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The San Francisco call., 1898-03-06
CITY AND COUNTY SUED. John W. Mackay and R. V. Dey Seek to Recover Money Paid on Stocks
 and Bonds

John W. Mackay and R. V. Dey, trus- tees under the will of the late Theresa Fair, filed suit against the city and coun- ty of San Francisco yesterday to recover 80 262 SS, which sum was paid under pro- test into the treasury as taxes on stocks and bonds of the Southern Pacific Com pany of Arizona, the West Shore Rail- road Company of New York and the Commercial Cable Company for the year ending June 30, 189S The stocks and bonds are a part of the estate of Mrs. Theresa Fair. and the plaintiffs allege that they were not subject to taxation in this State, and ask for a return of the amount paid as taxes or them.
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-06

of the winners) must have had many presents This you hear in all whist clubs. but not so much after a contest between "fours as you will after pair contests. For large clubs com pass whist Is a very popular form of play, and while many say 1t is no test of skill, the win ners In long contest, consisting of seven or more tables. always the best players in a club. and hence the charge of skill falls with dull sickening thud'' upon the heads of he
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-06
KATE WHEELocK CLUB OF PORTLAND.

The annual meeting of the Kate wheelock Club of Portland. Or. was held in their room in MarQuam Grand Thursday, February 25 and resulted in the election of the following officers for the ensuing year: President Mrs Charles E. Sitton. e-president, Miss Lucy D. Failing: secretary, Mrs. Edward T Williams: treasurer Mrs Frank Dayton. The meetinnr was well attended and enthusiastic one and all of the members look forward to a wear of success and progress.
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-06

able to serve you all promptly and obligingly.
 Our new catalogue is billed to ap- pear about March 10. People living out of town should send for a copy. Free for the asking. None distri- buted in the city.
 Buyers are returning from their Eastern trip. They report that mar kets look most favorable and mak- CTS having a hard time to turn out orders fast enough.
 The stockrooms are so crowded it Is almost impossible to squeeze through the aisles. And yet new goods keep coming in faster and faster. Do you wonder we have to close these two stocks in week?
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-06
OUR WHIST EDITOR.

We are pleased to say our whist editor ,s once more on his native heath after si~ weeks stay In the East among the sno,,,N drifts and whist clubs. He was so royaliv sn- tertained he won't be well on his feet for ea
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-06
SYSTEM OF THE BOSTON DUPLICATE
 WHIST CLUB.

The system used by the Boston Duplicate Whist Club Is the most rational of any of the so-called mixed systems that we have yet seen. Briefly, it is follows Open originally from longest or best suit. Having honors in sequence. follow American leads. except from queen, jack. ten and others, lead ten. and lead king in all cases where the American lead calls for queen Use queen strengthening card or to show trump strength. When suit Is headed by card smaller than the nine. lead top of suit. From king. jack. ten and others lead fourth best. Do not open a four-card suit with one honor If you have a strengthening card six seven similar suits, lead fifth best Dis card from weakest suit. Use reverse discard to show suit you wish led. In trumps from queen, jack. ten and others, lead top of suit otherwise follow American leads. Echo with three trunps on partners end. Never hnesse on partners trump lead.
 These rules, with the exception of the dis card the number showing play Of the king and queen and the play of small card suits. do not differ essentially from the long g-suit game played by Albany
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-06
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does not want trumps led. No matter what the card Is, there Is possibility of partner 8 misunderstanding the nature of the lead.
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-06

Lows Horehound Cough Syrup for coughs and colds: 10c. AT Sansome st. .
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-06

and the Bauer & Soloman stock An entire window and side entrance has been given to this show. We desire our customers to judge the values we are offering and have placed some fair examples In the window for this purpose. However, every garment will bear a closer and more careful inspection than a window display allows. New ho- siery forms another display. No tably, some new effects in fancy hose.
 An idea of the new fashionables in Spring Dress Goods Is given in another window. A handsomely dressed figure shows a popular cloth made up into the latest dress.
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-06
SYSTEM CALLED coMMoN.seNsE WHIST

The System Dubbed Common Sense Whis. Knosu
 Among Some the invitation Game
 This game proceeds on the principle that with such general strength as to Justify playing for
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-06
New Goods.

spring G co d 6 fast arrfvine-b uy- CTS returning fir om t h e ir East ern trips.
 s o m e swell plaid and check sash ribbons, just come in. Very fashionable in
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-06

New York, so our buyers report. Wash goods keep coming in and plaids seem to predominate. Ging- hams are to be popular and all dresses are to be ribbon trimmed. Percales in stripes are in demand. Hundreds of patterns.
 Some new dress stuffs arrived Friday. Spring woolens for tailor gowns. Also some new black stuffs. The black goods department is hav- ing boom.
 .oHzaAla
 / INCORPORATED
 o37-o45 MARKET STREET,
 SAN FRANCISCO.
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-06
This
 Weeks Store News.

Extra help has been employed for the sale this week. Wa hone fO he
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-03-10

ter of purchasing fire apparatus will
be bright up in Council. 1t is the in
tentio of Council to purchase imme-
diatelia reel and hose, which 9Sn be
attacld to the fire plugs at any point
in thdtown. NO fire engines will be
requilH, for enough pressure will be
securd by the flow of water down hill
from where the supply wells are To-
Gated, Benwood will not undertake
the experience of salaried fire COM
pany It present, but a volunteer COM
panygiil be organized as soon as the
appaltus is purchased. 1t is estima-
ted tat an improved reel and suffi-
cienthose can be bought for about
$500.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-03-10

To-day the Benwood Council Com
mittee on Water and Light will 60 over
the town and locate the thirty water
plugs for which the city has contract
ed with James Kenney to connect with
his water system as soon as the pipes
are laid. Council has agreed to pay
SAC a year for each plug, which will
make an aggregate of 81 200 per an
mum. The plugs will be distributed
at needed points from Forty-eighth
stree to McMechen. They will be Of
the same size as those of Wheeling.
According TO expectations il will not
be long until Benwood will have a
complete water supply. Contractor
Kenney has assured Council that he is
ready to put down the water pipes
throughout the town Immediately. He
has drilled four wells on Boggs' run,
and it is estimated that each Of these
wells can furnish a supply of 40 gall
ions a minute, which is more than am
pie to give the people of Benwood all
the water they need. The water is
soft and of the best quality. The en-
tire expense of drilling the wells, lay
ing the pipes and making all attach
ments is to be borne by James kenney,
who has been given by Council the
monopoly of furnishing water to Ben
wood residents for the period Of thir-
ty years While the contractor will be
required to make a considerable eX-
pense yet the exclusive privilege
which he has been given by Council
is sure to be Klondike bonanza for
nim
AS soon as the water pipes are laid
and attached to the fire plugs. the mat
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-03-10

OTHER BENWOOD NOTES.
Noung son of Frank Toney is sick.
NO children of Alonzo Bowers are
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-03-10
VOLUNTEER HOSE COMPANY.
This Is What Benwool Will Hav
Soon.

Fire Apparatus Will Be Purchased
as Soon as the Water Line Is
Completed-Town Will Have a
Plentiful Supply of Water and
Sufficient ressure- Thirty Water
Plugs to Be Located To-day.
Council Asks the Moundsville Car
Line to Complete Their Paving.
A Grocers' Union Organized.
Other Benwood Notes.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-03-10
wbtelin9 Re9ister
SPRING OPENING.

FINE TAILORING. POPULAR PRICES.
Regardless of advance in wooiens, we are
prepared to make to order Suits. Overcoats
and Trousers at last years reduced and
popular prices. Suits. $1,000 up. Over
coats. SIS. 90 up. Pants, $500 up. Thf
artistic cut and stylish appearance of on;
garments recommend themselves inspee,
tion invited &. HESS q SONS, A
Fashionable Tailors and Fine Fdrnishesd
1921 1923 Market Street TTH&sAf Il
Leave orders at Ziegenfelders or by
calling up 655 for Flower Sale of the
Kings Daughters at First church.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-03-10
WILL HAVE TO PAVE.

Attic Council meeting Tuesday
night a communication from the
Mould lille car line was read in an
sweI ID the letter of inquiry which
the lolncil sent to the company, no.
tifyhg them that they would be ex-
pectdI to complete the paving which
theyhid agreed TO do at the time they
gavI item permission to build their
roa{ within the corporate limits sew
eralytars ago. In return for the priv
ile@ .ranted them the company were
to ba'e the street between the rails
of lhf track and for a specified dis
tansebn each side just as soon as the
city paved the balance of the street
alohSthe track; the car company to
have paved the entire distance from
the EnWOod terminus to the old COR
pOIat line. This was never done and
since the ordinance was passed the
city hs paved not only the street, but
insid OF the track as well IL the Ew-
er ell of the town corporation. The
roadoo after it was built passed into
the ands Of a receiver, and conse-
queny for long time could make
no improvements. The court allowed
S500pr improvements and $500 of this
was Ipent in paving the track for a
shordistance from the Benwood store
to te coal bank, just below. Now
the council has demanded that the
cOmhny fulfill their part of the agree
men and do the required amount III
payig along the road from the end
of th present city paving TO the new
corprate line adjoining McMechen.
In te reply received by Council and
readat the'last meeting it was stated
thai the paving could not be done
unit the weather was more favorable,
andhat the matter had not been yet
bright before the board of directors
Reconsideration. Y
OTHER BENWOOD NOTES.
young son of Frank Toney is sick.
NO children of Alonzo Bowers are
i'll.
he ballot commissioners and the
cit recorder met last night and pre-
pad the ticket for the coming town
eltion
has Zulauf and other prominent
Wheling musicians will give con-
Mich 18th.
scar Hanlon is sinking fast. The
pFsicians stated that yesterday was
II first day that he had not been
rIional at some time. John Hahn is
sd to be manifesting a good deal of
aSiety over the result.
John c. Strobel, of Wheeling, secre-
t'y of the State Grocers Protective
Isociation, was in town yesterday or
lnizing a local union of eleven gro
his. This includes all the Erocers of
enwood The members will have an
ther meeting next Tuesday evening
nd elect the necessary officers.
/ AS previously stated in the Register,
The owners of property in Benwood,
along Water street, who have refused
o curb and pave their sidewalks, will
nave the work done for them and
charged to them by the city. The
Council voted Tuesday night to put
Town the curling for these parties and
he paving will be done as soon as
the weather permits.
The promoters of the new railroad
have adopted another scheme to get
tie bond issue they want by asking
the county court to hold another spe
cial election in those districts through
which the company intends to build
tie road, for these districts to vote
oil the proposition to take the re-
Qured amount of stock with the I'M
Outstanding that the taxes from the
rad be divided pro rata among the
tree districts.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-03-10

YAVI FREE HEALTH LECTURE.
ii ladies are invited to attend an
intructive health talk in Exchange
Bak building Friday, at p. N.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-03-10
NV Lace Curtains
AID Draperies....

Received which we offer at prices
that knocks out all others we
haven't two prices, but we have cut
nrfces. Buy now and have them
ready when you need them in a short
time.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-02-18
BY RAIL

The interstate committee
has made a report of railway acct
dents in the United States for the year
ending the 3Oth of June. 1896. 1t was
prepared by a practiced statician. For
the year indicated, the number Of per-
sons killed was 1851, and the number
injured was %, 969. 1t was an increase
of so in killed and 4,273 in the injured
over the preceding year. OF the killed
1S1 were passengers, and of the injured
assam increase. of IL in killed and
49S in injured. The number of persons
other than employees and passengers
killed was 4,406, and the number in
jured 5,S15. These figures include
casualties to persons reported as tres
passers, of whom ssh were killed and
4,46S were injured. From summaries
showing the ratio of casualties it found
that for every 44 men employed ON
railways 1 was killed, and for every
% men employed 1 was injured. A
similar comparison as to trainme1
shows that 1 trainman was killed for
each 162 trainmen employed, and hat
l trainmen was injured for each 10
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-02-18
Il CAROLINA.

Fayetteville Observer. The first shad of
the season was caught yesterday In the
Cape Fear, by E w. Boykins. and sold
for doo.-The~ superior court of Samo-
son county convenes next Monday for
the traI OF criminal cases. There are
two murder cases and several other i'm
portant cases for trial.
Raleigh News and Observer: OF all the
crimes that have recently been commit
ted IN this city. that OF defacing the con-
federate In the city cemetery
is the worst and most inexcusable.-Mr.
w G.. Baldwin, of the Baldwin detective
TO secure from Governor Russell extradi-
ton paper for r. p. Lewis. alias Alfred
NJ Scales. who is wanted in Virginia and
Texas for forgery.
Raleigh Post: He that provideth no:
for his own household is worse than
Governor Russell. or words to that effect.
Senator Pritchard has secured an ap-
rcintment for his brother in Washington.
for which place said brother resigned the
cfice of high sheriff Of Mitchell county.
The Washington place. therefore. must
be a good one. The senator's sister Is
how provided with a nice N,0O job in
Collector Harkin's office. in Asheville.
Rocky Mount Argonaut:-We learn tina
arrangements for the sale OF the cele-
brated Ports mine. situated in Nash and
Franklin counties. have been conSummat-
81. This property has a record of about
two million dollars. although nothing but
pa Va viz ~ mas JUL ~ A4AtS
and there remains unlimited quantities
Of ore in sight. The purchase price 10 be
paid is Sl30, 600, which w~econSider very
cheap for the property Of such undoubted
value.
Charlotte Observer: The postmaster
general has refused to appoin the color
ed man, Evans, postmaster at Laurin-
burg, ostensibly because the term OF the
present incumbent has not expired, but
really it is said on account of his color.
Friday night fire broke out in the old
Meadows warehouse, at oxford, rented
by Z. w. Lyon & Co. This, with the a d
joining prive warehouse o. fhe same firm,
was consumed. Insurance 81, 800. The cot
ton gin, insured for $500, was consumed
also. together with several dwellings OF
colored people.-All reports to the con-
trary, Robt Hancock does not expect his
North Carolina railroad at the meeting
of the board of directors oe that road in
Raleigh on February 22nd.
Pittsboro Record: A man passed
through this place on last Saturday.
travelling in a one horse vehicle from
Syracuse, in the state Of New York. to
Southern Pines, in this state. He left
Syracuse on the BIRD of last October.
His vehicle was like an old army ambu-
lance, but longer. and was arranged 50
that he could sleep comfortably in it,
If he found no convenient topping place
at night.-Our readers remember the
romantic marriage, daSt fall, af Mr.. Jas.
Gillian, of this township, to a widow
from New York, who had advertised in a
newspaper for a husband. Well, just as
might have been expected, this roman
tic marriage has ended in a separation,
for, on last Tuesday, Mrs. Gillian re-
turned to her northern home. And there
was quite a contrast between her com
ing and going-between her arrival and
departure.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-02-18
r

Much qualification has been express
ed at the decrease in business failures
for 1897, as compared with 1896. We
are all glad at any real signs of i'm
provement, and it is to be sincerely
hoped that the signs will improve in
1898, over the preceding year. The
leading northern trade and political
journals and newspapers talk in 4 very
confident strain. The low price Of
corn and cotton does not dim their
hopes of lessen their prophetic sweep
in the least degree. Last year the
number Of failures Is reported by
Bradstreet was 1908, while in 1896,
it, was Is, 094-a reduction of Yer 1000,
and very healthful. But it must he
remembered that only in 1895, the num-
Der was Il, 95s, and in 1894, still less,
II, 724. So 1897 made a gain for the bet
ter, but was not as well As the two
years preceding 1896. 1t is a remark
able statement hat 610 failures grew
u of Incompetence and 4,10S to men
operating without capital.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-02-18

orator than Webster, listening to each,
and that his speeches were never an
swered by the great man Of New
England, and that Webster never was
able to answer the great Calhoun in
his. debate with him ahout the time of
the debate with Hayne. In church
and state in the north when cratory
is discussed no southern Christian or
political orator will be named. There
nov living who has any proper under
standing, we nay believe, of such in
tellectual forces and oratorfcaI sue
cesses, as scores We might easily
name The late General Thomas l..
C~lingman, who long served in h con-
gress, in both houses, told us that the
greatest orator he ever heard in either
body was George McDufie, of South
Carolina, and he had heard Webster,
whom he very greatly admired, and
scores of the most famous Of northern
members through a quarter of a CEN
fury or longer He regarded McDuffie
a more admirable an ADLER era
tor than S. S. Prentiss, whom he had
heard on a very famous occasion.
What New England writers know of
Rev. DIR. Palmer, of New Orleans, of
the late Bishop George F. Pierce, of
Georgia, of Rev. w. F. Munsey, of
Tennessee, OF Rev. DR.. Hawthorne, of
any really famous pulpit preacher OF
the last forty years? The south does
not rival the north in letters, but in
true and Noble oratory it has been al
ways able to O it's own with the
north in any arena. "A distinguished
western United States senator heard
Vance at Weldon in 1872, and he told
us it was the best speech he had heard
in twenty years, since he heard Tom
Corwin, and he added that Vance was
more like Corwin than any other man
he had ever known. He said he had
to lie down and laugh when Vance
spoke.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-02-18
PUBLIC OPINION

The individual named Richard LeGalli-
enne, who is described as "a poet, critic,
writer and Interpreter of Omar Kay
YAM was interviewed in a truly Won
derful manner on his arrival. Among
the pearls which dropped from his lips
was the following: ''What Whitman has
had greater influence on me than any
other American poet. : s. L consider
him the most original man, except Christ,
the world has ever Town. Before this
pert and conspicuous young person is
very much older in this country he will
learn that ~ninety-seven o~ne-hundredthS
Of the lecture-going class, whose dollars
he comes to draw out of their pockets,
regard the likening of the second person
in the Trinity to any human writer, par
ticularly TO any writer of yawping OBJ
scenitieS, as a sacrilege and a blasphemy
which they will neither forget nor for
give. If Mr.. Richard LIE Galltenne. has
a sane press agent or a Shrewd lyceum
manager one or the other of them would
do we'll to tie him up for a few days in
a dark cellar, feeding him on bread and
water and treating him to the gentle ex-
ercises of the Bogardus kicker four or
five times a day, until he can learn that
the most offensive Importation to which
this country has been lately subjected is
his entirely too mobile mouth.-Brooklyn
On. W Eagle.
1t is a matter of nc surprise that Ger
many has determined to exclude Ameri-
can fruits, by way of entering its pro-
test against the Dingley tariff. When this
COOAh biiN " WI oCo 4toO-E anu
puts an embargo upon the products of
other nations that would seek a market
here. it cannot expect better things at
the hands Of the nations that have been
thus excluded. We canno hope for an
open market with the world, SO long as
our own market are shut UP to for
eign trade. We cannot expect greater
liberality than we show to others. Our
tariff policy is simply suicidal. There
never was a time when this country so
much needed open markets abroad, and
there never was a time when it was so
we'll prepared to go forth and occupy
them. We have far more to sell than our
own people can consume, both of the pro-
ducts of the soil and of the products of
the mill. Our crops are abundant always
and with the best factories and the best
labor in the world. We are able to COM
pete with the world and to sell our goods
wherever there is a demand for them, in
competition with the factories of other
countries. If there is a nation on the face
of the earth whose interest it is to have
free and unrestricted that ma
ton is the United States. But instead of
encouraging liberality and freedom of
trade. we have adopted the Chinese poll
cy of shutting ourselves up, and thereby
provoking other nations to exclude our
products.-Richmond Times.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-02-18
Free Pills

Send your address to H. E. Bucklen
& Co, Chicago, and get a free sample
box of DIR. Kings Life Pills. A trial
will convince you of their merits.
These pills are easy in action and are
particularly effective in the cure of
Constipation and Sick Headache. For
Malaria Liver troubles they have
been proved invaluable. They are
guaranteed to be perfectly free from
every deleterious substance and to be
purely vegetable. They do not weaken
by their action, but by giving tone to
stomach and bowels greatly invigorate
the system. Regular size 25 cents per
box. Die by R.. r. Bellamy- Druggist.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-02-18
The of All

Mr. James Jones, of the drug firm of
Jones & Son, Cowden, ILL.,, in speaking
of DIR. Kings New Discovery, says
that last winter his wife was attacked
with La Grippe, and her case grew so
serious that physicians at COwden n
Pana could do nothing for her. 1t
seemed to develop into Hasty Con-
sumption. Having DR.. Kings New
Discovery in store and selling lots of
it, he took a bottle home, and to the
surprise of all She began to get better
from first dose, and half dozen dollar
bottles cured her sound and we'll. DR..
Kings New Discovery for Consump-
ton, Coughs and Colds is guaranteed
to do this good work. Try it. Free
trial bottles at r. r. Bellamy's Drug
Store.