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WAS Last Seen Going Westerly.
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the whole structure. The drum. fork
and base plate are rotated horizontally
on the turntable, either by hand or by
mechanism. The drum may also be ele-
waited or depressed vertically.
For the past two years this great
light has shone over the waters of the
Pacific from the top of Mount Lowe.
From the top of the mountain the
great white beam Of light has shot forth
into the obscurity of the night, and
slowly swept the country side for miles
around, bringing every object upon
which it was directed into brilliant and
distinct relief 1t has Illuminated tie
roofs of distant villages and scared
their inhabitants, and lighted up the
sign boards miles away, so that they
could be easily read by means of a
glass. The protector was frequently
turned toward the sky, and the beam,
like a supernatural finger, has written
words upon the clouds.
Its use will now be less peaceful. In
the hands of skilled men on the forli-
fications it will continually sweep at
night the waters adjacent to San Fran
cisco, revealing any suspected boat or
vessel than an enemy might send 10
attack US from that side.
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DUE CREDIT,
Letter in Regard to the Employ.
ment of Chinese.


The following letter is self-explan-
atOry:
State of California, Bureau of Labor
Statistics, San Francisco, July s, 1898.
Levi Strauss & Co, 1916 Battery
street, San Francisco, Cal.-Gentlemen:
From written complaint filed at this Of
flee, regarding the employment of Chin
eSe upon Government work in your
factory, caused me to make a personal
investigation Of the same. In refer
was gratified to see 50 large and COM
plete a factory and SO thoroughly SyS-
temized and equipped, located in San
Francisco; and further that the same is
admirably located and we'll lighted and
ventilated; that the sanitary conditions
are thoroughly in accordance with law,
and that I witnessed about 600 white
female employees busily engaged and
apparently in good health.
Regarding the employment of Chin
ese l wish to particularly state that the
number is small (abOut l per cent? and
the work of such nature as to make
it nearly impossible for white men to
engage in, and take pleasure in report
ing that your factory can be classed as
white labor institution under present
conditions, and it pleases me to give
credit where credit is due. Yours very
truly, E. L. FITZGERALD,
Labor Commissioner.
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A. COMMON IDIOT
DOES GREAT SUMS.
Marvellous Skill OF Reuben Fields in Mental
Arithmetic.
Local Salesman Tells How He Was Puzzled by a
Missouri Clodhopper's Performances.

kept on giving him long sums in multi
plication, subtraction and division, and
he answered me correctly almost as
quick as l could ask the question. Talk
about Blind Tom, why as a wonder
this man was incomparably ahead of
him
Then the conductor and l gave him
the diameter of the drive wheel of the
locomotive and when we wanted to
know how many revolutions the wheel
would make in going 126 miles, in 60
ing 800 miles, ETC., he would reply ac-
curately in less than ten seconds. Ii
took US a long time to figure out our
answers with paper and pencils.
Il staid in the town many days, and
| tested the fellows powers to my full
satisfaction He could make the most
wonderful calculations inStantaneously
and without pencil or paper. He rival
ed, or even outdid, anything that Zerah
Coburn could do.
The name of the wonderful mathe-
matical prodigy of whom l speak is
Reuben Fields. His home is at Hig-
ginsville, Mo. He never went to school,
for he would not go He is regarded
as half-witted by most people, while
others believe that he was once bright
but has since become partly insane.
When doing sums in his head there
was a strange glitter in his otherwise
lifelesS gray eyes. He seemed for the
moment SO abstracted that he forgot
where he was. His mind grasps frac
tions and sums running up into the mill
lions as accurately and infinitely faster
than the best educated arithmeticians
can handle the simplest single num-
bers.
Il have not told you another Won
derful feat which this half -witted Mis-
sourian performs. He will awake at
at any hour of the night and tell you
the exact time, or if you ask him the
hour at any time he will tell you to the
second without a moments hesitation.
He says that his gifts are from God.
Large wholesale houses at Kansas
City and St. Louis have offered him
high salaries to do their invoicing. but
he refuses all such propositions. Bar
mum and other showmen have been
trying to secure him for many years,
but he says that if he should travel
and make a business of exhibiting his
powers God would rob him of his mind
and drive him insane. If you do not
believe all l have told you just write
to Colonel A. X. McClintock, a well
known citizen of Henry Ray County,
Mo. He can tell you all about Reuben
Fields"
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DIED.

McDONALD-In this city, July Goth. Mar
garet Mcdonald, beloved wife of Bar
tholomew Mcdonald. mother of Mary
Agnes, Bartholomew, Francis, Margaret
ana Daniel Mcdonald, a native of Dub
lin, Ireland, aged "a years and l day.
(St Paul Mimi, papers please copyD
Friends and acquaintance are re-
spectfully invited to attend the funeral
Monday afternoon at 2:30 O'Clock, from
the mortuary parlors Of w. F. GormIey,
9l6 street. Interment ST. Joseph 5
Cemetery.
McCAMLY-At San Ramon, July 29th.
George McCamly, husband of Ann Nc
Camly, and brother-in-laW of George
Hack, Sr, Of Sacramento, a native of
Michigan, aged 20 years.
Friends and acquaintance are re-
spectfully invited to attend the funeral
Monday morning, at 10 o'clock. from
the parlors of Miller & McMullen sos
X street. Interment City Cemetery
WILDER-In Franklin Township. Sacra-
mento County, July 2Sth, Benjamin w.
Wilder husband Of Eltha G. Wilder,
father of Mrs. Ellen E. Walthers, Olive
A, James A. and George D. Wilder. a
native Of Rhode Island aged Il years.
FRIENDS and acquaintances are re-
specuully invited to attend the. funeral
Sunday morning at II o'clock from his
late residence. Interment Masonic Gem
etery, Elk Grove.
HAYFORD-In this city. July 3Oth. Clar-
ence T., husband of Annie ]. Hayford,
son of G. 0. and Eunice G. Hayford.
brother of Carroll L. Hayford, native
of Maine, aged 34 years, months and
% days.
Funeral notice hereafter.
LAkE-In this city, July 30th Mary, wife
of ID. A. Lake, native of Illinois, aged
80 years.
Funeral notice hereafter.
LOEFFER-In this city, at the Mar
guerite Home, July Both, Frances Loef-
fer, aunt of julius Zegler, native of
Germany, aged So years, months and
"a days. (San Francisco, San Jose and
10 a6rc r,1n
Friends and acquaintances are re-
spectfully invited to attend the funeral
to-day Sunday, at p, m. from the
Ninth-Street Baptist Church. Inter-
ment City Cemetery.
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NOW FOR GOOD BAtLPLAYING
THE AMATEURS WILL OCCUPY
THE FIELD TODAY.
Red Seals and Pommers at Snow.
flake Park-Athletics and
Phoenix Men at Oak Park.

The Red Seals and the A. j. Pom
mer teams will take shy at one an
other on the Snowflake Park diamond
this afternoon at 2:3O o'clock, and each
team expects to carry off a victory.
Both mines have done some very neat
amateur work this season. The Seals
have not yet met defeat, but as the
Pommers will show some strong men
on their bench, the Seals will be obliged
to look out for No. L.
The Athletic Club and the Phoenix
Mills ball teams will line up at the Oak
Park grounds this afternoon, and the
prospects are that a good game will
be the result. Last Sunday the teams
put up one of the best amateur games
seen here this season, the Milers being
beaten only after a gallant struggle.
Out of thirteen games played this
year the Phoenix Mills team has wen
ten, one being from the Gridleys. Fitz-
gerald will pitch for the Millers and
Shields and Frank Newbert will do
the same for the Athletics. The game
will be for blood, and the winners will
line their pockets with the 500 put up
by the other fellows. A glance at the
lineup makes the outcome look decid-
edly uncertain. 1t follows:
Phoenix-Devine, third base: Smith.
shortstop; Pope, first base; Treichler
second base; Griffin, center field: THE
Ian, left field; Cowden catcher; Merk-
ley, right field; Fitzgerald, pitcher:
Baker, extra.
Atheletics-Hannon, shortstop; G.
Newbert. second base; Ridley, first
base; w. Newbert, third base; F. New
bert, right field; Shields, pitcher; Payen
center field: Wiseman, left field; john
son, catcher; Pope, extra.
The Young Corkers defeated the
Young Lawyers by a score of 20 to O
yesterday and while the battery for
the winners was Ried and Heintz, the
youthful gentlemen who did the report
ing forgot to say where the game was
played. The Young Corkers will ac-
cept a challenge from any team in town
whose players are under - years OF
age. Their lineup is as follows: c.
Heintz. catcher; Ried, pitcher; Hart
first base: Johnson, second base; Trea-
nor, third base: Valentine, shortstop:
Yuber, left field; Kleinsorge, center
field; Poorman, right field.
The Alkalis will play the Ryans at
Fifteenth and P streets at 10 o'clock
this morning for a purse of SO The
mines are evenly matched and a good
game is anticipated. The lineup will
be as follows:
Ryans-McCaffrey catcher: Conroy
pitcher; Kyne, shortstop; Smith, first
base; Hawley, second base; Vantine
third base; Q. Henley, left field: Koos-
ira, center field; Bogart, right field
Alkalis-W. L. Fitch, catcher; Nc
Manus, pitcher: Freiske, shortstop;
Schoenberger first base: Richmond.
second base: Storrer, third base: Hill
bert, left field: Vassals, center field:
Clark, right field
The Gilt Edge team struck a snag
when 1t went up against the Santa Cru
zans in San Francisco yesterday. The
score stood ? to 1. with the locals on
the short end. They will try conclu-
sions with the San Francisco Athletics
to-day, and while Sacramentans expect
victory. it will be remembered that
the last time the teams met down there
the Gilts came out seond best
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Removes Superflous Hair

A remarkable remedy for the removal
Of superfluouS hair has been discov-
cred. 1t is sure destroyer, and has no
i'll effects on the skin any more than so
much water would have On the first
application, which is painless, all the
hair is taken off as if by magic Some
times every root is not destroyed on
the first application, but at least 90 per
cent. of the roots are. The second ap-
plication is always effectual and per-
manent. Any one can use the remedy
Send 81 in stamps for sample bottle
sufficient to remove all superf1uous hair
from the face of one person. A sure
cure or money refunded. Address P. O.
box 2661, San Francisco, Cal.
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Articles Of incarceration.

Articles OF incorporation have been
filed in the Secretary of States office
as follows:
Central Grading Company. Principal
place of business, San Francisco. Di-
rectors-John Mahoney John H Conley.
Joseph Olivia, A. Sharkey and James
Mckinley, all Of San Francisco. Capt.
tai stock $4,000, all subscribed.
F. W. Blanchard Building Company.
Principal place of business, Los Ange-
les. Directors-Frederick w Blanch-
ard, A NJ BrOokman. Marion H.
Blanchard, G. w. Blanchard and J. A.
Coldwell. all Of Los Angeles. Capital
stock, 100000; amount subscribed.
81 600
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CALLED DOWN.
A Free-Ride Tourist Hurt by
Jumping From a Car.

When near Towle Station, Placer
County, yesterday morning. the con-
ductor of the westbound overland train
found a tramp stealing a ride on top
of one of the coaches. He was ordered
to come down, and when he reached the
steps of the car the conductor demand
ed his ticket.
Instead of replying the man, whose
name is McClOud, jumped from the
moving train. One Of his shoulders
was disloCated, and he was severely
bruised about the body and face He
was taken to the County Hospital at
Auburn for treatment
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MURDERER DUNHAM.
An 1owan Has the Fiend Spotted
This Time.

Governor Budd has received a letter
from man at Shueyville, Ia, stating
that he has man under surveillance
whom he believes to be Dunham, the
Santa Clara County murderer.
The only difference in the description
furnished of Durham seems to be that
while the latter's eyes We're blue, the
suspects are brown. But a little mat
ter Of that kind doesn't stump the aver
age amateur detective
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Fruit Shipments.

Forty-two cars of fruit We're sent
East yesterday: Peaches S, plums 9h,
pears %, grapes "a, apples "a. Fifty
cars went out on the same date last
year.
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Buy no experiment, for you can buy
such popular pianos as the Emerson for
$500, upwards, SO per month. Pom
mer, corner Ninth and streets.
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Removed-Charles A Palm has re-
moved his iron works to 1119 Sixth
street
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ALFREDUMS EGYPTIAN HENNA
A vegetable dye for Immediately re-
storing gray hair to it's original color
Convenient and effective; no objection
able qualities. For sale by first-class
druggists and hair dressers.
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Save money by buying your tea and
coffee of ]. McMorry. 531 NJ.
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Balloon Ascension.

A balloon ascension and parachute
drop Will take place at East Park this
afternoon.
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Oak Park Cnneerf

A grand concert will be given this
evening at Oak Park by Neale's orches-
ira. Special program of popular music
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TO LET.

$35-Seven rooms, completely furnished
on southeast corner of Seventh and N
streets.
$11-A fiat of rooms, bath, hot and cold
water, on west side of Eighteenth,
and @ streets.
s4O-F'ine residence of rooms; modern
improvements; nice lawn and shrub
berry; very pretty place.
s14-New cottage, built last year. 5
rooms, bath, patent closet; choicest
dwelling in city for the money. 1927 e
street.
with modern improvements.
$30-Brick store building with frame addi-
ton, northwest corner Seventeenth and
n streets; it is a splendid location for
a butcher shop in conjunction with a
grocery store
W. p. COLEMAN,
Real Estate SalesroOm, 325 Street
P. BOIL. Manager.
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Pabst cafe and grill rooms, strictly
first-class resort. 1913 Sixth ST.
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Elegant miniature portraits in water
colors given away at Boysen's. 31S ].
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Do you need a hat for your vacation
trip? Van Alstine's millinery, 6O7 ]. =
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Smoke "The Maine"

The new patriotic cigar, the prince of
a five cent smoke. A. Coolot, distribu-
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For a cool, sharp glass of steam OF
lager. Ell Dorado, S26 J.
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Of all the voters of said county in &C.
cordance with the provisions OF Section
1854 of the Political Code of the State OF
California, it will be necessary for all
electors, in order to vote at the next
general ELECTION, to be held on Tuesday,
November S. 1855, to make application in
person to be registered
Notice is hereby given that said new
registration will commence on June /,
1898. and continue to and including August
IA, 1898. when such registration shall
cease, provided that any elector who has
registered and thereafter moved his res
idence to another precinct in the same
county thirty days. before said day of
election may have his registration trans
ferusd to such other precinct upon his
application, verified by oath, setting forth
the change of residence and containing
the other facts required for original regis
tration, but no transfer from one pre-
cinct to another shall be made after a
date twenty-seven days before November
8. 1898
The, office of the County Clerk at the
Courthouse, corner of Seventh and 1
streets, Sacramento City. California, will
be open from a. m. to 6 p. m. and from
p. N. to p. m. each day except Sun
day. All citizens please take notice and
get registered.
W. B. HAMILTON. County Clerk
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Electrical lamps at scott's. 3O3 J. :
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THE METROPOLITAN.
THE SADDLE ROCK
RESTAURANT AND OYSTER HOUSE

FIRST-CLASS HOUSE IN EVERY RE-
spect. Ladies' dining-room separate
Open day and night. BUCkMAN & CAR
RAGHER, ProprietorS. No. 1919 Second
street, between and K. Sacramento.
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Ray RESTAURANT

IU~O
Private rooms for families open day
and night. Orders served outside. Oys-
ters in every style. MATT and JOHN
RADONICH. Proprietors.
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preparing silk goods within the limit of
Jermyn borough; therefore be it
Resolved, BY the burgess and town
council of Jermyn borough, and it is
hereby resolved by authority Of the
same that all lands owned or occupied
by the said Robert Maxwell his heirs
or assigns, together with the building
thereon and building that may here
after be erected thereon necessary and
used for carrying on the business of
manufacturing or preparing silk goods,
also the double house adjoining the
store property so long as owned by
Robert Maxwell. his heirs and assigns
in connection with the silk factory,
shall be exempt from local taxation for
the term of fifteen years from this date.
Provided, however, that If at any time
during said term of fifteen years the
business of manufacturing silk goods
shall be abandoned or il less than fif-
teen persons be employed when the mill
is in operation, then all of the said
property shall be subject to regular
taxation.
The school board met in special ses-
sion on Saturday evening for the con-
sideration of the new plant. Mr.. Carey
was present and he showed why they
should accept of the new industry.
After considerable talk upon the sub
ject the board decided to accept the
resolutions which were adopted by the
council.
The Ladies' Guild society of St.
James Episcopal church met at the
home of Miss Mable Davis, on Main
street, Friday afternoon, and elected
the following officers: President, Miss
Mable Davis; matron. Mrs. Fassenden;
secretary, Miss Gertrude Vale: treas
urer, Miss Pendred. A very pleasant
time was spent after the election until
o'clock, when all departed for home.
The Glenwood Aid association at it's
last meeting elected the following off,
GERS: President, John Campbell; re-
cording secretary, David T. Powell;
financial secretary, John Davitt; audi
tors, Peter Forbes, John Burns and T.
p. Lally. After the meeting, cigars
were passed around and a social time
enjoyed.
The funeral Of the six-months- old
child of Mr.. and Mrs. Patrick Hyland,
of Mayfield, took place yesterday after
noon. Interment was made In Calvary
cemetery, Mayfield.
The teachers met in the school Sat-
urday morning. Two excellent papers
were read by Miss Roberts and Miss
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Rimer, for which they received great
praise. Much time was spent in a dis
cussion of how to teach the primary
class. Many bright thoughts were eX-
changed on the matter.
A Democratic caucus will be held in
the Windsor hall, Tuesday evening at
Z o'clock and at o'clock a citizens
caucus will be held in the same hall.
The Citizens band gave a social on
Saturday evening to those who helped
in the recent fair. The Gilroy orchestra
from Archibald was present and fur
nished the music for the evening, at
the close of the concert and for dane
ing. Refreshments were served, and at
a reasonable hour all departed for
home.
There was a large crowd from this
town who witnessed the shooting
match which took place at Priceburg
on Saturday between Gabriel Hall, of
Mayfeld, and James Twiss, of Price
burg. Hall won by shooting nine
pigeons to Twiss' three
The caucus which should have been
held on Saturday evening at Mayfield
was postponed until Wednesday even
ing next.
The Edgerton Coal company paid
their employees Saturday.
A carpet ball social was held at the
home of Mrs. Surdival on last Thurs
day evening. There was a large num-
ber present. Refreshments were served.
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FOR BETTER OR WORSE.

Friday afternoon Harold W. Burrows
and Miss Florence Fl. Pavitt, both of
Philadelphia, called at the Baptist par
sonage armed with a marriage license
which they had secured at Scranton
thet morning, and had Rev. #. e. Jep-
son speak the words that made them
husband and wife. The marriage is OF
unusual interest to the popular pastor
from the fact that the bridegroom is d
theological student at Colgate univer-
sity where he also prepared for the
ministry. The young people stopped
off here on their way to Philadelphia.
They departed with the hearty bless-
ing OF Mr.. Jepson.
Announcement is made of the COM
ing marriage Of Miss Lizzie. daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. William Healey, of
Dunmore street, Olyphant, to John
Gr.er, Of this city. The ceremony will
De soemnized at st. Patrick's church,
Olyphant, next Tuesday afternoon at
4 o'clock, and will be witnessed by u
large number of the friends CT the con-
tracing parties from this city
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officer pesstd the button, but hhe
gun was not discharged.
when the mate came to, he was
asked what had happened, and he in
formed the officer that the breech of the
gun had not been locked. and that what
he grabbed at on the wall was the
wires forming the electric firing cir
cult. When he saw that the officer was
preparing to fire the gun, and at the
same time observed that the breech Of
the gun was not locked, the only thing
that occurred to him to prevent the
gun being discharged was to destroy
the circuit, which he did promptly and
effectively. When all this occurred
there was a charge of $50 pounds OF
powder in the gun, another charge Of
the same size in the turret ready to he
served. and the passageway leading to
the powder magazine was wide open.
But for the quickness of the gum
ner's mate the gun would have been
blown out inside the turret, the gases
from the burning powder would prob
ably have ignited the charge lying i'm
the turret, this explosion would have
ignited the powder in the magazine.
and the chances are that the whole
ship. crew and all, would have gone up
in the air. A thought that has oc-
CURED to me is this: Suppose the ac-
cident had occurred, what do you inn
agne the verdict of the board of in
quiry as to the cause of the loss of the
ship would have been? Since this ex-
perience the department has adopted
electrical means to prevent the dis
charge of any of the large guns until
the breech is locked" g.ts