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The San Francisco call., 1896-10-16
OAKLAND WILL
Be TABOOED
The Southern Pacific Pre-
pairing to Assume the
Aggressive.
It Intends to Build Up the
Peninsula and to Forget
the Athens"
WITHIN TWO YEARS HENCE.
When the Shore Line Is Built Ere.
quent Fast Trains Will Do
the BUSINESS.
WITHIN TWO YEARS HENCE.

| The Southern Pacific Company is very
| quiet about it, but the powerful corpora.
ton is going to have an innings with Oak
land.
The story OF the game is short enough.
! Oakland took hand with the Southern
Pacific, and now the game is to be played
to finish. At least that is what a promi-
! nent official of the Southern Pacific has
stated, and he knows ali that is worth
knowing in this connection.
The railway company is convinced that
it has been given the CLASSY eve" in the
Athens of the Pacific. Yohng politicians
who get Office across the bay faced the
railroad as common enemy. What hap
pened is a matter of history. And now
the railroad company intends to retaliate.
All of which means that Oakland is to be
tabooed in favor of the peninsula that the
company is going to bend its best efforts
TO building up San Mateo County, part of
San Francisco County along its proposed
bay shore line, and part of Santa Clara as
far as San Jose on the same road.
1t has been asserted that the bay-shore
line will be built within two years from
now. As now projected this line will
u
send streets TO Seventh street and thence
due south through the Potrero and into
San Mateo County near the town of
Baden, where the old line is met. Trains
are to run out of town at the rate of sixty
miles an hour to San Jose, and at fire.
quent and regular intervals. Besides
cheap Communication tickets will be issued
to encourage men doing business in San
Francisco 10 live in San Mateo County.
,h1,-1 harr nan hn in.
thirty minutes.
The railroad company has come to the
conclusion that its present ferry system
across the bay is large enough to suit all
requirements and at the same time to
please the management. 1t will suffice
for the accommodation of trains arriving
at Oakland mole, and also Tor the local
business.
So the railway men say Oakland is big
enough now, and We have all the business
we want out of there" They add that
they are tired OF Oakland. G. 2. Hunting
ton is tired of it. tired of people riding
| free on the cars and going into the SUI
preme Court to compel the corporation to
carry people for nothing; still more
weary of paying taxes that appear exorbi-
| tant when compared with taxes in other
! counties.
! When the bartender on fsrry-boat was
| arrested at the Oakland mole for selling
liquor in Alameda County without a Ii
cense the railroad managers grew hot.
One of these things with another have
had cumulative effect, and the company
is an adept at fighting back.
The old story about removing shops 10
| South San Francisco comes up repeatedly Y
with some new deal, which indicates that
! there must be some fire to cause all this
smoke regarding the workshops. So far
as the project to build up string OF
towns and suburban residences along the
new line down the peninsula is concerned,
it has been vouched for by more than one
| official
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-16
JOSEPH JUNEAU, MINER,
The Aged Alaska Pioneer Tells
of His Great Gold
Find.
He Founded the Alaskan Town Which
Bears His Nama-Hsre From
the yukon.

Joseph Juneau, the old miner who
founded the town of Juneau, Alaska, is at
the Commercial Hotel. He arrived here
Sunday in the steamer Bertha from the
mouth of the Yukon. This is the first
time in over sixteen years that he has left
Alaska. He will remain in this City q
few days, and then start for Milwaukee,
Wis.,, his birthplace and the present home
of his only remaining relatives, three
nephews, slso named Juneau, who are in
terested in savings bank there. After visit
ing them anu viewing the scenes OF his
youth, the man who has spent nearly halt
his life in Alaska will return to the placer
mines about Circle City. where he has
been almost ever since he left juneau
nearly two years ago.
How did Juneau get its name? Why"
remarked the old miner as he interjected
in an easy, oft-hand way few figures OF
speech characteristic of the mining camp
II discovered it and the fellows Just
named the place after me. 1t was like
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-16
KINDERGARTEN FETE
Society Ladies Arrange for a Delight
full Entertainment In the Residence
of Mrs. w. y. Du Val.

Society Ladies Arrange for Delight
full Entertainment In the Residence
of Mrs.W. y. Du Val.
The friends OF the Pioneer Kindergar-
ten Society are invited to an entertain
ment to be given at the residence of Mrs.
w. S. Du Val, 1912 Pine street, on Satur-
day, October 81. Mrs. Du Val will be the
hostess on this pleasant occasion, and it is
expected that many of the leading society
ladies' of San Francisco will take an active
interest In the entertainment.
From to P. NJ and from s to II P. M.
there will be brilliant gathering and all
visitors will be given an opportunity OF
enjoying themselves in a Japanese tea
garden, while they will also be enter
tanned with delightful music, Halloween
games and fortune telling.
This pleasurable fete is in the hands of
an executive committee composed of the
following ladies: Mrs. d. Bixler. Mrs. l..
P. Drexler, Mrs. E. J. de Pue, Mrs. w. S.
Du Val, Mrs. R. d. Fry, Mrs. f. George,
Mrs. g. M. Gorham, Mrs. A. M. Grim,
Mrs. M. S. Grinbaum, Mrs. M. H. Hecht,
Mrs. G. Hansen, Mrs. M. 3. Kellogg, Mrs.
F. C. Moore, Mrs. c. S. Moses, Mrs l.. f.
Monteagle, Mrs. M. WinterDerg, Mrs. A.
H. Vail, Mrs. S. Stern, Miss K. M. Atkin-
son and Mrs. c. F. Mullins.
The tickets, which include tea, cost so
CENTS and can be had from any mem Der
of the committee which has interested
itself in this deserving work.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-16

and gather up the papers of the last edi-
tion and bring them to us on the following
afternoon for exchange. We don't desire
to put any hardship on the boys,
but they must take the evening papers as
they do the morning dailies-pay for every
copy and only buy what they know they
can dispose OF. Personally don't care
for the street sales, as every body who
wants a Post will buy it at the news
dealers, and the boys may go on with their
boycott. We are only doing what all the
newspapers of the country have done ana
the plan has worked satisfactorily,
AT the Bulletin and Report offices the
same statements were made. Mr.. Bunker
of the last-named journal said the cneck
system was nuisance and all three even
ing papers had entered into compact TO
abate it.
In the meanwhile the torn copies went
rustling along the sidewalk and the news
boys punched together and howled their
indignation. The police would get IN
among the little angry strikers and instead
of moving on they would surround the Dig
bluecoats and tell them their troubles.
Down nj the ferries "Chiek McCann"
pulled along the strike in good shape.
With a bundle of Oakland papers under
his arm he kept the boys supplied, even
checking back what they could not sell.
"Gabby Jim," his lieutenant, made a
speech, and after swearing IN all tue boys
within the sound of his voice warned his
audience that he would break the face OF
the first kid caught with boycotted paper
in his possession.
One newsboy interviewed Congressman
Magnire at the office door of one of the
evening papers. and insisted that the Rep
resentatiye must stand in with the boys
and buy none OF the boycotted papers, or
he would get no votes from the strikers.
The Judge promised.
Last evening the newsboys were enabled
to collect funds and had procession with
torches and transparencies along the prin-
cipal streets They were Joined by large
number of Oakland and Alameda news
BOYS with banners calling upon the public
to boycott the Post Bulletin and Report.
A meeting will pe held to-day and effective
measures will be taken to keep up the
strike against those journals.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-16
.LEPERS At The HOSPITAL
The Twenty.Sixth-Street Pest
house Has Been Con.
demned.
The Unfortunates Will Hereafter Be-
CHARTERED at the City and
County Hospital.

The lOng-mOoted question regarding the
fitness of the Pesthouse to shelter the tlf-
teen unfortunate lepers who are now To-
Gated there was settled by the Board OF
Health Yesterday when the decrepit
Twenty -sixth-street structure was con-
demned and the inmates ordered removed
to the City and County Hospital until
better accommodations can be provided
for them.
The meeting was special one for the
purpose of considering the Pesthouse
matter, and directly it was called to order
DIR. Morse said:
"For some time we have been discuss
ing a proposition TO abolish the Pest
house. / think we have talked about the
matter long enough and we had better
take immediate action. For that reason 1
move that the Health Officer be instructed
to take the requisite steps for the condem-
nation of the Pes thouse, and that por-
tion of the City and County Hospital be
segregated for the reception and proper
care of the patients"
Mayor Sutro, who presided, at once OBJ
jected on the ground that site for new
hospital should be selected before the old
one was abandoned, and that nothing
could be gained by being in hurry. He
said that the value of property, wherever
the hospital was located, would be de-
preciated, and that it would be an injus-
tice to change the location except to some
| island in the bay where there was no dan
| ger of contagiou.
DIR. Morse said that the value of real es-
| tate cut no figure in the calculations oil
! the Board of Health.
! stNVa ara lOOEinp n this nnattar from a
| humanitarian point of view" he said, land
the condition of these poor people must
| be ameliorated.
The way they are now treated is moth
short of brutal. l think the sooner we
make them comfortable the better"
''Is it not possible to repair the build
ing?" asked the Mayor.
"Itis beyond that, " said DR.. Hart.
"But what will become of the patients2'
insisted his Honor.
1.-The City will have to take care of them
as it has always done," said DR.. Morse.
I'VE can furnish them quarters at the City
and County Hospital.
The Mayor wanted the matter laid over
until proper Accommodations could be pro-
cured for the patients, but the other men,
bers of the board were firm on condemna-
ton and the vote was in favor OF such a
course The tumble-down structure will
! be vacated and torn down at an early date,
and the City and County Hospital Will
shelter the inmates until other quarters
are provided.
Chief Market Inspector Ben Davis was
instructed to visit the City and County
Hospital three times each week for the
purpose of inspecting the food furnished
that institution.
In an executive session held after the
meeting the board decided TO expend $500
in fitting UP a chemical laboratory. and
| ~ tad Iva
for bids for the construction OF two am
| balances.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-16
this. I was the first man that went into

this I was the first man that went into
that country a-prospectin'.
.That was long in IA. found some
gold, but not much that trip. Long in
the summer of 80 leaves Sitka with q
fellow named Harris, an Irishman, and
prospectin'. That was about 20O miles
from any settlement; least that's what
they call it to Fort Wrangel and to Sitka
bout same distance to both.
"I was a-goin' long down a gulch with
my partner when, great God, looked and
/ said See that; and right ahead of US,
not ten feet away, was big hunk OF
quartz Just a-shinin' with gold. And
then we comes across the ledge standing
and straight-cut sides right along the mar
row gulch for 1900 feet. l takes look at
the end of that ledge ano my partner
takes look at strip of what looked like
a band of silver three iuches wide runnin'
right through the quartz. / ups with my
pick and smashes corner off the ledge,
and, holy gee, if that quartz wasn't just
filled with gold. That's the great Fuller
ledge that's bein' worked yet.
well, my partner and me did some
looki1' round to see if we had staked out
the best, and then we went after more
grub down to Sitka. Long in July we
made another trip to Sitka with some of
the quartz. When the fellows saw it they
just went wild and there was stampede
for that country. On October4, 80, Istruck
the richest piece OF quartz, guess, that 8
ever been found anywhere. 1t was about
three feet long and darn near half gold,
and some silver besides. Well, that's the
way Juneau got its name.
'1They tell me now l wouldn't know the
place, it's grown so-puttin' in 'lectric
lights and sidewalks and a-gettin' regular
streets and property worth three times as
much as was year ago. Do I own any,
thing in juneau? No; that's the way
with US old miners that's got somethin'.
we're always a-iookin' for somethin'
good for some friend of ours. That's The
way it was at Juneau. But Circle City
amt a bad place"
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-16
Numbered Seals Now Used.

At the suggestion of Special Treasury Age nj
Moore, Collector Wise has provided all the de-
partments under him with new seals and in.
cidentally formulated certain rules which will
reduce the possibility of fraud to a minimum
All the old seals were alike and could be bor-
rowed by any inspector OF customs. This, oil
course, opened the door for illegal use and
past events prove that certain inspectors were
not slow in taking advantage of the opportu-
nifty thus offered The new seals. however, do
away with this to great extent. They are
numbered and given 10 each department as q
sort of trust. When an inspector or other en-
ploye desires to use one IL is charged to his
account and so remains until returned. BY
this method the date, hour and name of the
inspector, as we'll as the Office from which the
seal was obtained, is always i'll evidence.
Under such system it is hardly possible for a
crime like that undertaken by Foss and others
to he committed
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-16
CLEVERLY CAUGHT.

Two Men Charged With Stealing q
Diamond Earring.
Ed Martin and Thomas Nannery ap-
peared before Judge Low yesterday to an.
swer a charge of grand larceny. Their
cases were continued until tomorrow and
their bonds were fixed at $4,000
They are accused of stealing a diamond
earring, valued at $3.50. from Hattie Emer-
son OF 268 Natoma street in the saloon at
116 Eddy, where Martin snatcheu the ear
ring from the woman and passed it to
Nannery.
Martin was arrested by Policemen Nc
Auliff and Brophv and Nannery was clev-
erly caught by Brophy just as he was
leaving his room on Dupont and Lombard
streets to catch the southbound train
Wednesday evening
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-16

the pavement around Lotta's fountain was
Uttered with fragments of their stock in
trade. Then every small, grimy paw in
the crowd went up in the air, and after
this Hannibal oath was taken Dougherty,
the boss newsboy, led his 500 strikers out.
Never was an industrial revolt so quickly
and so quietly put into motion. Almost
IL an instant every small newsdealer all
over the City shut up shop. The wagons
OF the three evening papers went here and
there, but not copy was taken by the
boys. The youngsters instead provided
themselves with small handbills which
they gave to their customers. The printed
proclamation read as follows:
THE NEwsBoYs' APPEAL TO THE PUBLIC.
The evening papers of this City, the Post,
Bulletin and Report, have ombined together
70 beat the newsboys out of their small profits
by refusing 10 check their papers. We respect
fully ask the public not to patronize these
papers until they give the boys their rights.
These papers are rich a few nickels do not
matter to them-to us it means bread and but
ter. Our mite helps us to support mothers
and little ones at home.
Help US by not patroniziDg the Post. Bulle-
tin or Report. Respectfully,
THE NEwsBoYs.
Inquiry among the juvenile strikers
brought out the explanation that the
three evening papers yesterday refused to
receive back the unsold copies and give
return papers of a later edition as thev
came from the press. This the newsboys
consider hardship, as such rule would
leave numbers of copies of an old edition
on their hands and each youngster, if he
wished to provide himself with a salable
stock, would have to buy with cash at the
usual rate of three papers for nickel.
They won't take our old papers back
and give US new edition copies for them, "
said Ardie Johnson, an Intelligent boy
and one of the officers of the Ne wsboys'
Union. ''They let their carriers have
papers at a cent apiece ana give the
restaurants all the papers they want at a
cheap rate, while they charge US cents
for three copies, spot cash. Under their
afternoon, we simply can't handle those
papers, SO we are forced 10 throw them
out. Not a single boy will sell Post,
Bulletin or Report on the street as long Is
their proprietors treat US that way, but
we are selling the Oakland evening papers.
Several thousand copies came over on the
ferry-boats this afternoon, and. as we get
them at three copies for 5 cents and check
back TO the agents, we do very well. If
the Oakland papers run plenty of San
Francisco news they will go here like hot
cakes"
There was nothing in it for the POST
said Editor Hume Yesterday land we
simply had TO stop. The boys abused the
privilege and would take out more papers
than they knew they could sell, and in
snort time would bring them back TO ex-
change for a new edition. This kept our
presses working off thousands of extra
copies, which was loss in white paper as
well as the wear on the machinery. And,
moreover, the boys would go around
among the saloons, offices and restaurants
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-16

writ of ejecument and carted to a ware
house on Market street. She was in arrears
for her rent and also in the installments
On her furniture.
Detective Anthony found her on the
porch of the house bewailine her misfo1-
tune. She told him she wanted to kill
herself, as she was without home or
friends. Anthony took her to police head
quarters, and. as she appeared to be men,
tally unbalanced, she was placed in the
Receiving Hospital pending her examina-
tion before the Insanity Commissioners
this morning
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-16
Charged with Robbery.

Alfred Cappola was arrested last night by
Detectives Dillon. Crockett and Ryan and
booked at the City Prison on the charge OF
robbery. On Wednesday Ryan received let
ter from Linehan. who was sentenced TO life
imprisonment few days ago by Judge Wal
lace, that Cappola was his companion in rob-
bing John Wilcomi of his gold watch in room
at IL Fourth street, about month ago.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-16
Chandler ndorsed.

Thomas W. Chandler, the Republican nomi-
nee for State Senator for the Twenty-fifth
Senatorial District, is meeting with very fat
tering encouragement from the voters of his
district, among whom he has resided since
his birth. He has been indorsed by the Eagle,
Lincoln and Perkins Republican clubs. 1t is
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-16
Mrs. Krellng Takes an Appeal.

The suit of Thomas A. MCGOWAN against En-
nestine Kreling, as administrator of William
Kreling, deceased, has been appealed to the
Supreme Court. The transcript was filed yes
terday. This embodies an affidavit by II. H.
a stipulation existed the plaintiff secured judg-
ment for $4,000. without having given notice
of further hearing.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-16
KISSED AND MADE UP.
Mrs. John Bernsdon Deserts Her Hus.
band and Babes for Day.

Mrs. John Bernsdon Deserts Her Hus-
band and Babes for a Day.
John Bernsdon, AZ Turk street, called at
the Receiving Hospital early yesterday
morning. He had baby about four weeks
old in his arms. and little girl years
old was walking beside him. He said be
and his wife had ouarreled and she had
left him, taking with her boy years oi
age. She took the little girl and the ba be
TO the stable where he worked and left
them there. He wanted the children
cared for at the hospital till he could make
arrangements for them.
Last night Bernsdon and his wife called
at the hospital together. They said they
had kissed and made up and she promised
never to leave him again. They took the
two children away with them.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-16
RENDERED HOMELESS.

Mrs. Jameson, an Old Lady, Has Her
Furniture Taken From Her.
Mrs. Jameson, an old lady who Kept a
rooming-house on Mason and O'Farrell
streets, had her furniture taken from her
yesterday afternoon by deputy sheriffs on
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-16
The Evening Papers Refuse to
Check" the Boys Unsold
Copies.
EDITORS THINK IT A NUISANCE
Oakland and Alameda Newsboy.
Took Part in the Street Parade
Last Evening.
"Air " all wild us ?"

"Air v all wild us2'
"On yer life Hu-rayl OATS wot's de
matter wild usr'
Air all v fellers a-goin' to STAN In an
knock out dem eve-e-ning paipers wot's
dom us dirt?"
"Betcher loifT'
"Weh, den, tear up all de Pos, BooIe-
tins and Reports yer has an go on er
strike. an at de same time hoP up all yer
hans an swear yell not be scabs!"
The excited little chaps obedientIy sac
riiced every bundle of papers, and soon
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-16
Charged With Murder.

Chin Kee Sing, alias An Wah, and Chin
Young, alias All Chung, were yesterday
booked at the City Prison on the charge of
murder They were arrested at the time Gin
Lum Chez the druggist was SHOT on Jackson
street. He died Wednesday night.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-16

The Japanese are very much alike physi-
cally. Recent measurements taken of an
infantry regiment showed no variations
except two inches in height or twenty
pounds in weight.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-16

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The San Francisco call., 1896-10-16

thought that l. E. Jarrett, who was nominate d
upon some sideshow ticket, will withdraw n
favor of Chandler. Mr.. Jarrett, being young
attorney and having political aspirations, does
accessory to an attempt TO defeat United
States Republican Senator. These are the
reasons given by his friends for his with
drawal.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-16

TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY.
Take laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets All drug
gists refund the money If it fails to cure. 25c,
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-30

ways been lack of confidence, followed by
mark d industrial depression"
Mr.. Shortridge showed that the Repub-
Hcan psrty had always been the friend of
silver, having coined vast quantity prior
to 1878. and a large amount since. He
beld that free coinage, however, would
make the country monome etalllc in prlncl-
pie, end that this would be the very evil
OF which Democrats complain.
District Attorney Barnes spoke very
briefly, saying that Congress could not
possibly pass law that would make
thirty bushels of wheat equal to sixty.
nor could it make law making sixteen
ounces of silver equal to one OF gold.
There would be no power to make foreign
nations accept such a standard. He grace
fully exploded the prime fallacies Of the
tiatists, devoted himself for timeto the
general record of the party and withdrew
to be followed by ex-Mayor Davis of Oak
land, who made a strong speech for pro-
lection and against free silver. He told
in graphic way how the Democrats had
ruined the wool industry by the Wilson
bill, and particularly how that law had
hurt California.
"For thirty-six years." be said. "the
Democrats have selected their candidates
from the East, generally from New York,
and now for the first time they come West
and take Bryan, who is a lawyer OF limited
experience who failed at his profession.
That man is not fit to govern the Nation.
But they set him up against man OF the
superb ability of Major Mckinley. Bryan
splendid statesman. Which will you ac-
cept for President?"
1t was the general opinion that no snch
enthusiasm has ever been seen In this
part OF the State as that which character
lied to-day's proceedings at Pasadena.
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-30

First, Second, Third, Fourth. Fifth, Sixth,
Seventh and Ninth wards and of Univer-
sity made a splendid appearance, being
present IN large mum bers.
The Oakland Alliance occupied raised
seats back of the speakers on the platform.
The hall was gayly decorated with hags,
banners, streamers, flowers and ingenious
campaign designs. After the exercises
banquet was given at Illich's, and plates
were laid for 250 guests.