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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-07-20
Chamber Of Commerce.

AT the meeting of the Chamber of Com
merce yesterday the subject of reciproci-
ty with Peru in certain commodities came
up Tor discussion, but the dealers in
Wines groceries. sugar and leather were
not ready to report ana the entire mat
ter was left in the hands of a committee
for investigation. The selection of Hem
ny Resented as trustee of the Chamber
was confirmed, as was the election of
Commodore Dewey as an honorary mem
Der. A memorial resolution of the death
paSsed 49,
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-07-20
DISLOCATED HIS JAW.
Joseph Nuhm, a Teamster, Opened
His Mouth Too Wide to Pick
Hic Taafh

Joseph Nuhm, driver for Morton's de-
livery, walked into the Receiving Hospi-
tai yesterday afternoon with his mouth
wide open. Dr. Bunnell asked him what
was wrong. He could only roll his eyes
and point to his jaw. He was taken into
the operating room and after considerable
difficulty the doctor succeeded In putting
his dislocated jaw in position again.
When he recovered his speech he said
he was picking his back teeth and heard
something snap. He could not close his
mouth, so he hurried to the hospital. He
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-07-20
Charged With Embezzlement,

Bert Lithgow, manager of the San
francisco Commission Company, 20
Leidesdorff street, was arrested yester-
day afternoon on warrant charging him
with embezzlement. He gave $500 cash
bail. He is accused of keeping 5000 which
came into his possession. Lithgow saws
that he kept the money, as the company
was indebted to him for that amount for
back salary. The members of the com
pany are Joseph Harvey, Charles L. Ash
er and John Malowansky.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-07-20

waited while Chief Steward Butcher made
the entry In the register showing that he
had been treated for "bilateral anterior
luxation of inferior maxilla."
Say" remarked Nuhm. write that
down and l will get a week of. / didn't
know / was hurt so bad"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-07-20
Hurt Between Two Cars.

Mrs. Hattie Conley, a welI-dressed and
prepossessing lady, narrowly escaped
death last evening while attempting to
cross O'Farrell street at the intersection
of Powell. She was struck by an out
ward bound O'Farrell-street car and
thrown to the ground, suffering two seri-
GUS scalp wounds and other bodily
between two tracks, believing the cars
passing on either side would not touch
her. Somehow she miscalculated dis
tanceS.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-07-20
"The Dark secretn Held.

Joseph Reid, known to the police as
the dark secret" was yesterday held to
answer before the Superior Court by
Judge Mogan on a charge of grand lar
ceny in $1,000 bonds. He was accused by
Plumas Wood, milliner from Seattle,
of stealing two diamond rings from her In
restaurant on Market street after he
had drugged her.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-07-20

shock was felt here shortly after
o'clock this morning. After the news
of the Oakland explosion many persons
thought that it was the cause. The Lick
Observatory has not yet reported.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-07-20
Native Daughters Red Cross Aid.

The entertainment under the auspices of
the Native Daughters Red Cross Aid So
ciety for the benefit of the California bows
at Manila will be given tomorrow even
ing at Mechanics Pavilion. There will be
expert drilling and music by the Seventh
Regiment, which will also furnish a quar-
tet. The Press Club Quartet will constitute
one OF the special attractions.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-07-20
TRAVELLERS SAMPLES.

Samples of soc Merino underwear. ladies' -. lie
samnles of Csc child's underpants. - 1oc
Samples of infants undershirts, not WOOL.
SAMPLES of 75c shirt waists, pretty.......... 35c
Samples OF infants 81 silk bootees. Csc
Samples of girls fine Sc white dresses. so co
Samples of girls s4 white dresses. .........H 80
Samples of 81 SO heavy duck lined coats. 81
Samples 81 % heavy duck lined vests. soc
Samples of heavy gray undershirts. size az. Csc
Samples of heavy gray drawers, size 40......25c
Samples 81 Is red wool flannel shirts to IS. SOC
Samples 81 rs red wool flannel drawers. ......50c
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-07-20
FACTORY SAMPLES.

Samples ladies' g 50 trimmed hats.....-....H
Samples ladies' untrimmed hats, half cost
................,.........5 30. 10c, ESQ
Samples Mems 81 50 hats IL kinds. ..............H
SAMPLES S. bicycle suits. wool .............$2 so
Samples Klondike shoes or moccasins. 81 50
SAMPLES mems 50 so Klondike gloves. ..... 81 80
Samples of 81 carriage parasols ........50c 75o
Samples $40 Prince Albert coat and vest. .s12 so
Samples of SIS suits: finest wool. $40
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-07-20
OTHER SAMPLES.

Gray stockings. 12c grade. out of style So
Samples of scissors, to inches .......... 100
Samples of 10 foot linen bunting f1ags.s2 R
Sample line bound books, 100 titles ..... 15o
Samples (40) fancy table covers, 81 grade 50c
Samples 500 SOC fancy stand covers. -. 25c
Samples 600 scarfs, splashers, etc..... loo I'm
Sample hams, country cure not extra - 5c
Sample hammocks, all kinds. .......... 1sc m
Sample carrying bags, 100 kinds. ...... 25c M
Sample 81 so clothes hampers. square, stain
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-07-20
TWO DEPUTY MARSHALS
KILLED IN ARKANSAS
Work of Desperate Who Was Re-
sisting A-rest-Large Posse
Pursuing the Murderer.

SOUTH M'ALLISTER, Oklahoma, July
1S.-Jasper Simmons, while resisting ar
rest; shot and instantly killed J. Grady
and L. S. Hills. deputy United States
marshals. near Jensen. Ark, last night.
Young Grady was a son of United States
Marshal Grady of the Central District
Hill was the Office deputy at Cameron,
Ark, and had only been in Office a short
time. large number of officers have
gone in pursuit of the murderer.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-07-20
Felt in San Jose.

SAN JOSE, July 19.-what was sup
posed to have been an earthquake
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-07-20
ADVERTISEMENTS



we
goods offered at
prices that buying world
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-07-20

warranted in quantity this &c.
Cofee reduc
everybody looks them
Wire screening price,
Jelly glasses barrel
Alaska
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-07-20
BARGAIN LOTS.

$50 samples OF fine glassware. half price
$50 samples fine chinaware. half price
200 samples crockery and ornaments. half price
Samples of high cost chest protectors. ..... agc
Samples of Lucky Mans fish BASKETS. .S5c
Samples of Sc Klondikesfol stoves...sl %
50-cent size choic specific. l0c
81 style of pocket dispensary. .Zsc
Samples ladies' jackets and capes.. hair OH
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-07-20
a-n zE-u-H-H-aHE-zHE-a
KIND WORDS FROM PRISONERS.
ALAMEDA COUNTY JAIL. July 10.

ALAMEDA COUNTY
Charles White-Dear We all
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trouble whom
wish Of
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-07-20
silesian Colliery Disaster.

BREST, July ia dispatch from Glei-
WITT, Prussian Silesia, says that twenty
four persons have been killed by cage
accident in the Paulus colilery, near
Morgenrot.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-07-20
CHINESE RIOTS AT
NINGP0 SUBSIDlNG
Twenty-Five Were Killed and F1fty
Wounded by the French
Marines.

Special cable to The Call and the New York
Herald. Copyrighted. 1898. by James Cor
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-11
FORD EXPLAINS
 HIS POSITION F. 5. StrattOn Was Elm ploved When He Re-
 fused to Act.
He Declined to Defend Suits Brought Against the Har-
 bor Commission.
The Attorney Would Not Appear ir Actions in Which He Believed
 the Commission Wrong.

The proceedings at the trial of the injunction suit brought by the Paraf- l fine Paint Company against the State Board of Harbor Commissioners were
 dull and uninteresting yesterday. The witnesses called were examined on technical points and there was noth- ing to relieve the monotony.
 Attorney Tirey l.. Ford was recalled and examined relative to the employ
 ment of Attorney F. s. Stratton by the Harbor Commissioners as special coun- sel. The testimony of Ford, although
 rather reluctantly given, showed that l Stratton had been specially employed
 when Ford declined to defend the board in suits where he believed the law was
 against the Commissioners side of the i case.
 Ford testified that the only case in
 which he had requested the employ ment of other counsel was in the case 1 of Healy, Tibbetts & Co.,, against the board in which 1t was sought to en- join the board from receiving bids on 1 patented process for creosoting piles. i When asked his reasons for desiring
 the board to employ other counsel in
 that case, Ford said that he had come
 to the conclusion, after an examination
 of the case that the specifications ac- | cepted by the board did not admit of | fair competition as to the ere
 osoting process of preserving piles. chief engineer as to the facts
 upon which he had based his conclu-
 sions. He further testified that he told 1 the board he did not feel he ought to
 present a defense to the court which
 he did not believe in himself. The board thereupon employed Stratton and l Ford turned the case over to him, ex- l plaining to Stratton why he, Ford did 1 not care to try the case. Ford said l he was not subsequently, consulted as I to specifications for the preservation of | piles.
 1 He said he had examined the claims ! of the s. E. Slade Lumber Company | that were contested in the Pacific Pine i Lumber Company cases, and had
 reached the conclusion that they were 1 all valid except small portion, about which there was some doubt.
 w. G. Curtis, superintendent Of the
 maintenance of way department of the ! examined concerning his idea of the 1 proper manner of creosoting piles. He | testified that the method known as the | Isaacs & Curtis process, of which he
 Is one of the patentees, was in his opin- l ion the best method for timber pre-
 serving He admitted having had sev- eral conversations with Commissioner l Colnon, in which he advised Colnon
 that the Isaacs & Curtis process was
 better than any in use.
 Chief Engineer Holmes and James Godfrey were questioned at considera- 1 ble length concerning the condition Of | the piles used in wharf repair. They
 were of the opinion that all of the piles 1 delivered by the several constructins
 companies had been properly treated to
 prevent the ravages of teredos.
 The further trial of the case will be
 resumed Monday morning.
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Four Hundred Tons of Ammunition for the
 Battleship.
Full Complement for the Forty Two Magazines of the
 Vessel.
IJroent Demand for Better Doclinq Facilities at the Navy
 Yard.

The battle-ship Oregon is to receive at once 400 tons of ammunition. This quantity will provide full complement for the forty-two magazines of the ship. To-day the powder, shot and shell will be brought from Mare Is- land to the Oregon's anchorage in Mis- sion bay
 Officers of the navy comment on the fact that the ammunition must be brought to the ship, because the ship cannot go to the naval station at Mare Island to receive supplies.
 Of the fifty million dollars voted by Congress for national defense there is an urgent necessity for the expendi- ture of $25O,000 for dredging at Mare Island and enlarging the dock at Mare station That amount of money, prop erlv expended, would provide docking facilities for a battle-ship. Should a vessel drift against the Oregon in a "norther," such as swept the bay yes terday morning. and smash the pro- pellers of the battle-ship, the results would be serious. Without propellers the ship could not go to Puget Sound for docking facilities. On account of low water Mare Island is not access sible for a ship of this size. In order 10 use Hunters Point dock the battle aship must be frightened by the removal of even her guns.
 Estimates are on file in the Navy De- partment showing that the sum of
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-11

The school scandal Is growing like storm cloud, and there may be more than shattered regulations and a basketful of official heads before the end arrives.
 Stanton has written a letter to hll- patrick in which he says some things that carry a world of bitterness as well as a note of desperation. Ken nedy has came near to striking hilpat- rick whom he met in the corridor or the City Hall just after the Grand Jurors had goaded and probed and cross questioned until his head buzzed, and Ragan has invoked the machinery of the law and threatens to file all kinds of charges and every sort ot legal paper until there is either no more law or no more Fitzpatrick left. In the meantime the Grand Jury is calling up every one who knows anything about school matters or Is suspected or knowing of place buying, and when the tnuuisitorial tree will blossom into crop of indictments no one knows
 The old trouble is back in my head and I am desperate" wrote Stanton, and Fitzpatrick carries the letter about with him and thinks over it. It only refers to the statement published few days ago. he says, and he supposes that Stanton is repenting or haVlnS made it. But Stanton is becoming em- bittered, and he will make sensa- tional witness when called upon.
 Kilpatrick was before the Grand Jury yesterday, and N. Kennedy of the Lincoln school waited with him in the ante-room Kennedy went in first and as the minutes slipped by and only a confused murmur came through the jury-room doors, Fitzpatrick paced uI and down the ante-room and out into the hall It was during one of these walks out into the hall that Kennedy emerged from the ordeal, hot, Hurried agitated, and with his temper on edge
 He strode through the ante-room and as he reached the hall he ran into Fitzpatrick. Immediately his anger plazed. and approaching Fitzpatrick he commenced to heap abuse upon his head.
 Liar" thief" eur" were some of the choice epithets he used, and he would have gone farther than words il Kilpatrick had not kept his temper and merely remarked: You are too old 2 man to use such names to me"
 You had no right to say such things You had no right to say such things, shouted the irate Kennedy as he shool his fist in Kilpatrick's face. 'What things" demanded the eager bystand CTS, hungry TOT some IHSlue IHNOiuIl tary information; but the question re called the f1eeting faculties of the en ragged Kennedy and he contented him self with significantly repeating Those things" and then said Those charges"
 There was no fight after all, but il had come close to it, and there vii be more before the scandal shall have closed.
 Kennedy was employed in Monterey County as a teacher He sent his wife to San Francisco for the purpose o1 receiving medical treatment. While she was here she met Dr. Ragan, the schoo director, and endeavored to obtain his influence to get a position for her hus-
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MARTEAU AND
 THE SYMPHONY.

Just as the members, patrons and crit ics of the Symphony Society are getting used to the luxury of two concerts to the month, with good music, good band and first-rate leader, what must the en- terprising directors do but throw in a high-class soloist. The concerts were paving handsomely without soloists; the subscriptions ran high in the thousands before the season had commenced; the ladies-God bless 'em-took 1t into their heads that it would be the real cultured thing to go to the symphonies, and the every-other Thursday at the Tivoli was made to be the swellest thing in town. And all without the first sign or promise of a soloist Perhaps it was too wonder full to have lasted; but now we never shall know Marteau the first soloist, has played. He is an artist. and his success with the audience was so swift and unanimous that already tremble for the concerts to come. The symphony au- diences here are, as whole, handsome. modfshly robed, elegantly hated and nicely hammered; but they are not, as whole or as a half, musical in that higher degree which absolutely craveS sucn con- ceTts as Scheel has given us
 Where one of their number understano- inelv appreciates the scientific and ar- tistic beauties of symphony music twen-
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band in the public schools of this city. She afterward met Mrs. Sol Kampe, the wife of the money lender, and then ef- fected a loan of $500 from Kampe. I'm mediately after securing this money she telegraphed to her husband to come immediately to San Francisco. This telegram was delivered to Kennedy by a special messenger at his home, four miles from the telegraph office, and im- mediately on it's receipt he started for San Francisco, and on his arrival in this city met pr. Ragan and was inn mediately afterward appointed as SUD- stitute teacher.
 He reported every day at the school to which he had been assigned, and for this service drew $1 each day from the city treasury. He was soon promoted to the position of regular teacher, and assigned under Principal E. c. Kilpat- rick. Owing to differences between Kennedy and Fitzpatrick, the former was transferred by Director Ragan to a more congenial school
 Before the Grand Jury yesterday Kennedy stated positively that he nev- CT paid to Ragan or anyone else l cent for his position.
 George Atherton was called, and tes- tified that it was common rumor that certain teachers had paid for their po- siticns. He will appear before the jury at it's next meeting and give names dates and amounts of money paid He said that it was common rumor that G. E. Stanton had paid money to Dr. Ra- gan for his place.
 E. C. Fitzpatrick was called, and pre- sented his affidavit and statement which has already been published, and which l declares that Stanton had paid Ragar i for his position. He said that it was ! common talk that Kennedy had paid Ragan for his place with money that he i had borrowed from Kampe. His testi- mony was confined to the Stanton case alone.
 An effort was made to have a sub- pena served on Mrs. Kampe, in order that she may tell what she knows about the borrowing of money from her hus- band by Mrs Kennedy, but Mrs. Kampe is said to be in the East, and could not be found.
 The Grand Jury adjourned until next Monday, when the investigation will be continued Notwithstanding the asser- tions of Kennedy that he paid no mon l ey for his position, a number of the l Grand Jurors are of the opinion that
 he secured the place by the payment l of cash.
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fiddler. nor a notably powerful one; his charm, I think lies most especially III delicacy and certainty of enunciation lie played the first two movements of the Bruch G miner concerto with phenomenal delicacy; his technique was easy, even and irreproachable and in the liquid pas sages of the adagio he played with feel ing that was none the less poetic ana beautiful for the characteristic restraint laid upon 1t.
 In the first bars of the finale his tone was miniature compared with the full crash called for by the music, but he met the other various difficulties of the move ment with unerring leap and poise; and in an encore, Wagner's "Albumblatt" he brought out tone that was cordial and round.
 But best of all was the first of the Bach sonatas for violin alone, of which Mar teau gave a truly faultless performance. He elucidated what for me had always been the incomprehensible adagio; he crystalized the fugue until I could all but see 1t; and he took the presto at a suicide pace without sblurring single note.
 ASHTON STEVENS.
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ty, thirty know enough about piano playing or violin playing to go unaffect- edly enraptured over the vtrtuosity of a soloist. And 1 dread the day when not the concert but the soloist is the attrac- ton. Not that l did not welcome the chance to hear Marteau yesterday; not that I do not appreciate the advantage both to him and to us that lay in effect ing his first appearance under the aus pices of the Symphony Society and with the cooperation of Scheel and his or chestra-but l fear new appetite in the fashionable crowd which by its support has made these symphonies possible; I tremble at the prospect of a whole season of soloists. If they could all be Marteaus it would be different; but San Francisco is situated on the map that of necessity good soloists gEs must be few ways be that horrible alternative of the resident artist. And, laying aside all foolishness of local pride. there is not one instrumentalist in the townships of San Francisco, Oakland and Alameda who could appear as soloist with the present Scheel orchestra without dis grace. ! have melancholy souvenirs of the Hinrichs and other symphony seasons that were disfgured by the interpolation of local virtuosi.
 As luck would have it at yesterdays concert the symphony-Hermann Goetz's new to me, and I frankly confess that am not anxious for a more extended ac- quaintance with its difficult charms. The
 
 the poetry in his prose was Brahms. I grew hollow-chested and long-eared hunt ing humanneSS under his glacial formal ity. l respect but do not envy the per sons who can call GoetZ great. In the first movement-allegro moderato-where the subtle, .profundity is said to, lie, heard nothing but superficial dullness. The intermezzo and the adagio are sprightlier, warmer and much more imaginative; the finale, (which, of itself" says one annotator, 'iS a sufficient indi- cation of the success this brilliant com phony writer had not death cut him down in the very threshold of his career" sounded to me to be clumsy and trite, the climax banally lacking in invention and emphasis And l do not think that any of my unappreciation was due to Scheel, possible care. The best Wagner playing Scheel has done in many day was in the Wagner Faust overture; the strings were a bit muddy in the roaring pass ages at the close, but otherwise the band behaved splendidly, and for once Scheel stride and sway and more for his human analysis. Tschaikowsky's Italian caprice came last on a programme so long that even the god of modern Russia in one of his most rhythmical and popular moods could not keep more than two-thirdS of the have been affected by the restless atmos- phere, for he gave the piece about one- half the usual color and smash.
 Marteau's success is unquestionable. He plays with the freshness and piquancy of youth without any of it's usual extrava- gance or bumptiouSneSS; in fact, at times there is in his work an almost auSterity that seems incongruous with his 1.-the, young presence. He is not passionate