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The San Francisco call., 1898-03-12
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 CHURCH NOTICES.


 FIRST United Presbyterian Church, Golden D.D., pastor. Services at Il a. m. and 7:30 p. m. The pastor will preach morning and evening. Subject for evening" Religion What Good Is It?'' The second in the popu- lar lecture course will be delivered on Tues day evening, the 18th inst. at this chourch by Rev. E; R. Dille; subject, Love. Court ship and Marriage" Don't fail to hear this lecture. Both theme and speaker bespeak a rich and treat.
 STRANGERS Sabbath Home. Howard-st Methodist Episcopal Church. 643 Howard st., ace Hotel-Rev. John A. B. Wilson. DID,, pastor. Preaching at Il a m. and 73o D. m. by Rev. Clarence True Wilson. Ph.D., the eloquent young son of the pastor Morning subject "The Witness of the Spirit; even ing subject. ''The Pre-eminence of Christ '' Ladies Choral and Antlphonal Choirs. Sab bath school. Normal and Bible classes at 12 80 p. m. Great Epworth League rally at CHS ?. Week night services-Monday. Pro. lessor Schultz Choral Society. instruction free; Tuesday, Pentecostal and Probationers' and salvation service and reception to Dr. Wilson, the pastor; Thursday. reception to strangers; Friday, Boys Brigade Bible class and drill. Companies F and G. All all ways welcome at all times. Seats free. OLIVET Congregational Church. Seventeenth and Noe sts.-Rev. H. T. Shepard. Subjects for Sunday, March 13: Morning, Christ and the Law; evening. 'Filiai Honor.''
 Coming illustrated with large chart will be held p. V. in the hall, 1888 Mission st.. near Tenth, commencing Sunday evening at 7;30 come; bring your Bibles.
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SAN FRANCISCO CALL.

BUSINESS OFFICE of the San Francisco Call corner of Market and Third streets open until 12 o'clock every night In the year. BRANCH OFFICES-527 Montgomery street corner Clay; open until 9:30 o'clock.
 339 Hayes street: open until 9:3O O clock G21 McAllister street; open until 9:30 O clock 615 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock 1941 Mission street: open until 10 o'clock 2261 Market street, corner Sixteenth; open until O clock.
 106 Eleventh street: open until o'clock. 2526 Mission street: open until o'clock 1505 Polk street; open until 9:30 o'clock N. W. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky streets: open until 9 o'clock
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entry, carried a world of coin to win the mile and a furlong, his price at post time being Il to 10. He headed his company into the stretch, where Con ley, who had been lying back in the bunch with Tom Ryan's entry, Ace. cut loose and actually rolled in, leading the favorite over the line a neck, with Con- ley smiling at Thorpe. Argentina ran into the show. The winner was to l in the ring.
 By clever riding "Skeets'' Martin landed Blarney Stone winner of the last race of the day, a six furlong sell ing affair The chestnut colt was backed down from to 1 to 13 to 5, and finishing strong on the outside beat Duke of York a head. Little Alarm. d 50 to l shot, after making the running, tired and finished in the show.
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CALVARIAN SOCIETY.
It Will Hold an Unusually Impres
 sive Service Tomorrow.

Tomorrow afternoon, at o'clock, the third of the Calvarian Society series of services being held will take place at St. Alary's Cathedral. There will be the "Way of the Cross and benediction. The sermon of .Ae occasion will be delivered by Rev. Charles A. Ramm, the director of the society His subject will be God s Silence; the text But he answered him nothing" Nuke xxiii:s);, The music will be rendered by the recently organized choir of fifty mixed voices assisted py Miss Julia Cunningham, soprano; Miss Mae Corlett, contralto; Daniel Deasy and George Haywards, barytones, and L. A. Larsen, basso The programme will be as follows: "Stabat Mater and "Veni Creator Gin English, by the congrega- quartet, 70 Salutaris'' CRossinD :; quartet and chorus; '"Tantum Ergo" (Beethoven), chorus capella. Catholic people generally attend these services.
 NEW YORK-Arrtved-Noma Liverpool.
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MEETING NOTICES

ANNUAL MEETING-The regular annual meeting of the stockholders of the Western Sugar Refining Company will be held at the office of the company. 327 Market st, San Francisco. Cal. MONDAY, the 2sth day of March, 1SaS at the hour of 12 m, for the purpose of electing a Board of Direc- tors to serve for the ensuing year and the transaction of such other business may come before the meeting.
 Transfer books will close on Friday, March IS, 1898. at F o'clock m.
 ROBERT ONWARD. Secretary.
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Dr. Orpen Must Wait,

The examination of Dr. Arthur Herbert Orpen was postponed in the United States Circuit Court yesterday until next We'd nesday. Orpen is wanted by the author ites of Auckland New Zealand. son a charge of murder he being accused of having caused the death of a woman by a criminal operation.
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MEETING NoTIcEs-continued.

EXCELSIOR Degree Lodge No. g. ,SAaaglz>.,
 L Q. Q: F.-Regular meeting :S32aS THIS EVENING. First degree 2S will be conferred. >%ThVS-
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NEW K-Arrived-Nomadio. Liverpool.
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SELECTIONS FOR TO-DAY. First Race-Recreation. St. Calat!ne. Second Race-Howard Twinkle Twink. Third Race-Burns & Warehouses; stable. Frank Ireland.
 Fourth Race-Burns & Warehouses stable. Ostler Joe.
 Fifth Race-Ace, Lincoln II. Sixth Race-Bellicoso, Yemen.
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TO-DAY'S ENTRIES.
rst Race-Three-quarters of mile; three

Second Race-Three- quarters of a mile fC year-olds and inward: selling.
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THE California Debris Commission. having re- ceived applications to mine by the hydraulic process from John E. Burton. In the Green Mountain mine, near Mokelumne Hill. Gala veras County. to deposit tailings in Chile Gulch; from the Harville Mining Company, in the Harville mine. near PlacerviIie. Fl Do- rado County, to deposit tailings in Martinez Creek; from A. B. Jacks. in the Badger Hill mine, near spanish Ranch, Plumas County. to deposit tailings in Spanish Creek. and from the Star of Plumas Water and Mining Company. in the Star of Plumas placer mine,
 near Bucks Ranch, Plumas County, to de- posit tailings in ravine, gives notice that meeting will be held at room o9. Flood building, San Francisco. Cal. on March 2s,
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}0cKEX SLy5 & m se n day o sos  RAcE fuu maiden
Griggs courier., 1898-12-15
TRAGEDY IN DETROIT.
Mrs. Frank Brooks Kill. Her Little
Girl and Then Takes Her
Own Life.

Detroit, Mich, Dec. 9.-When Frank
Brooks. of 1857 Russell street, this city,
came home from work Thursday night
he found in one bedroom his wife slot
dead. and in another his nine-year-old
daughter also dead. In a note that he
found from his wife she stated that she
was tired of life. and was going to
Heaven and take her little daughter
with her. from which it is supposed she
committed the murder and then sui
cided. The woman had been in poor
health for some time.
Griggs courier., 1898-12-15

UNDER the Petersburg hill, at Macs
tricht. in Belgium, are the most exten.
sive subterranean stone quarries in the
world, there being 10000 passages,
each so feet high and 10 feet wide, and
the whole covering space miles wild )
BY 10 miles long. They are supposed
to have been first worked by the Ro-
mans. The galleries, running general
" at right angles, and lined by many
thousand massive pillars, left by the
excavators to support the roof, cross
and intersect each other so as to render
It exceedingly difficult to the way to
lind out; and it is dangerous to enter
this singular labrynth without guide
Griggs courier., 1898-12-15

A NEW experiment has been tried in
the New York penitentiary on Black
wells island, and SO far it has proved
wonderfully successful. A thousand
entertaining and instructive volumes
have been added to the library, and
the prisoners are allowed to read from
$50 to p. m. The privilege is eagerly
embraced. If a man be rebellious he
is deprived of his respite in the read
lng-room, and as a consequence the
number of insubordinates has dropped
pretty nearly Is per cent.
Griggs courier., 1898-12-15

A NATIVE mendicant, who has been
arrested in Patiala while eating IN ex-
humed corpse of a child, has confessed
that he and two comrades had subsist-
ed for a quarter of a century ON corpses
exhumed from village cemeteries.
Cases of actual ghouls who live on the
desh OF corpses occur in India now and
again. These Patiala horrors are not
by any means unique, but it is not
often that they are discovered at their
hideous feast. Religion is at the root
OF the practice.
Griggs courier., 1898-12-15

IT has been decided by the trustees
of the Chicago temple to make that in
stitution a memorial to the life and
work of the late Miss Frances Willard.
To this end, Willard memorial circles
will be formed all over the country,
the purpose being to raise sufficient
money to enable the temple trustees to
buy all the outstanding stock and
bonds held by the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union Building associa-
ton.
Griggs courier., 1898-12-15
|1HE NInON'S FINANCES,
Secretary Gage Makes His Annual
Report Of the Treasury
to Congress.
RESULTS OF The YEARS OPERATIONS.
A Statement Of the Receipts and Ex-
penditures-Calls Attention. 20 In.
adequate supply Of Fracti0nal sil-l
yer Currency and Asks Authority
to Coin Bullion on hand.

Washington. Dec. THE annual re-
port of Secretary of the Treasury Gage
to congress says:
s'The aggregate receipts for the fiscal
year. under warrant, as shown.by the re-
port OF the treasurer Of the United States.
we're $73s;549. 25520.. and the disbursements.
$827, SIS, ,1M.80. There was consequently de-
crease Of $50. $500 in the general treas
ury balance. which stood at $s64. .79O. .2s7.n
at the opening OF the year and at SITS. 75l.-
36S.n at the close. Besides the ordinary rev.
.enues there were receipts on account OF
income available in the fiscal operation OF
the government to $4S1, ,612. 255.20. while corr;
responding additions to the ordinary exc
penditures brought the total on this side
of the account up to $543. .561. .104.S 80. and cre-
ated a deficiency Of SCI ,94S, 960 as the net
result. These figures, however, do not Inc
clude any pert of the loan Of 500. .000. 900. the
proceeds Of which had begun to come In
before the close Of the year. though mono.
were formally covered into the. treasury.
until afterward. On the side Of the res
ceipts Is included the sum of $64. .751, 2233 .75,
realized from the sale of the Union Pacific
and Kansas Pacific railroads. while, IN
the other hand. the expenditures are in-
creased by IS. s5o,s52. disbursed in the re-
demption of Pacific railroad subsidy bonds.
"A better view Of the resultspf thesyear's
fiscal operations is afforded by the changes
in the assets of the treasury. The total
holdings available In this branch OF the
business show only the insignificant fall-
ing of from $685. 295. .42423 to $2S5747. 800. II.
THE amount of fractional silver coin
held by the treasury July /, 1897. was 49,
POI. $50; July !. 1898. $12.070.6s0. This stock
has at present. November l8. been reduced
to $7.122.506 much Of which is SO worn az
to be unfit for circulation. The amount
available. distributed among the several
subtreasuries. gives but small stock to
each. and some denominations are exc
hausted. The secretary Of the treasury
should be authorized to recon this uncur-
rent. stock. and any such coin which may
hereafter accumulate in the treasury, the
difference between Its face value and the
new coin 1t will make to be paid out Of
any moneys In the treasury not otherwise
appropriated. Further provision should be
made to add to the stock Of fractional coin,
and to that end 1t Is suggested that the
secretary of the treasury be authorized to
use any silver bullion now in the treasury
for the coinage of such denominations az
may be required from time to time to
meet the demand from the different Sec
tions Of the country. With an ever-in-
creasing population. which will be added
to In the near future by the acquisition Of
additional territory. the demand for frac-
ttonal silver coin will be such as to make
1t essentially necessary that the stock
should be increased"
Griggs courier., 1898-12-15

GERMAN experiments have succeeded
in producing an alloy of aluminium, the
precise composition Of which is not re-
vealed, that is said to be superior in
many respects to pure aluminium. The
statement is made that this alloy, which
goes under the name of vastadium,
weighs only one-third as much, bulk
for bulk, as aluminium. 1t is white,
can be easily polished and does not tar
nish on exposure to the air.
Griggs courier., 1898-12-15

The fact has recently been pointed
out by a Russian geographer that the
shores of Siberia are not fiat and
water-soaked as represented in the
text books, and even on the latest
maps, but on the contrary, are high,
and in many places even hilly. With
the exception of the Obi region and
the deltas of few rivers, Siberia
meets the Arctic ocean with a bold and
lofty coast line.
Griggs courier., 1898-12-15
k,lI-d Hi. I.ittle si.ter.

Dansille, ILL.,. Dec. 10.-Orvill Willus.
aged six years. accidentally killed his
,hree-year-old sister with a shotgun
Friday afternoon at their home IN Kel-
lyville. The top Of the child's head was
blown entirely of. The children were
alone in the house at the time of the
accident. The boy stated they were
playing soldier.
Griggs courier., 1898-12-15

THOMAS RYAN, whose discovery of
the Republic mines in Washington
converted poor man into one of fabu-
lous wealth, says of his find: ''Thou-
sands of experts would have passed the
ledge as worthless, for the quartz is Of
such peculiar appearance that not
one miner in million would have sus-
pected that one ounce of gold could
have been found in a ton of the stuff.
I didn't at first.
Griggs courier., 1898-12-15
BUSINESS OUTLOOK.
Increased Activity IL Reported, De-.
nand In All Lines IL Growing, and
No Feeling of fUneasiness Exists.

New York. Dec. 10.-R. q. Dun & Co.'S
weekly review of trade says: '"The most
significant thing this week has been the
entire absence of the customary nervous
fright before or after the meeting of con-.
gress. the presidents message and the
treasurer's report. No one showed the
least alarm, and nobody could find a rea-
son for any. Money and stock and grain
markets moved on exactly as II the gov
ernment were automatic. certain to do or
say no more than the people had already de-
cided and expected, and so the gradual bet
a larger demand for products in nearly all
the great industries. larger export demand
for foreign needs. a more healthy domestic
demand since seasonable weather arrived,
und comforting conviction that Novem-
Der business. the biggest ever done in this
country In any month. was but step
toward something better.
Exports last year in December were
marvellous. but this year are starting far
ahead. The Atlantic wheat exports. flour
included. nave been for the week $685. .767
bushels, against 4.312.137 last year. and Pa
cifc exports 556.52s bushels. against 973,0Ss
last year. and prices have Veclined 2A
cents for cash. but western receipts of TO-
135.16s bushels. against 6.2l3,4n from last
years great crop stops argument. The
wheat does not come out at low prices II
the people have less to sell than last year
at 20 cents more per bushel. So the corn
exports were 4.151 1881. against 3.313,0S6 last
year. and such a foreign demand at prices
much higher than last year and with wheat
cheaper, is proof of state Of things abroad
which Americans hardly appreciate. The
enormous receipts.
This week s. failures have been PAS in the
United States. against 312 last year. and 90
in Canada. against 20 last year"
Griggs courier., 1898-12-15
IL still Champion.

New York, Dec. 12.-Charles ".
Miller. cf Chicago, last years six-day
champion, won the great race at Mad
ison Square garden again this year,
beating the worlds record, his own, by
"a miles. and leading the next man to
linn, Frank Waller, of Boston. by 22
miles. Miller's score was 2.007 miles;
Walters score, 1885 miles.
Griggs courier., 1898-12-15

THERE is no part of the world which
has such black record for wrecks as
the narrow Baltic sea. The number in
some years averaged more than one q
day, the greatest number of wrecks re-
corded in one year being 1876 and the
smallest 154 About SO per cent. of
these vessels became total wrecks, all
the crews being lost.
Griggs courier., 1898-12-15

COLLECTORS of antique furniture have
struck bonanza in Havana. In pre-
pairing to return to Spain army officers
are placing on the market pieces of fine
workmanship and ancient pattern,
which are being eagerly snapped up by
dealers. A correspondent cities hand
some old walnut wardrobe, with three
full-length bevel mirrors, valued at
$3.50, which sold for less than $15, and
that is simply one of many examples.
Griggs courier., 1898-12-15
Grisss Glcuries
Pxncy Z. TnussnAw, PuhaisAaA
oooPERsTow6i. !. n. DAKOTA

I1sthe Sandwich islands there is .
spot called the Rock Of Refuge. II the
criminal reaches this rock before cap
ture he is safe SO long as he remains
there. Usually his family supply him
with food until he is able to make his
escape, but he is never allowed to re-
turn to his own tribe.
Griggs courier., 1898-12-15
Women Arc Arou.ea.

New York, Dec. 9. = Efforts to pre-.
vent Brigham H. Roberts, representa-
tive-elect from Utah, from taking his
seat in the Fifty-sixth congress, be-
cause he is polygamist and advocates
that doctrine of the Mormon church.
are to have the organized support of
hundreds of thousands of women in the
United States.
Griggs courier., 1898-12-15
May Go to Cuba.

Washington, Dec. 12.-President Nc.
Kinley, it is said, contemplates trip
to Cuba and Porto Rico at an early date.
Mrs. Mckinley and several members
of the cabinet, with their wives, will
probably accompany the president.
Griggs courier., 1898-12-15

CONSUL WL11Axs, reporting on the
recent exports from the Philippines to
the United States, says that during the
quarter ended September so, 1898, the
value Of the declared exports from that
consular district to the United States
were: Hemp, 1000 bales, $50, 7,5os. .s5;
hats, 19, SO3, at 90 cents, $3,960.60; Gig
ars, 81 cases, $1,ss9.9s; grass cloth,
$158. Al; total. $62, ,95O.27.
Griggs courier., 1898-12-15
Pardoned,

Washington. Dec. 9.-The president
has pardoned Amanda v. Grierson. now
McCarty, convicted in the southern dis
t-ict of Ohio and sentenced to one year
in Jail at Lebanon for violation of the
pension laws. She is said to be about
20 years of age and in feeble health.
Griggs courier., 1898-12-15
He II. Alive.

Middletown, N. Y, Dec. 10.-Andrew
Smith, of Pharsalia, who went west last
spring and was reported drowned. has
returned to his home. His brother was
arrested in Baldwin, Mich. last week
charged with robbing grave and
-palming off the body to an insurance
company as that of Andrew Smith. but
was acquitted for lack of evidence.
Griggs courier., 1898-12-15

BAVARIA can boast of 20 pencil fac
tories, which employ 10000 people, in
cluding men, women and children. To-
gether they produce no fewer than
100000 black and 800, 900 colored PEN
ellis per week. The total output last
year reached the enormous quantity of
$50, ,000, 900 pencils, in the manufacture
Of which over 1,s00 acres of cedar were
used.
Griggs courier., 1898-12-15
A Historical Relic.

Washington, Dec. 9. = Mrs. Harriet
Il. P Stafford, of Cottage City, Mass,
has presented to the government the
first flag bearing the stars and stripes
ever hoisted over an American vessel of
war and the first that was ever saluted
by foreign naval power.
Griggs courier., 1898-12-15

A WESTERN inventor has patented q
wagon which will turn around in small
space, the reach being double and X
shaped, with the ends attached to the
axles by hinges, so that when one end
Of the forward axle is pulled ahead it
draws the opposite end of the rear axle
with it, until they are at an angleo of 90
degrees or over.
Griggs courier., 1898-12-15
Finish Their Work.

Paris, Dec. 9.-The United States and
the Spanish peace commissioners con-
cluded their work yesterday and
finally settled the terms of the treaty
Of peace. They will meet once more in
formal session, when the Spanish COM
missioners sorrowfully, and the Ameri-
cans, with feelings of relief, will write
their signatures upon the document.
Griggs courier., 1898-12-15
Wholesale Butcherie..

London, Dec. 10.- Advices from Cane
Town say that the Transvaal troops
have committed wholesale butcheries
of women and children and unarmed
natives in the campaign against the.
rebel chief Mpefu
Griggs courier., 1898-12-15
Took Poison,

Webster City, Ia. Dec. 9.-Driven 10
despair because he was temporarily
out of money. Ira Fits. travelling rep
resentative for the National Collection
agency of Des Moines. swallowed NOR
phine and died.
Griggs courier., 1898-12-15
Had a Good Time.

New York. Dec. 12.-President Rafael
Iglesias, of Costa Rica, sailed from New
York for France on the steamship La
Gascogne. He said that he was very
much pleased with his cordial recep-
tion in this country.
Griggs courier., 1898-12-15
Preferred Suicide.

Louisville, Ca, Dec. 10. = Rather
than take whipping from his father
Percie Ponder. the 16-year-old son of
E. E. Ponder, committed suicide.
Griggs courier., 1898-12-15
Fatal Railway Wreck,

Dubois, Pa, Dec. 10.-Three persons
killed. three wounded and the mother
of one victim dying of the shock caused
IS her sons death. is the result of two
wrecks on the Clarion River railroad
near Portland Mills. in Elk county.
Griggs courier., 1898-12-15
Future Of Eawaii.

Washington, Dec. THE report of
the Hawaiian commission to the presi-
dent provides for the erection of the
islands into territory of the United
States to be styled the territory of
Hawaii and contains provisions for the
government of the territory, giving it
executive, Legislative and judicial off.
GERS. =