The San Francisco call., 1897-09-21
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

Fair Tuesday; fresh westerly winds.
The Historical Carnival opened last night
at odd Fellows Hall.
License Collector Bonnet will insist that
French restaurants pay liquor licenses.
j udge Coffey viii hear additional testimony
IN the Bell case at IL O'Clock this morning.
School Directors discussed the school book
question yesterday without accom- plishing
anything.
Gangs OF railroad surveyors are running
G llnes LOT road down the coast from Point
The Unitarian Club OF California had ban
gust last night and debated the question of
the annexation of Hawaii.
warrant was issued yesterday for the ar
rest OF c. A. Hughes, the colored leader, on
Inc eharge OF threats against lie.
Calvin Ward Campbell was arrested yester-
Gay for stealing books from different book
stores, having been caught in the act.
At the Congregational Monday Club it was
resolved Yesterday that Professor Lloyd and
bate.
Judge Coffev has decided that the .ate Jen-
ME Parsons survived her husband, the late
Otis Parsons, and the $4,000 estate will go 10
her heirs at law.
Commander Booth-Tucker yesterday after
noon signed q contract for q years lease on
500 acres of land near Soledad TO be used for
colonization purposes.
The police are searching for Mrs. Frances a
female employment agent at - Third street,
wDo has absconded alter swlndllng large
mum Der OF women and men.
The dairymen OF Sonoma County and the
Board oil Health reached agreement yester-
day by which testing of cows with tuberculn
Is 10 be proceeded with at once.
The newly appointed Chinese Consul Gen
eral, Chang Yen Tung, arrived in this city
late last night from Washington, D. c., and
viii assume control of the Offices here.
A warrant was issued for the arrest of
Robert Dougherty, a stabemau for stealing
valuable horse and buggy from the Ingleside
Tacetrsck belonging 10 Mrs s c. Hildreth.
An unknown laboring man was knocked
down on Harrison and Langion streets yester-
day afternoon by Monk" DowlingIa young
hoodlum, and kicked by another with fatal
effect.
At an adjourned meeting of the Pacific Coast
Trotting- g-horse Breeders Association yester-
day II was decided TO abandon The proposition
OF tlntermixing running races with the assocla-
tons previous established rules.
DR.. David Starr Jordan will lecture for the
Unity Club al the Second Unitarian Church,
on Twentieth and Capp streets, on Tuesday
evening, Septemb Der p. Subject, "Heredity
and Humanity" Admission % cents.
United States Circuit Judge Morrow yester-
day ordered the case OF Jane Knott against J.
McAllyray ct al to be sent back TO the Supe-
riA&Conrt. McGilvray's petition for transfer
from the State 10 the Federal courts having
been found TO be defective.
A masked robber, armed with a pistol, en-
tered the saloon of William Hack II the Gum
Tree Grove, near SunnysIde, on Sunday even
ing, and robbed the proprietor and several
friends who were having social chat. The
fellow got away with a bout $50.
The few men that had been at work on the
Temple of Justice have been Withdrawn. and
The site is now deserted. The only individual
interested in the comatose condition is MIR.
Buckley, the superintendent OF construction,
who still draws his $3.50 q month.
The John Kelso Company refused to come
into court yesterday ana the United States Mar
shall refused o serve the warrant on the presi-
dent of the company because the warrant was
detective. Kelso's counsel contended that the
Federal statutes contained no procedure
whereby cor poralion could be brought into
court Tor a crime.
Rev Gilbert Reid of Peking. China, VIII ad-
dress masS-meeting OF young people on Tues
day evening al the Y. N. c. A, on work among
the higher classes of China. Mr.. Reid VIII
wear his Chinese costume and have on exhlbi-
lion the scrolls and banners presented TO him
bv the Viceroy Ii Hung Chang and other high
officials. Tne meeting is free to all.