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The morning times., 1896-12-17
THOUSANDS OF LETTERS

1t would also be interesting to know
from the officials of the posioffice how
many letters they have received from local
schelrers who put more faith in lead
pencil than they do in the burgeoning
stockings of their lady relatives. IL young
members of the family are missed from
now until Christmas, as the twilight IS
coming on, it can be taken for granted that
they have gone to the postoffice with
The morning times., 1896-12-17

GAME -Canvasback, Sc per pair; red
head, $3.50 per pair; mallards, ST 80 per
pair; ruddy duck. S1per pair; near by quail,
SO per dozen; Western quail, So. so per
dozen: grouse, S1.25 per pair; pheasant,
81 so per pair.
The morning times., 1896-12-17
Buy Sensible
PRESENTS.

BY all means buy
som mething of a sub
stantiaI nature. Some
thing that will delight,
yet prove useful.
The morning times., 1896-12-17

FIsH-Boiiing rock, zoe to 25c per
pound; red snapper, Ioc 10 IL 1-2c per
pound; blue fish. 10c per pound; Cod, 10c
per pound: piciierel. Sc per pound: new
salmon, 25c To 35c per pound; white
fish, large size. IL 12c per pound; small
size. &c per pound; black bass, sc per
pound; Spanish nackerel, l &C TO 20c per
pound; halllbut, zoe per pound; soles, 1oc
per pound.
The morning times., 1896-12-17

Mrs. Boomer was the hostess at one OF
the handsomest teas of~the season yester-
day afternoon when several hundred WIS.,
itors called to meet Nine. Bakhmetieff, the
cousin of the hostess.
The guest of honor is the wife of the
charge d'affairs of Russia at the court OF
Greece, and is one of the most notable and
interesting Americans who has married
abroad. She sails for Athens January
3, having come to Washington on a two
months visit to her mother, Mrs. Beale
Mrs Bloomer was assisted by Mrs. Blair
Lee, who presided at the tea table; Mrs.
Hugh Alexander Legare, Miss Edyth Pat
ten and Miss Ward, and among the gnests
were most OF the distinguished members
OF resident and official society. The tea
table was beautifully decked in pink, with
a centerpieee Of carnations.
The morning times., 1896-12-17

% CONSULTATION FREE. "a
The morning times., 1896-12-17
LAKSBURGH & BRO.

& Wsars open Of evenings IL
4 until Christmas. ~
The morning times., 1896-12-17
BRIDES DlSPLACE BUDS
In The SOCIAL WHIRL
Three Pretty Ceremonies Celebrated
Last Evening.
Brilliant Military Marriage of Mr
Wade and Miss Tracy-Social
Notes and Personais.

Two notable teas viii occur this after-
noon, one by the Postmaster General ana
Mrs Wilson, to present their daughter
Miss Mary Wilson, and another by Nine.
Cana, wife of the Chilean Minister, 10
present Miss Cana.
Both these young ladies are more 'iai,
usually attractive and Will DE Weoonica
by large circle of friends
The morning times., 1896-12-17

The church service was followed by a
reception TO the nuptial party at the resi-
dence OF the brides parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles White, No. 1913 Sixth street
northwest, where, after the return Of DR..
Davis and IIis bride from their northern
tour, they will he at home to their friends
after January 10.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-14
May to See the Revised Sched'
ules Put In All Over the
Country.
CALIFORNIA TO BE PROTECTED.
Westbound Freight Will Bear the
Greater Part Of the In.
creased Charges.

Ever since the announcement that the
Transcontinental Traffic Association had
been recognized in New York the great
question with the merchants and shippers
of the whole country has been, What ad-
vance in freight rates will result? That
rates would be advanced was conclusion
that every one VINO had any interest in
shipping matters reached as soon as the
news came OF the reformation of the great
combine of the railroads engaged in trans
continental transportation.
1t is now just two weeks since the gen
eral freight agents OF the lines interested
first came together at Milwaukee to dis
cuss and arrange for tariffs on basis that
would be mutually satisfactory to all the
railroads in the deal. During all this
period not a word or intimation has
reached the public as to what might be ex-
pected in the way of changed rates, and it
has kept the local merchants guessing in a
way that has been most trying to their
nerves.
From a local railroad man in close touch
with the late Milwaukee conference it was
learned yesterday that the freight agents
had completed their work on Saturday,
and that the meeting had adjourned after
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-14
Their Exhibition Calculated TO
Provoke a Riot in China.
town.
THEY MAY NOT BE FLAUNTED
The Supervisors Decide Not to Visit
the Templadera Until Next
Week.

Yesterdays meeting of the Board OF Su-
pervisors was one of the speediest on
record when the amount of business
transacted is taken into consideration.
The reading of the minutes began at
2:45 and the board adjourned at 3:45, not
one OF the members having made speech
or even remark upon any subject.
I he bulk of the business was of the rou-
tine uninteresting character, the only
action of the board that was not dry being
the laying over for one week of Supervisor
Morgenstern's resolution that the MEM
bers of the board visit the Templadera
source of water supply near Castroville, in
Mon terey County.
Chief of Police Crowley sent an alarm
ing communication to the board, setting
forth that the Chinese Consul and the
better class of the Gee Gar Sung family are
in favor of the boards refusing to grant
permission to that family to erect flag
pole on the roof of 800 Dupont street. the
Chief of Police alleging as a reason that
the various Chinese societies and families
would be making application for similar
privileges, and il they were not all treated
alike dissension in the Chinese quarter
might be created and riot might be pro-
VOked,
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-14
A DRUNKEN BURGLAR.
William Sanborn, Who Fell Thirty
Feet, Booked at the City
Prison.

A charge OF attempt at burglary was
registered against William Sanborn, the
dive performer, at the City Prison yester-
day morning. The complaining witness is
A. Webster, 1904 Jones street.
Sanborn had suffi GENTLY recovered from
his injuries received by his fall of thirty
feet from the roof of the alleyway between
Webster's house and Mrs. NJ. E. Browns
boarding house, 1884 Pine street, early
Sunday morning, to be removed from the
Receiving Hospital to the prison yesterday
morning.
''I don't know how 1 got there" said
Sanborn. II drank an awful lot of whisky
on Saturday night. l suppose after leaving
my friends / walked aimlessly along till
got to Pine and Jones street. / don't re-
member climbing onto the roof-in fact,
rememb Der nothing till l found myself in
the hospital, and then l had to ask how l
got there.
'If had intended to commit burglary
I wouldn't have got drunk and would have
had some burglars tools with me. The
only thing found upon me was my jack
knife and the key of my room. There was
nobody with me after / left my friends"
Detective Fitzgerald is still working on
the case, but he mas not yet succeeded in
arresting the man who was supposed to
have been with Sanborn.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-14
between the allied railroads and the North
American Navigation Company first and
the Panama Railroad Company later.
LEFT THE ENGINE.
Fireman Frank Lawlor Suing for Dam
ages Sustained While Trying to
Save His Life.


The trial of the damage suit by Frank
Lawlor against the Southern Pacific Com
pany opened before Judge Hunt yesterday
morning.
Lawlor is suing to recover S25, 900 for in
Guries received in the collision between
two trains at San Ardo station on Novem-
Der 3. 1898. Lawlor himself was the prin-
cipal witness of the day.
He said he was fireman OF the engine
which drew the paycar for the cost di-
vision of the Southern Pacific Railroad,
and which left San Francisco on Novem-
Der 2, 1893. The car reached Castroville
that evening and next morning at o'clock
it started south again. 1t stopped at San
Lucas, and there the station agent told
the conductor of the paycar that he had
plenty of time to run to San Ardo. The
paycar went on for San Ardo. 1t was a
foggy morning and the engineer could not
see very far ahead. He went on, however,
until he thought he was near the station,
and then be shut off steam so as to bring
the train under control. AS he did so he
suddenly called to the fireman to jump, at
the same time turning on the airbrake
and throwing back the reverse lever.
Lawlor looked ahead and saw an engine
about 600 feet ahead of them, SO without
more ado he Jumped. He was severely
and permanently injured, and as the rail-
road has offered no compromise he is suing
for it. His theory is that had it not been
for the negligent manner of Keeping track
OF the trains the paycar and its engine
could have been able to avoid the train at
San ArdO.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-14
George F. Grant, c. H. Maddox. George H.

George F. Grant, C. H. Maddox, George H.
Mastick.
DIR. Chismore, the newly elected presi-
dent, belongs to the old guard of the club,
having joined the organization when the
owl perched on Sacramento street. He
served one term as president in 1869
when the club lived on Pine street, and
his administration was highly successful.
There were no exciting features In the
election Yesterday. A fake opposition
ticket, which had been printed and cir
cuiated for amusement, was Withdrawn
before the polls opened.
The annual meeting of the club will be
held to-day. 1t is understood that the in
stitntion is out OF debt, having liquidated
the $25, 200 due Simon Wenban for build
ing the house on Sutter street.
The directors holding over for another
year are George Wheaton, w. E. Davis, e.
X. Dlmond and Vanderlynn Stow. The
ton was ninety-eight. The judges were
George T. Bromley and Colin Smith.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-14

arriving at results of a most satisfactory
character. Speaking evidently by the card
this gentleman said:
There will probably be an advance on
westbound rates that will average about 25
per cent on the present rates. Some things
will bear greater percentage of increase
than this and others less, but the average
will be as stated. There is no disposition
TO make an advance that will create any
idea of unfairness, but rates have been
forced SO low during the past three years
of bitter competition that no one has made
any money. This is shown by the large
number of roads that have gone into the
hands of receivers.
"The new rates will take effect about the
1st of May. They will be published stimuli
taneously by all the roads, after receiving
the joint concurrence of all lines inter-
ested. The lines west Of the Missouri take
action on the rates west of the river, and
the Eastern roads on those from the Mis-
souri, to the Atlantic seaboard.
"The rate schedules are all in the hands
of the chairman of the transcontinental
freight rate committee at Chicago and the
exact time when they will go into effect
will to some extent depend on the work OF
the printer
How about eastbound rates?" was
asked.
80 far as articles of California pro-
duction are concerned any increase on
them will be made on very conservative
basis. The roads having the greatest in
terest in the TranscontinentaI Association
have also the greatest interest in Califor-
MIA productions and the welfare and de-
velopment of the State. They are there
fore not likely 10 take any steps that
would embarrass California productions,
so far as they are able to control the stu
alton. You can say this, however:
''On such articles as green fruit, dried
fruit, raisins, prunes and similar California
products it is quite unlikely that any con-
siderable advance will be made and 1t is
possible that none may be made at ALL"
In conversation with several of the larg-
est shippers on the subject of the proposed
increase in rates it was learned that they
did not consider 25 per cent average ad-
vance excessive in view of the manner in
which rates had been slashed in the yari-
Gus conflicts during the past three years
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-14

ment for establishment OF lines and grades prior
10 entering into contract for grading, etc.
feli, Baker 10 Stanyan-Owners, asking bouie-
ward be declared.
walks.
Prospect and Coso avenues intersection-Sewer,
grade etc.
Stanyan Hafght to Observation-Disclosures
Cole Haight to Carl-Sidewalks
clayton Haight to Observation-Disclosures.
Lower Terrace, Seventeenth to Serpentne road
widening to fifty feet and for district assessment.
walks.
etc.
Dore, Harrison to Bryant-Contractor to with
draw his bid.
PROTESTS REFERRED TO STREET COMMITTEE.
FRANKLIN, Lombard 10 Bay-Paving, etc.
Lyon and Chestnut to Beach-Owners against
district assessment.
Fourteenth, Church to Sanchez-Bitumen
Linden avenue. Van Ness 10 Franklin-Bitumen.
Capp, Twenty fifth to Twenty-sixth-Paving
Chattanooga, Twenty-first and Twenty second
Sidewalks.
Clay, Baker TO Lycn-Paving
flfteenth, Guerrero and Valencia-Sidewalks.
Sastro Market to Slxteenth-Paving
Iwenty-hfth San Bruno to Verm ont-Grading
san Carlos avenue, Eighteenth TO Sycamore
manner In which bitumen is being laid.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-14
TO RULE OWL DEST|N|ES,
DR.. Chismore Elected the New
President of the Bohem.
ian Club.
He Belonged to the Old Guard of the
Organization NO Opposition
Ticket.

The twenty-fourth annual election of
the Bohemian Club took place yesterday
and the following named officers were
elected for the ensuing year: President,
DR.. George Chismore; vice president. Pc.
ter Robertson; secretary, Donald de V.
Graham; treasurer. James A. Thompson.
Directors for two years-William Sproule,
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-14
NEEDS OF THE HOSPITAL
DR.. Conrad We'll Wants a New
Operating-Room Fully
Equipped.
II the Supervisors Do Not Appropriate
the Money He Will Make a
Public Appeal.

DR.. Conrad We'll, head surgeon at the
Receiving Hospital. is making strenuous
efforts to get new operating-room in the
hospital fitted with all the modern require
ments, which he claims is absolutely
necessary.
The present operating-room is badly
equipped. 1t has also the serious objec-
ton of being in direct line with the
entrance, and patients are exposed to
draughts, foul air and other inconveniences.
1t would be tolerable for ordinary cases,
but for critical cases it is highly objection
able.
According to the original plans of the
hospital room in the interior away from
draughts and the noise and annoyance of
people passing out and in was set apart
for an operating-room. The room is there,
but there is nothing except the bare walls.
81 have addressed a lengthy communi-
cation to the Board of Health on the sub
iect," said DR.. We'll yesterday, "but 1 am
sorry to say the board is without funds
They recognize the crying need for a new
operat1ng-room and will ask the Board of
Supervisors to appropriate the necessary
funds. 1t will require from $500 to $1,000.
We need modern antiseptic operating
table, racks for solution bottles, case for
instruments, new and modern instruments,
bandases, gowns and other appliances
''If the Board OF Supervisors does not
appropriate the money will make pub
lie appeal for the funds, and l feel sure
some public-spirited citizen or body of
citizens will come to the rescue just as
Mrs. Oelrichs ana Miss Fair did in provid-
ing the am bulance.
II could mention eight or nine cases
within the past ten months where mems
lives might have been saved if we had been
provided with the new operating-room.
'In many, critical cases at present we
have to send the patient to the City and
County Hospital or let him die on our
thands.
SIN the interests of humanity it is time
we had the new operating-room equipped
and hope in the near future to be able
to announce that some philanthropic citi-
zen has been the means of putting an end
to the present unsatisfactory state Of af-
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-14
Punis he'd a Boy,

Charles Vandina, 1107 Kearny street, swore
out warrant yesterday for the arrest of Paul
Massoni, wine-dealer, 1121 Kcarny street on
the charge OF battery, the particulars of which
are that Friday night some boys were teasine
Mas SOM and he rushed out of his store, seized
hold OF Vandina's 6-year-old boy and heal him
SO badiy that he was confined to his bed till
yesterday. '-'-
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-14
A Bogus Entertainment.

J. J. Smith was convicted in Judge Lows
court yesterday of the charge of obtaining
money by false pretenses, and ordered to ap.
pear for sentence to-day On February he
and two others went to DR.. Simpson, Potrero
avenue, and sold him two tickets for 81 for an
entertainment to be given in South Park Hall
for the benefit of George R. Allen, an employe
of the sugar refinery. 1t was proved that there
was no such hall in the City and no such EN-.
ploye at the sugar refinery as George R. Allen.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-14
sTOREKEEPERs' VACATION.
The wholesale GrOcers Will Give EN-
ployes an Afternoon Off.
The wholesale grocers yesterday signei |
an agreement in the following words:

an agreement III the following words:
SAN FRANCISCO, April 13, 1896
We. the undersigned wholesale grocers of
san Francisco hereby agree to close our re-
O'Clock p NJ, commencing April 1S and ending
September 26 1896.
The names of the signers are: TilImann
Bendel, Haas Bros. Mau, Sadler & Co,
Wellman, Peck 81 Co., H. Levi &, Co
William Cluff Co., NJ. Ehrman & Co
Coghill d Kohn Frank p. Peterson, John
A. Lennon, M. Il C. Mangels. Daneri & Co.
This agreement" said one of the sign
ers, "is in accordance with a custom t6at
was established several years ago, that of
closing our places of business on Saturday
afternoons during the summer months to
give our employees an opportunity to 90 on
an outing if they wish
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-14

NO TROUBLE from mosquitoes, f1eas or poison
oak if you have MitchelPs Magic Lotion.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-14
NEW TO-DAY.
CIGARETTE SUCKERS.
Men Get Roped Into All Kinds
of Skin Games.
The Worst Roped Man Is the Cigarette
Smoker-Robbed of Health and Man.
hood, His Most Precious
Possession.

"Say, W h er e
d'you get that cof-
fin nail, Chin
mey?"
"Oh, 1 caught it
on the fly from de
guy on de corner. :"
And the two little
bootblacks &C O d
bless 'em, they
didn't know any
better-sat on the
curb and smoked
the cigarette out of
sight.
We often wonder
when we see and
hear such things
how the other half
of the world lives,
especially when so
many spend their
money, and, worst
of all, their vital
ity, in smoking
cigarettes.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-14

Sterling Remedy Co.:
! bought box of No.To-Bac three weeks ago.
from your agents here-Kirkland 81 Trow bridge
nd 1t cured me in less than one week since which
time have recommended il to several others and
have induced at least half dozen to begin the
treatment, all of whom say it is helping them.
weighed 155 pounds when 1 began the treat
ment and now l weigh 1874 gain of pounds
within three weeks. l "a years of age and
have used cigarettes and chewing tobacco since
was 12 years of age, smoking an average for
the last five y ars OF about 25 ci2arettes day.
Yours respectfully, EDW. ]. DONNELLAN.
You need not take our word for it, nor do we
sell No-To-Bac on the recommendation of
others. Simply buy from your own druggist
under absolute guarantee, and you run no
risk. Get our booklet, Don't Tobacco Spit
and Smoke Your Life Away written guaran-
tee of cure and free sample, mailed for the
asking. Address The Sterling Remedy Co.,
Chicago or New York.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-14

If you don't think cigarettes, in fac t any form
of tobacco-using, hurts you, watch the cigar
ette-smoker who has INDUCED the habit for
some time. See how his hands tremble; the
anxious look on his face tells of irregular
heartbeat; his nervousness betrays itself in a
dozen ways. If you cigarette-smoker you
are never feeling quite at ease unless you are
putting a sinking little nerve-wrecker
Don't you want release?
Don't you want just few months with a
pure, sweet breath, improved health, vigorous
manhood?
See what No-To-bsc has done for others-will
90 for you
CURED IN LESS THAN A WEEK.
OAKLAND, Cal, No. 1921 Market st..
Augusl 20, 1895
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-14
STREET IMPROVEMENTS.
Full Proceedings of the Board
of Supervisors In
Detail.

Following are details of transactions be-
ing considered by the Board of Supervis-
ors:
FULL AcCEPTANCEs
Buchanan street, between Pine and California
streets-Basalt
Chattanooga street, between Twenty-third and
Twenty fourth Streets-Bltumen.
Seventeenth street, between Noe and Sanchez
streets-Bitumen.
ACCEPTANCES,
Requiring the Mayors signature:
Fillmore, Hermann to Thirteenth-Basalt.
Twenty second and Tennessee crossing-Bitu-
men.
Ninth snd Folsom cross ng-Basalt.
Hill, Valencia to Guerrero-Bitumen.
Vallejo. Laguna to Buchanan-Bitumen.
Green and Octavia croSsing-Bitumen.
Broderick, Ellis to O'Farrell- -Basalt.
Middle of Pine to California (conditonal) l)-Bitu-
me
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-29

startled me. All was quiet instantly. I
saw . man jump from the president
box on 10 the stage. 1t was Booth. He
ran directly toward the door leading into
the alley He had a dagger in his hand.
and he waved il threateningly- He evil
IDENTIFY did not recognize me, for he ap-
pearcd like a maniac, his eyes seemed
starting from their sockets. and his hair
was disheveled.
with head down he ran toward me
and cried, Let me pass. He slashed at
me and the knife cut through my coat.
vest and Undertaking. He struck
again, the point of the weapon pene-
tratsng the back of my neck. and the
blow brought me TO the floor. I watched
Kim make his exit into the alley. and
caught sight of the horse. held by Pea
nut John
The commotion in the audience was
something terrible. Several actors. in
Guiding Harry Hawke. rushed out. and
Q man who proved 10 be detective
lifted me up and said: I arrest YOU
What's this, all about? / asked.
I'm stabbed. l was quickly told what
was the matter. The thought flashed
across my mind that Booth was the
assassin
II was taken TO the police station and
my deposition was received in the pres
ence of Mayor Wallach. That was. l be-
ieve, the first intimation that they had
OF the identity of the murderer. 1 was
a the trial of the consnirarors. and the
second TO give testimony. My wound
healed in a short time"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-29
Miss Ida Snow gives her next recita
at the Templeton parlOrs on Tuesday
December l, at $3.50 p. m.
Ogden Society.

Monday night. Nov. % will long be
remembered by Editor Watts of The
Herald's Ogden department. for ne dis
covered then. if never before, how it
feels TO be "scooped.''
1t is a fact not generally known that
editors have birthdays the same as
common people and yesterday Editor
Watts happened to have one He was
inveigled into visiting his sister, Mrs.
Bowman, the inducement being-well,
something no editor was ever known to
resistant shortly after his arrival
was paralyzed to find himself the CEN
ter of an a1miring group of friends,
who made it very pleasant for him
until an early hour this morning. Mrs
Bowman was assisted by Veda Little
field in her duties as hostess. Among
those present were, Misses Veda Lit
tlefeld, Virginia Higginbotham, Leona
Woods, Marie Folker. Mollie Woods,
Grace Davis. Rosetta Nelson, Verna
Bowman. Maud Alexander Messrs.
Lowell Woods, w. L. McCabe. Eugene
Holbrook, Thomas B. Farr, Henry KEEL
Ter, Eugene Higginbotham, Fred Bell.
Senator Frank ]. Cannon accom-
panied by his wife and daughters
Misses Olive and Dorothy Cannon, and
his private secretary. George Graves.
left Friday for Washington, D. c.
Mrs. John Conlisk entertained a con-