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The San Francisco call., 1906-11-08
VOTE ASSESSMENT
ON The STOCK.

The directors of the Fireman's Fund
Insurance Company voted yesterday TO
levy an assessment of $500 share
upon the stock of the company and to
authorize the financing of the holdings
of the company so that a final install
ment of 80 cents may be paid soon. An
instalIment of 20 per cent has been
paid already The vote of yesterday
was upon the advice of the policy-ho
ers advisory committee, consisting of
Henry T. Scott, z. r. Lilienthal, Joseph
D. Grant, Charles Holbrook, W. He'll
man Jr.. T. w. Van Sicklen and Percy
T. Morgan.
A report was submitted to the erect
that of the claimants representing
practically 80 per cent Of the San Fran
cisco confagration losses have ap-
proved the proposed plan of settlement
and reha bilitation of the company. The
assistance of leading banks will be OBJ
tained to avoid sacrificing any securi-
ties for which there may be no i'm
mediate sale. S. II. Wolfe, an actuary
who was sent to California by the In
surance Commissioner of Wisconsin,
has reported favorably concerning the
plan of settlement.
For stock, which some stockholders
may not care to hold, market has
been made by the formation of a syn
dicate, with William H Crocker at the
head, which VIII buy it.
The San Francisco call., 1906-11-08
UNITED ACTION REQUIRED.
Gutsch Writes Concerning Attitude of
TRANSATLANTIC Insurance Company.

Gustav Gutsch has written to waiter
H Linforth. president of the Trans
atlantic Policy holders Association that
1t is necessary for the policy-holders
to act together to secure a settlement
with the company. The company in
sists on 80 per cent Of the claims"
writes Gutsch THE company had
hitherto maintained the attitude that it
owes nothing on the claims; hut, II,
by compromising with some Of the
policy holders, it should admit that
there may be liability on the San
Francisco claims, then it would be at
once called to account by the I'M
perial Bureau at Berlin, unless it set
apart a reserve sufficient to meet all
the unsettled claims in full The I'm
perial Bureau would not permit the
funds of the company 10 be used IN
settling some OF the claims at the ex-
pense of others of the same class,
which, by the admission Of the COM
pany, might be valid. The company
would be unable to set aside enough
money TO cover contested claims un-
less the latter formed very small
percentage-not over 10 per cent of all
the claims.
Notwithstanding these difficulties a
settlement may not be excluded IL the
Imperial Bureau will at once cooper
ate with us in trying to reach an am
icable result"
The San Francisco call., 1906-11-08
MUST NOT ERECT
WOODEN HOUSES.

The Board of Public Works directed
Chief Inspector Horgan yesterday to
prevent the future erection of frame
buildings in the fire limits. Fire Mar
shal Towe and Joseph O'Connor, attor-
ney for the Board of Fire Underwriters,
appeared before the board and vigor-
mate erection of buildings of two and
three stories in height in violation of
the building ordinance.
O'Connor stated that such buildings
We're going up under a wrong inter-
pretation of the Ma RS proclamation,
which permitted of t. erection of one
story houses for homes or business
places. Property owners are erecting
flats and apartment houses of wood in
the fire limits with view to securing
income therefrom, which was not con-
Works Boards action will put stop
to the violation of the law in that re-
gard
The board directed Policeman Beach
to take "a gang of men and remove the
bunkers belonging to the Pacific
Wrecking Company and obstructing
the roadway at Battery and Union
streets.
The Ocean Shore Railway was re-
quested to expedite the building of
bunkers on Eleventh street so as to
ings.
President Duffey read his usual
weekly Caudle lecture to contractors
who want extensions of time on public
work, but finally consented to an ex-
tension petitioned for by John Francis
Dowling on the bitumininzing of Ninth
and Tenth avenues at II street.
The San Francisco call., 1906-11-08
cALIFoRNIANs GRANTED PATENTS.

WASHINGTON. Nov. Patents is
sued to Californlans: Arthur B. Adair.
Oakland. bottle; James ". Anderson,
Santa Cruz, multiple view camera: Ber-
nard Beskow. San Francisco, controlling
device for speedchanging mechanism;
Frank w. Carter. San Diego, automatic
safety pulley block; Frank ]. Crouch,
San Francisco, automatic locking and
releasing device for couches; Robert A.
Davidson. Santa Cruz, telephone: Fred
s. Edinger. Berkeley, transfer table;
willard James, Los Angeles. combina-
tion lavatory kitchen and laundry ap-
paratus; John Johnston Santa Bar
bara. weather strip; Jesse NJ. Juhler.
Spreckels, stuffing box; George A. Kahl.
Plainsburg. rail brace; Lewis Landau,
San Francisco. liquid receptacle: Jesse
c. Martin Jr.. San Francisco. cup and
ball joint; William P. Morgan, San
Francisco, placer amalgamator. Ar
thur A. Morris, San Diego. means for
assembling boats for marine drydocks-
The San Francisco call., 1906-11-08

sary, as the District Attorneys office
is understood to be better satisfied
with the reliability of the men who
are now on the inquisitorial body than
before the numerous changes were
made in the personnel of the jury by
formal disqualifcations and the addi-
tions of new names.
If the questions as to bias are pro-
pounded and allowed by the Judge it
will not be done until the jury has
been organized and some particular
charge is ready for presentation. This
method will obviate one of the objec-
tions raised by Ruef that it would be
impossible to examine as to bias, as
il would never be known in advance
Just what matters were to be present
ed or who was to be accused.
The four men drawn yesterday from
the fifteen are Ansel c. Robson, 469
McAIlister street. dealer in birds and
animals. formerly at 335 Kearny
street: Dewey Coffin of the firm of
The San Francisco call., 1906-11-08

D. Coffin & Co., real estate, at 252S
Mission street: +. G. Sanborn, 1920 Do
lores street, with the firm of Bancroft,
Whitney Co., law books, formerly at
612 California street; Maurice Block,
1882 Washington street, OF the Anglo
California Crockery and Glassware
Company, at Sixth and Yuma streets.
OF the fifteen who were summoned
to appear yesterday all but three were
present and each was examined by
Heney and Shortridge. None of them
evinced a desire to shirk their duty ex-
cept l. r. Fulda, who confessed to the
Judge, after questions, that he wanted
TO avoid any disagreeable mix-up." He
testified that property for which he
was assessed he had transferred to
Henry Meier.
Heney is satisfied that the nineteen
men are worthy and Ruef says 1t is
a good Grand Jury. As the guide books
say, it is well spoken Of
The San Francisco call., 1906-11-08
Citizens Who Compose the
New Grand jury.

r. q. Sanborr1, 1920 Dolores street.
AnseI G. Robson, 43o McA1lister street.
Dewey Coffin, 252S Mission street.
Morris Block, 1892 Washington street.
Christian 3. Rode, 1874 Howard street.
B. p. Oliver, 1900 Golden Gate avenue.
w. p. Fedington. $500 Scott street.
Alfred Greenebaur11, 1907 Vallejo street.
Morris A. LeVing stOr1 344S Seventeenth st.-
Wallace g. Wise, 9 Montgomery street.
Charles So1nta2, ia Market street.
Herman II. Young, 2z0S Steiner street.
Jeremiah Deasy, 500 Cole street.
r. a. DXvyer. 20 Post street.
James e. Gordon, 1000 California street.
G. G. Burnett, 1426 Market street.
Nj. ROtI1enIoerg, 423 kear1y street.
z. j. Gallagher, 1909 Baker street.
Rudolph MOT1r, 1892 Page street.
The San Francisco call., 1906-11-08
New Grand Jury Ready
to Begin It's Work.

additional jurors drawn yesterday from the fifteen
that the Jury complete
Each examined his qualifications and all the nineteen
found be the roll
Graham will mpanel the and foreman After that
Heney will place before the evidence of graor much of the
within his be ndct
against municipal boodlers questions
individual the which they
questions
The San Francisco call., 1906-11-08
TELLS WHY RENT
IS CHARGED.

Considerable criticism has been oc-
Corporation toward Mrs Mary Kelly.
who refused to pay her rent, and the
following statement issued by the Re-
lief Corporation yesterday is virtually
an explanation of the case, although
Mrs. Kelly's name is not mentioned in
it:
nominal rent, 81 room per month.
is charged for the use of cottages by
the Relief Corporation, it being un-
derstood that in case the tenant pays
the rent to the end of the term, August
II, 1907, he will own the cottage. 1t was
the unanimous opinion of the commit
tee and of every one familiar with the
subject of relief that it was proper to
charge the rent in order that the refu
gee tenant might realize that he was
not the recipient of charity, but that
he was paying for what he gets, and
so normal conditions will gradually be
restored without pauperizing the peo-
pie.
The rent charged also served in the
camps for the purpose of segregating
those who were able TO pay from those
who were not The latter class were
assisted to pay their rent by a grant
of money or were sent to Ingleside,
where they received shelter and food
free.
charged is fully collected it will about
meet the expense of maintaining the
camps and of sanitation.
The purpose of the Relief Commits
sion is to preserve far as possible
the independence and self7respect of
the people by giving them an oppor-
tunity, in small measure, to pay their
own way Nearly all the refugees seem
to appreciate this and are co-operat-
ing with the camps department in
making a success of the plan which
is designed solely and exclusively for
their benefit.
In a statement just issued by the
American National Red Cross Society
at Washington. d. c., the total of re-
ceipts from all sources by that organ
ization for the California relief fund is
given as $2,47S.271.15, of which there
still remains in the treasury 5000
0S6.61. BY adding to this the amount
in branch treasures. the total amount
still available for relief is s2,626,943.0S.
Following is the total amount con-
tributed from each State for San Fran
cisco relief through the Red Cross up
to September TO-
The San Francisco call., 1906-11-08
WANTS SUPERVISORS TO BE coon

Martin Tugen of Melrose has filed
with the Board of Supervisors several
printed circulars containing the word
of truth" and urging the city fathers
to walk in the right way and ''be
good" Tugen quotes from the Bible in
his exhortation to the Supervisors to
behave themselves.
The San Francisco call., 1906-11-08
TWO INSURANCE SUITS.

Simon C1ayburgh yesterday filed suit
against the Agricultural Insurance
Company Of Watertown, n. Y. for
$4,000 on policy covering a building
at 113 Geary street, which was burned
on April 18. The Herrscher- Samuel
Company has brought suit against the
Dutchess Insurance Company of Pough-
keepsie, n. Y, for $4,000 insurance on a
stock of liquors formerly contained in
a building at 521-52S Market street.
The San Francisco call., 1906-11-08

souri,, s1s,255o2; New York. s544.4sS;
North Carolina, $1405.67 Ohio, $685.
95S.57; Pennsylvania. s159.600; Rhode
Island, $S9.39S.S1; South Carolina,
s1900.SS; Vermont. s7561.36; Wyoming,
S1694.60, Japanese Red Cross Society.
s146,000; all other sources. $500. 80.
The San Francisco call., 1906-11-08
Orders to Army
and Navy.

w 1s"'ss.ss: =. '.,,."'s. ny. NV, = =
ders were issued tOdays
First Lieutenant Law
renee ID. Cabell relieved from
duty at Havana, Cuba, to take
effect upon completion OF his
examination for promotion, and
Is TO proceed to San Francisco
for duty as assistant depot quar-
termnster.
Naval orders; Captain e. s.
Phelps, detached from duty at
the naval Pacific station, San
Francisco, ordered to Mare Is
land navy yard. Lieutenant
Commander A. s. HaIstead, de-
tached from the cruiser Chicago
and ordered on duty as Inspector
of ordnance at the Union Iron
Works, San Francisco. Pay
master ID. Cotton ordered on
duty as general storekeeper at
Mare Island navy yard.
The San Francisco call., 1906-11-08
BLACKSMITH KILLS HIM,

BLACKSMITH KILLS HIMsELF.-Josepb
Ryeson committed suicide yesterday by shoot
Ing himself in the head with a pistol in a
stable on Jessie street, between Seventh and
Eighth. Ryeson. had not been feeling well
lately and IT is believed that his nl-health
prompted him to do away, with himself. He
worked for Frank Gore, a stable keeper on
the Central Park site.
The San Francisco call., 1906-11-08

NEW NATIONAL BANK-washington. Vow
THE Comptroller OF the Currency has ap-
proved the application to organize the Ex-
change National Bank OF Long Beach. Cal.
capital S1O0 OO0 NJ. v McQuigg. Los An
geles: A. J. Wallace. William IT, Walsce r.
n. Young and B. P. Dayman the direct
ors
The San Francisco call., 1906-11-08

JURY FINDS SUICIDE vERDICT.-A Cor
orer's jury returned a verdict yesterday of
suicide In the case OF Helen Wind. who died
from the effects OF carbOlic acid poisoning IN
Golden Gate Park recently
The San Francisco call., 1906-11-08

The best selection Of paintings In town
on exhibition at Kflby's, 1852 Van Ness
ave-; also high class engravings.
The San Francisco call., 1906-11-08

NORDHOFF GRILL, 1915 Pine ST.,
near Van Ness, open today.
The San Francisco call., 1906-11-08
pETrTIoN m INsoLvENCY.- :

EEIILIUu IN INDULF ENJIs s--PeIIt1Ons m
insolvency were fled IN the United States Dis
trict Court yesterday as follows: John z.
MalIen. carpenter, San Francisco, debts Si164.
no assets; n W. Montgomery, machinlsf, Sac
rsmento, debts s1074, assets s65.
The San Francisco call., 1906-11-08

s19.41O.10 District of Columbia, s31,-
Isis; Georgia. sS32.4s; Illinois, $780,
145.2S: Indiana. s44,407.16; Maine.
s5S1294; Maryland. $4,000: Massachu-
setts, $66,561; Michigan, s64.500: Mis-
, 1906-01-26
GRIPPE INCREASING
Mills, A Druggist, Graduate of the Phil
adeIphia College Of Pharmacy,
Tells Laramie People the
Best Preventative and
Cure.

So many cases of the grippe have
been reported during the past month
Throughout the state that some of our
leading physicians have been trying to
locate the cause, and have spent much
thine in the health departments of our
various cities carrying on the research.
Mills, A Druggist, graduate of Phila-
delphia College of Pharmacy, when in,
terviewed in regard to this matter, said,
"It is the people who are rundown and
physically below par. who get the grippe
and contract contagious diseases,
and it is a warning to every man, wo-
Imam and child in Laramie to build
themselves up at this season of the
year. There is no doubt that the cod
liver oil preparation, Vinol, has pre-
vented and cured more cases of the
grippe than any other remedy we know
of. This is because Vinol contains in
a concentrated form all of the vital prin-
ciples of cod liver oil without any of
the system-clogging oil to upset the
stomach and retard its work.
After grippe Yinol p~urifes and en-
riches the blood, tones up the digestive
.organs, and strengthens every organ in
the body to do its work as nature in
TENDED.
In the strongest manner we endorse
and guarantee Vinol to ward off dis
ease and to build up the rundown, tir
ed and de%bilitated, give strength and
renewed vitality to the aged, cure
chronic coughs and colds and build VI
the convalescent, or return to the pur-
chaser every donar paid for it." Red
Cross Pharmacy.
, 1906-01-26
PoULTNEY BIGELoW OUT.

A dispatch to the New York Herald
from Boston quotes DR.. Huntington,
president of Boston university, in com.
nenting upon the action of Poultney
Bigelow, whose resignation as special
lecturer on international law at the uni
versity has been sent to Dean Bigelow,
now at Ann Arbor, Mich. The dispatch
says:
DIR. Huntington said last night:
81 had not been informed of the for.
NAL resignation, but l knew that it was
coming. l received a letter from Dean
Bigelow within the week in which he
implied that he was exasperated with
Mr.. Bigelow's indiscretions and eccen,
tricities and hat he would hint to him
that he better resign. l heartily agree
with the dean.
"Mr. Bigelow has done and said &c,
centric things and brought wrath upon
the university long enough. He called
himself a professor of Boston univer-
sity when, as a matter of fact, he was
not. He was merely a lecturer. His
habit of making wild statements and
then bringing the nam of the univer-
sity into the question is d~ispleasing, o
say the least. 1t is better for the uni
Versity and all concerned that Mr..
Bigelow's resignation be accepted"
, 1906-01-26

once when Colonel Gates and his com.
bination of millionaire spectators
.countered adverse conditions and a
more powerful combination, one OF the
losers explained. in a voice trembling
with emotion, that concentration of
wealth in the hands of a few %rapacious
individuals had been carried to such
length that a man worth less than hall
a billion scarce dare buy more than a
thousand shares of stock at a time on
margin, and the constitution of the
United States was mere waste paper.
Mr.. Lawson, of Boston, first perceived
that liberty was p%erishing when his
own overlooking applicant raj into
Mr.. Rogers two-horse dray. Mr.. Hill,
engaged in a tug of war with Mr.. Har-
riman, plainly sees a public menace In
the power of the Standard Oil crowd,
which is backing his rival, n Mr..
Hartman has grave doubts, of a patri
Iotic character, concerning the mighty
Morgan, who is furnishing ammunition
to the other side. AS for Mr.. Rookie.
teller himself, we know from his friends
that a ruthless press, abbetted by a
Hot of investigating committees, has
erected a tyranny more odious than
Nero's.
From boot black to railroad president
we are all oppressed, and will be, not
only until the race is not to the swift
and the battle to the strong, but until
time and chance no longer |happeneth
to all. Obviously, it is good philosophy
to accept It as cheerfully as possible.
Saturday Evening Post.
, 1906-01-26
Taking the kaiser,s Trophy.

The recent yacht race across the
Atlantic for the kaiser's trophy, was
easily won by the American boat,
which established a new record be-
tween Sandy Hook and the Lizard. A
wonderful record has also been estab.
lished by the famous Hostetter's Sto-
mach Bitters in its SO years expert
ence; in fact, it is so far ahead of its
competitors thai there is really no sec
ond in the race. You therefore owe il
to yourself and family to see that the
Bitters finds a permanent place in your
home from this time on. You'll find
it very valuable in cases of chills, colds,
grippe or pneumonia, also that it cures
vomiting, heartburn, flatulency, indi.
g%estion, dyspepsia, costiveness, insom.
mia, biliouspess, or malaria, fever and
ague. We urge a fair trial by every
sick man or woman. 1t never disap-
, 1906-01-26
WE'RE ALL

The other day a seat on the New
York stock exchange sold for sos, 900.
Persons able to pay this price for the
privilege of belonging to any organiza.
tion would probably be considered
lucky by the rank and file of mankind.
In all large cities the stockholders
seem to bask in fortunes sunniest
smiles. They have handsome offices,
i've in fine houses and ride in automo-
biles, though they neither toll exces-
sively nor spin overtime.
Yet the iron heel of the oppressor is
on their necks, grinding them into dust
The day the seat sold for SIS, 900 call
loans to brokers advanced to fifty per
cent, soon after to one hundred per
cent, and the street was filed with a
great wall that a soulless combination
Of banks was robbing everybody blind.
, 1906-01-26
Maturity of stock.

Stock in series No. 2 will mature in
August of the present year-that is to
say it will require eight full payments
in 1906, and the greater part of anoth-
er payment, to make the stock in Sc
ries No. 2 worth $40 per share. This
is nearly two months longer than it
required stock in series No. 1 to ma
ture, but when w take into considera-
ton the fact that We have had over
twice as much money to dispose of
during the past few years, as we had
during the greater part of the time in
series No. 1, and that the premiums
have consequently been much lower,
the only wonder is that we are able to
make as good a showing. AS we have
previously stated, the length of time
necessary to mature stock in any given
series, depends more upon the premi-
lms than anything else. The premiums
in series No. 1 during the first year,
averaged 25A per cent. The highest
premium bid during that year was 81
per cent, and the lowest, II per cent.
II the premiums had continued to av-
, 1906-01-26

A short time ago one of the clerks
in the departments at Washington was
the subject of considerable joking on
the part of her companions. In a report
made by one of the special agents Of
the department in which she was EN-
ployed a bill had been rendered for the
use Of a boat for crossing and recros-
sing a certain stream. The agent was
asked by the clerk why he had hired
the boat and she in due course of time
received the following reply: Not be
ing Jesus Christ, l could not walk on
the waters"
, 1906-01-26

One of the Akron, Colo, land thieves
has just been sentenced by Judge Riner
to pay a fine of $500 and to serve a
term of five years in the United States
prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kas. This
is the maximum sentence that could
be given, but the cast was an extremely
aggravated one, the defendant, David
w. Irwin, not only committing perjury
himself. but inducing others to commit
perjury also. 1t may be depended upon
that when men violate the law and get
into Judge Riner's court they will have
justice melted out.
, 1906-01-26

The editors Of Big Horn county have
formed an association for mutual pro
lection and for the immediate purpose
of seeing what can be done toward Sc
curing better telegraph report for the
papers of the county. The Big Horn
editors are a wide-awake lot.
, 1906-01-26

T. ]. Kenkins, formerly special agent
of the department of the interior in
Wyoming, is now dog-catcher in the
city of Springfield, Mo. He has struck
his gait.
, 1906-01-26

Since the abolition of railway passes
in Pennsylvania there has been a fall
ing off of more than o~ne-quarter in the
Pullman patronage from Pittsburg. A
large proportion of the fellows who pay
fare evidently have not sufficient
money left to ride in the Pullman cars.
, 1906-01-26
Additional Information.

Including the new series of stock
which has just been issued, We now
nave $50 members. The total number
OF shares in force is 4,256h. These
figures will change from time to time.
Stock was taken in series No. 8 every
month last year, and it is quite likely
that this will be our experience in Sc
ries No. 10, which has just been issued.
By comparison it will be see that this
association is now twice as big as any
building and loan association hereto
fore organized and doing business in
Laramie.
, 1906-01-26

The people If Fremont county are
making a vigorous protest against the
postponement of the opening of the
Wind River reservation, and 1t is not
at all likely that any change will be
made in the act. The date is June 10,
lone