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The San Francisco call., 1899-09-17
PROGRESS OF THE ODD
FELLOWS CELEBRATION
THOSE WHO WILL BE ASKED TO
TAKE PART.
Reports Show That There Will Ba
About Five Thousand People
in the Grand Procession.

At the meeting Of the executive commit
tee of the Odd Fellows Golden Jubilee
last night it was announced that at least
five thousand persons will be in line in
the parade. II was decided 10 extend an
invitation TO the Governor and staff, the
Mayor and Supervisors, Grand Lodge Of
ficers OF the Odd Fellows. officers Of the
Grand EnCampment, the commander and
staff Of the Patriarchs Militant, the Of
ficers of the Rebekah Assembly, the or
phans Of the home at Gtlroy and the
Odd Fellows of the home at Thermalito.
1t was decided TO have five floats In
line in addition to such as may be in
troduced by individual lodges. These five
are TO be: One 10 represent the orphans
home one for the Rebekahs, one for the
encampnnent and two for the subordinate
lodges. The general relief committee and
the employment bureau or this city Will
also be represented. The DECORATION COM
nittee presented a report OF details as TO
what it proposes to do in the matter OF
decorating the Odd Fellows building tAe
Pavilion and the streets on the line OF
march.
1t was decided that no other fraternal
or beneficial organization should be asked
to participate, but that volunteers or sol
diers in the regular service should be
asked to participate.
At a meeting of sub-comnittees from
subordinate bodies held last night with
the parade committee, Walhalla Encamp-
ment reported that 1T would parade in
carriages.
The German lodges reported that they
would form division of the parade and
have a float.
Pacific Lodge announced its intention to
parade.
The lodges Of Oakland will turn out
about 500 members
Apollo Lodge announced that 1t will
have a float in line.
Magnolia Lodge will turn out IN q body.
There will be large delegation from
Sacramento in line.
Farnsworth Lodge, the baby lodge of
this city, will parade with float. consist
ing of a large baby carriage drawn by
small animals.
Fruitvale Lodge will make good show
ing and have q float.
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-17
HE is BOYCOTTED IN
MOTHER-IN-LAW'S WILL

OAKLAND. Sept. 16.-Samuel H Jenk-
ins to-day petitioned for letters Of ad-
ministration on the estate of his mother,
Adeltne NJ. Jenkins, who died in Alameda
August Is last, leaving real property on
Santa Clara avenue, near Eighth street.
Alameda, valued at about $500, besides
personal property and stocks valued at
about 5000. Under the terms OF a will
dated June IS, 1885, and witnessed by Z.
4. Taylor and Lizzie A. Guion of Ala
media. testatrtx beQueaths TO the petition
ing son and q daughter, Mrs. Florence
Talon in equal undivided interests all
property which may come TO decedent by
gift devise or succession, or which II liv-
ing she would be entitled TO as heir at
law. and the property OF which testatrix
was possessed at the time OF her death
is beQueathed 70 the daughter upon the
condition that she shall not at any time
give, loan or in any manner transfer any
OF said property 70 her husband. In case
of Mrs. Tallon's death before the estate is
distributed all property goes to the SON
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-17
.FORGETS THAT
HER HUSBAND
TRIED MURDER
Judge Smith Orders a
Trial.
Oakland Office San Francisco Cal

sos Broadway, Sept. 16-
Although Edward Rockhill and his wife
have forgiven each other and are now
living together as peacefully as doves the
husband was held TO answer to-day to the
superior Court for attempting TO murder
his wife a month ago. When the Rock
hills quarreled Mrs. RockhIu swore TO a
complaint charging her husband with try
ing to murder her with a butcher knife,
which he, according to the ladys story,
used very freely in slashtng her breast.
The husband claimed that when he at
tempted 10 punish his wife he was suf-
terinS from charge Of buckshot IN his
left shoulder. which he claims Mrs. Rock
hill had shot into him with the family
shotgun.
Judge Smith the pair were willing TO tes-
tify to all kinds of heinous things against
each other. Since then they have patched
up a peace and in the interval have con-
cluded TO forget and forgive. In the Po-
lice Court to-day Mrs. Rockhil was put
on the stand for cross-examination, she
having told her direct story OF the at
tempted tragedy two weeks ago. To the
surprise OF the prosecution she said she
was not responsible for her previous tes-
timony as she had not taken food for
several days and her head troubled her
al the time.
The witness stated that eight years ago
she suffered an injury 10 her head and
since that time her memory IS very bad.
SQS SAID IQdL LHey were OOLn angry at
the time Of the attempted murder and
she believes she was as much to blame as
her husband.
IN answer to a question by the court
the lady said she could not tell, because
Of her excitement at the time, whether
her husband cut her on the breast or not.
But she did remember that while she had
hold OF q shotgun in the barn il went off
accidentally, but she never shot her huS-
band Intentionally.
Judge Smith decided that the evidence
justified holding the prisoner under $1,000
bail and the wife left the court to secure
the necessary bondsmen.
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-17
TEACHERS GIVEN
CERTIFICATES BY
COUNTY BOARD
FruitVale Asks for
Manual Training
Oakland Office San Francisco Call.


sos Broadway, Sept. 16.
The county Board OF Education held a
regular meeting this morning and took ac-
ton on the following applications for
teachers certificates: Miss Gertrude Will
Jams and Miss Marion Madsen were
granted renewals, and the following were
granted High School certificates:
Misses II. a Crittenden. Margaret
Webb, Harriet Godfrey. Laura L.
Bartlett, L. B. Bridgman, NJ. o.
Brownsiu and Mrs. Eva NJ. Stone
Grammar grade. certificates were
granted 10 the following; Misses Ag-
nes Gallagher, Clara Mansfield, Marcia
Ardley, Ethel Whitney, Grace Beck
man, Leonore Busey and Florence
Misses z. L Aitken and May Nal
smith were granted kindergarten GER
tidcates.
Miss Susan Shoemaker was granted
drawing certificate.
Miss Effte Z. Reeve was granted a
State certificate and and Miss A M
Richardson a life State certificate.
Miss Lulu Heacock was granted =
certificate TO teach French. on the rec
ommendatou Of Professor Paget OF
the State University.
School Trustee W. S. Dunleavy Of Fruit
vale appeared before the court, aecompa-
MED by Miss Swasey, principal OF the Up
per Fruttysle school. and requested that a
department OF manual training be estao-
ished for the schools OF that district.
They wanted the board to authorize the
department, so that the instructor might
be paid out OF county school funds The
suggestion was made to have an instruct
or teach e class about two hours daily, at
a cost OF about S25 & month.
The board was not certain as to it's
powers in the matter, and decided TO re-
fer the question to the District Attorney.
Should such action be declared legal. the
board may authorize such q department.
Il has been the custom when any new
branch OF study was introduced TO make
q
funds will permit this may be done in this
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-17
FOR SELLING MORPHINE.

Severn Miller. clerk in R. z. Rockstroh's
drug store, Seventh and Howard streets,
who was convicted by Judge Graham on
the charge of selling morphine 10 Ada
Alters, a confirmed ''iend,' without a
physicians prescription, appeared for SEN
tence yesterday morning.
The Judge sentenced him to three
months Imprisonment in the County Jail
without the option of a fine. This crime -
said the Judge, is worse than robbery,
as it makes physical and mental wrecks
OF men and women and should be Sc
verely punished"
Rockstroh, the proprietor Of the drug
store, was recently fined $500 by Judge
Treadwell on a similar charge, and the
fine was paid.
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-17
John Flynn Returns From Klondike

John Flynn, who has been absent from
the city for the past two years In the
Klondike, has returned. He is the only
one of a party of five who left here on
the first gold excitement in the frozen
north that has come back.
In his party were DR.. G. W. Brook,
Harry Brook, William Redman, Joe
Chovnski and himself. OF the party
Choynski was killed by landslide on
his way through the mountain pass. The
other three met with misfortunes which
detained them north for some time
FLYNN, who is over sixty-five years of age,
comes back with sufficient nuggets in his
possession TO carry him through the bal
auce of his days.
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Injured While Fighting Fire.

OAKLAND, Sept. 16.-Enoch Hall. col
ored and aged II years, had narrow
escape with his life this morning al his
home on Eighth street. near Washington.
While putting on his clothes he brushed
a lighted lamp off the washstaud and
pet and a bureau Young Hall fought the
flames desperately for few moments
finally extinguishing the blaze by piling
all the bedcIothes on the burning carpet
and bureau. In so doing he stepped on
piece OF broken glass. sustaining an ugly
cash on the right foot. He was afterward
taken to the Receiving Hospital, where
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-17
A Short But Lively set-To.

OAKLAND Sept. 16-There was an ex-
citing mix-up in the County Recorder
office to-day. Blows were struck by Chief
Deputy Recorder Bob Leckie and Alex
Agard. a clerk employed by Searcher-of-
Records Mexican, who had passed some
uncomplimentary remark about Leckte
method of recording. The office stove was
overturned as was also a heavy table,
and the set-to was witnessed by an aggre-
gation of deputies and searchers about
equally divided as TO the favorite. The
honors were also about equally divided,
and neither of the nOvices were any the
worse for the encounter.
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-17
Through Two Wars.

Chaplain c. A. Cressey OF the Thir-
teenth Minnesota Regiment, who has Just
returned from Manila, will preach a
patriotic sermon at Simpson Memorial
Methodist Church, corner of Hayes and
Buchanan streets, this morning at IL
o'clock The chaplain has passed through
two wars and has been on the firing line
with the boys and has many experiences
TO relate.
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-17

business portion of the city. All the ef-
forts of the police authorities 70 blot out
the Illegal traffic have proved OF no avail.
But that Federal officers should have been
drawing money from the men thus en-
gagged in violating State laws, on the very
ground of that violation, will come as a
surprise TO the residents Of Berkeley
more especially as the Federal authorities
refuse to allow their part in the matter
public investigation.
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-17
Saved an Old Mans Life.

OAKLAND, Sept. 16.-Frank McAIlister.
West Oakland plumber, proved him SELF
a hero to-day William Croker. aged 50
years and residing at Peralta and Seventh
streets, while crossing the railroad tracks
in front of his home failed to see an ap-
preaching train; the engine whistled, but
he heard IL not; and just as the train was
about TO add another victim to its long
list of fatalities young McAlIister rusned
forth, at the risk of his own life, and
dragged the aged man from his perilous
position. He was properly applauded and
complimented by those who witnessed the
daring act of bravery.
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-17
BREAKS PACING RECORD.
Sunland Belle, Driven to a Wagon,
Makes Fast Time.

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. 16.-At the
weekly matinee Of the Gentlemen's Driv-
ing Club this afternoon Sunland Belle,
driven by Harry Devereaux, broke the
record for pacing to wagon. She went
made the mile in 2:071a, the last quarter
being paced in 81 seconds. The fastest two
heats ever trotted or paced to wagon in
a race were made this afternoon by Tenn
per. owned by " NJ GUNNER of this city,
and driven by him. She went the two
heats in 2:10A and 2:11, beating out Agate,
driven by VIII White.
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-17
A STRANGER ROBBED.
John Shank Alleges That He Was
Victimized in a Third-Street
Ealnnn

John Shank guest at the Grand Ho-
tel, complained TO the police early yester-
day morning that he had been robbed of
$500 in paper money in James Kilgallons
saloon, 800 Third street.
Policeman Tyrrell went with Shank TO
the saloon, and KilgaIlon stated that
Shank. who was considerably under the
influence OF liquor. had visited the saloon
earlier in the evening and had told him
that he had been robbed in some saloon
on Third street, but he was unable 70 tell
just where it was located. Kilgallon de-
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-17
Searching for Mrs. Knudson.

REDDLNG, Sept 1.-THE search for
Mrs. Louisa Knudson has continued all
dav. but no trace of the missing woman
has been found. This morning the divi-
sion of the Sacramento River known as
wheel ditch was dragged with graphing
hooks Tomorrow several large search
ing parties will be organized. One will go
down the river and the other will scour
the hills and canyons back of Redding.
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-17
MURDERED BY a MEXICAN.
Quarrel Ends in a Fatal Stabbing
Affray Near San Diego.

SAN DIEGO, Sept. ia telephone mes
sage from FL Cajon, twenty miles east
OF this city, says that about 10 o'clock
Catruza Almadras, a Mexican. and half
breed, twenty years old, named Rodri-
quiz, QuaEreled while going to a dance
and AImadras stabbed RodriguiZ TO death
and fed. The affair was witnessed by
Mexican, who is now in custody.
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-17
Neu Ricvcle Record.

RROCKTON, Mass, Sept. 16.-At the
new bicycle track to-day the worlds five
nile l1npaced amateur record was broken
nv James F. Ingraham of Lynntield, who
SefeaTed ]. r. Dubois of this city. Last
oDeelT Dubois broke the worlds record for
Ave miles. making 1t in 1901. Ingraham
did the distance one second faster than
D1bois. in the face Of strong wind.
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-17
STATEMENT
Or THE
CONDITION AND AFFAIRS
Or THE
FIRE ASSOCIATION

OF PHILADELPHIA, IN THE STATE OF
" Pennsylvania, on the Slst day OF December,
A. D. 1898, and for the year ending on that day,
as made to the Insurance Commissioner Of the
State Of California, pursuant TO the provisions
OF sections $40 and Gil Of the Political Code,
condensed as per blank furnished by the Com
missioner.
CAPITAL
Amount OF Capital Stock, paid up n
Cash SotOVVU W
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-17

MED that anything Of the kind had hap
pened in his saloon.
Shank was closely questioned by the
policeman. but all he could get out of
him was that ne would know the man
who robbed him, although he was unable
10 give any description Of him. An effort
viii be made 10 find the robber. but it is
believed to be hopeless.
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-17
Yesterdays Insolvents.

Hall. Luhrs & Co. and Adams. Booth &
Co. yesterday filed a petition in the
United States District Court to have
Grsv S Kfpp merchants of Shingie. FL
Dorado County, declared involuntary In
solvents.
CITY: liabilities s1435, no assets.
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-17
Milk Not Poisoned.

VIII H. Crocker says the story of an at
tempt at Burlingame to poison Prince
Poniatowskis daily Supply OF milk is
without foundation in fact Ohe of Mr..
and the milk given TO the children pro-
duced slight sickness.
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-17
California Academy of Sciences.

The regular meeting OF the California
Academy of Sciences will be held to-mor-
row evening at o'clock in the building
on Market street Mary Roberts Smith
assistant professor of sociology at Stan
ford University. will lecture on "Respon-
sibilities Of Employers or Domestic Ser
wants.
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-17
San Jose Wins.

SAN JOSE, Sept. 1.-THE San Jose and
ctanrord baseball teams played for the
a Assocfated Charities to-day before large
[eroy.,d The college boys were not III good
g so,c, though they exhibited plenty of
a,ergv. agt re- San Jose won by a score OF
TO 0.
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-17
Breaks Running Record

LONDON, Sept. I7.-At Rochdale to-day
H Watkins broke the hour running rec
ord, covering eleven miles and 1886 yards.
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-17
HIDDEN IN THE HILLS
FOR TWENTY-FIVE YEARS

n AKLAND. Sept. 1s.-while hunt
ing in the wild country back OF
Haywards John J. Rose and F.
B. Hooson discovered q hermit
whom they thought might be Phil
Crowley, who escaped from Sheriffs IN
this county four years ago or possibly
Dunham. The hunters were pretty
badly frightened. and as they ap-
preached the wild-looking individual
they kept their guns handy.
HI Nordike, the name the recluse
gave, said he had been living In the
hills for twenty-five years, and had
not been into town for ten years. He
has run barbed wire around a piece Of
land about forty feet square, and lives
in a cabin seven feet square. II has a
mattress on the stone floor and
stove, but no furniture. The large
stones that form the foundation for
his cabin were carried down, one at a
time, from the neighboring mountain
side. Nordike says he does not care
TO see any news OF the outside world
and is suspicious Of all humanity. He
lives on what he cultivates and kills y
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The San Francisco call., 1899-09-17

ASSETS.
Real Estate owned by Company. 1922. 81 81
Loans on Bonds and Mortgages. 2.034 1893 II
Cash Market Value OF all Stocks and
Bonds owned by Company.......... 2.ss3. 1a1 IS
Amount OF Loans secured by pledge
of Bonds Stocks and other mar
ketabIe securities as coIlateral... 49, $50 90
Cash in Company's Office. e............ 1885 SO
Cash in Banks ...............-....-.., 15S, ,O07 Of
Interest due and accrued all
stocks and Loans. 2o,154 90
Interest due and accrued Bonds
and Mortgages ................ -. 55,e72 SIS
ton ss1. 4Oa 2s
Bills receivable not>Matured, taken
for Fire and Marine Risks..........
Rents due and accrued d........-........ 2.ss3 Is
Due from other Companies for Re-
insurance on losses already paid. 2o,o7s "A
Total Assets .....................ss.4s 4so, $50 ss
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-17

The two children are named as executor
and executriX in the will.
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-17

culvaes he
Of the
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-17

z B CLARK Assistant Manager
Subscribed and sworn TO before me, this 2Sth
oay 0l GEO. o. RUGER. Notary Public.
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-05
PAYMASTERS VISIT
THE MINNESOTA MEN
ALL PAID OFF AND READY TO
LEAVE FOR HOME.
Camps at the Presidio Being Rapidly
Emptied of Their Occupants,
Three Regiments Away
To-Day.

The aftermath of muster out came to
the Minnesota men yesterday in the shape
of several heavily laden paymasters who
went away lighter than they came. Every
man in the regiment drew down over SIPS,
so a goodly sum changed hands before
the thousand men were all paid off. The
men seemed to have forgotten the fact
that payday was a day late, and they
showed ali the enthusiasm the occasion
warranted. Some of the enthusiasm ex-
pended itself in the haZing Of one Of the
officers who had been rather more than
strict but outside of that the pranks of
the men were directed toward each other.
The regiment will start East this morn
ing. The men will assemble at the ferry
in time to catch the IL o'clock boat for
on their way home The command will
arrive IN time to take part in the parade
in honor of the visit of President McKin-
ley to Minneapolis. Then it will be dis
banded.
To-day will be the turn of the men from
South Dakota. They will be mustered out
and paid off, and tomorrow they, too,
will start East.
iment will leave the camp on the north
side of the car track deserted, and the
Montana regiment will be the only body
of outgoing volunteers at the PreSidio.
The camp of Manila bound volunteers will
also be deserted, for the Twenty-eighth
and Twenty-ninth regiments will leave to-
day on the transports Zealandia, City of
Para and Valencia. The coming of the
Washington regiment from Manila will
bring more troops in by the end of this
week, for the Washington men are on the
Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania is due
any time. There will be no more troops
coming in from the East for some time
yet, for the going of the Twenty-eighth
and the Twenty-ninth regiments will fin
ish the regiments formed under the first
call for ten. The Thirty-frst Regiment
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-05
SCHOOL
ATHLETES IN
COMPETITION
Big Entry for Eleventh Semi
Annual Field Day Of Aca-
demic Athletic League.

The eleventh semi-annual field day of
the Academic Athletic League Will be held
on the Berkeley oval Saturday. The strug-
gle for first place between the young ath-
letes Of the Oakland, Berkeley and Ukiah
high schools is expected TO prove an eX-
citing one. The entries are both numer-
Gus and high class, the complete list being
as follows:
IO0-yard dash first heat-Jacobs, P H s.;
Veach. c. H. S; Toni, S H. S: Boradori. L.
H. s. Second heat-Jacobus. o. H 5: Duggan
B. H. s.; Hagans. H. s.; Hart, l. II. s. Third
heat-Asbill, l.. H. s.; Volz, B, II. g; Tinnie
U. H. S; Spence. o H S.
12o-yard hurdle, first heat-Thomas, Z. II. S;
Moore, L. H S; Bowles. Pet H. S. Second
heat-Hendrickson. c. H S; Craig. l. H. S.
sSO-yard run-Healy, ?. II. S; A Thomas. U.
Rodgers. R. @ p. H. s. Henley. e H. s. Graves,
P II. S; Smile o. II. 5; Osburn, =. II. S;
Whitman, O. H S; Dickinson, S. II. 5; Wood
son Craig, L. II. S; Dobbins, B. ID. S. Wesley
2207yard dash. first heat-Jacobs, P. H s;
White c. H. $; Asbill L. H. S; Hagans L.
H. S. Second heat. Hartley, B. H. S; Hol-
man, L. H. S; Wilcox, o. H. S; Costello. ?.
225-yard hurdle. first heat-Bowles. P. H. s;
Toni, 5. H. s.; Groom. L. II. s. Second heat
K5nsfhf E6iFd Ssaiwn s. & r g 9o9a " s
H S. Fourth heat-Jacobus, o. H. s; Moore
L. H. s.; F1nne, Z. H. 5.
H. s: Howard P. H. S; Harrison. B. H. S;
Healy, P. H. S; Dobbins, B. H. S; Mccall,
P H s. Wyckoff, L. H. S; Osburn, P. H. S. /;
Clough, o. H. S; Graves, P. H s; Stalder o.
H s; Martin. c. H. s.; Smile. Q. H. s.; Pat
terson, c. H. S; La Grange. L. H. s.
Pole vault-Irwin, B. H. S; R: Thomas, V.
H. s; Nuckolls. L, H. S; Day, S, Re. H. s.;
Curtis, A. L. A; Jacobus, O. H S
High jump-Carleton, c. H. s.; Cooley, o. H.
s.; Duggan, 3. II. s: Flnne, Z. H. s; Krusch-
ke. B H. s.; Wyckoff, q. H. s.; Asbil, L. H.
s.; Groom. L. II. s.; Cheek, o. H. 5.
12-pound hammer throw-Nuckolls, U. H. s.;
Broad jump-Costello. P H s.: sturtevant,
U. H g.; Jacobus, P. H. s.; Weller. L. H. S.
Carleton, c. H. s.; Cooley. o. H. s; Duggan.
Woodson Craig, L. H s; Holman. u. H. S
u pound shot put-Dunker, P H. s.; Hen
erickson, c. II. S.; Roth, L. II. s.: Hatch. 3.
L. Al O'Leary, s. H. g.; Volz. B. II. s.; Muck
oils, Z. H. s.: Weller, U. H. s.; Lgda, o. II.
s.; Boradori. L. II. S.