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The San Francisco call., 1897-12-08
REAL ESTATE
MARKET REVIEW
Several Large Sales of Coun-
try Lands Made
Recently.
Murphy-Grant Property Trans
ferred to Adam and
Joseph D. Grant.
Renting and Leasing Very Fair-Rec-
ord Review, Auctions, Sales
and Notes.

The prevailing opinion among real
estate brokers is that the market is in
vastly better condition than it was at this
time last year. The progress has been
slow, indeed. but sure, and com parison
shows that realty aft airs are on the up
grade.
NO large deals OF city property are re-
ported for the week, but several OF q fair
size are in good way of consumm alton
and will be given out later on. Country
lands continue to go briskly, and several
transactions in that line are reported.
Charles E. Gregory has closed out the
McMann estate proDerty on Putah Greek
IN Northern Solano County. Martin V.
Sparks OF Oakland bought 1868 acres for
S1l6,000 G. Schmeister of Wood and took
ISL acres for $13 600, while +. and H.
Germerhausen of Plaintield acquired 215
acres for $14, 200. The total acreage of
1854 brought $l43, 200.
In addition 10 the large sale. a quarter
section of the Wolfski!l Tract in the same
neigh borhood was purchased by Hill
Bros. for $1,000.
At DavIsvilie Contra Costa County,
forty acres OF the Hpmme Tract were
bought by A. Clyne for S6400
Local prophets have again been sent up
OI lWO Oh Tue lduuer OIL IaIlS Dy
the verihcatinn Of their prophecies in
the matter of the sale of the Murphy
Grant 50-vara block on the northeast cor
ner OF Bush and Sansome streers, sup
posedIy bid in by Mrs. George WniltelI
for $3.50 COO.
Last Friday the block was transferred
to Adam and Joseph D. Grant by Mr.
and Mrs. George Whittell for the large sum
OF $40 That they were the real pur-
chaseIs has been believed all along
despite the fact that the block was re-
corded in WhitlelPs name upon the sale
being confirmed by the Probate Court.
According to Magee's Real Estate Cir
cular 265 sales of real estate. amounting
to S721 ITO, were recorded last month. The
same authority gives the mortgages as
372, with total valuation of $3.50 325, and
the releases as 22l, aFgregating 1896. $50.
One thing that is expected 10 do much
for real estate is the looked-for reduction
OF interes; rates to per cent. Prominent
brokers believe the reduction will come
by the first of the year.
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-08
RgvIew of the Records.

" VI RIlc =COTdSs
Building operations for the week have
been fair. Only three trust deeds were
recorded, the largest for $3.50 The fol-
lowing we're the principal mortgages
which passed record during the week:
By the Hlbernia Bank TO the Del Monte Mill
Ing Company $4,000 for one year at Oh per
cent, on property on the southeast corner of
BrannHn ana Stanford A bert Meyer TO Annie
L Mcdonald. Maud Lucille, Alice and Herbert
L. Younger S1l,250 al 81 per cent on prop
erty on the west line OF Powell, 135 south of
Ellis; Maud, Lucille and, Herbert l. Younger
and Annie Z. McDouald 10 Alice Younger
S33 600 for three years q 81 per cent, on
one-htth interest IN same, and northeast cor
ner Eddy and Annie Glasgow, rs by
%; Hibernia Bank 10 Gustav Hershail
$2lO0O. for l year, al 612 per cent, on Prop
erty on east corner OF sixth and Shipiey. 75
oy 125; William Crane Spencer (trustee) TO
Edgar E. sutro, SS75I, or property on the
north line of California, S7:6 east Of Mont
gomery, % by ia; Hiuernia Bank TO Christie
pheF c. Morehouse, $500, for 1 year, at 81
per cent on property on southwest corner oI
Octavia street and Ivy avenue, 35 by 80;
same TO Minerva c. Miller. $500, 1or
year, ut Ga per cent, On property ou south
east corner 6I Green and Hyde, I77 IS by 1876;
W. J. Adams TO Fred u. BIinn, 5000 on undi-
ded one-slxth Of lot Oh sOutheest line of Mis-
sion street, 10 southwest OF Eighth, 7OxS0, at
per cent per year; hlbernla Bank to Charles
Ii. Bell, $4,000 for one year at 619 per cent, on
property on south line OF Sacramento street
1O2:1l west of Steiner 81 :Sxl2o: Humboldt
cember 3, 1899, at z per cent, on property
OIL the sou hessG line OF Mission street, $50
northeast of Sixth. 25x80, and northwest line
of Mission street, 335 norIhsast OF Sixth, 50x
80; HlbernIa Bank to Nathaniel J. Britain,
S2O, 600 Tor ore year al 81 per cent on prop
erty on the southwest co ner OF California aud
Davis streets, 1877 :6x137 :6.
The following were the principal releases
for the week:
From The Hi hernia Bank to Gustav Harshall,
S13,GO0 on proper y on the southwest line of
East street, 54 93 northwest OF Merchant ire
released); same 10 Carl d. Solfield $4,000 on
property cn the east line of Ashbury, l75 north
OF rel; Albert Meyer 10 Sol Wange nheim,
$50 600 on property on the southeast corner
OF sacramento and Davis, 81 :8x117; Ger
mania Bank to Edward L. Wagner, $500 on
property on me south line OF Green. i25 west
of Laguna, 53X137:6; same to Max Adler
$4,000 on property on the west line of Mason,
al north of Jackson, 24:9x77 :6; from the
CHtiIorL ia Title Insurance and Trust Company,
$17,50O on property on the southeast line OF
Brannan, 20 southwest of Second Hum DO ldt
Bank 10 Robert A. Vance, $19, 800 on property
on the west line of Leavenworth 60 south OF
Washing ton, n :6 b. 1877 :6.
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-08
THEIR ERMIuE
Is RUPFLED
There Is Trouble Between
Prominent Supreme
Court Justices.
Beatty and Garoutte Are No
Longer Friends Fast
and True.
Bitter Words in Dissenting Opinion
the Cause of the Judi
oial Split.
****k+*+++* *+*&++k+*++s+..

"Having dissented from the
+ order denying a rehearins of this
4 cause by the court in bank, and
: being profoundly convinced that
4 the decision given is not only
erroneous, but mischievous in its
\ consequence, L deem it of suf-
= hcIent Importance to Justify
= statement of the grounds of INV
"a dissent
~ Stated in its sImpIest forn,
x the point here decided is that the
defendant in criminal action
X cah' under no circumstances,
= claim the benefit of a former ac-
qulttal, except by interposipp n
= special plea of such acquittaI and
submitting the issue to a jury.
4 10 sustain this proposition j feel
sale IN asserting that no author
lty can be found in any statute,
x decision, or textbook, at least
have been unable, after IA some
4 what extended search, to dis
cover any authority, and GER
K tainly none is to be found in the
4 list of statutes, texts and de-
r cisiOns cited by Justice Garoutte
y in his opinion. On the contrary,
= L have found and shall cite
4 numerous we'll considered cases
in which the contrary has been
Z held"
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-08
Waiter Bra,ton in Trorb1s

Deputy United States Marshal She ley
Monckton arrested last Monday night C. s.
Bratton, waiter at the St. Nicholas Hotel.
wanted in Portland, Or, on an Indictment for
conspiracy. Bratton was United States Juror
In hat CITY, and it WIS alleged that he was
brlbed by J. C. Walker. Bratton was indie ted
Win walker and was a witness for the Gov
ernment His arrest WAS made because the
officials In Portland learned that he was about
10 leave California for unknown naris.
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-08
To Foreclose a DIortcape.

The Western Loan Association has com.
menced an action for the foreclosure of a
mortgage on property owned by Daniel Dom
leavy al Twenty-fourth and Dougias streets.
The amount OF the mortgage is $2400. and
was granted as surety Tor a promissury note
which is now due
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-08
Charles Sweeney Let Go.

United States District Judge de Haven
yeste rday dismissed the case against Charles
sweeney, indicted for passing a counterfeit t
United States note. The prosecuting witness
could not be found. and as Sweeney had been
several weeks in jail awaiting trial the prose
cution was not disposed to punish him any
longer.
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-08

OF Mrs. Ida Coakley has been admitted to bail
by Judge Carroll Cook in the sum of $1,000
Fall was held for trial Monday by Police Judge
Conlan and bail was refused b i'm at that time.
Yesterday morning, on the coriten ton that
bail had been unla wfully denied him, he car
ried the matter TO the Superior Court. After
argument the court decided to admit him to
bail in the sum of $4,000 but later in the
day, by consent of the District Attorney the
amount required to secure his freedom was
reduced to $1,000
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-08
Random Notes.

Davidson d Leigh, the real estate brokers'.
have removed TO 80 Montgomery street
The work OF driving over 500 piles for the
found alton of the new building 10 be erected
by w. W. Young on the southeast corner of
Spear and Market streets, has been fnis he d
ard work on the concrete foundation begun
Renting and leasing are reported TO be ex-
ceient.
The stable on Fillmore street. between Wash
ington and Clay, Is being converted into a
market at a cost OF $4,000 for Mrs. g. s.
Bowers.
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-08
Mary O,Br.en,s VIII.

The will Of Mrs. Mary O'Brien, who died on
December .. was filed for probate yesterday.
Sne left an estate consisting of real and per-
sonal property valued at $4,000, which she be-
queathed TO relatives III Ireland and this
city.
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-08
NEW TO-DAY
MRS. LYNESS ESCAPES
The Hospital and a Fearful Operation.

HosPtasin greatcities sad places visit Three
fourths of the patients lying on those snowwhte bed
are women and girls.
Why should this be the case
Because they have neglected themselves! Women
as rule attach too little Importance to first symp
toms of a certain kind If they have toothache b
they will try to the TOOTH thou oh many leave
even this too late. They comfort themselves with
the thought that they replace their teeth; but
they cannot replace their internal organs
Every one of those patients in the hospital beds
had plenty of warnings in the form of bearing-down
feelings pain at the right or the left of the womb
nervous dyspepsia, pain in the small of the back tn
blues, or some other unnatural symptom, but thev
not heed them.
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-08

LEAvE FROM OCTOBER "a, 1887. ARRIv
t6:5OA Miles, San Jose and Way Stations... S:45
7:O0A Benicia, Suisun and Sacramento. 10:45
Woodland Observation-Disclosures. S:45
S:OOA Vacaville and Rumsey ..;.:........ $40
5:SOA Martinez San Ramon, Vallejo Napa,
Calistoga and Santa Rosa 6:IS
S:OOA Atlantic Express, Ogden and Last. S:15
S:3OA Niles, San Jose Stockton, lone.
Tehama and Red DluY ......,... 4:I5
ss:S0A Peters, Milton and Oakdale.. t7:I5
9:O0A New Orleans Express. Merced, Ray
mond Fresno Bakersfield, Santa
Barbara Los Angeles, Demng,
Ell Paso New Orleans and East 0;45
Fresno ......................... 1915
sI:OOP Sacramento River Steamers r0:OG
1i3OP Martinez and Way Stations ......... s5.A5
Visaiia '' ..' a4:I5
4:O0P Martinez, San Ramon, Vallejo,
Santa Rosa. R...e"' -. ... s.I5
A;OOP Benicia, Vacaville, w 20 dl and.
Vile and Sac, a,1leIio. ............e n O:45
4:S0P Niles, Tracy and stockton. ;....;.. .@7:A1
zs8OP Lathrop Modesto, MERGED, Berenda,
Santa barbafa SinS and ID Los 5. Anseies.. 7.4S
for Mojare and East. t.............. '. 6:45
9S;S0P Sunset Limited, Les Angeles, Ell
Paso, Fort Worth, Little Rock, st.
Louis, Chicago and East .......... SlO:I5
6:OOP European Mail, Ogden and East.... 9:4I
6:OOr HayWaIGs Niles and San JOSEF. 7:4J
ts:O0P Vallejo OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 1t7:4a
S;OOP Oregon Express, SACRAMENTO. Marys-
vile, Reddmg, Portland, Puget
Sound and last .................. S;I1
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-08

Hall Admitted to Bail.
DR.. Samuel Hall, charged with the murder
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-08

at home the
go hospital
u up the female Lydia Pinkhams
save you from the hospital 1t will life
The following
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-08

SAN LEANDnO AND HAYWAKDS LOCAL.
foot of Market Street)
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-08
RAILROAD TRAvEL

MAIN Lime, Foot OF Marke
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-08

FnoM OCTOBER q. 1897.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-09-09
Wheat's Valuable Lesson.

The silver leaders are utterly unable
to explain the rise in the price of wheat,
ana at the same time maintain their ar
gument OF last year. The ablest OF them,
including Mr.. Jones of Nevada and Mr..
Teller, have ventured upon the task, but
all nave failed. All are forced to confess
that the natural law OF supply and de-
mand does apply in the present price of
wheat But such n confession could not
nave been wrung from them year ago.
Then they were contending, almost fierce
~, that wheat was low solely because
money was scarce. Increase the volume
OF money, they insisted, and wheat would
60 up. But it would not and could not go
up without such an increase. Wheat is
now at the dollar mark, and even higher,
ana yet there is no more money III the
country than there was last year. And
free silver meanwhile has not only not
been dccreed, but the policy stands re-
jected al the polls.
Now that the problem has been solved,
and by a process which all may so easily
comprehend, il seems strange that so
many people last year should have be-
lieved so implicitly in Mr.. Bryan's con-
tentions about money and prices. The
Nebraska leader and his lieutenants
would allow nothing whatever to the law
of supply and demand. Silver had been
struck down. BY that act half Of the
money of redemption Of the world had
been destroyed, and hence low prices fol-
lowed for everything. They picked out
wheat for illustration, and now wheat,
obeying TIE spurned law OF supply and
demand, goes to the dollar mark. Short
crops abroad, which create a demand for
the American wheat supply, knock the
spots out CT the illustration. and force a
confession from the silver leaders which
completely disjoints all OF the fne-spun
theories upon which they tried to put Mr..
Bryan into the White House.-Washing-
ton Stqr
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-09-09
Wool at Twenty.Ave Cents.

Cadiz Republican: 1t = with pleasure
that the Cadiz Republican can announce
this week that the price Of wool in Harri-
son County is twenty-five cents a pound.
During the past week Messrs. g. NJ. Hogg
IL Son have purchased the clips Of wool
raised by the following well-known farm
ers of Harrison County, $4,000 pounds in
all, paying in each case twenty-five cents
a pound. The clips of Dunlap Brothers,
Cadiz township: John Clifford, Green
township; s. b. Porter, Green township;
Il. X. Cochran, Cadiz township; Joseph l..
Thompson q Son, Cadiz township; Henry
Mckee, Green township; John McDivitt,
Stock township; Samuel Hedges, Cadiz
township; Ross Mansfield, Wayne town
ship, jefferson County; III. Il. Lacey, La
ceyville, and Oliver Roob, Green town
shin
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-09-09
Myers and Mclean.

At the recent Democratic State conven-
ton Allen O. Myers was the personal
representative Of John X. Mclean. AS
such he not only carried out the wishes of
his chief, but was, in fact, the most influ-
entail Democrat in all that gathering. He
dictated the platform, and on the Sunday
before the convention, which met on We'd
nesday, told Blade representative exact
ly what it would contain, and he told it
straight.
Myers knows Mclean well. He was
connected with McLean's newspaper for
years, and each trusted the other to the
extent that he dared. For time there
was cnmity between these two men. My
ers was not drawing salary from Nc
Lean. At this time Myers wrote book
1t was labeled BOSSES and Doodle in
Ohio Politics" On page 213 Of this book
Myers had this TO say Of Mclean:
He has no morals. lie Is stranger to SEN
tlment He Is not deferred by scrup!es. III
he has an object In view and has the money
to buy IL. In his code OF life no law no man,
no community has right TO question his
act. He believes every man has his price.
lie goes straight TO results and cares moth
Ing about public opinion, methods or the
rights OF others. When he can get or has got
what he wants he pays promptly and liber-
character can exist In an enlightened age
But John II. Mclean Is a fact His exist
ence must be acknowledged
And now this same Mclean is boss of
the Democratic party in Ohio, and cam
didate for United States Senator. while
this same Myers is his chief henchman.-
Toledo Blade
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-09-09

for public and private debts, or which Is
receivable for duties to the United States,
shall be issued by the Government Of the
United States and shall be rodeemable In
coin.
This means that all the paper money OF
the country shall be issued 10y the Govern
ment, and would thus be either fiat
money or must be sustained by keeping
In the treasury an enormous metallic re-
serve, much larger than the one which
now exists and which causes so much dis
satisfaction To the Democracy and it's fiat
associates OF Populistic and socialistic
tendencies.
In support OF these principles we invite
the cooperation OF all men who love liberty
and hate corruption, oppression and tyranny.
A combination of high sounding words,
intended only TO mislead and inflame un-
thinking people, and coming with extreme
ly poor taste from a party whose entire
record up to the time OF its removal from
power in 1861. was directed against the
'love of liberty" and in favor of "oppres-
sion and tyranny"
We hereby declare all trusts and monop-
olies hostile and dangerous to the peoples
enforcement OF all antitrust laws, etc.
All Of which sounds we'll But the peo-
pie are naturally suspicious of such de-
clarations coming from party which neg
lected during its four years of power to
enforce the existing antitrust laws, and
which framed its tariff law in the inter-
ests of the sugar trust, the greatest trust
of the land with the single exception OF
the one which it is now attempting to
place in control of the nation, the silver
trust.
We demand the Immediate recognition Of
the belllgerent rights OF the Republic Of
Cuba, etc.
Which ii is generally conceded would
be OF little practical value to the Cubans,
and would probably destroy the opportu-
nifty of bringing about, through the peace
full and proper methods of diplomacy, the
results for which the people of that island
are now struggling.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-09-09
Is Pension Money Was,ed9

The cutlery against the increase NJ tho
nension list since the Mckinley admits
tration came in still continues. and ve
have little doubt that il will go on as long
as new names are added TO the roll II i
not n popular clamor, for a great minority
Of the American people, irrespective Of
marty. are in favor OF the pension laws n .
they stand and desire their IMPARTIAL on
forcement. One of our contemporor;es
thinks il unfortunate that some plan con-
not be devised to stop the growth of tho
list Death is doing great deal in tbot
direction. 1t clipped off $4,000 names last
year. and it will continue to clip M an
increasing ratio as the years wear on. for
even the youngest of the surviving vet
Grams are getting TO be old men.
We have. in recent issue of the Post
explained the increase OF the list since
the 4th Of March by showing that IL was
due to the Cleveland hold-up. Nearly all
the applications granted under the present
administration came over from the Cleve-
land regime. 1t was the settled policy of
Mr.. Cleveland TO hold up claims and pass
them along TO his successor. There was
no saving TO the treasury in this in the
long run. for a pension dates back to the
time Of the application. Most Of The held
up claims were those Of widows, clearly
proven and sure 10 be allowed. The
Cleveland administration deliberately
halted the work OF the pension bureau
and kept thousands OF poor widows out OF
the money that belonged to them. II any
one doubts this the records OF the bureau
will prove IT, And it is in perfect har-
mony with the whole course Of Mr.. Cleve-
land on the pension question His views
are just aSout those which his ardent ad-
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-09-09
omciai Records Show II.

The demand for information about John
II. McLean's gold bonds continues so
strong that we reproduce this week the
bond in full with brief statement of its
history. 1t Is its own comment upon the
candidacy of man who advocates
cause Of paying workingmen in Accent
silver dollars and demands good gold dol
lars, and gold dollars only, for himself.
The transaction in question is that Of
contract made by him with the Columbia
Athletic Club OF this city in 1889, in
which he requires that organization to
make sundry obligations, amounting to
$4,000, payable to him individually In
gold coin, both principal and interest
The transaction related to the construc-
ton Of club house for this organiza-
ton, the Columbia Athletic Club OF the
District of Columbia. In that year he
made an agreement with the club by
which he sold to it certain lots in the
fashionable northwest part OF Washing
ton, near the War, State and Navy De-
partments, and erected thereupon COM
modious and costly clui house, the price
OF the land and the club house being SiO,-
OOO. This money the club agreed to pay
on or before the 1st OF March, 1909, and
issued bonds payable to John X. Mclean,
pedrlHS MS name upon tnelr lace lnesc
bonds he required the club to agree to
pay in gold coin of the United States or
the present standard of weight and fine
ness" also requiring it to pay the inter
est thereon in like gold coin"
There can be no doubt about the accu-
racy OF this statement. The bonds were
prepared and signed by the officers of tho
club and turned over to him, and some or
them have since passed into the hands OF
other parties who now hold them. Not
only are these bonds still extant and
readily obtainable by those who desire
to verify this statement, but a still more
permanent and unimpeachable record OF
this transo ction is found upon the oficia!
records of the District of Columbia. The
details of the entire transaction between
Mr.. Mclean and the Columbia Athletic
Club are set forth in a copy of a deed of
action. Among the details Of this trans
action, which are found on the official rec
ords, are copies OF the two series of bonds
which the club was required to give as its
form OF agreement to pay Mr.. Mclean
the gold which he required from 1t. Ihere
were 10 be two classes of bonds, one class
amounting to S45. 600, each bond to be
for the sum Of $1,000, the second class or
bonds being for $4,000, also payable in
gold, and bearing higher rate Of interest
than those of the first class, copy or
which is herewith appended:
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-09-09

mirer, the Baltimore Sun, expresses in
this paragraph, clipped from recent edi-
torial
1T will not he long n. the present rate
before we shall have duplicated the cost
OF the war in pensions This would be
readily acquiesced in, however onerous,
II the money all went 10 the deserving,
but the fact that most Of il is wasted is
legitimate cause for or ticism."
Waste is unnecessary or useless ey-
penditure. The Cleveland theory, as for
mulated by the Sun, is that most of the
money paid 10 the veterans, their widows
and their orphans, has been unnecessarily
or uselessly expended. Mr.. Cleveland be-
lieved that the pension roll was honey
combed with frauds. In order to test that
belief he was supplied with ample facili-
ties to hunt down and punish frauds. He
spent deal of money in that quest, and
the result was complete vindication Of
the substantial honesty Of the pensioners.
In his last annual message he presented
facts and figures by which he involun-
tarily proved that the pension roll was a
roll OF honor. But although his hunt for
frauds was something very much like a
failure, he met with success in holding up
widows pensions.-Washingt Post
(Dem.)