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12 FORM OF THE POOLING TRUST To Be Submitted to the Stockholders of the Valley road Next Week. IT IS A STRONG DOCUMENT. All Power Vested in the Trustees, Who Hold Office Ten Years. The date for the meeting of the stockholders of the valley road has been changed from Wednesday, April 3, to Friday, April 5, in the rooms of the Chamber of Commerce at 2 o'clock p. m.

At that time the pooling-trust plan will be submitted to the subscribers for their ratification. This important document is given below in full: This agreement, made and entered into this day of A. D. 1895, by and between the parties whose names are subscribed thereto, winesseth: That whereas the undersigned are subscribers to the capital stock, and are entitled to become stockholders in the San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Railway Company, a corporation incorporated under and by virtue of the laws of the State of California with a capital stock of six million dollars divided into sixty thousand ((i(), OUO) shares of the par value of one hundred dollars ($100) each; And whereas, the rates of charge for tne transportation of the crops and products of this State from the interior to the seaboard, and of merchandise from tne seaboard to the interior of the State, have hitherto been excessive, oppressive to the people of the State, and destructive to its industry and commerce, and all the parties hereto havr become subscribers to the stock of the San Francisco and Ban Joaquin Valley Railway Company, and have subscribed therefor and undertaken the construction of said railway for the purpose of effecting a permanent reduction in the cost of transportation between the city and port of San Francisco and the great interior valley of the State, by the construction and operation of said road as a competitive means of transportation between said and the said parties, recognizing that in order to insure the maintenance of such reduction of transportation rates as the fixed policy of the said company, and to insure the permanence of its competition, the voting power of the stock must be confided to trustees, who shall by its exercise in the Choice of directors and otherwise, effect Ihosf purposes; Now. therefore, each of the parties hereto hereby assigns and transfers to the trustees hereinafter named, his subscription to the said nock, and hereby authorizes tne said corporation to issue all the shares of stock for which he has subscribed, to the trustees hereinafter named, to be held by them upon the uses and trr.tts herein expressed; and each of the parties hereto covenants and agrees to and with the other subscribers hereto, and with said corporation, and with said trustees, and said trustees do hereby covenant, each one foi himself and not for the other, with each and all of the subscribers, and to and with said corporation, that all the shares of stock to which subscribers are entitled may be Issued to as trustees, and that the srul trustees, theirsurvivoror shall, for the time hereinafter provided, have the exclusive rights and powers of ownership of said stock, except with relation to dividends as hereinafterjprovided, and the power herein conferred upon the said trustees by the respective parties hereto, is and shall be irrevocable for the term of said trust as hereinafter provided, and the said tower is and Khali be deemed to be coupled with an interest in the stock of the respective parties hereto so held in trust, which interest the said trustees shall hold for the benefit of all the other parties hereto, but said subscribers, each one for himself, hereby covenants to and with all of the other parties hereto, that he will pay all CAUft and assessments upon the stock for which he, or his Msigns, holds any beneficiary interest, and that he remains liable as the equitable owner for all debts or other liability egJiinst such stock.

And it is further understood and agreed that the said shall cause to be issued to the subscribers hereto trustees' certificates, which shall set forth the number of shares of Ftock in the corporation, the San Francisco and. San Joaquin Valley Railway Company, held in trust for each of" the undersigned respectively by the said trustees, which said certificates shall be iv the words and figures following: THE SAX FRANCISCO AND SAN" JOAQUIN VALLEY RAILWAY COMPANY. STOCK CERTIFICATE. No Shares. This certificate issued by the undersigned as trustees under the provisions of an agreement bearing date the day of 1895, made and entered into by and between the undersigned and other stockholders of the San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Railway Company, a corporation existing under and by virtue of the laws of the State of and this certificate entitles or assigns the surrender thereof, according to tne terms of said agreement, to receive from the undersigned, their successor or successors in this trust, in the manner provided in said agreement, and not otherwise, a certificate for shares of the capital stock of said railway corporation and in the meanwhile, or assigns, is entitled to receive on demand from the undersigned, or their successor or successors as trustees, and not otherwise, an amount equal to the dividends paid to said trustees upon a corresponding number of shares of stock of said railway corporation.

The holder of this certificate has no rights as a stockholder of said railway corporation, and the acceptance of this certificate shall bind each successive holder to all the terms and provisions of said agreement in the same manner as if such holder was a party thereto or duly executed an agreement to abide thereby. Tiif interest represented hereby is transferable, either in wholeorin fractional partscorrespoudiug to a given number of shares of stock, only upon the books kept by said trustees for that purpose, by the holder hereof in person or by attorney, upon surrender hereof, but no transfer shall be valid unless made upon the condition that the transferee accepts the same subject to the terms of said agreement and assents thereto, which he shall be deemed to have done by receiving said trustees' certificate. San Francisco, California 1895. "Trustees. INDOBSEMKNT ON TRUST CERTIFICATE.

For value received, I do hereby sell, transfer, unto all my right, title and interest of, in and to the property represented by the within trust certincate.with all my rights in respect thereto, subject to the terms and conditions thereof and of the agreement therein mentioned, and I hereby irrevocably appoint my attorney, "for me and in my name, place and stead, to make and execute all proper acts of assignment or transfer, and to do all other actsand things required to be done with reference thereto, and to substitute one or more persons with like full powers, hereby ratifying all that mv said attorney or his substitute may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue thereof. Witness my hand and seal, this day of In presence of And all of said stock so held by said trustees, their survivor or survivors, successor or successors, is held subject to the following irrevocable trusts, to wit: To issue by proper transfers to any persons named as directors enough stock of said corporation to qualify said parties to serve as directors for the term ior which they are elected, it being always provided that no person shall ever qualified unless he is the actual beneficiary by trust certificate of as many Bhares of stock as are necessary to qualify him for the position of a director under the by-laws of the company. That at the expiration "of the terms such stock shall be retransferred by said person holding as a director back to the trustees to be held subject to the trust as herein expressed. To cause said corporation, the San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Railway f'ninpany, to honestly and as soon as construct said railroad, and, when the same shall have been constructed and put into operation, to cause said corporation to so operate said road that the basis for freights ana fares hhnil De the lowest rates of charges which will yield sufficient revenue to the company to pay lor the proper maintenance, operation and betterment of said road, together with proper provision for the payment of interest on any bonded indebtedness, If any there be, together with the creation of a sinking fund therefor, as required by law; also for the creation of a surplus fund for the use of said road and the payment to the stockholders of a sum not to exceed six per cent per year upon the capital stock actually paid into said corporation. ln the event of the death, resignation or disability of any one of the trustees, to nominate some holder of a trustees' certificate to fill each and every vacancy, and upon such written nomination by the surviving trustees, approved in writing by the holders of trust certificates representing three-fourths 3 4) of the capital stock covered by said trust certificates, said trustee shall from and after the filing of said nomination so approved, with the secretary of said corporation, the San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Railway Company, be as fully vested with said shares of stock and trust as if he was one of the original trustees above named.

The said trustees agree that all dividends received by them upon the shares of stock in said the San Francisco and Snn Joaquin Valley Railway Company shall be allotted, apportioned and paid by them on demand to the holders of said trust certificates hereinbefore mentioned, ratably, so that the holder of each of said trust certificates shall receive the same amount as he would have been entitled to receive if he had been a stockholder of said railroad company for a number of shares corresponding to the number of shares represented upon said trust certificate. And said trustees further agree that they will not knowingly vote gaid stock for the benefit of or in the interest of any person or corporation or interests hostile to the interest of or in business competition with the San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Railway Company, or of or to or in favor of any party or parties, or company or companies owning or controlling any parallel line of road, to the detriment and injury of the corporation hereinbefore mentioned. Fifth Said trust shall continue in full force and effect for the period of ten (10) years from the date hereof, provided that the same shall be terminated at any time before the expiration of said ten (10) years, should the holders of the trust certificates for three-fourths of the stock held subject to said trust, at a meeting called after ninety (90) days' notice in writing to all of the holders of said beneficiary certificates, so request and determine, and provided further that in the event of the death of all of the subscribers hereto at any time before the expiration of ten (10) years as aforesaid then this trust shall and determine. Upon the termination of taid trust, and upon presentation and surrender of said trust certificates, to deliver to the owner of each of said trust certificates, certificates for the capital stock of said railway company corresponding in numbers and in par value with the shares of stock which by. said certificates the said trustees are bound to deliver, so that upon the surrender of all of said trust stock certificates the said trustees will have delivered all of the capital stock of said corporatio the San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Railway Company.

And it is mutually agreed that no stock of said the San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Railway Company shall be issued except that the subscriber to said stock bponmes a party to this agreement and consents that said stock'be issued, and the same shall be issued to said trustees, subject to the terms of the trust as hereinbefore expressed. To-day San Jose will receive a hearing before the board of directors of the valley road. The people of Santa Clara County have been doing some effective work lately, and wil! probably make a good showing before the board at the meeting. A QUIET DAY FOR STRIKERS. The Union Men Said to Be Waiting for the Cyrus Wakefield.

Four Association Vessels Will Be Ready to Sail To- Morrqw. The striking sailors spent a quiet day on the waterfront yesterday, no heads being broken or any crews being shipped. It is expected that hostilities will be resumed to-day when an attempt will be made to get a crew for the ship Cyrus Wakefield. This vessel, with the Two Brothers, J. M.

Griffiths and the Gatherer, will be ready for sea to-morrow, and trouble is anticipated in getting crews for them. The Cyrus Wakefield is a bone of contention between the association and the union. The vessel is owned by the Rosenfelds, who were among the latest firms to join the association, and the Sailors' Union will, it is said, make strenuous efforts to demonstrate to the owners that no crew but a union crew can be put on board. The Wakefield is lying at the Mail dock, and the union attempts to interfere with putting a crew on her the coast seamen will come in conflict with an old friend, Captain Frank Anderson. The latter was stationed at San Pedro during the last big strike, and whenever he attempted to put a non-union crew on board he was successful in his undertaking.

Anderson was the only man the rough element at San Pedro respected, and they gave him a wide berth. The bark Columbia sailed for the Sound yesterday morning. She was to have gone out on Sunday, but at the last moment four of her crew deserted. The deserters were readily supplied yesterday morning and the vessel went to sea. Nearly all the steam 6chooncrs have acceded to the demands of the union, and are paying $45 a month.

The reason of this, according to Secretary Walthew, is that the owners nave always allowed their captains to get their crews from where they pleased, in consequence of which no supply of steam sailors have been kept on hand. Which hotels are the most popular? Those which use Dr. Price's Baking Powder in the food. FUNERAL OF THOMAS ROSS. Under the Auspices of the St.

Andrew's Society and Caledonia Club. The funeral of the late Thomas Ross took place yesterday under the auspices of the St. Andrew's Society, of which he was ay ex-president. There were present many of the officers and members of that society as well as of the Caledonia Club, of which the deceased was also a member. Mr.

Ross had long been prominent among the natives of Scotland resident in this city, and was highly esteemed for his many good qualities. He was a native of West. Leith. Scotland, and was 62 years at the time of his death. After the funeral services at Scottish Hall many friends and members of the two Scottish societies went down to Cypress Lawn Cemetery, where the interment took place.

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 1895. THE RUINS OF A GREAT CITY. Where Streets Fall Through Their Own Holes Into the Water. A PRIMITIVE BAY BEACH. Sarcastic Notices That Are Too Obvious for Further Dissertation.

From any locality in San Francisco one can read a page in the history of her past. That record was written at lightning speed durine the city's upward spring across the forty and odd rapid years of her life; but the words are as indelibly engraved upon her almost sea-encircled hills as though chiseled deep on tables of stone. WHERE BRANNAN STREET FALLS INTO THE BAT. by a "Call But the future is always a vague perspective drawn from the present, plus additions reasoned into position on the abstract fabric. As is the advance made from past to present so must be the progress on through time to come.

Yet in San Francisco even now may be found what will be ages forward in the distance far beyond the point of her culmination.when the great city of the Western sea shall have gone down in the dust of her ruin like Thebes, Persepolis and Baalbec. A concrete vision of what is to come, generations hence, can be seen where Harrison, Bryant and Brannan streets dip into the bay. Not dipping into the bay from the outer terminus of the piers as was intended by the architect, but tumbling through the great gaping spaces which the indolence of years has permitted to be opened in the crowded commercial thoroughfares of this big maritime city. In a short sentence those streets literally fall through holes in themselves and become prematurely lost among the decaying piles of their wharf foundations. Through the wrecked planking of Harrison street the Rincon Hill urchins catch bullheads and pogies, sitting safely around their far inshore fishing ground, well knowing that all the hundreds of heavy loaded wagons, trucks and carts must make a wide sweep around the dangerous locality if they, too, would not follow the street down into the bay.

Occasionally a couple of laborers can be seen working spiritlessly among the broken timbers, as if the task of overcoming the swift ravages of time was too much for feehle human hands. Along the Bryant-street front ruin and decay have speeded fast. The State Harbor Commissioners recently built new wharves out in the bay on the line of the proposed seawall, which further accentuates the woefully tumble-down appearance of the old city wharfage. Facing the north line of weary-looking old shacks the dock has disappeared altogether and in place of that structure is a beach which, viewed apart from the surrounding pilestumps. is as guiltless of the evidences of advanced civilization as when the mission Indian grounded his canoe there in the pre-pioneer days.

Of a verity, San Francisco is going back to first principles. Old Yerba Buena with its desolate hill and sedgegrass beach where the sandpipers call shrilly through the evening fog is coming back again. What a scene ot ye olden time this would have been for the Midwinter Fair visitor. Not only could he have seen all stages of San Francisco's progress, but he could have viewed her decay also, all under one canvas and all for one price of admission. But it is at the bay end of Brannan street that the ragged ruins of wharf architecture crop out in all their dreariness.

The loaded wagon or the hand-truck never come to this uncanny locality, and the foot-passer walks gingerly over the rotten planking. The pogie-fisher and crabcatcher sit on the broken timbers like the silent genii of decay. In that still spot the angling wharf-rat snares the mud-loving creatures of the bay, undisturbed by the cargo-rushing stevedore. Along the once-safe places, but now gaping pitfalls for the unwary in daylight, and a locality to be shunned always at night, may read the notices: "Private No thoroughfare." The biting sarcasm of these old signs is too obvious for dissertation. Haying had their day as a means of warning and instruction to the public they do efficient duty as a caustic and ironical comment upon the principle that permits the water front of a great commercial city to become an eyesore to even itself and the object of its own satire.

WANTED IN SACRAMENTO. John A. Smith. Here Last Night. John A.

Smith, who is wanted in Sacramento on a charge of forgery, was arrested on Hayes street last night by Detective Silvey. Smith is a man about 70 years of age, a native of England. He was at one time a clergyman, but fell from grace and served a term in San Quentin. A dispatch from Sacramento published several days ago stated that he had been forging the names of several people for small amounts. "I know nothing of any forgery," said Smith last night.

"I was working in a restaurant in Sacramento for my board and lodging when I gave a lecture on I was taken up by the Good Templars, who wanted me to form a temperance society, and the secretary took me to a lodginghouse and guaranteed my board and lodging. I told him that I was under a cloud, so that I was not sailing under my false colors. They treated me like a gentleman when I was in San Quentin and I might as well die there as on the streets. "Why did I leave Sacramento? Well, after guaranteeing my board and lodging they wanted money from me, and as I had none I had to leave. I came here about two weeks ago and have been knocking around the street since." THE TRUTH IS SOCIALISM.

A Fabian Club Established to Find It by Study. A Fabian club has been established here by a sincere band of men and women interested in sociology, and held its first meeting last night at 632 Eddy street. The club is modeled after the Fabian Society of London, which has for its object the study of social questions with a high end in view that of finding the truth in socialism and then disseminating it. There is no political feeling among the members, no party prejudices to sway their judgment either way, and nothing of the ardent enthusiasm of socialists who have convictions close at heart. On the contrary, the Fabian Club aims to study socialism as a science, remembering that the work in hand is purely literary.

The members will meet weekly and hold informal discussions on papers, and subsequently may appear in public with what they believe to be the truth, trusting thereby to guide the masses alone certain lines of thought and action. Last evening M. J. Ferguson occupied the chair. A select few of studious bent and literary tastes were present, but none of them have hitherto appeared in connection with socialism.

They discussed a new socialistic paper published in Boston as a beginning in the work contemplated. SCHOONER RUN AWAY WITH Bold Theft ofthe Fleet Star of the Freedom From Her Moorings. The Vessel Mysteriously Disappears From the Mud Flats. The little schooner Star of Freedom has been stolen, and is now probably engaged in some smuggling scheme along the coast. The vessel has been missing for two weeks.

She has as completely disappeared as if swallowed up by the sea. The schooner is owned by Captain W. Johnson, owner and commander of the Nicaraguan brig Salvador. Her last sea voyage was from La Paz to this point. She arrived here several months ago, since which time she has been lying on the Mission mud flats in charge of a watchman.

Captain Johnson only arrived from Acajutla last week, his wife being in charge of the vessel in his absence. Mrs. Johnson went down to the water front about ten days ago to look after the vessel, and then made the startling discovery that the Star of Freedom was gone and the watchman with her. Instead of starting an inquiry immediately, Mrs. Johnson waited until her husband arrived from Acajutla.

As soon as he heard of the loss, Captain Johnson notified the Collector of the Port. Mr. Wise has telegraphed instructions all along the coast to hold the vessel if she attempted to enter any port. Some time ago a man named Bartels desired to charter the Star of Freedom, but Mrs. Johnson would not let him have the schooner.

Bartels achieved some notoriety about two years ago, when he arrived in port on the schooner Achilles from Portland, Or. A telegram was received by Collector Wise from Portland requesting him to hold the vessel on her arrival, as she had been stolen. A reward was offered for the capture of Bartels and the Achilles, but the reward, although claimed, was never paid. Bartels was not prosecuted either. He that he was a part owner in the Achilles, and the matter was dropped.

The Star of Freedom is a fleet little craft of about twenty-three tons. She is 54 feet in length, 20:5 feet in breadth of beam and 4:6 feet in depth of hold. A dignified Speaker is Crisp. So is the dainty crust made with Dr. Price's Baking Powder.

A GRAND BENEFIT CONCERT At Which a Noted Violinist Will Appear. Professor Charles Goffrie will be tendered a complimentary benefit by his many friends upon his retirement from his profession by reason of illness. The entertainment is announced for Friday evening, the 29th at Golden Gate Hall. His old friend, Remenyi.now in the city, hearing of the concert at once offered his services and will appear in one number. Other well-known eminent local talent will also appear.

The following programme will be performed Trio, "Shepherd's Complaint" and "Scherzo" piano, flute and cello, Mme. M. Lada, H. Clay Wysham and Adolph Lada; song, contralto, "Little Girl, Don't Cry" Miss May Mabie; sonato (Beethoven), Professor Charles Goffrie; cantabile, "Sampson and Delilah (Saint Saens), Mine. Kllen Coursen Roeckel: trio (Behr) violin, flute and piano, Henry Hyman, H.

C. Wysham and J. Roeckel; piano solo, "Tarantella" in minor (Rubinstein), Roscoe Warren Lucy; violin solo, "Lepende" (Bohm), MibS Susie Blair, pupil ot Professor Goffrie; song, "Dolly's Revenge" (Roeckel), Miss Lottie Calsing; solo, Boehm flute (Wysham), H. Clay Wysham tenor solo, "The Message" (Blumenthal), Alfred Wilkie: grand trio. "Country Dance" and "Finale" eber), piano, flute and Mme.

M. Lada, H. Clay Wysham and Adolph Lada. a Forger, Arrested MILLIONS MIGHT HATE BEEN HERE. Thinking People Speculating on the fair-couzins engagement.

A STORY RELUCTANTLY TOLD. The Betrothal Was Current Rumor Here More Than a Year Ago. The littie romance in real life and mature years connected with the courtship and subsequent betrothal of James G. Fair and Miss Phoebe W. Couzins, an account of which was published in Sunday's Call, has caused a great deal of comment, discussion and speculation as to what might have been the -ultimate result of such a marital union.

The intellectual and wellinformed people of this country know Miss Couzins' power as a speaker and writer on political, social and economic questions. This knowledge has suggested the question, What would or could she not have accomplished for the world with the power that a few millions of the dead Senator's money would have given her had it been placed at her command? Seriously thinking men and women are inclined to believe that if the marriage engagement had been carried out it would have been the nucleus of a social, political and economical revolution. But death and othpr potent influences interposed, and now the proposed alliance of these two famous individuals presents itself only as one of the world's possibilities that been, but are no more. Persons who were directly interested in preventing the proposed marriage, and others whose shallow perceptiveness precludes the possibility of seeing the depths of great natures in great men and women, are disposed to make light af this episode in Senator Fair's life. Some of them have even gone so far as to dispute the accuracy of some of Miss Couzins' statements in the published interview.

These denials are not warranted by the facts, as will be shown later on. Miss Couzins is not a woman who would seek notoriety or any sort of advertising by parading her misfortunes, sorrows or other private affairs before the public. In the hrst place, she does not need it. Her name ana fame in her chosen calling are household words in all civilized lands, and she needs only to intimate the utterance of a thought in order to secure listeners. In justice to Miss Couzins it must be said that she did not invite publication of her engagement to Senator Fair.

Her statement of the interesting episode was fairly sought and reluctantly given. When first questioned on the subject she firmly declined to say anything for publication. But when certain facts and contingencies were revealed to her she consented to tell her story. And she told it, candidly, without any needless coloring. The fact of the engagement was not a secret.

It was known by rumor in San Francisco more than a year and a half ago. A vague knowledge of it existed in certain circles in Chicago even before it was heard of here. A Chicago newspaper man who is to some extent connected with the Associated Press had worked up a story, based partly on facts and partly on rumors, several days before the publication of the Fair-Couzins engagement in the Call. This gentleman telegraphed a skeleton of his facts and rumors to a friend in this city and suggested that it would be well to ascertain all the facts from Miss Couzins herself, if possible. The suggestion was carried out.

Expressions qf sentiment from those who know Miss Couzins and her genius and her sincerity of purpose, whicn were heard in intellectual circles yesterday, were in most instances expressions of regret that she did not become Mrs. James Fair before the ex-Senator was parted from her in Chicago on that summer day of 1893. Miss Couzinsmay have been mistaken in regard to the identity of some of the men who were with Senator Fair in Chicago, but as to the main facts affecting herself there is abundance of proof independent of her own statements. SOCIETY'S COOKING SCHOOL. Mrs.

E. M. Hinckley's Demonstrative Lectures Over the Range. Dainty Dishes Prepared Before of the Class. Moorish Tea.

The San Francisco Cooking School, lately established by Mrs. E. M. Hinckley, at 703 Sutter street, is attracting the attention of society ladies, many of whom have joined her classes to learn of new creations of the range or the chafing-dish. Mrs.

Hinckley has set up in her lecture-room a large range and all the latest improvements in cooking, such as graduated measuring-cups and the latest chafing-dishes, and with two assistants gives a practical, demonstrative lecture, varying the menu each day. Yesterday the dishes were: French style of sorrel soup, Honolulu fish and curry, a new style baking-powder biscuit, glace meringue and candied prunes. Each of these dishes was prepared in the presence of the class, with comments and directions as to all the details. After the dish was prepared it was tried by the members of theclass. Mrs.

Hinckley is the author of two books on cooking: "Progressive Cookery" and "Chating-dish Cookery." She is an old Californian who received her training in the East a number of years ago, where she learned the Boston and Miss Parloa's systems. She has taught classes in all the principal cities of the coast during the past seven years. For six years she has had charge of the cooking school of the Young Women's Christian Association. The present course will consist of ten lectures, one each Monday afternoon, but others will probably follow. Mrs.

Hinckley is soon going to give something to make a fad of, and that is "Moorish tea," the mode of preparing which she will explain in one of her lectures. Among the members of her Monday afternoon classes are the following ladies: Mrs. W. F. McNutt, Mrs.

Downey Harvey, Mrs. George H. Lent, Mrs. Lent, Mrs. Fred B.

Lake, Mrs. Mayer, Mrs. M. D. Boruck, Mrs.

Martin, Mrs. M. J. Bryan, Mrs. L.

M. Storrer, Miss Frances Coleman, Mrs. B. M. Dow, Mrs, M.

M. Prible, Mrs. Newberger, Mrs. George Johnson and Miss Alice Voorman. GUNNIES ARE SCARCE.

Increase in the Demand for the Article in Mexico. Heavy gunnies are a scarce commodity in the city just now, and in fact, previous to the arrival of the Belgic on Saturday, there were none to be had in the market. The reason of this is that for the past few months the bags had been bought up and shipped to Mexico. The Mexican import duty has been increased on the article, the new law going into, effect on April 1. The San Bias, which sails for Panama and way ports on Thursday, will carry away a large cargo of flour for Mexican ports, and it is necessary to have gunnies in which to pack the material.

The Belgic brought only 10 000 bags and a great number of these will be used by the Crown Mills for shipping their flour. The British ship Sierra Miranda, which arrived on Saturday from Hongkong, has about 25,000 gunnies on board and 2000 bales of jute. The schooner Alexander, which is loading for Champerico, will take away 5000 barrels of iiour and some of the Sierra Miranda's gunnies will be used in packing. ALL SALES CONFIRMED. Mrs.

Kate Johnson's Keal Property All Disposed Of. The sales of real property belonging to the estate of the late Mrs. Kate Johnson have been all the last confirmation having been made by Judge Coffey yesterday. The only sales unconfirmed those of the lot on the corner of Golden Gate avenue and Leavenworth street, the residence property on O'Farrell and Leavenworth streets and two blocks south of the park. The Golden Gate avenue lot was confirmed to James D.

Phelan, who bid Andy his brother, Thomas J. Clunie, who had made the highest bid at the original sale, objected to the reception of bids after the sale closed, and consequently to the sale of the lot to Phelan, but the sale was confirmed to Phelan any way. On the residence property the offer of Joseph D. Hume of $49,500 was accepted and the sale confirmed. In the cases of the outside-land blocks J.

S. Oppenheim got block 799 for $2025, and B. Slurry got Block 925 for $5450. The appraisement of the Golden Gate avenue property was $120,000, and that of the residence property $65,000. The outside-land blocks were also appraised at a much higher figure than was bid.

DEBS KEPT FROM TESTIFYING The Strikers Wanted His Evidence on the Origin of the Strike. He Proved the Corporate Existence of the Southern Pacific Company. There was considerable excitement engendered in the trial of Cassidy and Mayne, the strikers, in the United States District Court yesterday. The Government had gained permission to prove the corporate existence of the Southern Pacific of Kentucky, and as this practically reopened the case Monteith, the attorney for the strikers, stated that he would call Eugene V. Debs as a witness.

In consequence there was a large crowd in attendance, all anxious to pet a look at the leader of the great strike of railroad employes. When the case was called Gerrit L. Lansing, secretary and controller of the Southern and Central Pacific Railroad companies, was placed on the stand. He testified that various lines on which trouble took place during the strike were either owned or controlled by the Southern Pacific Railroad Company of Kentucky. He produced a certified copy of the articles of incorporation, and also the time-tables of the company.

When he had completed his testimony Monteith moved that it all be 'stricken out on the ground that it was immaterial, incompetent and irrelevant. The motion was denied. Under cross-examination Lansing said he remembered telegrams being sent by Superintendent of Motive Power H. J. Small to all the workshops which said, "Close up your shops and shut down on everj'thing." Asked how it was possible to move trains when the motive power was gone he answered he did not know.

It any mail was transported between the 3d and 10th of July it was moved by the Southern Pacific, according to him, in spite of the fact that all the engines were "killed." In answer to other questions Lansing said he had been with the Southern Pacific since April 1, 1885. He knew of a line called the Southern Pacific of Caliiornia, which ran between San Francisco and San Jose, via Palo Alto, but it is controlled by the Southern Pacific of Kentucky. Asked if he knew anything about the strike of his own knowledge the witness said he did not. Monteith then again moved to have all Lansing's testimony stricken out, but the motion was denied. Monteith next began to ask the witness about the land grant made to the Central Pacific by Congress, but was shut off by an objection made by the United States District Attorney.

Getting back to what he, had been doing during the strike, tlje Southern Pacific's secretary said he was nearly all the time in the building at Fourth and Townsend streets. In answer to an objection Monteith said that he wanted to prove out of the witness' own mouth that he did not know anything about the movements of the trains nor the strike. Judge Morrow said that the point raised had nothing to do with the ownership of the railroad, and sustained the objection. Lansing was then excused, and the Government closed its case once more. Monteith then called for Eugene V.

Debs, and everybody was on the tiptoe of expectation. United States District Attorney Foote at once objected, and the court sustained him. The strikers' attorney then explained that he wanted Mr. Debs' testimony so as to get before the jury the origin of the strike and who was to blame for it. The court refused to allow Mr.

Debs to be called, and the case closed. Assistant District Attorney Knight then began the argument for the prosecution, and was still talking at the hour of adjournment. The case went over until next Thursday to give one of the jurors an opportunity to attend a case in the Circuit Court. "A gem of purest ray serene" in the household is Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder.

TO COMPEL A MEETING. C. Spreckels Sues the Directors OF THE OCEANIC Company. He Secures a Writ of Mandate to Have Them Call an Election. Judge Seawell has granted to C.

A. Spreckels a writ of mandate to compel the board of directors of the Oceanic Steamship Company to meet and hold an election, or appear in court and show why they should not do so. The suit is brought for the purpose of securing to C. A. Spreckels a position upon the board of directors of the steamship company.

For some time he has been represented in the board by Charles S. Wheeler, to whom he transferred all of his stock for the purpose of making him eligible to the office. Wheeler, however, becoming tired of the position, and finding his business elsewhere as much as he could look after, resigned from the board. At the next meeting of the board C. A.

Sprecfcels was present, but he states that he was not allowed to speak, having apparently no stock in his own name, nor would the secretary transfer his stock from Wheeler's name to his own, as the books had been closed up. There was no meeting then, nor has any meeting since been called, and as it takes a majority of the shares of stock to call a meeting, C. A. cannot call the meeting himself, has therefore obtained the writ of mandate to see whether the court cannot help him in the matter. IN FAVOR OF THE UNION.

Cornelius Harrington Nonsuited in Court by Judge Hebbard. He Loses His Contest for the Secretaryship of the Pacific Marine Firemen. The legal controversy between Corneliui Harrington and the Pacific Marine Firemen's Union over the position of financial secretary in that organization was settled yesterday morning in the granting of defendant's motion for nonsuit by Judge Hebbard in Department 4 of the Superior Court. The case came into court over a dispute between Cornelius Harrington and Bernard Ward as to who was entitled to the office of financial secretary. There were certain votes entered for Harrington in the Puget Sound branch which defendant claims were not counted in the regular manner.

On the evening of the election Ward objected to their being counted, and the committee to whom he appealed left it to the decision of the meeting of the Unjon. which rejected the votes. Plaintiff hr suit to declare the election void and set up in his complaint that the union was without constitution and by-laws; hence, the action was illegal. Judge Hebbard decided that upon the plaintiff's own showing, the union had a constitution and by-laws, and therefore granted the defendant's motion for nonsuit. Henry E.

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