The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-07-17
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

The registration figures for yesterday reach
3oOI
Now comes q man from San Luis Ooispo
County, bringing with him new iehuer.
Mrs Haskins listened to the reading of and
afterward signed her deposition yesterday.
The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals held its monthly meeting yesterday.
A banquet was given the officers OF Borro-
meo Council, Y. NJ. J., last Wednesday even
ing.
CT. Curry, County Clerk, has sent letter
to the Grand Jury showing that his once is
self-sus tanning.
The English ship Sir John franklin went
ashore in 1858 within few yards of where
the Colombia now lies.
The heavier part Of the framework Of the
temporary postotice at the foot of Market
street, is now in position.
Frank MeManus and the young men OF the
Twenty-ninth Assembly District have started
q Mckinley Republican Club.
To the william II, Macy has been accorded
the proud distinction OF being the pioneer yes
sci OF the Pacific Clipper line.
Mrs. J. c. Dillingham; of Benicia died at the
Occidental Hotel yesterday after stroke of
paralysis received on Monday.
]. J. North, assignee of the Forth Brick
Company, has sued Charles Clausen ct al. for
$500 due on promissery notes.
Augusta Joseph has applied for letters of
guardianship on the estates OF David and Rob-
ert E. Joseph, which are worth $4,000.
The Mill Valley Country Club will hold its
outdoor reception tomorrow night in the pine
woods at the foot OF Mount Tamalpais.
The management of Sutro's Baths was
strongly censured by Coroner's jury yester-
day for the death of young Francis Denvir.
The Security Savings Bank has sued the Cali
fornia Academy OF Medicine on ST., 900 note,
given by the Academy to the bank six years
ago.
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Children has devised a medal for presentation
to all who may save the lives of children in
Danger.
Albert Paul. suspected of committing sew.
eral hurglaries in Oakland, is confined in the
''tanks" at the City Prison, pending an inyes
tigation-
Union workingmen will petition the Super
visors to give the contracts for painting the
schoolhouses only to contractors who employ
union men.
In the case of Wilcox VS.. Luco the Supreme
Court has decided that foreign Consuls are no
subject to the jurisdiction of State courts il
civil causes.
The local weather forecast Official predict:
clouds and threatening weather for this morn
ing, turning to fair with light westerly winds
increasing in force.
One of the owners of the Swiss Alpine Dairy
kept the health authorities from killing con
demned cattle out of his herd yesterday by ex
hibiting a revolver
The promoters OF the festival to be given IL
October in aid OF the Youths Directory me
last evening and made various arrangements
for their coming fete-
Chief OF Police Crowley visited the Health
Office yesterday ana offered to give the depart
ment every assistance in his power N cleaning
out the Chinese quarter.
The Young Mems Republican League held
high jinks in Justice OF the Peace Kerrigan's
courtroom last night TO celebrate the organi
cation OF the drill corps.
Levi B. Gordon, ex-policemGn and milkman
was sent to The County Jail by Judge Conlal
yesterday for six months on each OF two
charges OF petty larceny.
The California Populist delegates to the st
Louis convention departed yesterday In al
emigrant car, with a marked paucity of un
necessary demonstIa ton.
It is believed In Customs circles that Dicl
Williams, now under indictment by the Fed
eral Grand Jury for fraudulently landing Chi
nese, hes fie1 the country.
Picturesque Japan" will be the subject o
the California Camera Clubs lecture at Metro
politan Temple this evening. Charles A.
Adams will be the lecturer.
Mrs. Fannie Chamberlain has sued W. H
Hill for an accounting of the business OF hel
late hus band, whose partner Hill was. Sixty
thousand dollars is involved.
The Board of Supervisors, sitting as Board
of Equalization, acted upon a large number OIL
applications made by property owners for re
ductions in their assessments.
A schedule of freights will be put into opera
NlOu III dDOub TWO weeks DY the valley IOdC
that Will make reduction OF between 20 and
% per cent on all clas,es of freight.
The Eastern market for dried and canned
fruits Will be brfsker this season. as the ole
stock is exhausted, says j. H. Flickinger o.
San Jose, who returned from the East yes
terday.
The British steamer Linlithgow arrived here
from Negasaki yesterday in ballast to load
wheat for England. She Is the first of three
tramps that win take away over 10000 tons o.
the golden grain.
During the hearing of a case in Judge
Campbell's court yesterday Attorney Patrick
Reddy called Attorney Warner Temple liar
but both apologiZed and the Judge purgec
them OF contempt
The Sacramento Federated Trades has giver
the San Francisco Trades Council a severe slaI
for passing resolutions condemning Labor
Commissioner Fl zgerald and the Free EN-
ployment Bureau.
Owing to cheap railroad rates Portland hal
been enabled to take nearly all the Hawaiir
feed and -four trade away from San Francisco
In consequence nearly a dozen vessels are
either laid up or are seeking foreign charters
In a recent item in THE CALL it was made t
appear that A. NJ. Speck OF 602 Market stree
had been sued for the amount of $4,000
promissory note. AS matter OF fact tho
holder of a certain piece of property, upoI
which Speck had lien, was the one sued and
as legal necessity the holder of the lien was
made party to the suit, but only because o
the property involved.
Claus Spreekels returned to the City yester
day after an absence of over three months, II
which he had travelled over a larger part o
Europe, studying the manufacture of bee
sugar. He says he viii begin at once the cree
ton of a beet-sugar factory that will CONVEX
5000 tons of beets per day into sugar, which
means the distribution OF $12, 900 day among
the farmers of the State.