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The herald., 1897-02-11
A CHINESE DIFFICULTY
An Ancient Shooting Scrsps Revived and an
Arrest 1ade

Arrest 1ade
Down in Chinatown last evening about
o'clock little. understood celestial,
who answers to the name of Fook Tia,
was arrested and sent in to Jail to an
swer charge of assault with a deadly
weapon. The complaining witness is
a wrinkled-faced heather named Yuen
Wo, at whom Fook Tia took two shots
one day in the early part of November
last.
The trouble. it is stated. arose over
the fact that Fook Tia had stolen from a
cousin of Wos in San Francisco an al
mond-eyed houri, for whom he had paid
$500 in cold cash. When the festive
Fook Tia made way with the woman and
brought her to Los Angeles the cousin,
in his perplexity. wrote to Yuen Wo to
see if he could do anything for him or
aid in the recovery of his chattel.
Wo old his best and got into heated
argument with Fook Tia, with the re-
suit that the latter pulled his gun and
blazed away twice, but missed both
times by narrow margin, The COM
paint was sworn out on November 9th
last. but no arrest was made until last
night for the reason, it is claimed, that
Fook Tia paid Wo a sum of money to
square things Tia was bled several
times but at last refused to yield fur
ther and was accordingly pointed out to
the officers
His enemy was so desirous of seeing
him safely in Jail that he rode up in the
patrol wagon with the officers and an
nounced his intention, in the worst Of
pigeon English, to prosecute the case to
the bitter end. It was at first the inten
ton to hold him in Jail as witness. bu;
finally on leaving his name and address
and promising to appear he was allowed
to go home, but Fook Tia went to Jail.
The herald., 1897-02-11
JOHNSON ARRAiGNED
Additional Evidence of Other Grimes Disco,
cred by Detectives

Yesterday saw visible improvemer
in the mental condition, real or assumet
of H. B. Johnson, the eX-choir singer, a.
rested by Detectives Bradish and Stee
for the burglarizing of the rooms of d
S. H. Boynton on South Main stree
Since his arrest Johnson has apparent
been little crazy, and on Monday la
tried to burn himself in his cell by NAL
ing a bonfire of his clothing.
He was arraigned in the afternoon b.
fore Justice Owens, who set his prelii
mary examinatin for today at p, I
During the time johnson has been in ia
the detectives have not been idle, al
besides recovering lot of the Jewell
stolen from DR. Boyntons place ha'
found a valise full of tools which Joh
son sold, evidently the product of al
other job The officers claim to have
clear case again the fellow, and are COZ
f1dent that he will go over the road for
term of years,
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q bit of rice, few dates and perhaps
little fruit, he has no touch of the spirit
ual soul, save perhaps, in his face, which
is fine and poetical, and his hands, the
fingers of which are wonderfully long
and slender He wears a robe of white
India silk, long and flowing, and a scarf
of the same material, while a turban
is wound around his head, which is also
white, and throws out in high relief a
dark, sensitive face, lit by a pair oc
piercing black eyes. He speaks the
purest English and in an interview with
a Herald representative yesterday told
something of the work he is taking up
in the western hemisphere.
THE BRAHMACHARIN ORDER
THE idea of the order of Brahmach-
arin," said he, 'is to spread universal
ideas of religion; to help those who no
longer believe in any dogmatic or as
sertive creed; to give a rational system
Of philosophy and religion, and to help
those who want to lead a holy life, do
ing away with its divisions into relg-
ious and secular; and further, to reach
the sorrowful and suffering.
The life of one in this Brahma charm
order is one of hardship, of mental NOR
al and physical discipline tending to
refine the body.
.It is one of the four orders of Brah-
minieal life, 1t has two divisions one
requiring the student to lead a life of
celibacy. the other permitting mar
riage."
"Bodhabarin" belongs to the first or
der His name was one assumed when
he became member of the order to
which he belongs. 1t means "a mendi-
cant for wisdom and enlightenment"
THE INDIAN FAMINE
In touching on the great famine in
1-l l.
is terrible thing. 1t entails awful
suffering on the people of India; the
outward cause is the failure of the
crops through the scarcity of rain, and
the heavy taxation which compels all
the people to sell all they produce every
year. This produce is shipped off to
England to brew into whisky and all
sorts of poison to ruin humanity
The inward cause is what we call
the law Of Karma, or cause and effect.
which may be traced to the people
India is no longer the India of ancient
times. 1t has been for 5000 years under
foreign nations who are plundering and
robbing the people. Under such influen-
ces the people have become degraded
and Eave fallen from their high standard
of living. This must come TO even the
most perfect institutions which win de-
cay in course of time. India has seen
the rise and fall Of Greece and Rome.
of Assyrla and Babylon, and it is o,lile
natural that she should meet old age
and death, which in a nation, means
degradation and corruption
Therofore one one must not think
that India suffers because her religion
or philosophy is at fault, but because
the people 90 not keep to their ideas or
follow the teachings IF the sublime phil-
osophy of religion
1T would be just as unjust to find fault
with Christian teachings because n.i-
lions are suffering in this country
through the oppression of capitalists and
the tyranny of new scientific inventions.
or farther because the people in I'm.
middle ages were burned at the stake or
tortured on the rack by the leaders of the
church
WOMEN OF INDIA
In speaking Of the women of India.
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"Bodhabarin'' said: THE condition OF
the women Of India has been grossly
misrepresented by the ordinary mission
ary. There are examples of degradation,
but one cannot understand the whole
social system unless he understands the
philosophy of the Hindoos. To judge OF
the status of women in India as many
do, is like going on visit in the west
ern world, to the slums, and low places
Of living. to form impressions or the
women Of the west. The inner myster-
les of Hindoo life are seldom known to
any but very few who are in deep SYM
pathy, and on terms of intimate friend
ship with them, as was Max Muller,
who speaks in the highest terms of the
Hindoos."
MISSIONARY" WORK
Further the Brahmn said: THE mis-
sionary work in India is almost futile
The intelligent Hindoo does not investi-
gate Christianity. He has deep rev.
erence for Christ and the Bible. but the
Bible was an oriental book, and Christ
was an oriental 1t is more than use
less to put on western spectacles to read
the life of Christ or the Bible. OF the
Sanskrit work. The Upanishads, trans
lated by "Bodhabarin." Schopenhauer
said: I'm the whole world there is no
study so sublime or so beneficial as that
of the Upanishads. 1t has been the So
lace of my life and it Will be the solace
Of my death
The first lecture of this oriental visitor
will be given Sunday before Harmony
lodge, the subject being. Christ in the
Hindoo Light
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released him on his promise to do bette
in the future.
POLICE COURT
Arraigumsnts and Sentences by the City
Magistrates

Arraignments and Sentences by the City
Magistrates
In the police court yesterday afternoon
L. l.. Levalley, the young butcher, who
while crazy drunk endeavored to per-
forate a street car conductor named
Lawrence and then ran amuck through
the neighborhood, schooling couple
o frevolvers in promscuous fashino was
arraigned on charge of assault with in
tent to kill. Examination was set for
Monday next, the 18th, at $3.50 a. M, and
in default Of $4,000 bail Levalley was re-
manded to Jail.
A charge of petty larceny was preferred
against Charles Mansfield, the fellow
caught early yesterday morning while
breaking into cigar stand on North
Main street. To this Mansfield entered
plea of guilty and desired immediate
sentence. Justice Rossiter accommo-
dated him and sent him below for 100
days to think over the evil of his ways.
Sentence was pronounced by Justice
Owens upon John Miner, convicted on
Tuesday of stealing pair of rubber
boots. The prisoners shifty appearance
was against him and he was given five
months in the chaingang. Miner is un-
doubtedly a hard character and the
jailers have warned the chaingang guard
to be on the watch for him.
On a charge of disturbing the peace j.
D. Johnson was tried and at the close
of evidence the case was taken under ad-
visement. Johnsor raised row a few
nights ago with Lille Walters at her
domicile on Alameda street.
T. Henry was arraigned upon a COM
plaint sworn to by c. D. Hart who
charged the former with disturbing his
peace on East First street. A plea of not
crlli1tV ht-E trio ha;
set for Friday at p. m.
Floaters of 80 and $50 days respect
lively were given Cyrus Lane and John
Burns. convicted of vagrancy, and they
were released in order that they might
leave town as soon as possible. A gr.st
of thirteen drunks who received the reg
ulation sentences, rounded up the days
nrOceedingS
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last while acting as agent for the de-
luded Heurg

last NlIlle dClii5 as as Cit AOl bhS hc-
luded Heurg.
1t appears that a number Of the Ce-
lestials have a habit of forming joint
loan associations among themselves
and sharing the profits equally. Ten
men will form a company, each putting
in, say, so each to a common fund,
which is then auctioned off as a loan to
the highest bidder The leader or or
ganizer of the company is made cashier
and to him the loan is made repayable.
Louie Chew was the treasurer of such
an organization and to him Chan Yen
Heung paid $50 to satisfy loan which
he had secured. Chew failed to turn
the cash back into the treasury but blew
it in, hence the complaint The com
plicated business relations existing be-
tween the parties to the controversy
and the evident impossibilty of ever
Strengthening matters out to a jury
through the medium of Chinese testi-
mony, prompted the district attorneys
office to move a dismissal of the case,
although there was little doubt that
Louie Chew had spent the cash intrusted
to his keeping.
The herald., 1897-02-11
AN UNFORTUNATE LUNATIC
Imaglnes That lie Has Important Ciews in a
Murder Case

Crazy as bedbug, j. X. Childs was
last night picked up on Bellevue
avenue by Officer Talamantes and sent
to the county Jail to be held awaiting
examination by a lunacy commission,
The unfortunate man resides at 422
Bellevue avenue, and has evidently gone
wrong thinking over the Bellew murder
case.
He imagines that he is a detective
and also an important witness in re-
gard to identifying the clothing worl
both by the victim and the murderers
When found he was carefully arrangir :
piles of old tin cans along a fence AMI
mumbling over some old rags which he
declared were pieces of the murderer s
vest While apparently harmless he was
evidently in need of care and will prob
ably go to Highland.
The herald., 1897-02-11
Utah's Senatorial Election

SALT LAKE, Utah, Feb. 10-In the
legislature today Senator Rideout in
troduced a concurrent resolution pro-
viding for the appointment of a commit
tee Of four members of the house anG
three of the senate for the purpose o.
investigating the charges that undue in
fuence was brought upon members OF
the legislature in relation to their votir g
for United States senator. Without ac-
ton the resolution was laid over.
The herald., 1897-02-11
A heavy Rainfall

EUREKA, Feb. 10.-A phenomenal
rainfall is reported from upper Mattole
in the southern part of this county.
Nineteen and ninety-nine hundredths
inches of rain fell during eleven days
continuous storm commencing January
28, making a fall of 56 inches for the sea-
son. On the Sd and 4th of February it
reached S,53 inches. The rainfall in that
section often reaches 100 inches during
the son
The herald., 1897-02-11
CHINESE EMBEZZLEMENT CASE
Tho Intricate Business Relations Of a Celestial
Loan Company

A Chinese embezzlement case which
has been hanging fire in the courts for
several weeks came to naught yesterday
when Louie Chew was. upon motion of
Acting Assistant District Attorney
Chambers, discharged from custody and
the charge against him dismissed by
Justice Rossiter. Louie Chew had been
charged by countryman named Chan
Yen Heung with appropriating to his
own use the sum of 500 on January 4th
The herald., 1897-02-11
pompey on the Warpath

The redoubtable Pompey Smith the
negro slasher, came to grief last night at
II o'clock on Alameda street, where he
was raising terrible row and Offering to
fight any and all comers. Officer Davis
happened along just as Pompey's feel
ings reached the boiling point, and sent
the bloodthirsty darkey in for disturb
ing the peace.
The herald., 1897-02-11
Drunk and Diiapidated

From the corner of Second and San
Pedro streets dilapidated wreck was
sent to the police station at 10:30 last
night, full of bad liquor and coverel /
with blood When he had been washed
and dressed in the receiving hospital
the drunk gave his name as John Kelly
and said his scalp had been laid open
by a blow from bottle received during
a row. After his head had been ban
daged Kelly was assigned a cell for
the night to sober up
Wall paper, late styles, low prices at
A. A. Eckstrom's, 324 South Spring street
The herald., 1897-02-11
By c. M. Stevens & Co.
...AuCtiOneerS...

Special sale at residence, o63 Orange st,
one block above Pearl, on Friday, Feb
ruary II, at 10 a. m. consisting OF up.
holstered rockers and easy chairs, sofas,
ooucles, bookcase, oak, bedroom suites,
brass beds, lace curtains, mattresses,
toilet ware, extension table and dining
chairs, china glassware, gas range, kitchen
furniture, etc.
G. M. STEVENS & CO.,
Auctioneers
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Drunk and nisorder,y

Moilie Long an elderly and dissipated
female, was arrested on Los Angeles
street near Requena at 10 o'clock last
night and given ride to the police sta
ton in the hurryup wagon. She was
chock full of bad whisky and raising
such a row that the whole neighborhood
was disturbed. For her actions Mollie
will be called to account in the police
court today
The herald., 1897-02-11
DEATHS

FRANCK-At 2o4 East Fourth street. Los
Angeles, Feb. 1lth, 1887, Miss Nathalia
Franck, aged 81 years.
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-19

o a OF the said
participated decisions
the
plains
in
the debates
n o ne Supreme bench
He has been an unwaeng Republican
o Court
OF S - 0i'
public life
c. in
the
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-19

ter plan of cutting expenses in other
directions and paying labor its just
reward.
During Mr.. Johnston's incumbency
attacks of extreme virulence and bitter
ness have been made against the de-
partment by designing persons who,
with utter disregard for truth or facts,
have sought to overthrow this, one or
the States most important establish
ments, and in these attempts the ma
licious authors have even sought to
cast suspicion upon the head of the de-
partment; but Mr.. Johnston has calmly
withstood every attack and proven
every calumny to be the work of cor
rupt and vicious parties in the employ
of those who have a pecuniary inter-
est in the Gripping of the States great
printing plant, and has through every
fight stood manfully for the interests
of labor It has been Mr.. Johnston's
constant effort to impress upon per-
sons everywhere who have been mis-
led by false statements regarding the
State Printing Office the fact that no
department in the State does such an
enormous volume of work for the
money expended as does this, and more
than 75 per cent of its appropriations
are paid to laboring people-printers
pressmen, bookbinders, women and
girls and mechanics-who are thus en-
abled to earn honest livings at a cost
to the taxpayers of the State of less
than 13 cents per capita per annum.
Mr. Johnston's present term as Super
intendent of State Printing will ex-
pire January 8, 1S99
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-19
By ]. B. CROCKETT
Francis-Valentine Company.

Francis Valentine Company.
Chief among the large printing con-
Germs of San Francisco is the we'll
known Francis-Valentine Company,
located at 512-514-516 Commercial street
and SIT Clay. Founded in 1851, the
business of this firm has grown stead
lily, so that it is recognized as one of
the most extensive establishments of
the kind on the Pacific Coast. The
leading members of the firm are D. B.
Francis and S. d. Valentine.
Mr.. Francis will retire from the firm
on January 1, 1898. He will be sue
ceeded by H. P. Taylor Jr., the we'll
known Olympic Club leader and promi-
nent Mason. The firm has increased
it's facilities by adding new machinery,
presses, typesetting machines and a
complete outfit of new poster type, so
largely used in this establishment. All
work turned out is first class and con-
tracts are promptly executed. The
firm is now negotiating for new and
larger quarters, which, in view Of the
immense business of the concern, are
now indispensable. The removal will
be made in the next few months.
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-19
TENANTS CLAUS
SPRECKELS BUILDING
Continued from Page 47.
JOHN E. RICHARDS.
Sketch Of a Successful Lawyer,
Lecturer and Writer.

Sketch OF a Successful Lawyer,
Lecturer and Writer.
John e. Richards, attorney, classi-
cist and lecturer, is one of the bright
est lawyers of the San Francisco bar
He was born in Santa Clara County
in 1856 and received his rudimentary
education in the public schools, subse-
quently becoming a classical graduate
from the University of the Pacific. He
studied law at the University of Mich
igan during the years 1877-7S-79, and
was admitted to practice in the latter
year. He returned to California inn
mediately and after devoting eighteen
months time to office preparation, en-
tered into the active practice of his
profession at San Jose.
In the fourteen years prior to 1895
spent at San Jose Mr.. Richards took
prominent part as counsel in many
of the leading actions which engaged
the attention of the courts of Santa
Clara County during that period.
Among the more notable cases may
be mentioned the celebrated suit or
Richards against Donner, which is the
leading case upon the law of gifts.
Other suits were those of Childers
against the Mercury and Edwards
against the Times Publishing Compa-
ny, in which the law on libel was for
the first time exhaustively dissected
in California. He was also counseI. in
many of the electric lighting cases
which occupied the attention of the
Santa Clara County courts for so
many years. Mr.. Richards was invar-
iably successful in the presentation of
the law on behalf of his clients and his
contentious received the Endorsement
OF the Supreme Court on more than
one occasion.
Mr.. Richards removed to this city in
January, 1895, to take charge of the
legal affairs of The Call, and he now
occupies handsome offices on the
fourth floor of the Claus Spreckels
building. While at San Jose Mr.. Rich
ards delivered a course of lectures at
the University of the Pacific on eco
nomics, history, rhetoric and law. sub
Jects in which he is deeply versed. He
mas also literary reputation of high
order, many productions from his pen
appearing from time to time in the
principal newspapers and magazines.
His practice in this city is extensive.
he numbering among his clients MANY
of the best known firms and individuals
in the city,
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-19
STATE PRINTING OFFICE.
1t Is Under the Capable Man
aqenent Of A. j. Johnston.

The subject of this sketch, A. ].
Johnston, Superintendent of State
Printing for the second time, was
born in Nevada County, California,
January Is, 1857 He was edu
Gated in the public schools of Sac
ramento, and is and has ever been
prominently identified with the busi-
ness and material advancement of
Sacramento. Mr.. Johnston is actively
engaged with other gentlemen in min
ing in Ell Dorado County and has an
interest in several properties of merit
In conducting the affairs of the i'm
portant State department of which he
was elected chief by nearly 10000 plur-
ality in a hotly contested election, Mr.
Johnston has proven himself to be a
most admirable executive. Under his
administration the volume of work
turned out has been doubled, trebled
and in some instances quadrupled
without materially increasing the cost
to the State. In his management he
has steadily refused to allow himself
to be made party to any attempt to
lower the wages of the laboring
people in his employ, choosing the bet
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-19
j. F. Cunningham Company.

The J. F. Cunningham Company,
wholesale grocers, at II Clay street,
is one of the best-known firms on the
water front. The firm was incorpor-
ated many years ago, and carries on an
extensive business along the Pacific
Coast. The members of the concern
are: James Johnson, president; F. E.
Seidel, vice-president; ]. F. Cunning
ham, manager; A. P. Lorentzen and E.
G. Dozier.
The company makes a speciality of
furnishing supplies to the principal
shipping in the bay. It's stock of goods
is large, and embraces all that is car
ried by a first-class wholesale house.
1t is now prepared to submit bids for
furnishing supplies to parties going to
the Klondike. The excellent reputa-
ton of the firm insures honest treat
ment to every patron of the house.
The man who drinks Jesse Moore has
reason to know that life is worth living
after all Jesse Moore whisky dispels
the blues and gives buoyancy to the
most respondent nature.
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-19

In addition to the subjects usually
taught in school of this character,
instruction is provided in French, Ger
man, Italian, Spanish; music, vocal
and instrumental; drawing, bookkeep-
ing, shorthand and gymnastics. Special
advantages for the education and care
of the young are offered. Trinity
School has accommodations for about
100 pupils, including forty boarders.
Provision will be made for day board
ers, as well as for students to reside at
the school. Rev. Dr. Edward B. Spald-
ing is rector and Rev. George S. Mead,
MA, is vice-rector. The school was
founded in 1876, and many young men
now prominent in the public eye are
graduates therefrom.