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The San Francisco call., 1898-01-23
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Oakland Office San Francisco Call,
 sos Broadway, Jan. %
 Such was the rebuke administered to Frank P Bacon, the once wealthy son of a wealthy pioneer, in Judge Ogden's court to-day.
 The speaker was Judge F. B. Ogden, who had just listened to the testimony in the divorce proceeding of Mrs. Ma mic c. Bacon against Frank P. Bacon. The suit was filed Tuesday and the an- swer only this morning.
 The defendants order authorizing Pierson and Mitchell to represent him in this suit was dated Nogales, Mexico, January 19, 1898. MT. Pierson made his appearance shortly after o'clock and the case was called. Mrs. Bacon was present with her little golden haired daughter, Catherine, whose big blue eyes looked in wonderment at the movements of all concerned She watched her mother closely while on the stand.
 Mrs. Bacon testified that she was married December 24, 1874, at San Ga briel. and had eight children by this
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union. They were Henry D., 9, mar ried; Julia, 1s; William S.. 1& Joseph S., 15; Thomas B., 13; Page, II; Cath erine, g, and Robert, 3 next April She said that MT. Bacon deserted her and the children July 22. 1885, since which time they had never lived together Tor had he supported her or the children. She had not spoken to him in a year.
 Judge ogden drew from the witness that for the past three months she had not had clothes or fire to keep her warm, nor food to keep her and the children from being hungry. She ad- mitted that she had been assured that if she gave up all of the children but the baby, only to see them but once a week, all of the pending cases would be dismissed and the divorce case not contested. She was also to receive a small settlement. She denied that this arrangement met with her approval. but it was a case where she had to ac- cept what was offered. or starve. She said she could and would take care of herself and all of the children with S15O per month and be glad to get it.
 The only other witness was Mrs. Egan, who was a domestic in the fam fly when the desertion occurred. and Attorney J. J. Scrivner the plaintiff's $ representative, who testified that he broached the subject of divorce, and until it was definitely settled no prop erty interests or settlement was dis cussed.
 Attorney Scrivner then announced that he had prepared the findings in the case and decree wherein the de- fendant was awarded all of the minor children except the baby and the plain tiff given $25 monthly alimony.
 Whats that?" asked Judge Ogden, with heavy frown on his face. MT. Scrivner repeated the proposition, when he was startled with the remarks above quoted.
 The defendants attorney asserted that the plaintiff was to receive nearly two-thirds of the defendants property. Tears came to Mrs. Bacon's eyes. and later she expressed the opinion to the bailiff of the court that Judge Ogden is the highest principled man that I ever met" The attorneys asked for a conference. and the three repaired to the Judges chambers. The case was continued until Tuesday next for a de- ciSion.
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lines of politicS.

lines of politics.
 After half a century of existence as a county, or as a part of a county originally known as Contra Costa, the bay cities are now in a position to form a big metropolis that will exceed in value, population and area the much vaunted city of the south, Los Angeles.
 For some time there has been in Berkeley a party which is anxious to become part of Oakland, but no such spirit has yet been made public in Ala meda.
 In the event of a division of the county, leaving the bay cities as DOT tions of Oakland, the interior of the county owned fifty years ago mostly by Robert Livermore, but now full of thriving settlements, would prove ample to form the nucleus of a county by Itself.
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St. Francis Church.

Rev. Father Gleason of St. Roses, Bran nan street, will preach in St. Francis Church this evening at vespers. The members of the Gentlemens Sodality, who number 300, will be present at the sermon Father Gleason is sure to be greeted by a large audience in the church of his baptism and boyhood. A very important meting of the sodality will be held in the church hall next Wednesday evening at S o'clock.
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"I owe and Affection" "

OAKLAND, Jan. PA deed was placed on file this afternoon transferring from Rebecca Wurts to Myron l.. Wurts, in consideration ''of love and affection" a lot on San Pablo avenue, near Grayson street. 49:6x440 feet, and another on East Ninth street, near Fourth avenue. 33x100 feet This is part of the property re- gently presented to Mrs. Wurts by Mrs. Ann M. Snyder, as her portion of her fathers estate. The same property was then deeded in trust to N. F. Kroll, as trustee of George Clark, to secure a loan of $500. with interest at l per cent per month.
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q suitably worded resolutions to say a 6 e good word and act friendly to each <: e other and each others interests s g For some years past If a stranger z q visited the town and asked about :. q the value of this or that property e
 . he was at once prejudiced and C e made to feel that the particular 6 @ property was overvalued and no C 6 good anyway. C q If he thought of opening store C e he was more quickly advised not to {: @ do so and practically threatened 6
 e with trouble if he attempted to ( 6 start in business. If he went abroad C 3 in the streets at night he found < e them unsafe because poorly light C c ed If he looked for paved sidewalks C q in front of the better class of pri- C C vate houses and along our beauti- C e full shaded and level streets he C c found none. These are the plain, C
 3 unvarnished facts which need the ( e attention of the people and which a ( q properly arranged public meeting C e can do much to change. San Le- C 6 andro needs more people-the store C 9 keepers need more business, and (
 e property owners need a more cer- ( e tain income from their property. C These advantages can be had if ( q proper steps are taken to counter ( e act existing wrong impressions and ( 9 wrong ways of doing things gen. e orally. It is high time that we all (
 6 did little pulling together, instead ( e of trying to see how far we can get ( 6 apart and injure one another's in C terests. VIM. J. LANDERS. (
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Nedr to Deuth.

OAKLAND, Jan. 22.-Dr. Stratton has given up all hopes of the recovery of the Japanese woman shot by Singro Matsu- mato. She is paralyzed in her left arm and both legs. This is caused by the bullet which punctured one of the cer- vical vertebrae and caused hemorrhage in the canal along the cord in the spinal column. Death now is only a matter of a few days.
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At the present time San Leandro is actively engaged in trying to raise sufficient capital to induce a f1rst-class cannery to locate in that town next season. The committee has succeeded in raising S31S7. while they feel that $10000 is the least sum with which they can go to work. Next Tuesday evening all those interested in the wei fare of the town will meet to see what can be done. According to MT. Herr scher the locating of the cannery in San Leandro is what is needed to turn the tide of business interests. On one side Haywards is growing, and on the other side Elmhurst is reaching out, and he believes that instead of criti- cizing the mOneyed men of the place they should temporize and expostu- late with them. A member of the can wasting committee has called attention to the fact that although MT. Landers has severely criticized the town pub licly,' his name does not appear in the list of subscribers who are intent on bringing a large cannery to the town to give 1t a lift commercially.
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Increase of Sentiment in Favor of United GOv-
 ernm ent.
Contrast of the Conditions With Those of Fifty Years
 Ago.
Many Public Questions Could Be Easily Settled After Such
 Consolidation.
Oakland Office San Francisco Call,

sos Broadway, Jan. 22
 Although the consolidation of the governments of the city and county will hardly take place this jubilee year, still the date is not far off when this municipality will follow the ex- ample of San Francisco.
 During the past two years this ques- tion of consolidation has frequently arisen, and in nearly every public question that has come up its solution has depended to a great extent upon this point. The tidal canal proposition, the conflict between local licenses in bay cities, the public park matter and
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MRS. DR. KNOX
 DRAWS OUT
Ideas of the Ebell Are Un- dergoing Quite a
 Change.
Mrs. Russ Brings Home Some Plain Truths From Chi
 caqo.
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Oakland Office San Francisco Call
 sos Broadway. Jan. %
 Dr. Myra Knox has practically resigned from the City Improvement Club, and although she still retains the title of president, she has decided to confine her work outside of professional duties to her share of activity on the School Board
 It has been given out that the City Improvement Club will not exist as
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The Irish Rebellion.

OAKLAND, Jan. 22.-The Irish Rebel lion' will be produced at the Oakland Theater for the first time on Monday evening. The cast will require the full strength of the Gleason Brewer company, which has given such good satisfaction to crowded houses this week.
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ROASTED BY
 THE COURT Frank P. Bacon Not to Protect His Own
 Daughter. Judqe Ogden Advises Sons Not to Follow Their
 Father. A Proposition to Settle the Divorce Case Brings Out the Anger
 of the Court
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. 'T will never blacken my con- C c science by granting to the de- C . fendant the custody of the little C c girl, Catherine, aged g years. A ( c man who is so lost to all sense C c of honor and thinks so little of C c his obligations to his wife, little c children and society as to aban- (
 . don them deserves not the cus- ( . tody at least, of the girl. My ( c own observation has taught me z . that the male sex can take care c of themselves. . Tt might be that the example C . of the father, vicious as 1t might (
 . be to the boys, might serve. to . them as lesson, to elevate their c own condition and morals in C
 . life. never would grant into (
 . the custody of the defendant, ( . shown to have abandoned his
 . wife and children of tender ( . years. little girl. This is out of z c the question"
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Hotel Company Incorporates.

The Paso Robles Springs Hotel Com pany incorporated yesterday with a cap ital of $1OO,0O0, of which $92, 900 has been subscribed. The directors are: R. K. Jack, Henry Brunner, James Gelton, F. A. Hilin and ". D. Haslini.
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AlJCTION!
REAL ESTATE,

ProDate, Partition, foreclosure and
 CommiSSionef Sale, MONDAY, JANUARY sIst, 1898.
 At 12 o'clock NJ At salesroom, I4 Montgomery Street,
 the Following Properties:
 PARTITION SALE. Southeast corner of Drumm and Commercial streets:
 PARTITION SALE. South line of Mission street feet westerly from First street. Improvements used for manufacturing purposes portion Of lot uniniproved; size, 963xS0.
 PAKTITI \ SALE. 96 Deyisadero street between Golden Gate avenue and McAister street; elegant modern residence of l3 rooms and bath, including billiard room, laundry, etc.
 PARTITION SALE. Market and 18th streets fine business lot; southeast corner of Market and 18th streets; 50xl00.
 COMMI>sI NER'S SALE By order of P F skelly Commissioner of the estate of Mary Rodgers deceased; lots, southwest corner of Pierce and Ebert streets. whole in subdyis Ions; sizes, 37-6xll26 and each 25 by l12:6
 TO CLO-E AN ESTATE. Northwest corner of Third and Silver streets improve substantial brick building. and flats on srd street store and flat and three flats on Silver street; rents, S230 per month; 75x75.
 THEO. l.. SCHELL ESTATE. 2lo77H Webster street between Sacramento and Clay streets flats of and rooms and bath rents s35 per month; 25x90:6, to all alley.
 THEO. l.. SCHELL ESTATE
 As Whole or in Subdivision. I-Northeast corner of Broadway and Octaya street. residence of and bath rent $50 per 2Lot east side of Ocavia street 100 feet north of Broadway; 25xll26.
 MICHAEL HART ESTATE 70 Natoma street. between First and Second streets; 2story and basement of IA rooms: 34I75; rent, s30 MARGARET TOOMEY ESTATE. ll2l Treat avenue between 24th and 18th streets; cot tsge of rooms 25xl12.6.
 MUST BE SOLD. s45o MIsso street. west sde 70 feet north of Brook street. fronting Mission street and old San Jose cottage of rooms mortgage, sz000 HbeTnia Bank, remain; large lot, 60xl7s, irregular.
 TO CLOSE AN ESTATE Fine Mission building lot; line of Noe street, 5l feet south of Henry; street bituminized 25I96 GOOD INVf STWENT ON EAST LINE OF
 BRODERICK STREET. Between Sacramento and Clay streets old house of rooms and outbuildings lot 554Hxll0 feet street ac cepted stone sidewalk iad convenient to several lines of CATS; magnificent location for flats,
 INSIDE CORNER. Northeast of Pacific and Jones streets double cottage of and and bath each; rent {3; 45x60 good corner for bakery confectioner ct our office.
 C. H UMBsEN CO. Auctioneers,
 l4 Montgomery Street.
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 e It is clear to every observer that 6 6 San Leandro is slipping back-not e e even standing still. Also that in the e <3 neighborhood of sixty houses and 6 e stores are vacant. The next towns 6 e both hways-Elmhurst and Haywards e e are in much better condition, and 6 e 1t follows that unusual and unnec- e q essary causes must exist to keep e e San Leandro from enjoying at least C 6 the same relative position and ad- 6 q vancement as Haywards and Elm q e hurst. It is almost needless to say q q that the owners of property, store q q keepers and residents suffer alike, e q and this will continue until the e e causes which brought on the pres 6 e ent state of affairs are removed. e e Is it not the case that politics and 6 e differences between a few in and q q out bosses together with a willing e I3 ness to attack and impede the cap c e ital already invested in the place, 6 e are the causes making up the sum q 3 total of the present bad state of af- C 2 fairs? I venture the opinion that 6 e this is the case and that the efforts q g of the local Board of Trade will c e continue to yield nothing until a C q better public spirit is created and C <3 maintained. I have been asked how q z a better public spirit can be creat- C q ed-I answer, let a friendly meeting C e be held and ask property owners, q e storekeepers and residents who are q e on the tax roll not to miss attend C a ance. Each one present should sign C
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HE SCORES
 SAN LEANDRO w. J. Landers Says Poli- tics and Bosses Ruin
 the Town.
Meanwhile the Citizens Try to Do Something to Help
 Matters.
An Interesting Mass Meeting Has Been Called for Next
 Tuesday.
Oakland Office San Francisco Call,

Oakland Office San Francisco Call,
 sos Broadway, Jan. p. San Leandro is engaged at present in solving the riddle of her existence. w. J. Landers, the San Francisco insur- ance manager, perhaps the wealthiest man on the county road. and one. of the largest property owners in San Leandro. has made public a letter which he has addressed to "our trus- tees. Board of Trade, and citizens gen. erally."
 It is as follows:
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Saddle Horses!

Owners of sad .le horses willing to rent them for the use of aids and marshals for the celebration of Califor- nia's Golden Jubilee, are re- quested to communicate with the Grand Marshal, at head quarters, room 16S, Palace Hotel, imm diately. By or der,
 PARADE COMMITTEE.
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Superior Advantages
St. MichaeIS, the Yukon and Tributaries
 to Dawson City.
Al Passenger Accommodations

A journey of speed safety and comfort. Stronger in person and better in health on reaching destination than when starting. An equal interest and voice in the company's affairs.
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We Are Ashamed
Business For All

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  of goods nd
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No Delay.

The fast river steamers owned by the coni- pany will leave immediately arrival at St. Michael for the Yukon to Dawson City, under control of c. D. Brownfield. one of the most and careful pilots and engineers in the Northwest.
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Get one of our $10 Suits and join the parade tomorrow.
The age-herald., 1898-10-16
SENATOR VESTS AILMENT

Senator Vests health has improved since his summer vacation, but he is still far from being a well man, says the Wash ington correspondent of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Despite his discouraging condition, however, he maintains a remark able cheerfulness. One night last week an old friend called upon him. The visitor congratulated the senator upon his notice able physical improvement. The senator thanked him, but said he was still far from being an altogether well man.
 ''What seems to be the matter, senator? asked his friend.
 ''I don't just know said the senator; "but I suppose I am suffering from the same complaint as an old fellow whom l know down at Capon Springs. When went there about ten years ago that old fellow was looking so bad that everybody thought his days were numbered. When I went back this summer the old man was still on deck.
 "'Hello,' I said to him; 'ain't you dead yet?'
 "'No. I'm still here he said.
 "'Well, what was the trouble with you, anyhow? I asked.
 ".I never have been quite able to make out senator,' he replied. Some of the doctors said it was one thing; some of them said it was another; and I just come to the conclusion that it must be "anno domini. Y"
 And I guess that's what's the matter with me-" said the senator; "anno domini." '"
The age-herald., 1898-10-16
Senator Morgan
n the Anniston Republican.

From the Anniston Republican.
 No man comes to Anniston whose visits are more highly appreciated than are the visits of Senator John T. Morgan, and his visit here this week has afforded much pleasure to those of his friends who have had an opportunity to meet him.
 Calhoun has always claimed Senator Morgan as a Calhoun county man. It was here he first saw the light of day. It was here he got his early schooling in the old country schools. It was here he spent his early manhood. It was here he organ ized and drilled h's regiment for the war between the states. It was here he made his first strong personal friends. It was here that his friends first recognized that he had the necessary elements to make a great and useful man.
 The friends which he made in Calhoun in the days of his boyhood and young manhood who are yet living, have eagerly watched hs career from then up ts now. They have applauded when he gained dis tinction on the field of battle. They have with great admiration watched his career in the political world, and have been grat- flied to see him go step by step until he is now generally recognized by the people of this countrp as the ablest and most prominent man iE tke United States senate.
 And today, not only the old men of Cal houn who knew General Morgan many years ago, but their descendants and the thousands of others who have moved into this county, look upon him as one of Amer jca's greatest men. and never tire of tell ing of his early Association with the people of this county. General Morgan. when he comes to Calhoun. Is always made to feel that he is in the hands of his friends.
The age-herald., 1898-10-16
The Terms of Peace.

A commission that holds secret sessions and endeayors in every possible way to throw a veil over it's deliberations and pro- ceedings, is, of course, open to rumors and misconstructions and public alarms. These may and probably will prove to have been to great extent groundless, but at present every report and every sign go to show that Spain is endeavorng to utilize the diplo- matic situation to gain monetary conces- sions instead of territory, which she no longer seems to desire.
 Her claims are said substantially to be that the new Cuba shall shoulder the Cuban debt, and that if we take the Philip pines we should assume the Philippine debt, about $40, 1000. The much larger Cuban represent internal Improvements. The money was not expended for the benefit of the Cubans or the Filipinos. It was ex- pended in both cases to keep the people in subjection to Spain. It was expended by Spain for Spanish purposes, and it is prop erly a mortgage upon Spain, and not upon the provinces that it was expended against instead of upon. Spain has done nothing for Cuba or the Philippines, except to draw from them every dollar that Spanish cruelty and ingenuity could reach.
 The bottom trouble seems to be that Spain proposes to set aside at Paris the rights of conquest. She forgets her own history. She forgets the story of the Franco-Prussian war, and the negotiations that were carried on in Paris itself, or al Versailles. She forgets that the defeated nation has always suffered, either loss ot territory, or of money, or of both, as ir the case of France. and of China at the end of the Japanese war.
 It Is hardly reasonable to think that tn. administration will agree to pay for wha we already possess bs right of conquest in view of the well-known sentiment of th, country upon the subject, and in view O the fact that treaty needs two-third!
The age-herald., 1898-10-16
JIMoNA AND VICTORIA

From the Boston Herald
 The oldest elephant in all England is no more. Jumbo was a mere infant in arms compared with Jimona, who had Queen Victoria on her back seventy years ago, and was the pet of all royal juveniles be- fore Jumbo was born. In fact, Jimona was that angelic beasts only rival in the af- factions of England's sovereign. For many years she travelled to Windsor to pay her respects and to give the queen an outing. but now she dies at 1S0 years, though her death was not caused by old Ege. II Is wondered if her e!S eTie1ld at Windsor sent the customary wreath.