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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1901-12-10
NEWS OF THE OCEAN.

The schooner w H. Talbot will load lumber
at Bakeley for Shanghai. 4Os, chartered prior
to arrival.
The barkentne Jane L. Stanford is chartered
to load lumber on Puget Sound for Sydney
3Ss Sd. option Of Melbourne. Adelaide Port
Prize 46s Sd chartered prior to arrival.
The barkentine T. p Emigh is chartered
for lumber at Tacoma for Sydney, 40s; Mel
bourne or Adelaide, AIS Cd.
The bark Carrollton loads coal at Tacoma
for Honolulu; the bark c. D. Bryant and the
schooner Aloha, merchandise at this port for
Honolulu.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1901-12-10
Additional Cargo.

In addition to cargo previously reported the
steamer Chile. which sailed Saturday for VAL
paradise and way ports. carried merchandise for
Mexico valued at $2709 and some small ship
ments to South America valued at 1890. The
addition included the following:
To Mexco-l42 gals wine Is pkgs dry goods
400 lbs bread 1886 lbs raisins 20 kegs staples
449 IDS dried Irult pkgs wagon material II
40 pkgs shoes and dies, 5S5 lbs millstuffs, % cs
canned goods, IS pkgs tank material "A pkgs
millwork, IL pkgs groceries and provisions 102
lbs spices 25 cs tar 30 SKIS potatoes, 20 crs
onions, 45 pkgs fruit and vegetables
To South America-10 cs salmon, 29 bdls
brooms $40 lbs dried fruit. 155 lbs spices.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1901-12-10
Where Is the Matteawane

The steam collier Matteawan left Nanai-
mo, B. c., more than a week ago for San
Francisco and has not been heard from
since. She has more than 1000 tons of coal
aboard and was surely caught in the
gales that ragged off Flattery and the Co
lumbia River. Mariners seem to think she
was driven offshore and that some portion
Of her machinery has been disabled.
Whatever has happened to her the fact
still remains that she is several days
overdue and the underwriters are willing
to reinsure their risks.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1901-12-10
ESTABLISHES NEW RECORD.
Hind, Rolph & Co.'s Barkentine La
haina Makes Steamer Time.

The new barkentine Lahaina, built by
Boole & Son for Hind, Rolph & Co., has
just completed a phenomenal run. She
went from here to the Sound in record
time, and from Tacoma, lumber laden,
made a splendid run to China. She start
ed from Shanghai in ballast for Victoria,
B. c., and made the run in thirty-two
days. This is the best run on record and
stamps the Lahaina as one of the finest
vessels of her class af1Oat. This is her
maiden voyage, and the owners are more
than satisfied with the showing, while the
builders are jubilant
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1901-12-10
The Ralph ]. Long Overdue.

The schooner Ralph ]. Long left Nome
last January in charge of Captain Green,
and the many friends of the jolly skipper
are wondering what has become of him.
A few days ago he was spoken off the
Straits of Fuca, but since then all trace
Of him has been lost. 1t seems that the
Long and the Cordeia Head have been
having about the same sort of an expe-
rience. The former has been trying to
wants to reach the gold fields. Sailors
say Captain Head and Captain Green
would better change ships.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1901-12-10
Held for Rnhhsru-

Jackson Williams, a colored man, was
held to answer before the Superior Court
by Judge Cabaniss yesterday on a charge
of robbery in $1,000 bonds. He is accused
of robbing Harry Carlson. a sailor. living
at 414 Folsom street, early Saturday
morning in front of a restaurant at Val
lejo and Davis streets.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1901-12-10
Total

Brandenstein opposed the selection of
the Mechanics Pavilion site for the Car
negie library, and argued in favor of the
Fair estate site on California street, be-
cause $400,0 900 could be saved by purchas-
ing the last named site. He moved to
substitute the Fair estate, as 1t offered
more advantages from an architectural
point of view. Wilson held that the Fair
site is inaccessible as compared with the
pavilion location, but Brandenstein held
that the car lines gave exceptional trans
fer facilities and the branch libraries
would answer their own purposes. Bran
denstein's motion to substitute the Fair
site was lost and the selection of the
Mechanics Pavilion site prevailed
The st. Mary's Square and Twin Peaks
improvement propositions were referred
back to the Public Utilities Committee.
The Board of Works submitted an ap-
praisement of the lands proposed to be
acquired for St. Mary's Square, bounded
by California, Dupont, Pine and Quincy
streets, at 800, 900, and the tract bounded
by California, Quincy, Pine and St.
Mary's streets, at $4,000, a total of
$215 ,000
A resolution was adopted providing that
the proposition to acquire five additional
sites for fire houses, to construct thirteen
buildings, and to make altera tionS to
buildings at an estimated cost of $3.50 900,
be not submitted to the electors at the
proposed bond election. Similar action was
taken on the bill to issue bonds for ST.
DOC, COO, to repave accepted streets.
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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1901-12-10
Christmas ON the Nippon Maru.

Harry Allen, the genial steward of the
Nippon Maru, has made all his arrange
ments for a jolly Christmas on the vessel.
She will be halfway between Honolulu
and Yokohama on the 18th inst, and there
ball. All the expenses of the entertain
ment will be borne by the Togo Kisen
Kaisha.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1901-12-10
A Disaster Reported.

The Merchants Exchange received
telegram from Aberdeen yesterday to the
effect that four-masted steel vessel is
ashore twelve miles north of the entrance
to Grays Harbor. Tugs have been sent
to her assistance.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1901-12-10
Wheat for Eurone.

The British ship Orontes was cleared yester-
day for Queenstown for orders with 40 2S4 ctls
wheat valued at s42 PCS and 5000 IT lumber as
dunnage valued at $3.50.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1901-12-10

Brln, Jerome Tallman, L. L. Baker. Jacob
Myers, George Myers, A. L. c. Moore and
Patrick Boyle.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1901-12-10
H sCHUssLER Chief Engineer.

D'Ancona opposed the request Of Chief
Engineer Schussler and argued that the
creek and it's watershed should be con-
demned but agreed to pOStpOnement for
one week. d AncOna held that any eX-
aminations to prove that the water is pure
must extend over period Of at least one
year. The resolution was re-referred to
the Health Committee, which will confer
with Chief Engineer Schussler on the sub
ject.
A resolution was adopted directing all
corporations supplying water to the in
habitants Of this city to file in January
detailed statements. to be used in fixing
water rates for the ensuing year.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1901-12-10

NOTE-ln the above exposition OF the tides
the early morning tides given in the left
hand column and the successive tides Of the
day in the order of occurrence a to time: the
fourth time column gives the last tide OF the
day. except when there are but three tides. as
sometimes occurs. The heights given in
addition to the soundings of the United States
Coast Survey charts. except when a minus (-)
Eign precedes the height and then the number
given Is subtracted from tho depth given By the
charts. The plane of reference 10 the mean Of
the lower low waters
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1901-12-10
Departure Of the Panama Steamer.

The steamer City of Sydney sailed yesterday
for Panama and way ports with a general
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1901-12-10

action on the resolution prepared by the Hos
pital and Health Committee be postponed
until the joint examination proposed above
can be had Respectfully yours.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1901-12-10
PLANS PUBLIC
IMPROVEMENT
Board Of Supervisors
Passes Declaratory
Ordinances.
Mechanics Pavilion Site Fa-
vored for Carnegie
Library.

The Board of Supervisors yesterday
passed to print for fourteen days revised
declaratory ordinances as a preparatory
proceeding to the submission to the popu-
lar vote of propositions to issue bonds for
the acquisition, construction and compile
ton of municipal improvements. The
ordinances cover the following improve
ments, which were recommended by the
joint committee on Judiciary and Public
Utilities:
New sewer system. ...... $5,6OOSOOO
Construction of twenty
one new school houses,
additions to six school
houses now in exist
ence and the acQuisi-
ton OF seven school
cost ............ 2,O55,OOO
Hospital 80. 100000
Children's playground in
block bounded by Har-
and Harrison streets. 361 $50
Mission Park in blocks
bounded by Eighteenth,
Twentieth, Church and
Dolores streets ....... 100000
Park " ......... 100000
Park and PresidfO extern
outside land BLOCKS. 20. PCS, 700
Carnegie Library site. 60O,OOO
Telegraph Hill improve
ment .............. OO4,U@V
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1901-12-10
wsDter Excursion to Mexican Por

W,Dter Excursion to Mexican Ports
Low excursion rates to Mexican ports
will be offered by the Pacific Coast
Steamship Co. on the steamer Curacao,
sailing January Z. As the rainy season
is now over on the Mexican coast, excur-
sionists will find this a delightful winter
trip. Time occupied will be about three
weeks.
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Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-04-29

John Blevins left no property, except a
house worth about $500. He spent little
money. His wife was frugal woman.
All his children are grown up and pro-
viding for themselves, and it is not
known that he ever let any Of them
have any money.
Blevins' firm friends declare that the
missing money must have gone to some
friend of his, and that when he pressed
that friend for payment there was a
quarrel and Blevins was killed. These
friends aver that if the murderer be
ever found he will be some one who Is
we'll known in either business or pro-
fessional circles in New Castle. On the
other hand the doubters the men who
question John Blevins' regulated hon
esty. admit that the treasurer may have
loaned the money to some friend and
been killed in a quarrel over the pay
ment of it, but they go further. They
assert that the murdered man would not
have allowed his kindness Of heart to
run away with his judgment SO far as
to alloy such vast sum of money to go
out of his hands without some security
unless he was party to the scheme.
whatever it was. and expected to make
something out of it. All agree, however,
that the murderer was some one who
knew Blevins we'll.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-04-29

New Castle, Pa. April 29.-Since the
arrest of eXCity Assessor Perry Douds
on a charge of writing anonymous let
tiers to mislead detectives in their search
for the murderer of City Treasurer John
Blevins, further developments toward
the unravelling of the bloody tragedy of
city hall are being awaited with inter-
est.
The high standing of the man now
in custody. the seriousness of the charge
which cOnfronts him. the possibility of
other prominent citizens being called
upon to face graver charge than that
aginst Mr.. Douds. all tinge gossip and
speculation with a burning interest
The general belief is that the arrest of
DOuds Is but the beginning of develop
ments that will startle the community
more than the murder itself did.
The committee Investigating the crime
have been compelled to fight a combina-
ton of circumstances that seemed to
throw every possible obstacle in their
way. Unknown parties have tried to
mislead them in various ways. one of
the most striking being the writing of
anonymous letters.
A Woman in It.
In February a woman registered as
Mrs. Charles Walker. of Allegheny, at
the Fountain Inn. She visited several
real estate dealers. among them Perry
Douds, who was then engaged in that
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-04-29

would hold up tax receipts to accommo-
date people and allow them to pay when
they We're able to do so, without paying
the delinquent penalty
One instance was cited where a mar,
paid no taxes for ten years. Bevins had
held up the receipts for him. He would
mark the taxes paid in the duplicate
books and put the receipt to one side.
When a contractor doing work for
the city wanted his pay in advance Blew
ms would give the money without war
rama, expecting the warrant to come in
later. In many cases these warrants
did come, but in others they did not.
Under the laws of Pennsylvania prop
erty-owners can in certain cases be ex-
onerated from paying taxes by the tax
board. The books show that Blevins
took it upon himself in many cases to
exonerate taxpayers. After the names
of persons exonerated may be found
written the words fireman" old gent"
'sickly." mon resident If Blevins had
no money in the school fund he had no
hesitancy about paying the school claims
out of the city fun .dsand vice versa.
All these things help to account for
some of the shortage. but it is now
shown that $4,000 is unaccounted for.
Where the Money Went.
Where this money went is mystery
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-04-29

been disobeyed. Nature gives us night
for sleep and the day for work. The
long nights of the winter are meant for
sleep. This is the broad plan through
out the realm of all life. Rest and
strength go hand in hand. They are
really identical.
Men who should be strong and stimu-
lated by the advent of spring. are in
condition in which they are incapable of
withstanding any sudden strain. If it is
| not business failure it is a physical
| one. The necessity of stimulation means
| whisky or some other favorite alcoholic
| drink. If the need is not pronounced
| they go onward without any special feel
| ing of weakness except that they do not
| feel SO good as some of their acquaint-
ances. Age comes faster, and with 1t
| brings increased weakness.
| In this progressive world of ours every
man must be equal and fit for his work.
| If not he goes under. Energy, elastic
vitality and constitution fit for any
emergency are the qualities necessary
to success. This is the reason that the
| most successful business men are those
who come from country towns. 1t APP
plies as we'll to nations for those which
| are today in advance spring closest from
| the earth and are those which short
time ago devoted most of their time to
the tilling of the soil. They went to
sleep when their cattle did, gaining the
recuperation that makes up force. The
| farmer in this way unconsciously follows
| natures design.
The student of sociology is confronted
with the fact that a country life is the
only solution to the prosperity of a
nation.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-04-29

business, saying she wished to buy a
property. She carried a little book in
which she asked the dealers to write de-
scriptions of certin properties, claim
Ing she wished to show the descriptions
TO her husband.
It is claimed that she secured speci-
mems of Doud's handwriting in this way
and that experts compared it with the
anonymous letters With the result that
the arrest followed.
The committee refuse to give out any,
thing and hint that further arrests may
not be made until after Douds trial.
AS he waived appearing it is likely
that nothing will be known of the evil
dence against him until the trial of the
case at June court.
Murder Battling in It's Mystery.
Although John Blevins was murdered
more than two years ago. the tragedy
has ever since been a source of specu-
lation and wonder throughout a large
section of the state. No murder was
more mysterious and none so completely
baffled all the efforts of the author
ties to bring the perpetrator to justice
Blevns was a kindly generous old
man, greatly liked and no one could
have possibly wished him harm unless
hidden motive.
1t was plain that the Staying of the
venerable city treasurer was not pre-
meditated. At any rate. it was not
planned that he should meet his deat tn
on the night he died. as the facts show.
No man with gimmerng of sense
would have committed the deed under
the circumstances. which would appear
to certainly preclude any chance of
escape. except upon mad impulse The
theory is that the murderer was threat
ened with exposure and consequent dis
grace in a community where he had the
highest standing, and that in a moment
of frenzy he bounced upon his victim and
beat him until life was extinct.
Killed in the Night.
Blevins was killed early on the night
of January Z. 1899. The deed was done in
the treasurers office in the city hall
In the rear of the place and adjoining
the mayors Office, and into which the
mc1bers of a fire company could look
through great windows. The treasurer's
Office was brilliantly lighted. too, wher
the tragedy took place. Blevins visited
his office early on bitterly cold even
ing. He lighted the gas and then Wen
out locking the door. He went to the
was in the same block as the city hall
He left the store about O'Clock. telling
his son that he was going to his ofiic,
for few minutes and would then &,
home.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-04-29
NOW WOMEN HAVE TAKEN TO TAT
TOOlNG THEIR PRETTY ARMS.

The craze for japanese things has so
far affected some women with much
leisure time upon their hands that they
are having odd little designs worked
upon their arms and shoulders in faint
delicate tints. An English dancer began
this fashion with butterfly on her up
uer arm and it became rage in Lon
don to have some design of the sort done
on the flesh.
People who go to Japan have their
tattooing done by the native artists. but
it is done with equally good results in
New York by an lrishman who has
small shop on the Bowery, and has
worked up fashionable trade in this
odd pursuit that has made him rich.
fashioned tattooing was done
crudely with a needle. which often in
famed and irritated the skin. Nowadays
it is done with an electrical contrivance
which etches a design finely and pain
lessly. Colored inks are used, and their
use is a secret which the Japanese art
lists have mastered to perfection. There
are books of wonderful colored designs
for tattooipg which one can choose from;
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-04-29
WHY We SHOULD WORK IN SUMNER AND REST IN WINTER
BY DR.. Carleton Simon, Neurologist.

The winter is past and we bow to
spring. Throughout nature everything
has been asleep, resting and storing up
the energy the past year consumed and
which a new one requires. The spirit of
unrest is abroad. The sap of the trees.
that settled low at the approach of win
ter, is rising up. 1t had dropped deep
into the depths of the tree, even unto
it's very roots. Now it is rising slowly
steadily, but surely, rising up into the
highest branches and bringing life and
it's phenomena with it.
The suspension of life for few months
is not confined to vegetation, but also to
all animate life. The snake, the frog. the
lizard-all ambitious life-has been in a
state of Information, in state OF rest.
The bee, the ant, all have been living
quietly, resting and consuming their
storehouse of food. But as the first azure
light of morning dispels the gloom. so
does the first touch of spring change the
scene. That mysterious vital force which
is the cause and the energy of all life.
and whose ebb is lowest in winter, is in
the ascendancy.
Things are propelled through the spirit
within them. This is SO with growth. 1t
is greatest in the spring.
Men who have expended their strength
during the winter, instead Of outstanding
it, now reap the harvest. They have been
trading all winter on the strength of that
future which is now here. The vitality
that spring should give them has been
expended. 1t has been used up. 1t Is
gone. Late dinners. late hours. the con-
sumption of energy i'm a thousand and
one ways, has disspated it. Nature has
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-04-29

birds. beasts and reptiles. The snake
is a favorite with the tattoOed, some of
whom have one represented as being
wound about the arm from the wrist
to the shoulder.
Women who go in for this fad choose
as rule some small, dainty and less
terrifying pattern, butterflies being the
popular fashion at present. New York s
tattooer visits the houses of his fashion
able patrons. At hardly any hour of
the day is he disengaged, as a steady
stream of less fashionable customers
throng the shop for the purpose Of hav-
ing various designs of trade. religious
symbols portraits, landscapes and names
sketched upon their arms in colored ink.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-04-29

wanted-Iadies and gentlemen to &C.
cupy positions as audience for the blind
phrenologist, Prof Vinton F. Cooper. in
the canvas auditorium, corne" Mercury
and Jackson street, six nights, COM
mencing Monday. May eth. First night
free.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-04-29

The B. A. & p, will make rate Of SOC
for the round trip Butte to Gregson
Springs and return every Saturday and
Sunday. Tickets good on all trains leav~
ing Butte after 800 p. M. Saturdays and
return from Gregson Springs until mid
night on Sunday.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-12-15
FUNERAL OF ALBERT CHAl n
Occurs This Afternoon From Presby
terrain Church

The announcement of the death last
evening OF Albert Chapman will be re-
ceived with heartfelt sorrow this morn
ing by his many friends all over the
city, for everyone knew the bright lit
tie fellow and loved him.
He passed away at $50 p m. after a
very brief illness.
And for him death had net the slight
est terror. Though he fully realized
that the end was very near he told the
loved ones about him that his only sor-
row was in leaving them.
Ten minutes later his pure, sweet
spirit had winged its fight to Heaven
and the sore little body, racked with
pain, was at rest. The deceased was
the youngest son of Mr.. and Mrs. J. P.
Chapman. OF a bright and CHEEKY ma
ture, he made fast friends of everyone
and none knew him but to love him.
His little face will be sadly missed in
Americas,
The funeral service will take place
from the Presbyterian Church at $3.50
this afternoon his young friends @. W.
Fielder, Nick Lamar, Walter Glover,
Robert Marsh, Howell Perkins and
Thomas Joiner acting as pallbearers.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-12-15
An Evangelists Story.

suffered for years with bronchial
or lung Trouble and tried various RENE
dies but did not obtain permanent re-
lief until commenced using One Min
ute Cough Cure" writes Rev James
Kirkman, evangelist of Bell River, Ill.
ST have no heeitation in recommending
it to all sufferers from maladies of this
kind" One Minute Cough Cure af-
fords immediate relief for coughs, colds
and all kinds of throat and lung trou-
bies, For Group it is unequaled. Alb
soIutely safe. Very pleasant to take,
never fails and is reallya favorite with
the children. They like it.