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WEBsTER's RECOMMENDATIONS.

The School Superintendent Makes Sug-
gestions to the Board of Education.
In his first report to the Board of Edu-
cation, made on Wednesday evening Su-
periutendent of Schools Webster made
some valua ole suggestions that will prob
ably be acted on by the board later.
In regard to school materials he stated
that several citizens had complained to
him that custom prevails in some
schools of compelling children to pur-
chase writing g-tab blets of certain manufac-
ture, and books not authorized by law, or
by an order from the Board of Education.
He says that this comes dangerously
near to violating the provisions of section
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redsed channel across Cottonwood Island

dredged channel across Cottonwood Island
shoal:
Rainier buoy No. IA black first-class spar
buoy was established March 26, 1897, in
"a feet of water TO mark the edge OF
the spit off the lover end OF Cottonwood
Island ana should be given berth of 100
feet The bearings are as follows: Rainier
wharf w. SW. II W.; Dobelbower Landing
postlight, SCI +.
Cottonwood Island shoal buoy No. 3-A
black first-class sparbuoy was established
March 26. 1897, in % feet of water, and
should be given a berth of SO feet. The bear
ings are AS follows: East end of Cottonwood
Island, E 4 S; Coffin Rock postlight, S.SE.
q E; Dobei bower Landing postlight, w. q n.
Cottonwood Island shoal buoy No. Son
March 26. 1897, the number of this buoy was
changed from l to g.. This buoy should be
given berth OF so feet.
By order OF the Lighthouse Board.
JOHN p. MERRILL,
Commander U. s. Navy, Inspector Thirteenth
l.. H. District.
Office of United States Lighthouse Inspector,
Portland, Or March %. 1897.
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PAGE MAY YET Be FREE,
A New Trial Given to the
Ex-District Attorney of
This City.
The Supreme Court Takes Very
Liberal vi. W of the Evidence
in the Case.

The Justices and Commissioners OF the
State Supreme Court gave the lawyers
and the criminal element something to
think bout yesterday apropos of the Page
case. Ex-District Attorney James d.
Page was convicted of embezzlement last
year. 1t was shown at the trial that he
had absorbed the entire estate of his in
sane ward Louis Lichtneeer. amounting
to $4362- Page, upon being confronted
with the evidence OF his guilt, fled to Salt
Lake, where he lived under the assumed
nam Of James Mason.
Upon learning that his Whereabouts
had been made known by man travel
ing across the sentiment, Page, alias
subsequently arrested and returned to
this City on a Grand Jury Indictment.
At the trial it was shown that Page was
appointed guardian OF Lichtneger, an in
sane man, on January 3, 1891. On April
OF the same year he was ordered to file
his account OF his wards estate, but be
did not do 80 until May 4. 1894. This ac-
count showed that in June, 1892, Page
paid $3.50 to the Agnews Asylum, and at
that date he had $3776 92 on hand. Judge
Levy, in whose court this was filed, was
unable to obtain further Information
from Page At the trial of Page, Judge
Levy testified that Page had drawn
of the insane mans estate. Page was re-
moved as guardian by Superior Judge
Slack on May %, 1885, but al that time no
demand was made upon nim for the de-
livery of his wards money, nor was any
other guardian appointed.
In his appeal for q new trial Page con-
tended that the indictment of the Grand.
Jury under which he was tried was IL
legal; but the Supreme Court held that
it was legal and tha: Superior Judge Wal
lace, before whom Page was convicted,
did not make a mistake in refusing to set
aside the indictment or in refusing to
sustain the defendants demurrer. How
ever. the Supreme Court did grant the
ex-District Attorney new trial on the
ground of the insufficiency of the evidence
TO justify his conviction Tor embezZie-
ment. The Supreme Court was SO liberal
in its views as to hold that because no
demand had been made upon Page for is
wards money there was no evidence to
show that he had misappropriated the
estate, and could not be held as an en-
beZzler
The case of Treasurer Royce, who
cleaned up several thousand dollars out
of the Veterans Home Association, was
cited. In that case the Supreme Court
held that Royce may have had the
money all that time ready TO refund TO
any demand OF the association. If the
verdict in that case was not justified by
the evidence it is quite clear that it was
not in this"
The fact that Page fed from the State
when called upon for an accounting for
his shortcomings did not seem to cut any
figure in the order for new trial. The
decision was rendered by Court Commits
sioners Belcher, Searis and Haynes, and
was affirmed by Justices Garoutte. Har-
rison and Van Fleet.
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HIS LAST LOOK
At THE SWANH|LDA
She Will Sail Close TO Muir
derer Butler on the
Mariposa.
The Front Enlivened by a Shoo.-
ing Scrape and a CAP.
sizing.
Changes in the District Buoy age.
The Flag Raised on the Har.
Dor Building.

About noon tomorrow, if nothing un-
toward happens to mar the spectacle, a
singular sight will be seen by curiosity
seekers along the water front. Together
the Mariposa and Swanhilda will sail
through the Golden Gate--the latter the
vessel that brought Butler into this port,
red-handed from the scene of his assas.
sinations in Australia, and the former the
ship that bears him back to the scene OF
his crimes to satisfy the demands OF
justice, outraged and grim.
The Swanhilda came down from Port
Costa few days ago, loaded with a cargo
of grain and shipped all her men yester-
day. About noon tomorrow she will
clear for Queenstown.
The Mariposa was expected to depart to-
day, having been delayed already twenty.
four hours by the tardy arrival of the
English mail. But 1t was stated yester-
day that she will probably be obliged to
extend the hour OF her departure till near
II oon tomorrow.
Howard-street wharf was the scene of q
shooting yesterday that resulted in the
man who was so careless with his gun
getting two beautifully mottled eyes and
a chance 10 ponder on the uncertainty oi
existence in the Harbor Police station.
i he man III question Is JOfn DdItn, aDQ
he arrived in port on the schooner Eva a.
second mate.
Day before yesterday Barth was being
paid for his services on the Eva, when
| woman appeared who seemed to know
| him and demanded $25. He gave her $40
and Officer George w. Lake saved hin
| from the anger of a CROWD at the woman.
| beck by placing him on q car and starting
him uptown.
Yesterday Barih invested part of hi
| earnings in a revolver and came down t,
| the wharf with the expectation of signin
| as seaman on the Invincibie, soon 10 90 t,
| the Alaska fishing grounds His accoun
of subsequent occurrences is that maj
| nam ed George Kemp, who, he claims, l.
| the husband of the woman in question
st arted TO pummel him, whereupon Bartl
pulled his revolver and discharged it a
Kemp. but missed.
A crowd then set upon him and bea
him nearly into insensibility. he wa
taken to the station and locked up on
charge OF discharging firearms.
The Government launch in charge {
Captain Lime, " hlch plies between Cos
Isl and and the Clay-sireet wharf yestel
ii ay rescued three men, Patrick Sullivan
Charles Walker and Larry. Smith, troll
W hat pr omised 10 become perilous stu;
tion. The men were out fishing in a sma
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j. F. TURNER'S TRIAL.
With. Grand Larceny for
Making Unlawful Use of a
Deed.


The trialof J. T. Turner, charged with
grand larceny. is drawing to close in
Judge Wallace's court.
The following citizens have
been impaneled to try the case. John A.
Apperson. Victor Audlei, George Snyder,
J. G. Hecker, Rudolph H. Hahn, II. w.
Swasey, e. o. Tuttle, William A. Hewitt,
George A. Richmond, /. Simon, Henry
Resented, Henry w. Hyman.
Turner is accused of having taken illegal
possession of a deed worth about $4,000,
belonging to Joseph. P. Frenna, which he
pretended to have recorded in Fresno
County but which was not so recorded.
After that Turner negotiated three mort
cages on Frenna's property
The proparty had formerly belonged. to
Turner, ana as there was no record of a
change of ownership, Turner had no diff
Guilty in borrowing money with that prop
erty as security.
Attorney Collins, representing Turner,
contended that the deed 70 Frenna was in
The San Francisco call., 1897-04-02
TWO OLD RELICS.
The First Broom and Sack OF Flo
Made in This State.

The First Broom and Sack OF Flour
Made in This State.
J. A. Filcher, manager of. the State
Board of Trade. has secured two valuable
curiosities-relics of former days, as it
were-that he has added to the exhibit at
the headquarters az 16 Post street. One is
the first broom made in the State and the
other is the first sack OF flour made in Cal
iiornia. On the latter is the wording:
"Horner's Mills, Union City, CAL /;
Il bbl., 49 lbs, Supertine-Extra. War
ranted from pure California wheat. Oct,
1858. Horner 81 Co., agents, San Fran
cisco.".
The broom is of very large size, and
was made from exceedingly large broom
straw. 1t was made on ] street in Sacra-
mento- in 1852, and it won silver medal
worth $40 at the first fair ever held here.
These relics were the property of the
late Colonel G. L. L. F. Warren, who at
one time was the editor of the California
harm.
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CAME FROM THE
ALPINE HEIGHTS
A Mountaineer Could Not
Stand San Francisco
Gas.
Celestin Andre Worried Over
Family and Financial
Matters.
He Was Found Full of Gas and Clcse'
to the Expiring Point in His
Bedroom.

Celestin Andre, a. vigorous young
mountaineer OF Switzerland, is expected
to die at any moment in the City Receiv.
ing Hospital.
He was carried there early yesterday
morning from room AZ of the Hubbard
House.
The man was discovered lying on his
bed and the gasiet in the room was open.
Whether 1t was suicide or an accident
cannot be learned. as the surrounding
circumstances are most peculiar.
Andre grew up among the Alps, and he
earned his living as a guide. He was
able, in that capacity, to lay aside some
money.
A niece of his came to this country
some six years ago and married butcher.
She wrote 10 her uncle such glorious pic
lures of what fortunes awaited him here
that Andre gave up his alpenstock and
came to California about four years ago.
Mrs. Charles Rauiet, proprietor of the
Hubbard House, tells the remainder of
the story. She says:
"Celestin Andre thinks the world of his
niece, and he came here because she told
him TO. They had some financial trouble,
and from that time on he and his niece
and her husband have been at outs. He
brooded over this affair and was very
despondent.
when he ran short of money some
seven months ago ne went TO work, for me
as bedmaker. He worked first in the
Fauntleroy, on O'Farrell street, and q
couple OF months ago he came here. He
was a hard working and saving man.
The room in which Andre was found
had door jar to the extent of an inch or
two ana the transom was open, which
somewhat allays the suspicion of at
tempted suicide.
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A. Late Law Restraints Di-
vorced Persons From.
Marrying.
Their Only Refuge the High
Seas or Liberal Sister
States.
Nevada, Arizona and Oregon krs
kelly to B. come Modern .Gretna
Greens for Lovers.

Cupid is in the tolls in Californa-not
every Cupid but the samo Cupid that has
been in the tolls before; which means that
people who have. been married. and di-
vorced, ard who want to marry again, or
rather, who want to marry again before a
wear from. The decree which freed the m
from the bonds OF the first alliance, will
find stone wall across the path of true
love, ifthe second love be such.
At the instance OF Senator Bulla the last
legislature passed d law that prohibits
people from marrying until they have
been divorced an entire year. In words
and figures the law is identically as fol-
lows, but there is way TO beat it." as
the gam blers say, which is another story /:
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CHAPTER XXXVI.

granting
of
ASSEMBLY,
.
Code hereby
as
husband
S ANDY the beginning
annued dssov brortd be
subsequent marriages
and
Immediately
believed
either which
The San Francisco call., 1897-04-02
Sang Good-by to sheldon.

Aboard the Coptic. which sailed yesterday
for Japan and China, was the biggest load OF
passengers that has left here in a long time.
Among the passengers was Joseph A. Sheldon,
son OF Mark sheldon, the wealthy pioneer,
stay. The Press Club quartet, consisting OF
Samuel Tucker, Frank Coffin, Fletcher Tilton
aud w. J. Bachelor, sang "Pickaninny" and
"Soidier's FAREWELL at the dock for Mr.
Sheldon. Paul Cowies, w. C. Bunner and other
members of the club also saw him off.
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, ADJUSTMENTS.

PAnpw1N THEATER -"His Grace De Cram
mont
'- CA1IFoRNIA THEATBR--"L LaJuive," tomorrow
night.
CAL1foRNiA THEATER IAN Unequal Match"
COLUMBIA THEATER For Fair Virginia"
MoRosco OPERA HOUSE The Dago.
AIcAzAR THEATER New Blood
. TIvoLI OPERA House Don Juan"
CRPHFrsp,- High Glass Vaudeville.
GOLDEN GATE HALT--Camil.a Urso.
-UBFRoS.-Grand Concert.
. MEcBANIcs' PAvILIoN-Bcycle Races
COOPER MEpIcAL CoLLEG E.-rane Lectures.
:. IURL1NEBATHs.-SaltW Water Bathing, etc.
SUMO BAIHs-B Bathing and : erformances.
= IHE CBgTKs AND SKArING RINK-Dauy at
: Rght street, one block east of the PARK
PACIFIc COAST JOCKEY CLUB.-Races to-day.
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ORAVEN-FAIR LITIGATION.

Judge Slack Will Decide Pending CUES
tions Next Monday Morning.
Judge Slack OF Department 10 of the
Superior Court has announced that on
next Monday morning he expects to de-
eide all motions now pending in the liti-
CATION of Mrs Nettie r. Craven against
the estate of the late James G. Fair.
1t is understood that Judge Slack has
also attempted TO clear his calendar of all
other urgent cases, so that when the
Crayen-Fair cases come on for trial he will
have a free board docked and nothing
will ;ntettere with those matters.
For months the lawyers have been pre-
The San Francisco call., 1897-04-02
For a DredRer Patent.

Judge Morrow was engaged as Circuit Judge
In hearing the case of A. B. Bowers agains t
the San Francisco Bridge Company for an
alleged infringement oa a dredger patent
claimed by Bowers. The case was tried in
1892 before jury, tut the jury disagreed. 1t
is now being tried before the court
]. II. Miller and John Fl. Hoone appeared as
counsel for Bowers and D. NJ. Delmas and R.
Percy Wright for the bridge com pany. The
case will be resumed this morning
The San Francisco call., 1897-04-02
Sudden Death of a Young woman.

Mrs. Lille Farnum, wife of Captain F. A.
Farnum, prominent mining superintendent
of Nevada and California, died of pleuro.pneu-
monia at the Brown Valley mine, near Grass
Valley, on the 26th of last month at the early
age of 80 wears. Mrs. Farnum was a native of
Carson, New, where she had a large circle of
friends and relatives. Her mother, Mrs. NJ. P.
Dorsey, was at her bedside when her gentle
spirit took its flight. she leaves surviving her
two daught ters, Adelaide and Stella Farm um !;
three sisters. Mrs. G. w. Cagwin, Miss Ada Dor
sey, Miss Susie Dorsey and three brothers,
Horace, Clarence and Paul Dorsey.
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Already Serving a Sentence,

The case of ]. D. Hogan, an ex-conYict,
charged with robbery, was dismissed by Judge
Low yesterday, as the Judge learned that Ho-
gan had been sentenced to four years in Dem
yer, Colo. Hogan stole diamond stud worth
$3.50 from Frank Norlega at a masked ball in
the Mechanics Pavilion on New Years morn
ing. He jumped his bonds and went 10 Colo
radO.
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Mrs. Paul Won Her Suit.

Mrs. Clara Paul has been given verdict for
$500 against the Geary-street Railway Com
pany by jury in Judge Bahrs' court This is
the case In which Attorney w. T. Baggett, rep
resenting the plaintiff, had an alterc lion with
the court and Genera. w. H. L. Barnes, attor-
ney for the company.
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AUCTION AL 6.

BY CHAs: lew & Co-This day, April 2,
Furniture at 1885 Marke: street, at 10 clock.
J, IRANK ". UT ER FIELp-This day, April
z Furniture at IS Page ST. at IL o'clock.
TY yoN'. RHEIN IS Co.-Tuesday. April g.
f cal Estate At Salesroom, 513 California street,
81 1Go'clock
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NEW TO-DAY.


Mr.. GROCER:
ScA1zAMg's Best tries. to
satisfy everybody's: reason
able demand:
Satisfy you with a fair
profit and with doing the
right thing by your Gus
toners.
Satisfy. your custom ers
with moneys worth: or
money-back (paid by you
to them, and by US to you).
Schilling s, Company
San Francisco 523
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TrupRs Moved 25 Cent.

Commercial Transfer Company, 43 sutter st.
Tel. Main 40. Furniture moved reasonably. >
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NEW Io-DAY.
COLDS

Munyon's Cold Cure cures colds in tho
head. CO ds on the lungs. Old colds, new
colds and obstinate colds, and all forms OF
grip. Stops sneezing. discharges from the
nose and eyes, prevents caiarrh, diphthe-
ria, pneumonia and all throat and lung
troubles. These p easant little pellets are
absolutely harmless. hare saved thousands
of lives and prevented much sickness.
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pairing for this struggle, and an imposing
array of legal talent will aprear in Judge
Slack's court next Monday morning.
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NUN YQN'S

Improved HOMEOPATHIC Home Remedy
Company put up a separate cure for each
disease. At all druggists, mostly % cents.
Guide to Heat h free.
Personal letters to Prof. Munyon, 1905
Arch street, philadelphia, Pa. answered
with free medical advice for anv disease.
The San Francisco call., 1897-04-02

NEW OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-12-17
SIGNS OF PROSPERITY.

a bulletin just sent out from the
Bureau Of Statistics shows that for the
eleven months ended November 20. 1887.
the value OF merchandise exports from
the United States was S97f.Gl2. sg5, an in
crease Of sS5,96l $50 as compared with IN.
same period last year. The value of i'm
ports for eleven months ended November
30 1897 was SG91 ,O9l 900. an increase Of
S6s'492'19i as compared with 1896.
The excess Of exports over imports for
eleven months in 1897 was $2Ss.5 sos as
against an excess Of s266,O52 .i19 for tbe
same months in 1896. an increase Of ST.
$50 1856.
ms IS an encouraging exhibit. as
showing greater volume OF businoss md
also most comfortable balance IN our
favor as between the value Of goods that
we have sold and the goods that we have
purchased abroad.
in the light of such an exhibit rs this
how can ii be said that there are no signs
OF returning prosperity? It must be re-
membered too that this increase both Of
exports and imports IS in spite Of the fact
That the country has been operating for
the greater part Of the year 1897 under y
nigh protective tariff law.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-12-17
DESERVED ITS FATE.

The antl-foot-baH bill was defeated IN
the Senate yesterday as it deserved to be.
We arc not so much concerned one way
Of the other, about football, believing
that those whose business it is will so
modify the rules as 10 eliminate the dan
gerous features.
But we are seriously concerned about
all sorts Of legislation that smacks Of
paternalism and unnecessary abridgement
OF personal liberty. and hence our oppo-
sition TO the anti-foot-baT bill.
This abuse OF legislative power has
been carried to extremes in some Popu-
listic communities. tt being an article Of
fundamental faith with those citizens
that the prime function Of government IS
to interfere with the citizen in every
way possible.
The latest phase Of this political dis
ease, as was naturally to be expected,
comes from Kansas. 1t Is this:
The Town Council Of Mankato, Kan.
intends to stop by ordinance the singing.
humming or whistling Of the song "a
Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight"
In 1894 the Town Council Of Mankato
squelched the whistling and singing OF
after the Ball" 1t passed an ordinance
under the Nuisance law filming each and
every person 50 cents for each and every
time he or she might be proved guilty Of
whistling or singing "After the Ball" be-
tween the hours of O'Clock in the morn
ing and 10 o'clock at night
We suppose if anybody should whistle
or sing Dixie at any time Of day or
night in Mankato, Kan, he would be in
danger Orwell. let US say-the yeniten-
tiary.
Democratic principles teach us 10 Ieeis-
late as little as possible.
Let the people alone! They will take
care of themselves.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-12-17

Of construction before they can reap tne
advantages
We nause here 10 remark that, In our
opinion the cities Of Virginia would cheer
furv hear their share of the cost OF road
improvement and that II II ever came TO
vote OF the people on the question or
road taxation. the people OF the cites
will not be dereic;. Good roads are as
important 10 the upbuildlng OF the eiues
as the rural districts. and city folks VIII
understand that fact.
AS to the employment Of convicts' Cen
eral Roy says:
There exists in some places strong ODD
jections to employing convicts upon punn'
roads. A happy solution OF ms uifhcnity,
however. presents itsclf. Employ your
convicts in preparing materlal lot puli'-
Ing good roads. This has been tri'o III
number of States. and has proven 10 DC
an economical as well as healthful way
OF working convicts. 7 am satisneh thal
Maryland could employ its short-'ernl
prisoners and House or Corrtcuo"
inmates I'm this way and deliver ROAD ma
terial at fifty cents ton in any part Oh
the Nldit. TItfH l'olS iusiNt ~ W.
cultural Department Il is SHOWN mat
SOME OF tho best road material IN the
world can be had in abundance IN many
sections OF your state. With convicts pre-
pairing the material. free labor could ne
employed to "A greater extent In placing
it upon the roads
This suggestion Is not new. but It IS
perhaps the most practicable plan for
the employment OF convicts in this d.
rection.
After all. however. the whole subject
returns to the question OF money We
cannot have good roads without paying
for them, and paying literally. Roads
cannot DO made by cheap. spasmodic e.
forts under desultory plans. III order TO
succeed there must. first OF all be an
ample appropriation. and the money must
be expended according to a well-deviseo'
systematic plan. We cannot make arr
roads by hap-hazard any more than we
can mako railroads by that process.