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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-03
The Bank Freed From
Blame.
RIGHTS OF ALL CREDITORS
JUDGE DE HAVEN'S OPINION IN
INSOLVENCY.
The Affairs of Francis, Valentine &
Co. in Involuntary Bankruptcy
Finally Disposed Of by the
Federal Court.

United States District Judge de Haven
rendered a decision yesterday in the mat
ter Of the insolvency of Francis, Nalen-
tine & Co. Some months ago Blake, Moi
fit & Towne and other creditors filed a
petition in the United States District
Court to throw Francis, Valentine 81 Co.
into involuntary insolvency. The petition
alleged that the respondents had com
mtted an act of insolvency in allowing
themselves to be attached by the Dono-
hoe-Kelly Banking Company and that the
bank and the respondents had engaged In
a conspiracy to have the bank ENJOY
preference over the rest of the creditors.
Judge de Haven decided that the allega-
lions in the complaint were true with the
exception of that which charged conspir-
acy on the part of the bank against the
other creditors; but the court tound that
the action was commenced and the at
tachment levied upon the property of the
Francis-Nalentine Company for the pur-
pose Of securing judgment for the amount
due from the Francis-Valentine Company
to the bank for the satisfaction OF SUCH
judgment out of the property attached,
and at all times mentioned in the com
plant the said Francs-Valentine Com
pany was insOlvent and in contemplation
of bankruptcy, and that the Donohoe-
Kelley Banking Company had knowledge
thereof and knew that if it succeeded IN
obtaining a judgment it would thereby
obtain preference over the other creditors
of Francis, Valentine & Co The restrain
ms Olbcl was IileIelOie uISSoiNeu anu
Trustee William d. ScurlOCk was given
full power to close up the affairs of the
estate
The case has been all the more interest
ing because of the fact that the alleged
act of insolvency was committed just
before the Federal bankruptcy law went
into effect. The remaining creditors filed
the petition in the United States District
Court among the first. and at one time
there threatened TO be a contest on the
matter of jurisdiction; but the United
States District Court took hold of the
affair and restrained Sheriff Whelan from
interfering with the trustee in disposing
of the property of the insovent firm.
With this decision the suit has been
practically wound up.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-03

Worthington, who was ambassador to
France and holder of other diplomatic
and civil Offices. Her father, r. Con-
tee Worthington. was broker of note
in Baltimore. Nh Crawford is the
son of the manager of the Chicago
department of the american Wire and
Steel Trust, with which concern Mr..
Crawford is indirectly connected, his
business at this time demanding his
presence on this coast.
The young couple being averse to
changing the happy day, which had
been set for April %, the bride came
with her mother TO the city to be
united to the man OF her choice. Mr.
Crawford's mother also came from her
home in the East and was present at
the wedding.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-03
at st. Luke s

a city noted for it's beautiful women,
wore a handsome gray tailor gown.
the severe lines of the costume accent
uating 10 perfection her. exquisite fig
ure. A chic little hat IN tones to match
the gown completed the costume.
Mr.. and Mrs Crawford have gone to
San Rafael for a short stay. after
which they will spend several weeks
at Monterey, returning to San Rafael
to remain during the summer months
Early in the fall the Young couple will
go to New York. where the business
interests of the groom are conferred.
Mrs. Crawford is a daughter of one
of the oldest and ,aost distinguished
Baltimore families, being the grand
daughter of the noted diplomat, Judge
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-03
Suicide of a Captain.

Loren Thomson, captain and part
owner of the scow schooners Sycamore
and Harvest Queen, shot and instantly
killed himself in lodging house AT 267
Steuart street last night. 1t is supposed
that dependency, due to business rea-
sons, led him to take his life He pur-
chased the pistol and box of cartridges in
pawn shop yesterday afternoon Thomp-
son was 40 years of age and a native OF
Denmark. He leaves no family.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-03
Judge TreadweIl Is Better.

Police Judge \. b. Ireadwell of De-
partmert 4. who has been absent from
the bench for nearly three months on
account of illness. is reported to be well
on the road to recovery, and expects to
resume his official duties in short time
on Sunday took quite walk around
Sausalito. He is somewhat emacfated
but is rapidly rounding into shape after
his long illness.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-03

Wong Tie, highlander was detected
yesterday by Inspector Nicholson in the
act of passing a letter to a Chinawoman
in the detention shed on the Mail dock.
The letter was wrapped around a tooth
brush and this in turn was wrapped with
pink paper of the same color of the letter.
Wong Tie was placed in the County jail
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-03
Miss Hmy EviIine Worthington Baltimore
Belle, and Erthur W. Crawford Married
at St Lukes

IA ISIS AMY EVILINE WORTH
w INGTON, a Baltimore belle. and
V'A Arthur w. Crawford, a promi-
nent young business man of New
York. joined hearts and hands on
Wednesday last at ST. Luke's. Rev
Mr.. Shaw officiating at the impressive
ceremony.
Although the wedding was an ex-
tremely quiet one, both bride and
groom being strangers on this coast,
much care was taken to make the
church beautiful for the occasion. Ex-
quisite exotics decorated the altar and
cordons of tender ferns and vines
twined the altar rail.
The young couple were unattended.
The bride. a representative belle of
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-03
OCEAN TRAVEL.
Pacific Coast Steamship Go.

Z"
h. Steamers leave Broadway
ITsaru~ wharf, San Francisco:
E5NN&2M For Alaskan ports 10 a. m,
Il ESSSpSX@Ea May l. 6, II, Is. 81 26. 81:
EK k[EEA June s. change at Seattle.
EEEA%sS N5 For Victoria, Vancouver (B.
b8A~S~HRAs c., Port Townsend. Seattle.
$E and New Whatcom CWash.),
10 a. m, May l. 6, IL 16. 81,
26. 81; June 5, and every fifth day thereafter;
change at Seattle to this company's steamers
for Alaska and G. N. Ry.; at Tacoma to N. P.
Ry: at Vancouver to c. P Ry.
For Eureka Humboldt Bay p. m. May 4.
3; IA, 10, "a, 20; June 3, and every fifth day
thereafter.
For Santa Cruz, Monterey. San Simeon.
CSayucos, Port Hartford (San Luis Obispo),
Gaviota, Santa Barbara, Ventura. Hueneme.
San Pedro, East San Pedro clos Angeles) and
Newport, 9 a. m. May A. 8, u, IS, 20, "a, Is;
June l. and every fourth day thereafter.
For San Diego stopping only at Port Har
ford (San Luis ObisDo), Santa Barbara, Port
Los Angeles and Redondo Gos Angeles), II a.
m, May 2, s, 10. II, IS, %. 26, 30: June g. and
every fourth day thereafter.
For Ensenada Magdalena Bay, San Jose del
Cabo Mazatlan, Altata, La PaZ Santa Rosalia
and Guaymas (Mex.), 10 a. m, 18th Of each
month.
For further information obtain folder
The company reserves the right to change
without previous notice steamers, sailing dates
and hours Of sailing.
TICKET OFFICE New Montgomery
street palace HoteD.
GOODALL. PERKINS & CO. Gen. Agts,
10 Market St. San Francisco.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-03

appeared before Judge Mogan yesterday
They explained that they We're merely
amusing themselves by firing al the
water, but although not accepting their
explanation the Judge dismissed the case,
as the police vouched for their respecta-
hilitN.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-03
Flemish oak Y

Flemish oak with ivory ornaments, Jap
enese gray, old Dutch, Persian green,
bone black, gold leaf, gold bronze and
English oak holdings for picture frames
IN beautiful new designs at Sanborn e,
Walls al Market street
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-03
Fired at the Seals.

John Powers and Frank DAILY, two
young men on a visit from Des Moines,
Iowa, went to the Cliff House Sunday and
amused themselves by firing at the seals
with revolvers. They were arrested and
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-03
ADVERTISEMENTS.

T\HERE everywhere who suffer almost
stanty because they cannot bring themselves to tell
all about their ills to physician.
Such surely explain their symptoms and their
suffering by letter Mrs Pnkham Lynn Mass for the
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-03

fidence reposed in her has never been
violated. Over a million women have
been helped by her advice and medicine.
Mrs. Pinkham in attending to her vast
correspondence is assisted by women
only. If you are i'll, don't delay. Her
reply will cost you nothing and it will be a
practical help as it was to MISS ELLA E.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-03
The Plain Truth Leads to Success.

The Plain Truth Leads to Success This business was
ago. 1t was begun in modest way but in way that
has impressed itself forcbly upon the minds of many
Day by day, week by week, month by month, this
stores popularity increased, and now it ranks with
those most prominent before the public. Plain truth
good merchandising the best possible service, have
accomplished in one short year what often takes
lifetime. The confidence we have sought for we have
ganed-gained in a straightforward way
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-03
The Old Chinese Trick.

''Pegamoid' gold. latest. best perfect pa int
sample bottle 25c Pegamoid. SO Chronicle bldg.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-03
ooMPAaNIE eENERALE TRANsATLANTIQUE.

DIRECT LINE to HAVRE-PARIS. ~e4ear
Sailing every Saturday at 10 a m. $AEAN
from Pier AZ. North River, foot Of ess-sssrsess
Morton st. LA NORMANDIE, May
6; LA CHAMPAGNE. May 10; LA BRETAGNE.
May 20; LA TOURAINE May q; LA GAS
CCGNE. June 3. First-class to Havre, s65 and
upward, per cent reduction on round trip.
Second class to Havre $45; 10 per cent reduce
ton on round trip. GENERAL AGENCY FOR
UNITED STATES AND CANADA, 8 Bowling
Green New York j. F. FUGAZI & CO..
Pacific Coast Agents, Montgomery ave-, San
Francisco.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-03
n NFONAN
HELPS
WGDMEN

BREMEN East Rochester, Ono who says: II shrunk from
the ordeal of examination by physician yet knew must
have troubles backacte tired
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-03
To-Day at 10 O'clock,
Popular Dress Ginghams, Sc yd.

Two Bingham sales have with such pronounced
third lot has been procured The designs and
coorngs the choicest yet offered The stripes pnks
and blues checks and larger plaidstte
price speaks for itself The quality will please
the buyer When de into waists, dresses wrap
pers gowns these Ginghams will lasting
advertisements We your good will Offers of this kind
will not only procure but hold it.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-03
oCE-AN TRAVEL.
ANCHOR LINE

United States Mail Steamships
Sail from New York Every Saturday for
Glasgow, via Londonderry,
Saloon Passage, $50 and upward.
Second Cabin
City of Rome, $35. Other Steamers, $50.
Storage Passage
Rome, $20.6O Furnessa $24.SO. Other
Strs, $3.50
For Book OF Tours and information apply to
HENDERSON BROTHERS,
General Agents. Bowling Green. New York.
Or j. F. FUGAZI, 5 Montgomery St.
Or L. F. COCKROFT ia Montgomery St.
Or r. r. RICHIE 2 New Montgomery St,
SAN FRANCISCO.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-03

to await the result of the Interpretation
OF the letter by the Chinese Bureau
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-03
THF n q r. n IN

p Q r IT. A M
From spear-sTeet Wharf at 10 a. m.
FADE 81 First Class Including Berths
MIL SIS Second Class and Meals
Columbia sails April %; May g. Is, %.
State Of California sails April Is; May g.
1s IS
Short line to walla walla, Spokane. Butte.
Helena and all points in the Northwest
Through tickets to all points East.
E. c. WARD General Agent,
$50 Market street
GOODALL. PERKINS & Co.
Superintendent
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-03

Most men are too modest to admit the
size Of their faults.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-12-28
The Alaskan.

One hundred native girls attend the
school at Holy Cross Mission.
The Treadwell mine earns from 81
100000 to S3,000,OO0 in year in clear
profit.
Rich finds of gold have been made
near Cape Nome, $50 miles north of
st. MichaePs.
A large majority of disappointed
prospectors are chopping wood for the
steamboat companies to earn their pas
sage home.
One of the buildings of the Treadwell
mine is as large as was the Manufac-
turers' Building at the Worlds Column
bian exposition.
From north to south Alaska stretches
1,200 miles or 800 miles further than
from the great lakes to the Gulf of
Mexico. Its width is greater than from
Chicago to London.
Recent surveys of the United States
Fish Commission show that Alaska's
goldfish banks are thousands of square
miles greater than all those on the At
lantic coast put together.
All along the Koyukuk River boats
are stranded, having been overtaken
by ice before reaching the promised
land. Complaint is made that the mail
contractors do not live up to the provis-
ions of their agreement with the gov
ernment.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-12-28
The Exchange u ditor..

Pile luxury as high as you will,
health is better.-Julia Ward Howe.
A horse may pull with all his might,
but never with his mane.-Chicago Rec
ord.
Our greatest glory is not in never
failing, but in rising every time we fall.
-Confucius.
Talk is cheap ordinarily, but it costs
like rip over long-distance telephone.
Houston Post.
Whose combeth his hair with a view
to covering a bald spot, is liar in
his heart.-Detroit Journal
Let friendship creep gently to a
height; if 1t rush to 1t, 1t may soon run
itself out of breath-Fuller.
A woman who dresses in hurry al
ways puts too much powder on the end
of her nose.-Atchison Globe.
man has to be very much in love
with woman to willingly carry her
parasol over her.-Feminine Observer.
Some people keep the Sabbath so
holy that they don't work any for three
days before or three days after.-The
Bachelor.
Some people seem to think that the
straight and narrow path is short
cut to a good many things that is not.
Puck.
You cant get something out of moth
ing; but there are a number of people
who can get little or nothing out of
almost anything.-Puck.
a beast when it suffers goes off alone
to some lonesome place; 1t is only man
who lets every one know when he is
suHering.-Calmen Sylvia.
A reflective middle-aged man never
sees very young couple billing and
cooling that the sight does not suggest
souvenir spoons.-Philadelphi Times.
If the good n man does is inferred
with his bones, some of us will have
plenty of room to turn over, narrow as
the bed is.-Atlan.a Constitution.
The difference between work and
play is eXemplitsd by the fact that
laborers often are prostrated by the
heat, but children, rarely Feminine
Observer.
1t Is always great shock to wom-
an to hear preacher express desire
to go to Paris; his longing should be to
visit the holy land. d.-Atchison Globe.
The belief in God is probably almost
as instructive to woman as the idea
that she can't clean house properly
unless she has sunbonnet on.-The
Bachelor.
The truly great politician is one who
is able to perform clear public duty
and by the same act crafty Il grudge
against political enemy.-Chicago
News.
The enthusiasm of inexperience has
never been more thoroughly illustrated
than in the case of the bachelor who
thinks he knows all about women.-
Philadelphia Record.
Two women in whom the same man
is interested may never be able to de-
eide how much they like him, but they
don't have any trouble deciding how
much they don't like each other.-New
York Press.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-12-28
A DOUBLE CHIN.
IT 1t Should Offend Thee, Have a Sur.
geon Cut IL OF.

9CoH Sut " OH.
1t is no longer necessary for wo.
men to suffer annoyance or chagrin
from the double chin that SO often ac-
companies good living and advancing
age. Simpler and more effective than
massage, diet and other prescribed
treatments is the surgical operation
which removes the superf1uous flesh,
and leaves so slight a scar that in
short time 1t disappears entirely. A
New York woman who underwent the
operation says: Il went to an emin-
ent surgeon. He examined my neck,
and said, Boob! That is nothing
Then he listened to my heart, and de-
clared that | could take anaesthetics
with perfect safety. My double chin
had been the bane of my existence for
years. | dreaded the operation, but |
made up my mind to submit to heoric
measures rather than to endure con-
tinuous modification. So to the hos
pital | went. The surgeon and his as
sistants were polite and considerate,
yet the whole thing seemed terribly
formidable. | had thought of backing
out even then, but the surgeon gave
me an encouraging word, and | march
ed to the operating table like a lamb
to the slaughter.
After that | knew nothing until |
awoke in clean little room with my
head swathed in stuff, that made me
look like mummy. The bandages
that went around my chin and over
my head contained something that
stiffened after they were in place and
held my head as If it were in plaster
cast. Outside of that came yards and
yards or something like gauze. felt
little sick from the ether, but other
wise had no pain. But dreaded the
day when the bandages should be re-
moved. | thought that would kill me.
To my surprise, the doctor unwound
and unwound the bandage until my
throat was bare, and not bit of stick
ing had there Deen. The vaseline, or
something like it, which had been ap-
piled on the first layer of cloth had
prohibited that. Then | was bandaged
up afresh, but not SO rigidly as at first.
In ten days | was able to leave the
hospital, and in fortnight more no
one would have have known that any
thing had happened to me, except that
| had lost my double chin, result
that causes general comment upon
my improved appearance and untold
satisfaction to myself. If should be.
gin to lay on flesh there again would
think no more OF going to the hospital
to have 1t removed than of going to
the chiropodist, or the manicurist
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-12-28

The spruce gum of crop Of Maine
Of 1899 has been harvested and sent
to market. 1t has proved to be the
largest crop in the history of the state
thirty tons, worth $4,000. This Ia
all collected by the lumbermen, and
contains considerable bark and chips
but is sorted over by the thrifty Yam.
Kee, who sells it to the trust
An interesting and peculiar thing
in connection with the gum crop is
the fact that the harvesters have com.
hined to crush the trust. They will
sell none of their product to any deal.
er who does not give his promise that
nc gum handled by them shall be man.
ufactured and put on the market by
the trust
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-12-28
Isolation for the Church Mutineer

Perhaps the most effectual system
with the mutineer in the church" 4"
writes Ian Maclaren In the November
Ladies' Home Journal, lis not scold-
ing and stormlng, but policy of isola.
ton. AS nature makes a cyst and in
closes any strange material so that 1t
be kept separate from the body, let
this man be imprisoned in a place by
himself. If he should offer any re-
marks upon church affairs, let the
other person answer on the state of
the weather; and if he criticises a ser.
mon, say that you are sorry to hear
of his dyspepsia. If he rises to speak
at church meeting, let the silence be
such as will be felt, and after he has
spoken let the chairman call for the
next business as though he had never
existed. If he has ever to be spoken
to, the best plan is to treat him as an
absurdity and play around him with
ridicule, for this will give much inno-
cent amusement to other people, and
it is the particular attack which he
cannot stand. Between loneliness and
laughter he will depart to another
church"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-12-28

From the Hazleton Sentinel.

From the Hazleton Sentinel
The suggestion made by a clergyman
OF town that the citizens of Hazleton
hold meeting to give voice to their
sympathy with the cause of the Beers is
likely to fall on fertile ground, for the
sympathy of the large majority of the
people Of this town is undoubtedly with
the Beers and not with the English.
In other sections of the country, not
ably in the West, there have been
large meetings composed of all nation
alities which have in no uncertain
terms expressed their opinions in the
premises, but Pennsylvania has been
tagging behind in this respect. There
Is no reason why this should be so, but
every reason why Pennsylvania and
especially its so-called Dutch" coun-
ties in it, should be in the van in such
movement. A very large proportion
Of its population is made up of the de-
scendants of Germans and people in
whose veins flows Teutonic blood.
As matter of fact their sympathies
are entirely with the Beers, as the
most casual observer can easily ascer-
tain, and the signs of it are so clear
that he who runs can read. Neither
Hazleton nor the coal regions are pre-
ponderatingly Dutch" in the current
acceptation of that term, for we have
with us people Of all countries and their
descendants, but a pro-British feeling is
conspicuous among all OF them by its
absence. One needs but ask the opin-
ion of any one of them to quickly dis
cover that their sympathy is strongly
with Dom PauPs people. In this they
but coincide with the views held by
the greater part of the people of this
country, for outside of a few Anglo
maniacs and some newspapers who lick
the boots of every Englishman, like the
New York Tribune and the Philadelphia
Inquirer, the real people and the real
American press are in favor of the
Beers.
The English government seems to
be under the delusion that the Ameri-
can people and the American press are
on the side Of the English and derives
apparently much satisfaction from
that reflection. Why it should be la
boring under that delusion it is diff
cult to understand, for it is certainly
not based upon truth. Quite the con-
trary is the case as the English govern
ment could very easily ascertain by
investigation.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-12-28
Statistical.

Il see that the Star puts the popula.
tion Of the globe at twenty-five hun
dred million! Why, the ideal" cried
the lovely unstatistical creature, with
the paper in her hand as she stood be-
side his chair-he gazed abstractedly
at the fire.
"A mistaken idea," he grunted; "the
correct figures are twelve hundred and
fifty millions and one"
Good gracious!" she exclaimed,
with highly deprecatory glance at
her favorite paper who would have
thought that the Star could be so far
out of the way! Which is the more
wonderful-their blunder or your ac-
curacy, SO minute and $3.50 spon.
taneous?"
The Star has excuses for such
laundering which l could not have.
It's this way Nelly. The population
OF the globe comprises twelve hundred
and fifty million men-and Just one
girl!"-and the wretch turned up an
expectant face.
She bent down and kissed him.
Washington Star.