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The San Francisco call., 1895-05-19

of thunder. which so startled the doubter
that he fell over on his back crying out,
''My God, he's shot mep'
Served you right!" said the big team
ster; "you had no business to lie about
him."
well, for the fellow to kill himself s
is a good job doneP' said the prospector:
eyes," said Brooks, "and | am well
satisfied with this ending of the business.
1t is better than long trial, and then per-
haps no hanging. Now, see why have
for years been drawn to these mountains
at this season. I've always expected some
thing like this. except that was to do the
shooting"
"And the devil must have impelled the
Greaser to come and hang about that
bend" said the landlord.
He must have bad fearful time with
that specter dog" said the prospector.
"He was more dead than alive when he got
in here-was utterly demoralized. Evi-
IDENTIFY he thought all had been found out
and gave himself up for lost when he was
ordered to hold up his hands,"
'My joke about taking him out and Civ
ing him up to the big dog frightened him
worse than anything else,' said the big
teamster.
"The fellow must have had an awful ex-
perience,'' said Brooks, ''for something
tells me the dogs master was also abroad
tonight. l felt it all the evening as l sat
alone in my corner. When our prospect
ing friend here began his story l said to
myself, 1T is coming! The hour of venge-
ance draws nearp Now all is over. All is
well ended and the slate wiped clean"
''Listen!" cried the landlord.
Again there arose outside near at hand
the long and doleful howl of dog. Three
times that awful howl rang through the
room, while all there sat silent with awe
stricken faces. All felt that what they
heard was the death howl of the Black
| Dog of the Bend.
''Let me go out" said Brooks. "Let no
one follow me,'' and rising he went out
into the night and the storm.
Half an hour passed, during which the
lightning flashed and the thunder pealed.
Then Brooks returned, dripping wet and
white as a sheet. He seated himself with
out a word and his face dropped into his
head and, turning to the landlord, gasped
out, 'BrandyP
In a moment the station-keeper had
poured out and brought him nearly half a
tumbler of brandy. Brooks swallowed all
at gulp and handed back the glass
then again hid his face in his hands.
The landlord stood nervously rolling
the glass between his fingers. Several
times he opened his mouth as though to
speak; then at last he asked, in voice
little above whisper, ''Did you see the
dog2"
Brooks did not raise his head, but NUT
tered between his hands, AYE, the dog
and-and the master!"
The landlord turned and went behind
his bar; we all looked at one another, but
no man said a word.
"The master Pit was awful.
DAN DE Qu1ILE.
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BY DAN DE GUILE,

this shadow ?'' asked the fascinated doubter,
pulling his chair forward.
Did YOU ever see shadow with moth
ing in sight to make it?" roared the
wrathful prospector. turning suddenly
about upon the hungry unDeliever, who
was annoying him.
"N-no," timidly answered the fellow.
swell, if you ever happen to see such a
thing you will know what there is about it
that is awful.
Having thus squelched the eager doubter
the prospector turned to the others and
proceeded with his experience as follows
''When the dog disappeared SO astonish-
ingly in the wink of an eye 1 was quite
dumfounded After gancing up and
down the road and all about me turned
to the big rock with fiat and perfectly
smooth face which stands on the east and
upper side of the road. 1t is about Is feet
wide at the base and over 30 feet high,
running up to point. 1t is shaped like a
big smoothing iron.
II thought there might be hole in the
base of this rock at the level of the road
into which the dog had slipped, but I
found it all smooth as plastered wall.
The face of the rock was by this time wet
from the rain that had dashed against it.
1t glistened almost like mirror in the
The San Francisco call., 1895-05-19
WOMAN'S CONGRESS-.
Governor Budd and Mayor Sutro t.
Welcome the DeIegates-The
PrOpramme.

The Woman's Congress of the Pacific
Coast will open in Golden Gate Hall to-
morrow morning at 10:30. Rev. Anna H
Shaw will preach this evening in the First
Congregational Church, corner of Post and
Mason streets. The following is the pro-
gramme for Monday. Miss Susan B.
Anthony will respond to the address Of
welcome. Gentlemen, as we'll as ladies,
are invited to the sessions of the congress
Monday-The Home and Education-Mor
ing session, 10:30: prayer by the Rev. C. O.
Brown, DID,; address of welcome on behalf OF
the State, by the Hon. James II. Budd Gov
ernor; address of welcome on behalf of the
City, by the Hon. Adolph Sutro, Mayor; intro
duction of speakers and reception of fraternal
delegates; opening address, Mrs. Sarah B.
Cooper, president of the congress; paper,
Wilkes, Oakland, Cal.
Afternoon session = 2:3O., Early Home
Environment" Miss Millicent Shinn, San Fran
cisco; "The kindergarten Gospel Miss Anna
M. Stovall, San Francisco, principal Golden
Gate kindergarten School: "Moral Education
of the Young" DR.. Mary Wood Allen, Ann
Arbor, Mich; "The Place of the Parent in
Modern Education" Miss Tessa Kelso, Los An
geles, Cal.
Evening session As, Higher Educa-
ton as 1t Affects the Home" Rev. ]. K. Nc
Lean, Oakland, CAL; Educational Influence
of Home Life on Men and Women" Miss Susan
B. Anthony, Rochester, N. Y.
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I called on Mrs. c. ]. Prudhomme of 134 South
Main street, Los Angeles. This good lady is
well known in this city and has host of
friends. When l stated that it was my purpose
to publish what she may desire to tell the pub
lie she demurred at first, stating she did not
like to have her name in the papers. Just then
she had caller, friend, lady.
The customary salutation was given and the
expression rushed forth: "Why. how well you
look, Mrs. Pr There was my opportunity. Her
friend admitted it was certainly remarkable
recovery, and then Mrs. Prudhomme was
pleased to say:
Before I begun using joys Sarsaparilla
was emaciated, always tired, never being able
to get good nights rest. Every one said /
looked sick, and 1 knew 1 felt sick. 1 had no
appetite. 1 was utterly listless. l could not
attend to the most trivial house affair without
feeling irritated. Now did not become well
woman all of a sudden. l took your medicine
about week, and while l felt relieved from
the rirst, yet did not get real good and strong
until after had taken the second bottle.
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A LONG ELECTRIC ROAD.
Beginning Work on a Railway
Between MarySville and
Auburn.
1t viii Tap the Foothills for q Dis
tance. of Nearly Fifty
Miles.

R. S. Dickson of Placer County, now in
this city, says that the work of construct
ing the Marysville ana Auburn Electric
Railway has been commenced. The road
will be built from Marysville eastward
through the foothills of Yuba and MADEIRA
counties and southeast to Auburn. 1t
will cover nearly fifty miles of track, and
when complete it will be the longest line
of electric road westof Chicago. The pur-
pose is to afford the orchardists and farm
ers IN the foothills easier facilities for get
ting their produce to market and at lower
cost. Passengers will be carried, as well
as freight. 1t was the first intention to
have this line run from Marysville to Ne
vada City, but by that route the freight
would have to be handled twice. By the
route adopted it will be placed directly
on the Central Pacific trains at Auburn and
sent East at lower rates. This electric
road will tap one of the most productive
parts Of the State, where everything from
an orange to a pumpkin is grown, and in
abundance.
The power for the electric road will be
furnished by the South Yuba Water Com
pany, whose supply is inexhaustible.
The power plant will be situated near
the line of the road below Grass Valley,
WnClC Vic WdtCi IPdIly CdIdl Will Uc
given fall of from 10 to 80 feet 1t is be-
lieved that direct connection will be made
between the motors and the turbine water
wheels. The main line will probably be
supplied with feed wires from smaller
plants located at convenient distances if
the main supply is not sufficient With
the latest electrical machinery and suffi-
cient water power there will be no neces-
sity for feed wires. After the water is used
for the power plant it will be taken up
again in canals and carried on for many
miles for irrigating the lower lands.
The South Yuba Water Company is
fitting up 1000-horsepower plant at New
castle, Placer County, for lighting pur-
poses. 1t viii furnish electric light for
Newcastle. Penryn, Loomis, Rocklin,
Roseville and Antelope, and the surplus
electricity will be carried into Sacramento.
Not only will electric light and power be
furnished to the towns stated, but every
farmhouse and the public roads along and
contiguous to the line will be lighted from
the same source. The officers of the COM
pany state that as soon as Sacramento de-
mands more electricity, they will put in
additional plants and give any quantity
desired. Along their irrigation canal they
have made twelve or fifteen drops" vary
ing from 40 to $50 feet, where electric
plants can be established at but little cost.
Several small plants have been placed at
these drops, where manufactures have
been or will be established.
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huge dog lying dead beside him. The
bodies of both were covered with knife
wounds 1t was always supposed that the
young man was murdered and robbed by
some greaser desperado but no clew to the
perpetrator of the bloody deed was ever
did some good fighting in defense of his
master, and probably gave the robber a
hard battle"
"Who was the young man that was
killed down there?' asked the prospector.
"All we ever found out about him." said
the landlord "was that his name was Ed
ward Brooks and that lie came in by the
Big Tree road from Virginia City, New,
where he had sold some mining claims, and
was on his way to a mining camp down on
the TuolU nne, where he had a brother
living. The body of the young man lies
buried alongside the big limestone rock, a
rod or two above the road. On the rock
was cut cross and below it an inscription
giving the name and age of the murdered
man.
'sAt the foot af the grave of the young
man was buried the body of his big dog.
Asit was evident he had defended his mas
ter till cut to pieces it was decided that in
death he should be placed on guard at his
masters feet. I've noticed that some one,
within the past year or two, has cut in the
rock over the grave of the dog the name
Pluto
Have you ever heard any one speak OF
seeing anything ike shadow or picture on
the rock?" asked the prospector.
t"No; that is something new. However,
l have never heard of any man lingering
long at the rock after the big dog put in an
| appearance. You have unusual nerve
stranger"
mo nerve to boast of, landlord. You
see, / all the time thought the dog alive
That was why shot at him. was terri
bly, upset when I saw that shadow appear
| on the rock and nothing in sight to make
The San Francisco call., 1895-05-19
IMPORTANT NOTICE
TAXPAYERS
Taxes Now Due on Personal Property
Unsecured by Real Estate.

TN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS
i of the new revenue law the undersigned AS
SCISSOR of the City and County of San Francisco
will collect all taxes due on personal property
secured by real estate. The necessary books,
blanks ETC., now being ready will from and after
the 18th day of May, 1895 proceed to collect said
tax. As the law is very strict and the time in
which the collection is to be made limited, tax
payers will facilitate the office-work and avoid
further trouble and expense by paying the tax to
deputy authorized to collect the same, or at the
Assessors office, City Hall, Immediately.
The polltax OF 50 is also due and payable to
deputy, or at the Assessors Office
R5- For the convenience of taxpayers the AS
SCISSORS Office will be open for the present from
o'clock A. NJ. to 9 O'Clock p.
JOHN d. SIEBE, Assessor.
San Francisco May IA, 1895.
Post, Bulletin and Report, please copy.l
The San Francisco call., 1895-05-19

CATER the second bottle looked the pic
ture shows. 1 am indeed grateful to you for
your visit, and I think Joys Vegetable Sarsapa-
rilla the best medicine known. 1t is certainly
q very fine laxative"
After leaving Mrs. c. ]. Prudhomme 1 talked
with lady well acquainted with the recovered
one. The good woman was in raptures and
spoke plainly. She said: "I don't believe in
patent medicines, but joys Vegetable Sarsapa-
rilla is no patent medicine. 1t is good family
remedy. I believe it would be good for every
woman to take joys Vegetable Sarsaparilla
when she felt out of sorts. know how badly
Mrs. Prudhomme looked, and can well realize
how she must have felt.
'1 know OF another case where man suf-
fered untold agonies from rheumatism, and he
asserts now that the past two months have
come and gone and not sign of rheumatism.
Certainly this is a medicine worth recon-
| mending."
The San Francisco call., 1895-05-19
Services at Grace Church.

A reception will be given Bishops Waldren
and Goodsell and their families tomorrow
evening at Grace NJ. E. Church, Capp and
Twenty-first streets. Rev. ]. George Gibson of
Emmanuel Church will preach at Grace Church
Sunday night.
The San Francisco call., 1895-05-19
MRS. G. ]. PRUDHOMME
1S4 South Main Street, Los Angeles, Call
fornia, Has Just Recovered From
What Was Considered Chronic
hffliCti0n.
HALE, HEARTY AND HAPPY.

Her Recovery Has Given the" "Home
Remedy" Big Boom-Hundreds
of Persons Have Called on This
Good Lady-It Is Like Pilgrim
age.
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WELL, THIS IS QUEER WORLD"

l have friend who IS never satisfied
with anything, bur IS always telling you
where and how it might be improved
Perhaps it's good thing under some cir
cumstances to be satisfied with nothing
but the best attainable in everything, but
when | was told by this man on showing
him a superb field of wheat that be really
would have enjoyed to look at 1t, had it
not been for the thought Of how much
prettier it would have been bad the heads
of grain been Of a pale lavender tint; the
remark gave me pale lavender feeling
for the rest of the day. 1t was just SO
with everything. | tried in vain TO get
one expression of unqualified approval
of anything from him. l took him to see
Niagara Falls He looked unmovcd
upon its miraculous grandeur for several
moments before he spoke. l wondered
what his thoughts were. What IA pity, -
at last be said, this seems really to be
a magnificent site for a water fall Now
if only the Mississippi river had flow ed
the other way and emptied its waters
into the lakes, this might have been
well considerable Of a sight" and he
turned away gloomer man than ever,
and IL regretted that | had not pushed
him in
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Y. NJ. C. A: Mass meeting at 4
O'Clock subject, The Greatest Thing in
the World
Gospel meetings at 81 Capitol street on
Sunday at 80 A. M. and Z p NJ. Sun
day school at II o'clock.
Sunday services at the Salvation Army
II P. NJ, holiness meeting; and P.
NJ. praise and prayer service
St Barnabas Episcopal Chapel, Bangor
street; third Sunday in Advent, Sunday
school at 2.45 P. NJ; evening prayer at
g. 80 p. NJ.
Mrs. Donnell of Bucksport, will give
a parlor talk upon Mental Science" at
119 Sewall street, Sunday afternoon, at
half past two.
st. Marks Church: Holy Communion
at o clock; second service at 1870; eve
ming service at Z; Sunday school after
morning service.
Free Baptist Church-W Worship at 10. 80
A. NJ, with sermon by the pastor; Sun
meeting at $50 p. M !; peoples meeting
at p M.
First Christian Church, on Northern
Avenue: Preaching at 1890 A. NJ. Sun
day School at 12 M. Social service in the
evening at Z; Prayer meeting, Wednesday
evening, at 7,30.
Unitarian Church: Services at 10 80
A. Nj, Rev. r. J. Volentine of Water
vile, will preach in exchange with the
pastor; Sunday school at L. o clock; the
evening lecture will be omitted.
Elder NJ G. Huffman, Seventh Day
Adventist, will conduct n religious meet
ing today at ll3 Grove street. Augusta,
at 230 r. M; tomorroV Sunday he
will preach in the Union hail, 100 Water
street, Hsllowell, at $50 p. NJ, and in
the evening ut 730.
Baptist church: Morning devotional
service at AS; Worship with sermon by
the pastor ut 30. Subject; "Some of
the Practical Phases Of Christian Work. "
Sunday School at noon; Junior Meeting
at P. M; Y. p. S. c. II. Meeting at Z
p M; Praise and Revival service at
P NJ
Green Street Church (Mcthodist Episc9-
paD: Sunday services as follows: Pub
lie service wish sermon by the pastor,
Rev. c. s. Cummings, at 10 30 in the
70 renoon. Sunday school st noon.
League meeting ut 2. III. and social ser
vica with short address by the pastor at
in the evening.
Christian Science services will be held
at 10 North Chestnut street, Sunday. at
TO- 80 A. NJ reading of Bible and Science
and Health with references from Chris
tian Science Quarterly. Also Friday
same place at 100 p NJ. for inquiry and
testim onials as to benefits resolved from
Christian Science.
Winthrop Street Universalist Church,
Rev c. A Hayden, pastor: Morning ser
vice at 10. 80; sermon by the pastor, sub
iect: Chambers of Imagery. Sunday
School at noon; lecture at Z. NJ, sub
jcet, "Who are Evangelical Peoples
meeting in W. C. T. [. hail, Water street,
$50 2. NJ Rev. Mr.. Williamson will
preach.
Congregational Church; 1890 morn
ing worship with sermon by the pastor;
subject, "Shams;' IL NJ, Sunday school:
2.45 p NJ, Peoples service in the hall of
the ". c. T. U. 3 P. NJ, Junior En-
deavor meeting; p NJ, Y. p. ;. G. +.
meeting followed by IL brief address by
the pastor on the subject of the meeting,
What is True Friendship Seats free.
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SUPERIOR COURT.
December Term. Judge Oliver G. Hall. Presid.
inc.

| Sheriff, E. E. Norton,
Clerk, W. s. Choate,
! @. ". HeSelton. County ATTORNEY
+. A. Small, Stenographer.
| Augusta, Dec 10.
State VS.. Myers. The jury in this case
reported, this morning that they had been
unable to agree. II is understood that 10
We're for conviction and two for 'acquittal.
State vs.. Chas. II. Hinckley and NJ f.
Campbell. County attorney for State, A
ii. Goddard for defendants This is an
indictment for assault and battery upon
| one Esther Freeman of China. From the
testiomny on the part OF the government
1t appeared that the party assaulted, who
IS "a years of age Sept Is last, went to
the house. of the respondent Campbell iD
Monmouth, in company with her grand
daughter, Annie freeman, e years Of age.
ana one Ida Colburn; that they went after
the clothing of Annie, who had previously
been doing housework for Campbell, who
was single man; that in the evening the
three women retired TO a sleeping room
and went TO bed, only partially disrobing:
that soon after they had retired the re
spondent Hinckley of Randolph, with two
other men, came to the house. and with
| Campbell commenced to drink, sing and
dance: that the defendant Hinkley soon
| forced the door of the room in which the
women were and came in, and they set IA
dug upon him and he went out that he
again tried to force the door and the
women came out where the men were. all
very much frightened: that the conduct
| OF the men became so bo;stcrous that the
women went outdoors and ran to one John
Ayers, who keeps the town farm in Mon
| mouth. pursued. as they claim. by the de-
PENDANTS: that on their arrival at Ayers,
they ere refused gdmittance and their
pursuers came up and sought to make
| them return, and it is claimed that in the
affair Mrs. Freeman was struck twice in
the side of the head by Hinkley and
Knocked down; that being unable to
escape, they returned with the defendants
| to Campbellfs house, but again and i'm
mediately escaped and went to distant
neighbour where they remained all night
| The defendants admit they had been
drinking some, but deny that they com
mitted any violence. They claim that the
women came out into the kitchen upon
invitation, to hear the singing, and they
admit that the Colburn gin did become
| frightened at the bosterous conduct of the
| men, although no violence was offered
that the women left the house ard went
toward Ayers, and the respondents
pursued them to bring them back, because
Aver, 10 whose house they were going,
| and the complainant in this case, had been
an enemy to Campbell for many years and
| Campbell was unwilling TO have them 20
| there.
They claim that the women consented TO
| return and all seemed pleasant enough un
| til they arrived at Campbell's, when the
| women saw the men that came with
| Hinkley in the road, and again Left the
premises.
| Aver IS a witness for the government
and by his testimony supports the govern
| ment case. The testimony was substanti
ally concluded when court adjourned.
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SINGULAR AcouSTlcAL FACTS.
The Eccentricities of Fog Horns-Arouns
Each Siren lie Zones of Silence.

The Eccentricities of Fog Horns-AroEnd
Each Siren lie Zones of Silence.
In naval and shipping circles there is
much discussion on the curious variations
in the audibility of fog horns at different
distances. You would suppose that the
sound of fog horn must diminish in per
feet graduation as you got away from it.
But it has been positively asserted that
this is not so. There are variations not to
be accounted for by fitful winds. Ii is
some time since an American eXperimenter
asked the scientific world to believe that
round each siren there is zone about =
nautical miles broad, within which fog
signals cannot be heard although they are
distinctly heard outside that zone. The
statement was received with incredulity,
but later and more elaborate experiments
are said to lend confirmation to it.
ain one of these, we are told, the YES
sci steamed with the wind straight toward
the lightshin from a distance Of AZ nauti-
cal miles At distance of 24 miles the
sound became family audible and sudden
" increased in loudnoss at 2}a miles, re-
tanning the Same intensity up to two miles
distance. From ! q to / i miles the note
was scarcely audible but then il immCdi-
ately increased to such an extent that it
appeared to originate in the immediate
neighborhood of the vessel. The steamer
at this point reversed its course, and the
fuctuation over this part of the course
was found to be the same, except that it
was even more strongly marked Reycrs-
ing again, the vessel steamed over this
distance a third time, and again tho sound
disappeared at / 4 miles and reappcarcd
again, so loud that it sounded as if the
fog horn was only two cables lengths off.
Then, at half IA mile, the sound disappear
ed entirely, TO reappcar at a quarter Of a
mile from the lightship, after which it
gradually and steadily increased in inten-
sity until the latter was reached
These habits Of the fog horn are not only
interesting, but a matter of much prac-
teal Importance. Its eGcentricities are
thought to have caused the recent ground
ing of the fne steamer Puritan when
about to emerge from Long Island sound
into the Atlantic and less than mile dis
tant from fog horn. And, to enhance the
singularity of the affair, it is told that
about 10 years ago a steamer from Proyi-
dence to New York ran ashore close upon
this same steam siren. In both cases its
sound was unheard
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New Corporations.

The following new corporation filed its
papers at the secretary of States office,
Friday;
The Hub freeing Machine Company
organized at Portland for the purpose of
manufacture of boot and shoe freeing
machines and machinery and the carry
ing on Of general manufacturing bust
ness, with $40, 600 capital stock, of Will b
500 is paid in. The officers are Presi
dent. George H Clark of Boston, Mass.
treasurer, Edwin c. Storrow Of Boston,
Mass
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President L. : A.-Contnuing his
work and answering ahsently, saw, re-
fused, ON account Of the pressure Of pre-
vious applications