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The San Francisco call., 1898-04-02

has declared a quarterly dividend of r of 1 per cent on its preferred stock. payable May l.
 The Alaskan Mexican Gold Mining Company reports for January 14,9SS tons ore treated: The total bullion S30.9 $40, an average of S2 o6 per ton. Included in the total was sS316 from 275 tons sulphurets The expenses were s21. BIO; sl 46 per ton. leaving a profit or $9030, or SO cents per ton
 The Napa Consolidated Quicksilver Mining Company of California paid dividend Of 70 cents per share. amounting to $2O.O0O yester- day.
 The Stockton Gas and Electric Company paid quarterly dividend of 30 cents per share yesterday.
 The Boston and Colorado Smelling Company paid quarterly dividend of IF per cent yes terday.
 The Calumet and Hecla Copper Company of Michigan paid dividend of s10 per share yesterday. aggregating s10co,ooo.
 The Mammoth Mining Company of Utah palo a dividend of 5 cents per share. amounting 10 S20. 900. yesterday. a dividend of 5 cents per share. amounting to S20, 000 on March S1
 In the Standard Consolidated mine at Bodle' for the week ending March 26, the usual pros pecting work continued in the New, Black. Main Standard Mcguire and Fortuna ledges, on the 150 265 3lS 420 BPS and 5S2 foot levels. and the regular quantity Of ore was extract- ed from the various stopes. There was no special change in the condition of the mine. Standard Mill statement-Ore crushed for the week, 221 tons; average assay Vanner talllnes, SS 57; concentrates produced 2-lO tons. assay value $143 53; amalgam produced; s2S44 troy ounces: value per ounce s2 50 The mill had a broken cam shaft and was still running with
The San Francisco call., 1898-04-02
H0FF MAY SOON
 KNOW HIS FATE
Attorney Schooler Made the Closing Argument for the
 Defense.
Criticized the Police, Detectives and the Language of Attorney George
 w. Baker.

Yesterday afternoon at o'clock the arguments in the Hoff case were resumed before Judge Cook and jury. Attorney Schooler had an inning, and at some length entered into all the details of the case. The attorney, in his argument, en- deavored to enter into points concerning the innocence of the defendant, but an objection by Assistant District Attorney Hosmer was sustained by Judge Cook on the point that the matters touched on were not contained in the records.
 Then in well-worded expressions the speaker threw numerous bouquets at the Judge and thanked all interested parties for the fair and impartial trial accorded his client, Albert Hoff.
 Throughout the argument the attorney attacked the testimony of various wit nesses, not that he doubted their sim cerity, but from the standpoint that he believed Mrs. Uschold and others were mistaken as to the date and that the the 14th day of December instead of on the 18th, the day of the murder. In bit ter expressions he told the jury that his client was placed at disadvantage be- cause of prosecuting attorneys and ear- nest sleuth hounds, with determination to bag some victim because of an inabil- ity to catch guilty party. He also criti- icized the language of Attorney Baker on
  prosecution had been totally unable to prove a motive for the murder. As the testimony of the witnesses was picked to pieces Hoff frequently smiled and seemed to be more composed than at any time during the trial.
 Continuing, MT. Schooler said that Mrs. Cute had not been murdered by the de- fendant, and furthermore that Mrs. Cute was not killed with the coupling pin nor had Hoff seen it prior to the time it was shown him y Detective Seymour.
 The attorney then spoke of the wound which Hoff had on his left hand, and stated that 1t was impossible for the in jury to have been made by the coupling pin, but that it was received from tack in the carpet which the defendant was preparing to lay.
 The attorney relied on the lack of mo- tive and the time the murder was com mitted to prove an alibi to strengthen his argument.
 This morning at 10 o'clock Assistant Dis trict Attorney Hosmer will give the clos ing argument for the prosecution, and 1t Is expected the jury will be charged dur ing the afternoon.
 The argument was resumed at night session.
The San Francisco call., 1898-04-02
BRANDT WANTS
 BIG DAMAGES Claims That He Was Thrown Out of His Seat by
 Collision.
The Conductor Contradicts His State nent and Swears That There
 Was No Collision

The taking of testimony in the case of Ernest Brandt against the Southern Pa cifc Company was concluded yesterday in the United States Circuit Court, and the counsel will present their arguments to the jury on Tuesday.
 Brandt Is seeking to recover $50 900 for a dislocated shoulder, which injury he swore he received on the night of March 30, 1897, by being thrown from his seat in railway car by a sudden jar while on the way from Truckee to Sacramento He has another suit on file for another S5O,0OO for damages caused by the death of his wife, which he claims was brought about by injuries received on the same occasion.
 The defense was that there was no collision, rough coupling or other thing on the night mentioned to cause any pas senger to fall from his seat, and that the injury received by Brandt was due to his own carelessness in falling asleep in his seat in an insecure attitude.
 The testimony was very conflicting. F. F. Chase, the train conductor, swore that there was no accident on the night in question and that there was no rough coupling sufficient to cause the plaintiff to fall from. his seat If there had been any jar more than ordinary on that night the glass lamp chimneys would have been broken, but the contrary was the fact, there being nothing whatever broken or disarranged. On the cross-examina- ton the witness admitted that he had told YarG master Lewis on that day. that a man had fallen out of his seat, but that he must have said it in joke.
 He testified further that Brandt did not ask for a surgeon and did not tell him that he had injured his arm.
 Brandt fiatly contradicted the testimony and said that he had reported to the con- ductor the fact of his injury. The shock of the sudden stoppage spilled the water out of the tank all over Chinaman sit ting near it, but it did not upset the tank The witness was asleep at the time of the shock and was awakened by being thrown violently out of his seat. He swore also that he asked Conductor Chase Tor doc tor and that Chase had replied that a dislocated shoulder was nothing; that he Chase, had his nose broken once, but did not send for doctor.
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Mistake of Waking Up a Bartender While
 Asleep.
Three Shots Fired but Without Inflicting Serious
 Injury.
Thomas Tregilles, Minstrel Arrested for Assault to Com
 init Murder.

Frank Schaefer, a painter in the em- ploy ment of Beghul & Son, 2130 Market street, was nearly made a subject for the Coroner yesterday morning.
 Shortly after o'clock he entered a saloon on the corner of Market and Valencia streets to get glass of beer. The bartender was asleep in a chair. and Schaefer shook him and reused him up. As the bartender went behind the bar he put his hand in his pocket and declared that he been robbed. He accused Schaefer of robbing him, which Schaefer indig- nantly denied.
 shop where he Is employed. The bar tender followed him and again accused him of robbing him. They had some words, and then they grappled with each other The bartender pulled a revolver out of his pocket and, before any one could interfere, he fired three shots at Schaefer. One of the bullets struck him on the neck, another on the left thumb and the third shot away button on his coat.
 The two men were separated and the bartender left the shop, while Schaefer hastened to the Receiving Hospital where it was found that the wounds on his neck and thumb were not serious. He said that he did not know the name of the bartender but he would swear out a warrant for his arrest.
 Schaefer notified the Seventeenth-street Police Station and the bartender was ar rested yesterday afternoon on charge of assault to commit murder. He Is Thomas Tregilles, who is well known as an ex-minstrel and who was a member of Billy Emerson's company, which in- cluded among others Gus Bruno, Pete Mack and Charley Reed.
 Tregilles sticks to the story that he was robbed while asleep and believes that Schaefer was the man who robbed him. 1cto he ;I0,-. l,,o perfectly justified in using his revolver upon the man he suspected. Schaefer de- nies emphatically that he robbed Tregil- les, his only object in going into the sa- loon being to get glass of beer before starting work. He lives at 2O16 Market street, not far from the saloon.
The San Francisco call., 1898-04-02
STEAMERS TO SAIL.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.

branch of the United States Photographic Office located in the Merchants Exchange, Is maintained in San Francisco for the benefit of mariners without regard to nationality and free of expense.
 Navigators are cordially invited to visit the office. where complete sets of charts and sail ing directions of the world are kept on hand for comparison and reference. and the latest information can always be obtained regarding lights, dangers to navigation ana all matters of interest to commerce.
 The time ball on top of the building on Tele- graph Hill is hoisted about ten minutes before noon and is dropped at noon. 120th meridian by telegraphic signal received each day from the United States Naval Observatory at Mare Island Cal.
 notice stating whether the time ball was dropped time CT giving the error. If any. is papers. and by the morning papers the follow ing day. w. s. HUGHES,
 Lieutenant U s. N, in charge.
The San Francisco call., 1898-04-02
FEARFUL OF
 COMPETITION Injunction Prayed For by German Savings and
 Loan Society.
To Prevent Others From Reap ing Any of It's Golden
 Harvest.
A Suit That Is Attracting the Atten- ton of the City's Business
 Men.

A matter is soon to come up in Depart ment of the Superior Court which is at- tracting considerable interest among business men of this city. It Is the hear ing of the petition for an injunction made by the German Savings and Loan Society against a number of local capitalists, praying that they be restrained from giv- ing the name German American Bank to the new banking concern they have organized
 The interest comes from the novelty of the petition, as it is the first time in the history of the city that an institution of any standing has attempted to restrain an- other from doing business on the grounds that a slight similarity in names would work an irreparable injury to the older establishment.
 The new organization has existed for about five years in San Luis Obispo, where it did a large business under the name of the California Mortgage and Savings Bank. Some time ago, at a meeting of the directors, it was decided to enlarge the scope of the concern and make bid for a fair share of San Fran cisco business. Consequently the orig inal capital stock of $500, 900 was increased to s1,00O,0OO and the paid-up capital was increased from S200 900 to $250 000, in order to comply with the banking laws of the State, and charter was applied for to
 
 savings and general mercantile banking business under the name of ''The German American Bank AS soon as the man agement of the German Savings and Loan Society heard of the application it consulted with MT. Goodfellow, the banks attorney with the result that each of the directors of the new company was served with copy of an injunction restraining them from doing business un- der the firm name they had decided to adopt, though, for some reason known only to themselves, the injunction was pigeonholed, not being placed on the rec ords at the County Clerks office until yesterday.
 The hearing of the petition was orig inally set for yesterday, but was put over by mutual agreement until next week.
 It is not thought that the injunction will stick, as the names are not only not identical but are no more similar than the names of half a dozen other banking houses in the city-for instance, the Bank of California, California Title and Trust Company and Anglo-Californian Bank, while in New York and other Eastern cities there are from six to a dozen in- stitutions doing business under exactly like conditions.
 The directors of the new banking house are among the wealthiest and most in- fiuential Germans in the city, as follows: Ernst A. Denicke (presidenD, H. Brun- ner Secretary, F. Kronenberg, Fred c. Siebe, John c. Bauer, A. Togazzini, A. Sbarboro and John c. Rued.
The San Francisco call., 1898-04-02
QUICKER TIME WANTED.
The Mission People Do Not Relish
 Mayor Phelan's New Schedule.


 It would be difficult to find any one re- siding Tn the Mission who thanks Mayor Phelan for his interference in urging he Market-street Railway Company to adopt a new schedule of time on which the streetcars are now run
 SIX miles an hour in this age of the world for streetcars is considered to be gong pack to the days of horsecar serv- Ice. heretofore the service on the Mis- slon-street line was giving entire satis- faction to the travelling public By 1t they were enabled to reach their places or business in a few minutes from the tlIne they left their homes, whereas now, under the new schedule suggested by the Mayor, 1t takes from ten to twenty min- tues longer to cover the same distance. InlS additional time to a workingman Who must De at >-le bench on time or forfeit half-day's pay means a great deal. The same can be said of the clerks and the hundreds of young ladies who do business in offices and at their trades III the VarlouS branches where ladies are employed
 In a recent interview with MT. Vining, superintendent of the Market-street sys- tenn, that gentleman expressed his dis SatlS1actlon at the change of speed. al- leging that the object of the company which he represented was to please his patrons-meaning the public, of course that In obedience to the wish or, rather, eAiO ASduSSI O1 lHe MdyOT Ol lle Clly, lHo speed Of the cars had been reduced to meet his wishes. The Mission people are frank in denouncing this action of the Mayor as being outside his official duties.
 It IS urged that there is law governing the speed of streetcars in cities, and 1t Is for the courts and the police authorities to see to the enforcement of this law, and not for the Mayor
 The people require return to the eight mile schedule, and are hopeful that their wishes may be grat.ied
The San Francisco call., 1898-04-02
WINGED INSECTS
 IN THE PARK Patches of Buhach May Be Cultivated to Abate a
 Nuisance.
Experiment Suggested by Observa- tionS Made at the Peters
 Buhach Farm.

The winged ants, gnats, mosquitoes and other kindred insects are a great nui- Sance in certain sections of Golden Gate Park. They not only poster human be- ings, but they attack horses with a per- sistent ferocity that sets the animals al- most wild. The place from which these vexatious insects come cannot be traced by the flight of the intruders, but it is surmised that the breeding grounds are in or near the park. The main question presented Is how to get rid of the vicious and annoying little insects.
 A. B. Spreckels, who frequently drives to the park, suggests that experiments should be made in planting patches of buhach. The so-called Persian powder manufactured from the ,uhach blossom is extensively used as an insect exter- Spreckels was down at Merced buying mules. he observed place where the leaves had been stripped from the gar dens and orchards. When he inquired ranch said: T suppose the grasshoppers and insects just eat up everything" Co., ing little further along MT. Spreckels came to a farm where the foliage was grant with flowers. Everything was in such happy contrast to the desolated ranch first visited that the visitor paused to inquire the reason for the fine natural the place was Peters buhach ranch. and that the insects did not visit the prem iSeS.
 When driving through the park recently and noting what a nuisance the insects were and how the high-bred horses were vexed by the assaults of the winged ants and mosquitoes, it came to MT. Spreckels' fancy that it would be a good thing to try the planting of buhach In patches throughout the park. It was remarked that Mr McLaren could make the ex- pertinent without much trouble and ex- pense The buhach blossom. which re- sembles the marguerite fiowef, nav ex- pei the insects from the park reserva- infn
The San Francisco call., 1898-04-02
GAS ENGINES
 FOR RANCHES
With Their Aid Farmers Fear Nothing From the
 Drought.
Nearly All Big Ranch Owners Are Putting in Pumping Plants for
 1rrigating.

Nearly every pig ranch in the State has suffered more or less for the want of water. The rainfall has been away below the average, and many farmer has been put to straits in order to save even part of his crop. Quite number of the larger ranch-owners have lost their faith in the clouds, and are now pinning 1t to gaso- line. Gas engines are being erected in all parts of the State, and when they are in thorough working order the farmer will be in position to snap his fingers at a dry season.
 Among those who have transferred their allegiance to gasoline is Henry Dutard of Santa Clara County. A 60-horsepower engine is now being built for his ranch, and when completed it will be one of the very few o. it's kind in the United States. It win run a centrifugal pump that Is eighty-seven feet below the sur face of the ground.
 A 20-horsepower engine Is already at work on the Armstrong ranch. and a duplicate is now being put in position. They will pump the water from the Sa- will be able to deliver into the reservoir 200, 900 gallons an hour. The original pump is now supplying MT. Armstrong's s own ranch, and the new one is to work a l0-inch centrifugal pump to supply his neighbors.
 The E. W. Krupp ranch, near Mountain View, is getting 30-horsepower engine, and, like the others 1t will rum- water for irrigating purposes.
 J. O. Mckee of San Jose is having an engine erected on his ranch that will pump $50 gallons of water a minute. It will be used in irrigating his orchard Walter s. Hobart is having 20-horse- power engine put up at his ranch at San Mateo, and E. w. Hopkins a sim liar one at Menlo Park. When completed MT. Hobart's engine will be able to pump 10000 gallons of wa.er an hour into a reservoir 200 feet high.
 Other engines to be used in supplying water for irrigating purposes are ~oing to Los Angeles, Tehama, Santa Clara, Sac ramento, San Joaquin and Contra Costa. Its an i'll wind that blows nobody good.'
The San Francisco call., 1898-04-02
MONEY FOR THE CHARITIES.
Another Partial Distribution Under the Will of the Late James
 G. Fair

Judge Slack yesterday made an order directing the executors of the will of the late James G. Fair to pay the bequests made in the twelfth paragraph of the will Fair directed in his will that $50.- 900 be distributed among the charitable institutions enumerated below in the pro- portion to the number of inmates in each. The accrued interest on the legacy amounts to S7904 Is, and in accordance with the terms of the will, the order made yes terday directs the following apportion. ment of the money: San Francisco Nur- sery for Homeless Children. s6S1S 07; Ma ria Kip Orphanage, $7707 3S; San Francisco Protestant Orphan Asylum s19 .070 S2 San Francisco Ladies Protective and Relief Society. $21 .541 IA, and Florence Crittenton Home S2766 TO-
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yesterday by Superior Judges Wallace. Cook and Dunne, sitting in bank. The appeal was taken on the ground that Judge Campbell had admitted testimony that was incompetent. The appellate Judges decided that there was no merit in the appeal and sustained the judgment of the lower court.
 Allais was arrested at the time the suc- cessful crusade was made to close the houses used for immoral purposes on St. Mary'S street
The San Francisco call., 1898-04-02
Lieutenant .Burxe's Estate.

Mrs. Della Burke, widow of Police Lieu tenant William F. Burke. who was shot and killed by Theodore Park Haynes, a week ago Wednesday. filed a petition in the Probate Court yesterday for special letters of administration on her husband S estate. The estate consists of deposits in two banks amounting 70 $19SS 46
The San Francisco call., 1898-04-02
THE TIME BALL.

Branch Photographic Office. U. S. N, Mer- chants Exchange, San Francisco, April l. 1898.
 exactly at noon to-day-i. e., at noon of the 120th meridian. exactly p. m. Green wich time W. s. HUGHES
 Lieutenant. U. s. N. in charge.
The San Francisco call., 1898-04-02
A Victory for Decencv.

The appeal case of Charles Allais. who was sentenced by Judge Campbell for having knowingly rented houses to be used for immoral purposes, was heard
The San Francisco call., 1898-04-02
Is Now a Policeman.

Henry N. Potter was yesterday sworn in as a policeman. He is clerk by oc cupation, % years of age and native of Bangor, Butte County,
The San Francisco call., 1898-04-02
APRIL-ls9s

NOTE-In the above exposition of the tides the early morning tides are given in the left hand column and the successive tides of the day in the order of occurrence as to time The the day the third time column the third tide. and the last or right hand column gives the last tide of the day, except when there are but three tides sometimes occurs. The heights given additions to the soundings the United States Coast Survey charts except when minus sign @ precedes the height and then the number given is subtractive from the depth given by the charts. The plane of reference Is the mean of the lower low waters.
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years severely dyspepsia and dur ing that time consulted many physicians First the family doctor New York where then resided and later had treat the New York Hospital but obtained relief For month had visited family physician in Bayonne appointment had been made when tosbm the of having the stomach washed by the arrangement which is found mode of beneficial than enjoyable the About this time however had conversation with friend who acquainted with the merits Rpans Tabue and he presented with box for trial We'll did try them and could feel that they did good bought and in house nowadays you will always find supply Rpans Tabule
 find them easier to take than powders liquids than swallowing hot in the morning My condition much improved that of late have had them all Before found the Tabules bill for attendance and medicine rarely less than three dollars The Tabules have only improved condition but ecacous in the of friends whom
The San Francisco call., 1898-04-02
CLOSING QUOTATIONS.
FRIDAY. April IA D. m
SUN. MOON AND TIDE.

United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. Times and Heights of High and Low Waters at Fort Point. Entrance to San Francisco Bay. Published by Official Au- thority of the Superintendent.
 NOTE-The high and low waters occur at the city front (Misson-street wharf, about twenty-five minutes later than at Fort Point the height of tide is the same at both places