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The San Francisco call., 1899-10-29
INTERESTS THE PEOPLE
OF THE PACIFIC COAST
Commissioner Of the Land Office
Renders Decisions on Cali
Pornia Contests.


WASHINGTON, Oct. 2S-The Commis-
sioner of the Land Office to-day rendered
decisions in the following California
cases:
In re A G. STRAIN and Conner ]. Ed
wards, the motion for a review Of depart
mental decision affirming the decision Of
the local office in the Susanville land dis
trict for land within the boundaries Of
San Gabriel forest reservation was de-
MED.
In the case in re school indemnity Sc
lection by the State Of California, involv-
ing land in the Los Angeles land district,
the decision appealed from is modified
and the selection by the State for the
same will be approved unless reasons are
forthcoming showing the same ought not
to be done.
In the case of the Tulare Oil and Min
ing Company and the Southern Pacific
Railroad Company, involving land in the
Visalia district, the decision rendered
+. B. Hartman was to-day appointed
postmaster at Eldridge, Sonoma County,
vice A. e. Osborn. resigned; also w. F.
Ludington at La Jolla, San Diego County,
vice c. S. Dearborn, removed.
Mrs Josephine Kirby of San Francisco
has been promoted as clerk in the Treas
ury Department from $500 to $500
Postal service has been established be-
tween Oceanside and Fallbrook, Cal
Army orders; Captain Alfred S. Nor
gan or the lDlTIy-1OurLn infantry Will
proceed to San Francisco.
BY direction of the Assistant Secretary
of War Commissary Sergeant Francis B.
Cornell, now at South birmingham. will
be sent to San Francisco and will report
upon arrival to Major w. H. Baldwin,
commissary Of subsistence, for duty in his
office.
Assistant Surgeon Donald p McCord is
relieved from further duty at Vancouver
Barracks and will proceed to- San Fran
cisco.
Chaplain w. D. McKinnon has been or
dered to report to the adjutant general OF
the army for temporary duty, upon COM
pletion of which he is to report in San
Francisco.
Pensions for Californians: original-Ar-
mold Namur, Soldiers Home, Los Angeles
S. John H. Thomas, San Francisco, Sc;
Henry H. Hull, Stockton, &c. Original
widows, etc.-Sarah NJ. ingalls,, West
Berkeley, IS; Minerva c. Barrows, Berke-
ley, So.
Washington: Original-William c. Els
worth, Port Angeles, Sc; George " Ma
nett Spokane, 49,. Increase--Dudley c.
Lawton, Spokane from So to $40.
Oregon: Increase-Benjamin F. Whit
ney, Scappoose, from IS to s12
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S4YS THE
BOUT WILL
BE BRIEF
Special Dispatch to The Call.

NEW YORK. Oct. 2s.-Although only
six days intervene between now and the
date of the worlds championship prize
fight betting on the result is singularly
light. Interest in the battle between JEFF
fries and Tom Sharkey for the champion
ship Of the world is keen enough, but the
supporters Of both men seem 10th to wa
ger their money on the result.
Jeffries' admirers seem to outnumber
Sharkey's. Just now Sharkey's hackers
want 10 to for their money, and some CT
them are looking for 10 to g.
Both men are In as good condition as 1t
is possible to get them In for the fight. If
anything has been neglected 1t Is too late
to supply remedy. Jeffries says he Is
satisfied with his condition, and he pro-
feSSeS to believe that the battle will be a
short one. In the opinion Of many good
judges 1t will be we'll for him IL 1t is short,
and the shorter the better. Although a
bigger and heavier man than Sharkey the
champion will not stand SO much rough
work
To-day Jeffries had not decided whether
he would do much work tomorrow.
Sharkey will do none beyond taking q
walk and little light exercise with the
bag. The sailor never works on Sunday.
The training quarters OF both men prob
ably will be overrun with visitors to-
morrow, so that neither could put In q
good days work If he desired to do so
Jeffries will remain at Allenhurst until
Thursday, when he will come to this city.
Sharkey will come to town on Thursday.
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MAY PUT q STOP TO
HUNTING IN MARIN
Much IDdignotioD Reused Over q
Suit Filed by the Country
Club.

SAN RAFAEL, Hugh
Of
of
heated local
the affair up and are handling the Country Club without gloves and the in
license Of the Country Club revoked there legal difficulties
possible that
the Of the count
and
throughout pretty
Of
in by club
We
toward
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ga DOG WAS KILLED"

CAPE TOWN, Oct. ga dispatch from
Mafeking, dated October 21, says: "All
is well. There was a four hours bonn
bardment, during which a dog was
killed"
LONDON. Oct. 28-Further details from
Bulawayo Rhodesia, show that the ar
mored train from there on October II,
sent toward Mafeking under the command
of Lieutenant Llewellyn, got within seven
miles Of Lobalsi. when the British found
the railroad badly damaged. Beers were
visible on hills in the vicinity. Lobalsi
had. been looted. The train encountered
the Beers three miles south Of Crocodile
Pools and the British opened fire with
their Maxims and drove the Beers back
to the hills whence they had advanced.
Besides eight men killed the Beers lost
eleven horses.
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THE LARGE DEPARTMENT
STORE OF THE
Gamble-Desmond Company Of New
Haven, Conn, Enjoined by the
Welsbach Light COMPANY,

NEW YORK, Oct. PA rule to show
cause was granted yesterday by Judge
Townsend of the United States Circuit
Court, returnable November 13, on appli-
cation of the Welsbach Light Company
for an injunction against the Gamble
Desmond Company of New Haven Conn,
for infringement of its patents and a re-
straining order granted. This suit is
brought TO determine finally if under the
former decisions of both Judge Townsend
and Judge Lacombe responsible dealers
as distinguished from irresponsible manu-
facturers are liable as infringers of the
suit will be awaited with much interest,
as should the Welsbach Company succeed
they will be able to recover large dam
ages from all dealers throughout the
United States.
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jority. The Beers then entered Dundee,
dragged several civilians out Of their
houses and pistoled them in the streets.
As pendant to the above is a story
from Cape Town to the effect that several
cases of dumdum bullets were found by
the Beers at Dundee, which the British
abandoned IN their fight. Some of the
Beers wanted to use the dumdum bullets,
but President Kruger vetoed this, saying
mo, it must not be so. Whatever the
British are, we Beers are at least hu-
name"
The bullets were then destroyed.
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MAY Succeed Schlev.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2s-Rear Admiral
Cromwell, who has had command of the
naval station at Havana since its estab-
lishment in January last has been de-
tached from that duty and ordered to
Washington, with a view of his assign
ment to duty as president of the naval
retiring board, an Office just vacated by
Rear Admiral w. S. Schley
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LONDON, Oct. 2s.-The War Office post.
ed at midnight an official report Of the
fight at Kimberley on Tuesday last, CIV
ing the British casualties as three pri-
Yates killed, Heutenants R. A. McCln-
took of the Royal Engineers, G. Lowndes
and C. II. Bingham and sixteen privates
wounded.
The troops, according to the report Of
the War Office, fought splendidly.
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Bark Greenland wrecked.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Oct. 28.-The
British bark Greenland, Captain Ander-
son, from Philadelphia, for Turnek's
Island is total wreck off the Turnek's
Island coast. The crew was saved
The Greenland was built at Parrsboro,
n. s., in 1897 She was of 626 tons register
was 160 feet long, 81 feet wide and Il feet
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AUSTRALIAN CoNTINGENTs.

LONDON, Oct. 2S.-Dispatches from
Sydney and Melbourne record the depart
ure of the Australian contingents for the
war amid wild scenes of enthusiasm. A
Dutch ambulance corps has also started
from Amsterdam for Lourenzo MARQUES.
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DIssENs1oN AT BLoEMFoNTEIN.

LONDON, Oct. 28.-According to a spo
cial dispatch from Cape Town received
here to-day, rumors of dissension at
Bloemfontein, capital of the Orange Free
State, have reached Cape Town. 1t is
said a movement is on foot to depose
President Steyn and install Mr.. Fraser as
President
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FATHER McKINNoN's POST.
First California's Chaplain Now in
the Regular Army.

WASHINGTON. Oct 28-Father Nc
Kinnon, formerly chaplain of the First
California Volunteers, has been appointed
a chaplain in the army, to succeed Chap
lain Hall, retired He will accompany
Archbishop Chapelle to Manila.
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ALLEGED BoER ATROCITIES.

LONDON, Oct, 2S.-Fragmentary details
are arriving Of the occupation of Dundee
by the Beers. 1t is alleged that twenty
men Of the town guard occupied an out
post a couple of miles from the town,
when a Boer shell dislodged them and the
men fed to a neighboring hill. where 300
Beers surrounded them and shot the ma
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Mrs. Heath Dead

SANTA BARBARA, Oct. 2s.-Mrs. Har-
riet Heath, wife of Hon. Russell Heath
died this afternoon Mrs Heath came to
Santa Barbara in the early fifties and was
the first white woman to settle in the old
Mexican town.
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Both Legs Broken

PLEASANTON, Oct. 2S-F. Stoebel, a
butcher, had both legs broken to-day.
While driving near this city his horses
became frightened and overturned the
wagon. The top of the wagon fell on
Stoebels legs, breaking them below the
knees.
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CooPER'S PATRIOTISM.

LONDON, Oct. 28.-E. Jesse Cooper of
London has placed his steam yacht Sun
rise at the disposal Of the British Govern
ment, and starts for South Africa Mon
day with several volunteer nurses and
doctors
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MAFEKINa IS BURNING.

PRETORIA. Oct. 27 (via Lourenzo Mar
z).-Commandant General Joubert has
left Glencoe for the front.
A report has been received that Mafe-
king is burning.
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4 NEW FLEET TO
PLY THE PACIFIC
Order Has AIreody BeeD Placed
for Four ImmeDse Freight
Carriers.

Times is
truth four
contracted
to
possible
Is given to the
will be
vtngo to
,
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ADVERTISEMENT
"7he Supreme NoUelist of the Cen
fnrp in his sblendfd
solitude. ="
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CASUALTIES AT KIMBERLEY.

The bullets were then destroyet
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1913 Walnut street, Philadelphia.
The Colfax chronicle., 1899-04-22
The TwfnlsIing of stars.

The cause of the twinkling of stars,
with which everyone is familiar, has
also been found. Mr.. Douglass dis
covered several years ago that the air
through which the astronomers OBJ
serve is full of small waves of irregu-
larities; these little phenomena are
about the size of an egg, or sometimes
as big as mans hand, and they affect
the light like running water where it
ripples over gravel. AS the waves pass
before the eye the light of the star is
first darted to one side and then to the
other, and sometimes it is spread out
into its colors and forms spectrum.
Last summer DR.. See took up the SUBJ
ject of twinkling, and proved by an in
genious inquiry that the cause of stel-
lar scintillation, which philosophers
had searched for since the time of Hum
boldt, was nothing less than these small
waves discovered by Mr.. Douglass
Chicago Tribune.
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British Army Surgeons.

Although the pay is liberal and the
military rank substantial in the army
medical department of the British SER
vice, it is found difficult to get army
doctors. At present the establishment
only numbers $40, while, in spite of the
lowering of the standard by abolishing
the rule that those who have already
failed twice at the entrance examina-
tion shall not be permitted to COM
pete again, there has been an INSULT
cient number of candidates for the adj
vertised vacancies of the present year.
This does not refer to the army medical
service of India, but to the home service.
The whole matter is being very freely
discussed in the English papers.-St.
Louis Globe-Democrat.
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TRAFFIC HAMPERED.
dom from n Number of Illinois
Local Newspapers.

That the good roads "fad' has more
of foundation than have many of the
roads themselves, is apparent to any
one who is in position to read the pa
pers of the land. From the local papers
of single state Qllinois), where roads
are about as they are in many other
states-we CLEAN the following: At
Chandlerville, "The roads are so rough
the doctors are taking the train when
they can to go to see their patients, and
when that is not convenient, they
walk" At Pleasantview "the warm
weather stopped the wood haulers,
owing to bad roads" At Jacksonville
a news agent announces that ION and
after January Is, the delivery of Sun
day papers viii be discontinued on all
streets not paved, until the conditions
of the roads improve" At Plymouth
Goal is again in demand by many of
our people. The roads have been so
everlasting muddy, the haulers of coal
from the ridge could not get in with a
load" A Bloomington paper says: I'm
most towns of central Illinois, grain
hauling is suspended until the roads
are BETTER" etc.
Now,all of the foregoing would lead one
to infer that the good roads movement
has more back of it than "a mere hand
full of bicyclists, who want farmers to
build good roads, SO that cycling may
be enjoyed by those city fellows"
1t is gratifying to know that even the
farmers are now looking at the question
in the right light, and are showing dis
position to work hand in hand with
cyclists for the benefit and betterment
of all concerned.-GoodR Roads.
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Humnn Thcrmometcrn.

"There are men," said Mr.. Bitterly,
"who seem to have faculty for telling
the time of day without looking at the
clock; they get within Is minutes of
right every time. Do you know that
there are men who guess at the tenn
perature with equal accuracy? They
are a sort of human thermometer, car
rying a scale in their mind. / don't
thinkethey are marked so accurately for
cold, but warmth, the temperature of a
warm room, for instance, they can get
within one or two degrees of right with
out fail."-N. Y. Sun.
The Colfax chronicle., 1899-04-22

Count Scheremetef, an immensely
wealthy and powerful, Russian noble
who lived in the early part of this cen.
tury. had among his serfs man named
Schalouchine, who had arnassed an
enormous fortune. He had offered as
much as $25o,000 for his freedom, but
in vain. One day Scheremetef gave a
dinner party, and to his disgust there
were no oysters TO begin the banquet
with. "They were not to be had at any
price," replied the steward. At that
moment Schalouchine was ushered in
among the guests, and Scheremetef
bullied him as usual. "Your freedom" :"
he yelled, you cannot have it if you Of
fered million of rubles. A million,
pshaw! few dozen oysters would be
worth more than that to me at this mo-
ment." "Do / understand, then, nv
lord, that you would grant me my free
dom if procured them for your"
"Yes," was the answer. Schalouchine
had brought barrel of oysters, having
heard of the dinner. The deed of free
dom was Immediately signed, Schalou-
chine took his place among the guests,
and his descendants are not only the
wealthiest bankers in Russia, but were
ennobled about quarter of century
ago.-London Illustrated News.
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CuIture of Caurinower.

Caulifower ought to receive similar
treatment to cabbage, except tx. i re-
uuires an extra rich soil. an occasional
application of liquid manure and fre-
quent watering, especially when head.
ing. Early sorts in this latitude are
mostly sown in hot beds, transplanted
once before setting in open ground, and
finally transplanted before the middle
of April in rich, deeply worked soil, two
fect by IS 5inches apart. Late sorts are
sown and cultivated like late cabbage
When heading tie the top leaves IT,
gether 70 protect from exposure to Il /
sun.
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Thenumber of analyses of sugar beets
made by the New York agricultural ex-
pertinent Station during the season of
1898 is 343. This number includes beets
grown under the direction of this sta.
ton and from seed which is furnished; /;
also samples sent from the commissions
er of agriculture, representing beets
grown under the special care of his de.
partment. The results of this years
observations appear to be fairly salts.
factory. The average percentage OF
sugar in the beets as determined from
343 samples is 14.2, with coefficient
of purity of IS.
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MRS. M. c. COOPER

Mrs. NJ. C. Cooper, of the Royal Acad-
emy of Arts, London, England, is un-
doubtedly one of the greatest living
sculptors. She has, modelled busts of
half the nobility of England, and is now
in Washington making busts of dis
tinguished Americans. Mrs. Cooper has
just completed a bust of Mrs. Belya
Lockwood, which is now in the Cor
coran Art Gallery. Ruskin, the great
artist, placed Mrs. Cooper as one of the
greatest sculptors and painters of this
century. Mrs. Cooper is an ardent
friend of Pe-ru-na and in letter dated
January 26, written from Washington,
says the following: Il take pleasure in
recommending Pe-ru-na for catarrh and
la grippe. / have suffered for months
and after the use of one bottle of Peru.
ma I am entirely well."--Mrs. M. C.
Cooper.
Send for free book on catarrh en-
titled Health and Beauty" This book
is written especially for women, and
will be found to be of great value to
every woman. Address DR.. Hartman,
Columbus, o.
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xYuo ne,xnrd slOO.

to learn that there is at least one dreaded
disease that science has been able to cure il
all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Halls
Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure
known to the medical fraternity. Catarrt
beng a constitutional disease, requires a
constitutional treatment. Halls Catarrh
Cure is taken internally, acting directly
upon the blood and mucous surfaces of The
system, thereby destroying the foundation
Of the, disease, and giving the patient
assisting nature in doing It's work.. The
proprietors have so much faith in its cura-
tive powers that they offer One Hundred
Dollars for any case that it fails to cure.
Send for list Of testimonials
Address Z. j. Cheney & Co., Toledo, o. Z
Sold by Druggists, 75c ~
Halls Family Pills are the best.
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loco, 900 sailors from one ship.

The u. S. Receiving Ship Vermont, now
over 30 years old, has been the school house
far over Loco, 600 sailors in our navy. The age
and the accomplishments Of the Vermont
are much the same as Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters, which has been before the public for
so years and has cured innumerable cases
Of malaria, fever and ague, besides dyspep-
Ella, constipation, indigestion, blood disorders
and kidney affections. ~.
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Seizing her hand, he raised it to his lips.
that being the correct level for the ultra,
fashionable shake.
"And you win be mine, in sorrow as in
joy?" he exclaimed.
"Williston," she answered, 'Tm going the
whole hog, and no hog is all sausage!"
1t seems almost to be doubted, sometimes.
II woman, in order to have a happy mar.
riage, might not better know life as it really
is than to have property in her own right
Detroit Journal.
The Colfax chronicle., 1899-04-22

Natural Born."-He-T want you to
understand no woman ever made fool of
mel She-'Indeed! Who did it, then"
-Yonkers Statesman.
The Colfax chronicle., 1899-04-22
He wanted to BE Truthful.

"See here" said the boss, Il can't
stand this thing of your getting drunk
and neglecting your work. ! Idepend en-
you to do something and you are off on
q spree. Why can't you tell me you are
going to get drunk. SO l can prepare
for it?"
81 can't do it," answered the penitent
one. Il might tell you l was going TO
get drunk, then change my mind and
stay sober, and that would hurt my
reputation for truthfulness."-N. Y.
World.
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WAR was . BIessing,

'This here last war;" remarked the old
lady, "has been a biessin' to my family;
John drawin' of big pension fer one ear
an three fingers; the ole mans writin' a
war history; MolPs engaged to a sergeant,
an Jennie's gwine to marry a feller that
come within an ace of bein' a gin'rul!"-At-
lanta Constitution. -..-.I
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A Martyr to science.

"Why, doctor, you've just been reading a
paper before the medical society claiming
that kissing is dangerous to health, and now
you want kiss from mel" i4ar
"For you, my dear, would gladly face
any ger."-Chicago Journal
The Colfax chronicle., 1899-04-22

The Best Prescription for Chills.
and Fever is bottle of GROVES TAsrELEss
GULL Tonic. 1t is simply iron and quinine in
tasteless form. No cure-no pay. Price, SOC.
The Colfax chronicle., 1899-04-22

1t has been said that speech was given
man to conceal his thoughts. This is not
the true answer. Speech was given to man
70 prevent other people from talking
Boston Transcript.
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Human Nature.

''How did you manage to pass such crude
coinsg" they asked him.
''Oh, people want money so badl" replied
the counterfeiter, acutely, if not grammat-
ically.-St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The Colfax chronicle., 1899-04-22

Mrs. Dollarworth-'Place aux DANES" I
wonder what that meansa ~!
Mr.. Dollarworth = That - oh, that's
French for intelligence Office. = Boston
Transcript.
The Colfax chronicle., 1899-04-22

Artist-"What would you charge me t,
pose for an hour as wood-satyr?" Tramp
1t depends how fer off the wood is; but i
The Colfax chronicle., 1899-04-22

Mary-"Stop, John! must mend youl
gloves before we go to church." John
Bother the glove, my dear. Let's remem
Der the Sabbath day and keep it holy
Judge. 9s
The Colfax chronicle., 1899-04-22

Jones-"Whit do you think of man
who has to ust safety pin to connect his
trousers with his suspenders?" Brown
HE should either get married or get di-
vorce."-Puck
The Colfax chronicle., 1899-04-22

Trade" remarked the auctioneer, as he
tackled up his red emblem to indicate a sale
of furniture, always follows the fag"--
Town Topics.
The Colfax chronicle., 1899-04-22

Cobble-"Well, old man, my wife has ha,
a legacy left her." Stone-"C "Congratula
tions! am glad your marriage has turne,
out so well. Free Press.
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whats an empty title, pa?" Gan empty
head of the house. Chicago Daily Record.