The San Francisco call., 1896-02-14
j. e. HIGGINS FAILURE.
Was Badly Involved in the Fresno
Raisin Company.


Raisin Company.
OAKLAND, CAL, Feb. l3.-James E.
Higgins an accountant and a stockholder
in the La Favorita Raisin Vineyard Com
pany of Fresno, filed a petition in in
solvency to-day, IN which he stated his
liabilities were $72, 255 66 and his assets
$3.50, consisting of personal property. The
heaviest creditor is w. A. Nevills, the
owner of the Rawhide group of mines in
TuoIumne County, VINO holds two promis-
sorry notes gwen Dys Hi gins for $11 ,348
and S37 ,425. These are secured by mort
cages uPon 400 acres of Fresno County
land.
Other creditors are: San Mateo Bank,
S1O36 60; Fruitvale Improvement Com
pany, $250O; C. S. Eltinge, four notes, ag-
gregating $2142 so; American Bank and
Trust Company, $10,5 800 and $3.50; ]. F.
Scherr, $1075; NJ. T. Kearney, $3.50; Jake
Rauer, $500; n. j. Griffin, $500.
A Republican Meeting.
OAKLAND, CAL, Feb. 13.-The Second
Ward Republican Club held a WELL
attended meeting tonight. James Cahill
was elected treasurer and j. H. Somers
president. A letter was read from f. S.
Stratton indicating that he would be a
candidate for State Senator. Assembly
man Clinton q. Dodge was invited TO be
present, but was prevented by a prior en-
Mr.. Dodge is the candidate for Senator
from the 1wenty-seventh District. Presi-
dent T. r. Porter made a rousing speech,
and so did Carlton Greene, Deputy Dis.
trict Attorney. Mr.. holland of the Afro
American League said that there were 600
colored voters IN this county and all could
be depended upon to vote the Republican
ticket. a resolution was passed declaring
that the club was for Mckinley for Presi-
dent, and another resolution pledged the
mem bers, who number 100, to work for
the Republican State campaign for Oak
land.
Trustees Demurrer.
OAKLAND, CAL, Feb. 13.-Attorney NJ.
L. Rawson has filed demurrer on behalf
of the Trustees OF San Leandro to the suit
of a. G.. Hammond Jr., who is w. J.
Landers' secretary, for restraining order
to prevent the sale of bonds and the city
engaging in the business OF electric light.
The demurrer claims the complaint is con-
trary, in that in one place it alleges that
DO plans and estimates were made, while
in another IL is shown that such plans
were prepared and estimates made. De-
fendants also aver that it nowhere ap-
pears that the city will engage in supply
ing electric light to private residents and
places of business or for other than public
uses upon streets, parks, places and
buildings.
Judgment Entered.
OAKLAND, CAL, Feb. 13.-The suit OF
the people on relation of w. n. Miller
against John l.. Davie, ]. K. Peirsol and
a. r., Wilson to test the rights OF the lat
ter to their seats as a Board OF Public
Works was before Judge Ellsworth again
to-day. Attorney de Cola for the plaintiff
informed the court that he declined 20
amend the complaint, which was held to
be defective upon the sustaining of the de-
murrer July l, 1895. Judgment was ac-
cordingly entered up. inns leaves the
taken to the Supreme Court. 1t is under
stood that this is the intention in having
judgment entered.
To Preach at Stanford.
OAKLAND, CAL, Feb. 13.-The Rev. ].
E. Bushnell, DID,, pastor OF the First
English Lutheran Church, has accepted
an invitation to preach at Stanford Uni
versity Sunday morning, at which time
the Rev. A. B. Shrader OF Nevada, Iowa,
corner Grove and Sixteenth streets. Mr..
and Mrs. Shrader are visiting members OF
their family in this State on vacation
trip generally granted by Mr.. Schrader's s
congregation.
Confidence Worker.
OAKLAND, CAL, Feb. 13.-Some one
In a Salvation Army uniform has been
soliciting subscriptions from the mer-
chants for funds with which TO erect new
barracks. The officers of the local corps
denounce the effort as fraud, but say the
man must have been member of the
army at one time TO have secured uni
.orm. No clew to his identity has been
discovered.
The Road Must Pay.
OAKLAND, CAL, Feb. 13.-The case Of
Wettstein against the Southern Pacific
Company for damages was finished to-day.
The jury was charged at o'clock, and
after being out several hours they brought
N verdict OF $500c damages for the plain
liff. This is the trial that has occupied
ighteen days, and that has been made