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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-22
Ship Owners Have
Now Combined.
CHARGES STILL REASONABLE
MANY VESSELS GETTING READY
FOR THE SPRING RUSH.
a Menace to Navigation in Oakland
Creek-The Bennington at
Guam-Noyo on the
Mission Flats.

Cut rates to Dyea and Skaguay are no
more. Owners of steamers have settled
that matter for this year at any rate.
Last season the travel to the Klondike
Via the passes was not as great as was
expected, and in consequence a number
OF the steamship lines began cutting
rates IN consequence for time it was
cheaper TO travel between Dyea and
Skaguay and Sound ports than it was
10 live at home. None of the companies
made any money and some of them lost
heaVlly. This year they are going to
work at a living profit.
AT the meeting there were representa-
tiyes of the Pacific Coast Steamship Com
pany, Seattle Steamship Company, Hum
eQ5ot Steamship Company, West Coast
racine Navigation Company, Union
steamship Company of Vancouver, Wash
lngton and Alaska Steamship Company
ana the owners of the steamers Alpha
S ho Amqr. The rate from San Fran
cisco to Puget Sound ports is not to be
changed, but from Seattle to Wrangel
ana points south the rate for passen-
gers will be SIT and $40; to Juneau, 500
and 81; Skaguay and Dyea, $25 and SIS,
ana from Wrangel to Skaguay, SO. This
Is a considerable advance on last year S
ngures, but ii will not more than allow
'oWa1ers a reasonable percentage on their
outlay.
. Steamers that have been laid up durina
in a few weeks and the spring travel Will
begin. The Portland and Humboldt are
ready, the Roanoke only requires dock
ing. the Bertha will be completed in a
+short time and the other vessels that
*were built up last year can be got
ready in short order. From the looks
of things there will be a big fleet of
steamers out of this port for Dyea and
Skagua in the spring
=: The United States gunboat Bennington
left Honolulu for Guam via Wake Island
on January z. She has probably reached
her destination.
=. Charles O'Maley has retired from the
haTbor police. He has reached the age
limit and was entitled to pension, so
he thought it was time to give the
younger men a chance. During his term
on the force Officer O'Malley made host
of friends, and he will be missed on the
water front.
: The Oakland Creek dredger should be
moved out of the way of shipping. Yes
terday the ferry boat Encinal collided
with it and damaged her paddle box, and
the. Thoroughfare and Crescent City mar
.rQyEly escaped running it down.
q The steam schooner Noyo was lowed
70 the Mission mud flats Friday night.
She Will be patched up there before going
on the drydOCk.
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of a Public Administrator is dependent
upon the absence of heirs that it is more
than likely the bill will be fought by ali
the influence that can be brought against
it. What now goes to the Public Admin
istrator's attorney would then be the
fruit Of other attorneys: those who would
represent the absent heirs.
1t is said that the bill was introduced
for the purpose of distributing the emolu-
ments that come from the Public Admin
istrator's office. and which figure UP far
In the thousands. 1t has been customary
for former attorneys of the Public Admin
istrator, t., carry on a system of graft
ing which covers the county to its ut
termost confines. The ''grafters' scour
the city, walt upon the death Of the poor
unfortunates without a family or rea-
tives to protect their interests, and then
report to the attorney, whose assistants.
armed with petitions for letters of ad-
miristration, pounce upon the courts.
Thus is the game made a big one and the
office so much sought after.
With the amendment as law a great por-
ton of this revenue would then be taken
out Of the hands of the Public Admins
traitor and distributed among the legal
profession at large. Some estimate the
possibility OF the dirninution' as one-half.
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LOST ALL THEIR TACKLE.
Nearly Thousand Dollars Worth Of
Illegal Fishing Gear Seized.

Deputy Fish Commissioners Davis and
Low returned yesterday from trip up
the bay and rivers in the launch Quinnat.
leaving behind them a large number OF
very profafe and angry fishermen. The
cause of the latter's annoyance was that
the deputies had seized nearly $1,000 worth
of their illegal fishing gear. Most of the
stuff was sturgeon hooks, lines and an
chors and one net. The net was found
off Roe Island and it was seized because
the meshes were under size according to
the standard established by the State
law. 1t is worth about $3.50, or would cost
that much to replace 1t.
On the 18th inst. sixteen sections OF
sturgeon gear and two anchors were con-
fiscated in Elk Slough. On the same day
a run was made over to Marsh Landing,
where sixteen sections more were found
and taken up. Four anchors were raised
with this lot. Nine sections and two an
chors rewarded the deputies, by dragging
Broad Slough on the same day.
On Friday thirty sections and four an
chors were confiScated near McNears
Landing, making seventy-one sections OF
line and twelve anchors worth from "a to
Sc each AS there is 100 feet to a section,
feet. The lines were fitted out with about
$500 hooks, which were destroyed. This
is the largest haul of Illegal fishing gear
that has been made for a long time.
Word was received yesterday that Man
uel Quartx and John Silvia, who had
been arrested by Deputy Johnson for
spearing steelhead salmon in Redwood
of the Peace Bellrude of Santa Rosa The
culprits had been destroying dozens of
fish by throwing them out upon the banks
of the stream with pitchforks.
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HOT CHASE AFTER A
NOTORIOUS PICKP0CKET
EDWARD BROOKS WAS WORKING
THE oRPHEUM CROWD.
He Was Discovered and Ran Several
Blocks Before Being overtaken
by Detective Gibson.

Edward Brooks, alias Australian Ed
die" a. notorious pickpocket, was work
ing the crowd in front of the Orpheum
yesterday afternoon, when an outory was
made by a gentleman who felt Brooks
hand in his pocket. Brooks dashed out Of
the crowd and Detective T. B. Gibson,
who happened to be there, started in pur-
suit
Brooks ran down OFarrell street and
into a saloon on the corner of Stockton
The detective was at his heels and
he. made his exit by the O'Farrell
street entrance. He continued his flight
along O'Farrell street and disappeared
into the Oberon and out again. He
doubled back and rushed into the Phe-
Ian building, where Gibson overlook him.
He offered fight and after a sharp tussle
When they reached the City Prison both
were still painting for breath.
BROOKS attempted to throw away q
leather purse. but Gibson managed to OBJ
was the address &c. Buntsch. 500 Bat
terry street 1t was empty, but is sup
posed to have contained money when
Brooks got possession of it. He also tried
to swallow a mutilated quarter of a dol
lar that had been evidently used as a
watch opener. He had over $50 in gold
-half-dollar piece. He was
locked up in THE tanks" pending further
investigation.
Brooks is an Eastern crook and the po-
pickpocket In the business. He was a
partner of ''Deafy'' Morris who tried to
stab Detective Sllvey, when arrested at
ception. He and ''Deafy' and William
King were arrested last summer by De-
tectives Egan and Gibson for picking a
returned the money and they were not
prosecuted.
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POSTUM CEREAL.
A GIRLS COMPLEXION.
Comes From the Inside.

Whenever I failed to get my coffee
for breakfast, I would have a sick head
ache before noon. It seemed to me a
curious thing that naturally healthy
girl should have sick spells of this kind
unless she had been dosed in the morn
ing with something.
p: I naturally concluded that all was not
right, and inasmuch as [ was in a very
nervous condition anyhow, I went to
the doctor for nerve tonic.
He told me I would have to quit
drinking coffee, and when 1 said L
could not possibly do it because 1 al
ways got sick if 1 didn't have the cof-
fee, he said: Use Postum Food Cof-
fee" Well, 1 tried it twice, and gave
it up because it tasted so fiat.
One day 1 was up to DR.. Ruggles'
Infirmary and remarked to Mrs. Rug
giles that the doctor had told me that 1
must leave off coffee and wanted me to
use this new tangled stuff called
Postum" but that it was positively
unbearable She said, My dear, you
never have had a good cup of Postum
evidently" 1 said, mo, 1 never have.
I have only tried it twice" We'll, -
she said, you go back and look at the
package and you will observe that the
directions insist upon continued boil
ing at least fifteen minutes, not that
length of time for the pot to set on the
stove, but 1t must stay there until it
begins to boil, and then boil fifteen
minutes. 1 will guarantee you will
get a fine, delicious tasting, black,
rich cup of coffee, and perhaps better
Favored than any you ever tried be-
- fore. The old-fashioned coffee is &C
'tually killing you" she said. You are
terribly nervous, and your complexion
: is a long ways from what it should be
at your age"
We'll, when I got home I tried max
ing some Postum at once and followed
directions carefully, and / must say il
was just delicious. I have continued
TO use it ever since.
- I am well and hearty now. and my
complexion has cleared up so that dur
ing the last three months people re-
mark to me continually: How clear
your skin isl" I am naturally of light
complexion and fair. DR.. Ruggles has
all. of his patients use Postum instead
of ordinary coffee. I have induced papa
to-. take up Postum, and he likes it very
much. One of our neighbors. Mr.. c. A.
Barke. was i'll in bed with heart and
some kind of stomach complaint. He
was a habitual coffee drinker. but when
Sc got down Dr. Ruggles took his coffee
iway and gave him Postum FOOD Cor
fee He is almost well now, ana saws
that he believes the Postum was the
main. cause of his recovery. A great
manv in our town use Postum in place
OF ordinary coffee. Miss Mabel Ban
" gle, Stafford, Kans.
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BALDWIN FIRE SUITS.
Two Resulting From That Conf1agra-
ton Placed on File.

The Palatine Insurance Company has In
its possession at the present time $500 due
somebody as result of the burning of
the Baldwin Hotel. Yesterday the COM
pany filed complaint in interpleader in
the Superior Court asking that it be al
lowed to deposit the money in court until
an owner could be determined.
There are three claimants. The Hibernia
Savings and Loan Society, mortgage of
the destroyed hotel, demands it, and D. A.
Curtin and l.. jacob have each issued
attachment against the amount of the
policy issued by the Palatine Company
The company is anxious to pay as soon
as the court determines to whom it shall
be paid.
Another suit growing out of the burning
of the Baldwin Hotel was also filed in the
Superior Court. The Baldwin Hotel Com
pany has assigned claim of Sill against
E. ]. Baldwin to E. r. Lilienthal, and it
is on this assignment that the suit is
brought. The hotel company on the 1st of
November paid Mr.. Baldwin sa1se So in
was destroyed on the 22d of November.
and the suit seeks to recover the rent
paid in advance beyond the date of the
destruction of the hotel.
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PLAN TO CHOP
OFF Mr.. RUFF
FROM BIG FEES
Right of Nomination
for Absent Next
of Kin.
THE AMENDMENT PROPOSED
POSSIBILITIES OF ADMINISTRA-
TORS OFFICE.
The Change Would Benefit Attorneys
Generally and Reduce the Re
turns of the Office One
Half.
THE AMENDMENT PROPOSED
POSSIBILITIES OF ADMINIsTRA-
TORS OFFICE.

II Assembly bill Nc. 251, an act to
amend section 1869 of the Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to the appointment Of
administrators of deceased persons, be
carried, a howl will go up from the Pub
lie Administrator Office that will rise to
heaven, particularly from Abe Ruef, who
is Administrator Drinkhouse's attorney
Under the present law the Public Ad-
ministrator has the right to administer
upon an estate when the next of kin are
absent from or are not bona f1de residents
of the State. The amendment gives the
absent heirs the right to nominate their
own administrator, thus cutting off the
Public Administrator from large Sec
ton of business. The particular sufferer,
should the amendment pass, would be
the attorney of the Public Administrator,
whose income from his quasi-political Of
fee depends upon the amount OF business
of the office
The bill which may effect the change
has been introduced by Lawrence Devote
of this city. Its text is as follows:
AN ACT
To amend Section 1859 of the Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to the appointment of ad-
ambassadors OF deceased persons.
The people of the State of California, repre-
sented in Senate and Assembly do enact as
Section /. Section one thousand three hun
dred and sixty-nine of the Code of Civil Pre-
cedure of the State of California is hereby
amended SO as to read as follows:
1859. No person Is competent or entitled to
serve as administrator or administrative who
is.
/. Under the age of majority;
g. Not bona fide resident of the State;
8. Convicted of an infamous crime;
: 4. Adjudged by the court incompetent to
execute the duties of the trust by reason of
drunkenness. irnprovidenee or want of under
standing or integrity; provided, that persons
not bona fide residents OF the State who are
entitled to share in the distribution of the es-
tate and are of the next of kin to any deceased
person. or, II they were resident of the State,
would be entitled to administer upon the estate
OF such deceased person may Nominate any
competent person to act such administrator
or administrators who Is an actual resident Of
the State and such person shall have the pri-
ority in the same manner and decree as the
person who makes such nomination. pro-
vided in section thirteen hundred and sixty
five Of the Code of Civil Procedure
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be in
force from and after the 1st day OF January,
1900.
The amendment upon the existing law
commences with the word provided in
the fourth section: In force and effect
1t would change the monetary value of
the Public Administrator office so great
ly that there would be nothing but pro-
longed weepings and hair-pullings by all
It's occupants. So much of the business
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-22
LIEUT., MALLAbY
TOO THRIFTY
FOR HIS GOOD
Lost a Ten Thousand
Dollar Situation.
CAUGHT WHILE SMUGGLING
HYPNoTIZED A GRAND JURY
BUT LOST A SOLID FRIEND.
Captain March Became Disguised
With His Parsimony and Read
Him Out of His
Glass.
CAUGHT WHILE SMUGGLING
HYPNOTIZED A GRAND JURY
BUT LOST A SOLID FRIEND.

A story Is going the rounds concern
ing Lieutenant Surgeon Zacharias T.
Mallaby, the moral of which is that one
can lose money by being too thrifty.
Mallaby is a doctor, regular in his
diploma and habits, and went from this
city to Manila some months ago as an
army surgeon. The story is to the eff
feet that his thrift cost him $4,000.
Mallaby became very well acquainted
with Captain March Of the Aston Bat
terry while in the Philippines and the
captain thought so much of him that
he promised to get him a $4,000 per
year salary as a physician in New
York. The two friends returned to this
port few days ago on the Government
transport Ohio. Mallaby was caught
by a customs inspector going down the
gang plank of the steamer with forty
yards of struggled silk around his body
next to his shirt. The lieutenant sur
geon's coat and vest were taken off
and the silk reeled off the chagrined
smuggler just as If he were trout fish
ing. Then he was arrested and the
case was taken before the Federal
Grand Jury.
Mallaby was represented by Bert
Schlesinger, and in pursuance of his
constitutional right the lieutenant sur
geon insisted upon appearing before the
jury and pleading his cause, PERMITS
sion was given and Mallaby made a
clean breast of his guilt and begged for
mercy. He had bought the silk for his
wife, he said and he was too poor to
pay the duty on 1t. Besides that, he
thought that the Government was real
mean to expect to collect duties from
men like himself, who were returning
after having fought and bled and suf-
fered so hard for this glorious Union.
Then he shed a tear or two crocodile
Variety and the jury determined then
and there to ignore the bill, which they
did.
Captain March did not take the same
view of the case as did the jury. He
expressed himself plainly to the effect
that a man who would be mean enough
to try to smuggle goods in on Uncle
Sam would be mean enough to be real
mean. Therefore when he again met
the lieutenant surgeon and was re-
minded of his promise he CURLY in
formed the lieutenant surgeon that a
man who would descend to smuggling
could not move in his class and that he
would cut his acquaintance.
Wherefore has the lieutenant surgeon
resumed his practice in this city, while
Captain March is thrilling the bellies
and beaux of New York upper tendon
with narrowing tales of adventures and
great perils in the Philippines.
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THEIR CHOICE
j.. FOR THIS TERM
Officers Installed by Many
: Societies.

California Lodge No. 163 I. o. B. B.,
has; had the following named officers in
-istalled for the current term: Louis Lee
vim, president; NJ S. Levy, vice presi-
dent; Julius Israelsky, secretary; M.
.Garren, treasurer; Harry Ankell, mont
tor; T. J. Zekind, assistant monitor; N
IL. Hirshfeld, messenger; D. Cohen, hall
director; Joseph T. Manson, NJ. D., med
deal examiner; II. Lubin, Louis Friedland-
<Gr and Jacob Wollner, trustees.
.. Golden Gate Camp No. "a, Woodmen of
the World, at its meeting last Monday
had its officers for the current term In
renee Geary Jr. as escort. The officers
who are TO guide the destinies of the
camp for the term are: c. w. Bell, past
commander; F. T. Phelps, lieutenant adj
visor; Richard Fahey, banker; D. j. OIL
Yer Jr.. clerk; T. f. Quindon. escort; ]. B,
Blackau W; David Brown, S.; ]. II. Her
rold, NJ.
After the installation C. w. Bell. the
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-22
LOUIS MAsLIN DROWNED.
Son of the Deputy Naval Officer
Swept Out to Sea.

Deputy Naval Officer E. w. Maslin re-
ceived news yesterday that his son Louis
was probably lost at sea off the coast of
San Salvador on December 3. The de-
tails were contained in a letter from
United States Consul Baruch at San SAL
vador. 1t appears that Mr.. Maslin, with
an Italian and eight Salvadorenos, went
out in a launch to meet one of the mail
steamers, and were carried out to sea by
a gale blowing off shore, From that date
until December 81 they had not been seen
or heard of.
Young Maslin was the only boy of the
family who could not swim, and is the
second of the family who met his death
by drowning, a sister having been acct
The missing man, for his friends still en-
terrain hope that he escaped, was in the
employment of the San Francisco Bridge
Company, and had charge Of the COM
pany's wharf at that place.
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ton petitioning the two universities to
legislative aid to maintain such schools
and asking the Department Of the In
the watersheds of the State. The reso-
luton was adopted.
After recess the committee on perma-
nent organization brought in their re-
port at 2 o'clock. They recommended that
the organization be known as the Califor-
MIA Society for Conserving the Waters
tree is the mother of the fountain.
M. M. Burnett in commendatory
speech moved that the secretary cast the
ballot for Hon. ]. NJ. Gleaves for perma-
carried. The same method was pursued
in the election Of j. M. Waliing.. William
H. Mills and Abbott Kinney for vice
presidents and Colonel Ernst A: Denicke
for treasurer, in whose behalf Edward
+. Adams resigned the trust. The presi-
dent also cast the ballot for E. II. Benja-
min as permanent s Sc ret yScoonaa,,on
of the committee and an amendment
adopted by the convention, President
Gleaves appointed the following execu-
]. NJ. Wailing, Colonel John P, Irish. T.
c. White Professor George Davidson,
William H. Mills, Major A. p Maginniss,
A. s6arboro Hon & q H, dpdieY 1 HreteS
Julian Sonntag. Craigie Sharp. F. w.
Dohrmann, E. F. Adams, M. Theodore
Kearney; ex-oficio, j. NJ. Gleaves' presl
dent; E. H. Benjamin, secretary.
The committee will meet Tuesday, at
p. M, at 331 Pine street.
They will prepare constitution ana by
eraI body on Thursday afternoon at the
Chamber of Commerce. They will me-
morialize the Legislature to appoint vol
untary unsalaried commission TO report
at the next Legislature on the entire SUB
ject, and formulate plans. for the solu-
ton of the important problem;
An urgent appeal will also be i maze TO TO
the University of California to found a
school of forestry. and in addition will
invoke the substantial assistance OF Inc
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In the Divorce Courts.

Laura L. Moore has been granted d.
vorce from Berkeley w. Moore on the
ground of desertion. Benjamin F. Ames
Jr. has sued his wife, Catherine Francis
Ames, for a divorce, alleging desertion as
a cause of action. Rolla w. Doig asks for
a divorce from Josie K Doig on the
ground of cruelty Suits for divorce on
the ground of failure to provide have been
filed by Genevieve Wendebon against
Emil Wendelbon, and Marie C. Aud
against Joseph Aud.
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|IyTYT:YsijEijii
AUCTION
Investment. Business, Residence
and UnimprOyed Property
TO be held at our Salesroom
IA STRE I

ana UuIlnpFOfou FFOp6Eby
To be held at our salesroom
IA MONTGOMERY STREET
MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 1899
At 70 o'clock
ADMINISTRATORS SALE
Estate of Mary A. McHatfie, Deceased.
Corner lot, s. W. cor. Waller and Buchanan Streets,
1856 92:6, IN subdivisions.
WALLER STREET LOT.
Choice lot south side Waller Street. ISIS feet east of
Fillmore, rs 100, to rear street
FOFS SOM STREET BUSINESS
PROPERTY.
Nos 95a $751; 1853 Folsom Street, near 9Th. houses Of
rooms and bath eacb rents s7e; lot so 90 mortgage
of 5000 st 81 per cent remain.
BUCHANAN STREET INVEST MENT
Nos. 39ls 20 Buchanan st near Union; hay window
fats of and rooms and bath each; brick foundation;
rents $25; Let Is Z HIS
MISSION COTTAGE.
No 1886 18th st.. between Folsom and Harrison bay
window cottage Of 5rooms and bath; brick foundation:
MUST BE SOLD.
No. 4076 18th St. Castro, bay window cottage OF
5rooms and bath; rent SIS lot 80 x7b
STOCKTON STREET RESIDENCE.
No 1918 Stockton st west side so feet south of Chest
mt 2story house Of 9rooms and bath and 2attc roos
paved lot 40 CO. with the right of continuous use az
alley rs g.; mortgage of $1,000 in bank can remain
If desired
DOWN TOWN INVESTMENT.
Nos 30l, 30 Turk Street. w. corner Leavenworth.
2twostory houses of 7roomsan bath EACH rents $50
stone sidewalk: street acoepted; lot 81 s I SIS
For further particulars apply TO
G. II. UMBSEN & co,
IA Montgomery Street.
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SPARE THE STATES FORESTS.
University Regents Decide 20 Appeal
IN the St Legislature.

The regents of the State University met
yesterday morning at the Hopkins Insti-
tute of Art Views were exchanged and
the possibilities discussed of presenting to
the Legislature a bill for the preservation
of the State forestry.
It was also decided to agitate the ques-
ton of a dairy bureau, to be established
In connection with the State University.
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charged with F1nbezzlement.

Warrants were sworn out yesterday IN
Judge Treadwell's court for the arrest
of. Simon Strauss on charges of embez-
element and grand larceny. The COM
planning witness is M. Cavanaugh, pro-
prietor of the Crown Manufacturing Com
pany, who alleges that Strauss stole a
horse and buggy and also collected money
which he failed to account for.