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TOPHAM FREE.
HIS WIFE ALSO
SEEKS FREEDOM
Oakland Office San Francisco Call,
COS Broadway. May Is.

Oakland once san Z francisco Sdll,
9OS Broadway, May Is.
W. F. Topham who collected over $1,000
Of the money of the Berkeley Electric
Lighting Company, was discharged to-
day by Judge Quinn. 1t has been evident
for some weeks that there was no de-
sire to press the charges, and II is pre-
sumed that Topham's father, who has on
former occasions come to his sons relief,
has Modified the surety company that in
stituted the proceedings.
Topham had barely left the courtroom
when he was served with a suit for di
vorce.
This is the third time Topham has been
in trouble and out. At San Jose and in
San Francisco he was in difficulty and
his father relieved him. About four years
ago he married a young woman of San
Jose and little later he settled in Berke-
ley and was given position by the light
company A few months ago 1t was dis
covered that he was short in his ac-
counts. and he confessed to President
Britton that he had taken some of the
funds. He was arrested and has been in
Jail about three months.
A few weeks ago. Mrs. Topham sold the
home at Berkeley and went to San Fran
cisco to reside Until recently she showed
unbounded confidence in her husband and
was his frequent visitor at the jail. Not
for a long time would she believe that he
had done anything wrong, but she has
apparently realized the truth, for this
afternoon her attorney filed suit for d.
vorce, alleging statutory offenses on the
mart of TOpham.
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FRATERNITY HOME
A MASS OF RUINS
FIRE DESTROYS PHI DELTA
THETA CHAPTER HOUSE.

BERKELEY. May 1.-THE large chap
ter house of the Phi Delta Theta frater-
nifty. standing on the corner of Dana
street and Durant avenue, was COM
pletely burned to the ground late to-
night The blaze started In the northeast
corner of the upper story shortly after
10 o'clock 1t was some time before the
alarm was turned in, and the flames had
gathered considerable headway before the
Fire Department arrived The firemen
fought the blaze until after midnight, but
scarcely any Of the building now remains
Most Of the furniture save that on the
The house was the property of the fra
ternity men. it having been purchased by
them last summer at a cost of $1,000. All
the fraternity's paraphernalia, with the
Insurance covers the loss to the extent of
$4,000
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mEHr1n1 Nor1cEs-cont.nuea.


NOTICE is hereby given by order Of the Board
of Directors of the OCEANIC STEAMSHIP
COMPANY that meeting of the stockholders
OF said Company has been called by said
Board. to be held on FRIDAY, the second day
of June, A. D. 1899, at IL o'clock in the fore
noon of said day. at the principal place OF
business of said Company, at the building
where the said Board of Directors usually
meets, namely, at the office of said Company.
number 327 Market ST.. in the City and County
of San Francisco. State of California; that
the object of said meeting is to consider and
act upon the proposition that said Company
create bonded Indebtedness of two million
five hundred thousand dollars (s2, 500 0OO). in
United States gold coin, for the purpose of
raising money to complete the construction
of It's steamships and their equipment, for
use in the business of this corporation. and
: to purchase and pay for any other property
within the purposes of this Company; and to
secure the bonded Indebtedness proposed
to be created by a mortgage upon its steam
and sailing ships and all other property OF
said Company now owned or hereafter to be
acquired by said Company.
BY order Of the Board of Directors of the
Oceanic Steamship Company.
corporate Seall E. H. SHELDON.
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church. Following the ceremony tn,
guests partook of an elaborate we'd
ding banquet
The bride is one of the most popu-
lar and accomplished members of
Alameda's younger social set. She is
a descendant of celebrated family
of musicians, her grandfather being
founder of the firm of Lindeman
Bros. of New York, known through
out the country as makers of musical
instruments.
Mr.. Browne is cashier of the Flint
Carriage Hardware Company of San
Francisco. He has been a resident of
Alameda for a number of years. Mr..
and Mrs. Browne will spend their
honeymoon in Southern California.
Among the invited guests were:
Captain c. e. T. Graham, adjutant of
the Soldiers Home: Mrs. c.. e. T.
Graham. Mr. and Mrs c. e. Graham
of San Francisco, Mr.. and Mrs. N. j.
Power and family of Montreal, Can
ada; Joseph Tavernier of Chicago,
Mr.. and Mrs. II. w. Tavernier, Mon
tague Graham, Mrs. George Gray
Gormley of San Francisco, DIR. and
Mrs. Knill of Detroit William
Browne Sr of Honolulu, Mrs. Miller
of Rockford, Illinois, and host of
friends of the contracting parties re-
siding in this city.
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an increased demand for property in that
district may be looked for
FORAGE BIDS REJECTED.
Supervisors Decide to Readvertise on
Account of an Informality.

At the meeting of the Board of Super
Vlsors on Monday the Fire Department
Committee will present a report recon-
mending that all bids for supplying for
age for the Fire Department and public
institutions for the coming fiscal year
be rejected and that new bids be called
for. This action was decided on at a
meeting of the Fire Department Commit
tee held yesterday.
Those present at the meeting yesterday
were Chairman Heyer and Supervisors
kalbin, Collins, Phelps and Holland. The
bids for supplying forage were submitted
TO the board in open session more than
a month ago and We're submitted to the
Fire Department Committee for award.
They were considered by the committee
at its meeting on April %, but for some
reason not stated final consideration was
postponed for two weeks. In the mean
time one of the bidders, the firm of Scott
q Magner filed a written protest against
the committee awarding the contract to
the lowest bidder Daniel Keefe for the
alleged reason that Keefe is not dealer
IN hay and straw, has no barn and does
not keep supply of hay in stock as re-
CURED by the terms of the specifications.
The difference between the bid of Scott
d Magner and that of Keefe may be seen
by glance at the following table of
the prices quoted by each:
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FACTORY GIRLS STRIKE.
Shirt Makers Objected to a Notice
Posted Regarding Vacations.

OAKLAND, May 1.-THE young ladies
at Keller's shirt factory on Washington
street like to talk and when a notice was
posted that conversation during working
hours must be very limited the eighteen
operators on the shirt machines held a
conference and inaugurated a strike. They
had another grievance besides their oppo-
work on hand and the forewoman gave
notice that no vacation requests would be
considered until after July 4. This hard
ship could not be tolerated and on Satur-
to take their vacations then and there.
Monday morning they did not appear and
NJ ]. Keller was at loss to understand
ceased. Later in the day the young la
dies called at the store. There. was an
Interesting conversation for about an
hour, at the end of which time none of
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\ LAMBDA, May ia wedding
N in which Alameda society has
n been greatly interested took
place this evening at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Ferdinand Lindeman,
912 Park street, when their daughter,
May Josephine, became the wife Of
William J. Browne.
The house was beautifully decorated
by the young friends of the bride. The
hallway was in yellow, the spacious
parlors, where the ceremony was per-
formed. in pink and white. and the
banquet room in scarlet.
The bridal party entered the parlors
promptly at $50 o'clock to the strains
of the Mendelssohn march, rendered
by Miss Coleman. The bride, attired
in a gown of white organdie. was ac-
companied by her father, followed by
her sisters-Isabe belle as maid of honor
and Eva as bridesmaid-both dressed
in white organdie over pink satin The
groom's best man was Mr.. T. Mullen
of San Francisco. The ceremony was
performed by Rev. Father Foley, as
sisted by Father O'Connell, accord
ing to the rites of the Catholic
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SAN FRANCISCO CALL.

BUSINESS OFFICE of the San Francisco
Call, corner of Market and Third streets, open
until IL o'clock every night in the year.
BRANCH OFFICES-52T Montgomery street,
corner Clay: open until $40 o'clock
2S7 Hayes street. open until $3.50 clock.
621 McAllister street; open until $3.50 o'clock.
els Larkin street; open until $3.50 o. clock
1871 Mission street; open until 10 o'clock.
2261 Market street, corner Sixteenth: open
until O'Clock
Jog Eleventh street: open until 9 o clock
2526 Mission street; open until O'Clock.
NV. corner of Twenty-second and Kentucky
streets: Open until o'clock
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Scott & Magner. Keefe.

Chief Sullivan, who was present at the
committee meeting, informed the mem
bers of the committee that Keefe had for
a number of years been supplying the
Fire Department with grain under con-
every way. The committee agreed to rec
ommend that all bids be rejected this
being the only method by which they
reject the bid of Mr.. Keefe The objec-
ton to Keefe's bid was based on the al
legation that he was not a dealer in hay
and straw
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the young ladies could tell why they had
quit and all declared that there was
nothing in all the world so pleasant as
silence and not one of them would dream
of entertaining the idea of asking for a
vacation before the 9TH of July in any
event.
threw a hundred sewers, trimmers and
laundry workers out of employment, but
the strike was of such short duration and
so happily compromised that 1t had no re-
crr1f
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LATE SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
ARRIVED.

ARRIVED.
Tuesday. May Is.
Stmr Fulton Levinson. 50 hours from Astoria.
Stmr Queen, Jepson - hours from Victoria
and Puget Sound ports.
DOMESTIC PORT.
PORT GAMBLE-Arrived May 16-Br ship
Linlithgowshire from Port Blakeey.
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DIVIDEND NOTICES.

DIV IDEND NOTICES.
DIVIDEND notice-Dividend No. SO (f1fty cents
per share) of the Oceanic Steamship Com
pany will be payable at the office of the COM
pany and after THURSDAY, June l. 1899.
Transfer books will close on FRIDAY, May
26, 1899, at o'clock p. m.
E. H. SHELDON, Secretary.
DIVIDEND notice.-Dividend No. 81 twenty
five cents per share) of the Hutchinson Su-
gar Plantation Company will be payable at
the office of the company, 327 Market ST., on
and after SATURDAY, May 20, 1899. Trans
fer books will close on SATURDAY, May Ii.
1899. at II o clock m
E n SHELDON Secretary
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SPECIAL NOTICES.

BAD tenants elected for 81; collections made:
city country. PACIFIC COLLECTION
CO. 415 Montgomery St, rooms $40; tel. $500.
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HELP wANTED-FEMALE.

C r. HANSEN & CO.. Phone Grant 1s5
Mattresses for first-class resorts and springs.
500: waitress nurses hall, first-class resort
500: 10 Mattresses different commercial coun.
try hotels $40; mattresses. city, $40: cham
fancy ironer hotel laundry, SIS; fancy ironer
steam laundry near city. $40 week: woman
cook for sanitarium. S25. c. r. HANSEN &
co. 1O4 Geary St
HOUSE girls for families living near each
other in Colusa $50 and S25, fare paid 80 girls
for housework, city and country, SIS to $50
C. r. HANSEN & CO., 104 Geary st.
FIRST-CLASS skirt maker on tailor skirts at
A. CAILIlEAUS, ia and 11s Kearny st
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NEAT young waiter, first-class hotel, sS5: 2
walters. country hotels, $50; 2 walters, plain
hotel. SIS C. r. HANSEN & CO., 104 Geary.
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STEAM laundry-W anted good ironer and poll
Usher; good wages. P. o. box 5S6. Watson
VILE
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MAN and wife for a small summer resort as
cook and handy man, party here, $40 and
found; cook, $40 a week; small hotel, $50;
500: bakers helper 500 kitchen hands, S. 81
and So a week; ironer. $50: and others. c. r.
HANSEN & CO. 104 Geary st.
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MEN to learn barber trade; only eight weeks
required; constant practice; catalogue free
Moler's Barber College, 635 Clay st.
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WOMAN with a child housekeeper, s10
housekeeper, city, SIS. MISS CULLEN, 325
Suffer st
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SAILORS and ordinary for coast and
Australia at HERMAN'S. 26 Steuart ST
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ELLIS. S21 (Rosedale House)-160 rooms. day.
week mo-; rates. 25c to 81 per night; re-
d1ction to permanent roomers: reading room
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WANTED-20 men to occupy rooms; l0c per
night 60c to 81 per wk. 105 New Montgomery.
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300 SINGLE furnished rooms, lOc 15c and ESQ
per night. Llndell. 9Th and Howard; read. rm.
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MURRAY & READY ....; Phone Main 5S4S
Leading Employment and Labor Agents,
.W WANT TODAY FROM I A. M.
diamond drillers for mine .;...;..sS day
10 laborers, experience requred....S2 day
For a Great Mine. ...............
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HELP wANrED-continued.

governess must speak
French $685. German cook. no wash, $50;
Protestant cook. plain wash. s25; waitress, Sc
Protestant cook, no wash, $40; neat cook
plain wash. $40; nurse and second girl, city,
S25 laundresses, SIS; dressmaker. 81 20 a
day; girls for homework for San Rafael in
family SIS; Berkeley, $40; MERGED, $50; Mill
Valley. SIS; Point Reyes, SIS Sausalito. SIS;
Alameda. S25; 80 girls for Homework in nice
families in city S15 500 and S25 Apply to
J. F. CROSETT & CO.. 316 Suffer St
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Deafness Cannot be Cured

Deafness Cannot be Cured
by local applications. as they cannot
reach the diseased portion Of the ear
There is only one way to cure deafness.
and that is by constitutional remedies.
Deafness is caused by an inflamed con-
dition of the mucous lining of the Eus-
tachian Tube. When this tube gets in
famed you have a rumbling sound or
imperfect hearing. and when It Is en-
tirelv closed deafness is the result, and
unless the Inflammation can be taken
out and this tube restored to its normal
condition. hearing will be destroyed for
ever; nine cases out of ten are caused by
catarrh. which lie nothing but an in
famed condition Of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for
any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh)
that cannot be cured by Hall Catarrh
Cure. Send for circulars, free.
Price 75c. per bottle.
FL. Cheney & Co., Props. Toledo. O.
Sold by druggists. price 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
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SATURDAY, June IL. 1899
sTSHELL OUR STREETS.

The recent rains, though only
lasting two days, and not all ex-
cessive rainfall, have made of our
streets one mass of heavy sticky
mud, rendering travel upon them
slow and difficult, and if we were
to have rains at intervals of two
or three days for short time, we
would see our thoroughfares In
the same condition as they were
last winter, impossible.
The streets before the rains
we're in fairly good condition, hav-
ing been. thoroughly worked this
Spring, and yet, one little rain has
entirely spoiled this expensive
work.
The necessity for good streets
in the town is felt every day, and
last year the business of the town
suffered immensely on account Of
our muddy roads; to prevent re-
currence of this state of affair, il
would be necessary to she'll oul
streets with oyster shells, and w
are of the opinion that it is tim'
for the Town Council to look int
this serious matter at once and no
wait until is is too late
Shell our streets, the traffic owe
them today is such that they can
not hold unless they are we'll ant
properly shelled.
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ALL ABOUT THE INDUS
TRIALsSCHOOL.

1t is to be regretted that there
are men to 60 on record as leaders
to fight the Industrial School tax.
That one should be opposed to
taxation from honest conviction is
pardonable. But the man who
will for political reasons stoop so
low as 70 appeal to prejudice and
apply false arguments to turn the
mind of the people against indus
trial education, is guilty Of a crime
against civilization the penalty fol
which he must pay sooner or later
at the hands of the people.
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judgments Affirmed.

The supreme court has passed
upon the case of James Fuselier
and the case of the Josephs, and
has affirmed the judgments in both
cases.
We give the synopsis of the de-
cisions below:
State of Louisiana Va. James Fuselier.
1. jury Commissioner officer who
accept an appointment Of jury commis-
sioner ia presumed to have resigned his
former office, and therefore his acts as
commissioner are not null.
2. INQUIRIES from the Jury-lnstruc-
tioDs or any information given 10 the
| iury, il the case has been submitted 10
| it for its verdict. not objected to at the
time given, are not grounds for reversal.
The Information asked for and given
had no bearing on the case.
3. Courts Discretion-The trial court
in its discretion judges of the necessity
vel non of dischargiug a jury.
4. Juries Not Unreasonably Detained.
The situation and restraint In which ju-
rors are placed ia exacted in the public
Interest, and do not afford grounds OF
themselves to set aside their verdict.
Judgment affirmed.
State Of Louisiana We. Julian Joseph,
Sidney Joseph and Alexander Joseph
Appeal from the Nineteeth Judicial Dis
trict Court for the parish Of st. Martin
An accused cannot assign as newly
discovered testimony the statements Of
persons whom he had summoned. and
who were present at the trial, but whom
he had not INTERCEPTED on the trial.
This is particularly true where 1t ap
pears that he offered no testimony in
his defense. relying upon the weakness
! of that offered by the state.
Judgment affirmed.
This decision will send all the
3 prisoners to the penitentiary tt
serve their sentences, James Fuse
lier, white, for murder, IA years
Q and the Josephs, negroes, burgla
ry, Ii months.
i In the case of Felix Olivier wht
!. was convicted with James Fuse
/ lier, motion for a new trial was re
q fused, and Judge VOORHEES, sen
fenced him to two years in tn
r penitentiary.
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Letters From The People.
Mr.. Editor:

Mr.. Editor:
Will you please allow the use Of your
columns for a few remarks?
desire to call the attention OF our P0'
lice Jury and to the business men Of St
Martinville, to the great advantage Of
dredging Bayou Portage. 1t would facili'
tate the draining of a great quantity Of
land, and it would also give rs cOntiuu.
al water communication with the
swamps, which would give st. Martin
vile business of fully $4,000 year
Hardly swamper comes to this or any
other town unless he buys from $50 Il
$50 worth Of goods and with the open
ing Of Bayou Portage, we would get all
the swamp trade.
This bayou can be dredged through
COulee Pointe Clair. or q distance OF
about or 3 miles from this town. sup
pose some attention is given to this mat
ter, can't the police jury and The plan
ters that would be benefited by the ex
cellent drainage this bayou would give
them, interested 10 this project in order
to defray part of the cost of opening thii
stream. BUSINESS MAN.
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We learn that Mr.. Taylor Das-
pit is holding meetings in the
country, and preaching against
the Industrial School. Mr.. Das-
pit is preaching doctrine which
is altogether absurd, and he must
look upon the people of this pa
IRISH to be stupid fools to believe
his ridiculous teaching. The idea
of trying to get those people to
believe that if we get the Indus
trial School all public schools in
the parish will be discontinued, or
if we fail to get the school and
vote the tax the money collected
from this parish will 60 to New
Iberia, is so absurd, that We can
not believe that Mr.. Daspit has
been foolish enough to make such
assertions.
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For the last few weeks we have
noticed that hardly a day passes
that we do not see one or two fu-
nerals, and nearly all of them are
colored children from the coun-
try. We believe if an investiga-
ton was made of the causes, il
would be found that impure drink
ing water was very extensively
used by a large number of people
in town and in the country, which
may have been the cause of sick
ness and the increased mortality
among the children.
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Every citizen should make it
his duty to bring about discus
sions about the industrial School.
The only danger that threatens
the move is that the majority OF
our people have no idea of the be-
nefits to be derived from the
school, men of good education and
of progressive ideas are not ex-
empt from this lack of knowledge.
Why the very act which created
this school would never have been
presented to the legislature had
not fate declared that Senator
Martin should visit the North
Louisiana Industrial School. Sen.
ator Martin AYERS himself that he
had no conception of what these
schools were before his visit. Il
was there he conceived the idea Of
offering a bill for the creation Of
this school for Southwest Louisi
ana and locating it in his Senate
rial District.
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Like every question of great
public Importance the tax for In
dustrial education ought to be
brought to the attention of pro-
perty holders by our hest citizens
who should vigorously push the
campaign by addressing the peo-
pie all over the Parish. 1t is but
right that the tax payer should
know why he is asked to pay this
tax, and this information should
be given to him by men who pay
large taxes and who by reason Of
their business standing in the pa
IRISH can command the respect anc
confidence of the people.
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. The Euchre Club.

The Married Ladies Euchre club
was entertained Thursday evening
by Mrs. B. l.. Fournet, in a most
elegant style, the club showed up
in full force, there being ten table.
Ladies' prizes were won by Mrs.
B. l.. Fournet, Mrs. Dan DeBlanc,
and the gentlemen's prizes were
won by Mr.. Rene Durand and Mr..
B. l.. Fournet.
This being the anniversary Of
the club, a new set of officers were
elected as follows: President, Mrs.
James Simon; Vice President, Mrs
T. j. Liable, Secretary and Trea-
surer, Mrs. L. V. Simon.