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GUAR DAMS SALE or REAL PROPERTY

NOTICE rs HEREBY GIVEN THAT
in pursuance of an order of the Superior
Court of the city and county of San Fran
cisco, State of California, Department
Number g. Probate, made and entered on
the 10Th day of November, 1899, in the
Charles Templeton Croker and Jennie
Adeline Crocker, minors, the undersigned,
Henry T. Scott and Charles E. Green, as
guardians Of the estates of said minors,
bidder on or after Saturday, the thir-
tieth day of December, 1899, all the right,
title, interest and estate of the said mi
nors in and to all those certain lots,
pieces or parcels OF land situated in the
mento. State of California, particularly
described as follows, VIZ:
The undivided two-twelfths (2-12) of lots
numbers one. %, two 90. three (3l and
Seventh and Eighth streets, in said city
of Sacramento.
Offers or bids will be received by the
said guardians at their Office at room Sc
of the Croker building. at the junction
IN the city and county of San Francisco,
state of California.
All offers or bids must be in writing, and
may be left at the place above designated
or be filed in the office of the Clerk of
said Superior Court, at any time after
the first publication of this notice. and be-
fore the making of the sale.
United States gold coin upon the confr-
nation of said sale by said Superior
Court.
Dated December II, 1899.
HENRY T. SCOTT,
CHARLES E. GREEN,
Guardians of the Estates of Charles Tenn
pleton Croker and Jennie Adeline
Croker. Minors. d11-td
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Yesterdays Weather.

The local Weather Bureau Office re-
ports show the highest and lowest tenn
peratures to have been AZ and "a de-
grees, with easterly and southerly
winds and cloudy weather prevailing.
Rain began falling early in the even
ing and was coming down heavily at
midnight
The temperatures at a. m. and 5 o.
m We're 80 and ~ degrees
The barometrical readings at 5 a. m
and p. m. were 3O.02 and 1890 inches
Average temperature 80 degrees. nor
NAL temperature Al degrees, showing
the day to have been degrees cooler
than usual for the Doth day of Deem
Der. -
Highest and lowest temperatures one
year ago yesterday 81 and 81 degrees
and one year ago to-day AZ and 80 de-
grees
Yesterday was the warmest day
during the afternoon, since the ODD
when the highest temperature was "a
degrees. as against 40 degrees yester.
day.
River, 21 feet 6 inches and falling
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and testified to taking Mrs. Sternberg
to the police station. Mrs. Sternberg
was crying and excited, but was not
hysterical. Mrs. Sternberg, witness
said, made a voluntary. statement con-
corning the AFFAIR, of which he had
Htaken notes Immediately afterward.
The question of admitting the notes
In evidence caused considerable discus
sion, and the witness was allowedsto re-
fresh his memory by referring to them.
The witness corroborated the state
ment made by Officer Pennish respect
ing the conversation had with the de-
PENDANT -
Thereupon the prosecution rested, de-
clining to place F. o. Sternberg on the
stand
Mr.. Brt1ner for the defense, however,
called Sternberg. The witness testified
that while he was out for dinner his
wife came to see him. When he got
back he went into the back room where
she was. She asked him what he in
tended to do, and he said nothing.
Witness said he then went into the
front part of the shop and took an
order for a sign. A laundry wagon
driver came in and he started back to
get soiled clothes for him. When he
went in his wife had a pistol to scare
him with. He said: That's no good;
it won't hurt anything" He then
stopped down to get the clothes, and
thinking she might do something with
the pistol. seized her arm and the pistol
went off. He thought it was purely &C
cidental. He thought she might try to
use the pistol again, and seized her
wrist. She said: 1--WE done it, and
might as well kill myself
Cross examined, the witness said his
wife was very angry, as he himself was.
She did not point the pistol at him. He
could not tell whether or not the pistol
was his. His wife, so far as he knew,
never had pistol. Witness said, after
he had seized his wife's wrist, she broke
away, and as she did so the pistol was
discharged He still had hold of her
left wrist. There was quite prolonged
struggle before the pistol was dis
charged. He said he had thought all
along that the shooting was purely ac-
cidental-
Witness said he had possibly told
Chief Ash the day after the shooting
that he would let him know the next
day whether or not he would prosecute
his wife.
Justice Anderson said he was satisfied
that no jury in the world would con-
Wet Mrs. Sternberg on the charge, but
that he had, to go further and consider
what might have been the status of
the case had the wound proved fatal
He did not care to assume the func-
lions of a jury, and preferred, before
coming to a conclusion. to confer with
the District Attorney He therefore re-
served judgment until this morning.
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BAIL ASKED FOR.
William McMahon's Request Will
be Acted on To-Day.

Inc attorney for William L. McMa-
non, who on Monday last had an alter
cation with an old man named John
Hennessey, in the course of which the
latter was knocked down and died the
next morning, appeared in the City
Justices Court yesterday morning and
requested that his client be admitted to
bail He argued that the offense. if
there was one, could be no more seri-
Gus than mansluaghter, in which case
the Justice would be warranted in fix
ing reasonable bail
Justice Anderson said he had abso-
lutely no Jurisdiction in the matter,
inasmuch as no Complaint had been
filed against McMahon
City Attorney De Ligne said com
plant would be filed in the course of a
day or two.
Mr.. Ryan asked a continuance. and
1t was agreed to call the matter this
morning, at which time Judge Ander-
son will consider the ACCESSIBILITY of
admitting Mcmahon to bail. and the
preliminary examination will be set for
hearing.
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IN THE SUPERIOR COURT, COUNTY
of Sacramento, State of California.
In the matter of the estate of LENA
BERCK, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that FRIDAY,
the 9Th day of January, 1900, at 1 80 O'Clock
p. m. of said day, and the courtroom of
said court, at the Courthouse, in the City
of Sacramento, County of Sacramento,
and State of California, have been APP
pointed as the time and place for prov
and for hearing the application of II. j.
Goethe for the issuance to him of letters
testamentary thereon.
Witness my hand and the seal of said
court, this 2lst day of December, 1899
(Seal) W B. HAMILTON. Clerk
BY B. II. Gallup, Deputy Clerk
Indorsed: Filed December Il, 1899.
w. B. HAMILTON, Clerk
BY B. HI. Gallup. Deputy. d2-td
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After thousands of lives have been sac
rificed, an apparatus is brought forward,
and which, after having been tested, is
pronounced perfect. 1t is impossible to
sink it, it weighs only four pounds and
contains food and water for five days. 1t
resulted from q horrible shipwreck expe-
rienced by it's inventor. No discovery of
great benefit to humanity seems possible
without great loss of life. Take Hostel
ters Stomach Bitters as another instance.
Before it's advent, fifty years ago, peo-
pie died from dyspepsia. Weak stomachs
and liver disease were terrors until Hos
letters Stomach Bitters proved its power
to cure them. If your stomach bothers
you, try it, and see that private Reve-
nue. Stamp covers the neck Of the bottle.
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The following new articles of incor-
poration have been filed in the Secre-
tary of States office:
The Coalinga- Kreyengen Oil Com
pany Principal place of business, Los
Angeles. Directors-R. E. Blackburn,
Alfred w. Morgan, Fred L. johnson,
George w. Parsons of Los Angeles. and
S N Andrews of Pomona. Capital
stock, 100000; subscribed. $780,
The Golden Fruit Land and Water
Company. Principal place of business,
Los Angeles. Directors--James r. Rig
gins, George Greedy King, A. Augustus
Whitney. O. James Watkins and Wal
lace A. Fitzgerald of Los Angeles. Cap
ital stock, 100000; subscribed $75, $50.
The Pacific Supply Company Grocer
les. Principal place of business, Point
San Quentin, Marin County. Directors
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THE GEIGER CASE.
It Will Come Up for Examination
Next MONDAY.

The attorney for August Geiger. the
man recently arrested and charged with
numbering George c. Smith, a twelve
year-old boy, appeared in the City
Justices Court yesterday morning, and
asked that the preliminary examination
be set for one week from next Mon
day.
City Attorney De Ligne objected to
so long. continuance until he could
ascertain whether or not it would dis
commode the witnesses for the prosecu-
tion- In the end the matter went over
until this morning, at which time it is
likely the case will be set for examina-
ton
The record-union., 1899-12-30
A MINISTER'S MISTAKE.

A city minister was recently handed =
panying it was a clipping from a news
paper bearing upon the matter. The
clergyman started to read the extract and
sam, the best Cough Cure" This was
hardly what he had expected, and, after
a moments hesitation. he turned it over
and found on. the other side the matter
intended for the reading. -
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William G. JENNIE, Ida J. Jenne, John
F. Leonard, John Carpenter of Point
San Quentin, and c. :. Jenne of Gold
Hill, Or. Capital stock. $1,000. Fully
subscribed.
The Columbia Oil Company. Princi-
pal place of business. Fresno. Di-
rectors-Arthur Machen, G.. D. West
colt, w. NJ Wallace, George E. Machen
and D. NJ Blaisdell of Fresno. Capital
stock, 500, 600; subscribed, So, 00O
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into the State Treasury yesterday from
Los Angeles. County, which deposited
the sum of $421, 59S.25, San Diego Ssh.
1924, MERGED, $50, 914.93, San Der.
nardino $50. 726.SS, and Marin SOL
659.69
The record-union., 1899-12-30

California champagne equal to the
imported; also table wines this week
at great reduction. The Sanitary
Liquor Store, 321 x street Both
phones. Free delivery.
The record-union., 1899-12-30

Grasp all and lose ALL" Many are
so intent on ''grasping all" that thew
lose their health. Hoods Sarsanari,,a
has helped many a business man on
the road to success by making and
keeping him healthy.
Hoods Pills are gentle. yet effective.
25c.
The record-union., 1899-12-30

Ladies' hunting case, gold-filled
watches for $40 at H. c. Hotfilter, jew
eler, S24 K street.
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Our winter Clearing Sale.

Commences to-day. Linen towels,
Doe per dozen; extra large, S5c per doz-
en-; Ga white linen table covers, Soc;
IA for Coo. Ladies' double capes, 60c.
Feather neck boas, 15c. Ladies' fan
nelette underskirts, 15c. Golf felt hats,
25c. Sacramento Home Supply Co., ],
7th & Sth. Red House.
The record-union., 1899-12-30

Pianos-Hardman, Conover, Earring-
ton, Ellington, Kingsbury and others, a
store full of them. We sell nothing but
pianos. The Wiley B. Allen Co., 415 K. >
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vantine Fined Ten Dollars.

Charles Vantine, the young man who
several days ago in the CITY Justice
Court, pleaded guilty to disturbing the
peace at and breaking the window of a
Fourth-street saloon, was yesterday
sentenced to pay a fine of $40 or spend
ten days in JAIL Vantine had already
paid 80 to cover the breakage of the
window. a.
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Full line of oysters, crabs, fish, poul-
try at Garzolis new market, S13 j.
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Start the new year with a supply of
Raschen's finest wines, at popular
prices. Our products are the finest to
be had. 514 J street
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We charge you % cents to read 'Da-
vid Harum,' Janice Meredith" "Rich-
ard Carvel," when Knighthood Was
in Flower and all the other standard
books of fiction. Ten cents to read
paper-bound novels. Star News Com.
pany's Circulating Library, sos K St :
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Glenbrook whisky is pure, unadulter-
ated and copper DISTILLED Blauth. 4o7
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Transfer Co., 9OU K, either phone.
See Capital Sac. Van & Storage Co. =
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All kinds of natural gas heating
stoves. Tom Scott. 30S ] street
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No Eastern nor deceiving poultry
sold at The Pacific. All our poultry is
the very best California product, only
and is killed as ordered by the GUS
toner; drawn and dressed at the pleas
ure of our patrons D. Dierssen Co.
rs to 727 ] street.
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All the leading newspapers and mag
aziness at the Capital News Co., TOP K.
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Elegant boxes Of candy, so cents an
up. Otto, 90S j.
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Flowers-Carnations, pinks, primulas
and roses at Benz. Welch's, 613 K st
Phones, red SOB; Cap. $50.
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DR.. Weldon, SO611a ] street. Careful
painstaking. skillful dental work.
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18c TURKEYS lac.

A choice big lot of them, but they'll
go like hot cakes. Order early to-day.
Curtis & Co., Sacramento Market, 3OS
K street.
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DIED..

Large and small chunks for heating
stoves at 215 l.. F. Cady. Both phones >
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DR.. B. F. stoll, Dentist Ninth and J. :
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HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS.

GOLDEN EAGLE HOTEL,
SEVENTH AND X SITS.
STRICTLY FIRST-C CLASS. FREE BUS
to and from the depot.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-02

plid to the Inhabitants OF some southern
states, originated at Gainesville, E1at IN
this way: Before the advent of RAILWAYS
the supplies for the interior towns of the
state were sent by sea to Fernandina or
teams to their destination The arrival of
a mule team at a town was quite an event.
and was almost as welcome as a circus 1
The regular mule team to Gainesville got
there usually about shutdown and camped
in grove about mile from town. The
next morning early they made their pres
ence- known by a tremendous cracking of
their blacksnal0e whips, and the word
passed quickly through the town that the
whip crackers" had arrived which term
was soon abbreviated to simply Crackers
We do not think that the term can be To-
Called to this extent. That Cracker" is
derived from the sound of the whip is very
probably true, but It is of general appli-
cation, the practice of cracking being gem
eral all over the SOUTH Who Is that has
not heard the country Transfers, with his
long-handled whip, popping his whip lash
and making a succession of sounds like the
rapid discharge of rifle? A most natural
thing to call the Transfers Crackers"
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-02

nation of household servants and was ut
terly unable to cope with the task at the
outset. The work, 1 understand, is still
going on. Meanwhile the discovery played
excellently into the hands of the Japanese
and Chinese, who were sought as servants
all over the islands. 1t is exceedingly rare
that a leper is discovered among the Japa-
nese or the Chinese living in Honolulu, al
though cases are frequent among the two
races on the other islands, especially on
Maui the great sugar island. In the course
of the examination of household servants
number of cases of incipient leprosy were
found and the victims packed off to the
leper colony. The people employing these
lepers were themselves rigidly examined by
physicians able to detect the very slightest
evidences of the disease but none of them
wa found to be affected.
'"There are now, 1 understand, eight men
of American birth at the leper colony on
Molokai, all of them, with the exception of
the two recently sent, sailors who deserted
their ships at one or other of the island
ports and contracted the disease either by
mingling or marrying among the Kanakas.
There are also three Germans and five Eng
lishmen, also sailors, who contracted the
disease in the same way. The white lepers
said to give more trouble through con-
stantly complaining than all the thirteen
hundred Kanaka, Japanese and Chinese lep-
ers put together. The white leper 1t seems
Is not able to accept the burden laid upon
him with the same degree of fortitude ex-
hbited by the native. The only cases of
suicide since the colony was established
have been those of white men,"
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that they met and whipped force OF Ger
man marines less than eleven years ago.
killing and wounding fifty-six of them.
Nor Is 1t forgotten that they risked their
lives in the surf to save the lives OF those
same German enemies a few weeks later,
when the hurricanes placed Europeans and
Americans alike at their mercy. The Sa-
means are used to commandments and as
saults from the foreigners. Before this
Germany and Great Britain each have had
a turn at it. But the end never is very
satisfactory to the aggressors.
Among the samoans their war over the
succession never has ended. Their forests
have had their feuds hidden away. It even
has been dangerous al times for Germans
to go alone into the remoter parts of the
larger islands, SO lively was the Samoan
hatred of the Teuton. Englishmen were
safe anywhere, but often unwelcome.
Americans were the only ones who could
assured of a hearty welcome In any Sa-
moan village, however remote and however
partisan in the struggle over the mon
archy. Samoa is the country 1 have WIS.,
tied where the people believed specifically
that the United States was the greatest ma
ton on earth, the most powerful and the
most just. To them England, Germany and
France were far inferior to the Americans,
who always had been their friends and al
ways treated them with justice. The
American flag was the honored flag and
the American strangers were the welcome
ones.
1t was pleasant to drive about the leafy
forest roads or walk in the villages with
certainty that every man, woman and child
would smile a greeting or say cheerily,
"Talofa," the '1ove to YOU" that means
the same whether in the aloha" OF the
Hawaiian or the '"fofa'' of the Maori In
New Zealand, for they are all akin in
Polynesia. Whatever the exigencies of the
Diplomatic situation, it is a grevious thing
to destroy this welcome and the friendship
of this simple people in the south seas.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-02

sheds its light far out over the ocean.
When the statue was set up, as long as
thirteen years ago, to be used as light
house, it was found necessary to appoint
a man to attend the light; and for that
purpose one of the experienced lighthouse
keepers of the coast was selected. His
name was Littlefield; and, with his wife
and little family, the keeper moved into
the statue to set up housekeeping there
and live and tend the light.
A great light like this needs more than
one man, so Mr.. Littlefield had assistants,
four or five men who kept the great cleo
trical works going and supplied the big
dynamo with power to run the machinery
that should operate the lamp. The torch
of Liberty, you must know, is an electrical
one and is kindled by touching a button
from below. But to supply the electricity
takes a great plant and all of this comes
under the care of the keeper and his cleo
tricians.
One night when Liberty was shining
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-02
The Girls and Kipling
Ind Plain Dealer.

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer
Its too bad about Kipling, isn't it?' said
the girl with the big blue eyes.
yes" said the girl with the spotted veil.
Hes sick, isn't he?"
lawful sick. And you never saw anybody
worry about him as George does. You'd
think he was one of the family
How funny. Does George know him?"
"No, only by what he has written"
LET me see. What has he written?'
"Oh, lots of things. George tries to read
some of them out loud, but they're awfully
poky. All about soldiers, and ships, and
Hindoos and things. 1t makes George so
angry because don't rave over them
"He writes poetry, too, doesn't he?'
Eyes. He wrote that what-do-you-call-it.
You know the one I mean-about the lest
we-forget-lt."
Eyes. 1 know. It's the occasional
Then he wrote that awful thing he called
The Vampire Wasn't that too dreadful"
"Fve forgotten. Did you read his Light
That Failed %
No Was it-he-he-he--a bicycle lamp?'
''You silly thing. 1t was a poky story
about blind man and fool of a girl. You
couldn't have any patience with them. But
get out here. Good-by."
Goodbye"
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-02
THE LEPER COLONY.
Story of a Visit to the Hawaiian Lepers
Colonized on the Island of Molokai

From the Washington Star.
while we were in Honolulu" said one
of the young men who went to Hawaii as
an attache of the Hawaiian commission,
'there was lot of excitement among the
white population of the city over the dis
covery that two well-known white citizens
of Honolulu were lepers. They were both
sent to the lepar island of Molokai. One OF
these unfortunate men was wealthy Ger
man merchant who has passed the greater
part of his life on the islands, having left
Germany for Honolulu in his early youth.
He was about 70 years of age. For some
months before 1t was discovered that he
was a victim of leprosy he had been COM
planning of violent pains in his head and
numbness in his members. His family
physician was puzzled over the case and
finally called into consultation physician
who had spent period of study among the
lepers at the Molokai colony. The old gen.
tleman became violently insane when he
was informed that he was a leper and would
be compelled to go to Molokai. 1t was nee
essary to place him a straitjacket, and,
thus secured, he was carried aboard the
leper steamer Kilauea Hou, together with
over dozen Kanaka and Japanese lepers,
and transported to the eper island. Within
week after the announcement that her
husband was a leper the unfortunate old
gentleman's aged wife died of grief.
1.-THE other white victim of the disease
was the signal telegrapher stationed on
Diamond Head to report the arrival of
steamers to the people of Honolulu. He was
a comparatively young man, still under 40,
and was known as a first-rate fellow by
most of the white people of Hawaii. He
took the announcement that he had the dis
ease quietly, saying that he had suspected
for some time that he was a victim, and
had contemplated so informing the board
of health His nerve under the circum-
stances was really admirable.
GAS soon as the discovery of these two
cases was made the Kanaka servants in the
households in which the two men had lived
were subjected to careful examination. The
telegrapher had lived alone in. a small
house out at Diamond Head, with Ka-
naka youth as his only servant and attend
ant. The youth was found to be in the Sec
ondary stage of leprosy, and was sent to
Molokai along with his master The estab-
lishment of the old merchant was very
large one out near Waikiki, one of Honolu-
LUIS suburbs and was cared for by over a
dozen Kanaka servants. One of these, an
Did washerwoman, was discovered to be a
1eper. and she. too, was sent to the lepeI
colony.
''The alarm of the white population OF
Honolulu, all of whom employ Kanaka SER
wants. over these discoveries may be pic
tured. The board of health was swamped
with applications for the immediate exami-
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-02
LIBERTY'S OWN CHILD
She Was Born Under the Light of the Torch that
Shines on Bed1Oe's Island.

brightest, for at first the city of New
York appropriated large sums of money
to keep it going as big as the moon, the
rays of the torch fell upon a strange sight.
Down below the statue, lower still than
its base, stands a little house, and in the
window of that house there came a baby's
face and two tiny little hands lay for a
moment in the light of the torch. Liberty
shone her brightest and the baby was car
ried to be snugly nestled in blankets; and
it was many days before Liberty saw her
again.
Little Elsie Littlefeld, the baby of that
day, is the lighthouse keepers daughter
and she feels, in the dignity of her seven
years, that she is Libertys' own little girl.
If you were to talk to her she would tell
you how she has kindled the torch many a
time by pressing the button and how her