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16 REPUBLICAN WAR CLOUDS PASSING The Executive Committee Does Some Important Things. ANOTHER CONVENTION. Resolved That Another State Central Committee Meeting Is Necessary. A CONSTRUING OF THE CALL. The Friends of John D.

Spreckels and Decent Politics Are Again Victorious. The executive committee of the State Central Committee held meeting at the of the State Central Committee. 41!) California' street, yesterday afternoon, and took action which has great significance in relation to the best interests and future of the affairs of the Republican party. The proceedings of the meeting constituted a victory for the friends of John D. Sjreckrls, who have joined in an effort to bring about a condition of political affairs most likely to in harmony and party But it was more a victory for all elements of the Republican party in the State, irrespective of factions or interested in seeing the political affairs of the party managed in the interest of fairness to all elements the highest good of the party, and in accordance with Republican precedents and principles.

Those present at the meeting numbered seventeen, as follows: P. B. Cornwall, Irank McQuaid, J. EL Mahoney, W. W.

Montnjrue, Leon Dennery, John D. Spreckels, Isaac Upham. A. B. Lemmon, Am P.

Wells, E. C. Palmieri. Wendell Easton, H. P.

Sonntag, Judge M. Cooney, H. Chiekering, A. Ruef, James Mc- Nab, J. C.

Daly. The meeting was an executive one, beginning at p. M.and lasting for over an hour. The first matter of Importance that came up definitely was that of the meaning of the Wells amendment adopted at the meeting of the State Central Committee a week ago last Saturday. Ex-Governor Sheldon of Los Angeles, it may be remembered, offered a loce resolution, drawn by the clique of the executive committee, which framed the call, providing in its last paragraph that in Congressional districts where no Congressional committees existed such committees should be created by a committee of five named in the resolution.

This committee of rive would have had practical control of the Republican affairs of a large portion of the State, Mr. Wells of Contra Costa offered verbally an amendment providing in districts where no Congressional committees existed such committees should be created by The State Central committeemen representing those districts. After the meeting several kinds of doubts arose to the wording and construction of Wells' amendment, and one of them concerned the right of the "at large" member? of the executive committee appointed by M. M. Estee to participate in the selection of Congressional committees in the districts where they happened to reside.

Such a risrht has especially exercised by Chairman P. B. Cornwall, who resides in the Fifth District. Alter considerable discussion yesterday it was with practical unanimity taken to be the effect of Wells' amendment tliat ouly of the State Central Commiitee elected in ihe regular way as representatives of the various Assembly districts should have the right to vote on the appointment of Congressional committees in districts where such committees do not legally This action was taken in the intere-t of harmony, and it was a decision against the appointed members of the executive committee to participate in the selection Congressional committees. 1 he iifxt and the chief matter of importance which came up was a resolution offeiwdby W.

W. Montague. In effect it declared it to be the sense of the i committee of the State Central Committee that, under the call adopted by the State Central Committee at its week ago Saturday, the duties and powers of the State Convcution. so c.illed to convene in Sacramento, Slay 5, were limited to the selection of delegates to the National Republican Convention to be held in St. Louis, June 16.

The resolution declared in effect that the matters of the nomination of Presidential electors, the nomination of Congressmen from the various districts, the nomination of a Lieutenant-Governor (if the necessity for such a nomination should appear in the future), the selection of a new Staie Central Committee and other party matters should be provided for by the State Central Committee at another meeting, which should be held in the comparatively near future. The resolutions declared that the duties of the State Convention not provided for in me call adopted at the meeting of the State Central Committee ceased with the selection of delegates to the National Convention. This resolution was adopted by a nearly 1111811101011? vote. This action does not definitely tall a second meeting of the State Central Committee. The power to call another meeting resides definitely in the chairman and in a majority of the committee if they unite in a call fora meeting.

The right and power of a majority of the executive committee to rail a meeting of the State Central Committee, regardless of the chairman, is a matter of some doubt among leading Republicans. But in the absence of decisive construction of rules and precedents it was taken generally yesterday to be practically decided that another meeting of the State Central Committee will and must occur in the comparatively near future. The sentiment and judgment of a very large proportion 61 the leading Republicans the City and the State has a ready been expressed in favor of this step in the interest of harmony, regularity and party success, and the action of the executive committee yesterday makes anotner meeting practically certain. Such a proceeding is less controlled always by the action of an officer or a committee than by a public sentiment, and in this case Republican sentiment has already been expressed in favor of another meeting of the State Central Committee, which, queerly enough, held a one-hour stesslorj and adjourned after doing something which has brought abut much confusion and conflict and without doing certain things which the State Central Committee was imperatively called upon i to do. It was shown yesterday, in support of Mr.

Montague's resolution declaring the powers and duties of the State Convention now called, that the call referred only and 1 specifically to the selection of del- I egates to the National Convention. The call declares only this to be the of the call, and only this selection of to the National Convention is declared to be the duty and the purpose of the Mate Convention, or rather, to be entirely correct, the aggregation of Congressional conventions called. It plainly appeared from reading of the call that the State Cei.trai Committee had i conferred no other powers on the State Convention, and that a second meeting of the State Central Conimittee is demanded, not only by these circumstances, but by the condition into which the party has been plunged within the nast few days. The only other important action taken at the meeting was the election of a BOOoesaor to Marcus D. Boruck, deceased.

who was, before his death, the member of the State Central Committee from the Fortieth District. Tli is was the question that best revealed the alignment of the seventeen members of the executive committee present. At this election the Mahoney-railroad element cast seven votes and the Spreckels element ten votes. Sig Kettman was nominated by J. C.

Daly, and the nomination was seconded by Leon Dennery, both of whom made brief and vigorous speeches. Then James McNab nominated Charles A. Hug in a short and well-framed address and a vote was taken. Tho3e voting for Hug were the following: McQuaid, Spreckels, Montague, Wells. Palmieri, Easton, Sonntag, Cooney, McNab, Upham.

Those voting for Bettman were: Cornwall. Ma honey, Dennery, Lernmon, Chickering. Kuef, Daly. After this action the committee journed. Fourth District.

The Fourth Di-trict Congressional com! mittee appointed at the snap Mahoney: Kelly meeting met yesterday afternoon, Joseph S. Spear. lr. presiding. A commit! tee was appointed to drait a call for a primary election and an address to the voters of the district.

There was appointed a finance committee of seven to collect funds; also a committee to prepare primary election blanks. The regular Fourth district committee I elected by the votes of seven of the eleven members will meet for organization at 2 I r. M. to-day at '6-7 Market street. Republican County Committee.

The Republican County Committee met I last evening and elected Charles Berlinger to the vacancy caused by the recent, death of M. J. Donovan, representative of the Fortieth District. A committee was ap- pointed to draft suitable resolutions on the death of Mr. Donovan.

Republican County Committee, A meeting of the Republican County Committee was held last evening at Shiels Hall, on O'Farrell street. Chairman presided and all the members except Mr. Chandler were present. Charles Berliner was elected to fill the vacancy in the Thirtieth Assembly District, caused by the death of J. E.

Donovan. RETURNED FROM GUIANA. I IV. Adams' Experience In a Land of Gold and of liaging Fevers. L.

TV. Adams of San Jose, who for a year past has been general manager of the New York and British Guiana Gold Mining Company in Gtiiana, is at the Grand. He has just returned from that wild country bordering on Venezuela and tells a story full of interest. There is lots of gold down there," he said. "That was demonstrated to my satisfaction.

The mines are on some of the disputed territory, and 1 don't wonder the British hate to give it up. "I was mining in the Barima district, on the Barima River, and went down there by i way of New York. I sailed from there to i Georgetown, the capital of British Guiana, by steamer. Georgetown has people, a quarter of whom are white and the others negroes, Indians and Portuguese, i There is a strict Biitish rule everywhere, i Even the negroes affect British ways. But everything is slow.

"From Georgetown I went by steamer up the Bariraa River to Mount Everard, which is a day and a half's travel. Thence we took paddle-boats or batteaus propelled by negroes. The river is a large one, and is navigable for steamers even above Mount Eveiard. The negroes paddled for us six days and landed us at the mines "It is a peculiar region. I judge the mm ing district is about 100 miles square, that is its area is that great, and the ground is good all over it.

The alluvial mines are rich beyond any I know of. To get down the gold the miner has to go through from eight to ten feet of clay, and the whole country seemingly is a river bed. "It is in the rounded stones and the sand that the fold is found. It runs from $2 to $16 a cubic yard. I saw lots of claims that went 18 cents a pan.

Of course it is a lot of work, however, to get off this clay or adobe. "Ab for the quartz mines they are in the mountains, as they are called, but the mountains are really hills. None of them are over 250 feet above the level of the sea. These quartz properties are fine, too. They average $30 to $40 a ton.

"Notwithstanding all this I wouldn't advise Americans to go there. It is hot, feverish and thoroughly unhealthy. I buried several of my friends while there. There is lots of malaria and biliousness and many different kinds of fever. Negroes do most of the work.

They get from $1 to $1 25 a day and are very good miners. "Wild animals, birds and reptiles abound. There are tigers, leopards, mountain lions, boa-constrictors and other snakes and the most beautiful birds I ever saw. There are birds of paradise, exquisitjly colored humming-birds and you might say all the beautiful birds of the tropics. "The Guatemalan Government gave a concession to a German company for an electric light works in the city, to be operated by the overflow from the lake in the mountains.

In return for this privilege the company furnishes the city of Guatemala with light free of charge. 'The German company put up an excellent plant, all of which was imported from Berlin. "There is one good thing about the Guatemalan Government. They have no Chinese question there. Chinamen are simply and positively refused a landing.

Lots of them are brought down on the Pacific Mail steamers, but they never come ashore. This raised the ire of the Pacific Mail people, aiwl out of revenge they have raised the freight rates to Guatemala fully 70 percent in the last few months. Mr. Adams says his company, which owns both placer and quartz mines, has niude money from both and a good deal of it. The average California miner, however, he thinks ought not to go down there.

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 1896. THE FIFTH IS SETTLED. Republicans Amicably Agree, After All, on a Congressional Committee. ANOTHER SPRECKELS VICTORY. Primary Elections in the Fifth Are Referred to the County Committees.

The Republican tangle in the Fifth District was settled yesterday and the settlement was a decided victory for the friends of J. I). Spreckels. The eleven members of the State Central Committee who represent the correspond- ing number of Assembly districts composing that Congressional district met at Redwood City in the afternoon and named the Fifth -Congressional committee which will control the political affairs of that district as related to the Republican State "Henry IV at Fontainebleau" Marchetti's Great Canvas Which Will Soon Adorn the Mark Hopkins Art Institute. Convention called for the purpose of naming delegates to the National Convention.

There are eleven State Central Committeemen representing as many Assembly districts in this Congressional district, and in this district resides P. B. Cornwall, member-at-large of the executive committee of the State Central Committee and chairman of that committee. Mr. Cornwall on the start assumed a right to participate in the deliberations of the committeemen from the Fifth District in the election of a Congressional committee as provided in the call, and he had further called and superintended the first meeting in San Jose last week and had postponed the meeting from the date to which it was adjourned on that day.

Mr. Cornwall did not figure in any way in the proceedings of yesterday. He attended the meeting of the executive committee in San Francisco, which during its session ruled against the participation of committeemen-at-large in Congressional district affairs, and he was not represented by proxy at Redwood City. Those present at the meeting were: P. A.

Bergerot, Charles Manwarins, G. H. Umbsen (by George Umbsen, proxy), John H. Dawson, H. G.

Fairchild. C. Hug, William fluff, San Francisco; George C. Ross, Sun Mateo County; S. F.

Ayer, J. F. O'Keefe (by James Rea, proxy), J. L. Anay (by George Koen, proxj-), Santa Clara County.

The minutes of the two previous meetings were approved. P. A. Bergerot, chairman at a former session, called the meeting to order. George C.

Ross of San Mateo County acted as secretary. On motion of Rea the temporary officers named were elected permanent officers of the meeting. Chairman Bergerot stated the object of the meeting to be the election of a Congressional Campaign Committee, to consist of seven members. Aftei some discussion, on motion of Aver of Santa Clara County, seconded by Manwaring of San Francisco, the following gentlemen were unanimously declared elected as the Congressional Committee of the Fifth Conenssional District: Robert Toplitz. John E.

Richards, A. L. Stetson. C. S.

Laumeister, W. H. Lawrence, James Rea. William Moir. George C.

Ross of San Mateo county offered the following motion. It was adopted as a seperate motion, although originally intended to be passed as a "rider" to the appointment of the "Committee of Seven" Resolved, That it is the sense of this committee that the manner and supervision of the selection of delegates to the State convention should be left, in the hands of the county committees of the several counties. Rea said that so far as he was concerned he should not be bound, morally or in any other manner, by any action that this committee should take. The motion was finally carried, however, by a vote of nine to two. Rea and Ayer only voting against it.

But few besides the State Central committeemen concerned were present at the meeting which occurred In a room in the Courthouse. County Clerk C. P. Curry, Samuel Priest and John Martin were trie only San Franciscans there besides those who were members of the State Central Committee from the Fifth District. When the committee adjourned it adjourned to meet at 2 p.

m. next Saturday in the office of John E. Richards in the Crocker building in San Francisco. A CALIFORNIA SINGER. Mrs.

Grace Geib of San Franciaco Highly in Chicago. Another California singer is acquiring fame in the East. Intelligence comes that Mrs. Grace Geib Fraser. who is studying in Chicago with Mme.

Boethe of the Chicago Conservatory of Music, has achieved marked success. The Musical Times of that city pays this tribute to the California nightingale: "The grand aria. 'Tv che le from Verdi's 'Don was gloriously sung by Mrs. Grace Fraser of Ban Francisco, a truly dramatic soprano, powerful and rich. She is undeniably a gifted singer, and gives promise of becoming one of the finest artists America haa ever boasted of on the Italian stage.

The ever favorite and popular duo, 'Deh! con from Bellini's was most exquisitely sung by Mrs. Fraser and Miss Harrison, whose voices blended beautifully and most perfectly. Their precision, intonation and phrasing were remarkable; rarely even in Italy's great theaters can such unison be heard. Its performance was the sign of an outburst of enthusiasm, and this duo of artists were recalled again and again." THE BANE FORGERS. They Refuse to Make Any Statement for Publication, but McCluskey Says He Is Innocent.

A. H. Dean and Joseph McCluskey, the Nevada Bank forgers, felt refreshed after their night's rest, although Dean complained about the discomfort of sleeping on a mattress placed on the floor and wanted a cot. Dean refused to say anything about the forgery for publication only that he would have to stand what may be brought against him. He iemarked that McCluskey hart nothing to do with the case, and should not have been arrested.

Reuben Lloyd, the attorney for tbe Nevada Hank, and Captain Hines of the Pinkerton agency hail an hour's consultation witt. Lees yesterday afternoon and they discussed the case in all its bearings. McCluskey exprusse'i a desire on Wednesday night to have an interview with Captain Lees, and last night the captain and he were closeted together for over an hour. The captain said afterward that McClus- key, although not positively denying any complicity in the forgery, led that to be inferred. The captain referred to a story published in a St.

Paul paper in which McCluskey gave the name of the third man in the case who did the fine work, and McCluskey said he had simply given the reporter a "fill," as he treated him in un ungetulemanlv manner. The two men will be kept in the City Prison for three. or four days yet before being removed to the County Jail to await their trial. HE IS STILL AT LARGE. There Is Absolutely No Clew to Berthe Murderer.

The Unfortunate Woman's Funeral Yesterday Was Largely Attended by Friends. Borthe Paradis, the unfortunate woman who died at the of an unknown st rangier last Friday morning, was buried yesterday afternoon. The people of her sphere flocked about her bier and wept. They covered the casket and they tilled the room with choice flowers and floral pieces. Then, after following the dead one to her grave they dispersed.

Each woman went back to sher den. So far as the police authorities are concerned there is nothing new in the case. The murderer is still at large, and there is no immediate likelihood.thathe will apprehended. Cfesar Chalbert, the woman's "protector," was the chief mourner. Among the magnificent pieces sent as tributes of affection to the deceased was one deserving of particular mention.

It was a large pillow of lilies, which upon close examination displayed in violets the last sentiments expressed by Gilbert, the consumptive poet of the French revolution, nearly 100 years ago. It read Au banquet la vie, infortune convive J'appanis un jour et jemeurs; Je meurs et sur la tombe ou lentement jarrive Nul ne viendra verser dcs pleurs. Translated as near as it can be into English, Gilbert's sentiment is: "An unfortunate truest at the banquet of life I appeared and died, and upon my grave no one will come to shed a tear." The result of the Coroner's inquest yesterday resulted in a verdict to the effect that the deceased had come to her death at the hands of an unknown. WANT PKIMARIES. Republicans of the Thirty Fourth Assembly District Want to Name Their Own Representatives, representation to the State and Congressional conventions, soon to be held, was discussed at length by the executive committee of the Thirty-fourth District Republican Club last nigiit.

There were but two of the nineteen precincts of the district not represented, and all seemed in favor of having the delegates to the conventions elected at primaries. A number of speeches were made, and the following resolutions were finally adopted by a unanimous vote: Retolvcd, That it is the sense of the executive committee of the Thirty-fourth District Republican Club that primary elections should be held for the purpose of selecting delegates to the Stale aud Congressional conventions. Fell Over a Balcony. Mrs. Annie Dormer, 105 Stockton street, last night fell over the balcony from rhe third to the second floor.

She was taken to the Receiving Hospital, where it was found that she escaped with a contused back and an abrasion of the left arm. She is a waitress in the Seattle restaurant, 137 Fourth street. TWO BEAUTIFUL PICTURES Collection at the Mark Hopkins Art Institute Further Enriched. H. 0.

PLATT FOR PRESIDENT. Slated to Succeed James D. Phelan. He Is Said to Be Mr. Searles' First Choice.

The collection of paintings at the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art has been enriched by the gift of two more beautiful I one painted by the celebrated Italian artist, L. Marcbetti, and the other by the French artist, Jean Anbert. Tbe paintings arrived at the institute a few days ago, but as the frames were damaged in transportation the pictures will not be placed on exhibition until March 31. Jean Aubert's subject is "Love and Spring." It represents a beautiful woman I strolling among the blossoms of a garden, i Three little winged cupids at her feet hold her gown to protect it from the dew. The canvas of the Marchetti picture is 48x72 inches.

The title of the painting is MISS ELIZABETH U. YATES. "Henry IV at Fontainebleau Before the Tournament." It formerly held a conspicuous place in the original Mark Hopkins collection and went from this City with other art treasures to the Great Barrington house. The painting represents a courtly throng of many titled personages richly arrayed. There are knights and ladies of honor, heralds, musicians and pages.

The artist has pITOT the closest attention to detail in the handling of the draperies, and the figures are so grouped and placed that the whole scene is effective. The picture was painted in 1878 and first exhibited in Italy. The annual election for directors of the San Francisco Art Association will take place at the institute March SL The annual meeting will beheld the evening of that day and the newly elected directors will then elect one of the members of the board to be president. It is hinted that the present board of directors will appoint a nominating committee favorable to the aspirations of Horace Platt for the presidency. Mr.

Plan's second term as president of the Bohemian Club will expire early in April, and should there be any slip in the art school slate, there might be what the statesmen call an interregnum in Mr. Platt's career as president. Many of the members of the San Francisco Art Association have expressed an opinion in favor of a resolute management of affairs at the institution. There is at present no bead or guiding spirit in the tive or six teachers employed. It is acknowledged that there should be central authority there.

Many desire that a director of superior ability should be appointed to manage the teaching departments of the institution. As for president of the association one of the members recently observed "The institution does need at its head a man of firm executive ability, yet a popular and progressive citizen who would seek to interpret in the highest degree the mission and purpose of the generous endowment. Mr. Phelan has certainly displayed ability, liberality and public spirit in his administration, but his case is exceptional. There is danger that the association will get back into the old routine of passing around the presidency as swee.t incense to the dilettante of the Pacific- Union Club.

This year we might have a good wholesome opposition ticket, at the head of which would be placed some prominent art-loving citizen of acknowledged public spirit and personal energy, but word has been passed round in confidence that Mr Searles desires the election of Mr. Platt. The latter recently paid a visit to Mr. Searles' home in Massachusetts, and it is presumed that some confidences were exchanged regarding the future of the institution. Now, Mr.

Searles' generosity has done so much for the institute that no loyal member would think of runnine contrary to his slightest desire in the government of the institution. From Mr. Seailes' point of view he may not see the institution in the light which one obtains in San Francisco, but there is not the slightest inclination among the resident members to depart from his suggestions. A MID-LENT LECTURE. Paul B.

Hay to Borromeaif Council of the Y. M. I. About "Ben Hur." Borromean Council No. 129 of the Men's Institute gave its friends a rare 1 treat last night in the shape of an illustrated lecture by Paul B.

Hay at the Mission Opera-hall. Mr. Hay took for his' subject Lew Wallace's famous book "Ben Hur, or. a Tale of the Christ," ana interspersed his remarks with selected readings from that fascinating work. The lecture was rendered particularly interesting by the large number of stereopticon views with which it was illustrated." Some of these views are veritable works of art, those representing the adoration of the wise men, the flight into Eeypt, the vision of the angels and the exciting chariot race being particularly worthy of notice.

During the intermission between the various parts of the lecture a choice programme of vocal music was given, Miss Daisy Keene's rendering of Mi'lard's "Aye Maria" and the song "Weep Not, but Tell Me, Love," beine especially meritorious, as was John H. Widman's singing of "The Holy City." It is understood that Mr. Hay will be asked to repeat his lecture in the near future. PRIZE FOR MEMBERSHIP Rev. Anna H.

Shaw and Miss Mary G. Hay Arrive To-Day. Miss Yates Described as an Attractive Young Woman of Unusual Attainments. Rev. Anna H.

Shaw will arrive from the East this evening. She will be accompanied by Miss May G. Hay, one of the managers of the prospective county suffrage conventions. Miss Hattie B. Cooper and Miss Lucy Anthony will meet them at Sacramento.

Miss Shaw will be the guest of Mrs. A. A. Sargent at 1630 Folsom street while in the City, and Miss Hay will be at the Berkshire. Miss Susan B.

Anthony is expected to arrive from the south to-morrow, and her headquarters will also be at Mrs. Sargent's home. Miss Elizabeth Upham Yates, who will be Miss Shaw's isola borer in holding the county conventions, will come to the State two weeks hence, and about the same time Miss Milis, who with Miss Hay will arrange for the county conventions, is expected to join the ladies. Miss Yates is said to be one of the as well as ablest and most attractive of the women lecturers on the American platform. She is a graduate of the Boston School of Expression and was one of puoils of the famous teacher, Mrs.

Cowell Le Moyne She was once a missionary to China and is a National lecturer of the Woman's Christian Temperance L'nion and the National American Suffrage Association. Her lectures include the following subjects: "Fashionable Thinking," "As It Was," "China and the Chinese" (with costume). "A Horoscope," Columbns," "Legends of the Rhine," "The Conflict of the Modern Hercules," "Temperance Lessons of the Century," "Truth Stranger Than Fiction," "Our Mission," "The Home and the State," "What We Are Coming To," "Progress vs. Prejudice." THE STJTRO BATHS. Elaborate Athletic Programme to Follow Literary KxercUen.

The programme for the opening of the Sutro Baths to-morrow afternoon will begin with literary exercises at 2 o'clock. At 3 o'clock the baths will be thrown open to all swimmers. Cassasa's California Exposition band will give a concert both in the afternoon and evening. At 7:30 o'clock the athletic exhibition by the Olympic Club will begin. The programme is as follows: Triple Messrs.

Beman, Leando and Rathbone. Ed Carter and J. Mahon. V. Herrmann will box the winner.

Perch G. 8. Miehling and Walter Spiro and Phillips, Armbruster and Knight. Kingston and Wand. Fencing and sword Professor L.

Tronchet and Captain Dilhan. Foils by Messrs. Ortion and Lastreto. Messrs. Cook, Toohey, Stalsman and McXallv.

Swimming and By members of the Olympic Club. AccuNed of Stealing a Watch and Coin. Charles Klinitz, formerly proprietor of the Bee-Hive, a dive on Howard street, was arrested yesterday for stealing a gold watch and in coin from Charles Boystrom, an employe of the Market-street Cable Company. The men had been drinking together in a saloon at 65 Fourth street. Bail Reduced.

By order of Judge Bahrs the bail on the Charges against R. H. McDonald Jr. has been reduced. On the embezzlement charge it has been put at and on the perjury charge $2000.

Carroll Cook, McDonald's attorney, says he cc a get ball. The total number of capital letters in the whole Bible is 106,990. of small capitals 6897, and of lower case erand total of letters including one 3,566,481. MARSICANO DID NOT PAY He Satisfied His Bakers With Promises for Eleven Years. NOW PLEADS THE STATUTES.

A Wealthy Merchant Whose Family Ate $289 Worth of the Staff of Life. Patrizio Marsicano, millionaire and owner of the prosperous Overland Packing Company, admitted in Justice Carroil's court yesterday that he had been running a bread bill with Queviolo bakers, for eleven from 1884 to Without paying for the staff of life, and moreover that he did not intend to pay any of it except the amount contracted during' 1894 and 1895, about $65. In 1884, when he first took unto himself a wife, Marsicano looked around for a baker to supply the family that was to come. Queviolo Co. suited him, and he in-structed the tirm to supply him regularly.

When the bills were presented each quarter, or year, as the case might be, Marsicano told them to come again when I payment would be more convenient to him, and the obliging bakers complied with his request. So confiding was the firm that the bill ran eleven years and amounted to $289 79 before the bakers decided to get their money by any means that presented. To their astonishment a peremptory demand for payment brought an offer of $65 as a settlement in full. Then the firm I sued in the Justices' Court. The examination of the millionaire by Attorney Splivalo, who represented the plaintiff, was short and to the point.

"What is your business?" asked the attorney. "Capitalist," answered Mr. Marsicano. "Are you a millionaire?" An objection was sustained. "Please look at this bill of bread from 1884 to December.

1806, of which you have a copy, and say if it is correct," said Mr. Splivalo. "Yes, it is correct." "You and your wife and your children got that broad and ate it?" "Yes." "Then why don't you pay the bill, which amounts only to 79 in eleven years?" "Because according to the law I am obliged to pay only for two years and I huve offered $65 in full." "Then you mean to say that these poor bakers must stand the price of nine years' bread for yourself and your family, free gratis, for nothing, because they took your word that you would pay. You are wealthy and yet you play the baby act," said Attorney "Splivalo with, some spirit. "I don't know," was all the capitalist would reply.

The case WSfl then submitted and Justice Carroll gave a verdict for the plaintiffs for $65, saying that the statute of limitations operated against all but two years of the time specified in the bill. The bakers gave notice that they would appeal the case to the Superior Court. An Cntnbpenaed Witness. The most important witness in the Hefdenfeldt case yesterday was Mrs. Lottie Roberts.

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