New-York tribune., 1900-09-30
TOPICS IN CALIFORNIA.
TO BENEFIT STANFORD UNIVERSITY
PACIFIC COMMERCIAL MUSEUM
PLIGHT OF OPERA COMPANY.
LBr TELEGRAPH TO TIE raIBuNE.I

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! tBY TELEGRAPH TIE TRIBUNE-I
San Francisco. Sept 29.-The Stanford Uni
versity alumni and undergraduates will begin
| at a novel attempt to influence public
! opinion at the coming election in favor OF a
| constitutional amendment which will permit the
| university 10 accept gifts by viii well by
! grant during life and property outside Of the
/ State as we'll as in California The amendment
also exempts the university site and buildings
| from taxation. Students Will go to their homes
! just before Election Day. and by speeches and
articles in their local newspapers Will endeavor
| to secure votes for this amendment. which
| means so much TO the university.
| The Pacific Commercial Museum was organ
lied this week by the election of Irving VI. Scott
builder of the battleship Oregon, as president
Two vice-presidents and a large advisory board
viii be selected at future meeting The mer-
chants showed great enthusiasm. and the
scum is regarded assured success.
The greed Of fire insurance underwriters has
cost them $4,000 in commissions on $1,000 900
worth Of prunes this season. The California
Cured Fruit Association expected to get the
same rates as in previous years the prunes
are stored in warehouses until shipped TO the
East But the underwriters fancied the fruit
would be compelled to insure, and
doubled the rates. The result was that the
wifi expend $4,000 for water supply and hire Of
additional watchmen TO guard against fire
Plans have been prepared by Superintendent
Lynch OF the Market Street Railway Company
which will soon convert the cable railways west
OF Devisadero-st- into electric lines If these
plans approved the Jackson, Sacramento.
Clay and McAllister lines beyond Devisadero-st.
will be run by electricity. This district is fairly
level. and trouble is anticipated in the use OF
electric traction.
John NJ Chriten, once prominent Bohemian
Club man and a lawyer and politician. was
convicted this week of procuring the forgery Of
a document by which a sprious heir 10 a local
estate proved his claim and obtained the money.
The only defence was legal technicaIity.
: Chriten few years ago acted as counsel for
all the big Eastern theatrical managers and had
a practical monopoly of theatrical litigation. but
| his crooked methods lost him this as well as
! other business. He was expelled from the Bo-
| hemian Club for introducing professional card
sharpers. and lately had been exposed in several
| shady transactions He will probably go TO
! State Prison for long time.
Alfred Tobin son of the late Richard Tobin
| died this week from pneumonia. He was a
| director Of the Hibernia Bank and for years
| had been associated with his brother. Joseph S
! Tobin. in the law firm which was counsel for
| the bank.
The death Of Collector Of the Port John P.
! Jackson removed one Of the best known public
! men Of the state Jackson a fellow law
| student with ex-President Harrison in BelIamy
! StoreTs Office, in Cincinnati, served through
! the Civil War cane TO California in 1867, was
Identified with early railroad building, and later
with Journalism. He served United States
! Treasurer under President Harrison. and was
| named as Collector Of the Port by President Nc
! kinley.
| Nothing noteW orthy was produced at any Of
! he AyzaI and O-,ar-
] Company mas furnished much amusement by its
vagartes. II was billed for three weeks ago at
/ the California Theatre. but was delayed in its
| departure from Jamaica, and did not reach here
till last Monday when ii was discovered that the
| opera scores had been left in a Mexican custom
house. The manager requested the loan of