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The San Francisco call., 1905-02-21
WILL PROTECT
CITY'S RIGHTS
Supervisors Send Represen-
tative to Capital to Fight
the School AppOrtiOnment

The Board Of Supervisors yesterday
authorized the Finance Committee to
employ H. A. Mason TO go to Sacra-
mento TO oppose, on behalf of the city,
the passage of the bill now before the
Legislature changing the method of
spportioning the school funds. which
viii result in a loss Of $3.50 600 in the
revenue Of the local school department
Another bill introduced by Senator
Kesne fixing a minimum tax for
schools, which win cost San Fran
cisco $500 900, viii also De opposed
A communication was received from
President Roncovieri Of the Board Of
Education calling attention to the fact
that the vote on the final passage Of
the bills changing the apportionment
Of State school funds would come up
in the Assembly on Tuesday afternoon
and in the Senate on Wednesday
afternoon.
Brandenstein criticized Roncovieri
for having withdrawn his opposition to
the bills. The criticism drew forth a
reply from Gallagher, who warmly de-
Tended Roncovieri for his original
efforts to defeat the bill, which, how
ever, were futile. Roncoyieri. how
ever, agreed TO a compromise that the
bill go into effect in September instead
Of July.
Braunhart said that if Roncovieri
had withdrawn hissopposition with the
understanding that he was the official
representative of the city the state
ment should be refuted. He opposed
any concession that viii result in i'm
posing an additional tax on the tax
payers of the city.
Mayor Schmitz denied that Ron
covieri had claimed to represent the
city and was corroborated by H. A
Mason, who had appeared before the
Legislature when the bills were first
under consideration.
The ordinances granting the Ameri-
can Fixture Company permits to main
tain engines, boilers and oil fuel tanks
in premises on Erie street near Mis-
sion were repealed.
The City Attorney was requested to
give an opinion as to whether the
beard has the power TO grant the Santa
Zee Railway Company an additional
franchise for tracks on Indiana, Six
teenth and other streets
Demands for S291.350 were drawn in
favor Of two Jewish societies as the
purchase price Of two blocks for Mis-
sion Park
The Bay City Club was granted an
amateur boxing permit for March 3.
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-21
Gator Begins Arguments.

The arguments on the motions to
dismiss or arrest the proceedings be-
fore Judge LaWlor on the accusation
charging the Election Commissioners
with misfeasance in Office and on the
demurrer to the accusation were be-
gun yesterday afternoon. Attorney
Gator for the defendants, argued at
length that the proceedings before the
Mayor against the Commissioners took
the case out of the Jurisdiction of
the court. as by the charter the Mayor
was clothed with the sole power to
remove officials from Office Further
argument was continued till Thursday
morning.
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-21

FRAUD ORDER ISSJED.-The Postmaster
General has issued a fraud order against the
Hathorn Mutual Commission Company in the
Starr King building 121 Geary street 1t is
said to be a get-rich- quick concern.
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-21
SAYS ATTORNEY
DECEIVED HIM
Isaac Selby Calls Judges
Attention to a Matter and
Demands Legal Discipline
TROUBLE ABOUT MONEY
Asks Permission to Defend
Himself at His Trial for
Assault to Commit Murder
TROUBLE ABOUT MONEY

Isaac Selby, who fired a shot at
Judge J. c. B. Hebbard in his court
room on November 2S,s created scene
in Judge Lawlor's court yesterday
morning. His case was on the calen-
dar for trial and when it was called
Selby stood up in the dock and said:
II wish to call your attention to a
matter that requires legal discipline.
I had told my attorney not to COM
municate with my friends, asking for
money, but find that he has done So.
He got G5, which / allowed him to
keep, but since then he has got ELS
more, which he has kept without my
consent The law gives me the right
to defend myself, and as / have lost
confidence in my attorney i wish to
dispense with his services. and / will
conduct my own defense,
The Judge replied that as an at
torney had been representing Selby
the right he claimed had been in a
measure withdrawn. The attorney,
w. G. Deal. who had been appointed
by the court, was a bright young man
and the Judge said he had every con-
fidence in him.
Assistant District Attorney Ferral
said that as he understood the defense
would endeavor to prove insanity, the
defendant could hardly represent him.
self. He agreed with the Judge that
Attorney Deal would look properly
after the defendants interests.
u By consent the case was continued
for two weeks and at that time it will
he again continued, as a commission
has been appointed to take the testi-
mony Of persons in New Zealand and
Australia on the question of the de-
fendant's sanity. 1t will take three or
four months before the report of the
commission is received.
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-21
RECEIVES BIDS
ON BOND ISSUE
Board Opens Proposals for
Municipal Sureties Aggre-
eating Sum of 81, ,703.200

The Board of Supervisors yesterday
received bids for municipal bonds
amounting to s1,703.20O. The bids,
which were referred to the Utilities
Committee, are as follows:
Hibernia Bank-sewer bonds. $4,000; street
bonds $100: County Jail and Hall of Justice.
S261 600; total. S436 600.
State Board of Examiners-School bonds,
1853. 400.
Hibernia and Mutual Banks-sewer bonds.
S1s1. 200; school bonds. $50. Soo; street $40 :
300; County Jail and additions to Hall Of JUS
tice 17,4O0; total. $32s, 800.
J. d Phelan-Street bonds. s27, 800.
Anglo-Californian Bank-School bonds, s241,
san Francisco Savings Union-Hospital
bonds. S250,0o0; sewer bonds. $25, 900; street
bonds, $4,000; school bonds, $4,000; total,
s4oo. 600
The segregation of the bonds as bid
upon follows:
streets S24S, 600; County Jail addition to Hall
Of Justice, S27s,4 400; school. $65e, 500; total,
81, ,7C3. 200.
The Adornment Association sent a
communication calling attention to the
great necessity for the improvement of
Market street from the ferry to Sec
ond street and of streets leading into
II, which are below the grade on ac-
count of a gradual subsistence of the
soil The communication says:
The streets should now be filled up to grade
the I'LL resting on suitable foundation such
as is used for buildings in that district The
proceeds OF bonds should be used for perma-
nent street work because repairs are properly
chargeable TO current revenue. We recommend
a pavement similar to that on Third street for
Market street from East to Valencia also
the widening and paving Of Mission street
The petition of the San Francisco
Chapter of Architects that steps be
taken to have an architectural COM
petition for plans for the new public
buildings TO be constructed under the
bond issue was referred to the UtiIi-
ties Committee.
The ordinance ordering the paving
with asphalt of Mission street from
Onondaga avenue to Porter avenue at
a cost of $4,000 was finally passed.
Similar action was taken on the ordi-
nances ordering the parking of Dolores
street from Fifteenth to Seventeenth
at a cost of $500 and the sewering and
macadamizing Of Holly Park and
Buena Vista avenue at cost of $4,000.
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-21

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The San Francisco call., 1905-02-21
VISITOR FROM COUNTRY
LOSES WEDDING DRESS
Leaves Card Box Containing 1t at
Ferry by Mistake, and Some
One Steals It

B. G. Crawford of Fosteria, Gala
veras County, has asked the assistance
of the police in getting him out of an
awkward predicament. He came to
the city to purchase a wedding dress
fer a young lady who would soon be
his wife. The dress, a tan colored
silk, cost him SIS. He was at the
ferry on Sunday morning on his way
back to Fosteria and had the wedding
dress in a card box.
When he reached the Oakland mole
he discovered to his dismay that he
had forgotten all about the box which
he had left in the waiting room at the
ferry. He took the same boat back
to the city, but when he rushed into
the waiting room the package had dis
appeared. Captain Burnett has de-
tailed Detectives Conlon and MCGOWAN
on the case.
Another victim of a thief at the
ferry on Sunday was Benjamin Gear
McDougall of Fresno. He had occa-
sion to leave his grip for a moment
and when he returned ii was gone. 1t
contained~s& few personal effects and
a bank book.
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-21

BOARD OF FIRE wARDENs MEETS. -
The Board Of Fire Wardens comprising the
battalion chiefs and executive officers OF the
Fire Department met yesterday morning The
general discussion of improvements and neces-
stiles Of the department was the chief business
before the meeting. Chief Sullivan presided
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-21

Lydia Pkhams Neebe Compound Succeeds
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-21

alton by the Supreme Court of the in
validity of the primary law. The
measure was held to be unconstitution-
al because it was alleged not to MAIN
tain the secrecy of the ballot. The
court by the Rebstock decision de-
stroys this part of the defense of
all three Wyman and Steffens have
been convicted of ballot-box stuff
fing and sentenced to three years each
at San Quentin. Rebstock will now
have to go to trial.
The Supreme Court opinion was writ
ten by Justice Angellotti. Without
further argument or explanation Chief
Justice Beatty and Justices Shaw, Van
Dyke and Lorigan directly concur. The
other two Justices did not participate.
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-21

Rebstock's attorney presented two
arguments in defense of the claim that
the trial should not be allowed to con-
tinue The first was that the election
officers confession before the Grand
Jury was a bar to prosecution the
other that the primary election law
was unconstitutional. The first argu-
ment was based on section "a of the
Political Code, which says:
No person otherwise competent as wit
ness shall be disqualified excused from tes-
Grated and prescribed in this title on the
ground that such testimony may crimiate
himself; but no prosecution can afterward be
had against such witness FOR any such offense
concerning which he testified for the prosecu-
tion.
The court says the section quoted
may well serve the petitioner as
defense like the statute of limitations,
but it is not bar to prosecution. 1t
is said that the writ of prohibition
would lie in a case where some court
had exceeded its jurisdiction, but such
was not the case in the present in
stance. When Rebstock is placed on
trial he may plead in defense that mis-
testimony before the Grand Jury
should save him, and the question may
come again before the Supreme Court
on an appeal from a possible convic-
ton. The Justices refuse, however, to
grant the writ of prohibition because
there is no legal ground for it ia the
nrNCaQdinpr cidarad
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-21

Ask for Log Cabin bread at grocers and
branch bakeries. Wholesale. 300 Dolores st. :
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-21
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The San Francisco call., 1905-02-21
TEST is PROPER.

BY section 26 Of the article of the
constitution adopted in the year 1900. the Leg
slature is expressly empowered to determine
the tests and conditions upon which the electors
may participate in any primary election, and
there is nothing in provision enacted by the
Legislature in pursuance of this authority re-
uuiring one seeking to participate in such an
election as a member of any particular party
to openly declare his aiieglance TO such party.
which in any degree violates the constitutional
provision invoked
Such declaration is absolutely essential
to the proper working OF any primary law.
BY his mere offer to vote for delegates to a
convention of any party the eiector does, in
effect declare his intention to support the
nominees of such convention, and the oath Is
provided for as guarantee of the truth of the
declaration already made by such offer 10
vote.
Steffens. Wyman and Rebstock all
relied on escaping the consequences of
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-21
PRIMARY LAW is VALID.

Rebstock's second claim of ground
for release was based on the alleged
unconstitutionality of the rules govern
ing the primary election law The
court answers this argument briefly as
follows:
1t is suggested that the indictment fails TO
state a public offense, for the reason that the
oath which the defendant omitted and re-
fused 10 administer is in violation of section
5, article II of the constitution of California,
which provides follows: ''All elections by
the people shall be by ballot or by such other
method may be prescribed by law; provided,
that secrecy in voting be preserved - The oath
mentioned to be taken by d voter challenged
the ground that he has not a bona -fide
present intention of supporting the nominees of
the party, in whose nomination convention he
seeks to participate. by voting for delegat tes
thereto is one to the effect that he has a
present bona fde intention to support the NOM
inees of such convention. Assuming that the
question thus raised is that may be prop
erly determined in this proceeding it is mani
fest that there is nothing IN the point thus
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-21
Saves Two Children.

The prompt action of Christopher
Ward, a 15-year-old boy living al
529h Bryant street saved the lives of
Martin Delahanty, a small boy resid
ing at sos Fourth street, and Irene
Klipstein, who lives near Zoe and
Bryant streets. The children fell into
a small pond in the basement of a
new building at Bryant and Zoe
streets last Saturday and would have
drowned but for young Wards COM
ing to their rescue.
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-19
Valuable Cargo by the Mongolia.

The steamer Mongolia sailed yesterday for
Hongkong and way ports via Honolulu with
the most valuable cargo ever sent from this
port to the Orient. According to the ship 5
manifest filed at the Custom house, the cargo
was valued at s1,947 .917. exclusive of treasure
and TO be distributed follows: China
81. 013, ,32S; Japan S922.258 East Indies, $6217; ;
Korea, $5296; Philippine Islands. $2333; Siam.
1856; Egypt, 500. The treasure shipments
consisted OF Mexican dollars and silver bullion
for Hongkong and Bombay, valued at s192,
67o, making the total value of the cargo.
81 i4oeTO The principal merchandise ship
ments were follows:
To China-1OOO TASKS quicksilver, 9342 bales
cotton sheetings, 6519 bales cotton domestics,
1850 bales cotton drills. 500 bales raw cotton,
80 S19 lbs@leaf tobacco. $685. lbs manufactured
7746 cs assorted canned goods. 1923 bbls flour.
525 600 lbs barreled beef. 1000 half-bbls sour
kraut, 2250 casks beer. 2S10 gals 8 cs wine.
liquors 10.4o4 lbs coffee, 11.011 lbs cheese,
eT60 lbs goldfish. s21s lbs ham and bacon. es15
fish. a % 1873 b1s fresh fruits. $3.50 lbs pkss dried
fish. L. 500 lbs pearl barley, 4176 lbs choco-
late, $500 lbs dried peas, e7S9 lbs beans, 1920
lbs lard Ills lbs II cs millstuffs 40S, eos lbs
sugar, 356 cs table preparations 219 pkgs
groceries and provisions, 70 cs preserved
cherries. 1345 lbs IL cs bread 6s5 lbs butter,
olives. 10 cs syrup. 1045 soap. "a bdls car
material 35 os typewriters, las pkgs dry
eyd cry i5e : bdis ca leather. 81 pkEs drugs and
sundries. sio.sss lbs shrimp shells. 1856 cs
seTns ess bais 1s ssber $50
lbs pig lead, 43S1 bales cotton. 1881 bdls
432 bars steel. 67sS pkgs railroad spikes and
fastenings, 90 iron trucks, Is pkgs car
material, 35, $40 lbs tan bark. 716 pkgs ma
chinery. 1904 cs sewing machines and parts,
100 cs shoe findings, 40. 600 lbs babbitt metal,
10 49T cs assorted canned goods, 9S69 lbs
sugar, $40 bbls -four. 100, 900 lbs salt. 4300
gals s cs wine. cs champagne, 300 lbs
bread 1922 lbs coffee, 1900 lbs raisins. 631
lbs dried fruit, IS cs table preparations. 800
lbs 1nillstuffs. 81 pkgs groceries and provi-
sions, Ii bxs fresh fruits. 744 lbs lard, cs
olives 4S0 lbs butter. 81 boots and shoes,
II pkgs dry goods. 15 cs electrical goods. q
cs drugs. II pkgs oils. "a cs rubber goods, 120
kegs nails, is reels wire rope, 80 pkgs agri-
cultural implements. 300 crts roofing $50 cs
cement, 81 bdls % pcs pipe, 81 crts bicycles,
$50 lbs crude rubber.
To East Indies-eO0 cs condensed milk 1872
cs canned salmon, 25 cs assorted canned
goods 300 lbs dried fruit, / cs honey, cs
table preparations
beer, 1900 lbs lard, 200 lbs dried fruit 1872
lbs beans. table preparations, 504 lbs
chocolate. pkes machinery. cs boots and
shoes, bdls dry goods, cs rubber goods. 1
To Philippine IsIands-2o0 CO canned fruit
so cs bread. 125 CO catsuD, 5104 lbs hams, 20
cs soap
table preparations.
To Egypt-25 cs canned fruit.
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-19
IS DIR. OSLER
RIGHT?
Read the QUESTION and Then Fill Out
the Coupon and Get the Answer.
DOCTOR osLER.s OPINION:

After a man reaches 40 years
he has Spent the productive part
of his life and is of no further use
in the zUoyld. Mentally and
physically he then begins to de-
cine, and is unable to hold his
oaen 1sith younger men,
DR.. McLAUGHLINs OPINION:
Il think that as a general prop
osition, DR.. OSler is rIght-ttat is,
as men go. | mean BY this, that
Sery fe7o men haze Eved the Eves
that 7oonid permit them to retain
all the aTgor that nature intended
them to haze after they haze
passed 40. Most men haze auuSted
their youthful uigor. and unless
they get it back, they generally be-
gin to decline at about 40"
But" continued Dr. Mclaughlin.
years don't break a man down. In my
mind. 1t Is not question of How old
are you? but How have you preserved
your vitality? A man who has preserved
his vital energy is just as young and
vigorous at so as ordinary men are at 40.
have seen hundreds of men who
nave assured me that after they had
worn my Electric Belt for few months
they felt as young and could do as much
work. mentally and physically. as they
ar
Here is an instance just come to my
mind: Mr.. A. c.. Hammond, $50 Pine
street room 81, San Francisco, says:
Your Electric Belt has cured me- at the
age or seventy-three. of weakness in
back and kidneys, so that I can now
stoop or stand erect, dress and undress
more easily than for years. 1t has also
restored me to vigor and sound health
It's the old saying that is true here.
A man is as old as he feels II man
feels young he is young. no matter how
old can aRs S h nI feei young bseadss ne 1ssif
can fill his veins with the fire Of youth
Electricity.
II have for years contended that old
age was nothing but the freezing of the
vital heat IN the body to keep the blood
warm and the organs active. 1 have said
that years did not cause decay, and
men have been made vigorous under my
re5uyenatfng treatment at eighty while
you have examples all about you of men
who are old and decrepit at sixty.
Now, Professor Loeb says that the
animal heat is Electricity. That I know
to be true. We get that heat from the
chemical action Of the acids and juices
OF the stomach upon our food That Is
combustion. This combustion produces
carbonfc heat. and carbonic heat is Elec-
tricity. That is the basis Of life in every
vital organ As long as the stomach Is
able TO generate enough OF this heat to
replentsh the wear and tear upon our VI
tai energies we are strong and active 1t
Is when the stomach finds the strain too
heavy that we grow old and begin to de-
cay.
An old fellow. a patient Of two years
previous, asked me to have his Belt over
hauled, as he wished to put it on again.
/ reminded him that he had reported him
self as cured two years before and / did
not see the need or the Belt now. Pre-
caution. said he. I was cured two
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-19
HANDBALL STARS TO MEET
IN OLYMPIC CLUB COURT

Another big crowd is expected when
the champion handban players of the
country contest at the Olympic Club
this afternoon. The games will be
played for the benefit of Mike Egan,
the worlds champion, who has been
made I'll by overindulgence in the
popular game.
James Dunno Jr. of Brooklyn. N. Y.
and Al Hampton will finish their series
of games by playing James Fitzgerald,
the ex-champion. and Henry Cory, one
of the coming players of the State.
Last Sunday the quartet played five
games and Hampton and Dunno Sc
cured three Of them In order to win
the series either team must capture
six out OF eleven games. Fitzgerald
has trained all week and should put
up a faster game tomorrow. A large
number of tickets have been sold and
the galleries will be filed with devotees
Of the game.
Preliminary to the big match James
Dunno Sr. and George James viii play
James Nealon and Louis Levy. The
games viii begin at I O'Clock. John
Mailon will referee and score the
games. His work last Sunday met
with general approval
The Dunnes viii leave for the East
next Tuesday. Mike Egan will ac-
company the father and son. Egan
will be given a big reception when he
appears at the Olympic Club. Out
siders will be given an opportunity to
buy tickets 10 witness the match.