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The ReprsA Now AlmosC
n She B Knownas American Vessel.

go into the coasting trade and the Sharp
shooter will go out on round trip for
Fiji, Tongatabu, Samoa, Hawaii, Tahiti,
the Gilbert group, the Marquesas and other
trading stations in the southern seas
Captain Luttrell does not know that he is
to have an almost new vessel, and the
chances are that he will aim at making a
record with her.
The Sharpshooter has been overhauled
from stem to stern. AS she was practi-
cally dismasted when towed into port lit
tie work with the removing of the spars
had to be done. The iron hull has been
chipped, however, the deck removed and
a new one put in place, and now the work
OF stepping the masts has begun. Insid e
OF a week the Sharpshooter will be practi-
cally new vessel, flying the American
flag.
The survey boat Thetis got in from San
Diego yesterday after very boisterous
passage. The men-of-warsmen were more
than glad to reach port, and assert that
had it not been for the friendly shelter of
Port Hartford they would never have
reached San Francisco. The Thetis was
Blairmore, and had it not been for good
seamanship she would have gone down.
AS it was the men consider they had
very narrow escape.
The Thetis left San Diego last Thursday,
and when few hours out the gale came
up. The bark rugged warship was under
canvas, and with the first gust almost
went on her beam ends. She quickly re-
cosered and sail was at once reduced,
while extra steam was got on the boilers.
AS the storm increased, the captain deter
mined 10 make for Port Hartford, where
the Pacific Coast Steamship Company's
Bonita was found to have already taken
refuge.
The officers of the Thetis are: Lieuten-
ants G. A. Clark, w. S. Hughes, F. M.
Busturies, w. Braunersreuther. Assistant
Paymaster 1. Irwin Jr., Passed Assistant
Engineer T. F. Buredorff, Surgeon G. A.
Luny, Ensigns B. w. Well. NJ. NJ Taylor,
Y; Sterling Jr., c. L. Hussey and DIV.
Blaner.
After being overhauled at Mare Island
the Thetis will start for Bering Sea to help
the Perry, Rush, Bear and Corwin in
guarding the seal fisheries.
The ''Sinbad" Company and the James
O'Neill Company made things lively on
the Oregon dock yesterday morning. They
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though the licenses were issued in the
names of white men. Duncan +. McDon-
aid swore that he was the sole owner OF
the Fung Hi and c. D. P. Magaguos de-
posed that the Gam Wo belonged to him.
The navigation law provides that no alien
shall command vessel engaged in domes-
tic commerce. Hence the seizure. The
junks have been engaged in local trade
about the bay and have cut into the busi-
ness of vessels owned and controlled by
white men.
Captain Weir of the British ship Gun
ford was fined $500 for breaking the seal of
the hatch before the United States inspec-
tors had inspected the cargo. The ship
carried coal from Australia
Alfred Hansen, sailor, was arrested
yesterday on a charge of forgery and
booked at the harbor police station. He
secured an advance note for SIS 25 from
Captain Miller of the steam schooner
Cleone and sold it to Charley Ahlgren.
He then manufactured another note for
the same amount an! sold it to Gustai
Leaf. The latter could not get his money
and had Hansen arrested.
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AUCTION SALES.

BY BovEE Toy & SoNNTAs-This day tues
day., Real Estate, at salesrooms, 10 Montgomery
street, at IL o'clock.
BY $. BAsCH-This day (Tuesday), Furniture,
etc, at 22212 Fulton ST., at IL o'clock.
BY J. c. MUTHER-This day (Tuesday), Fur
niture, at 52l kearny ST., at Il o CLOCK
BY CHAs LEVY Il Co.-This day (Tuesday),
Groceries ana Furniture, at salesroom 1885 Market
street. at ~. o clock.
BY FRANK w. BUTTERFIELD-1nlS day tues
day), Groceries. at ll2S Folsom ST., at IL o'clock
BY GEORGE f. LAMsoS-We ednesday, April IS.
Furniture, at 1903 Suffer ST., at IL o'clock
BY EAsToN & ELDRIDGE.-Wednesday, April
is, OIL Paintings. in Maple Hall at i noon.
BALDwIN & HAMMOND.-Thursday. April 16,
Real Estate, at salesrooms 10 Montgomery street,
a y O'Clock,
BY AYMANCE--Saturday, April Is. Berkeley
Real Estate at . p.
BY EAsToN & ELDRIDGE-Wednesd April 5.
OIL Paintings at Maple Hall, Palace Hotel at IL
O'Clock.
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Narrow Escape of the Thetis
During Thursdays South
WeSter.
RAN FOR A PORT OF REFUGE.
The Bark Sharpshooter Now Almost
TRANSFORMED Into an American
Barkentine.

sfThe British bark Sharpshooter is being
rapidly transformed into an American
barkentine. After her disastrous expert
ence in the Gulf of California she was
towed to this port by the tug Fearless, and
after months spent in liquidation was
finally sold to a syndicate of South Sea
Island traders. For years they ran the
bark Helen w. Almy, but last year Cap
tain Luttrell decided that it would cost too
much to make her seaworthy for long
voyage, SO she was condemned.
In her place the schooner Viking was
placed and is now on her way from tn
Marshall group. On her arrival she will
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were all passengers on the steamer State
of California for Portland, and con-
course of their friends were down to see
them off. AS the steamer moved away
from the wharf the members OF the opera
company gathered on the port side and
sang:
Then blow We winds, oh, no,
For rowing will go,
Ill stay more on Frisco's shore,
So let the music play-ay-ay,
For I'll start by the morning train
And cross the raging main,
And I'll be OFF TO my own true love ten thousand
miles away.
The steamers Modoc and Herald. owned
by the Southern Pacific, were in collision
last Saturday night and the blame is all
laid at the door of the commander of the
revenue cutter Rush. The searchlight on
the latter was being tried and in an op-
perfume moment Grom the standpoint of
the cutters captain) was turned on Mis-
sion-street wharf. The electric glare made
it impossible for the captain of the Modoc
to see anything and in consequence he
had TO MAKE his landing by guess work.
Turning into the slip the Modoc struck
the Herald and both vessels We're consid.
erably damaged. A few minutes later the
Monticello arrived from Vallejo and again
the Searchllght OF the RuSh was turned on.
Captain Randall did not know what to
do. but finally decided to stop his vessel:
1t was lucky he did so, as had he run into
the slip he would have run down the Mo-
doc and Herald, which were struggling to
extricate themselves from the tangle oCca-
stoned by the collision. Captains of bay
and river steamers express wish that the
men -of-war and revenue cutters would
test their search lights somewhere else
than on the landinI slips.
The Chinese junks Fung Hi and Gam Wo
were seized at the instance of Deputy Sur
veyor OF the Port Ruddell yesterday The
vessels are commanded by Cinnamon
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NEWTON'S PATRIOTISM.
Why He Shot Four Men who Gale
Him a Foreigner.

Why He Shot Four Men Who Called
Him a Foreigner.
G. B. Newton, charged with assault to
murder committed on four men, is tenn
porarily at liberty, for the jury which tried
his case failed to agree Some Jurors
wanted to render verdict of assault with
deadly weapon, and others wanted to
find for simple assault, but there were
more who wanted to find on the original
charge.
Newton, who is of patriotic DISPOSE
ton, was robbed of some money in a
saloon, and he complained at the bar.
Three or four men were standing round,
and they volunteered to fight the 'for-
eigner." as they termed Newton, and his
patriotic blood being aroused, he told them
to come on. The four piled onto him and
got him as far as the floor, when he COM
menced shooting. He managed to put a
bullet in each OF the four, and then fl u shed
with victory, he refused to be arrested bv
any but an American policeman. Newton
hopes to be acquitted on his next trial.
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bay-windows in each room give splendid
views of the track and the ocean.
In the center of the second floor a
spacious hall is located, ali rooms and a
kitchen opening into it, also serving rooms
service stairs, ladies' waiting and toilet
rooms.
The needs OF the club have been care
fully attended to in the preparation of the
plants, and all thelatest ideas and i'm.
provements have been applied, making
the structure one of the finest of its kind
in the country.
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Arrested for Kidnapinp.

Cheung Chow Fate, an unusually enlight-
ened Chinese, who for the last twelve years
has been making a living for himself and
family by driving an express-wagon, was ar
rested last evening on mplaint of All Yee, a
ACKNOWLEDGING, and booked at the Cali
fornia-street police station on a charge of kid
naping. All Yee alleges that the prisoner
enticed his wife, All Gum, down from the
Sacramento Valley and installed her in his
home as its mistress. Cheung Chow Fate de-
nies this and says that he simply rented her a
room in his house, for which she paid him in
advance. Cheung has q wife and three boys
of his own, and the police inclined to be-
lieve that it was a case of malice on the part
of the complainant in having caused his
arrest.
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WANT IT HEARD AGAIN.
The De la Montanya Case May
Come Up Once
More.
A Petition Filed Asking the Supreme
Court to Reconsider the Case
Just Decided.

A petition for a rehearing in the De la
Montanya case has been filed by Delmas &
Shotridge in the Supreme Court.
The petition asks that the rights of
Mrs. de la Montanya to her chill
dren be again heard and passed upon.
She had asked for the custody of the
children, but the Supreme Court de-
cided that the children, having been taken
to Europe by their father. were out of the
jurisdiction of the courts of California,
and so the Superior Court did wrong in
awarding them to the care of their
mother.
In the petition for a rehearing it is
argued that the power to grant divorce
by the lower court included the power to
award the custody of the children. If the
court could annul or set aside marriage
and destroy the relation of husband, it
has power to read1ust the relations of the
children, who are incident to the mar
riage.
The position is taken that the parents
have the custody of the children by sort
OF joint tenancy, and when that joint ten
ancy is dissolved by a court the court
surely has power to determine the rights
of the parents in the children.
A further point is made that if the court
can, on summons by publication, divorce
two people. it can on the same summons
allot the custody of the children to either.
Cigar Factory Seized.
Wong Chung's cigar factory. at S26 Clay
street, was seized yesterday for violation of the
Tx,fn IL Dnyvnr, lorp
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One Year in Jail.

One Year in Jail.
Thomas MCGOWAN, convicted of aiding in the
transportation of Unstamped opium. was sem
fenced to one year in Jail by Judge Morrow in
the United States District Court yesterday.
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ADJUSTMENTS

BALDWIN THEATER.-" Beau Brummell."
CALIFORNIA THEA-ER-''The Night Clerk"
COLUMBIA THEATER-"Pudd' 'nhead Wilson"
hoRosCos oPFRA-HoUsF-"M Michael Strogof."
11voLJ JOPERA-HousE.-"Blus Beard.
@FTHEUN.-High-Class Vaudeville.
GROWERS AIcAzAR.-"Cad the Tomboy.'
CoNGREGATI6NALC CHURCH, OAKLAND-Mormon
Tabernacle Choir.
Y NJ c. a. HALL. corner Mason and Ellis sts-
Benefit concert rendered to Daisy May Cressy.
METROPOLITAN TEMPLE-Mormon Tabernacle
Choir, Wednesday, April Is.
SUTRo COMFY IsLAND-Grand Athletic Exhibi-
lion and Concert.
SHOOT THE CHUrEs-Daily Mt Haight street,
CI6 block east ofiEe Park.
tLCIFlC COAST JOCKEY CLuB.-Races to-day.
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CLAUSSEN'S SENTENCE.
He Is Evidently Well Pleased to Esca
From the Moose,

He Is Evidently Well Pleased to Escape
From the Moose.
The life sentence set by the jury as fit
punishment for Nicholas Claussen for the
murder of his wife was passed by Judge
Wallace yesterday morning.
There was no plea for time and no mo-
ton for new trial. The prisoner wanted
his sentence further lightened by being al
lowed to choose his own prison, but Judge
Wallace sentenced him merely to the peni-
tentiary for lite. He said in passing SEN
tence that he did not see how the jury
could have added any sentence limit to
their verdict, as the crime was cold
blooded one, done with premeditation,
without provocatlon and without remorse.
Had motion for new trial been made it
is not improbable that it would have been
granted, but it was evident that both the
defendant and his counsel considered that
the luck of one trial might not stand in
another.
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Cigar Factory Seized.
Wong Chung's cigar factory. at S26 Clay
street, was seized yesterday for violation of the
Internal Revenue laws.
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A SOUTHERN EPISODE.
Man and Woman shot Down and
Rurned ON "Bumboat."

NEW ORLEANS. Jan. 12.-Patrick Nor
ris, a white railroad hand. and his colored
wife met with a terrible fate at midnight
last night. They lived i'm a fatboat near
the westwego wharf of the Texas & Pa
ciic few miles above the city on the OPP
posite side OF the river. On account OF their
difference i'm color. as well as the charge
that they kept a disorderly place for
negroes there has been a growing senti-
rnent against them. They were sitting up
in their boat when a body OF men came
down and set fire to the hull. They sought
refuge on shore, and soon as they made
their appearance they were riddled with
bullets. The woman was killed outright,
but the man fell crippled and the two were
burned to ashes with the boat The au-
affair occurred, claim that they cannot
discover the perpetrators. but the eleven
year-old SON OF the victims, who escaped
and is now In charge OF the Society for
the Prevention OF Cruelty TO Children. says
that a business rivalry was at the bottom
OF the burning. his father having had
trouble with a saloon keeper in the vicin-
ity He claims to have identified several
OF the crowd, all Of whom were white men.
The citizens in the vicinity, however.
say that the place was nuisance, and
that the couple had been run away from
several places. They think that the men
went there OF the purpose OF giving Morris
a whipping, but that he showed light and
infuriated his oppressors TO the double
murder.
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PLUNDERED AND BURNED.
Further DepredntiOns Of Insurgents
i'm Havana NeiGhbOrhood.

HAVANA, Jan. 12--With the exception Of
an engagement between Spanish troops and
band of five hundred insurgents at Mana
qua. only twelve miles southwest of Ha-
vana, there is ncthing very important or
authentic to chronicle of the move ments of
the insurgents. The attack on Managua
still remained In doubt at last accounts
1t was being held by volunteers, but regu-
lar troops were dispatched from here to
its assistance. 1t is reported that the in
surgents had burned several of the houses
and had killed number of defenseless cit
izens. Further news received to-day con-
firms yesterdays report that Maxine Co
niez is proceeding again to the eastward
with large force Of insurgents still left
in Pinar del Rio. He was reported to-day
south CT Guara and near Melena, moving
eastward through the burned cane fields
and passing Providencia and Guines.
At Banes the Insurgents have piundered
and burned the great stores Three clerks
were burned and the Mayor was killed.
Santa Ana, in MatanZas. have also been
plundered, and IN the Cardena5 district the
field of Guimaro has been burned. From
Manzan!llo Ave hundred farm Iaoorers,
who had come there from the Trinidad
district, started hack there under the lead
ershp of Salvador Ries. About 160 of them
got part OF the way towards Santa Clara.
bvt all deserted their leader and returned
TO MazaIillo. In the engagement with Rab-
bs. near Jiguani. the report OF which has
been published, the insurgent Ccl James
Masso. four officers and the leader, Esteban
Tamayo, were killed Ii is said that five
hundred insurgents have been killed in the
sk;rmishes In Matanzas province.
Quiatin Bandera Is reported 10 be mov-
|. ing in the neighborhood OF Guinsa Miranda.
noz are said 20 have had many wounded
in an engagement near Siguanca.
A small schooner has been captured at
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PRICE CENTS 4EEsg gsS sHHs sEAsRs
Caibarien. which was engaged in supplying
the insurgents with groceries and ammuni-
ton.
CHALLENGE TO KENTUCKIANs,


ST LOUIS, Jan. 1.-THE action OF the
Owners and Trainers Association OF Lex
ington, KY, which has boyc0tted the Guar
anteed stakes of the St. Louis Fair Associa-
ton. has caused much surprise and indgna-
ton among prominent horsemen and Off
Gals of the Fair Association here. AS a
result of the action taken in Lexington yes
terday and in answer TO the resolution
adopted by the bluegrass horsemen, the
following telegram was sent to-day by Sec
retary Gwynn of the St Louis Fair Ascot
alton, to Catesby woodford. president OF
the Owners and Trainers Association, at
Lexington:
President Maffitt instructs me by wire
from Washington city to send you the fol-
lowing communication by wire: Timely
suggestions from horsemen will always re-
ceive fair consideration at our hands, but
demands coupled with threats OF q boycott
made on US to change the conditions OF
stakes, prepared with mature deliberation,
after entries have been received and accept
ed on the eve OF their closing. we feel is
manifestly unjust. With a service cover
interests of the breeders and horsemen.
with two millions distributed in that time,
OF which kentuckians and Kentucky horses
carried back to the home of the thorough
bred the bulk of that muniflcent sum- with
a record OF $3S9, 900 disbursed in 1895 10 en-
hance the value of the stock of the breed
ers and horsemen, and only $4,000 of profit
to the association, with an increase of $27.-
600 in our stakes for 1886 over 1895, and the
possibility of distribution of $4,000 during
this year to the owners of the thorough
breds, with magnificent racing plant cost
ing over $l.0p.000 without ever declaring a
penny in dividends, we feel assured that a
boycott instituted, whether privately o,
publicly, will be resented by every fair
minded Kentuckian and turfman i'm Amer
ica.
We therefore respectfully but positively
decline TO accede to your demands 7"
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MANUFACTURERS.
Ohio Delegates to the Next Annual
Convention I'm Chicago.

CINCINNATI, Jan. 12.-Thomas p. Egan,
vice president for Ohio of the National AS
ISOLATION OF Manufacturers, has appointed
the following delegates to attend the con-
vention in Chicoga Jan. q: II. c. Yerzer, of
the Globe Company; E. B. Piepho. of the
T. T. Haydock Carriage Company: Alvin
Carl. Of the Jung Brewing Company; L. C..
GoShorn, of the National Lead Company;
Charles Davis, of the Lodge & Davis Ma
chine Tool Company; VI. Z. Ingalls,. presi-
dent Big Four railway; James Powell, of the
William Powell Company; Capt. w. w. Pea
body, vice president and general manager
OF the Baltimore 4 Ohio Southwestern rail-
way; Thomas McDougall and T.. NJ. Thresh-
er, Dayton; John j. Hopes, Sprngfield; p.
r. Montanus. Springfield: s. Kelley, Spring
field, w. +. Taylor, Youngstown; j. G.. But
Ter, tr., Youngstown: j. G.. Battelle Plqua
and r. T.. Mckinney. Hamilton.
The railroads offered reduced rates IL fifty
or more were pledged TO go to Chicago.
There are already over one hundred pledges
and IL Is expected TO secure special train
Many OF the delegates from the East and
South expect to join the delegates here,
among them being President Dolan, OF Phil
adelphia. The National Association of Man
ufacturers was started by a call of Gin
cinnati manufacturers in 1894, and the first
national convention of manufacturers was
held here last January.
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A DISPATCH FROM GOMEZ.
Victorious in His Campaign and Will
Continue on Same Line.

Continue Same Line.
NEW YORK, Jan. 13.-A dispatch to the
World from Havana says: Gen. Maxine
Gomez sends the following TO the World:
My purpose in entering the three west
ern provinces was to place them in active
rebellion against the Spanish authorities
and to prevent the making of sugar during
the present year. In both objects l have
been successful. moved my army from
Camaguey with the assistance of my
able lieutenants, and my progress to Pinar
del Rio has virtually been uninterrupted.
l moved over Matanzas and when the
greater portion of the cane was destroyed
carried on the same work in portions of
Havana. The destruction of cane in Finar
del Rio ended the principal object of my
prearranged plans.
Everywhere the people have welcomed
our army. / could arm as many men as
1 had arms for. A large number of men
have followed my column, several thou
sand at one time, who would have gladly
carried rifles could / have provided them.
1t is not my policy to have general en-
gagement with the Spanish troops / cannot
afford to risk the loss of arms and ammuni-
ton that a battle might cause Neither will
attempt to occupy and hold a town. In that
case the Spaniards would environ it with a
superior force. q avoid towns generally
on my marches. The destruction OF
Gabriel and Guira were warnings to all
communities not to resist my progress My
people were fired on at both places, and
they retaliated by confiagration. / de-
stroyed portions of the Western railway,
in order to prevent the Spaniards from
transporting troops.
8 i cannot reveal my future plans, but I
will state that all my movements are pre-
arranged with some few exceptions, and I
expect to carry them out successfully. The
war is being conducted on a much broader
scale than the Ten Years revolution.
Martinez Campos, who is an honorable man
and one to be respected personally, inaugy-
rated the policy which prevails, and 1 am
glad to join him in 1t as long as it con-
tinues. l believe in meeting the enemy in
an open way, and not by bloodthirsty acts
not in the heat of action.
81 am disappointed because the govern
ment Of the United States has not recog-
nized the belligerency of Cubans, but am
hopeful that this much desired act will
soon be attained. / cannot talk freely
about my military operations at this time
THE foregoing statement was obtained
from General Gomez by representative OF
the World at a point near Come station or
the Western railway De Come is between
Alquiza and Artemisia."