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Orpheuu.

s. The sensation this week at the Orr pheum Is the great Gautier and his dar- ing feats of horsemanship. There is some thing more than a display of trained anil mals, for the performance consists of riding that. in the confined limits of a theater stage, probably never has been equaled here. That some situations are thrilling enough to cause the audience to cease breathing for a second or two was evidenced last night by the audible sigh
 The Jacksons, in their grotesque com edy sketch: the Nawns, in new skit, and the Damn brothers, in startling ac- robatic feats, are the other new features that were we'll received. Almont and Dumont are here again with their musical specialties, and Carletta, the human lizard,
 is retained, and has lost none of her popularity. ..:~. r:. ... -::-. =
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Wants Her Trunk.

Mrs. s. B. Parrish. wife of the ex-Chief of Police of Portland. obtained search warrant in Judge Conlan's court yester day for the recovery of her trunk from the Carolton House, on Market street. She went there on January 21 and en- gagged a room, which they were to charge sH per month for. She remained three or four days, paying them s, but they refused te deliver her trunk, which con- tains about s400 worth of articles, unless she paid the full months rent.
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Mrs. Porter's Gum Drops.

# James Miller. who claims to have the only right to dispose of candies in the Grand Opera House, is annoyed at the statement made by 8, Mrs. Porter that gum drops" she had eaten in that place were what caused her illness He denies
 in the. first place that there are any gum drops sold at the theater; He says he has ascertained that the lady had partaken
 of a hearty Spanish dinner previous to going to the theater, and to this he at tributes her. illness rather than to the gum drops ...: ..s:..:5 .~:. =
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A PLEASANT EVENING.
Nano Nagle Debating Club Promise
 to Give Successful Enter "
,ainnLeu

The entertainment to be given by the Nano Nagle Debating Society for the benefit of the Presentation Convent will take place early next month. s IT, : The ladies and gentlemen of the club
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Morosco's..

The usual big audience at the Grand saw last night Down in Dixey," a lively melodrama with sensational fire and res cue scenes, and lavish comic relief Tn the form of negro songs, dances and special ties. All the favorites were in the cast, and won the accustomed applause or misses, according to the virtue or villainy of the parts. :.:.:.-.. =; .,..;..:*.
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he came to this city he became the chief operator. From this position he. mounted to that of the highest. which he has held for the past three years . >'-:. Fl:
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Chu.te.s.

Chiquita, the canned Cuban revolution ist, continues to be telling attraction at the Chutes. -. # .::.. ::.-- --..: sz*
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Baldwin,

"'The Girl From Paris. commenced her second week at the Baldwin to a rather light house..
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Landaus, Wagonettes, Traps and Drags of the latest designs at O'Brien Sons.
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Asthma and Bronchitis cure Guaranteed. Dr. Gordins Sanitariun, 5l4 Pine. Kearny, s Gal.
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The "Koh-I-Noor' copying pencil Is iarSely taking the place of fountain pens'
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ASHTON STEVENS.

:>. Alcazar. :. " Victor Durand'' is we'll staged ard
 rather evenly played at the Alcazar The
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CHAPTER VI.
The Sheriff.

SECTION l. The Sheriff shall be elected by the people, and he shall hold office for two years. He shall receive an annual salary of eight thousand dol lars, which shall be in full compensa- ton for all official services required of him by law; but said salary shall be exclusive of the compensation received by him from the State for the delivery of prisoners to the State prisons, and insane persons to the State aSylumS for the insane. He shall have all the pow CTS conferred, and shall discharge all the duties imposed upon, the SheriffS of counties by the general laws of this State.
 Sec. ?. He may appoint the follow ing deputies and employees, who shall each respectively receive the following annual salaries:
 One Under Sheriff, twenty-four hun dred dollars; one Attorney, eighteen hundred dollars; one Chief Bookkeeper, eighteen hundred dollars; two Assistant Bcokkeepers, fifteen hundred dollars; ten Office Deputies, fifteen hundred dol lars; fourteen Bailiffs, twelve hundred dollars; one Chief Jailer at Branch Jail Number One, eighteen hundred dollars; ten Jailers at Branch Jail Number One, twelve hundred dollars; one Superin- tendent of Branch Jails Numbers Two and Three, eighteen hundred dollars; sixteen Guards at Branch Jail Number Two, six hundred dollars; one Matron at Branch Jail Number Three, nine hundred dollars: six Guards at Branch Jail Number Three, six hundred dol lars; one Commissary to act for all jails, fifteen hundred dollars; one Driver of Van, nine hundred dollars; and one Bookkeeper, for all said Branch Jails, fifteen hundred dollars.
 Sec 8. The Sheriff may designate the services to be performed by his depu ties.
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CHAPTER Tx.
The San Francisco Law Library.

SECTION 1. The Supervisors must provide, fit up and furnish, with fuel, lights, stationery, and all necessary conveniences, attendants and care, rooms convenient and accessible to the judges and officers of the courts and of the municipal government sufficient for the use and accommodation of the San Francisco Law Library, established under an Act of the Legislature of this State entitled: An Act to provide for increasing the Law Library of the cor poration known as the San Francisco Law Library, and to secure the use of the same to the Courts held at San Francisco; the Bar, the City and Coun- ty Government and the People of the City and County of San Francisco" ap- proved March 9th, 1S70 The Supervis- ors must appropriate, allow, and order paid out of the proper fund such sums
 as may be necessary for the purposes aforesaid; and all sums lawfully ap- propriated and expended pursuant hereto shall be paid out of the proper fund on demands duly audited, in the mode prescribed by this Charter for auditing other demands upon the treas ury. The County Clerk must pay monthly to the Treasurer of the San Francisco Law Library such moneys as he shall collect under the Act referred to for the benefit of said Law Library.
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CHAPTER III.
The District Attorney.

SECTION L The District Attorney shall be electe7 by the people and shall hold office for two years. He shall be an electOr of the City and County and must at the time of his election be qualified to practice in all the courts of this State, and must have been so qualified for tt least five years next preceding his election. He shall re- ceive an annual salary of five thou sand dollars.
 Sec. 2. The District Attorney shall have all the powers conferred, and shall discharge all the duties imposed upon the District Attorneys of coun- and in addition thereto shall attend, in stitute and conduct on behalf of the people. all prosecutions cogniZable in the Police Court of the City and County. He shall draw all complaints and warrants in said Police Court, prosecute all forfeited recognizances therein. and all actions for the recovery of fines. penalties, and forfeitures ac- eruing to the City and County; deliver receipts for money or property received Tn his official capacity, and file dupli- cates therefor with the County Treas urer; file with the Auditor on the first Mondays of January April. July and October in each year. an itenized statement under, oath showing all moneys received by him in his official capacity durir~ the preceding three months; keep a register of his official business in which must be entered a note of every action. whether criminal or civil. prosecuted officially bv him. and of the proceedings therein: and give, when required. without fee, ad- vice to the Board of Police Commis- sioners. the Chief of Police, the Board of Health and the Coroner, upon mat ters relating to the duties of their re- spective offices.
 Sec. g. He may appoint seven Assist ant District Attorneys to aid hino in the discharge of his official duties three of whom shall act as prosecutors in the Superior Court. and shall each receive an annual salary of thirty-six hundred dollars, and four of whom shall act as fhe prosecuting attorneys of the Police Court, and shall each receive an annual salary of twenty-four hundred dollars. When any of the assistants of the Dis trict Attorney acting as such prosecut- ing attorneys in the Police Court are not actually engaged in work connected with prosecutions therein. they shall be at the call of the District Attorney for any service connected with his depart ment The assistants must each at the time of his appointment. be qualified to practice in all the courts of this State. and must have been so qualified for at least two years next preceding his ap- pointment The District Attorney may also appoint one chief clerk, who shall
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specifications and drawings shall bs

specifications and drawings shall be delivered to the contractor.
 At the same time with the execution of the contract the contractor shall eX- ecute to the City and County and de- liver to the Secretary of the Board a bond in the sum named in the notlcs for proposals, with two or more suf11- cient SuretieS to be approved by the Board, or shall deposit with the Secre- tary a certified check upon some sol- vent bank for said amount, for the faithful performance of the contract. No surety on any bond. other than law fully authorized surety companies shall be taken unless he shall be 8 payer of taxes on real property. the assessed value of which, over and above all membranes, is equal in amount to his liabilities on all bonds on which he may be security to the City and County; and each surety shall justify and make an affidavit (for which a form shall be printed upon said bond, signed by him, that he is assessed upon the last Assessment Book of the City and County in his own name for real property in an amount greater than his liability on all bonds on which he is surety to the City and County, and that the taxes on such property so assessed are not de- linQuent.
 The contract shall specify the time
 
 menced, and when to be completed, as was specified in the notice inviting pro- posals therefor. Upon the recommec- dation of the Board, the Supervisors may extend said time; but in no event shall the time for the performance of said contract be extended by the Su- pervisors more than ninety days be- yond the time originally fixed for it's completion; but, on the unanimous recommendation of the Board of Public Works, a further extension may ba granted by vote of fourteen members of the Board of Supervisors. In case Of failure on the part of the contractor to complete his contract within the time fixed in the contract, or within such extension of said time as is herein provided, his contract shall be void, and the Supervisors shall not pay or allow to him any compensation for any work done by him under said contract; and, in the case of the improvement of streets, no assessment shall be made for the work done under said contract. Sec. P. The work in his,Article pro- vided for must be done under the di- rection and to the satisfaction of the Board of Public Works; and the mater ials used must be in accordance with the specifications and be to the satis- faction of said Board, and all contracts provided for in this Article must con- tain a provision to that effect, and dlSO, llldC III ilO case, cACcpI WHSIS II is otherwise provided in this Charter. will the City and County, or any de- partment or officer thereof, be liable for any portion of the expense, or in the case of improvement of streets. for any delinquency of persons or property assessed.
 When said work shall have been | completed to the satisfaction and ac- ceptance of the Board, it shall so de- clare by resolution, and thereupon the Board shall deliver to the contractor a certificate to that effect.
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CHAPTER VIII.
The Police Court.

SECTION l. There is hereby created and established in and for the City and County of San Francisco a Court to be known as the Police Court of the City and County of San Francisco. Said Court shall consist of four Judges, who shall be elected by the people and hold office for four years. They shall each receive an annual salary Of thirty-six hundred dollars. They shall be electors of the City and County at the time of their election, and must have been such for at least five years next preceding such time. No person shall be eligible to the office of Judge of the Police Court who is not at the time of his cleo ticn qualified to practice in all the Courts of this State, and who has not been so qualified for at least five years next preceding his election. The Court shall be divided into departments known as Department Number One, Department Number Two, Depart ment Number Three and Department Number Four. The Judges of such Court may hold as many sessions of the Court at the. same time as there are Judges thereof. The Judges who shall be elected at the first election under this Charter shall so classify them selves by lot that two of them shall go out of office in two years and two of them in four years.
 d Presiding Judge who shall serve for one year The Presiding Judge shall as sign the Judges to their respective de- partments; but any of the Judges may preside in any of the departments in the absence or inability of the Judge regularly assigned thereto.
 The judgments, orders and proceed ings of any session of the Court held by any one or more of the Judges shall be equally effectual as if all the Judges had presided at such session.
 Sec. 2. The Police Court of the City and County of San Francisco shall have:
 First-Exclusive jurisdiction of all prosecutions for the violation of or dinances of the Board of Supervisors
 Second-Concurrent Jurisdiction with the Superior Court of all other misde- meanors and of the examination of all felonies committed in the City and County.
 Third-Said Court, or any Judge thereof. shall have the same powers in all criminal actions, cases, examina- tions and proceedings as are now or
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CHAPTER V.
The CountY,Clerk

SECTION 1. The County Clerk shall be elected by the people ana snail hoid office for two years He shall have all the powers conferred, and shall dis charge all the duties imposed upon, the County Clerks of counties by the gen. eral laws of this State, and in addition thereto shall attend and act as Clerk of the Police Court. keep the dockets and registers thereof, and take charge of and safely keep all books, papers and records which may be filed or deposited in his office pertaining to the Police Court He shall receive an annual sal ary of four thousand dollars.
 Sec. 2. To aid him in the discharge of his official duties, the County Clerk may appoint a Chief Register Clerk, who shall receive an annual salary of twenty-four hundred dollars; Cash fer. who shall receive an annual salary of eighteen hundred dollars; twelve Courtroom Clerks for the Superior Court who shall each receive an an- nual salary of fifteen hundred dol lars: five Register Clerks. who shall each receive an, annual salary Of eighteen hundred dollars; ten As sistant Register Clerks, who shall each receive an annual salary of fifteen hundred dollars; sixteen Copy ists. who shall each receive an annual salary of twelve hundred dollars; and four Clerks for the Police Court, who shall each receive an annual salary of fifteen hundred dollars.
 Sec. 3. For copies of papers furnish ed and certified by him, he shall charge not more than eight cents for each one hundred words For certifying copies. which are not prepared by him, he shall be entitled to charge twenty-five cents. and also forty cents an hour for the time exceeding one hour necessarily occupied in comparing such copies. He must certify all papers presented to him which are copies of any document, paper or record, or portions thereof, in his custody.
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his custody and safely keep all books, records, maps and papers deposited in his office. Upon demand and payment of the fees prescribed therefor by law or by ordinance. he must furnish to any one applying therefor a copy of any such book, record. map or paper, certified under the hand and seal of his office. When any papers are presented for filing or recording, he or his depu- ties shall write on the margln of each paper so presented the number of folios. the amount paIu for recording the same and shall number consecutivelv ali. instruments and documents filed in his office. He shall also perform all @other. duties at the time and in the nlaIiner. prescribed by the general laws of the State.
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Sec. 15. The Police Judges shall adopt all necessary rules and regula- tions for conducting the business of the Court.
 Sec. Is. No attorney shall appear in said Court to prosecute or defend per sons charged with offenses unless at the time of his appearance he be quali- fled to practice law in all the courts of this State.
 Sec r. The term of office of the Po- lice Judges elected at the general cleo tion held in the year eighteen hundred and ninety eight shall terminate at the hour of noon on the first Monday after the first day of January in the year nineteen hundred, and they shall at said time be succeeded by the Police Judges provided for in this Chapter and all proceedings pending in said Court shall be transferred to the Police Court created under this Charter and the Judges elected as herein provided shall have and obtain Jurisdiction of the same,
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CHAPTER VII.
The Justices, Courts.

SECTION l. The Justices of the Peace shall each receive an annual sal ary of twenty-four hundred dollars, except the Presiding Justice, who shall receive an annual salary of twenty seven hundred dollars. They shall ap- point a Chief Clerk who shall hold office for two years and receive an an- nual salary of twenty-four hundred dollars The Chief Clerk may appoint five Deputies, each of whom shall re- ceive an annual salary of twelve hum dred dollars
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receive an annual salary of eighteen hundred dollars; one assistant clerk, who shall receive an annual salary of twelve hundred dollars; and one sten- ographer and typewriter who shall re- ceive an annual salary of nine hundred dollars.
 Sec. f. The District Attorney may, in the name of the City and County, bid for and purchase property at execution sales under judgments for the recovery of fines, penalties or forfeitures accru- ing to the Citv and County.
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ARTICLE V.
LEGAL DEPARTMENT,
CHAPTER I.
The Superior Court Judges.

SECTION l. The Judges of the Su- perior Court of the City an County may appoint not to exceed five inter preters of foreign languages, who shall act as such interpreters in criminal ac- tions anu proceedings in all the courts in; the City. and County. and in exam nations before Coroner's juries Sec. ?. The stenographers m the Criminal Departments of the Superior Court shall each receive an annual salary not exceeding twenty-four hun dred dollars which shall be in full compensation for all services including transcription and all stationery used by them.
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CHAPTER W.
The Public Administrator.

SECTION l. The Public Administra- tor shall be elected by the people, ana he shall hold office for two years. lie shall have all the powers conferred, and shall discharge all the duties imposed upon, the Public Administrators or counties by the general laws of this State, except as in this Charter other wise specifically provided. He shall be entitled to all such fees as may be al- lowed by law to the Public Administra. tors of the counties of the State Tn tull compensation for all his services.
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an hour faster than Cervera's vessels. 1t
would take such vessels a lng time to
run down a squadron IKE Cervera's In
a body Of water hundreds of miles In
extent and nearly as broad as long. n
government might expsnd q consider
able part Of SIS. 600. 900 in coal before
such a race would end. The purpose OF
the military critic was to show that 1t
is cheaper to be prepared for all emer-
gencies than to stand the cost Of not be-
ing prepared. Perhaps the best way to
fight phantom fleets would be to have
a navy large enough to surround a hos
tile feet and close in upon II. We might
make war impossible. or at least improb-
able. by making 1t hopeless. There
seems to be at present a somewhat gen
eral opinion that the peace of the world
could be maintained on this principle,
though in the present war the course Of
Spain refutes II.
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We Got There just the Same.

- MILITARY critic in the Philadel-
n phia Record remarked the other
day that the only reason the
expedition to Santiago became necessary
was because the armored cruisers of Ad-
miral Cervera had eluded our compare
lively slow-moving battleships and OBJ
tanned a refuge in that naturally i'm
p~regnable harbor. The military expedi-
ton 20 Santiago will cost at least s25.-
900. 900. to say nothing Of the i've that
will be lost. For the sum named We
could have built two armored cruisers
for each one In Admiral Cervera's
squadron. swift enough to have run
down the Spanish ships and powerful
enough TO have sunk then when found.
Referring TO the foregoing the San
Francisco Bulletin observes thai while
IL would be possible TO build heavy bat
tleships which could make a knot or two
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~ cattle dispatches yesterday
~ morning told of the return to
~ hat city of twenty odd miners
from the Klondike. They had some
thing more than 5000, 900 among them.
the most fortunate OF the lot is ac-
credited with bringing back $4,000.
They said they hurried to make a clean
up and get back to civilization. The
story they told Of conditions in Alaska
was a gloomy one. Sickness is very
prevalent. much of IL OF a fatal char
acter. Physicians are few, medical
supplies scarce, the comforts OF life
wanting. A few men are striking 1T
rich: the great majority are eating up
what money they took with them, will
soon be reduced TO penury and want,
and will return poorer by hundreds
and thousands of dollars than when
they started. 1t is evident that those
lucky, and that those who are in that
region will be luckier still IL they earn
enough by their summers work to pay
their way back to civilization.
The bubble has burst. The much
heralded FL Dorado proves TO be a very
| ordinary placer digeings, which is al
| ready worked out TO all intents n
PURPOSES. The bulk of the gold was
taken out by the original prospectors
a year or so ago. The Chicago Chron-
icle remarked the other day that there
are in California half a dozen placer
diggings which offer as good prospects
as the Klondike without the Klondike's
drawbacks i'm the matter of climate.
transportation and supplies That is
still more true of Montana, which offers
miners the best inducements In the
world to-day. I'm spite of the frantic
efforts OF the steamship companies and
mercantile corporations to bolster up
a year or SO ago. The Chicago Chron-
'it is evident that the glory of the
Alaskan district has departed. Most OF
the vessels engaged in the Klondike
trade have been withdrawn. Those
that continue to run carry few passen-
gers and less freight. The supplies that
were piled up at Dawson. at Circle city
and at Forty Mile in expectation of
tremendous demand are Lar sely dead
stock"