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A Pretty Mesh Yelling,
18 Inches Wide, l2C Yard.

This is a pretty yelling at low price. 1t hi
double mesh inch and J inch square, with sms
silk spot at each end Of the squares. Ground wol
OF black with new blue, brown, navy, red and hell
1rore threads running through. Is inches wild
I2c yard
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-02
MONTEREY BEET
LAND IN LITIGATION
-Drawn-out Suit Caused by a
Change in the Salinas River
Channel

SALINAS, Feb. lone of the most i'm
portant land cases ever tried in the courts
of Monterey County is that Of E. j. Mo-
lera of San Francisco VS.. James Martin
Of Monterey, now occupying the atten-
ton of jury in the Superior Court The
litigation was caused by the change of
the channel of Salinas River. Every wet
winter the river. overfows its banks and
as rule the river bed is changed In
1894 this was the case. The river changed
its course so materially that many prop
erty-owners whose land was on the south
side of the stream found themselves on
the north side
]. B. H. Cooper of San Francisco and
James Martin owned property at Moro
Colo about seven miles from this city.
The river was the boundary line to the
property. After the river changed ll6
acres of the Martin land was shifted over
to the other side and adjoining the Mo-
lera property. Molera claimed the land
as according to the survey the river was
the boundary line of his property. Martln
took possession of the land and Molera
sued to eject Martin won In the lower
court but lost on appeal. The case mas
remained in the courts ever since and Is
now being tried in the Superior Court oil
this county The property involved is
some of the best beet land in the county
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-02
THE THREE CONSULS
IN SAMOA HAVE A
DISAGREEMENT
Natives Do Little More Fighting,
but Foreign Representatives
Almost Cease Diplomatic
Relations.

AUCKLAND, N. e., Feb. 1.-The fol-
lowing advices have just been received
here from Apia, Samoa, under date OF
January "a, from the correspondent OF
the Associated Press:
There has been collision OF authorl-
ty between Chief Justice William l..
Chambers of the Supreme Court and
DR.. Joannes Raffeb the German presl-
dent of the municipality of Apia.
Herr Grosmuhl, German resident OF
Apia, who was arrested for smashing
the windows of the Supreme Court
chamber, was sentenced by the Chief
Justice to Imprisonment and to pay
fine. DR.. Raffel instructed the police
authorities to release Herr Grosmuhl,
whose fine was subsequently fixed at
$1,000.
The German Consul, Herr Rose,
thereupon wrote to the American Con-
sui, Lloyd w. Osborne, and the British
Consul, E. B. S. Maxse, protesting that
the action of the Chief Justice in filming
Herr Grosmuhl was an infringement
of German consular rights. Messrs.
Osborne and Maxse jointly replied in
their official capacity that, the proper
tribunal having dealt with the matter,
the consuls could not interfere. More
than this, they declined to have further
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-02
SOCIETY ATTENDS
THE HORSE SHOW
Brilliant Turnout at Los
Angeles.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 1.-The first
horse show ever held in Southern Cali
fornia opened this afternoon. Upward
of 1000 persons sought admittance. The
scene at Fiesta Park was calculated to
make one think that great circus had
come to town. Before daybreak
hostlers were astir; by the time the
horses had been fed and watered ar
tisans began to arrive to put the final
touches on their work.
For the most part the crowd was
from the ranks of the four hundred,
and the fair sex predominated. 1t
was a gay appearing throng. Gowns of
brilliant hue and millinery that has
been designed especially for the occa-
sion were in evidence, and when the
people were seated in the gaily decor
ated amphitheater prettier scene
could not have been painted.
Tonight the tents were brilliant with
arc lights around center poles, and hun
dreds of incandescent lamps glinting
among the fiuttering pennants made
the gaily decorated boxes appear like
transplanted gardens with their ferns,
smilax and flowers. Flags festooned
the center of the arena.
Among the entries are the following:
Walter S. Hobart, San Francisco-Mon-
arch. Performer, Damrosch and Seidl Mr.
Hobart's favorite four-in-hand park team;
Dip, Sparkle, Spot and Lightfoot; Cannon
Mortar, Stars and Stripes, black four
INLAND; King and Emperor, Car and
Sultan, carriage teams; Pride and Preju-
dice. Mrs. Hobart's park phaeton team;
Paragon and Peacock, tandem; Tommy
Tompkins Lancer, single-footer; Union
Square and Madison Square, December
Night and June Day, matched pairs of
browns All of Mr.. Hobart's traps,
coaches, vehicles and turnouts arrived
yesterday-enougho of all classes to fill one
of the big tents.
L. " Harkness-Lady Gray and Mars,
dark browns; Major and Colonel, dark
bays: Captain, Helpmate, Defender and
A. Howard San Francisco-Eva and
Doherty, strawberry roans, park team.
John Parrott, San Francsco-Green's
Rufus, Alabama and Sovereign; Paquita
and Petita; PARROTS four in hand-Am-
Der. Sonata, Prig, Theory.
From Santa Barbara: M. r. Hamsch-
Maggie, Smut Clay.
r. B. Fithian-Straggler Matchbox, Ro-
nero.
From Los Angeles: Mrs A C. Sever
ance-Directus, Direct (2:051a), Bette
Madison, Glendoveer, Rhoda Peso, Pesa-
to, Zip.
w. w. Hitchcock-Dewey.
j. w. A. Off-Ponies Black Beauty, Cap
tain Stamp.
Great preparations are being made
for floral day (Friday), when the Los
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-02
A CANAL BILL
TO Be PASSED
House Republicans Are
in Earnest.
HEPBURN'S NEW MEASURE
WILL PUT MoRGAN's SCHEME
TO ONE SIDE.
Plan Is for This Government to
Build the Great Cana as
It's Own Prop
erty.
HEPBURN'S NEW MEASURE
WILL PUT MoRGAN'S SCHEME
TO ONE SIDE.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

NEW YORK, Feb. IA Washington
special to the Herald says: The pros
poets for the enactment of Nicaragua
canal legislation are much brighter
than they have been at any time
since the beginning of the present ses7
sion of Congress. The House Commit
tee on Interstate and Foreign Com
merce will meet tomorrow to resume
consideration of the subject, and 1t is
expected an agreement will be reached
to report bill to the House.
The measure that will probably be
reported is the bill introduced in the
House by Representative Hepburn of
Iowa, chairman of the committee. 1t
will not be reported, however, as a
House bill. but will be substituted for
the Senate bill, which is now before the
committee In this way, while the two
houses pass measures differing entirely
in text, the House bill will be technl-
cally an amendment to the Senate bill,
and the measure can thus be sent to
conference.
The general belief is that if the bill
can be advanced at this stage some
agreement can be reached that VIII re-
suit in the enactment of law during
the short time remaining before the ad-
journment of Congress.
This will be one of the matters con-
sidered at the caucus of the House Re-
publicans, which has been called for to-
morrow night to take action regarding
the order of business in the House dur
ing the remainder of the session. The
principal point of difference between
the Hepburn bill and the Morgan bill,
which has passed the Senate, lies in the
fact that the Hepburn bill ignores the
Maritime Canal Company entirely and
proposes to have the United States deal
directly with the Governments of Mica
ragua and Costa Rica and construct a
canal just as a harbor Improvement
would be made in this country by ap-
preparations direct from the treasury.
An amendment will probably be made
to the Hepburn bill tomorrow giving
the President authority to so negotiate
with corporations holding concessions
from Nicaragua and Costa Rica as
would enable him to pay the Maritime
Canal Company such sum as he might
find it entitled to.
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the last shots and those that preceded.
The first two and the last shot were
noticeably louder than the intermediate
shots. He believed that ten or twelve
seconds elapsed between the first and
last shot.
Miss F. A. Coates. the telegraph op-
orator at Napa, testified that on De-
cember 1 George S. Mckenzie caused
to be telegraphed the following mes
sage, addressed to Jesse Walters, at
Oakville:
Come down on the morning train. to
San Francisco to identify man in Grigs-
by robbery. I think you know him.
Objection was made by Attorney
Beerstecher to the introduction Of this
message, on the ground that it did not
connect Mckenzie with the killing of
Cook, and that it related to another
matter entirely. This elected from Bell
the following statement:
We exepect to follow this up by show
ing that on the following morning George
S. Mckenzie and Jesse Walters went to
the city of San Francisco for the purpose
of looking for Alfred Cook and that this
message was sent to Jesse Walters to get
him to go there to look for Alfred Cook.
Although the language is ambiguous 1t
applies to this case, and we Will show by
the admissions of the defendant before
the Coroner's jury that he sent this tele-
gram to Jesse Waters for the purpose
of having him go TO San Francisco to
look for Alfred Cook. We will thereby
connect this telegram with this murder.
We will show by another witness that
they were at this witness house on the I'd
of December, 1898 We claim that this
telegram was thus worded merely to
throw some one, perhaps an officer OF the
law, off the track. and that 1t was In re-
Spouse to II that Jesse Walters went with
Mckenzie to San Francisco to look for
Alfred Cook.
We are going to show that there was a
conspiracy to hunt up Alfred Cook; we
will show that Mckenzie and Walters
were looking for Cook and that they
looked for him to kill him.
The court admitted the telegram as
evidence.
Mrs. NJ. Ray, of San Francisco, tes-
titled that she kept a lodging house at
405 Van Ness avenue on December 2,
1885, when Mckenzie and Walters Wis
tied her house. Mckenzie and Walters
talked about Cook. Walters asked Mrs.
Ray if any one visited Mrs. Walters
while Mrs. Walters stopped at the wit
ness house. Walters said that if Mrs
Walters went to San Francisco and
Cook visited her, he would have an
officer there. Alfred Cook had called
at her house She could not state
whether or not she knew Cook and Dor
man were one. Postal cards were sent
to Mrs. Ray by Mrs. Walters with in
structions TO communicate their con-
tents to Cook.
did you ever deliver to Alfred Cook
any letters addressed to Alfred Dor
mani" asked District Attorney Bell.
This question nearly threw the wit
ness into a faint, and she begged for
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-02

Angeles fire department will appear
headed by Chief Walter Moore.
A contest not on the bills was con-
Guided at $3.50 this morning. Prince
Fortunatus' Hobart and S. W. Still
well. who halls from Montecito and
drives random races, wagered S10G on
the result of match at random The
terms of the contest were: Drivers Of
random team to maneuver wild cay
uses through the intricacies of a double
eight figure and to avoid wooden OBJ
stacles. Mr. Hobart won the toss, and
so Mr.. Stillwell of Montecito had to
make the fist showing, The upshot Of
the affair was that the man from Mon
tecito could not trace a double eight.
Then Mr.. Hobart took the ribbons, and
all the difficulties melted away He
made his double eight the first time,
but knocked down few obstacles. The
second time he moved down only three
obstacles. Ringmaster Graham solemn
ly announced the palm awarded to the
San Mateo millionaire.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-02
THE LAST OF THE HoRsEcARs
The Market Street Company to Re
construct It's Downtown Roads.

The days of the horsecars in San Fran
cisco are about at an end. It is the inten-
ton of the Market-street Railroad Com
pany to start Constructor H. H. Lynch
with his gang of road builders recon
structing its downtown lines just as soon
as the Parnassus avenue road leading
to the Affiliated Colleges, is finished. Work
will be commenced on Sixth street at
Brannan and will be followed along the
line of that street to Market up Taylor
to Geary, and down that street to Kear-
ny and Market. Here a turn will be made
down Market to Sansome thence north
as far as Jackson and up that street to
Montgomery, thence along Montgomery
to Market and back to Geary, where the
double tracks will be used to the end of
the line al Brannan.
Over this entire line electric power will
be substituted for the present bobtail cars
that have been jogging along since the
city was in it's infant days.
ed lines will be of the newest and best
System adopted for electric service. The
rails will be welded at the joints. thus
making one continuous rail from start to
finish and doing away with the boiling of
the rails, the manner of fastening in days
gone by. By the modern method a light
er rail is used, but by the welding pro-
cess equally as solid work in obtained.
as there is no springing under the moving
car at railend joints.
In about six months the electric cars
will be seen spinning through the com
merciaI center of the city. The Fifth
one left to remind the pioneer of his early
DAYS
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-02

intercourse with the German Consul or
the German municipal president, except
in writing, or to attend meetings, ex-
cept to consider the acts of the NUM-
cipal council of Apia, unless an apology
with full retraction were offered for the
behavior toward Chief Justice Cham
bers. At the same time the Supreme
Court summoned DR.. Raffel for con-
tempt of court in releasing Herr Gros-
muhI
There has been no further general
fighting between the partisans of the
rival chieftains since the last advices
were forwarded, except that a party
of Mataafa's followers was routed in
the bush by Malietoans. 1t is expect
ed, however, that fighting will be re-
sumed, as Mataafa is rearresting per
sons who have been already fined
and released.
The work of pillage continues. among
the houses looted being Vailima. the
home of the late Robert Louis Steven
son, the novelist.
The exiled Malietoan chiefs were
landed at Pago-Pago, on the island of
Tutuila, the schooner on which thev
were on being unable to proceed to the
island of Manau owing to adverse
winds The Tutuilans gave them a
hearty welcome and attempted TO
seize Mataafa's son, who was on board
the schooner, but the captain put to
sea.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-02
LITTLE HOPE FOR DREYFUS
EVEN HIS FRIENDS NOW FEAR
THE WORST.
The Exile So Angry He Will Give
No Testimony Unless He Is
Taken Back to
Paris.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

PARIS, Feb. Count Ferdinand
Walsin Esterhazy was officially in
formed yesterday that his testimony
before the Court of Cessation in the
Dreyfus inquiry being concluded pro-
ceedings against him on criminal
charges would be resumed in twenty
four hours He left at once for an un-
known destination by the Northern
Railway.
Count Esterhazy's flight to evade ar
rest on the charges brought against
him by his cousin, Christian Esterhazy.
or obtaining money under fraudulent
pretenses, has been the sensation of the
day. On reading the warning letter
which was broueht to him by detec-
tive, Esterhazy swore and called the
letter a "canaillerie," trick worthy
of the beasts l have had to deal with"
1t is understood that the hasty with
drawal of the safe conduct granted
him was the outcome of his cavalier
treatment of NJ. Bertulu. the magis-
trate, and of his refusal to give further
testimony.
The latest victim of the anti Dreyfus
party is the Grand Rabbi Zado Khan,
who is being denounced as the ring
leader of the infamous Jewish con-
spiracy against France" on the strength
of a story just published to the effect
that after Dreyfus was sentenced the
rabbi, at the request of Matthew Drey-
fus, tried to get, through a friendly
Jewish officer in EsterhaZy's regiment,
some particulars as to the Count S
movements
lie Soir demands the resignation of
the rabbi and as the latter is virtually
a state official it is not unlikely that
the agitation will become serious
matter for him. Curiously enough the
editor of LIE Soir, which is one of the
NEST violent of the anti Dreyfus or
gans, is himself Jew, named CASTOR
Hollonais.
According TO a dispatch to La Presse
from Cayenne, the capital of French
Guiana, Dreyfus was so angry on learn
ing that Captain lie Brun Renault had
asserted that he confessed at the time
of his trial and degradation that he de-
clined TO answer any more of the ques-
tons put to him by the Court of Casa
ton unless taken back to France
The most ardent supporters of the
theory that Dreyfus was unjustly con-
demned now admit that there is no
longer the least hope that justice will
be done. A prominent member of the
University of Paris, who 1. ON the first
has been a militant champion of a re-
vision Of the trial, says:
For ninety-nine out of a hundred
Frenchmen the guilt or innocence of
Dreyfus is a matter Of sentiment All
the reasoning in the world would not
induce them to change their attitude.
There are millions of Frenchmen who
will insist upon Dreyfus' guilt in spite
of any proof to the contrary. A feature
of the situation is that the attitude of
this majority is dictated by motives
which they believe to be deserving of
the highest respect. l admit that some
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-02

of the Dreyfusards are much to blame
for this. The best cause may be
ruined by disreputable adherents, and
there are men on the Dreyfus side of
whom every patriotic Frenchman is
the natural enemy. While the ma
jority of us have been merely demand
ing that justice should be done. pesti-
lent minority has made this demand an
excuse for virulent onslaughts on in
stitutions we hold in great esteem"
In conclusion, the member of the uni
versity predicted that the result of the
unparalleled violence on the Jews, as
the masses are convinced that they are
at the bottom of the whole trouble"
1t is persistently reiterated in the lob
bies of the Palais Bourbon that the
committee of the Chamber of Deputies
now considering the Governments re-
vision bill has already decided that the
allegations made by Quesnay de Beau
repaire against M. Loew and other
members of the criminal bench of the
Court of Cessation are without founda
ton,
According to another rumor the COM
mittees examination OF the dossler
submitted by NJ. Mazeau, first presi-
dent of the Court of Cessation, on the
subject of M. Beaurepaires charges
shows it to contain letters eulogizing
the criminal section written by M. Ma
zeau's own colleagues. The Mazeau
dossier is also said to contain letter
from M. Loew declaring that the men,
bers of the criminal section have re-
ceived letters almost without number
containing insults and threats of death.
NJ Loew's letter is also, said TO
explain that he appointed M. Bard.
who is an unmarried man, to make
the original report on the Dreyfus case
in order that If these threats or violence
were carried out whole family should
not be plunged into mourning.
ROTTERDAM, Feb. 1.-Comte Fer
dinand Esterhazy arrived here to-day
from Paris and left Immediately for
Arnsf erda m
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-02

BOY BURGLARS CAUGHT.

Policemen Ward and Cochrane yester-
day afternoon arrested two boys named
Charles Forrest, alias Kid Forrest, and
Edward O'Brien on suspicion of having
attempted to break into three houses in
the Western Addition last Tuesday night.
Shortly after o'clock they tried to force
an entrance to the residence of Jacob
Strauss at the corner of Golden Gate av-
enue and Franklin street. One of the
occupants heard them at work and put
them to flight Subsequently they at
tempted to break into another residence
at Golden Gate avenue and Steiner, but
were frightened off by the barking of a
dog.
About an hour afterward they pried
open the basement of house near Turk
and Buchanan streets, but were discov-
cred and driven away. The Forrest boy
was seen by one of the occupants of the
house, who after the arrest positively
identified him. A short time ago young
Forrest was arrested for burglary and
sent to the Reform School. He was short
ly afterward released on the promise to
behave himself in the future.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-02
Residence for Bishop Nichols.

The committee appointed at the Epis-
copal convention last week to formulate
plans and devise ways and means for the
erection of an episcopal residence for the
Right Rev William Ford Nichols, Bishop
of California, met yesterday afternoon
and effected an organization. The fol-
lowing officers were chosen: William
Babcock, chairman; Rev. William Carson
Shaw. secretary; William H. Crocker,
treasurer. The Crocker- Woolworth Bank
was made the depository for all funds
collected for the purpose. A special com
mittee, composed of William Babcock, A.
N Drown and William H. Croker, was
the matter. The well-known energy of
the gentlemen makes certain the accom-
plishment of the desired object and a
soon add to the architectural beauty of
this city.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-02
HORRIBLE CASE
OF FRATRICIDE

CHICAGO, Feb. When Mrs. Michael
Malone of 146 Gladys avenue entered the
room Of her husband last night and at
tempted to arouse him she was Mortified
10 find that his head was almost severed
from his body Thomas Malone. brother
Of the murdered man, surrendered to the
police to-day and acknowledged that he
had killed his brother According to his
story Michael threw a stove lid at him
because he refused to go for beer, where
upon he felled Michael with a hammer.
The confessed murderer added:
after he fell I carried him TO the bed
and finished him with razor. He was
no account anyhow-always drunk and
fghting with every one. 1t was no use
trying TO live with him any longer"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-02

as to have him arrested for alternating
the affections of Mrs. Walters
Justice Bradford, averse to repeating
the exhibition he made in the Walters
case. induced Justice J. c. Wright of
Calistoga to hold court for him and
preside during the examination of Nc
Kenzie, and everything ran along
smoothly in consequence. George A
knight was unable to appear for Nc
Kenzie, and Arson Hilton of San Fran
cisco was added to the list of attorneys
for the defense. The court room held
a larger audience than has been pres
ent at any previous stage Of the pro-
ceedings. About forty witnesses are to
be examined for the prosecution. Nine
teen of these were on the stand to-day.
The prosecution expects to close to-
morrow, and the defense does not in
tend to put on any witnesses in behalf
of the accused.
F. J. Peabody, a photographer of st.
Helena, testified that Walters called on
him on December 3. 1898. and asked for
a photograph of Cook for Sheriff Nc
Kenzie saying Cook was wanted in
connection with a forgery case. Attor-
ney Beerstecher objected TO witness
testifying to anything Walters may
have said regarding Mckenzie. To this
Bell replied as follows:
We propose to show a conspiracy be-
tween Jesse Walters and George S. Nc
Kenzie to kill Alfred Cook. We expect
to show that this conspiracy dates back
TO December l, 1898.
On further objection by the defense
this witness was temporarily with
drawn.
Fred Jacks, who keeps a bicycle re-
pair shop adjoining the Mckenzie sta
BILE, heard shots from McKenzie's sta
Bile at the time Of the homicide Two
shots came rapidly together and others
followed at greater interval. He
thought three shots followed the first
two, but there may have been more.
There were several seconds between