The San Francisco call., 1897-04-09
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

assets, nominal
Chief OF Police / W. Lees made full state
ment last night outlining his policy.
Nine Thea Sanderini's concert at Golden
Gate Hall last night drew well-flled house.
I. SHAPIRO butcher, has failed for S764 "a.
He has $500 worth OF property exempt from
execution.
The attendance at the Pure Food Congress
will be much larger attended Than was al
first expected.
Twenty-SiX new members joined the Mer-
chants Association yesterday, making a total
OF S45 members.
At the election for officers of the Southern
Paclhc Company yesterday all the 1ncumbents
Were reelected.
There VIII be grand convention OF all the
traffic men of The Southern Pacific Company
on April II at Monterey.
Peril. Gutta .PIeFcha, Front de Beuf, sallie
ners at Emeryville yesterday.
Judge Slack has made an order allowing Dr.
W. q. Miner $3.50 for services during the
last illess OF the late Senator James G. Fair.
The session OF the Grand Lodge of the
A. o. L. W. closed yesterday and William
Van ter OF san Jose was reelected grand master.
The wife of William Gagan formerly fore
man OF the Grand Jury, was upon order OF ex-
animation before Justice GroeZinger yesterday.
In the Fair estate distribution consider
able amount of cash Will be covered into the
county treasury on account OF the inheritance
tax.
The Evening Post has applied to the courts
for a writ enjoining the Associated Press from
supplying its news service to the Daily Re-
port
Several houses on Geary street near Octavia
have been entered recently by two men and
the police have as yet been unable TO capture
them.
The STATE Supreme Court has denied Dur
rant writ OF error In order that he m light
take the case TO The United States Supreme
Court.
was acquitted by jury in Judge Cooks court
yesterday. 1t appeared 10 be q case OF mis-
taken identity.
The regular quarterly rally, of Company H
OF the League OF the Cross will be held al st.
Brendan's Hall, corner OF Fremont and Harri-
son streets, this evening.
Charles A. Hebard brought libel suit
against the schooner Alta in The United States
District Court yesterday 10 recover S73 which
he alleges is due him for wages.
Mae E. Bernhard has sued the Grand Lodge
A. o. Z. W. for $1,000 said to be due for the
lie insurance of Oscar Frederick Bernhard,
formerly member OF Valley Lodge No. 80.
Two demurrers have been filed by Delmss &
Shortridge in the suit OF the Fair estate execu-
tors against Nettie R. Craven The argument
win be heard in Judge Slack's court this morn
ing.
Criminal negligence is ascribed as the cause
of the explosion in CarrolPs drugstore yester-
day morning. can of benzine and phial of
nitroglycerine had been LETT next to q lig hted
gssjei-
Alter thirty years of popularity Ambrose
Thomas opera OF Hamlet" will receive its
first San Francisco presentation at the Califor-
MIA Theater tonight for the benefit of Henri
Albers.
William P. Harrison, John H. Roberts, R. s.
Lawrence, Samuel S. Green and ]. MunseI
Chase have Incorporated the California Hotel
and Wine Gazette Company, with a capital
stock OF $50, 600
W. B. Bradbury, who was arrested for expec-
torating in a Msrket-street car, says he has no
complaint 10 make against any body concern
Ing the matter, but will test the validity of the
ordinance in court.
Dexter, Horton & Co. have sued E. H Kit
tredge Tor $3.50 on account OF an elevator
alleged TO have been constructed for the de-
tenoant, who has responded with a cross-com-
plaint for 1896 SS.
President II. Bailey and Manager O. P
Posey OF the celebrated Tom boy gold mine
have arrived here TO formally transfer the
property 10 the representatives of the London
Exploration Company.
Lawyers regard the point raised in the
Federal court in the Blythe case as one of
great importance. The attorneys of the
Kentucky Blythes hold that aliens cannot
inherit lands in the United States.
The accusations of the Census Committee of
the Board of Education, that the census rolls
OF two years ago were stuffed were based on
the inspection OF mere pencil memoranda and
the investigation has been dropped.
The Board OF Supervisors sat as a committee
OF the whole last night and examined Nav or
Phelan, ex-Mayor Pond, Sllas A. White R. H.
Stettin Engineer Schussler The board
will conclude the investigation next Thursday
night
DR.. Mathews will not leave the State Library
until he has been elected secretary of the
State Board OF Health. Other Democrats will
follow his example and with hol d their resigna-
tions from existing places It'll elected to fill
other positions.
Divine services this evening at the Temple
Emanuel Will commence at 7 AS o'clock DR.
Foorsanger will conclude the discussion of
"The Virtues, Vices and Eccentricities OF
Brother Jonathan" This will be the closing
lecture OF the season.
At meeting of the teamsters and draymen
with the officers OF the Merchants Association
last night II vas resolved that sample pave
ments by the way OF experime MT be put down
on a few blocks Market street. They will
be of asphalt and wood.
Yosemite Commissioner John F. Sheehan
has been commanded by the Superior Court to
show cause why he should not draw n warrant
in favor of T. e. McCandelish for $400 said 10
be due for work and material furnished to
the Yosemite Forestry Com mission.
Suit was brought yesterday by United States
District Attorney Foote behalf of the
Uniteo States against Rufus Hull for the re-
covery OF forty-two cords of tanbark cut on
Government land and valued at S293 90
Damages are asked for in the sum OF 500.
United States Commissioner Heacock yester-
day ordered Jeng Ngan YIng remanded into
custody Tor the purpose of being sent back 10
Chlns, whence she came. He found that she
had committed perjury during her examina- a.
tion as a witness and that her witnesses had
also committed perjury.
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