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Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1899-03-24
BOARD PRO EEDlNGs.
County Commissioners Still In
Session, and viii Bs
I, Tomorrow.

u The board IL county com missiOn r
es-s will not complete the labOrs Of
the March session today, and q
greater portion ~ tomorrow will be
necessary to the consideration Of all
business before It. ~ s.i@5
The FOLIO wing are the transactions
~ the board during 4 portion Ut
Wednesday y and tOdsy's sessiODs:
"A hra ring was granted on the fol-
lowing school petitions: l
" Paul Kohl. alking to be set OF
from, school district No ~, and at.
tacl,ed to school district No 20.
n. b. Slt,ley. asking to b. set of
from school district No SO. and at.
tachpd e. school district No. IS.
John M Raurh. asking to be set
on from school district M. IA, and
ATTACHED to school district No; 46.
and to have lands set on from school
dist M. 70 and attached to school
district No. 40, g..s.,t.,-
The nppliea tiOn Of j. H. Obey to
purchase Tor taxes the swA ~ Of seA
and n~A 1T seA ti section 20. town
snip 1871, range 81. was accepted by
the board and recommended to the
state auditor for approval. Total
taxes, prnslty ami interest $246 81,
amount bid $l23. p.
The application Of W.. 8. CrOwell
for abatement and rerundment Of
taxes on personal property in town
Of Motley was allowed by the board,
and recommended to the state aud
itor for approval. 5>.a. l...
The applicat ton Of T. E. DOten to
purchase for taxes the mex III section
u. and n Of rex Of section 70, town.
ship 40 range 80. was accepted by
the board. aud recommended to the
state auditor for approval. Total
taxes. penalty and interest $449. Sc,
amount bid $3.50. .,H
The appiica ton Of Zoe Hamlin to
purchase for taxes the nw4 of nwA
Of section II, township ~ range so,
WINS accepted by the board. and re-
commented tn state auditor for ap-
prevail. Total taxes. penalty and
interest $SS. 10, amount bio SIS.
the application Of Frank Lambert
for abatement Of penalty and inter-
eat on his taxes on lots 2 and 8
section 81, tOwnship -. range 81,
was allowed by the board. aud re-
commended to the state auditor for
approval. Z. II, .'.'a
The folio wing bills were allowed:
n3>H,c1A r ~. o>,.1 1>., r., 1r>~, f,r a.t,t,
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1899-03-24

Grand Rapids Magnet: About
the only thing y person sees in
the daily papers since congress
adjourned is something about
''crummy" beef, or some chestnut
about wages having beeni"creased
fifteen per cent. No wonder peo.
sigh for tho good old times of two
or three years ago, before the war
had brought on army scandals, and
and instead of the tiresone reports
Of wage.incresses, We were kept
busy watching one factory after
another shut down and one bank
after another close it's doors, while
through the country mar chvd
thousands of hungry, idle men at
whose mancuvers we were amused .
l, is plain that the country is 60.
Jig to the dogs.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-24
To REVISE
THE SYSTEM
OF TAXATION
Revenue Laws to Be
OVerhauIed.
AN IMPORTANT INNOVATION
FIRST SESSION OF THE SENATE
COMMITTEE.
Outline of the Work Discussed and
Plans Of Procedure Decided
Upon by the Com

Just before the last State Senate ad-
journed a committee was appointed to
investigate the tax system of the State
and to report to the next Legislature any
suggestions for it's Improvement The
committee was composed of Senators S.
c. Smith of Bakersfield, j. c. Sims of
Santa Rosa and E. r. Taylor of Alameda
The first session of the committee was
held at the Lick House YESTERDAY the
members bringing business interests in
the city together so they could meet
There was little in the way of business
transacted but plans for future work
were discussed and a general system of
work was agreed upon.
The committee will first send circular
letters to the various county Boards Of
Supervisors, asking for information re-
garding the cost of tax collection, also
statistics as to sources of revenue and
the proportions from each. Letters will
also be sent to the different States, in
curing about different systems of taxa
ton. 1t was further decided to invite
in the subject, and any suggestions so
made will receive the careful attention of
the committee. These communications
may be sent to any member of the COM
mittee-Senator Smith al Bakersfield. Sem
Sims al Santa Rosa or Senator Taylor at
Alameda.
The aim of the committee was stated
for its appointment. The resolution was
presented by Senator Smith, and his in
tention was to investigate and report; but
before the next session the committee will
probably have gone further than that and
will have prepared the form of a bill to
vision and codification of the present tax
laws
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-24
SUTRO PROPERTIES
SOON TO BE SOLD
PRESENT MANAGERS WISH TO
LIQUIDATE ALL DEBTS.
The Heights, Baths, Cliff House,
Napa County Ranch and City
Realty viii Be Disposed Of.

An order was made yesterday by Judge
Corey directing the sale of 81 900 900 or
more of real and personal property be-
longing to the estate of the late Adolph
Sutro. in order that debts of the estate
may be paid as well the minor lega-
cies, and the expenses and charges of ad-
ministration be properly met.
A short time ago Mrs. Dr. Emma L.
Merritt and w. R. H. Adamson, executrix
and executor of the estate, made appli-
cation to sell the properties of the estate
for the reasons named. The properties
which the present managers of the es-
tate wished to dispose of include the Su-
tro Baths. Cliff House and Cliff House
ranch and Sutro Heights, with all statu-
airy, curiosities ETC.: the famous Napa
County ranch, long known as Arcadia
located near Calistoga, and various lots
in the heart of the city and hundreds of
lots In the outside lands. AS the claims
of the creditors amount to about 500 600
this amount will be raised Immediately
just how is not set forth. 1t is under
stood that purchasers have been secured
for large per cent of the property and
that the remainder. included in the order
hammer. The trust clause In the will of
the deceased owner of the property has
been declared invalid by Judge Trout
but doubtless before the property can be
disposed of decision of the Supreme
Court must be had. This may cause some
delay, but in any event ii Is certain that
in the near future the favorite proper
ties of the deceased wiz soon pass into
hands other than those of his heirs.
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s37 of which only was paid in. l cannot
see what value this has unless the fran
chise is renewed. This reminds me that
the Market street railway stock has been
advancing rapidly on its earning capacity,
whereas at the expiration of its several
franchises the bondholders will alone be
protected so far as an inadequate sinking
fund can protect them, and the stockhold-
ers will get nothing.
L do not like to see this stock sold
freely on the market to innocent pur-
chasers, which enables the corporation
when it gets into trouble to cry that ii is
owned by widows and orphans. | think
innocent purchasers should be warned.
AS for the Geary street franchise. you
will see from the facts that if the new
franchise. be offered for sale. the, com
pany will have to secure it if it desires
TO protect the bonds; or the bondholders
themselves will bid and hence the city
is in position to get good price for
together and also make bids. which they
no doubt will do. But for my part l am
willing to say that so far as ! can pro-
tect the public in the matter the fran
chise will not be offered for sale until
after the first of the year for the rea-
sons above stated. ! claim to have the
Supervisors granting franchises and spe
cial privileges"
Another thing that will make the road
of the transgressor hard for the Mar
ket Street Company is the fact that 1t
has not relinquished its Geary street
franchise. 1t has gone TO the Board of
chise over a line that until 1903 at least
is held from the public. 1t asks the
Board of Supervisors to grant a franchise
that will not be in the power of any
Board of Supervisors to grant until 1903
True, ii offers to surrender the franchise.
but 1t does so with string. IF you give
us fifty years for four, We'll trade" How
can the Market Street Railway and the
Board of Supervisors get over the fact
that there is nothing to give and that If
there was the effort to steal twenty-five
years of life from one provision of the
new charter must prove abortive? 1t will
try to show 1t at the next meeting of the
Street Committee on Thursday. After
that, the Mayor.
The other attempts of the Market Street
Company to squeeze the city in its coils,
made at the same time as the applica-
ton for the new Geary street franchise
are no less insidious. A block here and
a block there 1t asks throughout the city
ostensibly for the purpose of connecting
its various lines, but absolutely for the
purpose Of taking up at the minimum of
cost streets which If unhampered by
these petty franchises might prove de-
sirable ways over which competing COM
panies might desire to run lines. They
are all attempts at steals as is the Geary
street application and just as baldfaced
They should all meet with the same fate.
1t is up to Mayor Phelan to stop them
If Supervisors can be found willing
enough to countenance them.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-24
SAN JOSE NORMAL.
Important Meeting Of the Directors
Monday

The new board of directors of the San
Jose Normal School met in this city on
Monday and organized. DR.. Brown of
San Jose was elected chairman for one
year. A temporary executive committee
was appointed, consisting of Directors
Brown. Swiggert and Leavitt. Judge
Short of Fresno and State Superintendent
Kirk were elected members of the joint
board
The election of the president of the San
Jose school was deferred to June 2, at
which time the board will meet in San
Jose The candidates for president are
the incumbent professor RandalD and
Professor c. w. Childs. Professor Nc
Naughton of Arizona has also filed an
application for the position. There has
been considerable friction at the school
for the past two years, and the meeting
of the board is being regarded with keen
interest.
Professor Childs was president of the
school when Governor Budd took Office
and was ousted by the Democratic board
of directors. 1t is regarded as possible
that he will be elected. Should Professor
Childs be again made president 1t may
lead to many changes in the teachers
Under the rules the president dominates
all the teachers and the directors elect
them. On June 2 the board will also ap-
portion the patronage of the clerks, JAM
tors and general keepers.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-24
ROOKER|ES ON
MARKET STREET
IN A BIC BLAZE
A Fire That Threat
ened Danger
CAUSED BY CROSSED WIRES
FRIGHTENED LoDGERS LEAVE
IN HOT HASTE.
A Bunch of Tottering Eyesores in
the Business Section Damaged
to the Extent of
$4,000.

A fire which started in a modest man.
ner and at first seemed insignificant
threatened the very heart of the city be-
tween the hours Of II and II o'clock last
night. At Market and Fourth streets
there are a number of old wooden build
ings, rickety and worm-eaten The ground
floor stores, however, bring in a nice
rental, and this is probably all that has
saved them from being torn down and
replaced by modern structures. Last
night, shortly after II o'clock, the electric
light wires became crossed at Fourth and
Market streets. There was a sputtering
of flame on the pole and a sharp kissing
sound could be heard on the sidewalk
A few minutes later smoke was seen
issuing from the roof of the three-story
frame structure at 1888 Market street. and
an alarm was turned in from box 49,
When the firemen arrived they could only
locate blind fire in the building, and
they started in to fight it. The building
was but a Undertook, however, and in q
few minutes flames were bursting from
the roofs of the buildings at 3, 5, 8 and IL
Fourth street. 1t looked for a. time as
though second alarm would be neces-
sary, but the firemen finally managed to
get the blaze under control.
The fire created great deal of excite
ment along Market street. 1t was fought
wholly from the south side of the street
and the Market-street cars were not
stopped, but hundreds who were on their
way home jumped off the cars, attracted
by the blaze. The upper floors of the
buildings affected by the fire were occu-
pied as lodging-houses, and the dodgers
made hasty exit, dragging out trunks and
satchels filled with their belongings or
rushing pellmell through the streets with
their arms full of clothing. The building
in which the fire originated Immediately
adjoins the notorious Midway Plaisance.
The show was in progress at the time, but
the noise of a fire engine putting in front
of the house soon drove the audience from
the building.
The buildings damaged by fire and
water were as follows: 1888 Market street
first floor occupied by Cardall & Hessell
as a restaurant; second floor, National
Business Agency and B. Lees tailoring
establishment; third floor, lodging house.
Three-story building, 8, and Fourth
street-first floor, King Brothers book
store and O'Brien & Galvin's saloon; up
per floors, Nine. Ravenna, clairvoyant.
Three-story frame building, and II
Fourth street,. w. Williams restaurant,
oyster-house and saloon. The buildings
belong to John w. Mackay and the loss
will reach at least $4,000.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-24
CHAMPION ATHLETES
WILL RUN AND JUMP
ANNUAL MEETING OF COAST
ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION.
It Will Be Held Tomorrow Evening
in the Gymnasium of the
Olympic Club.

Entries for the Pacific Coast annual
Amateur Athletic Association meeting,
which will be held in the Olympic Club
gymnasium tomorrow Thursday even
ing. closed yesterday with the following
results:
1ooo-yard race-P. Cornyn. Columbia Park
Athletic Club Thomas Brennan Olympic
Athletic Club; George I. Shaw Jr., Mission Y.
NJ C. A: George Klaman. Olympic; E. w.
Smith. Stanford University; E. Williams,
Stanford University; A. e. Dondero Ariel
]. H DeIahide, o. c.; Joseph Doyle. o. c.;
n. Lamont, o. c.; E. Webster, Grammar
School Athletic Club; F. E. Ferein. Grammar
School Athletic Club; R. Karindiski, Lowell
High School
s6O-yard race-E. McMullen, Columbia Park
George T. shaw. Mission Y NJ {. A: George
Klaman. Olympic: E. ". Smith, Stanford
University; E. Williams. Stanford University;
A. G. Dondero, Ariel; D. WOODBURY., Re
lance; Joe Doyle. o. c.: w. Lamont, o. CT;
f. Webster, Grammar School Athletic Club
r. Kennedy, Grammar School Athletic Club;
r. Karindiski. Lowell High School.
Obstacle race-P. Cornyn, Columbia Park
Athletic Club; E. McMuilen. Columbia Park
Athletic Club; F. W. Burgers. A. P. Curtis.
Academic Athletic League; George H; Bur
gers Olympic; A. M. Stone. Olympic: B.
Hendrickson. Academic Athletic League; o.
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''Pegamoid" gold, latest best, perfect pain
sample bottle 25c. Pegamoid. So Chronicle bldg
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subscriber, whether his contribution is 10
cents or $40 900, will receive one.
The committee adjourned to meet again
next Friday at o'clock in the Mayor s
private office, when some important an
nouncements will be made.
The Sunnyside Republican Club last
night passed a unanimous resolution in
dorsing The Call for its action in promot-
ing the erection of statue to Admiral
Dewey to be placed in commanding po-
sition on the Pacific Coast on the shores
of the bay of San Francisco.
Al a meeting of the Point Lobos I'm
provement Club last night a resolution
was introduced by Colonel c. H Murphy,
Dewey statue. The resolution, which is
as follows. was unanimously adopted:
Whereas, There is a public movement
on hand to erect a statue in this city to
miral Dewey's great achievement in Ma
Mia: and whereas. said naval achieve
ment cleared the Pacific of fleet that
menaced this coast, and opened the sea
Francisco and other seaport cities of Cali
fornia are under exceptional obligations
to Admiral Dewey; therefore be it
provement Club, moved by sentiments of
gratitude and patriotism, commends this
movement and pledges its support to the
Mayor and the committee in charge of
said proposition; and be 1t further
Resolved, That we highly regard this
project of the peoples gratitude for our
national hero: be it further
Resolved, That we believe it to be the
duty of all good citizens of California to
aid this movement by both moral and
financial assistance.
On the question of selecting a site for
the statue. Secretary w. P. Johnston Of
fered resolution favoring Sutro Heights
as being the best adapted for the brave
Dewey. From this place it was held that
the statue would be one of the first OBJ
jects as also the last seen by all coming
in or going out of the Golden Gate.
Colonel Murphy had no doubt but the
Sutro heirs would sell the heights to the
city at a reasonable figure for such pur-
pose.
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{. Cradle. o. g; J. T; Cunningham, O. C.
F. Webster. Grammar School Athletic Club
K. Kennedy, Grammar School Athletic Club
+. Cornyn, Columbia Park Athletic Club; A
Klein, Columbia Park Athletic Club
D Putting TtI 161Ib shot-H, Nathan, unattached
A NJ. Stone. Olympic; B. Hendrfckson, AGA
demic Athletic League: d Woodburn. Re
lance; w M Cartwright, o. c.
Pole vault for height-W. J. Cutter. Oak
land Y. NJ. c. A; D. Finn, Verein Eintracht
L. scheffer, Verein Eintracht; A R McKin
zie. unattached; d. j. Grant Olympic: Hug
Boyd. Stanford; Charles S. Dole Stanford: a
r. Curtis. Academic Athletic League: J. j
Rosborough, Reliance; D. WOODBURY.. Reliance
S. Simpson, o. c.; A S. Packscher G. S. A. &
Running high jump-W ]. Cutter OakIan
Y: M. c. A; A. r. McKinzie unattached
William Heinicke unattached; D. 5. Grant
Dole. Stanford; ]. ]. Rosborough Reliance; a
Klein, Columbia Park Club; E E Morgan
D. c.
Running broad jump-A. R. Kinzie. unat
tached; F. W. Burgers Olympic: Charles {
Dole. Stanford; George H Burgers. Olympic
A NJ. Stone Olympic; ALT Dondero, Ariel: i
Woodburn. Reliance; J. T Cunningham. o G.
E. E. Morgan, Q. c.
% yard dash-W. ]. Cutter. Oakland Y n
c. A; F. w. Burgers Olympic: B. MouIdef
Olympic George H Burgers Olympic: A n
Stone, Olympic: ALI Dondero. Ariel Rowin.
Club; B: Hendrickson. Academic Athleti
League: D. WOODBURY. Reliance: w Jacohs
Academic Athletic League: F E Rodolph. Z
c.; J. T. Cunningham, o. c.: L. Buhlert Gran
mar School Athletic Club; r. Kennedy Gram
mar School Athletic Club; F. F. Ferein. Gran
mar School Athletic Club: E E Morgan q n
25 yard hurde-W. j. Cutter. Oakland Y. N
c. A; George klaman. Olympic; Aft Dondere
Ariel; F. 2. Rodolph, o. c.; A. S. PackscheI
G. S. A. C.
Standing high jump-A NJ Stone. o. c.
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The Court Erred.

The Judge of the Superior Court of Mon
terey County received a decided setback
yesterday at the hands of the Justices of
the Supreme Court. Charles l.. Westlake
in 1897 was the Tax Collector of Monterey
County, and the was indicted by the
Grand Jury for embezzling $371, and after
a trial was sentenced to ten years in the
State prison. An appeal was taken from
the Judgment on the ground that the
court had erred in its instructions to the
jury. Supreme Court Commissioner
Cooper, who wrote the opinion, also con-
sidered that a serious error had been COM
mitted to the injury of the defendant, for
court instructed the jury that the willful
omission to pay over the money itself
made the defendant guilty as charged"
matter and the Judgment and order deny
ing new trial was reversed.
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1898 or the act of 1897. Section IS of the
consolidation act is inconsistent with
neither statute and ii therefore stands.
BY authority OF that section all ordt-
nances granting special privileges or
franchises coming within that category
must be submitted to the Mayor 1t may
be that bids are absurdly low for Valu-
able franchises. In that event ii would
be my duty to return the order without
There is no disposition certainly on
my part to stand in the way of granting
reasonable franchises under ordinary cir
cumstances, but as the charter goes into
effect on the LIST of January, think that
all franchises hereafter should be
granted under the provisions of that in
strument. l am disposed to believe that
when the present street railway fran
chiSes In San Francisco expire the people
will want 10 control the streets and the
street transportation on their own &C
count by municipal ownership, giving a
very low rate Of fare to passengers in
order TO facilitate intercommunication
and thus build the city and bring the
suburbs within the reach of the mechanic
and the laborer When the labOrerS were
working on the Dewey boulevard they had
to pay one-tenth of their days earnings
to come and go to and from their work.
THE anxiety of the Geary Street Rail-
way Company, controlled by the Market
Street Railway, to secure a new franchise
is due, first. TO desire to avoid
ter ter Which limits the term of a
franchise to twenty-five years and
provides that at the expiration of that
time the roadbed shall revert to the city;
and secondly, the company is in a diff
Guilty. which reflects bad management or
bad faith upon somebody. 1t is this:
while the franchise expires in 1903 the
company has issued s671 900 worth of
bonds which do not mature until 1921, and
no provision. as / understand it, has been
made for a sinking fund. AS result the
bondholders. who must have bought
blindly, will have nothing to show for
their investment unless the same com
pany secures the franchise. In addition
to the bonds there is a million dollars
worth of stock issued at 800 par value,
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a general canvass for funds. This COM
mittee will report at meeting TO be held
Friday, at which time the general COM
mittee Will resolve itself into commit
tee of the whole on subscriptions and
each member will be assigned to a dis
trict which he will be expected to thor
oughly canvass.
Still another committee was appointed
to walt upon the proprietors of the differ
ent newspapers in the city and have
them throw open their columns to sub
scriptions and have each business office
act as a collection agency for the fund
By so doing contributions from interior
points can be sent In to any of the papers,
due credit given to the sender, and the
money promptly turned over to the treas
urer.
The dispatch from Admiral Dewey, in
which he stated that the proposition of
his fellow townsmen to erect a statue Of
him TO be placed beside the statue of
Ethan Allen had been more gratifying to
him than anything that had yet been
suggested, was commented upon, and the
members of the committee felt that the
admiral would feel the same way in re-
gard to the movement on the Pacific
Coast
Committees of five members each on
design, construction and location were
appointed and will begin work at once
The committee on location bids fair TO
have the most difficult task to perform.
for already letters are pouring in upon
the general committee offering sugges-
lions as to the location of the statue and
giving reasons why the writer's views
should be accepted above all others. That
committee is going TO have an unhappy
time of it, 1t is evident. for the enthusi-
asts have only just begun to get stirred
up over the proposition. There are many
thousands TO be heard from, and every
one will have to reinforce his first state
ment with succeeding letters.
One letter was received yesterday from
a Native Son containing a suggestion
that was Immediately acted upon without
dissent. 1t was that the committee pre-
pare an Illuminated receipt to be given to
each contributor to the fund. which can
be kept as souvenir. The committee
will have prepared at once some designs
for such receipt to be submitted at the
next meeting for approval The receipt