The San Francisco call., 1897-09-18
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

R D. Noble of Sausalito has invented new
torpedo that has dynamite for the explosive
agent.
Mission services for men will begin to-mor-
TOW evening at st. Ignatius Church and con-
tlnue through the week.
The Bank OF Ukiah has fled claim in the
PROBATE Court Tor S47. 669 81 against the es-
tate OF P. J. Jiram, deceased.
The California Society Of the Sons of the
American Revolution had large banquet last
night at the Occidental Hotel
Judge beicher has overruled the demurrer
OF Harry Corbett IN the suit brought against
MIN LOT $3.50 by Jacob Werner
Broker H. w. Snow has been sued by Mrs
Catherine H. Graham Tor $780, which she al
1eges was procured from her by fraud.
Rear-Admiral Beardslee was rendered a re-
ceptlon yesterday in the rooms of the Chamber
OF Commerce by the business men of san Fran
cisco.
THE CALL receives many expressions of salts
faction from the people over the pledges of
the supervisors 10 oppose the PARK and zoo
scheme.
St. Charles fair, which has been in progress
at Mission Turn Verein Hall. Eighteenth and
valencia streets, for three weeks, closed last
evening.
An educational meeting, under the rices
OF the California Home and Child Study Asso-
citation, was held at Native Sons building
yesterday.
The committee OF primary school principals
yesterday filed report with the Board OF
Education rejecting SWlnton'S Word Ana ysiS
and series OF books on "heart culture"
An expert statement of the financial affairs
OF the Olympic Club shows the organization 10
be in a prosperous condition, though small
loss was sustained during the past fiscal year.
Judge Campbell yesterday rendered his de-
clslon III the case against Theodore Flgel,
holding the defendant TO answer 10 the Su-
perior Court without bail on The charge OF
murder.
The Supreme Court has decided that the
salary provisions OF the county government
act OF 1898. affecting counties OF the eleventh
class, in which Tulare stands alone, are con-
sututlonal.
rived by the Gaelic the other day. was arrested
yesterday afternoon by Immigration Inspector
Gaffney on the charge OF importing women for
immoral purposes.
The Salvation Army beet-sugar charity colo
nizat1On scheme VIII be put in operation in
Salinas Valley next week. Commander Booth
Tucker went down to Soledad yesterday 10 per-
iect final arrangements.
At the meeting ,of San Francisco La Dor Coun-
Gil last night complaint was received from
the Coast Seamen's Union that their men were
being maltreated at the Marine Hospital. The
matter Will b. investigated.
The first game OF the Academic Athletic
1eaeue football tournament will be played at
The Sixteenth and Folsom street grounds to-
DAY, between the Lowell High School and
Polytechnic High Scnool t-ams, att P NJ.
The Supreme Court has decided that as the
new primary election law does not go into ef-
feet until January, 1898, the Trustees of Sac
ramento viii not Ce Obliged TO adhere to its
provisions at the forthcoming municipal
election to he held there.
Suits we're brought yesterday in the United
States Circuit Court by the Overweight Coun-
terbalance Elevator Company to recover $1,000
each from the estate OF Edward Barron, the
Native Sons OF the Golden West Hall Associa-
ton and Adolph Mack for an alleged iufringe
ment of an elevator patent.
The Treasury Department has issued in
structions explaining the meaning OF that
part of the tariff regulations allowing the
entry free OF wearing apparel, toilet articles
and articles of ornament in possession OF the
owner. The instructions are that the articles
must come with the owner, unless he can
show that they have been accidentally sep
aTated from him.
Contractor John Kelso. charged with vIolat-
ing he Federal eight-hour law, was discharged
by Uuiteo States Commissioner Heacock yes
terday on the ground that he was neither the
ontractor nor the sub-contractor for the exca-
vation OF the postotfice site, the sub-contracior
being the John kelso Company. warrant
was thereupon issued for the arrest OF the cor
porauon and served upon Mr.. Kelso as its
president.