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The San Francisco call., 1897-09-24
This Money Will be Paid at
Once to Farmers and Fruit
Men of California.
SHIPMENT CHEAPER THAN EXCHANGE.
Banks Amply Supplied With Specie
The Only Diversion Is to Sup
ply Absentee Galifornians.

The steamer Moana OF the Oceanic
Steamship Company line arriving from
Australia yesterday brought to this port
golden treasure in English sovereigns to
the value OF So, $50. 900. A ship of the same
line that arrived earlier in the month
brought 50, 500, 900 in specie.
This gold was al once taken to the Mint
in this city and there exchanged for gold
coins bearing the mint stamp of the
United States. In due course of time the
British gold will be melted and converted
into American double eagles"
The gold comes TO San Francisco to pay
the farmers and fruit-growers for grain
and fruit shipped 20 England. The bal
ance of trade is now in favor of the United
States in general and the State of Califor-
MA in particular. When the new tariff
law went into effect The CALL in pros
perity article made the prediction, based
on the Judgment of we'll known banker
of this city, that Europe would soon be
shipping gold to the United States. The
prediction is verified sooner than was ex-
pected.
The sum OF $6, $50 900 which has recently
come from Australia will be distributed
mainly TO the farmers and truit-growers
of this State. The reason for remittance
70 ]AuStAo oiAN 10 cHoA'J ApioihCo' Inc
English merchant owes a house in San
Francisco for grain and fruit bought IN
this market. At the same the merchant
in Australia owes the EngIishman for
goods bought in London. To simplify the
commercial transaction of squaring ac-
counts the Australian is directed 10 remit
certain sums TO San Francisco. The lat
ter finds it cheaper to ship the gold direct
to San Francisco than to remit by ex-
change.
The treasure which arrived on the Mo-
ana yesterday was consigned 10 the Lon
don, Paris and American Bank, the Bank
of British North America the Anglo
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-24
FRANCHISES TO
Be LIMITED
That for Street Railway
Lines Cut Down to
Twenty-Five Years.
Charter Convention Working on
the Report of the Legisla-
tive Committee.
A Section Favoring the Eight-Hour
Law and So Minimum Wage
Limit Adopted.

The charter convention of one hundred
held a Meeting in Shasta Hall last night
and renewed its consideration of the re-
port of the legislative committee.
President F. w. DohTmann presided
during the first part OF the evening, but
Mayor Phelan came in. later and was
called to the chair.
To section of The report granting the
Board of Supervisors the power 10 ix the
hours of labor and the compensation of
employees of the city Edward Rosen berg
offered an amend dment as follows:
Provided thateisht hours shall be the maxi
mum hours Of la Dor on any calendar dav tbs I
the wages of skitIed sborers shall be the rul-
ing trades-uD1on raies and the minimum
wages of unskiiled labOTers shall be 81 per
day.
The amendment was taken up in sec
tions. and with little opposition the por-
the 81 minimum were adopted, but the
section compelling the wages of skilled
laborers to conform to the ruling trades
union rates was stricken out.
section permitting two or more stree t
railway lines to use the same street was
adopted with an amendment offered by
OeHdtDI CAM uCi DlouHHnlb thot tHlo
should be for not more than eight blocks
The section of the report giving the
Supervisors authority to grant franchises
for the construction of street railways
brought about heated discussion, parti-
cipated in bv nearly every mem ber of the
committee present.
Amendments 10 the section were intro
duced to restrict the term of franchise to
twenty five years, against fifty as it now
stands, and providing that at the end of
that term all franchises shall revert TO the
city and not be regranted. These were
adopted after an attempt was made to
make the term of franchise ten years.
Mr.. Cridse then offered an amendment
that no franchise be gr,nted without be-
ing submitted to direct vote of the peo-
pie. This was lost, and after adopting
the section as amenoed the meeting ad-
journed.
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-24
Californian Bank, Wells, Fargo & Co. and

Californian Bank Wells Fargo & Co. and
Descompte de Paris.
The transaction at the United States F,
Branch Mint in San Francisco is speedy 1
and simple. The foreign gold is weighedv
and its value in weight paid over to the
owner in American coin within twenty
four hours. The gold remains in San Fran
cisco, as exchange seldom reaches the
shipping price by rail across the continent.
The shipping price is $175 upon each
500 600.
1t Is a significant fac. that the banks of
San francisco to-day are abundantly sup
piled with newly coined gold caused by
the output of the gold mines and the con-
slgnments of gold from abroad.
Inc greatest drain on the money re-
sources OF California is the cash remitLed
by our banks every month to absentee CAL
itornians in Europe. In one sense women
VINO have notion that it is fashiona bic to
live abroad are responsible for this drain.
1t Is difficult to ascertain how much
money Is sent from tue banks CT this city
TO maintain Californians in high-class
European style, but it is approximately
placed at 81, 900, 900 month.
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-24
BACILLI TN
CHINESE DBuS
Health Officials Make Hor-
rifying Discoveries in
the Quarter.
Diphtheria Patients Fall Ill
and Die in Clothing
Factories.
Yesterdays Inspection Shows the
Necessity for Immediate and
Stringent Action.

The inspection of the Chin ese quarter
made yesterday by DR.. Spencer, bacteriol-
ogist, and DR.. McMurdo, Assis tant City
Physician of the Board of Health, devel-
oped matters that astonisbed and Mortified
the officials and determined the board to
be more vigifant than ever in stamping
out the cases of diphtheria which have
given cause for alarm.
The Board of Health representatives
were given every assistance by Miss Lake
of the Cn1nese mission, and it was her
knowledge of affairs in the Chinese quar-
ter that materially aided the physicians in
making the discoveries they did.
1t was found that in the crowded tene-
ments, where Chinese families often wash
and cook and live in the same apart
ments, cases of diphtheria had occurre d
without the proper notice having been
given the authorizes, and in one instance
girl had died in a room where gentle
mems underwear was at the time being
made.
The physicians were naturally indig-
mani at the state of affairs discovered. and
ii is probable that other and more exten-
sive ins pectons will be made at once to
prevent the repetition OF such occurrences.
Quite a mum ber of children were found
thai were suffering from throat troubles,
and in ALL such cases the swabs OF the
meteorological Office were used for the
purpose OF obtaining materials for cul-
lures.
In one case-that of child that died on
Wednesday-the physicians were reason
ably certain that the disease was genuine
diphtheria, and they signed a certificate
10 that effect. The true state of affairs
will not be known until this morning.
when the bacteriologica! examination of
the swabs is complete, but in the mean
time every precaution is being taken to
prevent contagion. All suspected house
have been igated.
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-24
LEAGUE OF THE CROSS.
It. Francis Branch Will Hold Religious

st. Francis Branch Will Hold Religious
Exercises Next Tuesday Evening.
ST. Francis Branch League of the Cross
will inaugurate new feature III connec-
tion with their work by holding religious
exercises next Tuesday evening III the
hall in the basement of st. Francis
Church. Vallejo street and Montgomery
avenue.
The board OF officers of the League of
the Cross Cadets will celebrate me third
anniversary OF the organization neg
Wednesday evening in the Native Sons
Hall by Banquet.
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-24
Reported Missing.

The disappearance OF two boys, who went on
together Wednesday, was reported to the
police last night. They are Byron Goldsmith,
13 years of age. living at 1909 Golden Gate
avenue, and Albert Martin, Il years of age,
living at 7lS Buchanan street Goldsmith
was attending school, and sold his books to
provide funds Goldsmith is of light COM
plexion and Martin dark. The disappearance
also reported He worked for the Harbor
Commissioners, and was paid off September
16 and has not been seen since. He is 45
years of age, ruddy complexion and reddish
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-24
st. Icnatius Church.

The mission Tor the men forming the con-
gregatioh of st. Ignatius Church which is at
present being carried on by the eloquent mis-
sionaries, Fathers Wander Eerden and Finne-
gan, will be concluded next Sunday evening
at 1880 O'Clock. Father Wander Eerden viii
deliver lecture On Perseverance" During
the mass at 1890 o'clock in the morning
Father Finnegan Will preach on f'The GospeI
of the Day" A special musical programme
will be rendered in the evening.
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-24
NOTES OF THEATERs.
Changes in ga Virginia Courtship" al
the Baldwin.

Changes in ga Virginia COurtship" at
the Baldwin.
Some chopping and changing has been
done to "a Virginia Courtship" at the
Baldwin, with the result that the new play
is more effective, particularly at the end
of the first act, where the faintlng scene is
now omitted. 80 mahy theater-goers have
showed desire to purchase seats for "a
Virginia Courtship" that it will be- con-
tnued for the whole of next week,
''The Wife, is running smoothly at the
Columbia. Next Monday the Frawlev COM
pany will produce for the first time on auy
stage a new comedy by Augustine Thomas,
entitled, Don't Tell Her Husband"
Chinese drama continues to pack the
Alcazar. "The First Born" has to GO East, and
on Monday night its place viii be filed by
"HaZel Kirke," in which several new members
OF the company will appear.
Wagner opera is filling the Tivon, the
Flying Dutehman" drawing particularly big
houses. This evening and Saturday evening
will be devoted to the last performance of
'Lohengrin." "The Flying Dutchmen" Will
occupy the alternate nights
The large cast in "slaves of Colo" is giving
great satisfaction at the Grand Opera-house
lhere are many sensational scenes and the
pay Is we'll staged. Next week Lights and
Shadows will be produced.
Irene Franklin, the precocious character inn
personator, is bright little maiden OF about
Is who has quite captured Orpheum audi
ences The Nichols Sisters are rapidly becom-
ing favorites, and Pitrot, the mimic, has added
several new portraits to his repertoire since he
was last here,
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-24
,HOMAs MORTON, Petitioner,
WILLIAM BRODERICK as Auditor of
the City and County of San Fran CO,


WILLIAM FREDERICK as Auditor of
the City and County of San Fran els CO,
Respondent.
Upon the reading and filing of the
verified petition of Thomas Morton, pc
titioner in the above entitled proceed
ings, it is hereby ordered that a writ
of mandate issue out of this court di-
rected to the respondent, William
Broderick, as Auditor OF the city and
county of san Francisco, commanding
him to proceed with the comput alton
and rating of the taxes legally charge
able against the property enumerated
upon the assessment roll of the city
and county of San Francisco for the
year ending June 80, 1898, now in his
possession, at the rates fixed by orders
Nos. 3114 and 3115, set forth at length
in the afores aid verified petition herein
that he show cause why he has not
Monday, the 9Th day of September,
1897. at 10 O'Clock.
Dated September 23, 1897.
BEATTY, Chief Justice.
BY the court further ordered hat no
tice of said hearing be served upon the
Mayor of San Francisco. BEATTY.
The order provides for a discussion of
the writs OF the mandamus proceedings
on next Monday. The new board will be
represented by Attorney Baggett and the
old board by Attorney Garret McEnerney.
The decision of the Supreme Court in
regard 10 the petition will practically end
the Supervisorial wrangle. The refusal
of the court to grant the petition applied
for will take the last gust of wind out OF
the old boards sails. 1t seems that the
old board will end its struggle if ali ad-
verse decision is handed down.
The ridiculous feature of the wrangIe is
the effort of the ousted eight Supervisors
to convince the public that they are still
the only pebbles on the beach.
They met yesterday in the Fulton House
bedroom, and in solemn way discussed
city affairs. They acted like prize-fg tiers
who had been put to sleep and we're not
aware of the fact that the referee had de-
clared Them out.
When the meeting was called 20 order
by acting Mayer Jimmy Britt, note was
read stating that ''ex-Supe" Edward Smith
was still OF the sick list. Devany. De-
lany, Sheehan, Rivers, Morton and Has
klns were present, however, and answered
the rOllcall. The formality of calling the
names of Supervisors Roltanzl, Clinton,
Dodge and Lackmann was gone through
as usual. To keep up the pretense of work
ing, the ousted talked for half en- hour
over the proposition of making those
whose business is in cellars and whose en-
frances occupy a portion of the sidewalk
pay a municipal license.
The peculiar part of this action is that
when in office these men granted permit
to a number of saloon and restaurant
keepers to construct the very entrances
that 1t is now proposed to tax.
A resolution covering the proposition
was introduced by Devany and referred to
committee consisting of Devany Shee-
h an and Haskins, for the purpose of hay-
ng an ordinance covering the matter
drawn. Another meeting will be held at
3 o'clock this afternoon.
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-24
Signed Valley Road Bonds.

At a meeting of the Valley road directors
yesterday afternoon the $6,0oo,o00 bonds of
the company were officially signed for by all
parties concerned in the contract of sale, a
notice of which frs appeared in THE CALL
call d Helm n syndicate OF this city. were rep
resented at the meeting by l. w. Hellman,
A. Borell, John D. Spree and Mrs. Parrott
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-24
Heraldina the City's freedom.

A young bald eagle perchsd on a ele-
graph pole on kearny street yesterday
was an attraction that caused the assem-
blage OF large crowd of spectators. He
flew down Post street and rested for few
minutes on the Masonic Temple and then
started for the bay, but his powers of flight
were not sufficient, and he fell to the side
walk in front of the winehouse of Henry
Schrader, and was captured after a hard
fight by Rudolph Wirthinger. The bird
is now chained to the top of wine barrel
in Schrader's place, and it is generally
supposed that he came TO give his sanction
to the recent accession of freed ON of the
city from the old Board OF Supe rvisors.
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-24
CITIZEN MORTON
AND HIS WRIT
Supreme Court Decides to
Entertain a Discussion
as to It's Merits.
The Disgraced Supervisors Now
Grabbing Hopefully at
StraWS.
The Old Board Meets in It's Fulton
Street Bedroom and Continues It's
Governmental Farce.

There was no manifest change yester-
day in the Supervisorial wrangle. The
old board is still meeting i'll its bedroom
in the Fulton House. The eight arc still
living in hope, and when the Supreme
Court decided yesterday to hear the peti-
ton to compel the Auditor to accept the
tax levy fixed by the old board they re-
joiccd. They considered that they had
won point that would lead to their re-
mstatement to pub favor.
TIE disgraced lot are evidently mistaken
as to he procedure of the Supreme Court.
The order made by Chief Justice Beatty
can in no way be considered as even a par
tial victory for the "ex-S~pes." The court
could of course have refused to consider
the petition of Morton mandamusing the
Auditor to accept the levy presented 10
him by the old board, but the Justices
thought that they should give them a
chance for their lives.
Without discussing the merits of the
petition of Petitioner Morton the court
made the following order:
THOMAS MORTON, Petitioner
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-24
Code Commissioners.

Code Commissioners.
r. N Bulla of Los Angeles and T. W. H.
Shananan of Shasta. members of the State
TO revise the Codes, arrived in
the city from Sacramento yesterday.
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-24

of his
Ben OF o at speds
Ftzgibbon committee to draft
teemi n Ha
lbearer
n
plea
a
Medical of Gin
Dr.
Francisco 1885, and appointed eath Officer
A
Lovelace by board.
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-24
United states Commissioners Appointed.

In the United States District Court yester-
day morning lbert A. Smith of Alturas. Mo-
doc County, was appointed a United States
Commissioner for the northern district OF
California. Frank F. Peck of Loyalton, Sierra
County, was also appointed commissioned.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-21
NEW Y0RK'S
HOT TIME.
Old Father knickerbOcker Has
Made Up His Mind
To Have a Carnival on the
Birthday
OFGREATER NEW YORK
Mardi Gras and the st. Louis
Yelled Prophets,
Even TOpeka's Fall Festival is
to Be OutdOne.
OFGREATER NEW YORK

New York, Dec. 21.-The city of Greater
New York is to have carnival to cele-
brate its official birth. The Journal
thus announces the proposed event:
The birth of the second city Of the
world will be celebrated with fitting cere-
mony.
1t viii be the celebration of birth
day, with festival and music, and joyous
ness on every hand. There Will be no
dirge sung for the death of that which
was glorious in life-tlre old New York.
That viii live forever in history.
The birth of a municipality of more
than three million souls is no time for the
chanting of mourners.
1t is, Instead the time for the old cry,
''The king is dead: long live the king!'
And this momentous occasion in the his
tory of the New World. and in the history
Of civilization itself, will be celebrated by
the people of the Greater New York.
The mayor of the present city Of New
York conceived the idea of a celebra tion
or, perhaps. more properly speaking, a
wake-to show by tableaux viVantS or
some other means, the splendid history
But the idea win not be carried out!
There will be wake!
There will be instead a carnival in
YoriLtbe second citv of Christendom"
val such as the New World has never
known before.
government a fete will be given on the
eve Of the great municipalities official
ed of. nor New Orleans with its N@2rdi
Gras, nor St Louis with its Yelled Pro-
phets, ever dared conceive.
On that occasion the people of New
YOrk-the great, the limitless New York
will join in a birthday celebration such
as was never known before.
Prizes, liberal in every way. the amounts
of which and the conditions of which. will
be offered later for singing societies, SO~
cieties in costume, floats, individuals or
small groups illustrating the past or fu-
ture of New York, cavalcades, children in
costume. and all other features which
viii tend to make this joyful event mem
orable.
City Hall park, where the carnival will
pass in review before judges composed
Of many of the most prominent men Of
the new city, will be as light day
Thousands upon thousands of electric
lights viii be stretched across every inch
of available space, and added to this will
be powerful searchlights from every con-
ceivable point of operation, which will con-
vert the darkness of New Years eve into
the broad glare of midday.
Consolidated bands, employing the best
musical talent of Brooklyn and New
York. will be constantly playing.
1t is hoped and believed that the vol
unteer fire departments of the various
towns and villages which will then be uSh-
cred into the great city, will participate.
1t is hoped and believed that such sing
ing societies as the AriOn and the Lie
derkranz and their fellows will join in
this magnificent celebration.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-21

John Bull Will Have His Share
of China.
British Fleet Has Started for
the Yellow Sea.
WILL TAKE AN ISLAND
Germany is in Favor of the
Movement.
Wants Help In a Mix-up With
the Russian Bear.
WILL TAKE AN ISLAND

Berlin, Dec. 21-The rumor is cur
rent here that the British East Asiatic
squadron has been ordered to sail for
Quelpaert island at the entrance of the
Yellow sea, presumably to occupy it.
The tone of the Germany press is IA
vorable to some such action on the
part of Great Britain.
Quelpaert island, which is go miles
south of COrea, is As miles long and II
miles broad. 1t is subordinate to Corea
and has been used as a penal settle
ment.
London, Dec 21-A dispatch to the
Daily Mail from Shanghai, says the re-
port that Russia has seized Port Arth-
ur is entirely untrue
The newspapers are still busily dis
cussing the partition of China
The Daily Mails dispatch from
Shanghai, denying that Russia has
seized Port Arthur, probably only
means that the Russians have not yet
actually landed.
The reports concerning the Dappu
and the British fleet wintering at Wei
Hai-Wei are officially denied, but it is
alleged with some show of authority
that the government knows of Russia's
occupation of Port Arthur last Friday
and that the cabinet sat three hours
discussing the situation.
Yokohama, Dec. 21.-Russia has no
titled Japan of the temporary occupa-
tion of Port Arthur and a large Japa-
neSe squadron has left NagaSaki,
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-21
BELIEVES IN SPOILS.
Pension Commissioner Evans At
tacks the Civil Service Law.

Washington, Dec. 2L-Commissioner
of Pensions Evans today appeared be-
fore the senate committee on civil serv-
ice and retrenchment, which is con-
Quoting an investigation into the oper-
alton of the civil. service system. Mr..
Evans was questioned at length by
Senators Lodge and Pritchard about
the civil service system and it's ap-
pIcatlon to the pension office force. He
expressed the opinion that the law did
not accomplish the results it's friends
insisted that it did. The best men in
his Office We're those who had come in
under the sO-called ''spOilS system
They did their duty and expected to
hold their positions by so doing.
The pension examining boards, he
said, ought to be in the classified
service. as it was desirable to secure
men as members of such board who
had had wide surgical experience (army
experience, if poSsible) and such men
would not e=ter fnto competition for
the place with young men just out of
college.
He thought. however, that the entire
system of appointing the boards was
wrong, and that all Of them ought to
be under a uniform system of appoint
ment.
The commissioner believed that the
head of a bureau was in the best quail
flied position to pass upon the eficien-
cy of clerk and that he ought not to
be hampered in removing a clerk for
inefficiency. If permitted to do so, he
could remove at least 100 clerks from
his office without affecting the eficien
cy of the force He thought it would
be desirable to have a definite tenure of
office not exceeding ten years, SO that
every year about 10 per cent of new
blood could be infused into the force.
This would do away with the abuses
resulting from some clerks remaining
in office too long The commissioner
thought some reform would have to be
enacted or the country would have the
inflictiOn of a civil pension list. He be-
lieved that it was mistake to include
in the classified service the special ex-
aniners, medical boards, chiefs of di-
visions and all others receiving salaries
exceeding 81 400.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-21
DALTON SAYS HORSES.
Founder of the Dalton Trail Prefers
Them to Reindeer

Seattle, Wn., Dec. 21.-Jack Dalton,
the we'll known Alaska prospector, after
whom the Dalton trail is named in an
interview, speaking of the proposed re-
lief expedition of the United States
government to Alaska, said:
THE proposal to use reindeer teams,
does not strike me as being the right
thing. Horses can be used to much
better advantage. Instead of reindeer
the department ought to get together
a large number of hardy horses, suffi-
cient food should be taken along to
feed them. They can do much better
work than reindeer. I would use sleds
for carrying the food for the men and
prOvender for the horses. To handle a
reindeer expeditiously it would be nee
essary to have relay stations estab
lished a days journey apart, with food
for the animals at these stations
Mr.. Dalton, in speaking of the best
route by which to take relief, said he
would go over the Chilkoot Pass and
then down the lakes and the Yukon
river over the ice.