six hest