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IMPERIAL POTENTATE OP THE MYSTIC SHRINERS LON B. WINSOR. Mrs. Pauline Block, reported to Captain of Detectives Seymour last night that one Adolph Leau had 'secured from her 5300 In cash and a diamond ring, valued at 1150 ana'- had disappeared. She gave him the ring and, the.

cash- to enable him' to start in business. was employed by Goldstein Cohn since his arlval here from New York about. a year Duped a Trusting "Widow. Father Nugent entertained the pupils of St. Brendan's school yesterday afternoon with an Illustrated lecture descriptive ot his recent trip to the far east and Europe.

A large number of splendid ttereopticon views made the lecture doubly Interestlng'to the several hundred attentive listeners. Father Nugent will repeat the lecture this evening. Fatter Nugent Entertains Pupils. This week's Town Talk contains several more than ordinarily" Interesting stories. One of them deals with the entrapping cf Walter Byrne by a clever womun, and there is an: account of another sensational insanity case In Stockton.

'The Saunterer gives a graphic pen picture of. Colonel Martin Brady, the unique' statesman ot the tenderloin and reviews I tho ante-Lenten social season. The feature of this, week's Is a eulogy Of the late Stephen M. White by California's peerless orator, D. M.

Delmas Delmas Eulogizes White. George Moser registered at the Belmont House early Friday morning, using name of He was assigned to 64. The odor of gas was noticed in the neighborhood of the about 4 o'clock yesterday afterpoon and on break- Ing in the door he found lying unconscious. He was sent to the Receiving Hospital, where afier hour3 of oxertiou the doctors announced that he had chance for life. It was evidently a of attempted suicide.

George Moser Tries Gas Bonto. Dr. C. N. Ellinwood lectured last night at Cooper Medical College In the regular bi-monthly course of discourses known as the Lane lectures.

His subject was "Sewer Systems and Their Relation to the Public Health." He declared that the system now in use in San Francisco could be vastly Improved and made the In the world. To' the present system Dr. Ellinwood ascribed the alleged, bubonic plague and other disease He advocate a complete new sanitary system as the only means to avoid these unfortunate episodes. He entered largely into the ques-tlons of gravitation, rise and fall of tide, and. many other matters that make the physician and Engineer do considerable thinking and figuring.

Dr. Ellinwood -Claims Plague Scares Would Be. Infrequent if One Was Adopted. i NEW SEWER SYSTEM IS STRONGLY URGED The Magyar Betegsegelyzd es Tarsalgo which, means the- First Hungarian Mutual. Aid Society, of the Pacific Coast, will on the 10th instant celebrate the fifty-second anniversary of the declaration of independence of- Hungary, by a banquet in the afternoon arid a ball in the evening.

It -will also be tho twenty-first anniversary of the founding of the society. Hungarian Independence Day. Trinity Church has been decided, upon as the building to be used for the convention. The swittng capacity of the church is only about 1500 and a temporary gallery will be erected around the- edifice 'to accommodate the. delegates.

Seventy bishops will bo present at the convention and will form what is known as the "upper house'." The "lower house" Is composed of lay delegates, and of some of the foremost citizens In America. Chief Justice Fuller, Pierpont Morgan and Senator Edmunds have served as delegates in the past. Tne election of. delegates for the coming convention has not yet taken nlace, but It is probatle that they will again be elected and attend the convention here. Invitations have already been extended to Episcopal bishops In England.

Australia and Canada and many have signified their intention to attend. The' reverend gentleman said last evening that the Episcopal convention' to be "held ncra in -October, will bo attended by fully two thousand delegates and thalr friends. C. L. Hutchlns.

D. of Concord. secretary of Hause bf BIshcps of the Episcopal church, arrived in the city yesterday and is stopping at the Hotel. ler and Senator Edmunds Are Expected as Delegates. PLANNING FOR COMING EPISCOPAL CONVENTION Pierpont Chief Justice Ful- The one hun-lred and twenty-third of the birfh of Robert Emmet, the I -martyr, will be celebrated by a mufical and.

literary' entertainment in Metropolitan Hall on Monday -evening next. Father William G'leason of £ast Oakland will the oration- The celebration will be. under the direction of the. Knights of the Red Branch music, has been, arranged and will Tje.a feature of the programme. Irish melodies a thousand years ago will be rendered hy Miss Etta.

Welch. Tom 'Jreen of the Tivoll and Mr. Wood of St choir will also sing. Thomas' JUekey will recite Emmet's address -to Judges who sentenced him to death. Robert Emmet Celebration.

CLKVELANDi March The Leader to-morrow will print the following in relation the bafcball situation: Vice President Somers of the American League to-day received a telegram from Charles Zimmcr, who Is in Washington, saying: pltyers; the agreement amounts. to 1 Somers replied to the telegram that hs' would makefile Informationpublie that 'the players could know where they, stand. Will Sign Players. Emma Abbott's Father Insane. SAN DIEGO.

March. An answer' alleging that Seth Abbott has been Insane for the past five years and therefore has been lnco'mpeterit and incapable of making any contract or asreement was to-day In the.case of Solon vs. Seth Abbott, an aition to foreclose a mechanic's lien for $519 70 against Mr. Abbott's property. It is claimed that that sum la due for.

the ia.ying and constructing of a sidewalk and curb. Mr. Abbott is father of Emma Abbott, the sinjrer. In the answer- It- is alleged that he was recently, adjudged insane in Swalve. the landlord, said that Mrs.Green was delinquent in the payment Of her room rent and that he asked, her for the money at 6 o'clock last Thursdayevening.

She promised to get It for him later on. At -half-past .9 o'clock he knocked at her and again demanded the rent. opening- the door the woman informed him that to set out! The landlord then went away, said. the Japanese bedmaker. fouua her' lying on the flopr near a She was la hjer nlchtdress.

The woodwork under the Stationary washstand was freshly broken, as though with a violent blow, but there were no; bruises on person- of- the dead The "given name of. Mrs. Green vra's not known. Mrs. Green, a woman 30 years bid.

found dead yesterday morning on the floor of her room Jn the Carroll House at Sixth street. She had, been sick for several weeks- In one of city hospitals and: went to the Can-pll House four ago, -v PENNILESS WOMAN IS FOUND DEAD IN HER ROOM Train Fars Reduced. BERKELEY. March The fare on the Southern Pacific local trains between this station, and Sixteenth-street station, Oakland, and all way stations, was reduced to-day from ten cents to five cents. Free ride's still continue between Berryman.

Berkeley and Dwlght Death, of Aged Sea Captain. ALAMEDA, March Captain John G. Barstow, an aged ship c.nptaln, died yesterday at his residence. 2211 Central avenue. He followed the sea from the time he was 14 years old.

He leaves' a widow, two sons and a daughter. Belle hunter's are the vandals to whom nothing is sacred. These pestiferous de stroyers are now defacing the canopy over Plymouth rock. Mother Does Not Own the Land. Justice of the- Peace Daniels gave judgment yesterday in favor of Mrs.

Adelaide Bearwald. who was sued by Max Gutter for J250, alleged to have been expended in promoting an oil- company. Gutter testified that under, an agreement with Mrs-. Bearwald he spent the money In organizing the company to develop oil on her land in Fresno. Judge Long, after hearing tho testimony of Mrs.

Bearwald's" husband and son, ruled that the property was- in the name of the son, ana the mother had no right to enter into any contract affecting Its disposition. will be escorted, after a banquet, to the steamer in waiting to convey them to Honolulu, where the Imperial potentate will' institute a new temple. The ladles' committee last evening appointed Mrs. O. Wf.stpb.al, Mrs.

A. W. Scott, Mrs. Kenyon and Mrs. A.

G. Towne a special 'committee to procure flowers present to each -of the ladles of the caravan. The "Ten Lost of Israel" was subject of the address delivered last nlfht by Rabbi Voorsanger at the on Sutter street. He discussed the question at length, paying particular attention to the Ideas advanced by the many people who had made a ctudy of the mysterious disappearance of the Israel.l.tes, ridiculing the ideas advanced by raost of them. He said that efforts had been made to prove that the Welsh, the Irish, the Mongolians ajid the Indians of North America were direct descendants of the people of the lost tribes eimply because some of the cuslonu of these according- to biblical were also used by the Brmittc race.

The rabhi. in concluding his remarks. Informed congregation that, in bis opinion, there was mysterious He stated, that his views coincided with the views of many historians He advanced many facts and figures in support of his claiming that, though it was but theoretical. It posipcrspd the merit, of being founded on other than anthrblogical or philological theorlef. RABBI VOORSANGER TALKS ON FATE OF LOST TRIBES Disagrees With Theoretical Ideas of Mysterious Disappearance of Israelites.

March George Braun of the Olympic Club of San Francisco defeated Herbert Greenland of the'Multnomah Club to-night for the lightweight amateur wrestling championship of the Pacific Coast. The first bout was fiercely contested and. lasted the thirty-minute time Braun given the decision by Referee Bud Smith, the retiring Pacific Northweet champion, for his greater aggressiveness And his succor In maintaining upper position, lie won the second, bout by a decisive fall after minutes of fast wrestling. Both. Greenland and Braun won one fall each, that not allowed because the' men Were off the mat.

Olympic Club Wrestler Wins Coa Lightweight- Championship. Crocker- Woolworth Bank Seeks to Recover $20,000 oh Promissory Notes. ST. LOUIS," March Suit has been filed In the United States Circuit Court here by the Crocker-Woolworth National Tiank of San" Francisco against Barney Schreiber, the well-known St. Louis turfman.

The bank seeks to recover the principal and Interest due It on promissory notes alleged "to have been executed by Schreiber in its favor and amounting In alt to about $20,000. BRAUN DEFEATS GREENLAND. BARNEY SCHREIBER SUED BY SAN FRANCISCANS DECLARES IT DISCHARGED INEFFICIENT MEN ONLY Board of Public Works Explains Its Action to Civil Service mission. The Board of Public Works yesterday sent a communication to the Civil Service Commission explaining its action In dismissing; certain laborers and other employes without regard to tHeir standing on the eligible list. The board states that the chief of the Bureau of Streets rated the employes as to their efficiency and discharged only men of Jjiferior.

efficiency. The letter says: All of the men reported to your commission as are In: the second class as to efficiency. This board. In confprmity. to section 10, 'article- 'XIII of the charter, assigns as the reason for discharge these men the fact that they did not conform to the standard of efficiency in their respective lines which this city, is entitled to require.

The course, thus pursued, in retaining the' most efficient men and discharging -less efflclent nvn la in conformity to general practice everywhere, in. circles and-' in public service, wherever, good administration prevails. Any -other course would. In the opinion of this board, defeat a chief end of all civil service legislation, r.amely, the securing of. an efficient public service.

The. Crvll Service 'Board holds that this is not sufficient reason. for the discharge of the- men. It will Insist on the Board of Works filing specific charges of Inefficiency against the. discharged men.

who will be- afforded. a public trial to disprove the charges. If the. charges are not sustained the men will, be ordered restored to the pay roll In -the order of their stand- Ing. Chicago Business Men Corning.

At: a special meeting- of the Board, of Directors' of the Merchants' Association yesterday it. was decided to act in conjunction with the other commercial bodies of the city In' arranging a suitable, reception to the Chicago Commercial Club, which will -reach San Francisco on Friday. March 15. necessity of paving Valencia street and Bush street was considered and referred to the. -committee on public affairs.

A cordial invitation was added to that of the various other commercial organizations, asking the Committee of Rivers- and Harbors of House of Representatives 1 to visit California during the coming: spring and summer. secured a warrant from Judge Fritz yesteiday for the arrest of Thomas McNamea on a charge: of assault with a deadly weapon. Gillogley has been paying hts. addresses to McNamee's sister and while he was walking'with her on Cortland avenue Thursday night McNaraee confronted them and abused Gillogley for daring make love to his sister. They had some words and McNamee struck Gillogley on the face, knocking him down, and followed it up by hitting him on the head with a whisky bottle, cutting two wounds Mr3.

Anna Melnhold, 1303 street. South San Francisco, secured a warrant from Judge Fritz for the arrest of her Frederick Rehn. on a charge of threats to kill. She said she had bean divorced, from her husband, but had announced her Intention of remarrying him. Thursday night her brother called at her house and threatened to kill her if she would not give up her' intention of remarrying Melnhold and she was afraid, he would carry his threat into execution.

Warrants Out for the Arrest' of Thomas McNamee Frederick Rehxu -v Robert Gillogley. 352 Chapultepee street. BBOTHEES OBJECT TO THEIR SISTERS' BEAUS The freight transport Pak L-lng is now being loaded at Folsom 2. and the Indiana will gro on the drydock to-day. If she can be got ready will go out on the 10th Jnet.

Freight Steamer Samoa to Be Added to Uncle Sam's Army Fleet. The army transport service will fsoon number it? fleet one of the largest cf her kind in the world. About i two months ago I'ncle Sam purchased the big Iiritish freight steamer Samoa, and she is now expected any day Homrkone. On her arrival here she will be and turned into a modern troop similar to the Grant. Sherman.

Sheridan and Hancock. A hurricane deck will be built and cablnt and stateroom? for flr5t class passengers provided, ample accommodations for two regiments of Infantry. The Samoa ie a sifter thip to the Algoa, mow owned by the Pacific Mail Company. She tons gross and 4507 tons net burden. 445 feet long.

12 feet beam and 23 feet inches depth of hold. Besides two of she will easily carry 5000 tons of freight at an average speed of 12 1 knots an hour. The work of overhavllng the- transport Sherman is already under way and work on the tra.nti>ort Warren will begin on Monday. Bids for the work are already la and will be opened at 11 a. m.

to-day. According to the terms of the contract, the work must be completed In six get the Warren away for Manila on May BUTS ANOTHER TRANSPORT. Oakland, harbor Is finally and definitely provided for Just as Congressman Metcalf promised- that it should' be. The Senate of the United States has given Oakland harbor the handsome sum of $512,000 which the House; of" Representatives d'd allow because of the late arrival of the report of the special Engineering Commission that was appointed by the Washington 'authorities. This has been of.

great interest to'Oakland from the fact that the commerce of Oakland harbor has been growing more rapidly than the- Government development of jits shipping facilities; For Congress to. adjourn without making an appropriation for- the work would have meant a setback for this side of the and It was to bring about an early consummation of the work that Congressman Matealf -bent his energies. When the House bill failed to give Oakland any appropriation there was. some misgiving upon this side of the bay. ard a fear that the work might be delayed But Congressman Muicalf.

gave' the matter his personal attention and" promised that Oakland should hav'e recognition in the appropriation bill of the present year. The news was- telegraphed from Washington to-day that the United States Senate had passed an amendment to the general river and harbor bill giving Oakland the large sum" of $812,000. and had sent back to the House for Its approval. The appropriation will undoubtedly be adopted in the House, for Congressman Metcalf will have. It under his own Oakland Ofllce San Francisco Call, 1118 Broadway, March.

1. Senate Appropriates More Than Half a Million for Harbor Work. OAKLAND WILL GET LARGE SUM Brings Action to Set Abide Patents to Agricultural Lands in South- LOS March Suit was filed by the. United States to-day through Attorney Genera! Grigss and District Attorney Frank Flint against the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, the Central Trust Company of N'ew York, trustees; O. Mills and Homer S.

King of San Francisco, trustees, ct al, for the recovery of several thousand acres of land in Angeles and San Bernardino counties. The land involved Is a portion of the Jurupa grant. originally made by the Mexican Government to one Bandlni in 1S5S. title' was cohfirnn-d by the States" Board of Land Commissioners ln.lS52; In 1V71 Congp-ps passed ah act authorizing the Southern. Pacific to construct a railroad from Tehachepl Pass, via -Los Angeles, to the Colorado Klvef.

Thereupon, the complaint alleges, the Commissioner of the General Land Office and the Secretary of the Interior issued patent! to the Southern Pacific Including the land In controversy. Later they discovered that title was already vested. in Bandinl arid demanderi reconveyance by the Bouthern Pacific, which was refused. Complaint asks that the Southern Pacific's patents to these lands be canceled, annulled and vacated, and that where land has' been sold to bona fide purchasers an accounting be made to the United States In the Interests of the heirs and assigns of Bandini. 1 The land at stake is valuable agricultural land.

A portion of It Is now known as the Yorba ranch and the larger part of It has passed from the control of the railroad company. UNITED STATES SUES THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC of: Imperial Potentate Lon B. Wlnsor. la Journeying westward, will- arrive In this city on Monday- and the nobles and the ladies who accompany them will; receive a genuine Shriners' welcome from Islam Temple of San Of which J. C.

Campbell Is the Illustrious potentate. For some time, the executive committee, consisting of Charles Field. John H. Gray. John P.

Fraser, John Williams, Robert B. Moore, Milton S. Eisner, Samuel J. Hendy, Louis F. Brenner, Courtland S.

Benedict, Martin Jones and William Edwards, and the several have been working assiduously to make the reception to the highest officer of the order and those who are on the pilgrimage with him the grandest that has ever been arranged by Islam Temple. A meeting of the executive committee and of the. ladies of the special committee, who are to attend to the ladles of caravan," was held last night in Golden Gate At the meeting all of the details.for the reception were agreed upon. On Monday at noon the caravan will reach the Palace Hotel. and will be met by a.

special committee. I In the evening the hosts will take charge of so much of the Irate! as will be required to accommodate the guests, some three hundred- in number, and from to 11 o'clock there will be a An address of welcome from the illustrious potentate will be followed- by the presentation of the key to the Golden Gate and an order for tho delivery of temple's well-fed camels. Ah address will also be made by' Noble Samuel M. Shortridge. A promenade concert, orchestral music in th.e maple and marble halls, which will, be decorated, one with golden poppies, the other In red.

an excursion on the Jame-i M. Donahue around the hay and a stop at the Union Iron Works to see the battleships will conclude the day programme. In the evening the anembers of the cara- CARAVAN OF SHRINERS JOURNEYING WESTWARD Imperial Pbtentate, Nobles and Ladies to Be Welcomed Monday by Islam Temple. THE great caravan of Eastern nobles who are members of the ancient Arabic order of the Mystic' Shrine, under the leadership applause. Oscar Phillips will sing a solo.

J. Mint Howell and E. E. Salyer will give a. character and musical sketch, which wfll be one of the best features of the evening.

V. A. Turnell will give a cornet selection. Professor M. V.

Shuey will do a. musical Miss. Helen Brown, an artist with the lute. Is to render ponio cJassleal selections. Frank AVeishar, a looal "impersonator, will take a few minutes of the auditors' time.

Fred Huffaker, a humorist who Is an adept with the bones the tambo. will entreat the audience to take a with him. Mrs. Bert Murray Is to be the vocalist of the occasion, and Miss. Carrie Weathers and Miss Louise Anderson will part in the fun making.

TlKf-Young Ladies' Quartet, consisting of Miss Maude Brow.n, Miss Edna Farrow. Miss Daisy Farrow and Miss Hqlen Brown, will assist in the evening's entertainment. Miss Karrle Murray, an artistic pianist, has been engaged asacqompanist. VISALIA AMATEURS WHO WILL MAKJ5 THEIR APPEARANCE ON THE VAUDEVILLE STAGE. CAVALRY RECETHTS ARE NOW PART OF NEW ARMY Provisional Squadron Will Hereafter Be Called First Battalion of the Fifteenth- Regimsnt.

Captain Pitcher, commanding the First Provisional Cavalry Squadron, received official notification yes'terday that his command had been designated as the First Battalion of the Fifteenth Cavalry. So far the men have received no mounted drill, but are very well up In foot tactics. It is. expected that'thls command will receive orders: In a few days assigning it to duty In the Philippines. Captain Rumbaugh.

Artillery Corps, who has been adjutant at the Presidio for the last three years, has been detached and ordered- to Fort Stevens; Oregon, in connection the organization of a new company of coast artillery- Another, case of smallpox wa3 discovered at: ttie Presidio yesterday, making a total of Recruit Wiseman Is the latest victim and he. has been sent to the detention camp, which is occupied by fifteen suspected cases. The Battalion of the Twentyeighth Infantry, which was formerly the Third Provisional Battalion, will sail for Manila, on -the Indiana In two week? or eooner If the repairs to that vessel can be completed. sick, and nine Insane soldiers who arrived on the Meade were landed at the Presidio last: night by- the steamed Resolute. Most of the men.

were found fit for discharge. and were to the It was found that about forty were In. need of further- medical treatment and thede were given beda In, the General Hospital. Cunningham, W. P.

Sollard anl James Sheridan were arrest the district yesterday Bor interfering with (eatng.beton£tng Grav Bros. Cunningham and Sollard undertook four-horse team which was haullnf a load of nil Fourteenth street. Sheridan stripped a team on Market street and tried to unhitch the horses. All three were charcc-1 with disturbing the peace. Throe were isFiiea yesteraay affrnooon by Judge Fritz for the arrest nf Douglass Morrison.

Thomas Morrison and James McFadden. three of the striking The complaining witr.e.cppjs are Paul Kelly. 33 Ringold street. Joseph Platzz. 1114 Montgomery street, two of men who have taken the places.

cf They allege thnt while they were drivinp their teams along King street, between Sixth and Morrisons and McFadden at- VacKed them and McFadden threatened to Kill Platzz. while Thomas Morrison hit with a brick. The charge ngainst Morrison disturbing the Six Drivers Are Accused of Interfer- ing With Men Who Took Their Places. STRIKING TEAMSTERS PLACED UNDER ARREST V1SALIA. March The vaudeville entertainment to be given.

by talent to-morrow evening for the benefit of the free reading room is the talk of the town. There will be an'lmmense audience In attendance, and the I receipts be sufficiently large to satisfy the wishes of the, promoters of the affair. Mj-s. F. M.

Reynolds, president of the Reading Room Association, has worked for .1 long time to make the Vlsalla Public Library one of the Jaest Institutions of the kind In the valley, and she has the support of the people in general, as Is amply shewn' at this time. Professor Robert Francis Shinn. an actor of considerable ability, has the details of the entertainment In charge. Al Redstone will be the funny man of the show. He has talent and tact.

Miss Gertrude Grimes will do some gymnastic dancing. Mrs. F. M. Reynolds will Tender an original monologue, and she will touch upon- town topics In a way that is certain to etir up the Free Reading Room Fund.

Society Folk Will Grace the Stage for the Benefit of WASHINGTON. March dent to-day the following nominations to the Senate: Theodore" Benll. register of the land office at Leadvllle. John Daniel Arms and Georne L. ajes.

all of Montana, to be mineral land commissioners in To be nsslFtaait paymasters In the navy: Frederick G. Pine' of New Jersey, Frederick B. Colby of New York. Edward K. Ooodhue of Massachusetts ana 11-liam Browne of Pennsylvania.

To be a civil engineer In the navy- Reuben E. Uakrnhouse of Illinois. The following nominations for the army were made to-nipht: 4 Artillery corps: Captains to be majors -fivdnev W. Taylor; Charles H. Humphfevs" Luisi Lomia.

Alexander D. Schenck, Bedgwlck Pratt, John McClel- Cavairv: Captains to be John F. Guilfbyle. Ninth Cavalry; Charles H. Watts.

Fifth; Frank A Edwards Firfit; Ei'-We Ellis Eighth; Matthias W. Day, Nmth" Flnleyf Ninth; Louis A. Craig. Sixth- Wilber K. Wilder.

Fourth; Thaddeu Terth; Francis II. Hardie, Third; George 'K. Hunter. Third. Infantry: Captains to be majors: James A Twentieth: Robert J.

C. Irvine, Eleventh; Edward E. Hardln. Seventh; Richard H. Wilson.

Eighth: William B. Fourteenth; Frank F. Bastman Fourteenth; Lea Fiberger, Twentythird: Bernard H. Byrne. Sixth.

Ordnance department: First lieutenants to be captains Charles E. Jamleson, Lawson M. Fuller. Corps of engineers: Second lieutenant to be John R. Slattery.

Volunteer army: To be second Sergeant George G. Company Thirty-second Infantry. Former Passed Assistant John 6. Brandford. U.

S. to be curpeon in the navy, to be. placed on the letirrrl Tne Senate In executive session to-nlsat confirmed the following nominations: Charles Boutelio of Maine, to be a captain on the retired list of the navy. Melvin A. Deerinsr of Colorado.

-ap be Registrar of the Land Ofllce at Gunnlson. Colo. To be -major Brigadier General William Shatter. U. S.

retired. To be brigadier Colonel Aaron S. Daggctt. V. S.

A. Also a large' number of regular promo.tior.s.ih the army and officers in the navy and revenue cutter service. Postmasters: Porto Charles Z. L. Andreau.

Amelia E. Roth. Virginia City; N- A. Hummel. Wadsworth.

Number of Officers in Different Branches of Army Service Are Also Recommended for Promotion. President Submits Names of Men for Various Positions to Senate. ANOTHER LIST OF NOMINATIONS Oakland Office Fan Francisco C.tll. HIS Broadway. Marrh The bonding en options of purcha.sr> of large tracts of farmlnjj lam! south of Llvermore In the Arroyo Valle district has arousrd murh Interest among the ranchers of tho valloy.and the busings men of Livprmore.

fact that the purposes behind those who are In the transaction's have not been dlsclosfd lends a color of mystery to the only serves to heighten the and gossip that are afloat In the valley town. The facts, so far as known, are that George Crozier. a San Francisco real estate man. has keen negotiating for three weeks among the farmera and stockmen along the Arroyo Valle for options on their holdings. His story was that he represented C.

Clark, a Sacramento capitalist, who was looking for a wellwatered stock range, adjacent to the San Francisco market. offers were of no liberal a figure that Crosier had no difficulty In tying up a large number of owners. It was noticeable that he preferred sections upon which it is known there is water. Most of the land which has been bonded until Anril 1 has been taken at an averare of J22 SO an acre. It runs from twelve to twenty miles toward the mountains on the southern boundary 'of the valley and only suitable so far" as the owners and ranchers of valley believe for range purposes.

The high the options has given rise to the theory that the land Is desired for oil or mineral prospecting. It Is known Clark has larjre Interests In the Bakersfield oil district, and there Is a. decided current report that is his purpose to exploit the Llvermore country for oil. Among the who have given options to Crozier afe Sarah Jordan, Chester Jordan. R.

W. Allen. Gus Pith. E. W.

Hall. Frank Flovd. Frank Logan. Morris Wente. J.

C. Keyn and Mrs. John Frick. It is said that Crozter has options on two sections belonging to the Mc- Laughlin estate and is negotiating for property of the Patterson and the PopTS lands. actions.

Purposs of Trans- Options Carry a High Figure, Wliicli Causts Speculation as to the Ranchers Give- Options (fa Extensive Tract South of the Town. LARGE LAND DEAL STIRS LIVERMORE VISALI A'S AMATEUR TALENT TO APPEAR IN VAUDEVILLE BERKELEY. March Three speakers of r.ote addressed .1 meeting of university students held this m-ornlnf; in the They were Professor Elwood Mead, head of the uew irrigation department at the university; Rev. C. R.

Brown, pastor of the First Congregational-Church of Oakland, and Dr. W. A. P. president of the Imperial University at Peking.

China. The speakers wera introduced by President Wheeler. Professor Mead spoke of the scope and purpose of the recently founded department. "The final solution of the irrigation problem of arid lands must be found in the universities." he declared. are beginning here a course of instruction to a certain extent entirely new In this country.

It will deal with the economic principles of the ownership and distribution of water. "We have passed an era of development- in canal building, the least of the problems of Irrigation. "Wo have done little or nothing toward deciding the ownership of streams or protect ing the titles when once established. We have a. great Industry created here In a.

haphazard way. without adequate legislation, State or national. "Heretofore the problems have been studied by men of mature whosa interests colored their -Judgments. To be completed the problems must be dealt with by the new generation ojf unbiased minds In the colleges of the West." Rev. Dr.

Brown spoke of the demand for' well built men and women in this age. "Those who would be efficient." he said, "must be well built. They form an aristocraoy by 1 themselves not necessarily hereditary. We may be -born into the world with dice loaded on one side, but we straightway go to work and load it on: the other. "By well built men and women I mean those of sound health, morally and physically; trained and accurate intelligence which lies within the power of every man of average ability; social efficiency or good breeding, the air and habit of a gentleman or gentlewoman which is always with you and cannot be east off: moral purpose, the most important" of" all: -Away, down In your heart you must have a purpos you must mean to- do something, to be someone." v-' Dr.

Martin spoke but a few wore. the students. He said: ho: was on way back to Peking, where he hoped to be able to re-establish the Imperial University destroyed in the recent Boxer uprising. The young Emperor endowed It. and if he were again seatfd on the throno Dr.

Martin hoped to.have it reopened. M. Gaston Deschamps. the eminent lit-, erary critic of the Paris Temps and lecturer for 1901 of the Cercle Francais of Harvard University, will deliver six lectures In French at the University of California from April 26 to May 3. His subject will be "Contemporary Drama." M.

Deschamps' visit has been made possible through the generosity of James II. Hyde and C. B. Alexander of. New York.

Georse Crocker of San Francisco and others. These gentlemen last year ripfrayed the expenses of the course of lectures on "Contemporary French Poetry." delivered at Berkeley by M. Henri The dates and subjects of M. Champs' lectures are as follows: Friday. April du Theater Conterr.porain: Augter.

Dumas flls. Metlhac Halery: Sardou. Monday. April La Question du Mariano et lei Theater "Contemporaln; Paul" -Herrteu. TuedHay.

April La Vie de Famine et Theater Contemporain Drieux. Wednesday. May La. Question Sociaie; Francois de Carel: AntolPfc Thursday. May 2 Drama Heroique; Henri de Bornier; Edmond Rostand.

Friday, May S-Concluaion; TATtnlr Theater en France, M. Deschampa la one of the foremost men of letters to-day In France. W. A. P.

Martin, President of Imperial University at Peking, Visits Berkeley and Talks at ICeeting. Three Men of Distinction Make Addresses to Col-' lege NOTED SPEAKERS AT UNIVERSITY The curriculum will be upon Cm most advanced methods and lines followed Tt the leading medical roilcsres of th- Lnited The standard will be fixM at a high plane and staff cf the faculty will be equally rxiariR. are now upon the for the structure, which is to on modern lines, with every facility for the purposes to which It Is to be pui. Unless; unforeseen circumstances sriall arise to blork the olar.s the directors aro hopeful that the will be in the course of sixty days. Th-i plans are brlr.g drafted with" great attention to detail ar.d will be elven careful consideration by the naff of physicians that shall compose the faculty.

The ceneraJ outline of the clans hss framed, but the details will be left to the architects to be worked out alor.n the lines which seen to furnish the best It expected that the plans -will be reajly for Inspection and adopted within thirty The directors are anxious to press the work of construction as as possible In order that the college may be ready for operations by early fall. at the latest. The physicians arho are interested In the -college are assured of strong support. Many applications from vounp men and women who Intend to study medicine in the new institution aro being made. The number of that be Accommodated has not yet been purchase of a eite ai Thirty-first r.d Grove streets for the proposed regular school medical college has been consummated.

The directors have paid for the property the has passed. Tfcls Is the flret etep toward the erection the building whjch to horse the new Jr.gtitutlon. Oakland OflSre Fan FrandSCO Call, 1118 Broadway. March 1. tfiils of Structure That la to House the Institution.

Architects Are Now at "Work on De- Directors Close Purchase of Site for Medical School. PLANS UNDER WAY FOR NEW COLLEGE THE SAN FRANCISCO SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1901. 11 -V other soap in the world is used so or so little of goes so far. of people nse PeaiV jui soru no'cs teii it, Crufzisiu 5 Immediately on Arising In the Morning Take a Goblet of the BEST NATURAL LAXATIVE WATER KNOWN, 0 It Is a "friend Indeed" (the next morning) to the "diner-out." A ipecdr, sure and gentle care for all disorders of tbe Btomach and It bas 6 bo as a remedy for Constipation and Jo Protect Yourself Against Substitution BE SURE AND USE THE FULL JLabei i.dn Bottle Is Blue with Red Centre, Panel..