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The San Francisco call., 1896-02-25
the dying orb. The guests were delighted
with their handsome tokens.
MECHANICS INSTITUTE.

Directors Are to Be Chosen To-Day by
the Preferential System.
To-day between the hours of IL in the
forenoon and 9 o'clock at night the annual
election for directors Of the Mechanics In
stitute will be held.
There are twelve candidates for the seven
directorships to be filled. and following are
the names of those who are to be voted for:
Joseph NJ. Cumming, forge manufacturer;
4. +. +; Heald, Heald's Business College; +. !.
Healy, Antigua rian bookstore; Joseph Leggett,
attorney -at-law; Oscar Lewis, Architectural
IRON IRON Works; Louis E. Phillips, attorney t-laW
george K. Presson, cashier: J. Z. Purdy, book
Keeper; Henry Root, civil engineer; G. Howard
thompson secretary Fresno Land Company;
=. ). sogel, architect; George II. Wallis, wash
purn d Moen Manufacturing Company.
There are seven holdover directors,
namely: Ayers, Denicke, Dolan, From
hais, Holmes, kendrick and Cole.
Among the holdovers there are two,
holmes and Ayres, who want to be presi-
dent OF the board, vice Andrew S. Halli-
dle, whose term will expire on the 9TH OF
March; and Denicke, also holdover, is
the only one who will be a candidate for
the office of secretary to succeed himself.
There is considerable interest i'll the
election which is to be conducted on the
proportional and preferential system by
which the voter mum bers on the ballot
| those he votes for in the order of prefer
ence.
The institute has membership of 400
and 1T Is expected that more than 1000 bal
lots will be cast
The handsome bronze medallion In
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A PRINCE At SAN RAFAEL,
Signor Fugazi Entertains His
Royal Highness and the Off.
GERS of the Colombo.
The Vessel Will Leave San Fran
cisco Harbor on Next Sunday
Morning.

The beautiful little suburban town of
San Rafael has been honored by visit
from the royal house OF Savoy. This dis
tinguished mark of recognition is due to
the hospitality of ]. F. Fugazi of San
Francisco, who while recognizing his dis
tinguished countryman, yet in honor of
the father OF his adopted country, selected
Washington's birthday as one beftting
the occasion of giving what he termed an
international dinner at his summer resi-
dence in San Rafael in honor of the King
who so royalty entertained him on his re-
cent visit to the land of his birth.
The following are the names of those
present on this occasion:
Mr.. and Mrs. J. F. Fugaz, Commander Berto-
Eni OF the italian man of war Cristoforo
Colombo, his Royal Highness Prince Luigi
di Savoia, DR.. Belli, First Lieutenants Cavalier
FriIerio and Signor Rombo. Second Lieu tenants
Finzi, Aymeric and CARMEL, British Consu
Hon. ]. w. Warburton, French Consul L. de
Lalande. Italian Consul F. Bruni Grimaldi
United States District Court Judge w. W. Nor
row, A. w. Foster, president of the San Fran
cisco and North Pacific Railroad Company:
Hon. c. C. Palmieri, l. w. Holman. president
OF the Nevada Bank; A. Sbarboro, j. Calegaris,
?. A. Morbio, Count SIM, Paul Barbierf and
+. n. Belgrano.
This will be the last week of the stay of
the Cristoforo Colombo in our harbor, as
she will trip anchor on next Sunday morn
ing and proceed south.
AT the close of the breakfast Mr. Fugazzi
presented to the Prince and the COM
| mander of the Colombo handsome souve-
Mrs in the shape of solid gold match
| boxes, covered on one side with the differ
ent shades of California gold quartz, and
on the reverse side bearing an engraving
representing a sunset ct Golden Gate, with
large diamond showing as the spark of
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-25
IS RUSH INSANE?
The Man Who Shot Kathyrine Culli-
name Escapes From Two Police
men but Is Recaptured.

Charles A. Rush, who was arrested on
Friday for battery upon f. Ernest Ed
wards of the Edwards Publishing Com
pany, appeared in Judge Lows court yes
terday morning. Mr.. Edwards had sworn
to complaint charging Rush with insan.
ity. Judge Low ordered him to be taken
before Judge Hebbard for examination and
he was remanded till to-day.
Policemen McMurray and Petersen had
charge of Rush, and as they were taking
him from Judge Hebbard's court to the
Receiving Hospital he broke from them
and ran down City Hall avenue, closely
pursued by the officers, who overlook him
at Market street. Rush struggled fiercely
to get away from them again, but he was
overpowered and locked up in a padded
cell in the hospital.
Rush some time ago shot Kathyrine
Cullinane, who was then doing a real
estate business, because he alleged she had
swindled him out OF $4,000 by promising to
invest it for him and marry him. He
served six months sentence for the
shooting and since his release he has
haunted the Office of the Edwards Pub
fishing Company, where Miss Cullinane is
now employed, which eliminated IN the
battery upon Mr.. Edwards.
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There Nav Re Another Side.

PORT TOWNSEND, WASH, Feb. "a
Revenue cutter officials on Puget Sound
say there is a surprise in store for those
who have been accepting newspaper &C
counts of the testimony in the case against
Captain Healy, now on trial at San Fran
cisco. One of the witnesses, who was here
recently, said that in the case of his own
testimony it has been utterly distorted by
whoever gave it out to the newspapers
He says he had learned that the same was
true of other witnesses before the court.
He asserts that Captain Healy' friends are
papers, and that the prosecution will be
found very strong when the findings are
made public.
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ALONG THE WATER FRONT,
Officers on the San Jose Say
Ezeta Is Making Peace
OvertureS.
The Keel of New Steam Whaler for
the Pacific Steam Whaling
Company Laid.

The steamer San Jose. which arrived
from Panama and wav ports last Sunday,
brought some interesting news about Pres
ident Gutierrez and Ezeta from San Sal
vador. The country is finding the burden
of keeping prepared for an invasion very
irksome, and Gutierrez is seeking for some
means OF ending the trouble. Ezeta's s
arms are still in the hands of the Colom-
bian authorities, and his tug, the Barclay
Golden, has been captured. He is still at
liberty, aid as he still has large follow
ing in his native country the Government
is constantly fearing an uprising.
According to the officers and passengers
on the San Jose, this state OF affairs will
probably soon be changed. Ezeta's friends
are working with Gutierrez, and the pros
poets for reconciliation were very good
when the steamer sailed Should Ezeta
be forgiven he will be restored to citizen
ship and will probably have his property
returned. In this way it is hoped that
trouble will be averted.
There was chapter of incidents on the
water front Yesterday. Captain Olsen of
the schooner John d. Tallant was seri-
ously injured by tube that blew out of
the donkey boiler while he was handling
1T. The vessel was in the stream, and
OlSeIl sought 10 get steam On the boiler.
He succeeded very well until he began to
experiment, and then the accident hap
pened. He will be laid up for several
days.
Captain Parker Of the steamer Belvedere
attempted to save an old mans crabnet.
and in doing so fell overheard and was
nearly drowned. After he was cleaned up
bit, he said, he did not mind the wetting
so much as he did the awful odor that
came from the Clay street sewer when he
went under.
Hugh Smith, who works on State
dredger |, also got ducking. He was
holding the running rope when it broke,
and he was thrown over a raft of logs and
into the bay. He was fisht d out, but was
so bruised and shaken up that he was
compelled to 60 home.
The steamer Columb ba, which had her
| rudder-post broken on the Columbia River
bar, will go on the drydock for a thorough
overhauling. A new rudder-post will have
to be put in and the expense will be very
heavy. Captain Bolles was afraid of losing
the rudder on the way down, so he had
two wire ropes and two chains fastened to
1t so that in case of an emergency he
could still have managed to steer. The
Columbia brought down large general
cargo.
The keel of new steam whaier for the
Pacific Steam Whaling Company was laid
at Dickey's yards, Alameda, yesterday.
She will be 23Q feet long, 81 feet broad, will
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running. Fruit is in a sense a luxury.
People need bacon. -four, sugar and coffee,
and they can live on these. but it is not
absolutely necessary that they have fruit
it is in the nature of luxury.
"The price is lower now for dried fruit
than it has been for number of years. In
1892 dried prunes, which are the greatest
thing in dried fruits, were worth l31I cents
pound; in 1898, cents; in 1894, 613
cents, and in 1895 but 81 cents.
These are the prices which have OBJ
tanned at YuDa City. Any one can see
there has been pig tumble. 1t is not
surprising, therefore, if fruit men are a
little hard up, unless, indeed, they have
from Sutter County probably seventy-fiye
cars OF dried fruit each season.
"Of green fruit we have shipped this
year approximately $50 cars. Canned
fruit is doing pretty well up there.
Il am glad to say that what we lose on
fruit We will probably make up on wheat,
barley and other grain. The wheat crop
than usual and it is coming along in as
fine shape as could be desired. There will
undoubtedly be heavy yield.
Wheat in Septembe 1894, at Yuba
City was worth 66 cents, now it 81 0S Bar
ley has about doubled in price also. In
september, 1854, 1t was worth 40 cents !;
now it is worth 75.
mo doubt our people will make a great
deal of money out of their grain. L have
been in Sutter County forty years and L
cannot remember of ever seeing finer pros
pects.''
Mr.. Stabler is here on business trip and
will remain three or four days. He says
the San Jose Packing Company is now
building a big fruit cannery at Marysville,
just across the river from Yaba City. 1t
will have capacity of over 1000 cases a
year. There is already a large oannery in
Yuba City.
Mr.. Stabler thinks this years product of
fruit will, like the grain crop, be heavy.
All indications point that way.
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THE LANE CASE.
Opening Statements-Jurors Taken to
the Defendant,s House.

Opening Statements-Jurors Taken to
the Defendants House.
The Lane case opened before Judge
Belcher yesterday, but counsel and jury
got only far enough for the opening state
ments, and then court was adjourned
until the jury could be taken down to
Lanes home, 141 Chestnut street, where
the jurors could see the premises.
John A. Hosmer, Assistant District At.
torney, made the opening statement for
the people and George A. knight followed
him at once with the defense's statement.
The defense will rely mainly upon the in.
credibility of the complaining witness.
Lanes record and his physical infirmities.
Counsel, Judge and jury spent the after
noon at Lanes house, examining rooms
and Railways, which will be referred to in
the trial.
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Such Another Outlook for Wheat
and Barley Has Never
Been Known.
4 GREAT YIELD OF FRUIT
But There Has Been a Slump in Prices
for Dried Fruits and Growers
Are Blue.

S. J. Stabler, the pioneer of Yuba City,
who is both an attorney and a fruit and
grain-grower, is at the Lick.
He says that when there is big lot OF
dried fruit in that part of California the
price is so low that there is almost no
money in it. Wheat and barley have ad-
vanced materially, however, so that the
situation is about balanced.
Mr.. Stabler has 200 acres planted in
fruit and about 500 acres in grain.
Though dried fruit is low," he said,
"the people cannot buy it because of the
close times. Other industries are not
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-25
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The San Francisco call., 1896-02-25
bob" Burdette Coming.

Robert ]. Burdette, the laughing philoso.
pher, is en- route to the coast and San Fran.
cisco is TO enjoy his presence for one day only.
Tuesday, March "a, when he will give one OF
his humorous talks at the Auditorium Those
who have laughed and cried with Burdette-
and who has not-will be glad to welcome him
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-25
Charged with Embezzlement.

Walter Loring. 20 years Of age, collector
for the S. P. Taylor Company, Clay street, was
arrested last night by Detectives Gibson and
Wren on the charge of embezzlement. The
amount EN- mbezzled is placed at $52. Loring
Claims that the money was stolen from him.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-25
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THEY WILL WAIT.
Election Commissioners Will Not Make
Preparations for the Primaries
Just Now.

has changed its mind regarding going on
with preparations for the primary elec-
tlons without waiting for the Supreme
Court to pass on the validity OF the law
providing for them. AT the meeting yes
terday City and County Attorney Cress-
well said that his opinion that the law is
unconstitutional is so strong that he must
vote against spending any money toward
preparing for the elections until the mat
ter Is settled by the court. He prevailed
upon the other Commissioners to defer
further action for the present.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-25

honor of James Lick, cast by Whyte and
De Rome by order OF the institute trus-
tees. was yesterday placed in position in
the library and attracted much adm iration.
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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-05-17

hard to be decided upon" said to a New
York Tribune writer, an anxious mother,
whose social position is OF the best, all
though she possesses very little of this
worlds goods. "'Whether 81 As well for
them to 80 with those young people
whose parents are very wealthy, and who
have so much that they must necessarily
do without, or whether 1t is right to keep
them altogether from such influences,
which will necessarily throw them into
quite different set, and would, therefore,
affect their social status, Is very difficult
to determine. IL is all very well to say
that fashionable society in this country
Is vulgar and purse proud, and that IL Is
not sufficiently desirable to be worth any
effort to retain membership in It; all tho
same, however, 1t certainly Is sought af-
ter, even by those who affect to dispise IL,
and no mother likes to have her children
left out Of the set In which they were
born and bred But then comes I'm the
question again for those who are com
paratively poor-does IL not make girls
disconnected, and boys idle and extrava-
giant, to be intimate with children who
are accustomed to spend lavishly? And is
most undesirable Of all characters, "a
hanger on of the rich? boy goes to a
school like c., for instance, where the
majority of his associates win in all prob
ably be very wealthy. If he is sufficiently
manly and independent, this companion
ship will do him no harm. on the contrary
it may be of benefit to his future career
besides the obvious advantage IL gives IN
knowledge Of the world, and a certain
stamp of good breeding which lasts foI
life, and which is certainly very desirable
But IL, on the other hand. boy is weak
easily led, or inclined to be fast such as.
ISOLATION may be fatal, and at best cannot
be stimulating to either energy or ambl.
ton. And how is one to know? And how
decide for the best? With girls II is almost
as much of a problem, for although the
consequences may not be so far-reaching
intimacy with the rich involves an actua
expenditure, which Is sometimes very in
convenient to meet.
" But you must consider your daugh
| ter's future says Mrs. Grundy What i.
that future supposed to bring TO insure
success? A rich marriage, neither NOR,
nor less. Wll she be happy? All, that IL
| another question, and, according to III,
worlds way Of thinking. does not mattel
so much. Truly, st is very hard to decide
which is bestv concluded the perplexet
lady. "To be in the world and not of /
seems an impossibility, while to be gu
Of ii is decidedly disagreeable. The onl,
| thing nowadays seems to be to teach onei
children the knowledge of good and evil
| and its attendant consequences, and lie
! them judge for themselves"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-05-17

Read the others she demanded.
ct opened another. It was a note writ
ten in a lady's hand on paper covered
with pink violets. II read;
II am 10 years old. feet Inches tar
and weigh 125 pounds. Am dark, with
brown eyes and am considered hand-
some: am fond Of gentlemens society and
amusements. Would like to meet you.
Address -."
Gold chris were now chasing each other
up and down my spinal column. ] looked
AL my wife again. She was smiling muir
derously and her fingers were drumming
y" I assure you. my love- said /, but
she Interrupted me with: There's several
more missives yet Feverishly ran
through the other letters. They We're
from girls who described their charms
minutely and made Themselves out per-
feet beauties And they all desired TO
meet me. 1t was enough to make any
man giddy, and ! assure you i felt 50
when / finished the last epistle and gazed
"'There is some mistake I declared.
i" sOf course she replied sarcastically;
4 told YOU so in the first place. You
gave me the wrong ticket this morning,
and she tapped her foot on the carpet
Il saw that ] had to do something quick
" to avert the coming stormburst, so
jumped right into the breach. 1 sWofe by
all the gods that knew nothing Of these
letters; that had only advertised Tor a
laundress and that IL was the fault OF the
clerk in putting the letters into the wrong
box. But my wife colby turned the ietd StS
over and showed me the address-'E. g..
"'Then the clerk must. have got the
tickets mixed ! suggested.
Prove H. said my wife, scepticaly.
II rushed out Of the house, caught a
boat to New York, and arriving In the city
went straight to the newspaper office on
my way there l kept getting hotter ana
hotter and when / confronted the clerk
who had taken the 'ad,' did some pretty
good off-hand swearing. When l had I'm
ished this diatribe, the clerk laughed and
handed me n big bundle Of letters with
these remarks:
while ago. and made the same kind Of
kick Your "ad" should have read #,
81 and his "E G8." The addresses seem
to have got changed, Bring back his let
II bought a paper and looked up the
adj It was personal wherein gentle ,e.-
man of desired the acquaintance OF an
agreeable young lady with view TO mat
rimony. took the paper home and show show.
explanation. She accepted II after fash
ion. but she is still suspicious, and has not
stopped talking about the blamed ticket
vet"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-05-17

The fate of Selma Newall, an English
mill hand, who was killed in an accident
the other Sunday; ought to be a warning
TO us. The poor girl wassthrown Violently
out Of buggy, but there were no marks
OF injury upon her, excepting that the
hairpins at the back of the head. about
ten in number had been driven into the
skull" II this unprofessionaI evidence is
correct, Selma Newall was killed by her
own hairpins.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-05-17
IT MADE TROUBLE.
Unfortunate Experience of Man
who wanted Laundress.
FROM the New York Times.

FROM the New Ork Times.
II had an experience recently with an
advertisement which nearly resulted In
the breaking up Of my family peace, "
said a gentleman who lives on Staten Is
land. Il have not quite cleared myself
yet, but think I shall be able to smooth
matters over at home IN a week or two
by staying at homes evenings.
THE trouble of which / speak arose
in this way. Last week my wife informed
me that the family laundress was going
out of business and that, as she did not
know any one to get on the island. had
better put an advertisement in a New
York paper for competent woman to
fill Mary's place. Not wishing to pay the
fare of an army Of applicants down to
the island, she requested me to have them
answer my letter. In accordance with her
request / wrote out an advertisement for
a laundress, and. having arrived at the
Office of her favorite newspaper, the man
at the window gave me q ticket emitting
me to all letters addressed to e. g. ami
! departed. The next morning my wife
I am going to the city to-day, dear.
and If you'll give me the ticket I'll stop
on my way uptown and see If there are
any answers to the advertisement
Il told her that she had better let me
get them; that ] could send my Office boy
trouble, and so forth. She looked at me
rather queerly, as women sometimes Will,
ana Sald, very quietly Dul IlTIns
'Cfive me the ticket Tom
'Well, I reached in my vest pocket for
the ticket. 1t wasn't there / felt in
another pocket and couldn't find 1t. Then
I forgot where l had put II and went
searchingethrough my light overcoat pock-
cts during which my wife said: Strange
that you should have so much trouble
in finding that ticket!'
presently / remembered that had put
the scrap Of paper in my card case, and
produced IT, But my wife looked at me
suspiciously, and, although / had not the
slightest cloud on my conscience in the
matter I knew that ] looked sheepsh and
embarrassed. / mention this little Incl
dent just to show how an innocent man
will sometimes unknowngly pile up evil
dence against himself. That night when
met me with head aloft and a stony stare
/ uttered some little pleasantly and tried
to be friendly with her in an osculatory
way but she waved me off and said:
You made a mistake when you gave me
that advertising ticket this morning.
wanted the one regarding the laundress.
II protested that the only advertise
but my wife gave a dtsdainful sniff and
produced a dozen letters which she hand
ed TO me without a word of comment.
opened one and read:
Am a blonde, petite, and trim Of fig
ure; q years old, agreeable companion
and merry disposition. VIII be pleased
to arrange an interview Address -"
then cold again. ! felt my face growing
red and my hair bristllng. I looked at
my wife She was staring al me cOldly
with a face stern and set.
meang