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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-21
LABOR IN Los ANGELES,
The Situation There as Viewed
by Commissioner
Fitzgerald.
He Believes That a Branch Of
the State Labor Bureau Is
Sadly Needed.

Edward l.. Fitzgerald, the State Labor
Commissioner, returned yesterday after a
two weeks trip to Los Angeles and Santa
Catalina Island. He is much improved in
health, Notwithstanding that it was not
wholly pleasure jaunt, for he was kept
busy looking at many matters pertaining to
the labor question. He met with very
pleasant reception, and among other
things learned that the people of the
south are very DESTROYS of having branch
of the Labor Bureau established in Los
Angeles.
During his short stay in that city Mr..
Fitzgerald saw the great need of such a
bureau; IN fact as much as In this City,
for Los Angeles Is far from being free
from the abuses that are inflicted upon
the laboring classes by the unprincipled.
He found that there are about 5000 un-
employed of all classes in that city and
that large number are arrivals from
Arizona. The wages paid there are lower
than in San Francisco, carpenters making
only 81 rs day. Even at this price there
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-21
FAULTY BIRTH RECORDS.
The Health Officers After Physicians
Who Fail to Make Reports.

The Health Officers After Physicians
Who Fail to Make Reports.
Health Officer Lovelace has called the
attention of physicians and midwives to
the fact that they must report all births at
the Health Office. Failing in this they
will be punished according to law. The
birth lists are being closely watched by
Secretary Godchaux with view of getting
good test case and carrying it into the
courts.
The following notices from the orders of
the Superintendent concerning the regis
tratlon OF births have been sent to all
physicians Offices:
SECTION l. Physicians and midwives must on
or before the fourth day OF each month maze a
return to the Health officer of all births &C.
curing in their practice during the preceding
month. In the absence of such attendants the
parent must make such report within thirty
Gays after the birth of the child Such returns
must be made in accordance with rules adopt
Health. -
See. 2. Any person violating any of the pro-
visions of this order shall be deemed guilty of
mlsdemeanor and be punished by a fine not
exceeulng $1OO or imprisonment not exceeding
80 days, or by both such fine and imprison-
ment.
reports on births have been allowed to
get into slipshod condition, and Health
OHlcer Lovelace is determined to straighten
them out. Within the past month score
OF inquiries have been made at the Office to
get the dates of certain births and no trace
OF them could be found on the records.
Inc lnqulrers were put to great trouble
over the matter and laid the blame on the
management of the Office. The Health
Department now proposes to put the re-
sponslblity where it belongs: the physi-
clans who fail to make proper reports.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-21

Japs and was told that his order would be
filled as soon as the contractor could send
north, meaning Victoria and San Fran
cisco. He called upon Senator Stephen
White in regard to the Japanese question
and the Senator promised to introduce into
Congress a Japanese exclusion act for the
Labor Commissioner. Senator White stated
that the people of the East are hard to
convince that coolie labor in California is
a curse.
The trustees of the Whittier Reform
School requested Mr.. Fitzgerald to assist
in finding work for the boys whose terms
OF imprisonment are concluded. They
said that there are many worthy and de-
serving young fellows in the school who
deserve the States care when they became
free again. Mr.. Fitzgerald visited the
boys, who are camping on Catalina Island,
and found many intelligent lads who had
been little wild in the past. He promised
to cooperate with the trustees and assist
any boys whom the trustees will recon-
mend.
In speaking of the employment agencies
Mr.. Fitzgerald stated that the majority
are run upon high-handed principle and
are sadly in need of a little disciplining at
the hands of the State. There Is only one
free bureau in Los Angeles and that has
had the misfortune of falling into the
hands OF scheming politicians.
Mr.. Fitzgerald visited the oil fields and
found that they employ between $500 and
5000 men. Oil is rapidly taking the place
OF coal for fuel and many industries are
starting up in consequence of being able
to secure cheap fuel for power.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-21

are more carpenters employed in Los
Angeles than anywhere in the northern
part OF the State. For all that there are
more idle carpenters there than IN the
north.
Lum bermen and owners of brickyards
are taking advantage of cheap labor and
are putting up buildings at prices that
leave but little margin on their contracts,
simply for the purpose of getting market
for their lumber and bricks. Houses are
being erected at the rate of thirty-three a
month or eight and a quarter week at an
average price of $4,000. The July building
contracts amounted to 100000. Since the
winter ,laborers and artisans wages have
increased little.
Mr.. Fitzgerald made hasty Investigations
OF several cases where abuses were charged.
In many stores the girls are paid from $6
to $3 week, and the lower the wages the
less the comforts for the help. In the IS
stores tie girls are not even allowed to SIT
down during working hours.
While investigating charges that coop
erage firm had been advertising for help
and failing to furnish the applicants with
work Mr.. Fitzgerald found that work was
offered but at very low wages. The Asso-
large number of people. In his lnvesti-
cation the Commissioners found that
many Mexicans had been brought into the
United States in violation of the contract
law by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa
Fe Railroad during the strike, but lack of
time prevented an extended inquiry.
The commissioner did not lose sight of
one OF his hobbies = the ant-Japanese
question. He found nearly all the cheap
restaurants run by Japs. He went into
one place and said he wanted to hire forty
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-21
0FF FOR ATLANTA.
Secretary Fi1cher Leaves To-Day and
the Exhibit Goes Saturday.

Secretary Fi1cher Leaves To-Day and
the Exhibit Goes Saturday.
J. A. Filcher, the secretary of the State
Board of Trade, will leave for Atlanta, Ga,
to-day so as to be present when the Cali
fornia exhibit reaches the exposition. He
will be accompanied by Phil M. Baier of
Tulare who will assist in arranging the
exhibit. G. M. Johnson will remain in
San Francisco three or four weeks to pack
exhibits of fruit that arrived too late for
shipment with the bulk of the consign-
ment which will leave about the last of the
week.
At Los Angeles the Santa Barbara and
Los Angeles exhibits will be put on the
train.
Mr.. Filcher was informed yesterday by a
letter from S. r. Knott, first VICE president
of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad
that that line will cooperate with the
Southern Pacific in the shipment of the
California exhibit.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-21
PRICE OF BEER BLOSSOMS,
Ex-Sheriff Stanley Says Hops
Have Been Grossly
Maligned.
He IL an Agricultural
Oracle.

Ex-Sheriff Stanley of Mendocino County,
besides being one of the most celebrated
thief-catchers in California, is also an
oracle on matters agricultural in the coun-
ties north of the bay.
Mr.. Stanley asserts that the dispatches
published in some of the San Francisco
papers to the effect that many of the hop
fields would go unpicked this fall on ac-
count of the low price of the beer blossom
are liable to do incalculable harm to the
agricultural interests of the northern bay
counties.
stThere is no truth whatever in the state
ment that the hops will not be harvested
on account of the prices" he said. GAS a
truth large number of the hop-growers
of Sonoma, Lake and Mendoclno counties
have yearly contracts for their hops at 10
cents. These contracts have been running
through years and years, and the growers
are perfectly satisfied to let them continue,
even though the price goes 100 or 200 per
cent higher some years. All this talk about
the hops going unharvested is nonsense.
If the price goes as low as or cents the
growers could not afford to let the bios
SONS w1ther on the vines. They can grow
them for cents pound. and at 81 hun
dred for picking they have profit.
1.-The responsibility for these mistate-
ments rests with some of those growers
who want to clear ten or twenty thousand
dollars year on their yards. There have
been times when the growers of Sonama
and Mendocino cleared $4,000 an acre on
their hops and those men are invariably
the ones to raise howl if the blossoms go
below Is or 80 cents. Do you know that
there is good living in hops at 10 cents?
at 10 cents the grower can make fair
Drofit"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-21
GENERAL RUGGLES HERE
Seni-Official Visit of the Ad-
jutant-General of the
Army.
HAsTY LOOKS AT OLD SCENES.
Saw Lee Surrender at Appomattox.
He Climbed Up the War
Ladder.

Brigadier-G General George D. Ruggles,
acknowledgement of the United States
army, arrived in this City yesterday from
the north on tour of the Northwest, in
which he is combining his usual August
vacation and great deal of semi-official
observation.
my visit has no official significance"
he said, when seen at the Cosmos Club
yesterday. 81 simply wanted to come out
West and see some posts which had been
built up since was on the coast, take a
look at the Puget Sound country, which I
had never had an opportunity of visiting
before, and rest my eyes on some territory
which 1 had not seen for quarter of
century, like Fort Leavenworth, for in
stance, which 1 have not seen since June,
1861.
AZ knew it would not be possible for me
to take the trip next year, because there
will be long session Of Congress then,
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-21

Hatchers Run affair, at the capture of
Petersburg, Va, and in the final pursuit
of the Confederate army terminating in
Lees surrender at the Appomattox court
house.
Since then he has been successfully adj
jutant-general of the Department of the
Atlantic, Department of the East, Depart
ment of the Lakes, Department. of the East
ment of Dakota, Department of Texas,
Division of the Pacific and Department OF
California, Division of the Atlantic, and,
for the third time, Department of the East.
During the afternoon General Ruggles
called upon General Forsyth, who has just
broken camp at Monterey and came into
the City yesterday with his staff.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-21
.HASNNS CONTEST ENDED.
The Famous Case Will Be
Submitted to the Jury
To-Day.
MRS. HAsK1Ns' HANDWRITING
characteristics OF 1t Also Found
In Letters That the Husband
Wrote.

The taking of testimony in the Haskins
will contest was concluded yesterday. At
II O'Clock to-day the arguments will be
made, and in the afternoon the case will
be submitted to the jury.
Very little new evidence was obtained at
yesterdays session.
Expert Eisenschimel was cross-examined
at great length by Attorney Ford, and was
called upon to testify about the hand
writing of Mrs. Haskins. He said
that several characteristics of Mrs. Has
kins' handwriting were found also in the
wills and the accredited letters of the hus-
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-21
YANG YU'S PROCLAMATION
The Chinese Minister at WASH
ington Warns the Six
Companies.
BOYCOTT ON ONE COMPANY.
Authorities of the United States
May Be Asked to Settle
the War.

The war which has been impending in
Chinatown between the Sam Yup and the
See Yup companies for several weeks has
aroused the ire of the Chinese authorities
at Washington. They have interested
themselves in the matter to the extent
that if the boycott which is now lowering
over the Sam Yup Company is not de-
clared off in few days they will cause
trouble among the ranks of not only the
See Yup Company but the Ming Yung fac
ton as well.
The following proclamation was received
by Consul General Ii from Yang 70, Min
lister Plenipotentiary to the United States,
yesterday, with instructions to post it in a
conspicuous position, that all Chinese
might read it and take warning:
From the Minister Plenipotentiary of the
United States to Consul-General Ii and Consul
Chang.
This message is from the Minister and is di-
rected to the See Yup and the Ming Yung
Company particularly.
That in the matter of a trifle with the Sam
Yup people you have caused interference to be
placed in the way of the business of the Sam
Iups and all OF their dealings. have been
informed that some of the leading men have
made trouble and have in measure paralyzed
the business of the Sam Yups.
This state of things 1 shall not allow to be
carried on, even If some of the common people
do congregate and prevent the regular course
of business from being carried on. You
should ~ therefore, use diligence to suppress
the existing boycott and tell each other to
abide by the law and suppress the feeling OF
enmity which exists in your hearts.
You may not be aware that this may cause
serious trouble, and the time may come when,
repenting of your action, you may find that it
is too late
therefore appeal to you to abide by your
profession or occupation, whatever it may be,
and not travel on the road of obscurity and
darkness, as no good will come of 1T.
If any more disturbance follows this procla-
nation the authorities OF the United States
will be notified and you will be punished ac-
cording to the laws Of the land in which you
are residing.
Be not persistent, but obey these instruc-
tons.
YANG YU, Minister to the United States
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band, but that this merely showed SINH
larity of habits.
Both Mr.. and Mrs. Haskins spelled
wrong at times. Both left out letters in
writing words. But notwithstanding the
mutual characteristics, he said, there were
great differences in the handwriting.
Mrs. Haskins wrote 'ever" for 'every,"
"sincer'' for "sincere," 'hast" for "haste, !"
surround" for surrounded" There were
many such instances, and similar errors
appeared in the letters that James Has
kins wrote. One was in the will.
"Those are Oddities" explained the ex-
pert.
"Do you call please not do that correct
English2" the attorney asked.
mo, sir.'
"But Mrs. Haskins wrote that in one of
her letters?"
Yes, SIR"
"And she wrote Didn't wish to make
my loss knowingp"
Eyes, SIR"
Ibid both occasionally leave off let
ters?''
Eyes, as bad spoilers will do.''
The expert was dismissed, and Attor-
neys Deuprey and Wright called wit
nesses to testify about the home life OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Haskins.
house of Wolf & Sons played whist at the
Haskins' residence, and he never detected
any discord, even during the games.
Mrs. Margaret Davis, for years a neigh
Dor, testified in the same manner.
Mrs. A. L. Schocken followed. "You
were well acquainted with the family, were
your" asked Attorney Deuprey.
II went there often, and my sister Rose
said"
Never mind your sister Rose" said
Judge Coffey, and Renaissance was lost
TO the court.
"Did you ever hear Mr.. Haskins say any
thing about the ownership of the
property?h
''fhat is what was going to say about
my sister Rose"
"Well, what was that?'
my sister Rose came to me and she
said
Il object, your Honor" broke in Attor-
ney Ford, and the story of Mrs. Schocken's
sister was again ruleu out.
On cross-examination Mrs. Schocken
was asked whether she had talked conf
dentially about business matters with Mrs.
Haskins, and the inquiry brought out the
statement:
81 would not tell my business affairs to
any woman"
Other witnesses for the defense were
John Kirkpatrick, once q Chief of Police
in San Francisco, Charles II. Mcdonald,
Mrs. W. III. Byington. and Mrs. Rose New
man, the "sister Rose" of Mrs. Schocken's
testimony.
This ended the case for Mrs. Haskins.
Attorney Ford then called George Has
kins, one of the contesting nephews, to
give some testimony about the Forest City
property. Charles Heintzen was momen-
tarily recalled, and the concluding testi-
mony was given by Mrs. Mary Haskins of
xusf of To-
Haskins. This witness stated that Mrs.
Haskins had once told her of trying to get
a new will made. but that the new will had
never been written.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-21

and the following I will retire, so that if I
!: had put it off my trip, with its refreshing
of my memory, would have been of no
practical service to me-"
General Ruggles was on the Pacific
Coast, stationed at this City, from January
19, 1889, to October l of the following year.
Then the Department of California in
Guided Arizona Territory and Oregon. He
. is now 81 years old and has been in active
service for forty years. In November, two
years ago, he was promoted to brigadier-
general and made acknowledgement of the
army.
On this trip he has visited Chicago, Mil
waukee. the Wisconsin State militia en-
campment at Camp Douglas, the st. Paul
headquarters at Fort Smelling, Fort As
siniboine and Helena, Mont, and the new
post, Fort Harrison, at that city; Fort
Yellowstone, including a run through the
National Park, Fort Missoula, Spokane,
Fort Sheridan, in the Ceur d'Alene re-
gion; Fort Walla Walla, Portland, Or,
Vancouver Barracks, Wash, the Columbia
River ietties and the new post on this
coast, Fort Candy.
a good look at the Puget Sound country
followed. The new fort which it is in
tended to establish there rests entirely
with the Army Engineers, Board of Ord
nance and Fortifcations and General
Scohfield and upon their com bined recon-
mendation Secretary Lamont will locate it.
When he returns East he will 90 by way
of Salt Lake City and Denver, and take in
Forts Logan, Riley, Leavenworth and
Crook.
As one of the old war adiutants General
Ruggles saw Lee surrender at AppomattoX.
He was then Acknowledgement of the Army
of the Potomac under General Meade.
He began his military career on the
Northwestern frontier in Minnesota and
Dakota during the SOS, and as early as
1858 was acting adjutant. general at ST..
Louis of the Department of the West.
His services for the Union cause began
as acting assistant acknowledgement of
Miles brigade, Patterson's army. He was
on special duty in the adjutant-generap S
office in the War Department from July i,
1861, until June %, 1862, in charge of the
organization of the volunteer army.
Climbing the ladder of rank he became
chief of staff and acknowledgement of Gen.
eral Pope's Army of Virginia in the sum-
mer of 1862, and was engaged in the battle
of Cedar Mountain, saw the retreat from the
Rapidan, took part in the two days fight
on the Rappahannock and also in the bat
ties of Waterloo Bridge, Gainesville,
Groveton and Chantilly.
Following this and up to November of
that year he was on General McClellan's
staff in the Maryland campaign as assis-
taut chief of staff in the army of the Po-
tomac, participating in the battles of South
Mountain and Antietam and the skirmish
at Smokers Gap. That winter he spent
three months on special duty in Secretary
Stanton's Office.
The closing year of the war saw him
acknowledgement of the Army of the Po-
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-21
VALUE OF THE CITY.
Figures That Will Create Big Dispute
Sent to Sacramento.

Auditor Broderick has Just sent his
valuation on San Francisco property to
the State Board of Equalization at Sacra-
mento. Following are the chief items !:
Value of real estate, $17S, SAC; value of
improvements, 6,Os2, $50; value of per-
sonal property, $50, 1885, 42; number of
acres in the county, 1920; assessed value
of mortgages, $49, 6S4 ,914.
Rumors are already being actively cir
cuIated that the Board of Equalization in
tends to put big raise on the San Fran
cisco assessment in order to balance the
reduction of railroad assessments in other
counties. The county officials expect a
raise, but what it will be they cannot
guess.
Last year the assessment was raised Is
per cent. Two years before that the local
valuation was raised 90 per cent and the
year preceding it was advanced 80 per cent.
A big fight will be made to keep down
the figures to those named by the local
board.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-21

street, 125 w of Frutvale avenue, S 11464, w 35,
y 11454, f 35 to beginning, being lot 8, Orchard
Tract Fruitvale Brooklyn Township; SIS.
William j Donovan to Margaret Donovan, lots
10, IL and -, block 51 Oakland: $40.
Fannie Mcbride of Oakland to Thomas s.
Wylie, lot Sc line of TWENTY third street. "a
SW of East Twenty first, Sc to point 10 feet to
the NV of Sc line OF lots i and 2 block H subd-
vision so associates tract thence SW 1928, NV
to Sc line of Twenty-third avenue. NE to begin
ming, being portion of lots and 2, block III, sub
division so associates tract, East Oakland $40.
William G. and Mary Stahl to w. s. Gee of Ala
media lot line of Pacific avenue, 100 E OF
Willows street, E so by 1902, being lots and
3, block IL, lands adjacent to Encinal, Alameda;
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-21
Reduced Rate ON Canned Goods.

The Southern Pacific Company submitted a
proposition by telegraph to railway companies
between its lines and the Mississippi River and
established on canned goods from California.
The present rate on canned goods to Chicago
AND the river points is rs cents hundred
pounds. This applies also to the tariff to inter-
mediate points from common points in Cali
fornia. The Southern Pacific Company has
oftered to make combination with the other
railways to reduce the tariff 10 cents hundred
pounds.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-21
Traflc Assoctation.

meeting of the executive committee of the
Traffic Association was held yesterday. Those
present were: B. F. Durham, Charles NJ
L. II. Bonestell, E. J. Marcus. Henry Michaels,
II. Williams, Edward Brown, E. A. Phelps,
J. Curtis and l. F. Littlefeld. B. +. Dunham
was elected president, Charles NJ. Yates vice.
president, Henry Michaels second vice presi.
dent, Wakefield Baker treasurer
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-21
Railway directors Elected.

The annual meeting Of the Guatemala Cen
trail Railway Company was held yesterday in
the Southern Pacific building, corner of Mont
gomery and Market streets G. P. Huntington
was elected president, Charles F. Crocker vice.
president B. S. Douty treasurer, c. L. Lansing
secretary, IL. E. Huntington, c. G. Lathrop and
C.. E. Green directors.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-21
Builders Contracts.

Emma A. Kinds with Hans Petersen, to erect
building on W side of Second avenue, 125 S Of
California: $3.50.
incarceration Ohabia Shalome with A. A. Ehat,
painting, etc., synagogue on line OF Bush street,
55 E of Laguna: 1864
Abraham Hessel with F. G. Acker, to erect q
story building on line of Bernard street, 1906
w of Jones; $2550
NJ. T.. Guldea with G. w. Forsyth to erect A.
room cottage w line of Williamson street,
5Sl:7 n of Point Lobos avenue; $3.50.
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Stamped envelopes were issued by our
government to commemorate the centen-
NAL OF American independence, but there
were no adhesive stamps issued.
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The musical programme for TO-DAY isl:

At Laurelhill Convent, near Limerick,
seventy of the nuns and pupils were taken
dangerously sick at dinner lately, four
having already died. The inquest showed
that custard of which they had eaten,
containing eggs and milk imperfectly
cooked, had developed bacteria and pro-
duced ptomaine poisoning.