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The San Francisco call., 1898-12-15
ONLY THIRTY DAYS.
Short Sentence of F. B. Wiley, Con-
 victed Burglar.
Oakland Office San Francisco Call,

Oakland Office San Francisco Call,
 sos Broadway, Dec. A.
 F. B. Wiley, burglar of Kings county, was brought to the county jail tonight to be kept until he shall be taken to San Quentin Wiley considers himself one of the luckiest men in California. He has to serve a sentence of thirty days, the smallest sentence ever passed in Cali fornia upon a conviction of burglary.
 Wiley and a companion named Jose Estuardo were caught while engaged in a burglary When arraigned Estuardo pleaded guilty and was sentenced to San Quentin for five years Wiley pleaded not guilty and put the State to the ex- pense of a trial, after which he was con- victed and, to the surprise of every body, he was sentenced to thirty days in San Quentin
 The deputy sheriff who is bringing Will ley to San Quentin says that the whole of Judge Dixon Phillips, who sentenced Will ley. He says it was confidently expected that EStuardo's sentence would be miti- gated in view of the fact that he pleaded guilty, instead of which he received the maximum penalty for burglary in the second degree. The prosecution was con- fident that with the conviction of Wiley he would receive the same sentence as his pal but to the surprise of the Dis trict Attorney and the whole of the coun- ty. he was let off with thirty days.
 Tt is not worth the expense of bring ing him to the States prison," said the the trip is an agreeable excursion for
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of finding children and finding homes for them; They have solicitors going all over oyer the State collecting large sums or money which are mostly spent for the salaries or those running the society.
 The Oakland society has for it's board of directors many of the leading minis cording to its president. is doing work that saves the State thousands of dollars per month. It Is managed by Rev. J. E. WSo Ton wno s 0 s State for the society and are allowed 50 per cent commission for their salary and expenses
 II have perfect confidence in MT. Hen tderson," said President Sharp, but l know that Rev. MT. Daniels has frequent ly made demand for money on people this system that has led to the report that home-findng societies sell children com ing into their possession. l have here proof from Petaluma that MT. panteIs "a e5H and when it was not forthcoming the cnlld was turned over to us and we round It home. There are several such instances not do this, and I believe MT. Henderson is acting honestly and usefully. He IS not a disgraced minister, but is a member Tn ence. Regarding anything he may have done at Angels Camp I know nothing.
 ''The two children which it Is said we took from Sacramento I know nothing about, but I have no doubt that Rev. J. E.. Henderson has placed them in tempo rary home, and if they are wanted at sac ramento they can be sent there at once. We have no home in which to place cnll- dren, and the expense consists In taking the children from one city to another. II is true MT. Henderson travels free ana can take his wards with him, but he has to meet his hotel expenses, and although his salary is supposed to be ,s75 month know that he has not yet been able to get that much from the society. This matter in the paper is the result or Jeal- ousy.
 Originally we were a portion of an other society, but they wanted too great a percentage of the collections made in this city, and we decided to organize lnde- pendently We are now about to incorpo- rate, and our board of directors includes many of the best men In Alameda County"
 Rev. J. D. Henderson is now in the north ern part of the State, and Is expected pack tomorrow President Sharp says he will no doubt lay the statements of Rev. MT Daniels before the attorney Of the society and will probably demand satisfaction.
 M. J. Keller, who is the treasurer or the society, says he does not know any thing about Mir Henderson, but he has absolute confidence in President sharp, and knows that he would not be a party to anything that was not perfectly and worthy of support.
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ALAMEDA DEMURS TO
 A BIG DAMAGE SUIT
LITIGATION OVER THE DEATH
 OF MRS. DAVOUST.
Question as to Who Was Responsible for the Wire That Burned
 Her to Death.

OAKLAND, Dec 1.-The city of Ala meda, through it's attorney, Senator E. K. Taylor, filed a demurrer this after noon to the complaint of Martial Davoust in his suit against the city, the Sunset Telephone and Telegraph Company and Pacific Postal Telegraph Company brought recently for the recovery Of $oO,- 900 damages on account of the death of his young wife, which was caused by a live wire.
 The demurrer is very elaborate. Its first ground Is the insufficiency of facts to constitute a cause. Another point is that the complaint is uncertain in that 1t cannot be ascertained therefrom which of the defendants stretched or maintained the certain Wire,' or whether said wire was telegraph, telephone or electric light wire; also that it does not specify which, if any, of the defendants ..nesli- gently and carelessly allowed the wire to remain upon the ground, or who deVel- oped or conducted the electricity that heavily charged said wire.
 The fact that the complaint does not specify what portion of the alleged dam ages was the result of the loss of ser vices and society of plaintiffs wife and what portion is claimed for the bodily and mental injuries sustained by plafntin IS another point urged in the demurrer. Also that two causes of action have been inn properly joined. And finally that there Is a miS Sjoinder of parties defendant, in that it appears from the complaint that each defendant was operating separate sys- tenn of wiring, supported by the same poles, that "a certain wire caused the injury, and 1t is apparent that as any one wire was maintained by one defendant only there is no cause for the joinder of the other two defendants.
 The city asks to be dismissed as a de-
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ALAMEDA COUNTY NEWS.
Her Imprisonment tells heavily upon her. While Brandes appears fresner ana Iatler every time he is brought into court.
ANOTHER UNKNOWN DEAD.
A Woman's Body Found Near Box
 of Rough on Rats.

OAKLAND, Dec. 14.-An unknown wo- man was found dead in a room at the Avenue House, corner of Sixteenth street and San Pablo avenue, tonight. She Is a stranger and was last seen by the land lady on Monday last, when she asked whether transient guests were taken. She tonight went to her quarters to learn whether she wished to keep the room longer she found her lying on the bed partly dressed and dead: On small box of trough on rats, from which a good portion had been taken by the, de- ceased Nothing was found by which she might be identified.
 The deceased was apparently about 30 years of age. She is of medium build: had a plain dark coat and dark skirt and black felt sailor hat Her dark brown hair is short and curly, and the left eye tooth is missing. The remains were taken to the Morgue.
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the Pacific Coast, with its headquarters in this city, has brought to light some of the methods by which children are traf- licked in throughout California.
 The complaint made against -dr. Hen derson was published in this mornings S Call and attracted wide attention in this city on account of the prominent people interested in and associated with the Oah- land society.
 Hon. Craigie Sharp, president of the Oak land society, says that the charges made in to-day's Call by Rev. F. Daniels of Sac ramento are largely unfounded, and he replies to them by making just as seri- ous charges against MT. Daniels.
 There are several societies in Califor- mia, 1t apears, which make it a business
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SAN FRANCISCO CALL.

BUSINESS OFFICE of the San Francisco Call corner of Market and Third streets. open until 12 o'clock every night in the wear. BRANCH OFFICES-527 Montgomery street corner Clay; open until s:30 o'clock
 2S7 Hayes street: open until s:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street; bpen until 9:3O o'clock 615 Lerkin street; open until 9:3o o'clock 1sn Mission street; open until 10 o'clock. 226I Market street, corner Sixteenth: open until Q o'clock
 1os Eleventh street; open until o'clock. 2526 Mission street: open until o'clock. NV. corner of Twenty y-second and Kentucky streets: open until o'clock
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LATE SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE
ARRIVED.

Wednesday. December 14. Stmr Washtenaw, Croscup, S6 hours from Ta- coma.
 Br stmr Wellington, salmond 3ha days from Departure Bay. Stmr Alex Duncan, Buckard, 78 hours from Redondo and way ports.
 DOMESTIC PORTS. SOUTH BEND-Arrived Dec 13-Schr Beuah hence Dec 10 PORT BLAKELEY-Sailed Dec H-Schr De- fender. for San Francisco. FORT BRAGG-Sailed Dec 14-Stmr Sequoia, for San Francisco.
 TRANSATLANTIC STEAMERS NEW YORK-Arrived Dec 14-Stmr Ethiopia from Glasgow. OWN-Arrived Dec 14-Stmr Bel genland, Philadelphia for Liverpool.
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Halpin's Death.

OAKLAND, Dec. 1.-The jury at the inquest of Dennis Halpin, the aged gar dener who was run down by reckless driv- CTS last Sunday night on Moss avenue, was caused by the fracture of several ribs and vertebrae, the result of being thrown from his wagon through some un- known cause"
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Officer Ramps Trial.

ALAMEDA, Dec. 1.-The charges pre- Albert Ramp I' will be Investigated Friday night by the police committee of the Board of City Trustees Hoeck charges fidence T in giving information to a Call re-
 porter when the former had his little
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Estate of Abbie L. Marble.

OAKLAND. Dec. 14.-Elijah B. Stan wood to-day petitioned for letters of ad- ministration on the estate of Abbie l.. Socrates Huff's place in San Leandro on the 1st inst. Mrs. Marble died intestate, and petitioner ayers that the estate Is are: Mrs James G. Blaine, a sister, re-
 siding in Washington, D. C.; Elijah B. Stanwood, petitioner and nephew, of San Jose; Walter Stinson of Augusta, Me; Charles Stanwood of Brighton, Mass; Eben Stanwood and two children of Mrs. McKim, whose residences are unknown.
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High School Student Officers.

BERKELEY, Dec. 1.-The senior class of the Berkeley High School held a meet ing yesterday afternoon for the purpose of electing officers. The following were chosen: President Arthur Lowell; vice president, Miss Carrie Johnson; secre- tary, Miss c. Parvin; treasurer, Miss Pearl Wagner; sergeant at arms, Howard Hendricks: class prophet, Miss Kate Peake; class historian, Miss Leslie Trow- bridge A motion providing that no play be given the class day exercises before graduation was lost and steps will be taken to choose cast by the beginning of next term.
 Berkeley News Notes.
 BERKELEY, Dec. 14;-Lookout Noun tain Post No SS, G. A. R., elected officers last night for the coming year as fol- lows: Commander. Captain J. L. Morri- vice, R. Flint; officer of the day; T. Gill bert; officer of the guard, c. Prick; chap lain, N l.. Freeze; surgeon, E. F. Ban croft; quartermaster T. R. Tyler; dele gate to department encampment, John E. Boyd, with E. c. Arnold as alternate.
 Work is being pushed rapidly on the re- building of the Macdonald block. de- stroyed last week by fire. The rain is likely to damage the stores below unless the roof is soon finished.
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DRAMA OF THE
 GRADUATE CLASS
Clever Work of Miss Zoe Alderman Presented
 at the Oakland High School.

of
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BABY SELLING
 |NDUL LGED IN
 BY SOCIETIES Sharp Says Daniels Asks for Coin. HENDERSON IS DEFENDED IS A MINISTER IN GOOD STAND
 ING. Home Finding for Children in Cali fornia Seems to Be a Fit
 Subject for Investi-
 gation.
IS A MINISTER IN GOOD STAND
 ING.

Oakland Office San Francisco Call,
 sos Broadway, Dec. 14.
 The complaint made by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children re- garding Rev. J. E. Henderson of the American Home Finding Association of
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which, it is claimed, has been collected for a long time past by some woman in San Francisco, who might claim now that she is DOnohueS widow.
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WILL MAKE
 NO DEFENSE
 FOR BRANDES His Attorneys Will Wait for Trial. HE IS GROWING FAT IN JAIL HIS WIFE IS BREAKING DOWN
 IN HEALTH. More Damaging Testimony That the Rope Was Put Around Lillian's
 Neck After Her
 Death.
HE IS GROWING FAT IN JAIL
HIS WIFE IS BREAKING DOWN
 IN HEALTH.

Oakland Ot1ce San Francisco Call,
 sos Broadway, Dec. II.
 W. A Brandes will have to answer in the Superior Court to the charge of mur- dering his daughter Lillian. His prelim- mary examination has not yet ended, but
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SPECIAL NOTICES.


 BAD tenants elected for s4; collections made. city or country. PACIFIC COLLECTION CO. 4l5 Montgomery st., rooms 9-10; tel 55sor ROOMS papered from s. whitened s1 up: painting done. Hartmann Paint Co., 343 3d st
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DIVIDEND NOTICES.
SITUATIONS wANTED-FEMALE

young woman would like A
 position of trust in office, establishment or private correspondent or companion to invalid lady; is a good penman; situation must be in Sonoma County. Address by letter only MISS DELLA M, Petalums. Sonoma County, Cal.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-06-14
Torpedo Boats Not Dangerous.

For some years past it has been the
opinion of naval experts that in the first
war in which modern fighting vessels
were used, it would be learned that
some of the most approved, theoretically,
classes of warships were practically use
less. And this opinion has been verified
by the naval battles in the wal between
the United States and Spain.
1t has been popularity supposed that
the torpedo boat would prove the
most destructive type of warship, and a
number of the naval powers of Europe
have expended large sums of money in
building what are known as torpedo
boat ~destroyers, and in contrivances in
tended to protect large warships from
the stealthy attacks of the torpedo
shooters. 1t is safe to say that in the
future very little money will be spent in
building vessels of this class.
So far in the present war there is not
a single instance where a torpedo boat
has inflicted any damage upon the
enemy, butin several instances when
these vessels have attempted to ap'
proach a cruiser or battleship they have
been compelled to seek safety in flight,
The shells of the great guns of the
heavier ships have proved more than
can be faced by small crafts. The
search lights now in use have rendered
an attack by night almost impossible.
while in the daytime the accuracy Of
the gunners on the large ships make il
impossible for atorpedo boat to approach
near enough to discharge a torpedo
with any degree of success.
Perhaps submarine boats of the Hol-
land type may take the place of the
modern torpedo boat, and prove an ele-
ment of great danger to large warships,
but the terror once felt of the visible
torpedo craft has been dispelled by the
results of the battles and skirmishes on
the seas in the present war.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-06-14
Recent rains have benefited crops

Recent rains have benefited crops
and range,
Mrs. Christina Hoffman died in San
Marcial last week.
The San Marcial base ball team will
play in Ell Paso July A.
The bridges east of Socorro on the
Santa Fe are being elevated.
FL Republican, office in Socorro has
been moved to the Abeytia block.
A lodge of the Woodmen of the World
has been organized at San Marcial.
The general health of people in the
Rio Grande valley was never better.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. G. Hanna, of San
Marcial, have a new boy at their home.
Miss Edith M. Clark and Mr.. Noah
Darr were married in San Marcial last
week.
Earl Coon, the ~11-year-old son of Mr.
and Mrs. A. D. Coon. of Socorro, died
last week.
The doctor presented Mr.. and Mrs
Jeff Roberts, of San Marcial, with Il new
boy last week.
Mrs. Thomas Davenport has returned
to her San Marcial home from an ex-
tended visit in Roswell.
f. j. Easley, superintendent of termi-
nails at Tampico, Mexico, and wife, are
visiting San Marcial friends.
Frank Buck, a former San Marcial
resident, died in the Santa Fe railway
hospital at Topeka last week.
Mrs. l.. L. Pfeffer, of Lebanon, Ill.,,
daughter of Jacob Hammel, of Socorro,
is visiting her father at the latter place.
Clement Hightower, former county
commissioner. was the first man to
raise the American flag over his home
at Frisco.
Fenwick D. Hamilton, who has been
attending the academy at Lexington,
Mo-, has returned to his Socorro home
for the vacation.
Two big engines have been put on the
San Marcial- Deming division of the
Santa Fe to save Misunderstanding"
Engle hill.
A petition has been circulated in Las
Cruces praying Governor Otero to par
don Tom Grow, sent up from this county
for cattle stealing.
ColfaX county
The Ration band will play in Trinidad
July 4.
Eli%zabethtown wants u shoemaker tc
locate there.
Z. Cecil has returned to Ration from
Fort Smith, Ark.
Geo. +. Fisher is the new Santa Fe
operator at Ration.
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and that Under ii, the taxes due to the
territory and counties, could and ought
to be collected promptly, and without
the expense and delay of litigation. In
this connection it is desired to call the
attention of the people in general and
particularly of the officers named. to the
provisions of the law, the plain duty of
the tax collector, and the penalty for
failure to perform it. Section IA, chap
ter6 Session Laws of 1898, in the new
compilation, section 4062, makes it 1.-THE
duty of the collector to visit each pre-
cinct in his county to receive the taxes;
first giving ten days notice of the time
and place appointed by him, by hand
bills posted in at least three public
places of the precinct; he shall give such
notice Immediately after receiving the
tax lists: Provided, that when the col
lector negligently or w~illfully fails or re-
fuses to collect any such taxes, he shall
be liable on his bond for the full amount
of such taxes so failed to be collected.
together with interest at II per cent.
In addition to this penalty, Section /, of
Chapter /, same Session Laws, compiled
as new section 1857, provides that lit
shall be the duty of the governor to
| forthwith vacate the commission of all
defaulting tax collectors, or of tax col
%lectors or receivers, or of any other per-
son in whose hands public moneys shall
come. who shall fail to do their duty in
any respect as prescribed by law. 1t is
a notorious fact that some collectors in
this territory make no effort whatever
to collect the taxes; they simply give re-
ceipts when persons come and offer to
pay their taxes, but violate the letter
and spirit of the law as above quoted.
As will be seen from the above extracts
of the law, such negligence not only
subjects the collector to the payment OF
the tax with - per cent interest, but al
so to summary removal by the governor
and while no public officer ought to fee
stimulated to do his duty by the pcnalt.
prescribed for failure, yet it is deemed
advisable to point out to the gentlemen
holding the positions of collector o
taxes, the risks they are taking by thel'
negligence, and to assure them tina
their official heads are in very grea
jeopardy unless the collections for tn
taxes due in July are made more
promptly and vigorously than they have
been for those due in January. Th'
collection of taxes is the most importan
) and necessary function in the whole
} administration of territorial government
and the tax payer who fails to prompt.
pay his taxes is not nearly so much tt
blame as the sworn and bonded office
who neglectS to do his duty.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-06-14
The War Revenue Howl.

The enactment of the var revenue
bill into a law has brought about Il ter
rible condition of affairs, if the anti
administration papers are to be be-
lieved, but the worst case of country
gone to the everlasting bow-wows is
heralded from the free silver circles by
their organs 1t would seem that every
sin in the decalogue has been committed
by congress and the president in sane
tioning a law which places a tax upon
| MANY articles and business papers for
the purpose of raising the money neces-
sary to carry on the present war, but
the climax of iniquity is embodied in an
issue of government bonds amounting to
$500, 600, 900.
According to these howlers of disaster
the American people are already over
burdened with taxes and the recently
enacted law will prove the last straw to
break the nations back. More arrant
nonsense was never preached by dema-
gogues. Statistics prove that taxes in
the United States are and always have
been lighter than in any other country.
Not only that, but the prices OF neces-
stiles of life, grade for grade and in
ratio to wages paid, are lower than in
the much heralded cheap countries Of
Europe. Up to the present time Ameri-
cans have no ground for complaint re-
garding taxation necessary to the sup
port of the federal government, The
money necessary to run the government
has for 30 years past, with the excep-
ton of four years of Democratic con-
troll, been collected by a system of in
direct taxation which has borne very
lightly on the people, and in most cases
been paid by business competition with
out costing the taxpayers so much as l
cent. And yet the anti-American or
gans, whether they are Democratic or
free silver or something else, when the
government stands in need of an un-
usually large amount of money, howl
because means and ways are adopted to
raise that money in a ann which will
bear as lightly as possible on the people.
The animus In the case is not difficult
to discover. A congressional election is
near at hand. and the free silver, free
trade and free sore-head elements of the
land are willing to wreck the country in
the midst of a crisis, in order to gain
control of the political patronage of the
government, and possibly foist a dis
credited hobby upon the people which in
the end will cost the taxpayers vastly
more money in direct depreciation of
property values than the whole wal will
cost in hard cash.
The bowling of the free-for-oflice-
scramble cohorts is not only disgusting,
but in a country where intelligence and
hard sense were less conspicuous among
the masses, would be dangerous to the
welfare of the nation. In a time like
this the saying of "Father Abraham
that "you can fool all the people part Of
the time, part of the people all the time
but you can't fool all the people all the
time, is peculiarly applicable. A small
part of the people may be induced tt
believe that taxation and bond issue.
are pernicious in times of war and peril
but the majority of the voters will stand
up to the music like the patriots they
are, and the country will be saved from
disgrace. defeat and reputation.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-06-14
Children should always

Children should always
increase in weight. Not to
grow, not to increase in flesh,
belongs to old age.
Present and future health
demands that his increase
in weight should be steady
and never failing.
To delicate children,
Scott's Emulsion brings
richer blood and 6rmer
flesh. Better color comes
to the cheeks and stronger
muscles to the limbs. The
gain in weight is substantial;
it comes to stay.
SOC. and 1i.oo, all druggists.
SCOTT & BOVINE, Chemists, New York.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-06-14

During the past few years Nebraska
has enjoyed a Populist governor and a
Populist legislative assembly and now it
is enjoying a great scandal. it being
charged that a large corruption fund
has been used by the Pacific Express
company and other corporations with
the Pop administration and the Pop
legislature for the purpose of killing at
tempted legislation %unfavorable to cor
p%orations. Nothing else was to be ex-
Dpctcd.