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The San Francisco call., 1896-02-20
BOHACUM'S SUIT DROPPED.
The Bishop requests a Dismissal of the
Injunction Case.

TECUMSEH, NEBR., Feb. 19.-Bishop
Bonacum did not appear in the District
Court here to-day against Fathers William
Murphy and Dennis Fitzgerald in his in
junction proceedings against these gentle
men. The Bishop sent in request that
the case be dropped. and it was accord
inglv dismissed. The suit, which has long
been pending, was brought to oust Fathers
Murphy and Fitzgerald from their re-
spective parishes.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-20
Pioneer Found Dead In Bed.

SAN JOSE, CAL. Feb. 19.-William
Hummeltenburg, well-Known resident OF
Santa Clara and pioneer of 1850. was
found dead in his bed yesterday morning.
Death resulted from heart disease. The
deceased was native of Prussia and 81
years of age. A widow and one SON sur
yiye him.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-20
ACTIVE PROHIBYTIONI

Working to Secure the State Convention
for san Jose.
SAN JOSE, CAL, Feb. 19.-The Prohibi-
tionists of this city are making a deter
mined effort to have the Prohibition State
convention meet in this city in May.
The selection of place of meeting will
be made by the State Central Committee
at their meeting in Oakland tom orrow,
and Henry French, w. Kelley, Frank
Shafter, Robert Summers and A. W. Ken
nedv have been appointed a committee to
wait upon the State Central Comm ittee
and urge the claims of San Jose.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-20
Burglars Plead GuiItv,

SAN JOSE, CAL, Feb. 19.-Hy Wilson,
negro, and Russell Harris, the men who
robbed the residence of H. Korf at the
Five-mile House several weeks ago. pleaded
guilty to burglary in the second degree
before Judge Lorigan this morning. They
will be sentenced Friday.
Information has been filed charging
Frank Atwood with the robbery of Nj. c.
Closes store few weeks ago, and his ar
raignment is set for Friday.
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Charged Irith Perjury.

SAN JOSE, CAL, Feb 19.-Eugene G.
Shirley was arraigned before Judge Lori
gan to-day on charge of perjury alleged
to have been committed during the trial
of the Pyle-Piercy $4,000 beach of pro-
mise suit.
A determined fight is being made to
clear Shirley. The case was argued at
length, and a motion to dismiss on ac-
count of insufficient evidence was taken
under advisement
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-20
Tacom Mystery.

TACOMA, WASH, Feb. 19.-1he Coro-
ner's jury in the case of c. Horace Baker.
the transfer company proprietor, who was
found dead under the Eleventh.street
bridge under mysterious circumstances on
Saturday, returned verdict to-day that
death was due to fall from the brid ee.
but refused to say whether from accident.
suicide or murder. The case is still
shrouded in mystery.
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Il, the men to weigh IN at 142 pounds five
hours before the contest. The club will
turn over 80 per cent of the gross receipts,
OF which the winner will take 75 and the
loser 70. Stuart controls bright Eyes"
and Tom O'Rourke has charge of Walcott.
Inc referee is given the right of calling
additional rounds up to twenty-five If
necessary to reach decision.
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Stockton fn the Rnce.

STOCKTON, CAL. Feb. 19-Efforts are
being made to get the next Democratic
State Convention for Stockton. The
Evening Mail tonight published inter
views with leading Democrats here favor
ing making strong fight to get the con-
vention. Party leaders believe that it lies be-
tween Stockton, Sacramento and Oakland
Next Saturday delegates to the Irouuois
convention at San Francisco will open the
campaign in favor of Stockton.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-20
CYCLING At SANTA MONICA.
attractive Programme of Races for Wash
inltOn's BirthddH.

Attrdcttre Programme of Races for Wash
in0ton's Birthday.
SANTA MONICA, CAL, Feb. 19.-On
Washingtons birthday bicycle race meet
VIII occur at the track here, the pro
gramme arranged being a very attractive
one. In addition to the events on the
programme, there will be given a exhl-
bltlon mile with flying start, paced oy
the famous sextuplet machine OF the
Stearns Company, which has wheel oase
OF nearly twelve feet, weighing 137 pounds
and is geared to 120 inches. 1t is expected
to make mile with it in from 10 to l 80;
Another event will be a military race OF
teams of the National Guard.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-20
BratfdlIu Murdered. .

SPOKANE, WASH, Feb. 19. Alfred
Halterman. a prominent young farmer
residing near Pomeroy, WASH, was bru.
tally murdered by his brother-in-law,
Ralph Melton, last evening, who Drained
him with club. The murder was un-
provoked. The community is terribly
aroused and talk Of lynching the murderer
is openly made.
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DIED FROM THE BURNS.
Miss Marcia Farnhan, of Woodland Ea
pires in Great agony.

Miss Marcia Fdrnhanl of Woodland Ea-
pires In Great 40ony.
WOODLAND, CAL, Feb. 49, Miss
Marcia Farnham, who was frightfuIly
burned on the evening of February II by
the overturning of a kerosene lamp, died
this morning at 3 O'Clock. For two days
prior to her death there was no sense of
feeling in her right arm, and had she re-
covered amputation of that member would
have been necessary, as portions of the
flesh fell away every day since the acci-
dent.
complished young lady, and her prema-
ture death has cast gloom over the whole
com munity.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-20
Port To,rnsend MongoI Arre,,ed

PORT TOWNSEND, WASH, Feb. 49,
The first arrest of Chinaman illegally in
this country to be made in the Puget
Sound district in the past six months was
made by Customs Inspector Terry this
morning. A coolie was found at work in
a reservation garden on the abandoned
Fort Townsend site. He will have a hear
ing on THURSDAY.
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blood scattered on the walk, he was tracked

blood scattered on the walk, he was tracked
for several blocks.
About noon Dr. Harry Mckay, in the
Marquam building, was called upon by a
stranger who had bad wound in his arm
he wanted dressed. The stranger said he
had shot himself accidentally while exam
patient of some crooked work and tele-
prhoned the police about it. The stranger
was arrested, and gave his name as Joseph
Harrison, an Englishman. He claimed to
have come here from Seattle. Later the
man confessed that he had burglarized
Houston's house
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-20
Assignee Appointed.

SAN JOSE, CAL. Feb. 19.-George w.
Cozzens was to-day appointed assignee of
the estate of J. u. Anderson, the insolyent
fruit-packer, whose liabilities amount to
$l25 900. Bonds were fixed at $50, 900.
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Funny
Coincidence!
/ / / / /

George Washington and our
selves are celebrated for truth
telling, and on George Wash
ington's Birthday We'll be four
years old, remarkably strange !;
contrasting of greatness.
The big store has your conf
dence for its truth-telling, and
in four years it has climbed to
the top and it's firmly seated on
the top and it's going to stay on
the top with your kind permis-
sion.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-20

Above you see the figure 9,
and 8 has cut a very important
figure in this town the last four
weeks. 1t represents a Chal-
lenge.
The big store, to make itself
felt, to make itself, which it al
ways has been, a terror to its
competitors, has taken some of
its very fine Suits and Over
coats, including some of our
very handsomest Spring styles,
and placed 'em in the big cor
ner window. There are goods
in this window representing
values up to SIS. We said to
our competitors, put up line
equal to it, put up line as high
in character as it, put up an as
sortment as large, put up styles
as new at
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-20

Those stylish Scotches in light and me-
dunn shades, handsome goods; those very
clever Cheviots, in the twill, in blues and
blacks; the new Spring cut of the Double
Edgemont, our new Single Breasted Three
Button Cutaway Sack, an awfully clever
garment; in the Challenge, but just for a
short time, at
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-20

Such garments as are in this Challenge
are very seldom seen outside of the very
swellest tailoring establishments, and that
means $40 to $50 for suit.
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5000,

But mind you, now the Challenge is draw
ing to close and we must call this sale off
as we can't go on forever selling goods a
this price.
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BELOW

We picture an awfully clever Cutaway,
made from fine Black Clay Worsteds, also
in grays, in the new Spring style of the
Frock; it's awfully clever; it's the envy of
the swell tailors; it's the delight OF the
fashionable dressers. In the Challenge at
The San Francisco call., 1896-11-15

Last weeks post election offer ings were
not quite all the press agents fancy had
painted them. We had two fairly good
vaudeville operas, pretty Strauss opera
which lacked the charm of novelty, 8
mildly military melodrama at the Grand,
and melodrama with clanking chains
and bowling wolves at the California; the
Alcazar gave US romantic new play, and
the Orpheum cheered us on our way with
some new dogs and string of hoIdovers-
all very pleasing in their way, but scarcely
thank offerings for the results of the elec-
ton.
Della Fox, as a star, showed herself to
have just enough brIlliancy to twinkle sue
cessfully, with the support of some fairly
bright lights around her. The most care
full astronomical observations failed to dis
cover any extraordinary effulgency. Miss
Fox is a clever little worker. however, and
is blessed with just that suggestion of the
music hall which gives the finishing
touch to the charms of an operetta prima
donna.
If Messrs. Belasco, Jordan and La Faille
had sought far and wide they could not
have found better foil to May Buckley's
The San Francisco call., 1896-11-15

the Great ever took a whole troop of SOL
diers prisoners and confined them in his
kitchen cellar by the might of his good
right arm alone? Dorothy did the deed
at the Grand, not once, but every night
last week and the house took it au grand
serieu and cheered her to the echo.
Even Dorothy's prowess pales before the
deeds done by Ida of Darkest Russia"
fame. In addition to defying aristocrats.
standing off armed nihilists and snatching
convicts from the iron grasp of the law,
this frail girl "nursed a garrison through
an epidemic, and then. rife in han d, re-
pulsed an attack of the Turcomans. Does
not that feat appropriate the confec-
tionery? julius Caesar, if he'd had rifle,
might have found courage to stand off an
attack of the Turcomans, but ii you had
put him, ingle-handed, to nurse a garri.
son through an epidemic, it's ten to one
that instead of being a m1nistering angel
Julius Cesar would have used language
unfit for publication.
And yet strong men sit at me lodramas,
clapping their hands and crying "Braval
BravissimaW when one frail woman re-
The San Francisco call., 1896-11-15
Grand 0pera-House.

"a Ring of lron," by the author of
wages of Sin," 'Woman Against
Woman" e.c., will be produced at the
Grand tomorrow. It will afford Victory
Bateman very emotional role as the wife
OF scamp who deserts her and VINO falls
heir to title and fortune Howard
Kyle will play the part o. the noble young
doctor who helps the deserted wife out of
her trouble, when she is on the trail of
her recreant spouse.
To tighten up the scenes two soubrettes
and two comedians are supplies Miss
josephine Gasman has been especially en-
gagged as one of the soubrettes, and Lottie
Williams will be the other. Leslie Mo-
rosco and Edward Heron have tue tight
comedy parts. Anna Daily and Foster
vane have also been engaged for the pro-
duction.
The San Francisco call., 1896-11-15
Columbia Theater.

sutton Vane's Humanity" will be pro-
ouced by Joseph Grismer and Phebe
Dawes, for the first time in this City, to-
morrow ni-ht. 1t is said to be the stroag-
est play on William A. Brady's list. The
plot is laid in England and South Africa,
and tells of startling incidents by flood
ana held. The heroine lives in South
A1rlca, and the Nero, a lieutenant OF the
British army, has his home on his ances-
tral estates in England. The characters
meet IN England, but later repair to
South Africa. The scenes include bat
tie with the Beers and sword contes on
horseback. In the first act hunting
scene Is shown, where fifteen horses and a
PACK OF twenty-five foxhounds are intro.
duced.
The San Francisco call., 1896-11-15
TivoIi Opera-House.

Tonight will see the last performance
OF "The Gypsy Baron" at the Tivoli.
Tomorrow evening the favorite comedy
opera Donna Juanita," by Won Suppe.
will be presented in careful manner.
The company is cast as follows: Elvia
Crox Seabrooke as Rene Dufour, cadet;
M iss Lily Post as Petrita, Spanish girl;
Miss Carol Grouse. as Donna Olympia. wife
OF the Alcalde, an ex-ballet dancer; Ber-
nice Holmes and Anna Schnabel as the
stu ents, Marco and Leon; Ferris Hart
man as General Douglas. commander of
the English forces w. II. West as the AL
calde, Don Pomponio; Rhys Thomas as
Gaston Dufour. young officer; John J.
Rafael as Don Riego, notary, and w. II.
Tooker as Gil Polo, an innkeeper After
Donna Juanita" Offenbach's operate
The San Francisco call., 1896-11-15
At the Orpheum.

Burt Shepard, he of minstrel fame, is
billed for this week, and if he keeps up
his reputation as an entertainer a funny
turn may be expected from him. Lewis
and Elliott are pair of comedians of
whom favorable accounts have been re-
celyed from the East. They come direct
from Tony PASTORS. A feature of their
act Is their pantomime Upper ten and
lower FIVE" dance. Knoll and Mcneil are
cornetists.
The hold-overs are: NAYS and Hunter,
with new programme; Lavater's dog
orchestra, the Quaker City quartet in new
selections and Howard and Bland in a
new ac,. Nelson, Glinsereti and Demonio
and the Detroit brothers will complete the
The San Francisco call., 1896-11-15
Bush-Street Theater.

L. A. Kennedy announces that this even
ing he will place man suspended in mid
air In hypnotic sleep. Kennedy extends
an invitation for seven days and nights to
the press and medical protest. n and the
public in general to view the sleeper, who
will be guarded by relays of watchers, ap-
pointed by the press and medical profes-
sion, at all times during the day and
night.
Kennedy will every evening continue to
give series OF his hypnotism. 1t is stated
that those interested in psychic study will
De given every opportunity to investigate
and see the control of mind over matter
The San Francisco call., 1896-11-15
California Theater.

The last performance of Darkest Rus
sla" VIII be given on Sunday evening,
Novem Der %.
La Lole Fuller will make her appearance
az the California Theater on Monday,
november %, for an engagement limited
10 three nights Miss Fuller Is on her way
10 10 appear before Ii Hung Chang, China's
Vlceroy, by special mandate. Her dances
were the rel ming sensation at the Folies
Bergeres. Paris, where the little American
dancer tripped the boards for mum berless
nights Tor the pleasure of the Parisians.
The San Francisco call., 1896-11-15
At the Alcazar.

tomorrow "Reaping the Harvest" will
De taken off the boards and an American
military drama new to this City produced.
II is In four acts and the action takes
pace IN and around Fort Bliss, near Ell
faso. The story is said to be full OF love
ana comedy and one OF its most striking
features Is sword duel between the
heroine and the villain. She rescues her
sweetheart just as he is wounded, and
SraSplng the sword from his hands she
succeeds ), IN subduing her opponent. Miss
Beatrice LieD will take the part of the
The San Francisco call., 1896-11-15
At the Chutes.

''Arion" rides the live wire over the lake
at the Chutes on his illuminated bicycle
every evening, and the Haight street
grounds are generally crowded
This afternoon Emil Markeberg will
make balloon ascension and parachute
drop, hanging by his teeth, and az night
Roberts, the celebrated diver, will Jump
into the lake from an altitude of sixty
feet. Where he lands the water is but
two feet deep.
The skating-rink is now one of the
features of the Chutes.
The San Francisco call., 1896-11-15

morrow evening. Boldly challenging COM
rarison with Paderewski Mrs. Bloomfield
Zeisler at the outset melted the keenest
sort of criticism, and to have failed to
awaken enthusiasm would in itself have
been source of disappointment The
audiences, composed of the most dis
eliminating musicians in San Francisco,
indorsed her work with an exhilarating
warmth
The San Francisco call., 1896-11-15
Baldwin Theater.

Tomorrow evening Della Fox will ap-
pear in her successful opera, "Fleur-de-
Lis" This lyric work is of French ex-
traction, and had long and successful
run at Pamer's Theater, New York. It
affords Miss Fox six changes of costum e in
the way o. concealing her identity. The
plot hinges on the disagreement of two
The San Francisco call., 1896-11-15

lifelong friends. the Marquis de Rosolio
ana the Count oes Escarbilles, over the
ownership of French estate. OF course
the comic element is much in evidence,
ana there is a strain of love-making, CIV
ing Miss Fox plenty to do in this line.
N at Z. Goodwin will follow Della Fox at
the Baldwin
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down on a general feeling of 1--WE shall
meet anon in Siberia.

OF course, the exlling game is absurdly
exaggerated, but, after all, exaggeration
is a characteristic of melodrama. Even
its most fervid admirers take melodrama
with a grain of salt-a good many grains
of saIt-and with this seasoning Darkest
Russia" is an excellent play of its kind.
The act where every one meets in Siberia.
if a little com plicated, is very thrilling,
and the whole play is wildly picturesque
and rings agreea bic changes on the hack
neyed melodrama of English-speaking
life. As for its bits of unconscious hu-
NOR, they liven up the play. Why should
we pay out hard-earned dollars and get
in return nothing out gloom and woe?
Humor, especially unconscious numor, Is
worth paying for.
Captain James A. Herne might have
found foes more worthy OF their steel for
his minute Men" than the lam bike
red coats who were all captured at one
fell swoop by pretty young lady. These
base hirelings of an effete monarchy never
so much as crooked finger in their own
defense; evidently they had been engaged
at SO much night by Manager Morosco
to be cap ured, and their contract did not
call for the display of any violence, even
if the exigencles of the drama had allowed
of it, Leslie, the red-coat officer, yielded
his sword and pistol 20 his girl conqueror
with Chesterfieldian grace which would
have done more credit to the court than to
the camp. The fact is that Captain
Hernes ideas of warfare Sc m to be of
the "Ladies first order. His officers
never for a moment forget that they are
gentlemen, and the gentlemen in the
ranks would fall upon their own bayonets
rather than be guilty of anything
SO vulgar as making broils or disturbances
1t is ali very refined and hightoned to
represent King GEORGES soldiers US, but
the next time Captain Herne writes a
military melodrama, he should not forget
to season the foe with some blood and
thunder. Capturing the enemy is ali very
well as climax, but the gallery likes to
The San Francisco call., 1896-11-15

Miss Georgia Stewart, the San Francisco girl
who Joined the Corinne Company last year.
has made quite a success and is now PLAYING
an important part in 'Hendrick Hudson Jr %
The San Francisco call., 1896-11-15

Nat c. Goodwin's new play is being acted in
England by two companies.
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Zeisler Recital.

The final performance by Mrs. Fannie
Bloomfeld-Z aiser is announced to take
place in the Metropolitan Temple to-mor-
The San Francisco call., 1896-11-15

"Apajune," Millocker's fairy opera, has
been secured for the Tivoli
The San Francisco call., 1896-11-15
Dramatic BreVities.

"Brian Boru" continues its successful career
at the Broadway Theater.
The San Francisco call., 1896-11-15

fantasie. the Brigands," will be pre-
sented. Great preparations are going on
for the Christmas piece.
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energetic heroine and John T. Sullivan
| will be the gallant captain
The San Francisco call., 1896-11-21

by the introduction of textbooks on home
industries in the public schools. This
plan. while ingenious, we believe is
neither advisable nor feasible. No text
book could possibly keep up with the
growth OF industry, nor could it include
all industries. 1t would not be fair for the
State to advertise some product to the ex-
ciusion of others, and the scheme there
fore would provoke opposition. There is
in fact but one way by which industry can
make itself known to the public, and that
is by persistent and extensive advertising
On the need of advertising we do not
care to dwell at this time. That is an
issue apart from the general one of pro-
noting home industry. The proposed
com bination of all the associations can
hardly be expected 10 undertake advertis-
ing, and therefore that phase of the ques-
tion is not pertinent to their oreaniza-
tion. What they can do is to assist in the
general work of promoting local indus
tries, and TO that end they ought to have
the cooperation of all industrial and COM
mercial bodies not OF this City only, but
of the whole State.
The San Francisco call., 1896-11-21
THE HATCH FAILURE.

The failure of A. t. Hatch is in some
respects loss to the State of California.
He is one of those men who, not content
with existing good, reaches out Tor better
things. He has done much to promote
the fruit industry of the State, and was
engaged in bold enterprise to do more
when failure came upon him.
1t would be hard TO overestimate the
benefits which have resulted to the fruit
growers of California from the expert
ments and enterprises which Mr.. Hatch
carried out. He was always prompt and
ready to undertake anything which prom
ised an improvement in the industry, and
his services in that respect were various,
extensive, and in most cases completely
successful.
AS was said by A. G. Freeman in COM
mentiDg on the failure:
No fruit-grower has surpassed Mr.. Hatch in
intelligence and industry. His study of fruit
culture has added vastly 10 the wealth OF this
State He was the first man to risk the expert
ment of Shipping fruit to the Eastern markets
by the refrigerator process. When that plan
was adopted only few carloads was sent
East; now thous ands of cars are employed in
such shipments.
Not content with improving the indus
try at home and promoting the market for
it in the East Mr.. Hatch undertook the
vast enterprise of opening the way for the
larger markets of London and the world.
1t was to his ardor in the last undertak-
ing that his failure is largely due. What
he accomplished, however, will serve the
benefit of others. The failure of to-day
will prepare the means for the success OF
tomorrow. We shall yet find profits in
European markets, and that success when
it comes will be due in no small measure
to the efforts OF the man who has now
gone down in the attempt to accomplis it.
1t is gratifying to know that Mr.. Hatch
does not himself regard his present bad
condition as a complete failure. In an in
terview with him published in THE CALI
yesterday he said
Yes, have lived in $40 room and con-
tented myself with 15-cent meals in order to
pull through. My failure now does not in any
sense mean my ruin. 1 shall start again, and
am sure that will again succeed. have the
utmost confidence in California as a fruit
growing State.
California needs such men as A. T.
Hatch. She needs men of just such
pluck, such enterprise and such faith in
themselves ana in her future. The failure
OF such man even temporarily is a seri-
Gus loss. There will, therefore. be gen.
eral hope that Mr.. Hatch will soon be on
his feet again and able once more to lead
our industries to higher levels and open
for them wider and more profitable mar
kets.