The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-10
THE OLD SOLDIERS
DEMAND PRIMARIES
ARMY AND NAVY MEN GO ON
RECORD.
Declare Primaries to B. the Only Re
publican Method of Elect
ing Delegates.
Oakland Office San Francisco Gail,

Oakland Office San Francisco Gail,
90S broadway, Jan. 9.
The old soldiers have made a demand
for a primary of the Republican party to
elect candidates to the city convention. At
the annual meeting of Oakland Camp No.
3, Army and Navy League, the following
resolutions We're adopted:
Whereas The Republican party. in State
convention assembled, in 1896 by it's platform
declared that in future all delegates to Re
publican nominated conventions should be
chosen by primary election; and whereas,
while open TO some abuses, primary elections
result in a more nearly fair expression of the
desires Of the Republican voters than selec-
ton Of delegates by any other method; there
Resolved By Oakland Camp No. 3, Army
and Navy Republican League. in meeting
sembled this Ith day of January 1899. that
demand that the City Republican Committee
call a primary election to select delegates to
the coming city convention.
After the passage of the resolution Col
onel q. w. Hoguet was elected for the
third term camp commander; n. S. Doug
las was elected lieutenant colonel; Charles
l. Pierce, major; Jacob Winkler, quarter
master; L. w. Little, officer of the day;
John Fitzmaurice, officer of the guard.
A. R. Denke's Insolvency.
OAKLAND Jan. "a r. Denke, the
old time real estate dealer and building
contractor Of Alameda, has filed a petit
to be very much involved, as his liabili-
ties amount to about S25 900 beyond avail
able assets. Denke has been in business
IN Alameda for many years and has nego-
-tiated some very successful deals, but
business with him the past few years has
been dropping off and his creditors are
now forcing him to pay up.
Last Friday Ingler & Atkinson levied
an attachment on some of his Alameda
property and later the Puget Sound Lum-
Der Company likewise levied an attach
ment on seven other lots and on Satur-
day Denke raised $25OO by executing a
deed Of trust on other property.
Another Incorrigible Girl.
OAKLAND. Jan. 9-Mattie Anderson.
aged 1G years, companion of Lizzie At
flcck the incorrigible, who was committed
TO Whittier last week, was placed in the
County Jail to-day on charge of petty
larceny. She chides the Affieck girl for
causing her arrest, and it is probable that
she, too, will be committed to Whittier
The authorities are waiting to hear from
her mother, who lives at Crockett When
the prisoner left her home She carried
her. Afterward she was sent TO ReTIah
Home. but from there She ran away and
was caught In cheap lodging house by
a policeman.
Collins Has Disappeared.
OAKLAND, Jan. 9-James w. Collins
formerly proprietor of the only Candy
Kitchen at 1904 Seventh street has NOT
been seen in this city or heard from since
December last, when he disposed of a
half interest in his business. At that
time he was under the influence of LIQUOR
and asked his newly acquired partner to
help him quit the habit. Collins was a
middle-aged man, but nothing is known
about his antecedents. He is crippled in
his lower limbs and walks with clutches
A Very Serious Charge.
OAKLAND. Jan. 9-Maria Machedo
and her mother Of Pleasanton called at
the District Attorneys office to-day and
secured a warrant for the arrest of VIII
. liam Ferry, also of Pleasanton. charging
him with criminal assault committed last
March. The girl will be 16 years of age
on the 21st instant and recently became a
mother, but her child died. According
TO Mrs. Machedo the proposition was
made to young Ferry to marry the girl,
but this he refused to do, and now the