The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-21
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF .

SIX months by Judge Low yesterday, 1or peg |
ging.
Mayor Sutro is searching for authority on |
which to hold a special election with the new |
charter.
The second concert for the Children's Hos
pital took place last night in the Mechanics |
Pavilion.
A foggy morning, increasing cloudiness to- |
ward night and cooler weather are foIeeasted |
Tor to-day.
The Board OF Health has decided to give the |
water supply OF San Francisco g thorough in
vestigation.
The trial of Superintendent of Streets Ash
worth was resumed yesterday and the taking
OF evidence began.
A Marine History of the Pacific Northwest
has been complied by E. ". Wright and printed
IN Portland, Oregon.
The First Congregational Church concluded
Its business meeting by The appointment OF
committees last evening.
Policemen H. G. Clancy and Erasmus Hart
ley were fined last night by the Police Commits
sioners for neglect of duty.
The winners at the track Yesterday were
Prince Hooker, Jim Corbett, Poteptate, Me
Light, Rosebud and Soon Enough.
John Cahil, the stoekbroker. has been miss
ing for seve; al days and only So has been found
in his office TO settle with mis- creditors.
A mass-meeting OF women interested in the
suppression of vice has been called for to-mor-
row afternoon at the Y II. c. A. auditorium.
Rite was welcomed home yesterday by q
notable committee from the Grand Consistory.
Residents in the vicinity of Buena Vista
Park are TO hold mass-meeting in a few days
10 devise ways and means FORTS improvement.
The traascontinental fier over the Union
Pacific system arrived last night three days
and two hours from Chicago, shortening the
time twelve hours.
The schooner Eliza Miller, from this port for
Coos Bay, was caught in gale and dismasted
Th17 1TaEx M 1ly-nC Irnr lnS aNu-oS
towed into port yesterday.
The property OF the Cynthia Hoff Shillaber
estate was disposed of al auction yesterday
The old BiJou Theater was among the real
estate and brought $166,o0o.
John Hammond's suit against the Stockton
Agricultural Works, involving his double
ender streetcar patent, is to be taken up to the
United States Supreme Court.
Fred Mitchell, alias F. J. Rowe. an engineer,
was arrested in Hackmeier's Hotel yesterday
pending an examination of check which he
passed, but which was returned.
Charles Todd and Joseph Smith, tramps who
recently arrived in the City, were arrested yes
teTday on the com plant OF E 7. kincaid Of
Palo Alto for stealing bicycle from him.
The Game Commissioners are on a crusade
against hunters who use shotguns larger than
10-gauge. One man at Las Banos has been
arrested for hunting with slx-gauge gun.
William Tbude, lad in the Youths Direc-
tory, was found on the streets recently. He
has been abandoned. as nobody looked for him,
and he had no knowledge OF where his home
was.
A report on pelagic sealing for the season has
Just been prepared by Deputy Collector of Gus
IONS Newton s. Taylor for the Treasury De-
Killed,
The Columbia, the first steamer to leave for
Portland since the rate war began, passed out
Yesterday with 195 passengers. The Southern
Pscife's Portland special was well patronized,
however
Rube Levy, Lang, Nash and Van Hal
tren are 10 play ball with the San Franciscos
every Sunday against the Pacific and Olympics.
Only one Eastern player remains OF the base
ball mines.
Antoine Francisco. owner of the fishing
smack New Moon, was nearly drowned at the
heads Yesterday. His boat v-as capsized by a
roller and it was several hours before he was
picked up
John J. Ryan, 92S Natorna street, swore out
warrant in Judge CampbelPs court yesterday
for the arrest of James Carroll on the charge of
rObbing him of a gold watch and chain on No
vember II.
As an outgrowth of the Union Stockyard
$3.50, 900 bond suit P. Tormey, the president, is
about to be sued by a convenient financial
friend, B. Fernandez OF Contra Costa County,
for S62, 900.
Dewitt Clinton Prescott commenced an
equity suit in the United States Circuit Court
yesterday against the Santa Clara Valley Mill
and Lumber Company for infringement OF a
patent IN bsnd-saw mills.
The Eclectic Medical Society of the State of
Gailf0r01G began us INe0LN-btcOIlu dLuudl SeS-
sion yesterday. This evening President Logan
will entertain the members and their wives at
a BANQUET at his residence.
August Schlotter, an old man who for some
time has lived q BILE life in poverty at 36
Hubbard street, committed suicide at the Ahl-
born House yesterday morning by shooting
himself through the head with pistol.
Emma Cleverley, a young woman. was ar
rested last night on charge OF grand larceny.
She stole $40 from Samuel Jackson, a visitor,
from Klamath, Or, which was found hidden
in her dress when searched at the prison.
The California Varsity eleven played the
Olympic team behind closed doors at Central
Park Yesterday evening and scored one touch
down on the Olympians, although the clubmen
put up more reliable ground-gaining game.
James Coggin, who, with Frank Comyns,
robbed a house on Pacific avenue, WIS con-
victed of the charge OF grand larceny in Judge
Belcheris court yesterday. Comyns had
already been convicted, and both will appear
for sentence next Friday.
The suit of John E. Nash for the fulfllment
of an alleged contract of employment with
Mrs. Ernestine Kreling is on trial. Nash was
formerly stage manager OF the Iiyol1, but he
was discharged because his love for racehorses
was greater than his attention to business
Taxes on the Fair estate are now due and the
Probate Court has been petitioned Tor leave TO
Withdraw from the Nevada Bank 2,245 u
in order TO pay them The taxes are those for
property in this City; $32,l43 "a IS Tor real
estate and $40, I0I 35 is for personal property
Inc American snip cicLhAtNon-i5 "-AAS- oh14o
for New York to-day, has six apprentices
aboard. This is q big innovation on American |
vessels, but Captain Murphy says it viii be
success and that soon thousand boys VIII be
learning navigation aboard American deep |
water ships.
H. ". sheehy, an old miner OF Virginia City, |
for i've years past superintendent OF rich silver
mines three miles high in the CordilIeras,
eighty miles from Lima, Peru, has returned
here The recent revolutions, he says, have |
caused trouble to Peruvian mine-owners. de |
viii not return there.
Terence McCabe was ten minutes late IN |
appearing before Judge Wallace yesterday to |
answer the charge OF resisting an oihceT ana |
when he did come be fonnd his bond forfeited |
and the Deputy Sheriff waiting for him. A |
sojourn in jail until he could secure new
bond was what McCabe paid for his extra ten |
minutes.
Charles B. Flagg, supreme secretary OF the
order of United Commercial Travellers oil |
America has arrived here to organize SUB
councils in this City, sacramento and Los An
geies. He is from Columbus. Ohio When ne
gets through there he will go 10 oregon ana |
Washington and organize other sub-counclls. |
The object is both social and TO give monetary /
aid.
Mrs. Cienega Hutchinson and her son. Rich |
ard Hutchinson, are suing the San Francisco
Gaslight Company and Jacob Jacobs, their |