The San Francisco call., 1897-08-15
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF

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One and q quarter million dollars were
coined at the Mint last week.
Charles W. Beals the well-known collection
agent, was thrown from mis- cart and badly
hurt
ST. Brigid's parishioners will hold reunion
st Fairfax Park, near san Rafael, on Admls'
sion day.
Patrick ]. Bolton has petitioned the Superior
Court for permiS sion to change his name to
Joseph P. Bolton.
Lucky Baldwin's residence in this City has
been attached for a debt OF 5000, alleged to be
due to George o. Mitchell.
Mrs. R. Herman was accidentally sufocated
with 1iumin Eating gas yesterday morning a.
her home, 82S Haight street
Mayor Phelan has vetoed another batch o.
bills authorized by the Deyany- -Hasklns com
bine in the Board of Supervisors.
Cloudy and unsettled weather Sunday; per
haps light sprinkles OF rain In the early morn
ing-A. G. McAdie, Local Forecast Official
The Valley road will be formally opened to
Nisalia within the next ten days. lis advent
will be celebrated by grand demonstration
The McCord-Strfppel scandal was revived
yesterday by warrants being sworn out for the
arrest of the guilty pair on the charge OF adul'
terry.
Judge de Haven yesterday sentenced ". F.
Rogers 10 two years i'm prisonment at hard Ia
Dor in the San Quentin penitentisry for coun-
terfeiting.
Dr.. Clarence Dickinson of Kodiak, the hero
OF the schooner White disaster, will be mar
ried to-dsy at Stockton 10 Miss Josephine
Block of Kodiak.
ATTORNEY George A Knight concluded the
argument in the Davis will contest yesterday.
Judge Coffey will give the case 10 the jury TO-
morrow afternoon.
John Olsen, guest in Baldwin Hotel was
arrested yesterday on the charge OF grand lar
ceny on the complaint OF Joaquin J. Fernsn-
des. from Honolulu.
II was decided yesterday to remove insane
patients from the Receiving Hosp1'al to the
new quarters under the Sheriffs ONCE as soon
they can be fitted up.
Twelve employees of the Mint were dismissed
from the service yesterday on account OF the
lack of work, the coinage of silver dollars
having been discon tlnued.
Walter j. Burcheu and Thomas Massey, boy
bcyclists, arrived in the City yesterday after
making the trip across the continent from
Pawtucket, R. L, on their wheels.
W .rk on the new Postofice site was stopped
YES erdsy by order ofSuperintendent Roberts
Work was resumed ater but Contra ctor Kelso
was forced TO change h.s programme.
The rush 20 the KIOndike, although modi-
fed, continues TO attract attention on the
ater front aud a. the outftters' stores. Sew
eral steamers are billed to sail shortly.
The United States Grand Jury yesterday in
dicted Oscar VI. Welburn on forty-three counts
OF emb element. His bail bon ds, furnished
Q.e NJ. n
were accepted.
The educational committee of the Commit
Tee of One Hundred met with authorized rep
rrSentatlves Of the Teachers Club Saturday
evening, and made recOmmen dations con-
cerning the new charter.
Mayor Phelan's handsome gift of q foun-
Tain 10 the Native Sons, and which will be
erected on the corner OF Mason and Stockton
streets, Will be accepted with simple honors
at the request OF the donor.
White cigar-makers have sued Lee Now,
Chinaman, for $4,000 damages, for infringe
nent OF their trademark. he is accused OF
forging the blue label of the Cigar-makers'
International Union, lor cigars.
Great interest is already being evidenced re-
garding the Mechanics Institute Fair. sew
era new features were promised. large
nun Der OF exhibitors, who e names appear in
this issue, will help TO make The affair success
The mass-mee ting held at Metropolitan Tenn
pie last night, under the auspices OF the Lin
coin Monument League, 70 arouse interest in
the mOveme nj for the erection of monument
to Lincoln in Golden Gate Park, was a grand
success.
Mrs. John Martin is contemplating going to
the Klondike accompanied by her little son
and her Chinese cook. She is q great traveller
and anticipates no inconvenience from the
rigors of the climate. She will take up a store
of merchandise.
The 9th OF septembe committee met in Bal
boa Hall last evening and discussed plans for
A committee
OF five was also appointed to make arrange
ments for the dedication OF the new fountain
at the junction OF Mason and Market streets.
One of the Chinese slaves on being taken be-
fore Judge Carroll Cook yesterday said that
she did not want TO remain in the mission, but
that he was about TO marry Chineman in
the disreputable house from which she was
rescued. So she was turned over to her owners.
The Eureka Society for the Protection of
Chi dren has taken charge Of the two little
children OF Johnson, the counterfelter who is
serving sentence now in the State prison
The children were in pitiful condition and
sadly neglected by the mother, so the officers
state.
Agents of 8 society having for its object the
repeal of the Chinese exclusion act are in this
City and are working to get large amount of
money to be used to work with Congress Itis
said that Minister Woo, at Washington, is
backing the movement and will make de
mand in behalf of his Government to have the
law removed from the bo, ks.