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The San Francisco call., 1898-06-15
A Turntable Nuisance

M. H. de Young has filed a petition to the Supervisors asking that the turntable of the Geary-street railroad, which is just before the door of the Chronicle building, be declared a nuisance and speedily abated. The petition sets forth that in 1879 the Geary-street road pro- cured a permit to extend its line from the west side of Kearny street, it's terminus at the time, to connect with the tracks of the old Central railroad that ran on Market street. It extended its tracks as far as the northwesterly side of Market street and there 1t built the turntable 1t now uses. In the petition it is cited that the privileges allowed in the order grant ing permission to extend were not taken advantage of and so they have been for feited also that the city does not allow turntable to be within eleven feet of any sidewalk and that the Geary-street turntable is so close that the turning cars overlap the curbStone
The San Francisco call., 1898-06-15
WRITE FOR SAMPLES OF ABOVE GOODS.

second-class tickets from New York to San Francisco, via Ogden, will now be sold on the rebate plan which would make the rate the same as applies from here eastward. The ticket will be sold at the usual rate of S66 50 with a rebate collect able in this city of s23 96 thus making the cost of a second-class ticket SAP 5.
 It is supposed that the reduction was brought about at the urgent request of the West Shore railway running from Buffalo to Chicago and the move would naturally include all the lines that had been party to the reduced rates east ward from this point which were in eff feet June s. What effect if any the re- duction will have is not known, but it would appear that the rebate plan is not bringing much business. In the case of tickets sold to Chicago the rebate of $2O is great deal of money to be tied up by the average traveller and the system does not appear to meet with much favor.
 The Burlington route has also put in second-class rate of S21 to St Paul and Minneapolis, the present rate of SAT carry ing with it a rebate of $26.
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New Dodge Worked by
 Three Clever Crooks.
TEMPERED WITH MACHINES
A DICE GAME THAT WORKED AS
 A BLIND.
"Royal Flushes" Gained Without Depositing Nickel - The Police on Their
 Trail.

A well-developed scheme to defraud cigar dealers has been brought to the at tention of the police by B. Mrsl1y, the proprietor of cigar store at Tenth and Market streets.
 Three neatly dressed men have during the past few weeks visited cigar stores where the fascinating nickel-in-the-s machine rested on the counter and by a clever fraud have swindled a number of leading retailers by their fraudulent system. It was their rule to act in the following manner: One of the trio would enter the store and ask the man behind the counter to allow him to look at his newspaper. This favor was generally granted and he would take up his position next to the machine and while presum- ably reading the paper was actually hid- ing the device. His confederate would then enter and invite the man in charge to shake him dice for the cigars. This invitation was never refused and while they were engaged in the game, still an- other confederate would step in and go to the machine It was the last comer's duty to slide a wire down the slot of the contrivance and by simple process drop the cards down until he had secured a royal flush. When this was accomplished he would snap the handle down without dropping a nickel and with an exclama- ton say, T have a royal fiush." which, by the way, entitled him to 100 cigars.
 Many dealers were mucted in this way until 1t became so frequent that suspicion was aroused. Word was quietly passed kept for the swindlers. Yesterday the plan was tried on MT. Mirsky and might have succeeded but for the fact that he was advised. He allowed the three bunko men to go through their little act without interruption until he was told that the man tampering with the machine had landed his usual royal flush" The lat ter demanded his cigars, but was greatly disappointed when MT. Mirsky told the trio to leave the place. The supposed win ner began to argue, when the propri- etor stepped from behind his stand with the intention of calling a policeman, when the men hastily left. Mirsky reported the matter to the police last night, and gave an accurate description of the men. An effort will be made to land the clever crew but in the meantime cigar dealers are warned against them.
The San Francisco call., 1898-06-15
AN UNFoUNDED CHARGE.
Health Inspector Cookery Says the Story of Poisoned Berries
 Is Untrue

report was made at the Health Of fee short time ago that several people had been taken violently i'll after eating strawberries They believed that some poisonous wash had been used hy the growers to kill off insects and that the berries were poisoned. Inspector Dock cry was detailed to make an investiga- ton into the matter. He took samples of berries from all of the commission houses and they were subjected to a careful analysis. No trace of any poison was found. The health officials believe that if any persons have been sickened by eating strawberries the berries were taken from boxes that had been repeat edly filled. Some growers use the boxes a half dozen times without cleaning them and they become tainted. An ordinance has been drawn up by the health officers forbidding the use of berry boxes more than once
The San Francisco call., 1898-06-15
AGAINST THE DEATH TRAPS.
Commercial Men Ask for Regulation
 of All Sailing Vessels.

At the regular meeting of the directors of the Chamber of Commerce yesterday the matter of enacting a law for securing the safety of sailing vessels was discussed. A short time ago the Board of Supervis- ors of this city came to the conclusion that there should be some law by which all sailing vessels could be inspected by Federal officers, and any found unfit for the transportation of freight and passen- gers could be condemned. To this end a committee was appointed, consisting of Supervisors Clinton, Morton and Lack mann, to confer with the members of the Chamber of Commerce and the Collector of the Port. The conference was held at the meeting yesterday, and as a result the following resolution was passed, which Secretary Scott was directed to telegraph to the Pacific Coast Representative at Washington:
 law. national or State covering the inspection and supervision of sailing vessels engaged in our coast trade, applicable either to the con- struction of the vessel, manner of loading or ability to carry passengers; and whereas. owing to the deficiency, believe many sail ing vessels have left our ports during the past season which were unseaworthy or dangerously ports. notably the bark Helen w. Amy and the schooner Jane Gray, which were lost and many lives sacrificed. Be 1t therefore
 Resolved That earnestly request and re- spectfully urge upon our California delegation In Washington to take immediate steps to in will give to the proper United States officers full control of all sailing vessels carrying passengers out of ports.
 The chamber appointed the following gentlemen to represent it at the inter- national mining congress that Is to meet in Salt Lake City in July: c. W. Cross, Stone and w s. Reyes. They will also be delegates to the California Miners As sociation. Charles Christensen, the Ameri- can Central Manufacturing Company, the St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Com pany and Lloyd's Plate Glass Insurance Company were elected members of the chamber,
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iethargy of recklessness and neglect, just in time to ward off the deadly assault of that dread enemy of mankind consumption.
 The weapon with which these men have successfully coubated this grim destroyer has been Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis covery. It Is the only known medicine that will prevent and cure consumption. Taken in time, it will always ward off this deadly disease, and even after the devastat- ing germs have attacked the lungs, it will cure e8 per cent. of all cases. It acts di rectiy ofl the lungs, building up new. healthy tissues and driving out all disease germs. It corrects all stomach and digesz tive troubles, invigorates the liver ana makes the appetite keen and hearty It is the great blood maker, flesh builder and nerve tonic. There is nothing else just as good" and the druggist who says so is untrustworthy.
 1T was a sufferer for five or six years from indi- gestion, sore stomach and constant headaches ' writes B. P, Holmes. of Gafney. spartanburg Co.,. 6. c. "I tried several of our best physicians and found no permanent relief, By the persua. sion of Mfr. J. R. Tolleson. friend of mine, I commenced on the 18th September. 1895 to use Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and Pel- then have used five bottles of Golden Medical Discovery and Eve vials of Pellets When l commenced using the medicines could not sleep, had restless uneasy feeling all the time, and my skiu was yellow and dry. I weighed only I4S pounds. I now weigh TO pounds. have good color, and rest we'll at might. have a good appetite, eau eat anything wish. For two years, while under treatment by physician ate nothing but Graham bread
 h reference to the above letter, ]. R. Tolleson, P o. Box I75. Caffney, Spartanburg Co.,, s. C, writes: "The above Mir. B. r Holmes is good christian gentleman, and one whose word will 70 long way with those who know him I use and self Dr Pierces medicines, and I recon raended them to MT. Holmes
 Dr. Pieree's Pleasant Pellets cure tha, disease producing disorder constipation They meyer fail They never gripe. Drug gists sell them.
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name its members. He thought, how ever, that it would be wise to postpone the matter until the next meeting in order that so important matter might be given the consideration it deserved Barry Baldwin moved that the chair man be given further time in which to appoint this particular committee and the motion carried without a dissent ing voice.
 The other committees named were as follows:
 Committee on Resolutions-Charles W. Fay, chairman; Joseph Leggett, James Fl. Barry, Clitus Barbour and Franklin K. Lane.
 Committee on Registrauon-Max Pop-
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Buckley, p. P. E. Troy and P. H. Mo

Buckley. E. P. E. Troy and P. H. Nc Carthy.
 Committee on Finance-M. Jasper Mo Donald, chairman; pr. Magnus, Rudolph Herold, James Gallagher and c. H. Thompson.
 Committee on Order of Business-W B. Cope. chairman; Bart Burke, Samuel Braunhart, R. P. Doolan and A. B. Ma guire.
 The committee on resolutions held a meeting and decided to report a reso- lution at the next meeting, authorizing an assessment of g 50 on each member of the main committee to meet current expenses.
 After the announcement of the com mittees the so-called governing body of the Democratic party of San Fran cisco adjourned to meet at the call of the chair
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was opening the door he called her to stop, and seizing her roughly by the wrist displayed a star and told her she was un- der arrest.
 Her daughter Myrtle was sick in bed but hearing the noise at the door got up and inquired what the men wanted with her mother. By this time the arresting officer, who was Chase, had been joined by Deeley and the young girl for an an swer to her question was struck in the breast, and fell. Mrs. Carleton's brother in-law also appeared on the scene, but was treated with scant courtesy.
 Mrs. Carleton intends to bring the con- duct of the two officers before the Police Commissioners. She declares she is a respectable married woman and feels keenly the indignity thrust upon her.
The San Francisco call., 1898-06-15
FURTHER CUT IN RATES. Second-Class Rebate Tickets Now Being Sold From New York to
 ni
San Francisco

The second-class rates which were lately put into effect via Ogden by the Southern Pacific were intended to apply only from San Francisco to points eastward Yes- terday afternoon Jay w. Adams. the Pa- cific Coast representative of the Nickel Plate line, which runs from Buffalo to Chicago, received a dispatch from the general passenger agent of the road that
The San Francisco call., 1898-06-15
Hanged Himself.

The body of man, supposed to be that of John Davis, was found hanging to a tree in the woods near the intersection of Corbett road and Dewey boulevard yes- terday. It had been there about two or three weeks. On the person was found an envelope, on the back of which was writ ten in pencil the following: My name is John Davis, a native of Canada, 65 years I am stranger, without money or friends.
 That Is all of the story of John Davis as told by himself. In an niaccount-book found on the body were the names, "W. J. Downs" "Mr. Wm. Wooff, Pacific Press. Oakland"
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with Dewey at Manila,' and pie lures taken from photographs of the great naval battle, by Joseph L. Stickney, the special war correspond ent of The Call, wno stood on the bridge of the flagship Olympia dur ing the fight.-In next Sundays Call.
The San Francisco call., 1898-06-15
SWEET AS JUNE ROSES

is the linen that is laundered with the perfection of skill for which the United States Laundry is famous. Clean, white and spotIess, and with a finlsh that cannot be duplicated Tn this town, is the result of our exquisite methods and careful atten- ton to details.
 United States Laundry, office l0O4 Market street. Telephone South APO.
The San Francisco call., 1898-06-15
WEAKNESS
 IS NOW
 APPARENT Democratic Harmony Club Afraid to Act. AWAITING DEVELOPMENTS HELD TWO MEETINGS WITHOUT
 RESULT. The New City and County Committee Now Looking for a Soft
 Place on Which
 to Drop.
AWAITING DEVELOPMENTS
HELD TWO MEETINGS WITHOUT
 RESULT.

The new Democratic City and County Committee met again last evening at Native Sons Hall and transacted just enough business to satisfy the members not In the confidence of the program mers that there was some excuse for calling them together.
 It has begun to dawn upon those who
The San Francisco call., 1898-06-15
Read "A Busy Day With Secretary of War Alger at the White House" :" in next Sundays Call
Gathering In Wayward Boys.

Sergeant Blank, acting under instruc- tions, has within the past few days, ar rested over thirty-six Mission toughs who have made the several street corners their nightly rendezvous and indulged in the pastime of insulting ladies and old men.
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per, chairman; William M. Hinton, James Denman, D. c. Murphy and Jeremiah Cof- fey.
 Committee on Naturalization-J H. Grady, chairman; Barry Baldwin, w H. Mead, William Craig and M c. Hassett. Hess. chairman; w. D. Farren, John E.
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ready looking about for soft spot upon which to drop. This is not to say that the end is actually in sight, but as the days go by the suspicion that
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were placed on the committee without first being taken into the confidence of the Gould -McNab-Alford combination that the fear of wrath to come has en- tered into the hearts of the harmony club and that the shrewd ones are all
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}, knife in hand, is preparing to drive 1t into his heart, has had 6 narrow escape. There are thou sands of grateful men who have . aroused them
 aI
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Granted a Divorce.

Irene w. Clinch was granted divorce from Frederick Clinch by Judge Bahrs yesterday on the ground of intemperance.
The San Francisco call., 1898-06-15

THE CRYSTAL SWIMMING BATHS. Physicians recommend the Crystal warm sea water tub and swimming batha North Beach.
The San Francisco call., 1898-06-15

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The Advocate and news., 1898-12-28
General News.

About half the population Of Puerto
Rico is classed as white.
Texas has a permanent school fund OF
$22,OOO,OOO and 100000 acres Of land.
Mayor Jones, of Toledo, is opposed to
the granting Of franchises by the mu-
nicipality under any circumstances.
The remains Of Gen. Sam Houston are
buried at Huntsville, Texas, the grave
being marked only by plain marble
slab.
Mayor Harrison, Of Chicago, holds that
spanking boys in the city reformatOry is
better than locking them In dungeons,
and he will veto the anti-fOgglng ordi-
nance.
The Michigan Supreme court has de-
clared the oleomargarine law passed In
that State to be void. A defect in the
passage of the bill is given as the ground
for the opinion.
The prOtectionists fear that expansion
will eventually bring free trade, the very
thing that they don't want, and they are
preparing monster petitions to the Sen
ate to influence 1t to nOn-cOncur in the
Spanish treaty.
The investigating commission appoint
ed to inquire into the abuses In con-
Aection with the conduct Of the recent
war is apparently trying to defend the
administration rather than to ferret out
The Advocate and news., 1898-12-28

the past two years he has succeeded in
building up a strong newspaper which
has welded a wide influence, but the
weight OF seventy odd years makes rest
and retirement necessary. The new
paper will be conducted along reform
lines and promises to be a strong and
vigorous one.
Rothweiler's telegraph bill provides
for a maximum rate Of 20 cents for
day message Of ten words from any point
in the State to any other in the State.
The night rate is fixed at 10 cents. Two
cents per word may be charged in addi-
ton for any messages Of more than ten
words and cent for night messages. Mr..
Jack Stewart, one Of the newspaper
veterans Of northwest Kansas, Is dead.
He published Stewards BazOO at Smith
Center for a dozen or more years and
of late years it was one Of three Demo-
cratic papers In the Sixth district. Stew
art had all kinds Of friends who knew
him as faithful, good-natured, uncom-
planning man.
WhoOp TomlinsOn is busy man. His
tWice-a-Week daily annihilates Leedy for
calling special session, whOOps 1t up
for George Crane for State printer, In
dorses Bailey Waggener and A. A. Hurd
in their anti-railroad legislation talk,
and finds fault because the election
clerks in the Twentieth Kansas credited
Ed Little's vote to the wrong precinct.
Stanley has ninety-four applications
for anything" One man asks for boiler
inspector, and Office which does not ex-
ist Twenty-Five want to be Railroad
Commissioner, forty-nine ask for deputy
grain inspector and sixty-four for mem
ber of the Board of Charities. He has
forty janitors, seventy-fve guards, fifty
nine oil inspectors, twenty-five grain In
spectors, eighteen Insurance Commits
sioners, thirty-seven members OF the
Live Stock Sanitary Commission, six
teen Governors messengers, seventeen
members of the Board Of PardOns,
twenty-eight directors Of the Dodge City
Soldiers Home, eleven directors Of the
penitentiary, twenty-four clerks, twelve
superintendents of State house grounds,
eighteen adjutants general and ten dep
uty wardens of the penitentiary at his
his disposal. He has pretty nearly as
large proportion Of applicants for other
places.
The Advocate and news., 1898-12-28

"I suppose" remarked Farmer Corn
tossel, that when Christopher COlum-
bus landed in this hemisphere one Of the
first things he did was to plant the
Spanish flag" "T should say that I'D
seem the reglar thing to do" well,
speaking professionally, 1 should say
that he managed to raise one of Che
poorest crops ever knOwn.-W Washington
Star.
The Advocate and news., 1898-12-28

Wen Take Your Subscriptions: Arena,
$2.SO; Appeal to Reason, so cents
New Time, 81, Year.
Extract from a sermon by Rev. Archibald f. Lund.
Few, indeed, realize the prOdigious
growth that socialism has made In the
United States during the last Ave years.
doubt even whether the socialists them
selves know how deep their damnabIe
doctrine has rooted. l doubt whether
either Of the two great political parties
In this country realizes the mOnstFous
proportions which this child Of the devil
has attained to- It has gained foot
hold in every county Of every State, and
worse still, IL has invaded every govern
ment In this world. It has entered the
church and taken the laborer from the
pew, for It Is a well-known fact that the
rank and file Of this fad is made up from
the laboring classes and Of the illlterate.
It's hatred for that which makes good,
and its love for the principles that lead
to anarchy unless Immediately checked
will overturn society and bring about a
reign of terrorism and destruction In
place Of good government. We need no
longer so to Europe TO study socialism,
for It's vile and dangerous doctrine has
invaded every hamlet in our land, and
Its anarchlstic publications like Arena,
Appeal to Reason, New Time, and host
Of other yellow journals may be found
In almost every home of the laboring
classes. The time has come when gov
ernment should join hands with the
church to suppress yellow journalism.