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The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1896-10-03

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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-05
THE BUCKLEY PLATFORM
Bioyclists, Municipal Ownership,
Dollar Limit and the
A. p. A

The platform committee of the Buckley
municipal convention held a long session
at the party headquarters on Ellis street
last night and left unfinished the platform
which will be offered to the convention To-
night after another session of the COM
mittee OF which DR.. James 1. Stanton is
chairman.
Representatives of the organized bicy-
clists appeared before the committee and il
was decided that one plank should declare
n favor OF State law CHASING bicycles as
bag gage. Street improvements will also
be demanded.
The platform will be very strong for the
dollar limit and for judicious economy in
municipal affairs while favoring public inn
provements to exactly the right extent
Another prominent feature will be a plank
declaring in favor OF the municipal owner
ship of the water supply. j. s. Reynolds
appeared in favor of a single-tax proposi-
ton, which the committee will pass by.
1t was decided to declare no stand on
the charter. The anita. P. A plank will
be a strong one.
The committee on order of business. of
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-05
THE FITTING OF ACRES
ii. E. f. Williams Defends Miss
Morton as Being Above
Reproach.

In regard to a rumored elopemept par
ticipated in by R. T. Acres and Miss Nor
ton, bookkeeper, the following statement
is self-explanatorY:
Mr.. Williams of the firm of Acres & Williams
states that the young lady mentioned has been
IN their employ for the past ten years, without
ever taking days vacation: she Is most
highly respected, refined and dlgnlhed per-
son, who will be simply shocked and pros
trated by reason of such sensational ana en-
tirely groundlesS rumor. She Is the sole sup
port OF widowed mother and could not and
would not leave her in such plight II Tor no
other consideration than that she required her
support.
Business being dull the young lady was
urged 10 take a vacation, and on the going
away or Acres we wrote her TO re turn, she still
being considered all the time in our employ.
She replied she would be here in a few days.
as our business often requires US TO write her
in reference to matters. She was not aware OF
Acres leaving until we wrote her, but she, Ike
all his acquaintance, was not surprised, Tor
he has talked nothing but Mexico for years.
As to Acres, on account of his wife suing
him for divorce for striking her, he took the
opportunity of leaving on business trip, tax
ing with him samples OF goods from various
houses. He preferred TO allow the case 10 go
by default rather than fight il. We received
several letters from him in Mexico and from
the young lady, who is over 800 miles from
being held with Williams was by some stranger
asking questions through the telephone. to
whom Mr.. Williams stated he preferred not TO
discuss the matter through public telephone
with a half dozen strangers in his office, bat
would gladly furnish party with all the info--
nation he desired if he would call Instead of
calling the paper came out as shown.
H E. F. WILLIAMS.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-05
NO PRIVATE DETECTIVE
The Registrar Must Hunt Supposed
Suffers With One of His
Clerks.

City and County Attorney CresweII's
scheme of having private detective en-
ployed to assist the Registrar in ferreting
out supposed suffers was put to sleep at
the meeting of the Election Com mission
ers yesterday, when Auditor Broderick
and Tax Collector Block refused to vote in
favor of the measure.
The Tax Collector said that he vas not
in favor of private detectives and that they
were about as likely to be as honest as the
suffers. He thought that some OF the
Registrars clerks could do the suffer
hunting all right, and as Mr.. Broderick
sided with him the motion to appoint a
Eawkshaw was lost.
The following names were stricken from
the register-some because they had been
proven to have registered illegally and
others because they lad failed to answer
citations to appear and prove their right
to vote: Albert Williams, who had regis
tered from the Harbor Police station.
Joseph l.. Gerstle, registered from the
Russ House; no such person was known
there. Joseph Wilkins, 325 Pacific street;
Albert I. Nyer, Z Grant avenue; David
William Burgin, 2I9 Grant avenue; Sam
ueI E. Buckmer 937 Pacific street; Elton
Gerdy, 521 Pacific; Stephen Turner, 904
kearny; Nicholas Kellet, 905 Kearny.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-05
FOR hOM mad SHOES.

Manufacturers and Producers to CO.
operate With the Workmen.
A meeting of the Pacific Coast Shoe
workers Union was held last night, a
special open meeting called for the pur-
pose of obtaining an expression from the
Manufacturers and Producers Associa-
ton with regard to getting that associa-
ton to cooperate with the shoemakers in
securing preference for homemade foot
wear.
In response to this call Julian Sonntag,
manager, and S. II. Tracy, president of
the association. were present.
In his opening remarks President Nc
Kintrick briefly stated the object of the
meeting and the desire of the union to re-
store, as far as possible, the standing of
the shoemakers on the coast and particu-
larlv in this City. AT present there are
not 300 men employed in this branch of
labor, whereas some years ago there were
over 1000.
Manager Sonptag spoke of the desire of
the Manufacturers and Producers Asso-
citation to assist in every way the men en-
ployed in trade. Similar words of encour-
agement were spoken by President Tracy,
who urged the shoemakers to set good
example by purchasing no Eastern goods
themselves.
at invariably happens" said he, "that
the very men W make the greatest
noise about imported goods are the first
to make the purchase"
A vote of thanks was rendered the two
gentlemen for the interest they had
taken in the cause of home labor.
motion was made by ]. Clark and
carried that the Manufacturers and Pro-
ducers' trade mark be placed on all foot
wear made by the union.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-05
COMPLETING The HALL.
Annual Report of the Commits
Sioners Almost
Ready.
The Roof Will Pobab y Be in Plac.
by January Total Cost, So
Far, $5,4o7oS3

The annual report of the City Hall Com
missioners, which is now in preparation
by Secretary J. ]. Mccarthy, will give
some interesting figures relating to the
cost of the City's big office building, and
will put at rest the fears of the taxpayers
who apprehend that they will be called
upon to furnish more money for the COM
pletion of the building.
Mr.. Mccarthy figures that up to date
the hall has cost the City So, 4O7, 0S3, and
that when the roof and dome are completed
there will still be $37, 900 left in the fund to
pay salaries and incidentals for the ensu-
ing year.
These figures are based on q presump-
ton that the Comn1iss ioners will accept
the lowest bid among those that have just
been opened for the construction of tue
root This bid is $129, 7S8.
1t is estimated that if DO bitches occur
and no extensions of time are granted the
contractors the roof will be in place by
January next, and that the hall will be
practically completed. In relation TO this
Secretary Mccarthy says:
THE com missioners are endeavoring,
with the greatest devotion to economy in
expenditures to adjust plans for neces-
sary work and purchase OF materials to
finally complete the new City Hall with
funds now at their disposal within the
briefest period practicable
The following figures relating to the
funds during the fiscal year ending July
last are interesting:
July. 1895, balance in new City Hall
From taxes fiscal year 's5-ss. $3.50 Sc Sc
Total 1902, 46I IL
Total dlsbursed for fiscal year '9e-'96 lS5,S40 O5
Demands outstanding. ................. 61,677 AZ
July l, 1885, balance in new City Hall
fund 1878 zss 4s
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-05
RELAY PACKET IN OHIO.
One of the Couriers Disabled in
the Night When Near
Chicago.
The Time Across the Continent Will
Be About Twelve Days and
Twenty Hours.

The San Francisco Examiners and New
York Journals bicycle relay packet ar
rived in Chicago at o'clock yesterday
morning. The packet was then fourteen
hours behind the schedule time as the
schedule is read at this end of the route.
An accident happened to Courier Cap
tain Crawford near Turner, few miles
west of Chicago. In speeding along in the
darkness he was thrown from his wheel.
In the fall his collar-bone was broken.
His companion, Cummings, rendered all
the assistance possible and endeavored to
get his disabled comrade sheltered in
farmhouse, but the farmer, whose slumber
was disturbed, declined to receive COM
pany at that hour of the night. Cum
mings rode on alone to Turner, the next
relay station.
The watchers at the Postoffice in Chi
cago waited anxiously from until
o'clock in the morning for the incoming
courier. Once in the city the conditions
were favorable for high speed. The streets
were clear OF traffic and some swift rum
ming was made.
The night superintendent at the Post
office signed at sos. Forty-fve minutes
later the packet was at Kensington. fifteen
miles distant. F. Hovey and @. P. Root
wheeled TO Hammond. eight miles, in
IuI1Iy minutes. 1u6 lnG1d0a WleSlmen
taking the packet did fine work.
wonderful feat was performed yester-
day by n. E. Kimball, who rode from
kendallville to Butler, over newly plowed
roads, twenty-one and a half miles, in 1
hour and 4 minutes.
c. H. Walfort and George Hammond
were listed for record trial from Perrvs-
burg to Woodville, twenty miles.
Dispatches 10 the Examiner from To-
ledo last night reported courier arrivals at
Bryan 7:30 P. M, Wauseon 9:27P. NJ. and
Delta 1912 P. NJ.
The packet was expected at Toledo at
midnight. 1t was to be carried from Rat
tlesnake Corner to Toledo (ten miles) by
William 6. Alexander, a courier 81 years
old.
The packet should be in Cleveland to-
day. The schedule calls for arrival in
New York Sunday afternoon, but the in
dications are that the terminal station
will not be reached until Monday morning.
From the present outlook il appears that
the winning time across the continent
from San Francisco to New York will be
about twelve days and twenty hours.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-05
CAPTURED A WHALE.
Largest Specimen Ever Killed on the
Coast Taken Near Pesca-
derO.

Word was received in this City yester-
day that one of the whaling crews which
HAYES been searching in the vicinity of
Pigeon Point since the Esd of August had
caught whale. Two whaling crews were
taken to the vicinity by the excursion
steamer Queen. The excursionists re-
manned in the vicinity only one day, but
the whalers stayed in their small boats,
coming ashore each night. According to
the dispatch the whale was captured by
John Gavin's crew, and in the struggle a
boat was smashed and one man was dan
gerously wounded. The whale is reported
to be eighty feet long and fourteen feet
wide, the largest ever caught off the coast.
A tug was sent to The scene OF the cap
ture last night and the whale will proba-
bly, reach here this afternoon. The excur-
sion managers say that if they can pro-
cure the shears of the Union Iron Works
to lift the carcass on a barge it viii. be on
exhibition Sunday.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-05
In the ThIrtv-Sacnnd-

The Equal Rights" Silver Club of the
Thirty-second District opened the cam
paign with a grand rally in its hall, corner
Third and Brannan streets, last evening.
Patrick O'Donnell. the president, opened
the meeting with an address, after which
the Hon. James G. Mcguire spoke at
length upon the silver question and the
funding bill. Clytns Barbour followed
with an explanation of is 10 }. and Walter
Gallagher and Joseph e. O'Donnell also
ably addressed the members.
Many new members joined the club,
which gives the Thirty-second District the
strongest silver club in the City. The
officers are: Patrick 0'Donnell. president;
Jeremiah Leary, vice-president; Thomas
Burke, treasurer; Stephen Feeney, secre-
tary. The club will meet on the first and
third Tuesday evenings of each month.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-05
FOR WORTHY STUDENTS
inducements Offered to Gradu.
ates of the Girls High
School.
A New Free Scholarship Established
at the University of
California

After they were dismissed yesterday
afternoon the students of the Girls High
School, some 500 strong, assembled in the
auditorium.
Miss Shirley HAYES took the chair and
explained that the purpose of the gather
ing was the com pletion of an organization
alre ,dy begun, in the interest OF the
school and its graduates. A young lady.
a recent graduate, she said, was now COM
pletlng her education at the University of
California. For the opportunity to do so
she was indebted to the aid of her former
schoomaster, and now it was proposed to
establish and maintain q permanent free
scholarship at the university for tie bene-
fit of deserving graduates of the school.
In the constitution and bylaws, subse-
quently adopted, the name taken was the
Association OF the Girls High School
Scholarship Fund, and the aims of the or
ganization were formally declared to be
I'the collection and maintenance of fund
to be used to assist graduate or gradu-
ates in her or their studies at the Uni
versity of California
The following officers were elected for
the ensuing year: President, Miss Shirley
HAYES; presidents, Miss Blanche
Clark, Miss Penelope STANDARD and Miss
Laura Denson; financial and recording
secretary, Mercie Pacheco; treasurer, Mrs.
Mary j. May born; director, Miss Frances
Hodgkinson. The two ladies last named
are teachers.
Each CIR. belonging to the association
pledges herself to contribute not less than
so cents year, payable monthly. The
sum of $3.50, in SIS monthly installments,
Will be paid annually for the maintenance
of the scholarship.
Principal Elisha Brooks and all of the
teachers are in sym PATTY with this frater-
nal enterprise of the girls, and will do
what they can to formulate it. At pres
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-05

Der of ovens have been built in order that
the bulls heads may be cooked in the
true traditional manner.
The citizens who have the affair in
charge are determined that it will be the
most successful one of its kind ever held
on the coast. The officials OF the San
Francisco and North Pacific Railroad
have extended helping hand, and with
out doubt the enterprise will prove sue
cess.
Very little publicity was accorded Thu
ron's initial clambake, which was given
two months ago, but notwithstanding
that fact fully 800 people were in attend
ance, and all enjoyed a merry day.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-05
A CHINAMAN SHOT.
Lou Look the Victim of Highbinder's
Revolver.


There was more high binder shooting in
Chinatown shortly after II O'Clock this
morning, and as result Lou Look is
lying in the Receiving Hospital, with a
dangerous bullet wound in his neck.
He was in the basement of S25 Wash
ington street when some one on the side
walk took two shots at HIM. One struck
table and glanced over into the wall and
the other struck Look near the ear and
came out at his jaw.
The man who did the shooting was see
by the gathering crowd to run into the
doorway of house across the street. and
since then, although police officers and
Chinese specials have hunted assiduously
for him, he has not been heard Of.
Look was a member of the Sam Yups,
but was, so far as is known, not a high
binder. He is not well known in China
Town and is supposed to be new conner
His assailant is supposed to be a 30 Leong
Tong man. The cause of the shooting IS
not known.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-05
WOMAN SUFFRAGE PICNIC
Susan B. Anthony and Rev. A.
Shaw at Leona Heights on
Admission Day.

ALAMEDA, CAL, Sept. 4-The Ala
media Woman's Suffrage Associat on held
its annual meeting this afternoon in Lin
derman Opera-house. The officers elected
for the next year were: Mrs. Olive Bah
cock. president; Mrs. Green Majors, vice
president; Mrs. NJ. E. Auderton, financial
secretary; Mrs. w. c. Forde, correspond
ing secretary; Mrs. Cubery, treasurer;
Mrs. Mckenzie, Mre. Metzger and Mrs.
Elliot. audito Mrs. II. II. Todd and
Mrs, Fiala, delegates to the county con-
yention. Mrs Olive Babcock received
word that she had been honored by being
appointed one of the delegates from Ala
media County to the State convention that
meets in October.
The mem bers discussed the arrange
ments for the great picnic at Leona
Heights on Admission day to be given by
the woman suffrage associations around
the bay. 1t was also stated that Mr.. Rank
had granted the exclusive right of the
grounds 10 the promoters of the picnic.
and was doing everything to promote the
The speakers that day are TO include
the Rev. Anna Shaw, Miss Susan B.
Anthony, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait.
if she does not 60 to Stockton, Miss
MolIie E. Connors, Judge M. A. Hanly
and Colonel George Babcock. The mem
Association will meet at II A. NJ. on
Wednesday and act as escort to Miss Susan
B. Anthony.
Young Bohemians.
ALAMEDA, CAL, Sept. 1.-Two younr-
sters from San Francisco wendell their
wav into this city by the last train vester-
day morning. They were met bv Officer
Moebus, who recognized they were strau-
gers and wanted 10 know who they were.
They gave their names as William WEIGH
and Robert Parker and said they were 90
ing home. They we're taken to the police
station for further inquiry and they had
hardly got within the doors of the police
station when WEIGH recognized his uncle
and knew he would soon be founa out.
1t turned out that the ragamuffins.
whose ages are ID and 10 respectively. had
stolen $40 from their parents. seen the
prize-fignt in San Francisco and then came
over to Alameda in search Of the circus.
When searched all the money found on
them was Sc 55; the remainder had been
enjoyed. The youngsters weie taken home
Yesterday and received a good trouncing
from their parents.
All for the Love OF Liquor.
ALAMEDA, CAL, Sept. 4-Charles Lam
bert better known by his sobriouet of
Clam-chowder Charlie, has placed himself
within the pale of law. He was loungin,
about Marten d Groves livery-stable this
morning, VIXEN his bibulous propensities
caused him TO make off with demiiobn
out OF Grocer Quade's delivery-waeop.
Dave MaTten saw him do the deed aud
telephoned to the police, who, soon ar
rested him. Charlie later found out that
it was vinegar he had taken and not
whisky.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-05
Alameda BOYS r1it

ALAMEDA, CAL, Sept. 4.-Gus Schroe.
der. an Alameda boy of II years. together
with Charles Bell, another lad living close
by him on Broadway, have mysteriousJy
disappeared. Mrs. Schroeder saws thai
Gus left last Wednesday, and where he
has gone with the Bell youth no one knows.
Their parents are greatly exercised at their
disappearance, as no reason can be as
signed for 1t.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-05

emit the fund has an income of $50 a month,
ana with the accession of new members
the association is receiving, it is expected
$40 month, or $500 q year, and that be-
lore long two or three free scholarships
may be successfully maintained.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-05
Drina Frnm starvntinn.

Philip Lima, man about 40 years of age,
went 10 917 Pacific street about two weeks ago
and asked for something to eat and some
where to sleep. He got meal and was told
he could sleep in the clubhouse all night but
would have to go away in the morning. Last
night he was found in the Clubhouse apparently
dying from starvation, and was taken to the
Receiving Hospital He was too weak to talk
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-05

which James H. O'Brien is chairman, de-
cided on the usual precedence of nomina-
tons and in favor OF the appointment of
a committee of eighteen to recommend
nominees for school directors, and SINH
lar committee on nominations for the
judicial offices. 1t was decided not to
recommend committee on Supervisors.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-05
Determined to Die.

Charles Moore, man about so years of age,
who says he lives at Fourth and Jessie streets.
jumped into the bay at the foot of Taylor
taken to the Rece living Hospital, none the
worse for his ducking. He says he VIII make s
better job OF it to-day, as he is determined to
die.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-05
A M -RnY c AmBAKE.

1t VIII BE Held Sunday Next at Tib-
uron.
An old-fashioned Rhode Island clam
bake and bulIshead breakfast will be held
in Tiburon on Sunday next. Quantities
OF the toothsome bivalves will be prepared
il the most palatable manner. and num-
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-05

Cuba has coast line of 300 miles, and
200 ports.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-06-10
FAVORABLE TO ADJOURNMENT.
House and Senate Agreed on All But Two
Bills.
ESPECIAL TO THE PREss.J

Washington, June 9.-Ihe final confer
enoe report on the Indian appropriation
bill was agreed to by both House and
Senate late this afternoon. The point of
difference all along has been the seotarian
school question. The Catholics are re-
ceiving about $3.50, 600 for their Indian
schools, and this amount has caused the
disagreement. The bill as now finally
agreed to will allow the sectarian schools
to receive public money this year to the
extent of 30 per cent of what they re-
oeived last year, provided that all demo-
limitations shall be treated alike. and pro-
vided moreover that the Secretary of the
Interior shall not be able to furnish
secular schools for all the children this
year.
But in no case shall any seotarian
school receive government aid after ono
year, and the bill still further declares ..it
to be the settled policy Of the government
that in the future pubic money shall
not be appropriated for sectarian pur-
poses. The sectarian question has also
been involved in the district of Colum-
bia appropriation bill, and has created
| long deadlock which Is not yet broken.
This bill and the sundry civil bill are
| the only obstacles to adjournment. 1t
is thought that they will be agreed to
tomorrow and that the session will close
during the day.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-06-10
In THE SENA TIE.

The resolution offered yesterday by
Mr. Woloott for an inquiry into the con-
test for the erection of an equestrian
statue for Gen. W. Il. Sherman, and re-
questing the suspension of the contract
until next session, was laid before the
Senate Mr.. Woloott explained and ad-
vooated the resolution. 1t seemed to him,
he said, that great injury had been
done in making the contract and that
proper investigation of the subject by
the library committee of the Senate
should result either in righting the
wrong done, or in showing that the con-
tarct was the best conclusion of the whole
matter. Mr.. Woloott rehearsed some
facts which showed that the army of
Tennessee collected 81, 600 and that con-
gress appropriated $50, 600, making whole
fund $96, ,001; bids and models were
called for; that 26 models had been sub
mitted to the committee Of national
lsoulptors; including the most distln'