The San Francisco call., 1913-08-23
LOCAL BREVITIES

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| The butcher shop of Yee Long & Co..
| S54 washington street, was gutted by
! fire early yesterday morning.
| William ID. Burbage of OrovilIe was
| admitted to practice in the United
| States district court yesterday by
Judge NJ. T. Dooling.
| A small nre WINS discovered at ESQ
o'clock yesterday morning in the ware
house of Holbrook, Merrill & Stetson,
Sixth and Townsend streets. but was
extinguished with small loss
| While shopping I'm the downtown
district, Mrs. r. S. Mccarthy. 500 Baker
street, was relieved of $1,000 soli-
| taire diamond ring which she carried
| in purse.
Andrew George. 333 Tehama street,
was stopped by beggar, who asked
for dime. George took out his purse.
which contained 81, and the mendicant
lysnatched 1T and ran.
| mission burglars were held to an
swer in bonds of 100000 each yester-
| day by Police Judge Crist on four
counts of burglary.
| William f.. Ritter. laborer of
| stockton, filed petition In bankruptcy
/ yesterday In the United States district
court. His debts are s2,097.S5, with
no assets.
The Portola festival committee yes
| terdav announced the appointment OF
]. j. Fretwen as resident commissioner
! in Los Gatos. Santa Cruz, 1t Is an
| nounced, is also making preparations
| for the Portola
| Suit for $4,000 damages against the
! Kennedy Extension Gold Mining com
! pany by John A. Gibson. former fore
man of the company, injured at the
mine in Jackson. went TO trial yester-
day before a jury in Judge Sargents $
court
The board of works has no power to
grant vacations to former employees,
! advised City Attorney Long yesterday
! in connection with an application mace
| by the non civil service surveyors
1 field assistants. whose services were
dispensed with August of this year.
The California Refuge for Girls will
hold an open meeting on Monday, Au-
/ gust 25. at 3 D. m. at Rockhurst CEN
/ ter, $50 McAllister street, to report the
work being done among unfortunate
| girls Prof c. j. Patterson will ad-
dress the meeting.
The Matson Navigation company,
owner of the steamer Hyades which
went to the rescue of the steamer > r..
| Loop off Tatoosh island August 8, filed
/ a libel for $1,000 against the S. F. Loop
| court.
The contract for the construction of
the relief home chapel, was awarded
| TO j. W. Carr by the board of works
yesterday for $9,4s2, and the contract
| for the concrete abutments under the
| Southern Pacific bridge at Santa Rosa
1 avenue to Robert c. Storie & Co.,
| whose bid was $500. q
+ Two more windows were broken
| early yesterday morning In the down
4 town section by the window breaking
burglar" but he obtained nothing of
! value for his work. The police found
/ a large plate glass window of M.
| Kohl, millinery store at 279 Post street,
4 broken, and also a shattered window
| in the White House, Sutter street and
! Grant avenue.
i Vincent Lamy, who surrendered him.
self to the local police Wednesday, say
ing he was wanted in Wichita Falls,
TEX, for embezzlement, was released
| yesterday when a message was received
from Chief of Police Gwynn stating
! that the parties involved would not
press the charge. Lamy said he was
conscience stricken.
! The California Steel Monolfthic conn
! pany, defunct corporation. was found
/ guilty on charges of violating the state
labor laws relative to nonpayment of
wages to employees yesterday by Police
| Judge Shortall and fined $500. Me-
1 chanics were hired. but never received
/ any money The city will not reap the
1 benefit of the fine, as 1t has been de-
| clared defunct.
In discussing the administration of
| the funds to be distributed under the
new mothers pension law, the super
| visors finance committee decided yes
/ terday that cases now being cared for
| by the city through various philan-
| thropic organizations shall be investi-
| gated first by Miss Margaret Nesfeld,
! recently appointed by the supervisors
to look into all applications for relief.
Treasureg McDougnId continues to
| find the bond selling business -four
4 ishing. He sold yesterday $4,000
| worth of the 100000 block of school.
hospital and city hall issues recently
placed with him by the supervisors for
| disposition over the counter. This
makes a total of $324.000 sold In the
last few days. in addition to $115,000
for which he has orders, but has not
1 as yet delivered