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Evening star., 1896-10-22
Unremantic, but True.

You don't write to me as you used to, ~
she said to her hi sband, who had returned
from business Journey out of the CITY,
Il meant to write' he answered remorse-
fully, but 1. was so busy l really did not
have the time"
And, yet, before We were married 1 used
to get ever SO many letters them
well, l wasn't so much occupied then
with looking out for bills on the first of the
month"
Sometimes you would write things to
me that were really poetic. But suppose
it's the old story. 1t is very seldom that
sentiment survives matrimony."
Now. look here, Amanda, you ought not
to talk that way. I suppose you do miss
those letters about journeying together
along the road of life and having our path
way strewed with flowers, and if ever get
a few minutes leisure III try my hand at
1t again, just to please you. But don't for
get this-the little &C mpositions that dedi-
cate to You every now and then in my
check book may not mean as much as
those Others. but they are a great deal
more trustworthy
Evening star., 1896-10-22

Again today only sixty men labored OF
the city post-ofiice building.
Evening star., 1896-10-22

DIn order to avoid delays, ON ac-
count of personal absence, letters to
THE STAR should not be addressed
10 any Individual connected with the
sffice, hut HisnpIy to THE STAR, or to
the Editorial or Business DEPART
mentx, according to tenor or purpose.
Evening star., 1896-10-22
Suit DeDartment.

1 IAN Homesran Cloth Suit, Norfolk JACKET and
plain wide skirt Size 36. Reduced from Sl2.50
10 500
) Chlngeahlc Effect Muhar Suits silk lined
Jackets, and fin- percai lined skirts. Sizes 30
and ~. Reduced from Sa6."o TO $50 eath.
Silver Gray Print Wrappers Sizes 3s and 10.
Reduced from 81 % Soc. each.
I Rlack and Lilac Figured silk Waist. Size 3s
Slightly imperfect Reduced from $1,000 to 81 20.
q Black and White Striped SILK Waists Sizes
S2 Sid "a. Reduced from $50 to s. ~ each
I'D floor. ........-..............l 10th ST Ildc
Evening star., 1896-10-22

BARGAIN 10-A lot Of Enampled Ware Coffee
and IRA Pots, subject to small imperfeciienS su n
as black Spots rongh spots. etc. at the follow ing
lsarga!n prices:
I!-qt size, 25c. sgt size, 35c.
2-qt. size, 3oc. 4-qt. size. 4oc.
t5th floor ..-.................1lth ST bldg
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-29
AGAINST THE ASSESSMENT,
Sunnyside Avenue Property.Own.
ers Address the Board of
Supervisors.
Claim That the Grading of the Avenue
Was Not Ordered in
Legal Manner.

Property-owners on Sunnyside avenue
are up in arms over the assessments
levied on them for the improvement of
their thoroughfare and have addressed a
communication to the Board of Super
visors, through their attorney, G. A.
Reynolds, in which they protest in strong
terms and on strong grounds against the
assessments. Their letter is as follows:
The undersigned property-owners of Sunny
side avenue, for themselves and all others
similarly situated appeal from the assessment
issued against our property and oil property
facing on Sum yside avenue by the Superin-
tendent of Streets, by order OF the Board of
Supervisors, dated January 13, 1896: and from
any and all assessments issued by the said
Superintendent or Streets for the City and
County of San Francisco, State of California
for the grading of Sunnyside avenue on
grounds as follows, TO wit
First-That the grading OF said Sunnyside
avenue was not done in accordance with the
| terms OF the contract for the said grading.
Second-That the necessary steps require d
by law TO be taken by the Board of Supervisors
OF the City and County of San Francisco and
the superintendent OF Streets were not taken,
and for that reason the assessment is illegal
and void.
Third-That the said sunnyside avenue has
not been properly graded and that the said
work said street is of no benefit to the
property-owners, by reason OF the street not
being properly graded; that there are no eul-
Yerts under said street and that the said street
will wash away and has already to consider
aDle extent WaSneu away, ana consequently
will have to be rebuilt at an additional ex-
pense to the property-owners.
Fourth-That there was no petition on the
part of the property-owners, as required by
| law, for the changing of the grade on sunny
side avenue. aud that such change OF grade
was illegal and void.
Fifth-There was no resolution of intention
| passed By the Board of Supervisors for the
| change OF grade on Sunnyside avenue, and for
| that reason the change OF grade and the order
| for the change OF grade were Illegal and void.
| And lastly, for ourselves and for all others
| similarly situated, we appeal from the said as
sessment on all legal and statutory grounds. as
| provided by law, and ask that our said prop
| erty and the property OF all others similarly
| situated be relieved from the said assessment
| or any and all assessments for the grading or
| changing of the grade on said Sunnysde ave
nue..
The names Of nearly one hundred prop
erty-owners were signed to the communi-
cation
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-29
ALONG THE WATER FRONT
The Pacific Coast Steamer Will
lamette Valley Disabled:
at Sea.
A Fleet of Sugar-Boats Got in From
Hawaii With the Change
of Wind.

Another Of the Pacific Coast Steamship
Company's steamers has met with dis
aster. The Willamette Valley, which left
here q few days ago for Mexican ports,
broke down when near Ensenada and will
have to be towed back to San Francisco.
Captain Won Helms telegraphs that the
low-pressure crank pin broke, disa bling
the engines, but that he was able to make
port without assistance. The steamer
Bonita now at Los Angeles, has been
ordered to Ensenada and she will bring
the Willamette Valley back to port. a
new crank pin will be ready for her and in
a few days she will be ready for fresh
start.
The steamer Empire is in peculiar pre-
dicament. She left Portland five days ago
for San Francisco and was not heard from
until yesterday. She must have been
caught in a gale and run out of coal, as
she put into Mendocino for fuel. She
could not get supply there. so the cap
tain went to sea again, intending TO make
Point Arena and take in wood to keep fire
under the boilers.
The sealing schooner Penelope put in
here yesterday with 215 skins aboard.
The aptain reports having experienced
very heavy weather ever since leaving San
Pedro, but that seals were plentiful. His
hunters, he says, were not as good as they
might be, so he put in here to discharge
them and get others. He spoke the
schooner Kate and Ann off the Farallones
with $50 skins.
Quite a fleet of vessels got in from the
Hawaiian Islands with sugar yesterday.
The bark r. P. Rithet made the run in
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-29
THEY DISAGREED.
The Jury in the Haskell Case Still Re-
fuse to Acquit and Are Dis
charped

The unruly jury in the Haskell case,
which refused to acquit the defendant
after being instructed to do SO by the
court, was again given the case to wrestle
with last evening.
C. H. Young has been prosecuting B. 6.
Haskell for embezzlemeut. He charged
that Haskell, as his attorney, compro-
missed case for $1,000, and has refused to
turn over any of the money. The evidence
shows that Young had acknowledged
Haskell as q debtor for the amount be
should nave turned over, and upon that
showing Judge Bahrs granted a motion to
instruct toe jury to acqnit. He so in
structed the Jury, but after retiring and
considering the matter the jurors re-
turned to court without rendering ver-
dict. They demanded the defense's testi-
mony, and this was put in yesterday.
Late in the afternoon the jury retired
again.
At 80 the jury came inf and declared
it's inability to agree upon unanimous
verdict. They stood 10 fer acquittal and 2
for conviction. There was nothing to do
under the circumstances but discharge the
jury.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-29

eighteen and the brig Consuelo in fourteen
day. The latter was brought up by Cap
tain Freese, as Captain Jacobson had to
remain behind on account of an abscess
on his face. The barkentine Amelia made
the run from Lanai in twenty-three days.
She brought up the first cargo OF sugar
that has ever come from that port. The
). q. Wilder made the run in fifteen days,
and Captain Mcneil is glad to be in port
once more. He was for years master OF
the barkentine Discovery, which has re-
Gently been given up as lost.
There was sale of old junk at Mare
Island last Thursday, and in consequence
large consignments of old pals and rope
are coming to San Francisco. LorentZ
Foard purchased all the rope and brought
it down on the schooner Colonel Baker.
He will turn it all into oakum, and in this
way hopes to make a fair profit out OF his
venture. The stuff was landed at Howard
street wharf yesterday, and was the sub
ject of considerable speculation as to
where ii came from.
The Sailors Union of the Pacific Coast
will celebrate its eleventh anniversary on
March q next. There will be meeting in
Coast Seamen's Hall in the afternoon and
at night there will be torchlight process
sion. E. Anderson will be marshal. and q
good turnout is expected. The celebration
will extend to San Pedro, San Diego. Port
Townsend and Seattle, and the union men
expect to make big showing at all
points.
The Italian man-of-war Cristoforo Co.
lombo is preparing to leave San Francisco.
This is the last day she will be open to the
public, so the Ethel and Marion will carry
the crowds from Mission-street wharf and
the Amy from Folsom street during the
afternoon. A boat loaded with wines and
liquors was capsized alongside the man-of-
war, and while some of the consignment
sank other portions fioated and were res
cued. The loss was replaced. so the officers
will not suffer during their next cruise.
James Mcdonald stole box of prunes
from the Union warehouse yesterday, and
when he attempted to escape was knocked
down by Officer Fleming. The prisoner
was walking between Officers Crosby and
Fleming when he broke and ran. Flem
ing threw his club at him, and it took such
good effect on McDonalds neck that he
was unconscious for five minutes. When
he recovered he was marched to the Har-
Dor Police station and booked for petty
larceny.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-29
The Carpenters.

Carpenters Union No. % at last night S
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-29
NATIONAL GUARD INSPECTION.
Orders From Division Headquarters to
All the Troops in the State.

Orders From Division Headquarters to
All the Troops in the State.
The first inspection of the reorganized
National Guard of California has been or
dered by Maior-General Dimond, the
division comm ander. Following is the
text of the order:
HEADQUARTERS DIVISION n. G. ca
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL, Feb. %, 1861
General Orders No. l.
l. In conformity with law and instructions
from general headquarters, brigade command
ers and the Ieutenan t-commander of the Ma
val Battalion will assem- bic their commands in
service uniform for annual inspection and
muster during the months OF March and April.
II. The Third Brigade Will De inspected be-
tween March ! and 2l.
The Second Brigade Will be inspected be-
tween March Il and April II.
The First Brigade will be inspected between
April and 20.
thorourh and 10 insure satisfactory results
all INSPECTIONS should be attended and di-
rected by brigade inspectors in person, and all
reports and muster-rolis should be verified by
them.
". Muster-rolls and reports should be for
warded in duplicate to these headquarters as
soon as possible, and not later than Nav TO-
" Lieutenant-Colonel J. c. Currier. division
inspector n. G. c., and Captain I. de L. Car
rington. u. s. A, on duty with National Guard
OF California, as inspector and instructor, will
visit and INSPECT during the above dates all
organizations of the guard as far as practica-
bic.
VI. Brigade inspectors viii report iii writing
to the division inspector for further instruc-
By command OF Major-General DIMoND.
A. Z. CASTLE,
Colonel and Assistant Acknowledgement.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-29
WILL GET THEIR MONEY
Auditor Broderick Will Sign the War
rants of the Present Beard of Health
Employees.

Employees.
Auditor Broderick, Attorney Dennis
Spencer and Milk Inspector Dockery ap-
peared before the Finance Committee of the
Board of Supervisors yesterday to see
what action was to be taken in the matter
of holding out the warrants of several en-
ployes of the Health Office whose salaries
were not provided for by the appropria-
tion for the fiscal year. 1t developed that
the Auditor and health officials had been
under a misapprehension regarding the
intention of the committee, and that un-
less the Board of Health intended to ap-
point lot OF additional milk inspectors
no objection would be made to the pay
ment of the salaries OF those now per-
forming their duties. Though not promis-
ing thai it would, Attorney Spencer inti-
mated that the Board of Health might
wait until the Supervisors make the next
tax levy before appointing the inspectors
so that provision might be made for their
salaries.
Auditor Broderick will sign the warrants
in question to-day.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-29
RAILROAD TRAVEL,

SOUTHERN PACIFIC CGMPANR.
4. (PACIFIC sYsTEMy a
TrAiAs leave and siuc TO arrIve "a
SAN FRANCISCO.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-29

NEW WESTERN HOTEL.
Y EARNY AND WASHINGTON STS.-RE-
n modelled and renovated. KING, WARD d CO.
European plan. Rooms SOC 20 81 90 per day, So
to SO per week, IS to $50 per month"; free baths ;
hot and cold water every room: fire CRATES in
every ROOM elevator runs all night
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-29

meeting adopted the declaration of princi-
ples and platform presented by the labor
convention. Some OF its officers expressed
surprise later that the Labor Council OF
San Francisco refused to adopt them.
Arrangements for the picnic OF the Joint
unions of the City at Sunset Park, Santa
Cruz Mountains, we're perfected. The
picnic will be held the last Sunday in
April, and great preparations for its sue.
cess are in progress.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-29
Tailors Organising.

The Tailors' Union will meet next Tues
day night at 1927 Mission street to further
organize the members of the trade in this
City, 1t has held but four meetings so far,
and has 125 members. At the next meet
ing it expects to get seventy-five new
mem bers, making the total mem bership
200, and then it will endeavor to unite all
tailors in town under its banner.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-29

for Morning. p for Afternoon
Sundays excepted Saturdays only.
Sundays only.
n Monday Thursday and Saturday nights only.
Thursdays and Saturdays 6sundsYs anu ThursdaFR
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-01-03
YOUR PALATE is YOUR STOM-
ACH'S CONSCIENCE.
YOUR STOMACH KNOWS WHAT is
GOOD FOR YOU.

Thin Poeplelare thin because the food they
eat is not absorbed Reasons, either wrong
food, or right food undigested.
Fats, oils and grease will not make any one
fat. ms is because they are lndigestble.
Thin people find it hard to digest their food
FATTY 1oodsmake it still harder.
Have you ever noticed that almost without
exception, thin, pale, dyspeptic anamic people
nave an aversion to fat? This is of itself proof
enough that such foods are bad for them.
Let your palate tell you what TO eat. Nature
makes very few mistakes and we should listen
to what she says.
INN people may become fatter, and dyspep
tlcsImore comfortable by taking the Shaker
digestive Cordial. 1t agrees with the weakest
stomach. Ii helps the weak stomach digest
other food. It is fattening and invigorating in
Itself, for it contains artificially digested food
Inc Mount Lebanon Shakers have made a
great many interesting discoveries within the
past hundred years, but none more important
IMAM this ingenious cure for all diseases which
are Waceable to faulty digestion. single 10
cent bottle Will tell whether it is adapted to
your case, and can be had through any drug
gist.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-01-03

New York, January 2.-Dr. Juan
Artigas, professor of internal pathology
of the University of Havana and chief
physician of the Leprosy hospital in that
city, who has just arrived in this city
from Cuba, gives frightful account of
the state of affairs on the island so far
as the Spanish troops are concerned.
He said yesterday that he had visited
many of the Spanish military hospitals
in Cuba and that they are in deplorable
state. Spain, he said is unable to get
competent surgeons and physicians to
con to Cuba and she had to send young
students from the universities to take
charge of the hospital and treat the
wounded. These students, he says, are
not only incompetent but corrupt. In
stead of using quinine, for instance, in
cases Of fever, they use some oh cap
nostrums and pocket the appropriations
for medicines. The wounded in the
hospitals are completely at the mercy of
these students and are consequently in
deplorable state. Few of them ever come
out alive. Amputations almost In
variably terminate fatally, because i'm
properly made and treated.
Senior Artigas says that warm wave
swept over the island during the past
month which resulted in All epidemic of
yellow fever among the Spanish troops,
of an aggravated character, followed by
an alarming death rate. OF the fatalities
among the Spanish troops, he said, five
per cent occur on the field of battle and
95 per cent from diseases that could be
cured if properly treated.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-01-03
Philadelphia Opini ons.


Philadelphia. January 2.-The presl-
dents of the various banks, saving s insti-
buttons and trust companies were asked
Hast night to give their opinions of the
Morgan syndicate bond issue and the
terms the government is supposed to get
for the new per cent bonds.
James Mechanics, president of the
Peoples bank said: II do not think
los, the reported price, is enough. think
the price will reach more than that but
do not think it will reach III. ("
John Diokey, president OF national
bank, president of the Industrial Title
and Savings bank: 81 do not think that
105 is fair price for a gold bond, but if
the guarantee is not in gold I think
that los is too much l do not care about
specializing in them.
II. Stroup, president of the Farmers
and Mechanics National Bank: cit S
a complication of affairs at the present
time. | should think the loan ought to
bring higher price than 1885,"
John J. Cummings, president of the
Tenth National and. Columbia Avenue
Savings Fund: 81 do not think 105 is a
fair price. | should be glad to take SO
at a higher price. This is all l am pre-
pared to say at present"
John +. Lewis, vice-presidentt of th e
Merchants Trust Co.: II think 105 AN
absurdity for 80 year per c, NJ govern
ment bonds. The value on such bond
would be much more than that because
of the long term it would have to run.
The investment would bc very choice
ono for trustees, guarantees and those
| acting in responsible capacity. l think
such a bond should be open to popular
subscription, instead of to a secret syndi-
cate. think that one hundred millions
would be over subscribed in less than
8 hours after the subscription had been
Eopened at lbs, and that had it been
limited in each instance to $4,000 each it
could easily be the story of the per cent
loan of 1887, and that in itself would
demonstrate the fact If it were deemed
advisable TO do so, subscriptions could be
revived in the post offices throughout the
country in all the country places, and all
| the villages of over 100 inhabitants.
The people of the United States are rich
/ and ought to be given the opportunity of
subscribing to loan instead of giving
| a syndicate all the power. A loan at III
could be foated, but it would take more
| time.
Appli cations Exceed the Amount,
| New York, January 2-The local banks
were today IN receipt of numerous appli-
cation from their out of town correspon-
dents for blocks of the new government
| loan which the Morgan syndicate propos-
| es to take. 1t is stated on good author
| ity that the applications both domestic
| and foreign now exceed 5000 ,00O 600.
Chicago Approves.
| Chicago, January 2-ChicaRo bankers,
with few exceptions approve the contract
between the Morgan syndicate and the
government.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-01-03

Miss Frances Power Cobbe, who has
Just celebrated her seventy third birth
day, was the first woman to do regular
office work on the editorial staff of a
London daily. When the Echo was first
started Miss Cobbe attended every other
day to write leaders and notes, generally
ON social subjects. She was known as
an author long before she was journal
list. 1t is now over forty years ago since
she called at Longman's and asked them
to issue her book on Kantian ethics. Mr..
Longman at first smiled incredulously at
the idea Of such work from a young
lady, but, after listening to his visitor,
said: every well,.I will publish your
book
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-01-03


Four Adults and Two Little Children
Dead-It Was In the Family of John H,
Bibbard of Columbus, Ohio.
Columbus, Ohio, January 2-Six deaths
ara the result of a mysterious fire that
occurred at 4.30 this morning at the
residence of John Fl. Hubbard, at 1895
East Long street.
The dead are: John II. Eibbard, Mrs.
John Hubbard, Mrs. Charles Lee, aged %,
Miss Fay Hiblard, aged 10 of Evansville.
Ohio, Dorothy Hubbard, aged three years,
Allen Hubbard, aged five years.
Mrs. Lee and Miss Hubbard are sisters
of Mr.. Hubbard and were spending the
holidays with their brother. Dorothy and
Allen Hubbard are hildren of John H.
Hubbard
Besides these unfortunate people there
were in the house at the time Annie Bell,
a colored servant, and four other children
of the Hubbard family whose ages ranged
from eight to fourteen years. They all
escaped by jumping from a second story
window. Annie Bell suffered fracture
of one ankle and Walter Hubbard sprained
both ankles The others were not IN
jured The house is large modern
frame, two stories and an attic in height
and was heated with natural gas by
means of furnace. The fire probably
resulted FROM an explosion of natural
gas, though the facts az to the origin will
probably never be known. The house
WAS not badly burned, but the interior
wood work was badly scorched. Probably
the gas In the furnace which was turned
low, fiickered out and then the whole
house was gradually filled with gas,
with 1t, it was ignited from a burning
gas tes. There does not seem to have
been much explosive force, however, as
the walls were not shattered in the least.
Annie Bell says she was awakened by
a sense Of choking and found her room
full of smoke. She triea to run over to
tho part of the house whore The family
was sleeping, but the hall was SO full Of
smoke that she could not do it Ind re-
turning to her room raised the window
and Jumped to the ground ABOUT twenty
feet. Then she saw Mr.. Hubbard at the
window of the room where some Of his
children were sleeping. He dropped the
four boys out and then fell evidently
overcome by the smoke. Ellis body WAS
found with arms stretched across the
window sill just as he fell after dropping
Webster Hubbard to the ground.
All the six bodies were found in the
same room. They had app arently been
awakened and tried to escape and were
suffocated there. The bodies were all
burned beyond recognition.
neighbor who was awakened by the
screams of Annie Bell called the fire de.
partmenJ and it was the work of but q
few minutes to extinguish the flames.
The family went to the residence Of
Thomas Huntington to spend New Years
evening. 1t was about II O'clock when
they returned home and at on ce retired.
Mr.. Hubbard was we'll know business
man and was the secretary and manager
of the Central Ohio Natural Gas and
Fuel company which controls the natural
gas supply here. 1t is remarkable fact
that a man SO familiar with natural gas
should himself fall victim to an acct
dent resulting from it's use.