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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-04
GRADERS AT WORK
IN LASSEN COUNTY
Nevada, California and Oregon Road.
bed Rapidly Nearing
Alturas

REDDING, March 3.-The construction
crews on the Nevada, California and Ore.
gon Railroad have reached a point twelve
miles north of Amadee, Lassen County
and are rapidly extending the roadbe6
across the Madeline plains toward Alturas
and Southeastern Oregon. Construction
trains now proceed ten miles beyond the
old terminus. By fall the road will be
completed and in operation as far aa
Alturas.
The road will not touch Susanville in
it's northward flight. 1t is understood the
company asked for a bonus of 100000 to
go out of its way in affording rail con.
nection to the county seat of LaSsen
County. This sum the people of Susan
Vile could not or would not raise.
The haste of the narrow-gauge people IN
throwing their road forward is occasioned
by the approach of a road southeastward
from Grants Pass, Or, which is making
for the rich stock regions of klamath
and Lake counties, Or. Reports from
Lassen County say that more men are
being added daily to the construction
forces of the narrow gauge A start was
made with a crew of forty men. and now,
notwithstanding construction material has
been hung up in the snow blockade in
Colorado, the construction crew has been
increased to three times the original force.
A demand for good draught horses has
also been created.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-04
EVIDENCE OF SUICIDE.

WOODLAND, March 3.-There is mys-
terry surrounding Miss Philippine Kotto-
mans death that even the verdict of the
Coroners jury cannot clear away. The
account of the finding of her body in a
well on the farm of her stepfather, Fred
erick Hermann, five miles southwest of
Hacks has been published In The Call
Coroner Bean and Deputy Coroner Apper-
son left for the Hermann farm yesterday
afternoon and held an inquest. After
hearing all the testimony the jury found
a verdict to the effect that the young
lady was IS years of age and native of
Missouri, and that she came to her death
by drowning in a well, but whether as a
result of accident or intent could not be
determined.
A short time previous to the drowning
of the young woman, who had always
been of a cheerful disposition, she had a
spell of dependency, and this leads to
the conclusion that she committed sui
eide by jumping into the well.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-04
ASSEMBL YMEN MIXED UP
IN A SERIES OF ROWS

CALL HEADQUARTERS SACRA-
MENTO, March 3.-The Assembly got
started off wrong to-day. 1t got out of
bed on the wrong side, or broke its look
ing-glass, or something, and there was
trouble from rollcall to adjournment
1t developed into a warm little three
cornered row this afternoon with Valen-
tine, Dibble and Johnson each holding
down a corner, and later it was a combi-
nation of Johnson and Dibble against
Valentine and the general appropriation
bill.
Some of Dibble's embroidery work on
the files started the fuss. AS chairman
and the rest of the Rules Committee he
offered fresh paragraph to the rules,
providing that certain deficiency bills be
taken up tonight. There was no objec-
ton to that, but there was to the fact
that certain bills had been ignored. It was
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-04
COST TO THE STATE OF
TWO JUNKETING TRIPS

CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA-
MENTO, March 3.-The Committee on
State Prisons and Reformatories rem
dered its report to-day upon the needs of
the Whittier Reform School in Southern
California.
It recommends that a new building for
the foundry and machine department be
erected and that the State expend $4,000
in having wells on the banks of San Ga
hriel River in order that the school may
have a SUFFICIENT supply of pure water. 1t
has cost the State just 1898 20 in mileage
to acquire these recommendations
The Committee on Mileage recommend
ed that the sum of $50 be allowed the Com
mittee on Health and Quarantine to pay
the expense of it's recent trip to San
Francisco, when 1T inspected the garbage
crematory.
The bill put in by the committee was for
s144 but S54 of the amount was declared
innrOperiY charged.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-04
A Well-signed Position.

CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA-
MENTO, March 3.-A petition has been
going the rounds of the Senate requesting
the Governor that if the bill providing for
the appointment of a State veterinarian
becomes a law to appoint to the position
thereby created one of the faculty of the
veterinarian department of the State Uni
yersity. 1t is set forth that these men
give their time to the State gratuitously,
or nearly so, and that they should be
shown some consideration If it should
come to pass that a place one of them
could fill should be formed. Already the
petition has received the signatures of
nearly every member of the Senate, and
when it goes to the Governor it will have
as we'll.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-04

fastened upon any subject that interested
him.
Nearly every man has it in his power to
live to green old age like the great states
man of England. 1t is simply matter of
a little daily thought and regard for health.
If, when man feels that he is a little out
of sorts, he will resort to the right remedy,
he will never have to submit to the more
serious ills of life. Most men, when they
have a headache, feel drowsy during the
day and are restless during the night, and
find their appetite falling off, pay little or
no heed to these warnings. The inevitable
result is some dangerous and possibly fatal
malady. The doctor may call it consump-
ton, malaria or biliousness, or perhaps
some blood or skin disease It makes but
little difference. These troubles all have
their inception in the same cause - I'M
proper and insufficient nourishment. DR..
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery corrects
that cause. 1t makes the appetite keen
and hearty, the digestion perfect, the liver
active and the blood pure and rich. 1t is
the great blood-maker and flesh builder
1t facilitates the assimilation of the life
giving elements of the food filing the
blood with the nutriment that makes new
and healthy flesh and nerve tissue. Medi-
cine dealers sell it.
Last summer" writes Miss Laura Piersel
of East Bethlehem, Washington Co., Pa, " was
going into consumption. DR.. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery completely cured me-"
A man or woman who neg1ects constipa-
ton suffers from slow poisoning. Doctor
Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cure constipation.
One little Pellet - is a gentle laxative,
and two mild cathartic.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-04
BURNS WILL
RULE OR RUIN
Continued from Second Page.

this Legislature should select the candidate
that all could support.
Our appeals have fallen upon deaf ears,
our suggestions have been ignored, our re
quests have been denied. We have been
told that no caucus would be held because
a majority might select our candidate. ana
at no time has any other reply been made
to US; such an answer is un-Republican. IN
patriotic. devoid of reason, without force
and unworthy Of men anxious to beneht the
party, the people, the State, the nation, and
to perform their duty to the Republicans
who elected them to office.
Now, as ever, we say for our candidate
and ourselves, that in accordance with the
me-honored custom of all political parties.
in obedience to the will OF the masses or
the Republican party, we are ready
to enter into a caucus Of the Republican
members of the Legislature to consist OF
not less than sixty Chat being, in conse-
quence of the death OF one Senator, a ma
jority), and to abide loyalty by the decis-
lon of the majority of that caucus, no mat
ter what candidate may be selected.
We make no threats, we indulge in no
boasts. but we are men who know our
duties to our candidate, ourselves and our
party, and we hereby solemnly declare that
1t is our fixed and unalterable purpose to
continue voting for our candidate non.
Daniel NJ Burns until the close of this
session unless a caucus Of the Republican
members of the Legislature is held in &C
cordance with the views hereinaoove ex-
G. F. KENNEALLY.
F. LUNDQUIST.
A A. McKEEN.
h W. MILLER.
G. W. PIERCE.
w H RICHARD.
c. NJ SHORTRIDGE.
c. NJ SIMPSON.
EUGENE SULLIVAN.
E I. WOLFE.
HOWARD E. WRIGHT.
NJ E. ARNERICH.
NJ. H. BARRY.
s. n. BETTMAN.
F. H. BURNETT.
J. H BEECHER.
WILLIAM H. COBB.
L. A DEVOTE.
H c. DIBBLE.
L. A HENRY.
JOHN A. HOEY.
c. B. JILSON.
GROVE L. JOHNSON.
J. T. LAIRD.
FRANK w LEAVITT.
JOSEPH Med. KELLEY.
JOHN D. KELSEY.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-04
BURNS INCONSISTENT
TALK Of MAJORITY RULE

CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRAMENTO, March
3D. NJ Burns is not the peoples candidate for United
States Senator but put forward candidate by the
Southern Pacific Company, and such not entitled to any
consideration at the hands of the people.
In spite of his knowledge of the fact that he is held in
enths of the people of the State he persists
remaining candidate the risk of running his party and
robbng the State of representative the upper house OF
Congress.
He insists that the majority shall rule yet when major
of the Republican members of the Legislature declare
against cacushe refuses abide by the decision He
he forced to become candidate by the newspapers
though not newspaper in the State mentioned him as
Senatorial possibility until after his candidacy had been
nounced by the political manager of the Southern Pacific
Company.
He of all the candidates before the Legislature has
refused to withdraw from the contest.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-04
wild Rush of Diamond Miners.

wild rush of excited miners is reported at
Nullagine. Western Australia where dia-
monds have been discovered in large guam
titles and Il is feared that many will lose
their lives in the mad struggle for riches. In
this country the rush for gain is causing
many other men to break down in health
and strength. Nervousness, sleeplessness, loss
OF flesh and appetite and general debility are
the common symptoms. Hostetters Stomach
Bitters will them ALL
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-04
Dewey CONGRATULATED.

CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA-
MENTO, March 3.-AssembIyman Wardell
to-day offered in the Assembly a resolu
ton conveying to Admiral Dewey Cali
fornia's congratulations upon his promo
ton to the rank of admiral in the United
States navy. The resolution was adopted
by an enthusiastic vote and at once trans
mitted to the Senate where it was as we'll
received. The congratulatory message
was cabled to Dewey at Manila.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-04
Assembly Gets to Work.

CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA-
MENTO, March 3.-To-day in the Assem-
bly, was given over for the most part to
pickering and petty quarrels, but at this
evenings session a good bit of file work
was got through with. There were just
enough votes present to pass bills and the
evening went by without incident.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-04
In Behalf of the Fair.

CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA-
MENTO, March S.-The Senators from
San Francisco met in the Senate chamber
after adjournment of the morning session
to consider the bills asking an appropria-
ton of $500 900 for the big fair in 1901. The
subject was discussed, but owing to the
absence of some of the members no de-
cisiye action was taken. After electing
Senator Hall chairman and Senator Bur-
nett secretary the meeting adjourned to
meet Monday afternoon, when something
decisive will be agreed to.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-04
Joe Reay Defeats Tobin.

FRESNO, March 3.-Joe Reay OF the
Olympic Club of San Francisco won from
Charles Tobin, the sailor, in the tenth
round of what was to have been
twenty-round contest. The decision was
given against Tobn on a foul, but the
sailor was about gone anyhow.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-04
Two New Laws.

CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA-
MENTO March Ex-Governor Gage sent
word to the Assembly to-day that he had
approved Assembly bill 420, by Johnson
of Sacramento. The bill provides that eff
fective fire escapes shall be placed on all
school buildings. He also approved AS
semblyman RaUb's bill, No 257, which re-
lates to the payment of invalid assess
ments in reclamation districts.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-04
WHEELING'S DESTINATION
PROBABLY MANILA

VANCOUVER, B. c., March 3.-The
United States gunboat Wheeling sailed
this morning. 1t is thought here that
her destination is Manila.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-04
NEW WESTERN HOTEL.

KEARNY AND WASHINGTON STS-RE-
N modelled and renovated. KING. WARD 6
CO. European plan. Rooms. 50c to 81 90 day;
S. to IS week; IS TO $50 month Free baths; hot
and cold water every room: hre CRATES In every
room; elevator runa all night.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-04
Sage Advice to Green.

CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA-
MENTO, March 3.-Milton j. Green has
been given until next Wednesday to appear
before the Assembly and purge himself
of contempt. When his name was called
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-04
Gift to the Mission.

NEW YORK, March 3.-Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph Moffatt of Los Angeles have given
$4,000 worth of real estate to the Florence
Crittenton Mission.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-04
Pico's Claim Turned Down.

CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA-
MENTO, March 3.-The claim of Major
Pico came before the Senate Finance
Committee this evening and was reported
back with an unfavorable recommended
ton. For the past three sessions Pico has
endeavored to get his claim allowed by
the Legislature and this is the first time
it has been turned down by a committee.
Heretofore it has passed ollt of the hands
of the committees and has been vetoed by
the Governor, but this time it will prob
ably meet its finish in the Senate. 1t is
four companies of men during the Next
can war. Considerable surprise is evinced
by a number of members of the LegfSla-
ture on account of the committees action,
as it was thought the claim would pass. The
committee also reported unfavorably upon
the bill to pay the claim of certain UNI
dertakers of Los Angeles, who ask $1S2 so
for the embalming and shipping of the
body of Lieutenant Hartiy r. Hodgson,
who died in Los Angeles while attending
an encampment of the National Guard
there.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-04

to-day neither himself nor a Certificate"
answered to 1T. Grove L. Johnson, how
ever, said that when Green was here in
the middle of the week he had explained
to him that he was obliged to return at
once to Oakland because of the sudden
and serious illness of his wife. Upon this
explanation he asked for further time.
Dibble moved to give him until Wednes-
day; Johnson amended by moving to have
Green taken in charge by the Sergeant
alarms if he should come to Sacramento
between now and Wednesday. The motion
was carried as amended. Altogether it
was a very clear and friendly tip to Mr..
Green to stay away, and one which Mr..
Green win probably gladly accept.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-04
:" When a Man Is Married

His troubles begin" if he has to depend
on an Indifferent laundry at home to do
up his shirts, collars and cuffs. 1t
need be no cause of annoyance when
It is so easy to have your linen laun-
dered lust like new by our perfect
methods, and at such prices as wa
charge for laundering them in man
ner that guarantees satisfaction.
mo saw-edges."
The United States Laundry Office
1904 Market street Telephone
South 400
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-04
ADVERTISEMENTS.

magnificent ex.
ample of what
care of health
will do for a
man is pre-
scented in the
life of Mr..
Gladstone, the
,greatest states
man of the
century. This
q" Gran d Old
Man " at
eighty-six
years of age,
retained b S
intellectual
vigoT unabat-
ed, and had
not lost the
S envy grip
with which he
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-04

Writing papers. pens, pencils, Ink,
blank books and legal blanks cheap at
Sanborn & Wallis.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-04

remarked and by this second union hat
one child.
The remains will be taken to San Lo
reno for interment.
Africo-American Presbyterian., 1899-12-21

every object seems to become ailto -
stare ut you. From all corners look
revolyers. knives, ETC.. and threaten
you. Yet so soon as the effect of tho
injection is over you laugh Mt II and
producF willingly by a new Infection
the same terrorS. About that fine |
bought three st. Bernard dogs. tbink.
ing they would protect me, but one
night ! found they were talking about
mellow they could get rid OF me-so
stood Up and shot one Of them with n
revolver which always used to carry
think this was the most dreadful
night of my life-I standing on the IA.
BILE, with an Indian dagger and a
syringe on the ground. one three foot
high dog going to die and two rather
dangerous dogs roaring and groaning
aloud. reproachfully looking at me, /
who always fancied. Now comes the
moment when they will tear YOU 70;
Pieces. stood the night on the table
until the arrival OF my wardman. who
hardly riSked TO enter the room.
"rhe strange thing. however. in the
cocaine habit is that there seems to be
two souls in the cOcalniSt-Onp infested
by the cocaine. suffering and tortured
by Its effects: the other normal. laugh.
ing at his fears and saying: What
nonsense! II Is only a hallucination.
produced by an injection. Not fright.
ened enough 10y these experiences and
escaping from the troubles produced
by his conduct. on the cocainist goes,
taking more and more. and then en-
ters new kind Of illusion. which fin.
isheS him up for the madhOuSe."- Phil
adelphia Times.
Africo-American Presbyterian., 1899-12-21

We hear pretty stories about the
telephone, how even tue baby is held
up to the telephone and the transmit
ter held to its ear. 1t listens, and then
cries out joyfully Papa" and the
papa many miles away hears it.
One Of the prettiest stories told OF
what the telephone has done is told OF
a family out West. The mother was
sick in hospital many miles away.
She insisted at Christmas time that no
change should be made at home.
There must be Christmas presents and
the tree The father and some men
worked at the Christmas tree for some
hours on the afternoon before Christ
mas. The mamma far away was well
enough to walk to the telephone in
the hospital. The hour was arranged.
Suddenly, when all the children were
around the tree, the father reached
into the tree, put the transmitter care
fully concealed there to the ear of the
youngest child, and the child heard
its mothers Chris'm message. Each
in turn spoke to her, and they voted
that mammals voice was the best
Christmas present that they had
ont took.
Africo-American Presbyterian., 1899-12-21
Card of Thanks.

eGood Samaritan Hospital returns
grateful thanks to the pupils of
UIOred Graded School, their
lEaod teachers, for their generous
ikgiving donation. A wagon
d paper bags conveyed a large
En Of useful provisions, which will
great service to the Hospital.
Et is here given:
bet potatoes, . bushels turnips,
Epes; apples, I bushel; dried fruit,
10; pumpkins 3; flour,
pounds; sugar, - pounds; rice, 8
peas, 3 quarts; salt, one peck;
bars; Oat flakes, 4 packages;
+! pounds; lemons, 2; baking
b, one-half pound; tea, one half
socks, > pairs.
NlChaels Parish school also re-
|ded the hospital most kindly
|SeralIy. Though few in numbers
Ned to the Graded school, its pu-
Fe generously, as the list shows:
one,half bushel; grits, l peck !;
/ pounds; coffee, 1 pound; dried
quart; sweet potatoes, one half
apples, one-half peck; flour, %
y Ouckwheat, l package; toma
cans; soap, = bars; oat flakes, 2
t!si salt, 3 pounds; prupes, 2
o. crackers, 2 pounds; cabbages,
potatoes, one-half peck.
Africo-American Presbyterian., 1899-12-21
SENSATIONS OF A PERSON ADDICTED
TO THE DRUG.

Imagines His Skin and Clothing Arc
Infested With WOrms-Strange Hal
IucinntiOns of the Optics-End In
the MadhOuse.
These evils cannot be more strongly
revealed than In the experience of an
Australian physician. He has given
the world of medicine the benefit Of
narration of what he underwent after
he had become addicted to the almost
constant use of the drug. In the course
of that confession. which he did not
hesitate to make public. he said in de-
scribing his sensations: The first feel
ing Il cocainist has is an indescribable
excitement to do something great; to
leave Il mark. But, alas! this disap-
pears as rapidly as it came, and soon
every part of the body seems to cry
out for new syringe. The second
sensational first. at least. no halluci-
nation-is that his hearing is enor-
mously increased, so that lie hears the
flies walking over the paper. Very
soon every sound begins to be a re-
mark about himself, mostly of nasty
kind, and he begins to carry on soil
tary life, his only companion being
his beloved syringe. Every passerby
seems to talk about him. Often and
often have l stopped persons or order
ed the police to arrest them. thinking
they were talking about me.
after q relatively short time be-
gins the hunting Of the cocaine bug
You imagine that in your skin worms
or similar things are moving along. II
YOU touch them with wool. especially
absorbent wool. they run away and
disappear. only TO peep cautiously out
of some corner to see If there is any
danger. These worms are projected
only to the cocainiStS own person or
clothing. He Sees them on his wash
ing, in his skin. creeping along his pen
holder, but not on other people or
from the laundry. How is this to be
explained? About the same time ap-
pear many other hallucinatiOns Of the
optics and, strange to say. self sug-
gested hallucnations also. Night
turns to day. You sit up in your room
Swinging until the morning and then
fall asleep in a coma. In my case this
occurred to such an extent that | had
to engage hospital warder, who came
in the morning to revive me with about
ten syringes of per cent solution. so
that | was able to drive. not walk. fear
ing some one might garrote me. other
dreadful hallucinations | had in thou
sands, all of a prosecuting character
and frightening the life out of me so
long as the effects Of the drug lasted.
You see small animals running
about your body and feel their bites
Africo-American Presbyterian., 1899-12-21
LIQUOR AND HEALTH,
What a Years Statistics OF q BeneNt
Society Prove.

Society Prove.
ln the Surrey village Of Send is
sick benefit society which is conducted
In two sections. one for teetOtalers and
the other for moderate drinkers The
last balance sheet Is curious one. 1t
shows that the abstainers have reQuir-
ed no sick pay during the IL months,
and the subscriptions were returned to
the extent Of IL 4s. Cd. each. On the
other hand. only IS shillings each was
available for the moderate drinkers,
whose section had received Els Is. Sd.
in sick pay.
The first death in the club occurred
recently, and the question arose wheth-
er both sections should be called on to
pay the levy usual In such cases. AS;
the deceased was n moderate drinker,
the teetotalers contended that no part
Of the subsidy should fall upon them.
but on vote being taken they were
defeated on the point. They feel very
much aggrieved. however. and it Is not
improbable that the section for ab-
stainers will cease to exist at the end
of the year.-London Telegraph.