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Daily camera., 1898-03-28

Miss Nan Earh.rt spent Sunday in
Boulder visiting Miss George Rowland.
Daily camera., 1898-03-28

Mrs. M. Copeland started for Trinway
Ohio this morning for short stay.
Daily camera., 1898-03-28

To Cure y Cold In One Day
Take Laxative Brono Quinine Tablets
All druggists refund the money if it fails
to cure. 3 cents.
Daily camera., 1898-03-28

Mr.. Ayers, the we'll known mining man,
IS convalescent after an attack of la
Daily camera., 1898-03-28
Coal At woollstt- Browns.

S. A. Howard left for Longview, Hi
nois, this morning.
Daily camera., 1898-03-28

IXYANTED-UPRIGHT AND FAITHFUL
w gentlemen or ladies to travel for respon-
sible, established house in Boulder City,
Colo. Monthly $500 and expenses Position
steady. Reference. Enclose self addressed
stamped envelope. The Dominion Company
Dept. K. Chicago.
Daily camera., 1898-03-28

WANTED Two or three furnished
rooms for light housekeeping; must be
in center of city. Address.
]. S. SEMoNEs,
St. Julien Hotel, City.
Daily camera., 1898-03-28
LOCAL NEWS.
Wood st voollstt-B browns.

Go to Golden Rule store for shoes.
The oasis., 1898-07-09

Mobave Miner: A MT. Cayanaugh of Yucca, claims Co have been robbed in Kingman Thursday morning. lie went to sleep in a room on Front street and when he awoke his watch and chain and $40 in cash were gone. He has been unable to locate the thief, but the officers have possible clue.
 Arizona Republican: Mir. J. l.. IT, yin has ranch east of town from which he comes to town every morn- ing with a large wagon loaded with watermelons. That they are fine, luscious melons is attested by the fact that he disposes Of the load every day. On Tuesday last he sold 1000 melons before sundown, and his sales reach close to that number daily.
 Enterprise: There was a pleasant meeting of the volunteers at B com pany's armory last night. There was no end of beer, cigars and sandwiches. Louis Melczer, Sam Seip and Coffee Al contributed the refreshments. Captain Russell made an eloquent ad- dress. Quartermaster Sergeant Nib. lock suggested to the patriotic citi- zens that blankets will be very &C., ceptable contribution as many of the boys lack funds to buy any themselves and some time may elapse before the opportunity presents itself to draw from the quartermaster's store. Mon- day Sergeant Nlblock collected blank cts and turned them over to the la- dies of the Red Cross society.
The oasis., 1898-07-09

Persons troubled with diarrhga will be interested in the experience of Mir. W. M. Bush, clerk Of Hotel Dor rance, Providence, k. |. He says: For several years l have been almost trating me and rendering me unfit for my duties at this hotel. About two years a travelling salesman kindly gave me small bottle of Chamberlains Colic, Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy. Much to my surprise and delight it's effects were immediate. Whenever l felt symptoms of the disease l would fortify myself against the attack with a few doses of this valuable remedy. The result has been very satisfactory and almost complete relief from the aflliction." For sale by Jas. B. Mix & Co.
The oasis., 1898-07-09

For a Dice, clean shave or an artistic hair cut go to P. P. Bustamante, Gale Elias, Nogales, Sonora; fourth door From Hotel Cazabon Good barber, careful attention.
The oasis., 1898-07-09
AsIzoNA A NEWS
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authority that a bank Will soon o' established at Stafford. This IS some thing that has long been needed ant ve hope that the rumor is true. Yuma Sentinel: Ed Mayes wal jailed down from Castle Dome tn, first of the week on account Of sick ness in his family. His two little daughters are i'll with scarlet feyel but are getting along nicely.
 PhenIx Herald Los Angeles en oyed the first carload of Arizon; vatermelons sent over there lasl Tuesday so much that another car load started out yesterday to satisf, the demand of the Angeles for thai king of the melon creation. A de mand for a hundred carloads of Sall River valley melons is in sight
 Graham Guardian: A tax has beer levied by the city council of Pima fol the purpose of erecting city hall and improving the city park. This i' something the town has long needed
 They have a tract of land for a beau tlful park, which stands today as a desert, whereas with the expenditure of few dollars it can be transformed into an elegant park.
 Williams News: Pete Berry, whC owns trail and hotel at the Grand cailoD, twelve miles rom Rowe's we'll came to Williams for his mail and
 provisions this week. MT. Berry says
 there is cave near his trail which elceeds in magnitude and interest i6e famous Mammoth cave of Ken. lucky. He has conducted many tourists through it's labrynthine curves.
 Graham Guardian: Old man An. thony Wade, one of the first American settlers in this valley, who died last summer, left will bequeathing all bis estate to the Solomonyille public school. This estate has been finally settled in the probate court and the sum of one hundred and one dollars aud thirty cents was placed to the credit of the trustees of School Dis. tTct NO 5,
 Mohaye Miner: About thirty RieR are at work in Railroad cailon getting out rock and building the retaining dam for the new water system for Hancock. It Is thought that when lle main water channel beneath the ioadoed is reached great volume of water will be encountered. The San la Fe company will lay a six or eight inch pipe line to their service tank elsht miles below the reservoir.
 Prescott Courier: A thrilling in- eldent in the life of miner comes to hand in the relation of a recent in- cOent in the Blgbug district. The
 miner had expended his last s20 for uOur, bacon, beans, coffee and sugar; ue had stored them in his cabin, on tue floor over in corner Accompa- uled by his faithful Thomas cat, he went for bucket of water. Miner auu cat returned to the cabin to find sNunk in possession of same. While tue mine: tried to coax the skunk VuV or the cabin, Thomas pursued voVV'lng tactics and occupied the uoOf' the only means of exit; the ,AunK dashed for the door; Tom s'Sned Tor the skunk; the battle royal '.ok place over in the corner, on top ~ .'iat pile of provisions. The in- "uuer was elected. The miner then tOOAed supper, after few mouthfuls
The San Francisco call., 1898-04-24
MORE PLANS FOR
 FESTAL BOOTHS
A Hanging Garden the Latest Idea Being Worked
 Up.
Sales of Flowers Steadily Growing and Promising Golden
 Returns.

The plans for the proposed hanging flower garden and restaurant for the fete at the Mechanics Pavilion couple of weeks to come in behalf of the Masonic Widows and Orphans Home are now complete, and the designer vowed yes terday that his idea was not only feasi- ble one but was certain to prove an ex- tremely attractive feature of the fair It is proposed to serve light refreshments in bower composed entirely of flowers, palms and ferns There will be no risa whatever and the idea of viewing the merry scene below amid such charming surroundings is certainly pleasing one
 Healdsburg sent yesterday nearly half carload of mountain lilies, large num- Der of which were disposed of early yes terday at the floral depot 16 Post street Mrs. W. Frank Pierce, who has general supervision of the ladies who are work ing in the interests of the festival said yesterday that they were meeting with great success in their endeavor to induce the merchants of the city, restaurateurs and others to take flowers regularly from the depot. The Baldwin Hotel, the Cafe Zinkand, Maskeys, Godstein & Cohn, ready daily patrons oI the floral depot. Berkeley has undertaken to send all the flowers the committee can possibly dis pose of on Tuesdays and Fridays, and on Wednesdays and Thursdays San Rafael will see to 1t that there is an ample SUD- ply. All the money spent at Is Post street goes directly to the festival fund for the flowers are all donated and there is no charge for arrangement or delivery.
 The latest addition to the booths pro- posed is one where the creations of the leading millners of the city and coast will be on exhibition It is promised that there will voting contest in connec- ton with this booth, which will enable the visitors at the Pavilion to determine which is the most artistic confection. The idea has been taken hold of enthusi- astically in the city and this will doubt less be one of the most interesting of the thirty or forty interesting booths.
 On the opening night there will be chorus of a thousand childrens voices, the glees being Californian and national and later during the festival there will be a children's kazoo band. A chorus of 100 male voices is also promised. which will be heard on three or four different occa- SionS
The San Francisco call., 1898-04-24
Yet the Bids Were Rejected.

In this case the board had determined that certain work was necessary to be done. Afterward. and pursuant to that determination, specifications were pre- pared and published. and in due season bids accompanied by certified checks came in, all as required by law. Subsequently the bids were opened and the plaintin was found to be the lowest bidder-more than that, the plaintiffs bid was the low est sum Tor which the work could be done.
 The bids were all rejected
 All authorities agree that the discretion of a public officer, in a proper case, can not be controlled; but where one has been denied right which it was the plain legal duty of the officer to grant and which he had no proper discretion to re- fuse, mandamus is the remedy. In this state It is provided (Sec. 10S6, c. c. P) that the writ of mandate must be issued In all cases where there is not plain, speedy and adequate remedy in the ordf- nary course of law. It must be issued upon affidavit on the application of the party benefcially interested" The ques- ton, then, is whether the board had discretion to reject the bids, and, second. whether the plaintiff under the Statute can be said to be beneficially interested.
 Touching the rejection of the bids, there is no doubt whatever that if there had been fair exercise of discretion, as that the order had been rescinded and a re- determination reached not to do the work at all, or If 1t had been determined to change the plans in material respects, the board would have possessed plenary power; but this was not such case.
 Arbitrary and Capricious.
 The rejection of the bids was arbitrary
The San Francisco call., 1898-04-24
and capricious and in bad faith-was a

and capricous and in bad faith-was mere subterfuge to favor another. In Santa Rosa Lighting Company vs. Wood ward, 50 Pac. Rep, 1925, the plaintiff al- ready had a contract for lighting the streets of the city up to the trst day of August. 1S94. On July 3, 1894, the City Council resolved to enter into contract for three years from August l, 1894, with another to light the streets.
 The formal written contract not having been signed the Council on July 31 made temporary arrangement for such. lights IS might be required. On November r, 1894. the Council rescinded it's action of July. On May 14, 1895. motion to shut off the s9 street Is lights was def defeated s Since ing bills under the temporary arrange ment-the effect being that the Council had been making day, to day contracts to ings showed that the Council had de- termined to light the streets, and in re- fusing to advertise for bids ana in making day to day contracts under the tempo rary arrangement" they were evading the law, and mandamus was the proper rem
 With respect to the plaintiffs beneficial interest 1t was argued on the one side that the lowest bidder merely has no beneficial interest within the meaning of the statute and is not entitled to the writ; on the other, that where the lowest bid der has done all that is required of him to be done, has lodged a certified check sub ject to forfeiture and exposed his busi- ness to the public by the opening of the bids In open board he may De said to have earned the contract.
 In Keller vs. Hewitt Q09 Cal. 146l the relator had applied to the Board Of Edu- cation for a teachers certificate, and had been examined and found entitled thereto. Notwithstanding that finding. however, the board arbitrarily refused to issue the certificate. Held that the relator was entitled to writ of mandate to com pei the board to perform its duty.
 The Board Evading the Law.
 Both of those cases are on all fours with the case at bar. In the one 1t had been determined that something should be done, it was necessary that it should be done, and 1t remained undone and the de fendant was evadng the law; in the other the relator had done all that was required of him to be done and was entitled to the thing he demanded. The same conditions obtain here: the board have determined that certain work Is necessary to be done, and, in fact. 1t Is necessary to be done, and it remains undone and the board are evading the law; and the relator has done all that Is required at his hands. and his bid Is the lowest bid and the lowest price for which the work can be done. and he is entitled to the contract.
 These conclusions are decisive of both cases. It is therefore ordered in the one case that the temporary restraining order be made perpetual and in the other that a writ of mandate issue as prayed for.
 April 23. 1898.
The San Francisco call., 1898-04-24
ALL ABOUT A NICKEL.
Edward Cordes, Butcher, Arrested for B ,ating Druggist and
 His Mother.

Edward Cordes, butcher living on Twenty-fourth street, was arrested yes terday afternoon on a charge of battery. He was released on bail.
 The complaining witness Is Fred G. Lindsey, a druggist in the store of pr. Hughes on Twenty-fourth street. He states that people using the telephone in the store had been putting plugs in the receiver instead of nickels, and Dr. Hughes instructed him to personally see that nickefs were always put in. Yester- day morning Cordes called at the store to use the telephone. and Lindsey asked him for his nickel. Cordes refused to produce it and struck Lindsey, knocking him down. Lindsey jumped to his feet and Cordes again struck him; hin Lindsey. Lin I s mother, who happened to be Tn the store at inc time, interfered to protect her son, and Cordes also struck her.
 Lindsey, as soon as he got rid of the infuriated butcher, went to Judge Joa- chimsen's court and swore out a warrant for his arrest
The San Francisco call., 1898-04-24
FRACTURED SKULLS. Two Men Seriously Injured While
 at Work Yesteray.

F. A. Bradford. employed in Studeba- kers store on Tenth and Market streets, met with a serious accident yesterday afternoon. He was on large elevator, lowering new watering cart, when the elevator tipped slightly over and the cart struck him on the head. He was taken to the Receiving Hospital in an uncon- scous condition. and pr. Bunnell found that he was suffering from a fracture of the lower jaw, internal injuries and a possible fracture of the skull.
 Frank Louie. laborer in the employ of Warren 6 Maley at the cut on Polk and Lombard streets. while at work yes terday afternoon had his skull badly fractured. A rock fell from above where he was excavating and struck him on the head He was taken to the 1.eceiving Hospital in the patrol wagon, and Dr. Thompson expressed the opinion that his chances of recovery were doubtful
The San Francisco call., 1898-04-24

committed, the term of one of the mem terh of the board was about to expire and he was in the political minority as well, and for both reasons he contented himself with concurring In the action of the others. The third member took his seat in 1897, after the course of dealing criticized in these cases was instituted and while he has devoted much time and attention to the business of the board he seems to have deferred in the matters under consideration to the maturer ex- peIfence of the executive member and to what he supposed were established meth odS.
 The Commissioners Favorites
 The Commissioners had been advised by their special counsel not to open the bids at all, but to return them unopened, as in counsel's opinion they had no au- thority to open them. They disregarded the advice and opened the bids The Commissioners had three favorites in par ticular, and the evidence makes 1t fairly inferable that they were of opinion that no one would be able to underbid one of these favorites In the matter of treat ing piles by the creosote method At the opening of the bids 1t was disclosed that the favorite was not the lowest bidder. That fact furnished a reason for the re- jection of all the bids. The Commission CTS had rejected bids before.
 In the Healey case they rejected the bids upon the ground that they were ''too high" and advertised again, and having thus got rid of objectionable bid ders.'' to adopt the phrase of counsel awarded the contract to L -rby Laydon one of the pets of the board at the same sum he had offered in the bids previously rejected because 'too high" At the pre-. vious bidding Darby Laydon was not the lowest bidder. One explanation of the Darby Laydon award was that if the second bids had been rejected the Com mfssioners would have been obliged to go into the open market and purchase at a price not less than 10 per cent below the lowest bid. But the statute will not bear any such interpretation, and the Commis sioners had never been advised that |, would. If the board found that bids were
The San Francisco call., 1898-04-24
Fearless Reaches Port.

The tugboat Fearless, recently sold to the Government, reached this port last evening from Dutch Harbor. Captain Clem Randall left that port on the 12th inst. in a blnding snowstorm, and made the run to Seattle in twelve days. Con- siderable rough weather was encountered and some distance north of Iaquina the vessel met with strong southeaSter which lasted for twenty-four hours. The run from Seattle was made in seventy hours. which is but little longer than the usual time.
The San Francisco call., 1898-04-24

When the case of H. E. Huntington. president of the Market-street Railway Company, charged with violating an or dinance by not providing cars with proper lenders, was called in Judge Conlan's court yesterday morning the attorneys for the defendant raised the point that to per init evidence to be taken as to accidents in the past would be an invasion Of his constitutional rights, as the ordinance un- der which he had been arrested had been argument followed and the Judge re- served his decision till Tuesday.
The San Francisco call., 1898-04-24

Judge E. A. Belcher of the Superior bench has rendered a decision in the case of Samuel c. Irving against the Harbor Commissioners. The decision Is so complete a triumph for Irving and for the public, that 1t is ] rinted in full. It includes, as merely incidental, a scathing arraignment of the Com missioners, particularly of the presi- dent, MT. Colnon The methods by which the Commissioners have sought by a total disregard of law to favor their pets is detailed with no mincing of words So lucid and logical is the entire decision that it will be of inter- est to every citizen. The decision fol- lows:
 of San francisco, State of California De partment No. :.
 Injunction. No. 62.571.
 SAMUEL c. IRVING Plaintiff
 vs.
 THE STATE BOARD OF HARBoR COM
 MISSlONERS, Defendant,
 and
 THE PARAFFINE PAINT CO.,, Plaintiff, THE BOARD OF STATE HARBOR COM
 MISSIONERS, Defendant.
 Mandamus. No. 62,572.
 JUDGE W. B. COPE and MATT L sULLI- VAN. ESQ, for the Plaintiff.
 FREDERICK s. STRATTON, ESQ, Special Counsel for the Defendant
 OPINION.
 The first of the actions above entitled is brought by the plaintiff as a citizen and taxpayer to restrain the defendant from opening bids under the third set of specifications, so called, and from award ing any contract thereon; and from awarding any contract for treating piles for the repair of Green street wharf to any person other than the Paraffine Paint Company, the lowest bidder under all of the methods set forth in the second set of specifications; and to restrain the defendant for one year from giving the work of treating piles on the water froE: to any save the Paraffine Paint Company, the lowest bidder for that work. The second of the actions is mandamus to compel the defendant to award the con tract for treating the piles to be used in the repairs of Green street wharf. and as well the contract for treating all piles that may be ordered by the defend of San Francisco for one year to the Paraffine Paint Company, the lowest bidder under all methods named in the specifications.
 Full Consideration Given.
 Nearly two months were consumed in that Is to say, 1t was stipulated that the evidence in the one should apply in the other so far as applicable, and they were presented by counsel in the most careful and conscientious manner-the argument alone consuming nearly six days. 1 re- gret that the time at my disposal from other pressing duties renders it impossi- ble for me to present and elaborate my views in extenso. as could wish. and as the questions involved and the fine and painstaking efforts of counsel deserve However, as the Board of State Harbor Commissioners is public body, and as all of the moneys expended by it are pub lie moneys, and as the public have an in terest and a right to be interested in all that the board does, I have thought it my duty, even though briefly, to express my opinion in writing.
 The San Francisco Board of State liar Dor Commissioners is subordinate municipal body for public purposes Under Its possession and control are cer- tain portions of the bay of San Fran cisco. with the improvements, rights, priv
The San Francisco call., 1898-04-24

ouesting the Board of Health to have the sewers in the Richmond District flushed with salt water from the mains of the OIvmpic Salt Water Company; also re- ouesting the Board of Education to place the schools in the district in sanitary condition or otherwise have them closed.
 Alaska Cut Rates-First steamer direct to Dawson leaves May B. Few berths left. Apply 46 Market street, San Francisco.
The San Francisco call., 1898-04-24
Judge Belcher Excoriates the Har= Dor Commissioners in the
 Irving Case.
The Plaintiff Wins, While the Defendants Are Directly Charged With Favorit= ism and Gross Disregard
 of Law.

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