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had he used it in honest endeavors to raise

had he used it in honest endeavors to raise
funds.
One of his victims was working for War
rem & Maliey, the contractors. and while
he bit at Blood's bait and resigned his
position was unable TO get his money
from his employers until their regular
payday. Blood went with the man to
Warren 6 Malley, and, impersonating an
attorney, threatened suit with great
deal of buster, unless the money was PAID
at once.
Rather than stand suit the firm broke
its own rule and paid over the thirty odd
dollars due. which Blood promptly
pocketed. His dupe has not seen him
since.
There is one man in San Francisco who
is congratulating himself on having es-
capped Blood's clutches.
He is a friend of one of the men who
paid for q mythical appointment as driver
of the Almshouse ambulance. AS he was
growing old and wanted place where ne
might pass his declining years he was try
ing to get into the Crocker Old Peoples
Home, but only had $1100 of the $500 nee
essary for that purpose.
Blood heard of this money and told the
old fellow that through his political in
fluence he could obtain the entrance for
$1IO0. He had almost pursuaded his in
tended victim to give up the money when
the expose came and Blood made himself
Scarca
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HIS IDEA OF SACRILEGE.
Jerry Toohy Complains to Judge
Hebbard of Divers Irrev-
erent Cows.
The Neighbors Thought Toohy Was
Insane, but Could Not influence
the Court.

"It's sacrilege, your Honor" said Jerry
Toohy to Judge Hebbard on Friday. 9TH
COWS come in and eat the grass off the
graves, and that sacrilege, amt it?"
Jerry was on tlial as to his sanity. He
has charge of the Jewish Cemetery and
was arrested at the instance of John
Petit. who resides in the vicinity of that
burying- g-ground. Mr. Petit came into
Judge Hebbard's court yesterday morning
backed up by about dozen witnesses, all
prepared to swear Jerry into the asylum.
1t seems that the custodian of the ceme.
terry does not get along well with his
neighbors. The neighbors own too many
COWS. Under Jerry's fostering care the
grass on the graves of his charge grows
luxuriantly. Nowhere in the surround
ing district is such a pasture. Cows as
well as capitalists know q good thing
when they see it and the rowing bovines
of Toohy's neighborhood overlook no op-
portunity to browse on the excellent grass
that grows over the graves of Jerry's in
animate charges.
The constant incursions of the hungry
herd sorely try the not very equable tenn
per of the luckless Jerry, and when he
finds milk k-prodIcer trespassing he is not
particularly careful as to the manner in
which he drives 1T out of his bailiwick
Neither is he choice in the language he
uses toward its owner. The consequence
of the frequent neighborhood rows was a
feud which eliminated in Jerry's arrest as
an insane person.
MIR. Petit, Mrs. M. Cooney and Mrs. M.
Illing told of Toohy's transports of rage,
and Mrs. Somebody-or- other, repeated five
or six times. would have told the same
story had Judge Hebbard permitted it.
Instead he had the prisoner take the
stand.
Toohy told the Judge his troubles, wind
ing up by saSing:
"And if you think I'm crazy, your
Honor, you can ask Joodge Barry. I was
a witness in his court all day Wednesday
and he'll tell you whether I'm crazy OF
not"
I'm hard-working man, sir, and was
tending to business this morning when
they came and got me. You can see for
yourself that | wasn't at picnic" and ne
glanced obviously at his clothing, which
certainly bore out his statement.
"The whole troubles over the COWS, sir.
They do run over the graves and eat the
grass, and that's sacrilege, amt it, your
Honor?"
1T is Jerry. You may co." said the
Judge.
And Jerry walked out, casting glances OF
scorn at bis prosecutors.
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McMullen was in light cart, to which
the horse was attached, and with him was
little girl, Ethel Peterson.
The young man, so the on-lookers say,
was driving at a pretty good pace, going
around the block bounded by Eighth,
Ninth, Folsom and Howard streets. On
Eighth street the wheels of his cart
knocked over child, the si1-year-old son
dwell in Sweeney's alley.
The mother, Mrs. Mitchell, saw the
mishap. and must have had a razor
handy, for she suddenly made dash for
young McMullen, the driver.
McMullen evaded the weapon, but the
woman was not to be denied. With cry
of rage she sprang at the poor animal
which was attached to the cart and made
vicious lunge at its throat with the
razor. A fountain OF blood followed the
keen blade as she withdrew it, and the
spectators gave groan of horror as the
poor beast gasped and choked. The blood
came pouring out of the wound in tor
rents, and the man, anxious to get the
mare to shelter, drove her, weak and stag
gering, to the stable. The wounded AMI
NAL was so weak from loss of blood she
could scarcely stand when the stable was
undiminished.
All along the street there was trail of
blood, and the floor of the stable was q
sight.
DIR. P. ]. Greedy. veterinary surgeon Oh
Golden Gate avenue, was summoned by
telephone, and stanching the flow of blood
as much as possible, managed to stitch
the wound. The cut, three inches long
and an inch deep, was terrible incision
for a woman to make with one swing of
the razor. 1t is presumed that when she
saw her child hurt the maternal instinct
overcame all restraint and she bounded
forward to strike something, and so struck
the innocent beast in her rage.
DR.. Greedy regarded the case as a most
remarkable exhibition of cruelty to a
horse, and said that steps would be taken
to have Mrs. Mitchell arrested by the So
ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals.
The child was taken to the Receiving
Hospital by the father and mother and the
bruises on the wrist and head, which are
not serious, were there dressed.
Mrs. Sweeney, the woman in whose
honor the alley is named, speaks very well
of the Mitchells as tenants and neighbors.
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NEW CABINET OFFICER.
The Miners Association Will Bring
This Matter Up at Its Next
Annual Convention.

AS soon as ]. a. Neff, president of the
Miners Association, returns from Colfax
there will be held an executive meeting OF
the association 10 arrange for the next
annual convention in this City.
1.-THE two great propositions which will
be considered at that convention" said
Julian Sonntag yesterday, "are the
mineral land bill and the securing of a
Cabinet officer at Washington on mines.
We have had sad experience with Land
Commissioner Lamoureaux which fully
justifies the miners of the West in asking
for practical man in the Cabinet who
will look after the miners interest.
Previous to the passage of the hydraulic
mining bill, the Miners Association had
accomplished but little. The passage oi
this bill means S., ,0O0, 900 more of an out
put of gold year for our State. There
are 129 hydraulic mines now in operation,
and the United States Debris Commission
has recently granted three more permits,
making the total number 132.
1.-The mineral land bill is a purely pro-
tective measure for the miners, and Il
passed, will give to them miles of valuable
mineral land that now is termed agricul-
tural. We have every assurance in the
world that this bill will pass"
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He Goes by the Name of Blood
and Has Been Very
Successful.
ONE MANS NARROW ESCAPE.
The Savings of a Lifetime Almost in
the Eager Clutch of the
Rogue.

The Health Department, and more par
ticuIarly the officials of the Almshouse,
would like very much to form the &C
quaintance of young man named Blood,
who, during the two past weeks, has occa-
stoned them more trouble than they care
TO accept without grumble. DR.. Conlan,
the physician of the institution, reported
the matter at the Health Office yesterday
and the police have been placed on the
track of the individual mentioned.
About ten days ago the telephone at the
Almshouse rang up and voice said:
"Just ask Charley-Mr. Blood-to step
to the phone"
"Mr. Blood?p queried the clerk, ''who is
he, an inmate?"
why no, of course not; he's the clerk
out there" answered the voice.
81 tnink not" said the clerk; "this il
the clerk talking"
The person who wanted Blood would moi
listen to any such explanation, however
and thinking that he was dealing with q
crank, the clerk hung up his receiver.
a day or two later an individual who
said his name was Sullivan called on Su-
perintendent Reddy and said:
81 am the man for whom Mr.. Blood ar
ranged position, and am ready to 60 to
work"
"There is no one by that name here that
know OF, answered Mr.. ReGdy, and he
had a hard time convincing the disap-
pointed offce-seeker that he had been
mistaken.
Within two days half a dozen men
called to take positions as watchmen,
cooks or ambulance drivers, and an in
Vestigation was begun to ascertain the
st h. snA IS 11c
hunters.
1t was discovered that Blood, as he in
varia bly, called himself, had been system
atically robbing crednlous seekers for
work and had already secured several hum
dred dollars. His method of procedure
was to ascertain the name of some worthy
person with some little means who was in
search of position and introduce himself
as the clerk of the Almshouse in search of
the proper person to fill position that
had recently been left vacant by the resig-
nation of the previous incum bent.
After whetting the appetite of his vic
tim he would casually remark that as
politics were boiling and the County Com
mittee was in need of funds the fortunate
man who could contribute $50 or $40 to
campaign expenses would be sure of get
ting the job. This argument seldom failed
to bring an offer of coin for campaign ex-
penses, and Blood appears to have been
far from backward in accepting the money.
About a dozen men have been found
who contributed from $40 to $40 to Blood s
capital.
The swindler made his headquarters in
the saloon at the corner of McAllister and
Polk streets, and the proprietor of the
resort is more than sorry that. he did, for
he ran up bill of SIS for drinks and de.
parted without liquidating.
Blood is an ingenious rogue, and showed
persistence i'll the pursuit of the nimble
dollar that would have been commenda biz
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TO INDUCE IMMIGRAT1oN.

Manager Filcher OF the State Board of
Trade Gathering Data.
Manager Filcher of the State Board of
Trade is having copies of the following
letter forwarded to the editors of the lead
ing newspapers of nearly every town in
the State of California with view to
furnishing reliable data to Fasteners who
are inclined toward making this State
their residence or place of investment:
My Dear Sir: am convinced that people
are being diverted from California who other
wise would come, because of the impression
that prevails almost universally throughout
the East that lands are so high here that man
OF moderate means cannot very well get foot.
hold. Many people of the East and Middle West
who are disposed TO change their location are
induced to go to the Southern States where il
is represented 10 them that land can be had
at very low rates and on easy terms. The i'm
pressions regarding high prices of land in
California have been created by conditions
that prevailed here few years ago, but which
are not true to-day.
In justice to our State the people of the East
and OF the world should know the truth, and
to this end we desire information from al
parts of California from which can be com
piled summary OF the situation regarding
the terms and opportunities for obtaining
land here to-day. would be glad therefore il
you will prepare an article for your paper set
ting forth specifically the situation in your 10
cslity; stating the kind of land, what it i,
capable OF producing and at what price and
on what terms the land you describe can be
had.
The article will be effective in the first place
in disseminating information abroad on this
important matter regarding your section oi
the State, ana then if you will send us copy
OF the same, cut out and mailed in an envelope
so that it will not be overlooked, we will use
1t in making up q summary of the situation in
California.
Trusting that have made this matter clear
and that you will act upon the suggestion,
remain, very truly yours,
j. A. FILCHER,
Cacratarv and MANAGER.
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BooTK.TUCKER no SPEAK.
The Salvation Commander Will Speal
at Metropolitan Hall.

The Salvation Commander viii Speak
at Metropolitan Hall.
A meeting will be held at Metropolitan
Temple July 27, at s P. NJ, when Com
mander Booth-Tucker will exchange ideas
and views with many of the prominent
business men of San Francisco on the best
methods of helping the unemployed and
those who are desirous of helping them
selves.
The gentlemen who will preside are {:
Hugh Craig, chairman; presidents
Mayor Adolph Sutro, Irving M. Scott
George Stone. w. E. Hale, f. w. Dohr-
mann. A. A. Watkins, Will S. Green, ]. B.
Carman, H. C. Gesford, Taylor Rogers,
George 3. Butler, E. ]. Depue, L. r. Ell
lert and W. M. Bunker.
The following programme will be pre-
sented: Introductory remarks, Hugh
Craig; welcome address. George E. Butler
Am My Brothers Keeper2" Chairman
Craig; Temporary Relief Work." w. M.
Bunker; Industrial Farms" Will 8.
Green; "How 20 Help the Discharged
Prisoners" E. J. Depue; "The Lifeline D
Commander Booth-Tucker.
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VERY IGNORANT CHINESE.
Don't Know There Was a War With
Japan.


Japan.
Gustav Melchers of Shanghai, China,
member OF the big German mercantile and
commercial firm of Melchers q Co., with
headquarters in Bremen and local branches
in London, Shanghai and other CONNER
cial centels, arrived at the Palace last
night from Germany, whittier he started
last March on a visit to his parents.
His uncle is one of the directors OF the
Lloyd Steamship Company, Tor which
Mr.. Melchers is agent in the Orient.
Mr.. Melchers says that the merchant
class among the Chinese is manifestlng
great spirit of business enterprise that
promises to rival that of the japanese.
Many railroads are being built. But he
says that the average ChInaman is IN the
same old rut that his ancestors were in
centuries ago. Fully two-thirds OF the
lower class Chinese throughout the whole
empir e, Mr.. Melchers asserts, do not
know that China has had war with
Japan.
Steamship lines in the Orient maintain
py common agreement standard rate for
passengers and freight. They now lear,
however, that they will have to reduce
their prices when the heavily subsidized
Japanese steamship companies shall begin
to compete for the China trade.
Mr.. Meichers will leave here Tor Shang'
hal on the 30ths
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ing, corner of Third and Market streets, from
IL N. to . P. NJ. daily.
pUGILIsTs IN TRAINING.
: Corbett May Engage Jeffries to Spar
With HIm-OIympic Fisticuffs.

Corbett May Engage Jefries to Spar
With Hlm-OIympic Fisticuffs.
Jeffries, the aspirant for heavyweight
honors, has been taken under the wing OF
Professor James J. Corbett. Last evening
Corbett held short conference with the
champion of Los Angeles, and Jeffries was
given to understand that if he made a
good stand before any of the fairly clever
heavy-weights of the local fraternity Cor
oett would engage him as his sparring
partner.
1t was agreed that Jeffries meet Billy
smith, the Australian, in a short bout at
the entertainment which will be given
under the auspices of the Olympic Club on
the evening of the 31st inst, and if he
should perform to the satisfaction of the
champion he will be engaged as Corbett's 8
sparring partner-a distinction, by the
way, which Jeffries believes will be the
making of him from a pugilistic point of
view.
Corbett's intentions are to engage JEFF
Irles II he proves to be worthy of his at
tenuon, as sparring partner. and it is
SAID that he will also engage Dal Hawk
ins, the feather-weight, whom he will
match to box any man of his weight in
the country
The Olympic Club has made frst-class
preparations for its entertainment, which
VIII be held at the club on Friday evening
next. The directors state that no reserve
seats will be held for either the members
or those who will purchase tickets for the
entertainment. Two thousand seats will
De erected and situated in such a manner
that the occupant of each seat will have a
nrst-class view of the contest.
The motto of the club is ''First come,
nrst served" Bob Macarthur, who is
matched TO box George Green four rounds,
Is training for the bout at the Olympic
grounds. Green is at Glen Ellen, where
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ouitzow saws It,s Not Nsw.

]. E. Clune has filed suit in the Superior
Court against h. H.W.Quitzow for the recovery of
Judgment for $53 900, arising out of an alleged
sale of worthless stock in the Emigrant Gold
Quartz mine. Mr.. Outflow says that the same
suit was brought against him last July, tried
and decided in April. 1896, in his favor by q
jury in Judge Troutt's court "The only
snswer have to make 10 the existing action. =
said he, ''ls that do not owe the plaIntIff a
dollar; that no new issues are presented.
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Lectures by rather Yorke.

course of six lectures will be given by Rev.
Peter C. Yorkc at Metropolitan Temple, under
the au spices of the American Women's Liberal
League, on the following Monday evenings:
August "a and 81; September 5, II, 10 and
g. Tickets for reserved single seats or for the
course can be procured only at the head
quarters of the league. room 21, Nucleus build
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Mrs. Mitchell's Maternal Instinct
Proves Stronger Than Her
Self.Control.
SHE sLAsHED AT MMULLEN
Failing to Reach Him the Woman
Buries Her Razor in the Neck of
His Unfortunate Horse.

Last evening while Eighth street, near
Folsom, was thronged with spectators
assembled to view the bicycle parade q
lad named w. J. McMullen was exercising
young bay mare belonging to E. ".
Sullivan of the stable 222 Ninth street.
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! he is training under the heat of midsum-
mer sun.
Mahoney, who is matched to box Smith
eight rounds, is training with Davis at
Sausalito. Van Buskirk is training at the
Olympic grounds, and Butler, who will
square IN front of Rochette, is exercising at
the Olympic grounds. The matches are
unquestionably good, and the lovers of
fistic sport cangamble on seeing splendid
evenings tistic exhibition.
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Woman,s Press Assooiat,on.

The usual social meeting OF the Pacific Coast
Woman's Press Association viii be held in
Shasta Hall, Native Sons building, Monday
afternoon, at 2:3O O'Clock The programme.
under the direction of Mrs. Florence Hardi.
man Miller, promises TO be an interesting one,
the chief number being an address on .The
Silver Question from an Intellectual Stand
point" by w. II. Mills,
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A Railroad Suit.

Ann Somers has sued the Market-street Rail-
way Company for $40, 1885 damages for inju-
ries sustained by reason of being thrown from
Valencia-street car on February 1S, 1896.
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-26

Irish salmon is said to have a richer ia.
vor than either English or Scotch.
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-26
Trunks Moved rs Gents.

Commercial Transfer Co., 43 Sutter street.
Telephone Main 40. Keep your checks for use
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Summer
Clearance
Sale Now On!

OUR CUSTOMERS KNOW WHAT THIS
~ means for them. You who have never puF.
chased from us before will be introduced to the
fact that the great bargains now offering in
footwear are not equaled elsewhere.
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SPECIAL!
FURTHER REDUCTION
I'm PRICES!

Our customers and the public generally
are Informed that during the present week
we will offer at GREATLY REDUCED
PRICES the balance of our SPRING AND
SUMMER GOODS. Attention is specially
directed to the following lines of goods in
the different departments
40 pieces BLACK SERGE As inches wide Genuine English
Goods S)....................... SOC a yard
Reduced from 75c.
81 pieces 24NCH PRINTED INDIA SILKS (gOOd a@Ortment
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. SOC ward
and sl.25.
Is pieces HIGH NOVELTY DRESS GOODS GO inches in width,
new COlOrngS. DOC a yard
Regular $oo yar3.
so dozen LADIES' SHIRT WAISTS, all Sizes .35e each
200 pairs FINE NOTTINGHAM CURTAINS in both White and
Ecru. Observation-Disclosures. $l25 pair
$500.
1900 pieces GENUINE PRINCESS DUCKS and TAILOR.MADE
SUlIlN&. ............. $50 yard
Reduced from 1916
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II Is Indispensable Because Of its delicate
medication, CUTlcURA SOAP Is the most
soothing, cooling, and purifying application.
rs we'll as purest and sweetest for toilet,
hath, and nursery.
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-26

After cycling, golf, tenns, riding, or athletics,
bath with CUT1cURA SOAP is most refreshing.
preventing chaing, redness, and roughness OF
The slin, soothing Inflammation. and when fol-
lowed by gentle amounting with CUTIcURA (oint-
ment), proves most beneficial in relieving tired,
Jane, infaned, or strained muscles
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TnLnPrzoNH GRANT la.
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-26

Sold throughout the world. Price. Cu1rcur1. M. /,
soar, 25c-, REsoLvEET, 5oe and 81. ra~ How ~
Obtain Brilliant Complexion" fres. Brtish depof
= NEwBEEr Soxs- London. PoTrKn Drus IT,
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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1896-09-16

distsmente dospues de las:comidas.
Las envio mis- expresivss gracias.
Firmado] Oasimira Hernandez de
Ia Faerte, Gale de Hermann, Bilbao
13: % de Julio, 1894"
El huen 6xito del j ara0e Ourati.
vo de ls Madre Seigel en- estas en-
farmedades se debi6 sal hecho de
qae funcionaba como 10 llave Q 10
cerradurs. Por ejemlpo. Ia sorders
del Sr. Gonzalez, no fue el resulta-
d. de ningdn efecto organize en-
sus oidos, sino de I'm des6rden en-
ell slstema nervioso, provsniente de
ciert0s venenOs en- su sistema que
operaban en- los nervios. A su vez
estos venenos 90 produjeron por
las materias que se fermentabsn en-
Ell est6mago, 6 sea por Ia indiges
ton sguda J dyspepsia. Los mis-
mOs observation-disclosures existian an
las otras intermediates. Ouando el
Jarsbe desarraig6 la eausa, desa.
parecieron los efectos.
Las molestias que resisten Ia sim
pie fuerza bruta, ceden al saber y
Q la ciencia. Las enfeemedsdes
que son. incursbles por los trata-
mientosl ,corrientes, suc1mben q
este remedio por el mlsno motive.
Es la llave que cuadra u Ia cerra.
dura.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1896-09-16

Enjuicismiento civil. por Salce
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Ley de enjuicismiento-civil. EN-
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Legislation HipotecAria por Ca
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Ley Hl2otecaria con Regiamep'
to, por Morell, tomo.
Atanceles judiCiales para 10 cri-
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TsotlCas de Rec dta, 40 cts.
ldem Secolon y Compaf a. 90 cts.
ldem Battalion, 50 ctss
Manual de Olases de tro2a, 2 to.
mos 5 2-75.
OodlgoI de Justicia Militia. 80
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L!Dros .paraslas Academic.
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Aritmetics, ,ipor Saul
%, l tomo. , $50
Algebra, por idem 2 IA
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