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Evening journal., 1897-01-21
TIrSt UlstrICt.
JAMES +. EARLY,
Second District.
CHARLES WHANN,
Third District.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under
signed will apply to the Legislature at its
next session. for a divorce from her hus-
band. George F. Cole. LENA NJ. COLE.
Wilmington. Del, Jan. l5 1897
LADIES! Chichester's English Penny
royal Pills diamond Brand are the best.
Safe, reliable. Take no other. Send &c.
stamps for particulars. "Relief for
Ladies'" In letter by return mail. At
druggists. Chichester Chemical Co..
philadelphia
NOTICE is hereby given that the un-
dersigned will apply to the Legislature
at its next session for divorce from her
husband, Samuel b. Hunter.
MARY HUNTER.
Wilmington, Del, Jan. p, 1891.
NOTICE is hereby given that the un-
dersigned will apply to the Legislature
at its present session. for divorce from
her husband. william III. Windsor,
EZRAY X. WINDSOR.
Wilmington, Del, Jan. p, 1897.
NOTICE is hereby given that the un
dersigned will apply to the Legislature
al it's next session for a divorce from heI
husband w Dennis Redmond.
SALLIE IL. REDMOND.
Wilmington, Del, Jan. Is, 1897
NOTICE is hereby given that the un-
dersigned will apply to the Legislature
at its next session, for a divorce from
her husband, Walter w. blackburn.
JENNIE BLACKBURN.
Wilmington, Del, December 23 1896.
Evening journal., 1897-01-21

NOTICE.-THE COUNTY ASSESS
ment is now completed and may be seen
at the following places:
First district-First ward, James Har-
kins's cigar store. No. 2l5 West Fourth
street. Second ward, Michael Gillespie's
cigar store, No. COZ East Third street
Fourth ward, Joseph Cross's barber shop,
Fourth and Lombard streets. Eighth
ward, Charles h. Taylors cigar store,
Sixth and Lombard streets
Second district-Third ward, New York
Tea Store, northeast corner Fourth and
Monroe streets. Fifth ward. Nancy
Quigley's saloon. No. 620 Madison street.
Tenth ward, Margaret Harkins saloon,
Pleasant and jackson streets. Eleventh
ward. Robert Cottinghams saloon. No.
800 Maryland avenue. Twelfth ward.
Philip r. Shea's saloon, Fourth and Scott
streets.
Third district-Sixth ward. William II.
L.loyd's grocery store, No. 705 king street.
Seventh ward William b. Smith. Jr. S
grocery store. northwest corner Delaware
avenue and jefferson street. Ninth ward,
Joseph j. Rigby's cigar store, No. 1000
Market street.
The assessors will be in session at the
Court House Levy Court room on Janu-
airy es, "a, 2S, 29 and 30. for the purpose of
making any corrections and placing any
name on the assessment list that may
have been omitted.
j. ID. MCCOY,
Evening journal., 1897-01-21

NOTICE.-The thirty-sixth series OF
stock of the Perpetual Savings and Loan
Association Is now being issued: first pay
nent is due January 4, 1897. Shares can
be obtained at any time at the office.
northeast corner Of Fifth and Shipley
streets.
EDWARD ANDREWS, President.
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NOTICES.

NOTICE is hereby given that I'm confor-
nifty with the act entitled AN Act Con-
cerning Private Corporations. passed al
Dover, on March IA. A. d., 1883 applica-
tion will be made before the Hon. lgna-
titus c. Grubb associate justice of the Su-
erior Court at chambers on Saturday
January 90, A. D., 1897, at 10 o'clock, a.
m. to Incorporate the Architect and En-
gineers Lettering Company.
S. GARLAND,
Attorney for IncorpOra tors
Wilmington. Del January 49, 1897
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BE CAREFUL.

Be careful Of your manners, they IN
dicate your breeding.
Be careful of your thoughts, for they
form your life.
Be careful of your actions, for they
reveal your character
Be careful of your associates; you
are judged by the company you keep.
Be careful of your health; it is a
blessing that can never be too highly
valued; it is simply priceless.
Be careful of the first signs of cough,
cold, or weakness; they are the fore
runners of disease.
Be careful in what way you counter
act cough or a cold, and remember
there is nothing which does it so well
as pure stimulant.
Be careful that you secure the right
stimulant and bear in mind that the
best authorities agree that nothing
equals a pure whiskey.
Be careful that you secure the pur-
est and the best, and remember that
doctors and scientists agree that no
whiskey equals Duffys Pure Malt
Be careful that you take this great
preparation promptly, and in sys-
tematic manner. Remember that "a
stitch in time saves nine,'' and that
your health and happiness may de-
pend upon it.
Be careful that you are not persuad-
ed to take something else which may
be called Just as good by your drug
gist or grocer Insist upon having
Duffy's Pure Malt, which is the only
pure, medicinal whiSkey in the mar
kpt
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-21
A NOVELTY IN FOOTBALL.

San FranciscanS are soon to enjoy an
innovation in football. The game has
been exemplified by college students and
athletes time and time again in many
hard-fought contests on local gridirons,
but lovers Of the great hospital-recruit-
ing game have never yet had a chance to
see fair femininity interpret its intrica-
cies. Baseball games in which teams of
the gentler sex have struggled for su-
premacy have been played in plenty, but
football is yet to receive it's initial pres
entation at their hands.
Here is a splendid opportunity, which
Colonel T. Peacherino $50 called because
he is a good thing') Robinson has over
looked, and it has been left to Messrs.
Stewart and Seeba to supply the long
felt want. This the gentlemen named
have undertaken to do, and for that pur-
pose they have secured the Velodrome
for a series of games, the first of which
will be played next Saturday christmas
day..
The contending teams will be the San
Francisco Grays and the Oakland
Browns, for which event the young ladies
have been practicing most assiduously
for the past week, with every promise of
being in excellent trim for the struggle
Two competent coachers-Welch and
Nicholson-have been engaged to instruct
the girls, and they have made such good
progress that already the players have
learned that hair-pulling is not one of
the essential points of the game, while
the eminently proper thing to do when
any one girl stubs her toe and falls is
for the other twenty-one players to 1ump
on the PROSTATE one with both feet. This
feature promises to be one of the strong
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-21
SETTLERS
WIN THEIR
ROOF TREES
Monterey Bay Lands
Are Awarded to
HOmesteaders.
Local Land Registers De-
eide Against Capt.
taliSt Jacks.
He Could Not Acquire COLONY
Lands at Tax Sale for
Song.
POOR PEOPLE PROTECTED,
Every Mans Home a Castle in Spite OF
Spectators Titles and Tech
nical Laws.

A fight that began in the United
States Land Office many decades age
was decided yesterday by Registers
Hackett and Dunn of the local office
1t was the celebrated case of David
Jacks, the Monterey capitalist and
land owner, against Daniel Beland and
about a dozen other settlers. By this
decision the rights of more than sixty
men, women and children were de-
clared in such a way as to make their
roof trees secure for the remainder of
their days. The contest has been on
for nearly half century.
The suit abounded in technicalities,
being replete with knotty problems,
wherein old doctrines from the time of
the famous Year Books to date were
appealed to by counsel for the Iiti-
gants. NJ. D. Hyde represented the
settlers. The points decided are of in
terest to settlers throughout the State.
Directly and indirectly the suit de-
cided by the Registers has been on
ever since 1858. The area of the ter
ritory in dispute exceeds 500 acres, on
which some sixty coloniSts have lived
for about fifteen years. During this
time they have cleared the forests,
titled the soil and built their homes.
All this was done under the belief that
they were complying with the land
laws of the country, and that their til
tie would be beyond dispute. But it
transpired that David Jacks, during
all these years, was building his title
from other sources.
In 1855 he and one Ashley bought
nearly thirty thousand acres from the
city of Monterey, receiving a tax title.
Under this title they finally got a
United States patent, covering a vast
area adjacent to the bay.
Jacks first began his claim for the
land Of the settlers in the Department
of the Interior, but he lost. He then
pursued the settlers before the Regis
ters and Receivers of the Land Of
flee here, and will undoubtedly carry
the contest to the Commissioner of the
General Land Office. His claim is that
he supposed his patent covered the
lands in question as well as the other
$4,000 acres which he obtained for the
petty sum of a thousand dollars.
The Commissioners have held that
Jacks could not claim any more land
than his grantor had. In this case
the grantor was the city of Monterey.
AS the city did not own the land its
grantee was precluded from setting
up any claim thereto.
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est points of the game. Rugby rules, In
a modified form calculated to prevent any
fatalities, will govern the contest, but the
managers guarantee that the modifica-
tions will in no way mar the exciting
features.
The teams will be costumed in regula-
ton football uniforms, and the members
will undoubtedly present a dazzling ap-
pearance when they make their first ap-
pearance and before they have had a
chance to skate through the mud on their
wishbones. After that, well. the girls
will look like real football-players.
1t is the intention of the managers to
organize teams in all the larger cities of
the State, and after playing them all
against the San Francisco teams in this
city to send the latter team out for a
series of return games. The second game
Will be played on New Years day and
the succeeding ones on Sunday after
moons, until every team in the State has
met the local players. For the local and
Oakland teams the managers have been
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intended to include matters of which
the drawee was absolutely ignorant
or which he was not presumed or ex-
pected to know or which he would be
unable to discover in the brief space
of time allowed by the rule, or of
which the bank presenting the check
had at least equal means of knowl-
edge. After 4 o'clock p. NJ. of De-
cember II, 1895, the payment of the
check became complete, but not
more so than if it had been made
over the counter. There is nothing
in the rule which intimates that it
shall have any greater effect
II bank which collects a check
wishes to avoid any future loss aris-
ing from it's receipt of the money, it
can easily do so by an Endorsement
upon the check that it is held merely
for collection, or by accepting only
honest and responsible people as it's
depoSitors.
Il feel confident that the construc-
ton here given to the rules of the
clearinghouse is absolutely neces-
sary for maintaining the confidence
between bankers without which their
business cannot be carried on, and is
in accord with the best public policy.
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ture, $164,S so; horses and harness,
5000 so; silverware at home places,
$25OO; real property in San Francisco,
$215,S50; real property in San Mateo
County, $150,5O0; real property in Ala
media, $1OO; real property in Sacrament
to, $4,000; real property in Shasta Coun-
ty $35OO; real property in Los Angeles
County, $25.
The deceased millionaire, as shown
by the appraisement, kept his capital
quite well concentrated in general lines
of investment, but scattered it consid-
erably in particular Investments
Many of the smaller speculations, from
the nature of the holdings, appear to
have been entered into by the million
aire as a matter of sentiment more
than business, perhaps to aid some
struggling organizer of a corporation
who lived in the shadow of number
of air castles and hoped to some day
receive the thanks of those who assist
ed him by reason Of his ability, aug
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fortunate in securing an exceedingly
healthy lot of girls. Every applicant for
positions on either team is entirely free
from heart, lung or other organic trouble
and in every way qualified to undergo
the violent exercise. Moreover, the great
est care was exercised in accepting none
but girls of irreproachable character.
The captains of the teams have not
been selected yet, but will be in a day
or two, nor have the players been as
signed to their regular positions, but the
girls who will participate in the Christ
mas day game are as follows:
San Francisco Grays-Rosa Ahstron.
Adele Brouquette, Lottie Cornell, Lillian
Livingston, Maud Collins, Stella Foster
Dollie Gerbeau, Maud Eagleson, Daisy
Eagleson, Lillian Merrill, Flora Meal
lister.
Oakland Browns Minnie Hentrof
cara Roxburgh, Clyde Sawyer, Nora
smith, Freydis Schroeder. Louise Hart
Jennie Broks, Lottie Brooks, Emily Hart
Viola Williams, Jeanette Halbertson.
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menting the sum of their investment.
The majority of the holdings, however,
are of very substantial nature.
Among the largest holdings are $40
shares of the capital stock of the
Southern Pacific Company, which are
appraised at $16,226 25, $50 shares of
the California Pacific Railroad valued
at $3SOO, 100 shares of the Central Pa
c1flc Railroad valued at $1,000, $50
shares of the Oakland Water Front
Company valued at $3000 527 shares of
the Rocky Mountain Coal and Iron
Company valued at S26, $50, 100 shares
of Wells, Fargo & Co. valued at $10,-
500, 1874 shares of the Market-street
Railway Company valued at 1874 1865,
1886 shares of the capital stock of the
Crocker- Woolworth Bank valued at
1921, ,4S0, 1899 shares of the capital
stock of the Crocker Estate Company
appraised at $3,999,S 800, 221 first mort
gage per cent gold bonds of the
Southern Pacific Company of Arizona
valued at $209.950, "a first mortgage
s per cent gold bonds of the Southern
Pacific Company of New Mexico
valued at $4,000, 233 first consolidated
mortgage 5 per cent gold bonds of the
Market-street Railroad Company of
California valued at $244 $50 1853 first
mortgage 6 per cent gold bonds of the
Southern Pacific Branch Railway Com
pany of California valued at S162, ,740
157 first mortgage per cent gold bonds
of the Galveston, Harrisburg and San
Antonio Railway Company valued at
$157 900, and SO first consolidated mort
gage per cent gold bonds of the
Southern Pacific Company of Califor-
MIA valued at $S3,700.
The total amount invested in stocks
and bonds, which include many thou
sands of dollars not noted above.
represents the bulk of the estate. OF
the promissory notes held by the tes-
tatOr, one of s20,000 issued by w. F.
McNutt and secured by property on
Sutter street, near Van Ness avenue,
is the largest. Many smaller notes are
included in the inventory, and all are
appraised at their face value. The real
estate held by the deceased was not
extensive, but is carefully noted on the
inventory Judge Coffey will consider
the appraisement and whether or not
1t will be allowed to stand or a reap
praisement will be ordered made vet
remains to be seen. 1t was thought
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-21
WeIburn Moy Be IndIcted.

The United States Grand Jury will
meet to-day, and it is expected that it
will report on several matters which
have engaged their attention for several
weeks past. 1t is believed that an in
dictment will be found against eX-Col-
burn. Mr.. Welburn has been absent
from the city for some time past, but his
son says that he has not gone away and
that he was in Stockton a few days ago.
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Inventory and Appraise-
ment Of G. F. CrOcker'S
Estate Filed.
Bulk OF the Property Repre-
Sented in Stocks and
Bonds.
The Value Of the Real Estate and
Money Left by the Deceased
Is Small.

An inventory and appraisement of
the estate of Charles f. Crocker, who
died at his home in San Mateo County
a few months ago, was placed on file
in Judge Coffey's department of the
Superior Court yesterday afternoon.
The appraisers of the big estate, W.
E. Brown, E. F. Gerald and William
c. Mahoney, find it to be worth, in
round figures, $7,032. .129 %.
This vast wealth is mostly represent
ed in personal property, the deceased
having but little money and real estate
in comparison TO the value of the
estate at the time of his death. The
recapitulation is as follows: Money
Gncluding life insurance), $14S, 419 SO;
stocks and bonds, $6,S14,61O So; promis-
sorry notes, $25,745 "a; household furni-
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-21

house within two hours after it had
passed, and that this time having
elapsed the bank presenting it was no
further liable, is thus disposed of:
1 do not think that the rule of the
clearinghouse requiring checks
within two hours after the clearance
at which they were exchanged was
intended to apply to raised checks.
The only purpose for which the
EFFECT more perfect and SatiSfac-
tory settlement of the daily ex-
changes and balances" between the
members. 1t is not reasonable to
presume that there was any inten-
tion to abrogate any of the settled
rules of commercial law or to give
any other effect to payment made
through the clearinghouse than to a
payment made in the manner pre-
viously in vogue. The object of the
banks was merely TO substitute a
common counter for the settlement
of daily balances, instead Of the old
and inconvenient method of payment
of checks and drafts over the coun-
ter of each bank. a rule which re-
quires a drawee bank within the
brief space of two hours to deter
mine at its peril not only the gen
uineneSS of the signatures of the
drawers of checks and the state of
their accounts, but also the genuine
ness of the body of the checks many
of which may have been written at
called more perfect and satisfac-
tory than that which prevailed be-
fore the clearinghouse was organ
lied. Under such a construction a
clearinghouse could not last a day.
To suppose that the rule was intend
ed to apply to cases of this character
is to assume that the bankers who
framed it were destitute of ordinary
intelligence. 1t has been repeatedly
held that the certification of d check
by the bank upon which it is drawn
amounts only to a stipulation that
the signature of the check is genuine
and the drawer has sufficient funds
TO meet it.
In concluding his opinion Judge Sea-
well sums up the situation as follows:
see no reason for giving a differ
ent meaning to the word good as
applied to checks paid through the
clearinghouse from that given to it
by the courts in, the, cases cited.
Thus construed the rule refers only
to checks which are mot good in the
two particulars of which the drawee
has any knowledge, viz. the sigma
ture of the drawer and the state of
his account. 1t could not have been
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-21
Set for q TrioI.

The case of the United States of
America against George H. Platt and
Monroe Salisbury to recover $99, 500 20, all
legged to have been overpaid them by the
Government for carrying the United
States mail between Bozeman and
Tongue River, in Montana, has been set
for trial in the United States Circuit
Court for January "a, 1898.
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-21
Last VIII of Lab LIvInos.on.

The last will of Liab Livingston, who
died on the 18th of last July. was aIad
Tor probate yesterday. The estate of the
deceased, which consists of real and per-
sonal property in this city. the value of
Which is unknown, is bequeathed to the
widow of the deceased, Lima Livingston.
who resided in this city.
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-21

0y many that the estate left by Colonel
Irocker exceeded in value the sum of
the appraisement, but the Apnraisers
worked steadily for several weeks
ana believe the entire value of the es-
tate is noted
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-21
GoId-Mounted Pitcehrs and Vases

We received yesterday an elegant line
of gold-mounted pitchers and vases.
These will be opened up and placed on
sale with our fine lamps and onyx ta-
bes on second floor to-day. Sanborn
Vail & Co., 741 Market street. Open even
iQgS.
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-21
THREE BUILDING LOTS.

Southwest side, No. 800 Beale ST., 22S:5 fe
southeast of Folsom st.-In the heart of I
manufacturing district. Lot 45:Sx130 feet
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MISSION BusTNEss LOTS
opposite PaIace Hotel. San Francisco.

Valencia and Eighteenth streets. To be sold
whole, subdivided.
West line of Valencia street, 55 feet north
of Eighteenth. Lot 55x100 feet.
North side of Eighteenth street, 100 feet west
Of Valencia. Lot 5:6x105 feet.
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Christmas News Letter
Surpasses all. See it. Buy il.
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-21

South side of Green street, 1876 feet east {
Hyde street-To be sold as a whole or subd
videdi if improved Will pay pig. Lot 6S:9x137
feet.
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REALE-SpREET LOT

East line Dolores, 150 feet south of Twent
fourth st.-Level and ready for building. I
50x125 feet.
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OAK-STREET LOT

North side Oak street, 1875 feet west of Fill
more street-Lot ready for building. Lot 25x
1876 feet.
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REFEREE SALE.

Southwest side Ritch ST., 206:3 feet northwe.
of Townsend st.-One-story house on Ritch 8
and three-story house on Clyde street. Ii
22:11XS0 feet.
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MISSION WARM BELT REsIDENC

South line CNo. 372O Twentieth street.
feet west of Guerrero; two-story house OF
rooms and bath; this is a beautiful Miss
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GREEN=sTREET LOT
.pOLOREs-sTREET LOT

South line Green St, 175 feet west of Pierc
Grand marine view. Lot 25X100 feet.
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EASTON, ELDREDGE g. co

Call at office for Catalogue giving full
ticulars.
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Office and SaIesrooms, 63S Market stree
Opposite Palace Hotel.)
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-02-24
PERSONAL.
anxious.

The Hon. wfrId Iaurler. Premier OF Canada mas
consented 10 attend the banquet which Is to be gwen
by the London Chamber Of Commerce 70 tne Ma
Prime Ministers the occasion OF the "uee" ~
mond Jubilee in June.
The Missouri Senate has passed bill appropratng
81 500 for the purpose OF erecting monument d. 'no
grave OF Daniel Boone and wife. who are our'eu All
Warren County, Mo.
vanity Fair" says that when Don Jaime. the son
OF Don Carlos, at school in England one Oh MS
older school-felNws day seen vigorously
kicking him. Asked what Jaime had done 10 pro-
yoke such treatment the English boy answered: lie
one OF these days and II he Is want to be able TO
say that / once kicked the King OF Spain
The citizens of Roxbury. Mass, are taking active
steps raise 500 900 to erect monument 70 Seherd
Joseph Warren.
DR.. Wifred Grenfell the head OF the English
mission TO deep sea fishermen. Is giving lectures in
Boston Speaking Of him The Boston transcript
says: An oxford graduate. still very youthful
leader in athletic sports when In the UNIVERSITY anu
a cultivated Christian gentleman he Is most inspr-
ing person with whom TO come In contact ana
during the few years In which he has been engaseaq
in this medical missionary work he has accomplished
wonders through his ships and through MS hospitals
on shore"
The Rev Dr. H. A. Smson. OF this city, preached
the sermon on Sunday at the dedication OF the memo
rial chapel in Worcester. Mass. butt by the widow
and children OF the late T. l.. Moen
George Davidsohn, the Editor and founder OF the
Berlin "B6rsencourier." whose sudden death IN
Berlin Is Just reported, OF the most gifted
journalists OF the German capital. He was an es-
pecial devotee Of music. and one OF the earliest
and most Jealous champions Of Wagner and his
art He did much to advance the success OF Wag-
ner's Ideas being one Of the founders OF the Wag-
ner Verein. He was sxty-two years old
AS successor to the famous Psychologist Du Bois-
Raymond. head Of the Physiological Institute In
Berlin and professor Of physiology in the Univer-
sity. Professor Hermann Munk will probably be
chosen. since Herr Won Kries-Freiburg, to whom
the place was offered, has declined q. Professor
Munk who Is hfty-eight years old. was pupil OF
Du Bots Raymond and is a member OF the Berlin
University faculty and professor and director OF
tire physiological laboratory Of the Veterinary High
School in Berlin He has been member OF the
Academy OF Science since 1880 His selection meets
with warm approval among the scientists Of Berlin.