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credit in the matter of dimensions to a.
family umbrella, hastened to the
rescue.
He placed his hat in front of Bon
lnski. hiding the Count from head to
waist. He addressed the snap-shotters:
You take twenty-five pictures IL
you like. Then you wait twenty-five
years and you never get paid"
Then, with sweep of his hat and q.
reinsurance in German to the Count,
e. L. K. Schmulling stalked away.
Schmulling is from Java, where he has
been acting as English interpreter for
a Dutch company.
Others that arrived on the Gaelic
were: Mrs. r. w. McWade, wife OF
the American Consul at Canton: w p
Gtbbins, q banker from the provinces
of England; DR.. w. E. Macklin, a mis-
sionary doctor from China, accom-
panied by his wife ana six children.
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The son and daughter Of two Of the
most distinguished men in the Far
East arrived here yesterday on the
liner Gaelic. Mr.. and Mrs. C Watan-
abe is the modest form their name
takes on the passenger list. Mrs. Wa
tanabe, pretty as any picture on illus
trateJ postal card, is the daughter Of
Field Marshal Marquis Oyama, one Of
Japan's greatest living soldiers. There
are My two men in Japan who enjoy
this high military rank-Oyama and
Marquis Yamagata. Oyama was in
command Of the japanese forces that
captured Port Arthur during the Chi
nese-Japanese war and much Of the
success Of japanese arDls,in the pres
ent conflict is due 10 Oyama's skill as
q military organizer.
Mr.. Watanabe is the son OF Viscount
Watanabe, one Of the financial powers
u the island kingdom. Mr.. and Mrs.
Watanabe are on their way TO London.
where the Nlscouut's son will take
charge of one of the departments OF
the Yokohama Specie Bank. in which
his family is largely interested.
Mrs Watanabe's mother was a grad
uate OF Vassar and her daughter is a.
young woman OF many accomplish
ments. She speaks several languages
and has ideas OF her own on some Of
the serious subjects OF the day. The
Watanabes became great favorites
with their fellow travellers on the
Gaelic.
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JAMES YOUNG ARRESTED
BY NEW YORK POLICE
Accused by Mrs. johnson OF This City
Of Fraudulently Obtaining
Her Coin


A dispatch was received In this city
last night announcing that James +.
Young, who Is wanted here on q
charge Of felony embezzlement. has
been arrested in New York. The COM
planning witness is Mrs Sarah z.
Johnson, who manages the Gait
House at Market street and Golden
Gate avenue. She makes a specific
charge that Young swindled her out
of $500, but her attorney alleges that
she lost other sums aggregating about
$4,000.
While in San Francisco Young had
Offices in the Starr King building and
posed as president of the Columbian
Mutual Commission Company. a get
rich-quick concern run on the tOntine
plan. Mrs. Johnson and other women
Of means invested money with him,
expecting large returns. but it is
claimed they received nothing Last
April Young disappeared. Through a
former emDlOye Mrs Johnson learned
that he was in New York. She ac-
cordingly swOre to a warrant on June
%. Young will be brought back to
stand trial.
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RAILROAD CLERKS CELEBRATE
BIRTHDAY OF THE NATION
Staff Of the Freight Auditors Office
Entertains Friends With Recita-
tiOnS and Music

pleasant little Fourth of July ceIe-
bration was held yesterday at 1890
p. m. in the freight auditors office in
the Southern Pacific Railroad build
ing, Fourth and Townsend streets.
Clerks of the auditors and ticket de-
partments, with their invited guests,
entered heartily into the proceedings.
Following was the programme: Song,
THE Star-Spangled Banner; invoca-
ton, Rev. j. NJ. Van Every; reading of
the Declaration of Independence, w.
T. Hamilton; recitation, Our Flag"
Robert Vose; chorus, Columbia, the
Gem of the Ocean," audience; oration,
H. L. Sanborn; recitation, "Sherman's
March" John Stevenson; address, D.
w Horsburg, freight auditor; song.
America" audience.
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Omaha paper when Leavitt engaged
him to accompany his first west bound
show across the plains. Stanley went
with the show as far as Cheyenne,
where he threw up his job and went to
work for Bill Nye on the Cheyenne
Leader. AL Hayman was one Of Leav-
tits managers and 1t was in his en-
ploy. says Leavitt. that the Gottlobs
and the Thalls got their first schooling
in the business Of theatrical manage
ment.
Leavitt, who is accompanied by his
wife, will remain here for a few weeks
before returning to New York. where
he expects TO settle down for awhile.
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| and will extend an invitation to all
visiting Sir knights and ladies to call
and enjoy a taste of Fresno hospitality.
Edward Sharp Valentine is eminent
commander and the following consti-
tute the triennial conclave committee:
E. F. Bernhard, chairman; c. T. Gear
ley, secretary; DR.. G. H. Aiken, George
B. Land, J. c. McCIurg, D. d. Allison
and Leroy T. Payne.
FROM SANTA CLARA VALLEY.
San Jose Commandery No 10, one Of
the most loyal and prosperous in the
California jurisdiction. will be at home
at its headquarters in the Mechanics
Pavilion with exhibits of the wealth of
fruits and flowers Of the famed Santa
Clara Valley. A souvenir will be given
to every guest. The commandery has
100 members. the majority of whom will
attend the conclave with their families.
The corps is very efficient and boasts
one of the best drill masters in the
State, Captain General A. B. Cash.
San Jose Commandery has been espe-
cially favored in having had two right
eminent grand commanders chosen
from its number, the Right Eminent
Sir Samuel II. Wagner and the Right
Eminent Sir George B. Mckee. Emil
nent Commander William G.. Alexander
is chairman of the Triennial COnclave
committee and of the reception COM
mittee. The following are the chairmen
of the other committees: Transporta-
tion, w. H. Haydock; publicity and
promotion, II. D. Mathews; flowers, w.
I. woodrow; fruits, Albert Harris. d.
w. Smythe is secretary of the triennial
committee.
Colusa Commandery No "a. ranking
among the highest in the State and ac-
credited as excellent" for six .consecu-
tive years, will have not less than thir-
ty-five of its forty members at the con-
clave. 1t will establish headquarters
on the main floor of the Mechanics Pa
vilion. Jointly with five other COM
manderies from that section Of the
State. Colusa will entertain lavfshIy
during the week and will exhibit some
of its choicest products, from which
samples will be distributed among Wis
iting Sir knights and their ladies. Dep
uty Grand Commander ]. B. de Jarnatt
is a member of this commandery.
Eminent Sir w. H. Buster is its COM
mander. The commandery is certain to
make a most creditable showing as an
entertainer and in the parade.
OTHER CONNIANDERIES.
Woodland Commandery No. p, head
ed by Eminent Commander ]. r. Retb
Jr., has engaged headquarters at the
Windsor Hotel. The commandery will
bring its own band and will make a
fine showing in the grand parade All
the "frarers" are enthusiastic over the
assured success of the conclave, which
they predict will be the most brilliant
in the annals Of Templarism.
Seven Communicates stationed in the
northern counties Of California are as.
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NJ. B. LEAvITT RETURNS.
Old-Time Theatrical BIagnate Arrives
Here From the Orient.

CAu-AAAuc AAeStlrlcdl 81agnate Arrives
Here From the Orient.
OF interest 70 old-timers will be the
news Of the arrival here Yesterday on
the lin Gaelic Of N. B. Leavitt. local
" known as the one-time proprietor Of
the old BUsh-street Theater. and once
famous throughout the theatrical
world as the amusement Napoleon of
America
It was Leavitt who brought the first
theatrical attraction from England TO
America and who first took an Ameri-
can company to London. He brought
The first Eastern company TO San
Francisco and was the originator of
the circuit idea in the theatrical world
Many Of the men now prominent in
the business were in Leavitt's employ
and learned the rudiments Of their
business from the little Napoleon.
Leavitt returned here, after a long
absence. about seven years ago. and
reopened the Bush-street Theater. He
soon gave il up, however. and his
health falling he started on the trip
which landed him here yesterday.
During his six years of travel he has
visited South Africa, India, China and
Manila. dabbling more or less in theat-
rical affairs but devoting most atten-
ton 70 building up his health and
working story he is writing of his
forty years experiences as a theatrical
manager.
This book should prove to be inter-
esting reading-as on the stage of his
"reminiscences appear the figures of
many well known men Barney Bar
nato. the South African Croesus who
committed suicide, once applied TO
Leavitt for work. and Edison. the fam
Gus inventor. then. in the early COS. q
telegraph operator, was another apnIf-
cant for 4 place in his employ.
Leavitts first press agent was Henry
N. Stanley, the great explorer. Stanley
VAS working as q reporter on an
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soeiated and will have joint headquar-
ters in the Pavilion, where they viii en-
tertain and display the choice products
from their soil, fields and mines. Ne
vada COmmandery No. will bring it's
wonderful exhibit Of rich minerals, with
its pyramid Of pure gold and a busheI
Of golden nuggets. The resources Of
that section being little known outside
of California, these exhibits will be a
revelation to visitors from other parts
of the country and a valuable object
lesson to those who visit California for
the frst time.
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NAME CAUSES TROUBLE.
Count Boninsld of the German Army
Arouses Japanese Suspicion.

Count BoninsId of the German Army
Arouses Japanese Suspicion.
Count Alfred Boninski Of the German
army, who arrived yesterday on the
liner Gaelic, found his name anything
but passport in Japan, and If he re-
turns TO the Orient before the present
difficulty with Russia has been ad-
justed he L. ends TO drop from his
cognomen the st. Petersburg attach
ment-
"A list Of your passengers, thank you,
please" politely asked the Japanese
navy officer who boarded the Gaelic at
Nagasaki.
With conscientious care he spelled
name by name. He struck "Boninski''
early in his reading. He gasped at the
'inski." but said nothing until he had
finished his scrutiny.
This Count Boninsli-I see him If
you please"
The Count was in his stateroom, and
thither the little brown lieutenant was
conducted.
The Counts knowledge Of Japanese
was on a par with the Jap's ac-
quaintance with German, and neither
had more than a bowling acquaintance
with English In English as he under
stood it, however, the navy officer
cross-examined the passenger, who re-
sponded in what was also English, but
from another point of view
The interview lasted more than an
hour.
The "inski'' bothered the Japanese,
and even after searching the Counts
baggage. examining his papers and
asking more questions he left the ship
only half convinced that L-rlin and not
St. Petersburg was the titled travellers
destination.
The newspaper photographers who
boarded the liner in quarantine were
viewed with suspicion, and adroitly
lodged by the Count, who called to his
assistance a fellow countryman, un-
titled, but literally initiated. Z. l.. K
Schmulling was the passenger to whom
Count Boninski appealed. Schmulling.
clad in white duck and wearing a pith
hat with a rim that would have done
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strangers Part Mith Coin.

Patrolman NJ. ]. Greggains took into
custody William Cookery, Edward
Barff, Frank Mathew and Frank Black
at the ocean beach yesterday after
noon and placed them in the tanks at
the City Prison. The men are accused
of having conducted ring game, at
which William Wright and William
Brumer, two strangers in the city, lost
$40. An investigation is being made
by detectives.
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FILES REPORT OF STREET
WORK DONE DURING JUNE

City Engineer Woodward Submits
Statement of Largest Monthly Re-
ceipts in History OF ONCE.
City Engineer woodward yesterday
filed a report with the Board Of Works
showing the amount and character Of
street work done in June. There were
twenty blocks improved. OF which
thirteen were paved with bituminous
rock.
The receipts for lot surveys were
$S44 and for surveys for street work
$1O1S so, a total of s1S62 so. This is
the largest for any one month in the
history of the Office.
The expenses Of the Bureau OF En-
gineering were s57S5 So. Of which
SASH Sc was for salaries and wages.
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BurgIars i'm Wine Store

A branch store of the Santa Rosa
Wine Company at 657 Cough street
was entered and robbed by burglars
early yesterday morning. The thieves
broke the fastenings on a rear door
with a Jimmy and after searching
the place carried away liquors to the
value of $50.
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The people of San Francisco are
making extraordinary efforts to enter
tain the visitors who will attend the
triennial conclave of the knights
Templar next September. But the bur-
den as well as the pleasure Of enter
tanning will be shared by the people
from the interior and from the entire
coast, from the boundary line Of the
Dominion Of Canada to the Mexican
frontier, and from the Rocky Noun
tains to the sea. Never before has there
been such zeal to welcome the visitors,
or to show the advantages of all sec
tions Of the Pacific Slope, as is man
tested on this occasion.
The executive committee, entertain
ment committee and other committees
are busy preparing for the reception
and entertainment of the visiting Sir
Knights. These committees are in
daily receipt Of information advising
them of the coming Of communicates
and delegations from California, Ore
gon, Washington and other sections of
the slope. The display to be made in
San Francisco will alone be worth the
trip across the continent and visitors
will be able to gather much informa-
ton and see as much of the wonderful
products of California, oregon, Wash
ington, Nevada, Arizona and the rest
of the coast as if they had travelled
through the mountains and valleys for
six months.
TO EXHIBIT COAST PRODUCTS.
From every section of the country
the choicest and best it produces will
be brought to San Francisco and ex-
hibited to the visitors who will come
from all parts of the United States,
Canada and from across the Atlantic.
Nearly every commandery will keep
open house during the week and will
have courteous Sir knights and ladies'
to entertain visitors and show them
the exhibit of the section of the coun-
try where the commandery is station
ed. The Mechanics Pavilion, the prin-
cipal halls and the leading hotels in
the city will be transformed into places
of exhibition, where souvenirs are to
be given to visitors, and there will be
an abundance of these.
Fresno Commandery No. % will be
represented at the conclave by about
seventy-five swords and will have its
headquarters in some central hall,
probably the Pythian Castle on Market
street, near Fifth, where it will estab-
lish reception rooms and armory. The
commandery does not propose to install
a full exhibit of Fresno's famed pro-
ducts, but will have few things grown
in and near Fresno to give to its vis-
itors as souvenirs.
One of these will be box of seeded
raisins in a Templar carton, designed
and made for the triennial. The COM
mandery will keep it's doors wide open
during its sojourn in San Francisco
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MUCH TIME IN JAIL.

He then declares that for seventeen
years past, during most of which time
he has been in Jail, the defendants have
been contriying and maliciously in
tending to injure him and the late
Jean Louis Adler, the said incompetent.
In that period they are alleged to have
caused the arrest of Lapique and Adler
three times for insanity, one for grand
larceny, four times for embezzlement.
once for perjury, twice for misdemean-
ors, four times for obtaining money un-
der false pretenses, three times for for
gerry and about four times on civil ac-
tions.
Under the charges and on the occa-
sions named Alder and Lapioue were
under arrest or sentence for most of the
time for seventeen years UP to January
z of this year, when Lapique says he
was finally released and "acouitted'' of
all the charges. Each charge, he saws.
was made for the purpose of annoy
ing, depressing and impoverishing him
and Alder, and Ader's estate after his
death" He has, he alleges, been de-
famed, imprisoned and disgraced, and
the purpose Of his prosecutors was to
obtain corruptly attorneys fees and
other moneys"
In proceeding with their aIleped
fraudulent purposes, he says, the de-
PENDANTS concealed evidence. obtained
unreasonable continuances Of trials for
ten years falsely posted Adler as insane
and Lapique as criminal of the deem
est dye. neglected and refused to fol-
low his instructions n trials with a
view of eXtorting money from him. cor
ruptly Influenced certain police maeis-
trates to withhold material evidence
corrupted jurors to convict him and
procured certain Judges of doubtful
character to hold him to answer. in
fiicted cruel punishment on him. OBJ
structed and opened his mail, resisted
and delayed judicial officers in the dis
charge of their duties and emploved at
torneys of their own selection to de-
fend the plaintiff in civil and criminal
actions.
Lapique alleges that the defendants
conspired to control the business affairs
of himself and Adler and to manipulate
the plaintiffs interests to suit them
selves. These manipulations are said
to have resulted in loss to the '.con-
spirators" and the plaintiff Adler died
March 2, 1896. Lapique says, too. that
the confederates demanded SIC, 900 from
him, which he refused to pay.
TWENTY COMPLAINTS.
The alleged fraudulent prosecutions
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MANY
BANDED TO
CRUSH HIM
POrkpacker Alleges
He Was DOgged
for Years.
Names a Hundred Leagued
in Bitter Conspiracy
Against Him.
]. Lapique Wants Over Half Million
for Broken Health Caused by
Inhuman Persecution.

The records of the California courts
contain nothing more astonishing than
the complaint filed yesterday by John
Lapique, pork-packer and hotel-keep-
er, against forty-four persons, who, he
says, are responsible in different ways
for his malicious prosecution during
the last seventeen years. He is his own
attorney and asks the court to award
him $650,000 damages for ruined busi-
ness, mental suffering, injured reputa-
tion and failing health.
Forty-eight typewriter pages set
forth the general complaint and twenty
specific complaints upon which La
pique seeks to recover more than half
a million. AS defendants he names
Abraham Ruef, P. A. Bergerot, B. p.
Oliver, John ]. West, CASTOR Strauss,
Arthur Mack, Louis Pistolesi, Henry
Z. Highton, A. J. Greene, A. c. Freese
Joe DesSen, A. 2. Van Duzer, John
Mann, Thomas F. Whelan, Marie
Jeanne Lasclotes, ]. D. Mccarthy,
Frank w. Cornnyn, Theodore Kytka,
Barney Dorthy, Hu Jones, Anna Web
Der, john doe, Richard Roe, Baptiste
Icarde, Marie Doe Icarde, Joseph Can
gross, Ursule Mespley, Lawrence Mes
pley, Philip Masonauve, A. ]. Bergerot,
John Doe Bornenave, George w. Fox,
Louis Branchi, A. P. Benjamin, Marie
Doe GARNER, n. S. Writ, Marie Doe
Faubert, Clement Layayson, Peter
Casavielle, Leontine Casavielle, Albert
B. Mahony, Joseph T. Cognet and FL
ward ]. LIE Breton.
The persons named are described as
attorneys at law, heirs, guardians, re-
ceivers, administrators, copartners,
clerks, agents, deputy sheriffs, trus-
tees, intimate friends and relatives of
the plaintiff and of Jean Louis Alder, an
incompetent, now deceased.
Lapique first sets forth that he has
lived in California for twenty-one
years and since he was seventeen years
old. He is the owner, he declares of
two bank books of Jean Louis Adler. of
the business of ]. Lapique & Co., deal
ers in picked meats at stall 56, Central
Market, 724 Vallejo street, 1854 Third
street and 1165 Market street, and of
the Silver King lodging house at 514
Bush street.
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famous for its piety-from the time of
the gods, the village saying had it, the
family had been the servant of the
guardian deity of the fshermen's vii
lage.
Grandma Ikeda was drifting down
Hfe's slope on the other side of sew
enty-three. At the time of the Chino
Nippon war her son was on the Hihei
in the thick of the historic battle of the
Yalu. And her son never came back to
her from the silence of the Yellow Sea.
That was her only boy.
Ikeda Taro, her grandson, and the
one boy whom her son had left with
her. was not quite fourteen. Like his
father before him, he was placed in
a naval academy as he came TO age
Two years before, however. he finished
his course at the school and went back
to his grandmother.
She was so feeble that without his
constant help it was veSy difficult for
her to manage to provide for even the
simplest needs of life. So the grandson
stayed with his feeble grandmother, and
many a Spring day the villagers of
Sakamoto were treated to as beautiful
a sight as human eye is permitted to
ENJOY. On the strong arm of her grand
child. well-knit. hardy and erect from
brave picture with his grandmother
clinging to him like the fading tendril
of a morning glory.
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~ ND one night, as in dream.
there came TO her a great light
~ Presently there stood in front
of her a presence so bright and so i'm
posing that she was afraid. She was
very sure-she did not know why-that
it was the presence Of the guardian
deity whom all her neighbors wor-
shipped. She fell upon her face, low on
the matted floor. The voice, the like
Of which she had never heard before,
came to her and said.
Take heart, woman. 1 am your
neighbor whom you are serving every
morning. I see that you are a good
woman: 1 hold a reward for all good
women. When the earth shall be much
smaller than ii is to-day and when the
Sun shall have lost some Of its youth.
there shall come a great day for your
native land. Then shall a hairy mon
ster from the snow clutch its claws into
the throat Of this land Of the gods; and
the children of Yamato shall take TO the
sword. There shall be great weeping
among the children Of men. The storm
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By ADAcHI KINNosUKE.

~@~ HEN Rome was at the
breast of a kindly wolf
AA on the Tiber. when
Christianity was yet un-
born in the purple-haze
days Of the gods, there lived in fisher
folks village on the Inland Sea of Nip
pom, near where the modern port of
Tadotsu stands, young mother. Her
neighbors knew her under the name Of
Tatsu.
Her husband was a rogue. One morn
ing he woke up with fine idea Of
chasing a picturesque mist which looked
very much like a maiden's fiuttering
kimono, to the worlds end He took
his boat and melted from sight on the
other side of the waves. He left the
young mother with her babe
The huge toru of the guardian god Of
the fshermen's village Swallowed her
little home with a matched roof When
ne left her she devoted all her days to
her baby. and every morning she went
into the open court Of the shrine to serve
the guardian deity.
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shall shake the earth. That shall be a
great day for the Home Land of the
Sun.
"On that day, l shall, raise a man.
He shall be of your own blood, Of your
flesh and bones. He shall smite the
monster from the earth. And the edge
Of his sword shall be tempered by the
gods And he shall be great in the
land of your birth"
The voice had melted away, but the
little mother dared not lift her head
When the light broke on the following
day and her boy opened his eyes, she
told him all about it. 1t was the mig
winter day Of many, many centuries
ago.