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The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-05-31

Paddy O'Brien from "de Ate Dis
tric'." But make no mistake about
Jimmie and Pat with the "setting
up" the silence of discipline, the
fetch of orders and the loaded gun.
There on the streets of the strange
tropic city they are as impersonal as
gods.
1t all made me sigh for the riot and
roar of Whitechapel or the lower East
Side, or some Of the ginger of Chicago
after candle-light, and 1 appealed to
my officer friend. I asked him to
kindly hit some passing straggler over
the head with bis six-shooter, since l
could make nothing out of all this but
pastoral.
"well," he said, laughing, sit was
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-05-31
!. HAVANA'S AMERIgANIZED P0IdGE *
pno Thousand of GomozS Veterans Drilled by West Point
orS Now Keep Order in Her Streets.
TRANSFORMATION WROUGHT

hends row, and at the least flicker
OF disorder lie precipitates himself in
to the middle OF the throng, using
language fierce and loud and pictur-
esQue. No one understands the Ian
gunge, but every one comprehends
that the vicinity of the big man with
the gun should be vacant and hushed.
AT night the streets are quiet al.
most deserted-nnd the criminal
knows that the inarticulate Yankee
will shoot him dead at the least sus.
picion, because how can a Yankee
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-05-31

comes to the people instead Of their
going TO the postoflice.
The inventor Of this postoffice
wagon is Edwin W. Shriver, of West.
minister, Md. 1t is estimated by the
Postofiice Department that about 49,.
900 of the minor rural postoflices will
be done away with by the use of these
wagons.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-05-31

the light Of battle in his eyes. The
crowd was as feathers in u wind"
But when Havana thinks over her
vicissitudes in the coming years, she
can say the American made Havana
look like Sunday morning in New
England village on summers day,
and a Spanish-American town is not
like that by nature.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-05-31

more interesting at first. There was
function here, and Twas told offwith
my company to keep the crowd back.
The people pressed the marching col
umn, and rs / passed along ! said to
the sentry ct that point. The crowd
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-05-31

ry soldiers walk along the streets
b loaded Krag-Jorgensens over
bir shoulders, and no city in the
)rld Is policed SO we'll. The private
infantry does not understand the
anish language. but he compre.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-05-31
Millions of Birds on Leyson Island.

Millions of Birds on Leyson Island.
Leyson Island, which lies about
500 miles west of Honolulu, is gi-
gantic birds nest. About twenty.
five different species are found there,
including ducks, boobies, gulls and
frigate birds. On this speck Of land
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-05-31

the birds lay, hatch and die by mill.
ions. They gather on the railroad
track in such numbers that they i'm
pede the progress of the mule cars,
and man sits in front of the car with
q stick and pushes them out of the
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-06

next Tuesday for non-winners, and will
run this horse Reddington in there and he
will win. In order to get into that race
must be beat to-day.
Il rode ReddingtOn," continued Jockey
Stanford. "and he was last in the race.
The first price in the betting was to TO-
War Bonnet, the horse on which Corrigan
to l.. On the following Tuesday Redding-
ton was entered in the hurdle race for
winners and his price in the betting
was TO l, and he won easily There We're
about six horses in the race. That was
the only time that anybody has ever ap-
preached me during my fifteen years eX-
perience in riding races
The next incident narrated by Stanford
throws a flood of light upon the charac-
"On April Is this year l called on Mr..
Corrigan by appointment at the Palace
Hotel, and the following conversation en-
sued. AS I entered his room he said
How do you do? 1 sent for you last
night, and | am very sorry | failed to
meet you | told him l was there and
had waited until 10 o'clock. He then said
1 have just received a telegram offering
me $1,000 for Bachelor, and 1 don't think
arSad w take natdna M he ean win Nd the
elor was worth $4,000. and he said, I can
buy some pretty good horses at times
and 1 can give $4,000 any day to get a
horse that 1 can make a jumper of /
give my horses to whom [ please. and
will give you a good jumper if youi will
testify against Cooper and Nickells.
II said. am willing to testify to what
I know before the board of stewards, and
he said that the board would meet
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-06
LOS ANGELES CITY
LOST THE BIG SUIT
WATER CoMPANY's VICTORY IN
THF SUPREME COURT.
It's Great Plant May Be Purchased
but Not Seized-A Contract, Not
Lease, Was Made.

The big legal fight between the city of
Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Water
Company was decided by the Supreme
Court yesterday in favor of the water
company. In 1868. when the city was not
larger than a village it owned its own
water works, which seems to have con-
sisted al that time of a crude wheel and
about ten miles of wooden f1ume. In that
year the city entered into contract with
the water company by which it agreed to
turn over the plant meptioned to the
company upon the consideration that the
company would put in and maintain a
modern plant, extend pipe lines into the
city as demand required and furnish
schools and municipal buildings, fire hy-
drants, etc, with water without expense
to the city. Another condition in the
agreement was that at the end of thirty
years the city could acquire possession or
the water works upon the payment to the
company of the value of the plant, mains
and all improvements.
The thirty years expired last year, and
the municipality sought to secure possess
sion of the water works, but did not pro-
pose to pay for the same. 1t was MAIN
tanned that the franchise was equivalent
to the improvements, that the agreement
was a lease and that upon the expiration
of the same the property IN question went
back to the city the same as the leased
piece of land with any improvements that
the tenant might nave placed hereOn-' a
move was taken to take the water works
by force and have a receiver appointed to
attend to the running of the business un-
til the matter was settled. The water
company secured an injunction to prevent
this being done and the lower court ,decid-
ed against the city. 1t was from this in
junction that the appeal TO the higher
court was taken. Before a final decision
was given half dozen other actions at
law were started and appeals taken, but
the principal one was a suit by the city
to recover the water works.
The Supreme Court declares that the
agreement was a contract and not lease.
Therefore it has no right to that which
it never owned. the orig oal plant" being
all that was ever transferred from the
city to the company. Another point was
that the water company could not be
compelled to deliver over the plant, etc.
citV wants to own these water works it
must pay for the same, according to the
contract The other cases relating to the
same matter before the court were dis
posed of according to the principal de-
| ciSiOn.
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-06

best to respect the minority. But as far
as we are concerned l think now 1t is
immaterial.
'As to the general political effect of
the primary law, | think that for one one
thing It VIII dissipate a crowd of leaders
who claim to be leaders in all parties. 1t
Will stop lot of fellows who are always
In office, no matter which party wins. III
the Democratic organization am con-
nected with is successful we will do away
with all that.
No. 1 don't think the law will work
here as it did in Stockton by letting one
party with no fight on its hands help out
a faction of an opposite party. In San
Francisco there will be such violent con-
tentions in all the districts in all the par
ties that there will be little room for such
combinations. Nobody will have many
maries, in my opinion. The conditions
have entirely changed. There was no le-
gal election before. Now one man has
one vote. The delegates to the convention
and all other committees go out of eX-
istence The party is governed through
the primary. The people have the power
in their own hands. The question is,
Will they exercise it? If they will they
have a great opportunity. If there is a
machine it will be created by the people.
THE Rickard law? Well. it is in vogue
in several other States. It's new thing,
and We'll have to try it before talking
about it too much. 1t undoubtedly sup
plements the primary law in strengthen
ing party organizations
Il am a progressive man and | believe
the city ought to be improved. l believe
that the city ought to own its own gas
and water works. The city should be
severed and its pavements improved. 1
believe that if there was a fair assess
ment of property the city could be run on
the dollar limit and all necessary i'm
provements made OF course the dollar
limit is meant to pay the running eX-
penses and all charges for the sinking
fund required by any issue of bonds
would be supposed to require an additional
thing. and 1 helped to, adopt it. The local
Democracy is in chaotic state at this
moment. but, my dear sir. don't forget
that this is a Democratic year"
Such is the present political appearance
of Christopher Buckley as he mounts
the saddle, and such is the outward ap-
pearance of his policy.
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-06
CHARGED WITH KIDNAPPING.
Mr., and Mrs. Antoine Hess Arrested
on Warrant From San Jose.

Antoine Hess and his wife, Ida M Hess,
were arrested yesterday afternoon by De-
tectives Reynolds and Dinan on a warrant
from San Jose charging them with kid
naping Ruby Johnston, girl 10 years of
age. The complaining witness is Mrs
Euphemia McElhannon, the girls aunt.
Mrs. Hess is a cousin of the girl and
was awarded her guardianship in 1887
Ihe girl remained with her until about
eighteen months ago. when she was
placed in a convent in San Jose to be ed
ucated. Under the laws Of this State
guardian must be a property owner and
Mrs. Hess not having that requirement
was compelled in a suit TO relinquish the
guardianship Of the girl, and her aunt
was appointed guardian.
The girl met Mrs. Hess in San Jose
April a. and expressing a desire to be
with her again, came on to this city with
Mrs Hess and her husband. Mrs Hess
intends % fight the case.
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-06
Will Work Two Shifts.

The contractors having in charge the
construction Of the tunnel under the
Southern Pacific track at the intersec-
tion Of Bosworth and Berkshire streets
intend 10 put on an extra shift of mon
who will work nights in order to rush
the tunnel to completion. which will
probably be finished by the middle Of
June at which time the Market street
railroad expects to have its line com
pleted from Mission street TO Glen
Park. The Sunday programme this
week at Glen Park will consist Of the
following attractions
Allegorical grouping, flying trapeze
performance, comedy specialties. aero
batic tumbling and juggling a pigeon
race, a grand concert and dancing bv
terpsichorean premier.
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-06
Made Him Lose a Hurdle Race at
Latonia, Ky.
Rascally Doings Of the Ingleside Car Lead to a
Suit for Damages That Will Develop an
Interesting and Ugly History

at this time, but it will all come out at
the trial.
The Jockey Stanford alluded to by Mr..
Cooper in the foregoing statement is A. 4:
Stanford, a hurdle rider Of fifteen years
experience. He also will be witness to
the devious ways of Corrigan. Stanford
said that in June. 1897, he was engaged by
Corrigan to ride Corrigan's horse Redding-
ton in a hurdle race in Latonia, KY. I'M
mediately prior to the race COrrigan met
Stanford with the following. proposition
as related in an affidavit:
"Corrigan said to me: You cannot win
on War Bonnet and they tell me he is
good horse to-day. Now don't you hit
this horse you are riding with the. whip.
l don't care if you get beat as far as
yards distant) If the judges ask you any
questions continued Corrigan. tell them
what I told you and they won't say any
thing to you. There's a race coming off
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-06
Celebration POSTPONED.

Arrangements were made for a grand
celebration at Larkspur tomorrow, but
owing to the stubbornness of wind and
tide the event will have to be postponed
one week, to May IA. There was to have
been a plank sidewalk laying bee" in
order that the many visitors of that pretty
little resort in Marin County could travel
around the town and not get their fancy
$500 worth of lumber, amounting to about
% 900 feet, had been ordered and the inten-
ton was for the citizens to turn out with
hammers and saws and place the new
sidewalks in position. The lumber was to
have been there to-day, but the gentleman
who navigates the scow schooner on
which 1t was to arrive failed to get the
material on the ground in time, and hence
the postponement.
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-06
AMERICAN LEGION OF HONOR
The Grand Council Holds Its Annual
Session and Elects Officers for
+ba Current Term
the Current Term

At the session of the Grand Council of the
American Legion of Honor held in B'ne b rith
Hall the reports presented showed that the
financial condition of the order is in a healthy
state Needed legislation was adopted and re-
ferred to the supreme head of the order for
annroval at the session to be held in August
next The following named elected the
officers of the Grand Council for the current
term: William Metzner. commander; e. v.
Iones vice commander; w w. Hobart, orator
e. c. Sterling. secretary; w. H. H. Hamil-
ton treasurer; f. b. Cooper. chaplain: Mary
G SNYDER guide; O. F. Hanson, warden; A.
A. Nathan sentry: J. H. Baker, Gus Pohl-
man and j. w. Disbrow, finance committee;
Thomas Fibern, supreme representative; w.
II II Hamilton, alternate. The officers
were installed by District Deputy Commander
Walter d. Mansfield.
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-06
Was Not a Vagrant.

Mrs. Josephine Stanley 65S Folsom
street. who has only been married three
weeks. went out of her house at 2 o'clock
Yesterday morning to buy a ham sand
wich. so she told Judge Graham yester-
day. and Policemen Driscoll and Greall
arrested her and booked her on a charge
of vagrancy. Her husband is a mechanic
and appeared in court to ask for dismis-
cumstances dismissed it, but advised Mrs.
Shanley not to go for a ham sandwich at
such an unreasonable hour. He also adj
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-06

in one hours time. He expressed anger
at my answer and picked up his hat and
went downstairs.
81 testified before the board of stew
ards, and made full free and honest
statment of all the facts. L know Of
nothing that in any wise reflects upon
the honesty of Mr.. Cooper or Mr.. Nick
ellis. For obvious reasons / didn't deem
it necessary to tell Mr.. Corrigan this"
Bert Schlesinger. attorney for the plain
tiff, was next called upon, but he declined
to discuss the matter, and would neither
admit nor deny the statements made by
COOper. Stanford and Nickells.
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-06
A Basket Picnic.

The regular monthly meeting of the CAL
ifornia State Floral Society will be held
to-day in the garden of John Hinkel Of
WEBSTER will read a paper on the subject
of Roses" Nearly all of the members Of
of a novel feature that is to be introduced.
They will take their lunches and form
really a basket picnic. The majority from
this city will leave on the $3.50 a. m. boat.
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-06
County Committee to Be Chosen From
Rapidly Organized Precincts.
The Returning Boss Who Is Boldly mastering His
Forces, Talks in an Interesting Way Of the Chaos
in Democracy and Of Other Things.

Christopher A Buckley has boldly re-
turned to the fields of San Francisco pol
itics in a critical political time. estab-
lished headquarters on Market street
openly announced his intention of taking
a hand and seeking for himself and
friends the control of the local Demo-
cratic party and has, with characteristic
energy and method, actively begun the
work of organizing followers throughout
the city.
Buckley has already formulated a
thorough scheme of organization. This
scheme is now being carried out and in
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-06
Suicide of Mrs. Abbot.

Flora Abbot. wife of Billy Abbot, the
well-known saloon-keeper, committed sui
eide in her room at 309 Grant avenue yes
torday afternoon by drinking carbolic
acid. She had been despondent and sick
for some weeks past and to her friends
had made the statement that she would
some day end her troubles.
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-06

c. ]. Heggerty. Horace G. Platt A. T.
SPOTS. Reel b Terry John Mccarthy and
many others of political prominence are
reckOned with his forces Alexander
Greggans. who expects to boss the Thir-
tieth and adjacent districts; Larry Con-
Ion, the young hero of many a Buckley
primary in the Twenty-eghth. and scores
more of the old ward politicians of "other
days" are daily callers.
Mr. Buckley talked yesterday about his
programme, and expressed some opinions
about other political things of current
Importance. What he was pleased to say
for publication was in effect as follows:
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-06
Stabbed a Sailor.

Dominica Rumaz, who stabbed John
Johnson, a sailor in the doorway of a sa-
loon at Jackson and Sansome streets
Thursday night, was instructed and ar
raigned before Acting Police Judge Groez-
niger yesterday on a charge of assault to
and his bonds were increased to s10,0 900.
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-06
SAILORS VS.. MEDIcos.
Baseball Game to Raise Funds to Dec
crate California Soldiers.

game of baseball will be played at
Sixteenth and Folsom streets on Saturday
afternoon, May 13, between sailors of the
battleship Iowa and a nine chosen from
students from the College of Physicians
and Surgeons. The game will be under
the auspices of the Native Sons of the
Golden West and the gate receipts will be
devoted to a fund for the purchase of
suitable decorations for CALIFORNIA; SOL
diers upon their return from the land of
the Filipinos.
The respective mines have volunteered
to contribute their services, and though
neither organization is an old one, It
has shown in the few contests already
played a knowledge of the national game
which will furnish good entertainment.
The relative pOsitions are as follows:
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-06
T DwARD CoRRIGAN, car OF

F DWARD CORRIGAN, czar of
IL Ingleside and sultan of Emery
vile, will be hailed into court
IL shortly to show cause why he
should not be compelled to pay
$4,000 to Alfred Nickells for defaming
Nickells' character to Prince Poniatow-
ski and inducing the Prince to dis
charge Nickells as his trainer of racing
horses.
There was filed in the Superior Court
late yesterday afternoon a complaint
by Attorney Bert Schlesinger entitled
Alfred Nickells VS.. Edward Corrigan.
The complaint recites that the plaintiff
was in the employ of Andre Poniatow-
ski from November of last year until
April 10 of this year as a horse trainer,
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-06
Too Free With His Revolver.

Louis Rayford, who 1errorized people at
the Cliff House Tuesday by lourlshing a
big revolver and threatening to shoot
was yesterday sent to the County Jail for
three months by Judge Mogan. Rayford
was sentenced several months ago for
threatening to shoot a park policeman
who caught him shooting ducks.
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-06

Keep all the beautiful Photo Chro-
matte full page pictures, free with the
News Letter and have them bound.
First OF the series issued to-day.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-04-14
SALTWATER.
All Gambling In Saloons Stopped
Memorial Day Preparations.


SALTWATER, Mimi. = April 13.-Full
pardons. granted by the state board Of
pardons, arrived at the prison today for
Frank Frost, Williama Hagerty and Har>
sison Dodd, and conditional pardons were
received for Frank Warzecha, Herman
Smith and William S. Driscoll
The Grand Army posts in this city are
making preparations for Memorial day
exercises and the committees appointed
are as follows: Muller Post, Ne. !, L. B.
Castle, Samuel Boomer and Adam
Marty; George Cook post, No. SO. George
o Haskell, John Goodrich and H. j. Ken
Won.
Mayor Armson has appointed George
Allen to be assistant health officer, and
he began his duties today.
Orders were issued by Mayor Armson
last evening that gambling be stopped fl
all saloons in the city, and the orders
were promulgated today by Chief of Pc
lice McIlree. The. mayor also issued or
ders that women and young girls must
hereafter be kept out of saloons.
All the police officials in the city met
before Judge Doe, of the municipal
court, this morning and were instructed
as to their duties in making arrests, en-
tering buildings, 1.-The object being to
instruct them as to just how they were
permitted to go in the exercise of their
duties.
Sam Atlee. prominent lurnberman
of Fort Madison, Ia. was in the city
today looking over the log market.
Supt. F. A. Weld. of the public schools
left this afternoon on "a short trip to
Northfield. sos
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-04-14
MINNEAPOLIS BREVITIES.

Judge Elliott yesterday refused to Is
sue a writ of mandamuS compelling Flora
Adams Pattee. state worthy grand mat
ron of the Order of the Eastern Star, to
revoke an order arreSting the charter of
Chapter No. 8, of that organization.
The directors of the Public Playground
association will hold a meeting in a few
days and take steps to open these play
grounds by. June l.
Mrs. Mary L. Nevins died at her home,
22OS Eighteenth avenue south, yesterday
afternoon.
Daniel Gable died Tuesday at his resi-
dence, IS Arthur avenue southeast, at the
age of Il years.
DR.. R. L. Sample. the former pastor of
Westminster church, Minneapolis, is
mentioned as a candidate Tor the place
of moderator of the general assembly of
the Presbyterian church, whuch meets in
Minneapolis next month.
John Flohaven, who was tearing a cycle
path to pieces by driving on it with a
wagon. was brought before Judge Holt
yesterday morning for punishment A
fine of So was his sentence. r-
The annual meeting of the stockholders
of the Masonic Temple association was
held yesterday morning at Masonic Tenn
2!a a. T. Ankeny read his annual re-
port as president, and W. P Roberts read
his report as secretary and treasurer.
OF the fifteen directors, the following five
We're Reelected for three years: f. c..
Rarrows, H A. Downe, w. P. Roberts,
w. NJ. Walker and f. A Chamberlain.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-04-14
I'll OBE'o MINNEAPOLIS OFFICE,
u 20 WASHINGTON Az. SOUTH.

The William Donaldson estate is esti-
mated TO be worth 1892. 765. IS. Mr. Don
aldson died inJestate, and shortly after
his death George H. Partridge and Lucian
Swift were selected as appraisers. Yes
terday these gentlement filed the result
OF their labors in the probate court, CIV
iEg the value of the estate at the figures
quoted above.
The Donaldson home on Lowry hill is
appraised at $4,000, while Crest Haven,
the Minnetonka home of the family, Is
said TO be worth $4,000. The bulk of the
estate, however. consists of Mr. Donald
sons interest in the Glass Block store,
which is put down as worth $311, AIS 46
The document is signed byII. S. Donald
son, administrator, and by the two ap-
praisers.
Judge Harvey has signed an order set
ting apart the home and furniture for the
use of Mrs Donaldson during her life
time. There are six heirs, the widow and
five children.