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tK T4J vr SAN PBANCISCO CHRONICLE TUESDAY NOYEMECER 26 1895 Lift CALLS it i i UHTHCCe I Dramatic Episode Jn Prosy Proceedings THE JUDGRESTORES ORDER 1 MOIIE OF THE HALE ASH SORCROSS LITIGATIOlf Expert Teitlmosr as to the Yield of Ores From theHlnea on the Comstoclc Interest In the merits of the Hale and Norcross case In the personality of me litigants ana in tne issues in volved was an overshadowed by an episode which occurred In the courtroom yesterday afternoon Just before the hearing of the case was adjourned for the day The situation was presented pf an attorney stuns almost to mad nesj by a statement made by the witness on the stand protesting with vehement gesture a an officer of the court thai the witness was a liar while the bourt was trying by dignified insist pice to preserve the proprieties I The epIsode grew out of the strained personal relations which have existed tor some time between Tanger biarC a witness for the plaintiff and Attorney Diehl the leading counsel for the defendants I Tangerman had testified as an expert that In his opinion the ore from jthe Hale and Norcross mine ought to Ihave yielded from 75 to 85 per cent of jwhat the assays from the car samples showed that It contained i 0n cross examination Dlehl asked him If he had not been Indicted in Colorado and if he had not emmbezzled money jfrom Nicholas Van Bergen This was M1etteA fn at th tlm hv Aftnmv iBaggett for the plaintiff as being an jJj Jtoproper and unwarranted way of at tempting 10 unpeacn xaugerzun as a rimess The Court explained to the itness that he need not answer these questions if the answers would lead to humiliate Mm or injure his reputation TOnt fKa TinmlTllltlnn hurt Pnm with thft Asking of the questions and In his anger jthe witness answered both questions tucuiu me cuiucuinucu uut uuu Itlnz the indictment coioraao i fn th aftprnnnn on redirect nun 1BUUI1 DIKtcu lliu ui muiruwgifc ffc Ho the Court all the circumstances of av ahe intimated embewlement from Nich olas Van Bergen and the indictment in rt1rtrt I object to that said Attorney Dlehl unless I am permitted to cross examine The witness is certainly entitled to make the explanation retorted Bag gett and whether you are permitted to cross examine or not will depend on whether the law gives you a right to or not and the Court will decide that when the explanation is made The witness maf proceed with the explanation said Judge Hebbard Explaining the matter Tangerman aid that early in the seventies he was engaged by the firm of which Nicholas Van Bergen was a member as a traveling salesman for a ealaryand expenses 1 He sold goods and made collections end paid his expenses out of the collections remitting the balance The compensation was changed to a commission basis In 1879 but there was no final settlement of accounts and in 1880 he left this employment and went to Colorado While in Leadvllle one of the members of the firm wrote him a letter saying they wanted to settle up all accounts and Inclosed a promissory note with a request for nls signature Tangerman went to a lawyer who advised him that as the purpose seemed to be simply a formal settlement of accounts on the books to sign the note but tor write across the face of It subject to correction This he did The note was never presented for payment nor was anything further done about it His relations with Nicholas Van Bergen he said had always been and were still friendly After going to Colorado the witness aid he leased the Ventura mine spent considerable money in developing It and took out about 300 tons of ore which i assayed aver 843 a ton This ore he i hauled to Leadvllle eleven miles to a jnjjl of which he knew nothing at that time The account rendered by the mill brought him out 8800 in debt to the mill I and ruined him financially He threat i cned to bring suit for fraud In hand Jlng his orevbut lack of resources At i the time prevented him from doing It He made a precarious living for a time assisting the man who had assayed the ere from his mine Together with the assayer he was indicted for conspiracy to purchase stolen bullion sOn the trial Tangerman said the prosecuting witness ac ksowledged that he had 1 en hired to Stake the charge by the owners of the mill which had handled Tangermans pre The case against them was dismissed and the prosecuting witness was sent to the penitentiary for five years 4 iHad Mr Dlehl ever heard this explanation Before he asked you this morning if you had ever been lndleted asked Mr Baggett Attorney Dlehl was on his feet in an 1 Instant This has gone entirely too far he exclaimed a object to it on the ground that it la Irrelevant and inn competent protest against any such question I went a good deal farther this morn ing said Judge Hebbard than I shall I ever go again 1 had a mtsapprehen i ion of the law It is clear find that I the only Impeaching question which can oe asked witness is If he was ever convicted of a felony If he answers bo you are bound by It unlets yod can produce the record of the conviction Vlwa misled Mr Dlehl lntd allowing you to atK wis witness ne naa em beszled money or been Indicted In order to undo the Injury I permitted to be done the witness In allowing these Questions to be asked shall permit him to make a full and free explana uon cBut your honor if he Is to be permitted to testify as to matters concern lag me am to be denied the opportunity of defending myself It I am look at the extraordinary digressions Into which we will be led We wliTIook out for that when it kecomea necessary replied the Court The witness answering the question said that on the occasion of a trial in Virginia Nevln which he was a witness Attorney Dlehl had gone over the same ground To this the attorney protested most vigorously Insisting that he had a right to Introduce evidence to contradict the statement ThlngwrFgettlngwarm at this point but Attorney Baggetts next question made them hot What are the relations between you andMr DlehlT 3 cannot permit that question exclaimed Attorney Diehl lumninsr to his feet What difference does It make In this case what our relations are shall permit this question Mr Dlehl said the Court if the witness says that an answer to It Is necessary to set him right before the Court Thewltnesjf said it was and proceeded Prior to three years ago Mr Diehl and I were good friends He offered me 10 per cent to get him a certain case in which he got 815000 thats when our animosity began Attorney Dlehl was on his feet his face flushed with Indignation long before the witness got this far Advancing within the bar to the Judges desk gesticulatingvehemently he ex claimed As an officer of this court 2 will not alio this I am not sworn1 here as a witness Jtat as an officer of this court I say that the witness has sworn to a deliberate falsehood Let us not forget where we are interrupted the Court In all the thirty five years thatl have practiced at the bar of this and neigh boring States and all over the country I was never before charged with anything of this kind It is outrageous Stop exclaimed the Judge This was addressed as well to Attorney Baggett who had risen to defend the witness I will say to your honor continued Attorney Dlehl that this witness claimed he had brought to me a client for whom I never lost a case In the world when that client told me he simply asked him to see if I was In my office Everything else he has testified to here is equally untrue Stop Mr Dlehl exclaimed the Judge I will maintain the dignity of this court If I have to send every lawyer fn thecasetoJalL Even while Judge Hebbard was sav ing this Attorney Dlehl continued his scoring of the witness concluding with the question Will your honor allow me to apologize to the Court No apology is necessary Mr Dlehl I do not require one of you But no matter how strongly you feel you ought to remember the requirements of the dace and any explanation you may deem necessary make with moderation and consideration I have done so and under the cir cumstances I think with great modera tion Diehl replied In conclusion of the matter the last question and answer were stricken from the record The wltnesson a pleas ant but earnestly directed cross examinationexamination by Attorney piehl after the latter had assured him that he was not an attorney in the VirginlaNev case In question admitted that possibly he was mistaken about its being Dlehl who had asked these questions The Court expressed himself as satisfied with the explanations all round and the courtroom resumed its normal serenity Witness Tangerman was on the stand nearly all day The principal points of his testimony were that he had been miner and mlllman and familiar with ores for thirty years that In his Judg ment Is an expert the Hale Norcross ores ought to return from 75 to 85 per cent of the car sample assays Samples taken from the cars were fairer he believed than battery samples because some of the gold and silver Instead of passing through the screen re mained la the bottom of the battery Battery samples he thought were always unreliable The Hale Norcross ore he considered dry ore On cross examination he admitted that he had never had personal experience with ore from the Comstock lode yielding 75 to S5 per cent of the assay of car samples His experience with this kind of ore had been In connection with a few mines he had leased at different times and with ore he had purchased from men who picked it up from the ore dumps In none of these cases had the sampling been from cars but he thought the samples taken from the cars would if anything be poqrer than the samples taken as he took his from the ore dumps because the carmen would and did take the morje finely broken ore which he claimed was poorer than the larger lumps Ellis an assayer of this city testified to assays made of fine and coarse ore bonded by Fox the plaintiff for the purpose of determining whether the fine or the coarse ore was the richer He gave the results of his assays The coarse ore assayed 860 30 of eold and 4618 ounces of silver and the fine 125 of gold and 2430 ounces of silver During the afternoon Henry Levy and Alvinza Hayward two of the defendants were in court The plaintiff Was present all day WILL OF GIBBS It DUpoiei of out a Small Amount of Property Th will of George Glbbs will be filed for probate in about two weeks Although Mr Glbbs was a Men man nis will disposes of property worth scarcely 810000 It is stated that before hi death the testator deeded to his wife and other members of his family prop erty worth upwara oiawuw tie iook this courte in order that the family might be saved the trouble of settling up a large estate lathe Probate Court The will to be filed fofprobate Is en nl1 in JtinvHI Inar of the de ceased It bequeaths everything to his widow except ssw xnis mur nun represents legacies of 8100 each to two friends Mrs Glbbs Is appointed executrix without bonds it i Order of Travellnjr Men Instituted noiden Gate Council No 80 United Commercial Traveler of America was Instituted at Stanford Halt Ateaxar ilMlne laat Saturday evening by Su nMm SuHtanr tl Viltm ftnd thft following officers Installed Past senior counselor i juaeii senior counselor a Engelberg Junior counselor Charles Simon conductor Charles esse secretary A Boulderman treasurer Mason page Eslenbach sentinel Oscar Boulderman executive committee Messrs Cumberson Mc Cann and Savage The new lodge which is the first of the order on the Pa dflo Coast beginsvjlfe with a membership of thirty five All commercial travelers MrTlagg has gone to Los Angeles to establish a lodge there A HINT 30 UgKrjm3 For 97 say dealer will deliver you a ton ot Cow BsyeosMt Bamoae soot XxTfti sixes torThaauglTlfig dinner fttBw uaSlSltiutimt THE CALIFORNIA GIRLS TRAINING SCHOOL From drsvlnxt by so bee A quo SKiTtcry Wrir 5 5r r3 3 The above design of the proposed California Girls Training School was submitted at the mothers mass meeting in Metropolitan Hall with plans of interior arrangements The building is to be located on half of block 249 on A street near Thirty fifth street on land given for that purpose by Adolph Sutro It win be in modern renaissance style tasteful and attractive in appearance and will cost about 820000 The structure will consist of a main building with two wings and win accommodate 100 girls In addition to the adults having them in charge The main building win be 120 feet long by 40 feet wide while the wings will measure 30 by 80 feet each A spacious entrance midway in the front of the edifice win afford admittance to the first floor from which will rise a substantial and roomy staircase to the story above Both wings will also be provided with stairways In order that easy exit from the bunding may be obtained in case of fire On the first floor of the main building will be ten large rooms for administration purposes and in the rear an apartment win be fitted up as a childrens hospital In the right wing there wUl be a dining room 27 by if eet and back of it a kitchen 27 by 27 feet with closets laundry etc The left wing will be divided into a recreation room of the same size as the dining room and In the rear will be a schoolroom corresponding to and of the same dlmendons am the kitchen In the other wing The second floor will be devoted to sleeping purposes The dormitories wUl be partitioned off into rooms 9 and 11 feet to a height of eight feet the intervening space to the celling affording ventilation and additional light Each room win be arranged to accommodate two girls sixty eight of whom win be provided for in the main bunding and twenty four In the wings For the present the attic win only be finished in the rough but as the Institution grows this part of the bunding wilt also be used for sleeping purposes MessraBugbee Gash are the architects MR NASH WINS HIS SUIT MRS KKELIXG MTJST PAT HIM HIS SALART A Jury Decides That the TI volts Stage Manager Did JSot Ife Sleet His Dnties There was no suggestion of comedy about yesterdays proceedings in the case of John Nash against Ernestine Krellng The bevy of Tivoll stars and the horde of Tivoli subordlnateswhose presence in the gaUery of the court room last week lent a lively air to the gloomy room had gone and In their stead the gallery space was occupied by the usual drift of floaters who at tend upon courts of law because they have nothing else to do From the amusement attendant upon the testi mony of comedians soubrettes and prima donnas about long shots and stage business worked out with the aid of poker chips the case had taken on an aspect of seriousness The time had almost come when a matter of dollars and cents was to be placed at the disposal of a Jury and gum chewing chorus girls and fun provoking Jesters naa no place there There proved to be good cause for th sober demeanor of at least one side of the case for later in the dav the Jury brought in a verdict for the plaintiff In tne iuii amount sued for 8360 pr in terest irom July 1895 Every one connected with the case principals attorneys and witnesses were oromDtlr on hand when court con vened yesterday morning No time wa lost in preliminaries and the further examination of witnesses was immediately proceeded with a areenneid the gentleman who used to be stage manager at Morosco was called for further cross examina tion by the defense Attorney Lowen thal tried to get him to admit enough to prove that Nashs room at the Langham where he did the business for the operas was much smaller than the room provided for him at the Tivoll He wanted the witness to say also that he did not go to Nashs room as he had stated to see him study nls plays but for some other purpose An objection put a stop to this line of inquiry and the witness was dismissed Raphael the Tivoll baritone told some more about Ills having seen Nash at work in his room He also said that there were ten principals and forty chorus people In the average Tivoll opera Attorney Friedenrlch wanted this information to help him snow that Nashs duties as stage manager were not light ones After Raphael the plaintiff again took the stand to give some redirect testi mony He denied Mrs Krellng asked him to go with her to her attorneys office to sign a contract as she had stated He said that he did not agree that Mrs KreUng should discharge him at the end of six months if his services were not satisfactory Mrs Krellng had never complained to blm of insuffi cient rehearsals She had never told him that he was not doing his duty He said he had complained to Mrs Krellng about retaining such old failures as Grade Plaisted Tillle Salllnger and Phil Branson He thought they had become chestnuts Nash went over histestimony about his visits to the race track and the way 1 he did the business of the operas and then told of how many years experience he had had as a stage manager He was with Gilbert Sullivan for three years with Catherine Lewis for one season with the Duff Opera Company for seven years with the Bosto nlans for three seasons and with the Tivoll for one season He had never been discharged by any employer except Mrs KreUng The defense called Charles Krams Mrs Krellng and Mrs Dora Rosner to rebut minor points and after this the testimony closed The arguments of counsel were heard in the afternoon and the Jury retired shortly after 4 oclock In about fifteen minutes It returned a verdict for the clalnUff Nashs suit on his alleged contract for the second year will come to trial In the near future I A DEFEASE OF HERROIT a divorce was granted by Judge Sanderson yesterday The decree is on the ground of adultery It was shown that Ballen had been guilty of improper con ductat a well known house on Sutter street Ballen did not contest the suit but permitted Judgment to be taken against him by default Other divorces granted yesterday were to Emma A Curtis from Henry Curtis because of desertion to Katie A TIdball from William Tldball because of willful neglect to Clementina Anderson from Thomas Anderson because of intemperance and failure to provide to Pearl Gerschkovig from Abraham Gerschkovig because of failure to provide and to Annette Lagrave from Jean Lagrave because of desertion Dr A Kuhlmann has commenced a suit for divorce against Elizabeth Kuhlmann The action is on the ground of desertion SPLIT IN SOCIALIST RANKS AMERICAS SECTIOJC HEADS SECESSION Twenty Socialists Denonnee the Local Paper and the Adopted Platform War Is on among the local socialists Ever since the advent of Professor George Herron on this Coast there has been renewed activity among the socialists especially that branch calling themselves Christian socialists One of the direct results of Dr Her rons teaching was the foundation of a paper the Socialist which is the Joint production of Dr Joseph Scott and Rev Dupuy Presbyterian clergymen who were greatly attracted by Herron The Socialist has been the accepted organ of all the socialist sections which have greatly Increased of late but one at least of the sections will no longer have toe paper on its reading table and has declared war Upon it The faction which has seceded from the main body Is the American section which meets at Pythian Castle 959 Market street It has a membership of twenty Not long ago the leading socialists in conference with a number of the leaders of other reforming parties decided that a simple platform with likenesses emphasized and differences minimized was the only way in which the reform parties could hope to cope successfully with organized and established political bodies The cohorts of reform might It was urged wield the balance of power In accordance with this conference the leaders adopted a two plank platform upon which the Populists socialists and other kindred bodies could conscientiously combine It left many important questions untouched of course but furnished a skeleton to which details could be added when power was obtained The two planks were drawn up by Johnson formerly the editor of a Populist paper One plank favored the establishment of the Ini tiative and referendum and the other approved the Government issue of money that would be money for the people This platform was published in all the reform papers among them the Socialist Immediately upon the publication of the platform the American section which is largely composed of Germans wrote an Inflammatory protest to the Socialist stating their grief and anger that nothing was ald in the accepted platform of a national Socialist party It was explained to them that the other A SHIP SWEPT BY ICY SEAS HOW THE BABCOCK FARED OFF THE HORJT Pna iUstle Sailor Who Desires Meet Tom Sharkey Coal Cargo Heats to The American ship Babcock docked at Green street yesterday and began discharging coaL She came in with her decks scrubbed her brass polished and her woodwork freshly painted She Is one of the finest American ships aflcot and attracted general attention She looks a little better than she did when we were in 61 south said Captain Graham In coming around the Horn we were blown away 4 off to the southwards It was a long time before the wind gotaroundand then it seemed to come from the Pole direct for it was icy If the sea did not run from the decks at once it would freeze and the spray turned to ice In the air At one time we had two feet of ice on our deck and the morning after the coldest night we had to break the Ice off the ropes to handle the ship If blew a gale too and I remember when we finally squared away for the run north it was Impossible to set some of the sails The time was hard on everybody The men were washed all over the decks and were drenched with water all but freezing cold I spent a night on deck lashed to the bits but whether or not it was the excitement I did not mind the cold much That very night two of the seamen were badly frostbitten This experience did not last long however as we made splendid time running before the wind and In twenty four hours were nearly 240 miles to the northward Captain Graham denies very stoutly the stories of alleged cruelty on the part of Mate Trlmm He says that Trimm did strike two men but had cause for it both times One of the men had previously drawn a knife on him Captain Grahams wife and little tot of a daughter made the voyage with him and fared very well despite the cold weather of the South Pacific and the gales further north The JBabcock has not yet been chartered Down on the bark Anglesey they have a man who wants to meet Tom Sharkey the sailor pugilist His name is Augustine Connan and when he hasnt got the gloves on he is busy in the galley as cook Cookery however is a sort of side issue with him It was a meand to an end He wanted to get out to the Pacific Coast to do a little fighting so he shipped on the Anglesey to get here He is a Welshman strong and sturdy and his friends say there was nobody left in Wales to defeat and he nad to seek new victims Connan does not confine his ambitions to Tom Sharkey but prefers a referees Introduction to that gentleman as against any lesser lights His weight Is 175 pounds and he looks Uke a pretty good man After docking yesterday morning the steamer San Bias did not lose much time as a few hours later she was taken to the Union Iron Works to be hauled out of the water She will be cleaned apd painted and the work will be done as quickly as possible as she has to sail on Saturday and as Thanksgiving Intervenes there Is not much time left to have her ready The British bark Fiery Cross from Cardiff to Victoria with a cargo of coal that leemed to be heating put into Montevideo on October 25th The cargo was sold at auction and then discharged Tire steamship City of Bio de Janeiro was docked at Hunters point Sunday and is being cleaned and painted The afAmiaN wAtiM nftt tinlt on tnri a platform but they continued to argue Progressist came out of the dock to let The Arena Symposium Has Been Ite Issned as a Pamphlet The symposium by Adeline Knapp Dr McLean president of the Pacific Congregational Theological Seminary Oakland Cat Rev Scott San Francisco Cat Rev Scud der Jr Alameda Cat Elder Ferguson pastor of the Christian Church San Francisco Cat Rev Cummlngs Smith pastor Trinity Presbyterian Church San Francisco Cat Rev Webster Pasadena Cat and James Clark Pasadena Cat in defense of Professor George Herron as a man and as a worker In California which was published by the Arena some months ago has been reissued as a pamphlet and Is being distributed fres all over the city by the various clergymen The pamphlet Is a direct answer to one published by Dr Brows riot long ago i BALLEN WAS GAT Tno Consals Wife Is Granted a Dl Torce Other Cases Alexander Ballen the Ecuadoran Contut Is so longer a married man The application of his wife Virginia for for the Whole thing or nothing On Sunday they voted that the Socialist could no longer be their organ Only two socialist papers one in New York and one in St Louis receive their approvat A few members of the section foreseeing that such an action in regard to the platform for the coming camnalgn meant disruption In the ranks opposed tne motion nut unsuc cessfuuy SPEST HIS CLIENTS BAIL KOflST Serious Trouble for Pollce Court Attorney Kearley Charles Kearley who claims to be an attorney was arrested by Policeman Rellly on Ellis street yesterday and booked at the City Prison on a charge of vagrancy To lay the more serious charge of obtaining money under false pretenses will be preferred against him by two women who claim to be out 830 on his account The women were arrested on September 29th on charges of soliciting and deposited 8i0 with Clerk Watson for their appearance In Judge Conlans court on the following day They appeared and were fined 85 each which amount was taken from the ball money Kearley on the following day demanded the 330 due the women claiming that he was their attorney On the strength of these claims Clerk Watson gave Kearley an order upon which he secured the cash Now the women claim that Kearley was not their attorney and that he spent the money thus falsely obtained Kearley Is 25 years old and comes from New York Hot Yet Sid tou sTtr know Crockers to do ooor snjrTini227Potitret 215 Bath stmt ii i Havs you sees that Horn Padding at Swains on Batter street Jast sbers XtsrarT riaesHtMlM4 TiyseaM THEY SUFFERED FOH SWEET CHAHITY Sacrifice ol Four Braie Women SAVED A YOUNG GIRLS LIFE CURIOUS CASE OF SHJtX GRAFTXSG AT SAX RAFAEL Jessie Prondfoot Is Supplied With Ken Cuticle From the Bodies of Volunteering Friend Jessie Proudfoot the twelve year old daughter of William Proudfoot has suffered agonies at her fathers some Is San Rafael slncelast July because of unhealed sores extending from shoulder to knee on the right side of her body The cuticle had been wholly destroyed by fire The girl might have died had it not been for Mrs Blumenthat a benevolently Inclined lady of wealth who not only gave some of her own skis that Jessie might be cured but so en listed the sympathy ot three other ladies that they did likewise Ind dentaUy the surgeons have had a very lnterestlng case of skin grafting which promises to be entirely successfut and little Jessie wiU soon be on the road to recovery It was on July 20th that Jessie and some playmates started bonfire In the woods Jessies dress caught fire and before assistance arrived she was so frightfully burned that her life was despared of Her father was at Bowlder Creek Santa Cruz county where he Is manager of the Dollar Lumber Com pany and he could only visit home occasionally Mrs Proudfoot has three younger children to look after an1 was nearly worn out with care and nursing the little sufferer when Mrs Blumen thal and other kind neighbors became Interested in the case Although she suffered lndiscribable pain Jessie never complained Her sweet face which fortunately shows no mark of fire grown thin and pale with suffering has ever bees wreathed In smiles to welcome visitors For months she has lain in a darkened room on a cot that might be considered small for a baby and during the entire time on her left side The cot is covered with a wire screen over which the bedclothes are laid for the weight of a soft layer ot cotton even over those never healing wounds was a species of torture City Physician Jones of San Rafael and Dr Walker of San Francisco were called to attend the case When they found that new cuticle must be supplied before the wounds would heal on six different occasions they grafted skin from dogs but always without success They were almost In despair for the little patient had been greatly weakened by the operations when Mrs Blumenthal came forward and offered to submit to the surgeons knife Mrs Blumenthal did not offer to tnake 1 the sacrifice on the spur of the moment but after mature deliberation and then succeeded In convincing three lady rela tives that they Ought to do likewise The operation was performed last Satur day Mrs Blumenthal permitted the surgeons to remove nearly fifty square Inches of cuticle Smaller patches were removed from the bodies other friends and the whole was skillfully grafted upon the Uttie girls burns The largest sore covered was 9x15 Inches Drs Jones and Walker say that the operation has been successful and that the new cuticle is already taking hold nicely Jessie must He perfectly still for nine long days to Insure success and thus far she has been a model patient In that direction She says already that she feels better and there is every rea son to believe that within a few months she Will be again restoreLto health FAIR ESTATE TAXES the her in but will go back to day or tomorrow The latter win spend several days there as there Is a large amount to be done on her The first vessels of the whaling fleet wiU leave here for the south In a Jew days The Pigeon Morgan and Knowles are wen along with their outfitting in steamer mcuoweii is lata up at Little Main street wharf where the repairs are being made to her by the Fulton Iron Works She will be out of service for at least a month The bark Anglesey has bees chartered to load wheat for South Africa AQAIXST THE IXDIAKS Decision of a Hovel Point by tss Supreme Court The Supreme Court decided a nice point yesterday In the case of Miller and James two Indians convicted of forgery In Del Norte county They forged as order os which they obtained five kegs of beer It was urged that this was not forgery because the order on Its face was void because directing an Illegal act In the sale or giving of liquor to Indians The Supreme Court held that this point Is no good In view of the fact that the ordv read deliver to bearer and would 1 serefore have been as Instrument of fraud In the hands of a person other than as Indian The conviction in the lower court was sustained Admissions and Denials Ornuby admits that the woman he ws with on Wednsidsy night of Isst week when he had lbs supposed enconn Urwith footpads on CFsrrtU street was the divorced wife of Coper but claims tbst he befriended berwben her husband ill trtsttd htr Ormsoy also de nta that Coiptr em administered a best lag to hiss Special Administrators Pay First Installment The first Installment of taxes on the Fair estate property in this city amounting to 82215 12 was paid last week under an order of Judge Slack conferring upon the special adminis trators the required authority Of ther total amount paid 832143 77 is represented by taxes on real estate and 810 101 35 by taxes on personal property Each Item of real estate with the assessed value was set out In the schedule filed with the Judge The assessed valuation of the personal property as shown in the aggregate was 8448949 From this it appears that the total as sessed value of nhe real estate is in excess of 1000000 Owing to continued litigation over the wills of Fair no Inventory and ap praisement has yet been made From the figures on the assessment roU it is calculated that the value of the es tate Is not less than 810000000 while it may run beyond that amount i Beoaip the ot year elerks See that they cm tank stock UysU BoUlna33CUy nrrncun recommend the Crystal hot sea trtobsadsrlmmlDf bttos KortoBtseU JOSCEIXAKEOCS 50 OTS TEAS EXTRA QUALITY Wits each pound is given Lovely Dish Newest Shapes Prettiest Decorations 100 Varieties to Choose From THEY ARE GEMS SEE THEE Great American Importing Tea CWs en Kearny St 18 hint list oesiomtBt 140 Sixth Kt 1418 Pol St fMl Montfrr ATS MatisynBfc 418 Third St 2U08 FlUmore Bt isooasixtMntast JJHSefOttfSt SlOltlnUaSL 8259 Mlloo St 62Uiket8t flOQS Wulnc Rt W17 ftrosdvsr 616 Twelfth gv JFarkJUaoaAlft 1 JBKU ATS HKADQUAKTKBS Hsrkt 8 1 tar We operate 100 Stores saa Ateadtt Write for Prie List City Stores Oakland Alameda For Thanksgiving Dinner Tables Elegant Crockery China and Glassware Everything that Is necessary everything that is stylish at prices to suit ail purses Hundreds ot doxens of nne Limoges Carlsbad Dresden And Delft Hates of various 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