Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 28, 1891, Page 13

[ THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 1801. TWELVE PAGES. News of the Great West. The Cream of the News of the Northwest is herewith presented in readable form, makes this nevws a leading feature. Wholesale Drunkard’s Orime. There is great excitemont in Fresno, Cala,, over the trial of Dr. F. O. Vincent for the murder of his wife last Decomber, His wife, Mrs. Anna L. Vincent, began suit for divorco against him December 1 ground of his habitual iutem perance wreme cruelty, The gapers were served on the same day. Vincent asked the constable to interceds for him and have his wife con- sent to w dismissal _of tho suit, stating that he would never allow the sait to come to trial. Fivo days later, on the 18th, Vincent met F'red Cuirran on the street and asked him to lend him a pistol. He stated that dog had bitten him on the leg and that he wanted to kill it. Curran refused to comply with his request, whereupon Vincent walked into the gun store of C. Hirsshey, of which Curran 1 tho clerk, and by telling the same story induced the proprietor to loan him a pistol. 'He examined several pistols before finding one to suit him, saying that some were too large, others 00 hard on uigger, ote. Upon securing the pistol Vincent stepped into s hack and in- structed the driver to take him to Mrs. Vincent's residence, He enterea the house without knocking and walked to the rear room, where his wifo, Mrs. Rodgors and Mrs. Reed were engaged in sewing. He asked to sce his stioning to another room. Mrs. V cent'rofused to go until Mrs. Rodgers con mpany her. Upon_entering ot asked his wife if she had decided to dismiss the divoreo proceedings. Upon receiving a negative answer he drow from his pocket o small phial containing a clear liquid and said, “Well, tako that Mrs, Vincent refused and Vincent drow his revolver and shot twico at his wife, telling Mrs. Rodgers that if_she moved be would shoot her, Mrs, Vi cent staggered into tho room which sho had just left and received a bullet in tho back as she entered the door. Vincent pur- sued his wife, who fell on the floor, and he then went to the prostrate form, and holding the pistol close enough to the body to burn the clothes and flesh, fired another shot, which entered just below the left nipple, passing through the body and lodging in the floor, from whichit was afterwards extracted. Vincent was arrested in the same room with the dead body of his wife a few moments after the tragedy. On the trial now in progress no little sur- riso was created when the defenso called 7incent to the stand to testify in his own be- half, It was generally bolieved that bo would not be called as a_witness. He was not the least embarrassed, and frequer asked the indulgence of his' counsel to allow him to go outsido the case and relate inci- dents in hislife which could have no bearing on the issues involved. “['am a hard drinking man,” said the wit- ness in reply to questious. *I have been a drunkard for twenty-five years, 1 drink whisky because 1 like it. i made an esti- mato last night of the amount of whisky I tave drunk during my lifetime, and I place it at 600 gallons, or fifteon barrels of forty gallons each, I baso my es- timate upon the fact that | have'taicen for 3, o tho | | by the most violent exertions, the force of twenty-five years from twenty-five to forty - drinks per day on an ayerage. For the past ten years I havo been taking chloral to steady my nerves. On one occasior I had delirium tremens. | eamo down from San Francisco four days before the killiug, The first night. after my areival 1 slept inw saloon. I re- member nothing which occurred afterward until I came to my senses in the county jaib. T don’t remember purchasing the pistol ; don't remember asking Mrs. Rodgers to see my wifoand have the divorco suit dismissed: don't remember the killing of my wife nor being arrested for that crime. *“I was lying on a cot in tho jail about 8 o'clock when | chanced to put. my hand out and saw blood onit. 1:wondered how itcame there, and about this time Dr. Maupin came in and told me I had killed my wife. This is tho first information I got on the subject. X loved my wife, and when I went tothe house that day I had no intention of killing her.” Oncross examination the witness stated thit within twenty-five vears he had had charge of several drug sfores as preseription clerk and superintended that department, but was never so drunk but that he could do his work. Ho was a graduate of the Cooper medical collegeof San Francisco and had practiced his profession about ten years. Serlous Cnarges Against a Preacher. Rev. S.J. Fleming, a well known Motho- dist preacher, and prominent in Chautauqua matters, was arrosted in Los Angeles, Cal., last week, on complaint of Annie Peterson, a Danish servant gl in his employ, on a charge of attempted assault. The alleged crime was committed on March 11, during the absonce of Fleming's wife from home. It 1s also claimed that when Mrs. Fleming was told of her husband’s fault that she believed the story and their relatiors have since been strained, A further feature adds sensational interest. It seems that when Fleming’s con- duct was discovered by bis wife, Fleming asked her brother to intercede for him, which the latter promised to do, with the stipulation that it was to be only for the purpose of giv- fng him & chauce to establish his innocence. ‘The same morning it is said that Fleming called at the house where his brother-in-law roomed and went to his room. He left shortly after. Some time later the landlady entered the room and found her lodger asleep. His sister went to his room afterward and dis- covored that an attempt Lad been made to wurder him by saturating the bedclothing with chloroform and druwlnr them over the victim's head. When the latter recovered consciousness he could give no account of his narrow escape from death. The affair created a great sensation, as only a short time ago tleming was tried be- fore the church committeé for misapprop ating funds amounting to #,000, Fleming s released on $5,000 bonds. Mrs. Flem- ing's maiden name was Miunie Lyman, and sho is a daughter of the lato N. E. Lyman of Rockford, IIL, who was president of the People's bank of that place. Miss Lyman became acquainted with Fleming while on a visit to @ schoolmate at Los Avgeles. An engagoment soon followed, which culminated In an elaborate wedding atthe Lyman resi- dence hero. While Fleming was visiting with tho family Mr. Lyman died very sud- denly of apoplexy. Tho widow soou disposed of her property, and of late has been making her home in California. Soon after the mar- riage of Miss Lyman, her friends in Illinois heard that Ileming had had trouble in Pennsylvania, and that ho was only recently divorced from bis wife in that state. For the sake of the family, it is said the matter, which was quite thoroughly ventilated in the Koystono state papers, was suppressed in the local dailies, Fleming claims that all the charges are part of a conspiracy that has been on foot for years toruin him. He denies everything and states that his wifo has been taken from him by his encmies, and that he cannotget tohertosveakor talk 10 her. Fleming’s friends have the utmost coufldence in his ability to clear himself, He has suit }‘onnlxu aganst £, H. Winans for 0,000 or defamation of charactor. Some woeks ago his financial transactions in counection with the Redondo Beach Chautauqua associ- atlen, of which he was agent, wern investi- gated by a number of ministers and he was exoneruted. Now ou the heels of that trou- ble comes these overshadowing dificulties. Blown Up by Giant Powder. The Ella mine, situatod at the foot of Tdaho street fu Butte, Mout,, was the scone of a frightful explosion last Thursday moru- ing, by which Walter Trestrail was frght- fuity injured. Joseph Stuart and Roy Crum, who were working with bhim, were badly stocked by concussion. When work was ro- sumed that morning only Walter Trestrail, Joseph Stuart and Roy Crum went down, takmng with them eigh- teen 'sticks of gwnt powder to, save climb- ing the ladder durivg the duy. This powder was placed near the pump Lo thew out, und work was commenced fn the lovel about fifteen fect away. Abouts o’clock Trestrail put in a shot, which he warned nis com- rades was unusually beavy. Trestrall and Crum climbed the ladder about forty-five feet, while Stuart went back into the level, where he thought he would be safe. When the shot was fired the powder all went with it and a fright- full explosion followed. filling the shaft =ith flying pieces of roeck and timbers, shat- No other paper It isthe week’s history of the great northwest, tering the pumps fnto _fragments and lift- ing the roof entirely off from over its mouth. The concussion wus 80 strong where the two men were hanging upon the ladder “T'restrail was torn from it and fell_back to the bottom of the shaft. Crum fortunately was ablo to rotain his hold, but it was only the blast being sufficient to tear his jacket into ribbons. Immediately after the explo- slon tho powder fumes bovan to rise so dense that 1t was with dificulty that Crum wis able to climb out. Stuart had been ter- ribly shocked and almost stunned by the con- cussion, but anaged to crawl out through the smoke and up the ladders. Ittook the men @ few minutes to recover, and then they went back down the shaft to bring up Trest- rall. Ho was found stretchod - across a pile of timbers at the bottom of the shaft uneon- sclous from the combined effects of the fall and smoke. He had been working in the Ella but two shifts, New Line Over the Sierras. To encourago the construction of a railroad across tho mineral belt of Nevada, the logis- lature of that state has passed a law of great importance. The Central Pacific fought it with all the power it could bring to bear, but failed. The state and the law loans tho rail- road company the credit of the various coun- tles to the wmouat. of §5,000 per mile in 5 per cent bonds, and the taxes against the railroad goto pay the interest and principal of the bonds, The amount is suficient to grade a road across tho state. The coun- ties named extend from the Utah to the Cali- fornaa line, and evidently the route in mind is from Deep Creck to Beckwith's Pass. Commenting on_this law, the Salt Lake Tribune says editorially: *That charter which the Alir Line company has received for a railway subsidy through Nevada, reminds us that with theie bonds cashed the money will grade the road through the whole length of the state of Nevada, which is nearly half the distance to San Francisco ba The distances would be about as follow: From Salt Lake to Deep Creek, 160 il [t from Deep Creek to Cavson City, 400 or to Wadsworth, 350 miles, from llo, vin Beckwith's Pass sco bn, O the whole route there would be dificull grading for only about twenty-five miles down Feather river, below Indian valley. The route from Oroville to Indian valley has been surveyed., 1f we remember correctly it is sixty miles: the heaviest grade iseighty feet tothemile, and it is all 1,600 feet lower altitude than_thie Central Pacific above Truckee, and all undes the heavy snow belt. There would bea little filling beyond Oroville and prob- ably two or threo briuges. On this side there would be a long but not dift costly grade up the Toyabe mountains, in the rogion of Austin. The restof the way is all piain sailing, and the road should be built and fully equipped for 5,000 per mile, or possibly for £0,000 per mile. That means E0,000000, 1t imeans & road through tho mineral belt of Nevada; it means an outlet to the West const.,’ os, cither place to Oro 160 miles, and thence to San E'rau 100 miles, or a total of S00 to 820 miles. American Ingots of Tin. The new furnace of the San Jacinto estate, limited, for reducing the cassiterite “black tin’* obtained from the Temescal tin ores, in their test mill lately erected at Cajulea, was started last week, and proved a great suc- cess. The fucl used was oil, and the heat ob- tained was very great and under perfect con- trol. The furace in every way proved a de- clded success, the bars of tin obtained from this first effort being pronounced first-class by Captain Harris, a Cornwall tin expert of great roputo sent out by the company to wit- ness the new method of _separating, dressing and smelting of theso ores, The ore wascon- centrated on a frue vaunerand handled but once from the battery to the furnace. The casting of the ingots was witnessed by Colo- nel E. N. Robinson, general manager of the estaté, Captain Harris, Prof. Matiey, tho de- signer of the furnace, the officers of the com- pany and several gentlemen from Riverside and Los Angeles. The manner of dressing the tin ore here and the use of ofl for heat s entirely new, and it is in overy way o great suceess. A larze amount of cassiterite has been accumulated and made ready for smelt- ingg, Tho test mill is working tiuely, and work on the large mill and holsting works is rapidly progressing. Papa Never Saw His Baby. Willism B, Guill of San Francisco has begun a habeas corpus proceeding to get pos- session of his infant daughter, whose name he does not oven know. He has not seen his wifesince May 5 last, he says, and all because of the interference of his wife's mother, Mrs. Schilgran. Judge Sanderson issued the writ prayed for, and in response the grandfather of tho izfant, Charles Schilgran, appeared in court and told the whole story. It scoms his daughter married Gill, the potitioner, ogainst the wishes of hor arents. They lived together two days at San Jose, where the ceremony took place, and ther. the girl returnedto herhome, Again few we later she returned to her hus- band and lived with him six weeks. Thon she went home, or was taken homo by her arents, and has not seen hor husband since, 'he father said he was willing to let his new son-fu-law call upon Dora, oF to let. thom. live toggether, but he admitted that the mother did not agreewith him. The husband claims that his wife1s kept from him against her wishes by her mother. Recently a baby was born. The proud father wants to see the weo thing, but the stern mother-in-law refused, and sothe father got out a writ of habeas corpus commanding the infant to be brought mto court. Prosiaent of Stanford University. Dr, David 8. Jordan, president of the In- diana university, has accepted the presidency of the Leland Stanford, Jr., university at Palo Alto, Cal. The salary is $10,00 per year, with residence. Sevator Leland Stan- ford md wife went to Bloomington, Ind., sont for Dr. Jordan and met him in the Na- tional hotel, when, without any explanation, the senator offered him tho presidency. The term of oMce will begin noxt Sep- tember. Jordan is to leave in June, as soon @s the present college years work is concluded, and ho will® take his family with him. Dr. Joraan has been president of the Indiana university for tho past soven vears, and at the timo of his elec- the tion was the youngest president in country. ~ Ho isa graduate of Cornell, and is an alumni memberof theboard of tru tees, He is forty years old, a uative of New Y ork and his first college work was done at Lombard college, Galesburg, 1. Ho then went to Butler university. e has tho lirgest private collection of fishes in tho world, and his books are standard on icthyology, &5 are also his botanical writings. Price on His Head. Governor Irwinof Arizona has offered a reward of §40 for the apprehension of Man- uel Baca, who recently deliberately shot to death Matias Analla foran alleged insult, and that he would give an additional reward of §200 for the capturc of Baca, The mur- derer has a bad recora for killing, and secms to thiest for blood. Last summer one of the sheep herdens of Louis Hen- ning was killed 1 the White moun- tains, in Apache county. His comrades buried him without notifying the author- itiesor golug through the formality of an in- quest. 1t now turns out that Bacaone day roduunon? the herds and calling Antonia Avpoduca from the gang, pulled bis pistol and shot the unsuspecting man dead in bis tracks. Soon afterward the murder was re- ported to Mr. Henuing aud be informed the ofticors, who made o visit amoug the_herders, and when asked who aid the shooting, they remarked: “Oh, he shot himself.” It ap- pears that the herders held Baca iu dread, and would rot tell the correct story of the killing. The body was roughly dumped into the eround, and was @ feast for the coyotes and buzzards. Farming out Church Debis. Some mouths ago Presiding Elder F. Burdick called a meeting in Aberdeen, . T of all the Methodist pastors in the Aberdecn district, and put before them the plan of sow- that, | et ks Bnelietei ettt ot o, ing acres of wheat for the liquidation of church debts. The pastors took to the ides, and after a talk with their people found that the fariaers would furmsh thelana and do the work if the church would farnish tho sced. The general socioties of the church, which nave their head- quarters in the east, then took hold of the matter and shortly announced that the money for the seed should be forth- coming. Rev. Mr. Burdick says: *We hope to have at least forty acres of wheat on every charge in the A berdeen district and on somo s many as sixty, Asamatter of fact the church at Bath hus already started the ball rolling with sixty acres. The income from this source will be applied altogether toward the payment of church debts, and I confl dently expect to seo several cleared away be- fore another winter."” New Lease for Arizona, The sixteenth legisliture of Arizonia ad- fourned after o sixty-days' session. Among the important laws passed during the session wero 4 bill avpropriating §0,000 for an oxhibit at the World's Fair in 1503; exempt- ing from taxation for twenty years all rail- roads built in the next three yoars; exempt- ing from taxation all sugar’ beet factories built i one year; reorganizing the torritorial militin, creating one regiment composed of threo four-company battalions; prohibiting the salo of cigarettes to children under six- teen; creating a company of frontier rangers to operato against the renegade Apaches; establishing kindergarten schools ; establish- ing aschool for the deaf, dumb and bli creating the county of Coconino; reducig the maximum railroad fares from 10 cents a mile to 6 cents, The democratic gerry- mander apportionment bill being vetoed by the governor, the new bill passed during the closing hours of the session, giving each of the eleven counties a member of the council and one for the terrritory at large. The as- sembly is apportioned on the basis of the population in_15%. The appropriation bill was the largest over passed with oue excep- tion, Senator Shoup Finds a Sister. United States Sonator Shoup o f Idaho was the central figure in a rather romautic iuci- dent in Pittsburg recently that has only just come to light. It seems that during the late war the Shoup family lived in the south, and the present senator at the time the trouble began joined the Union army. The other members of the family drifted apart, and one sister _went to Allegheny, the resident part of Pittsburg. iShe lost all trace of the others, and finally belioving them all tobe dead, she marricd Alderman Harrington of Allegheny, who be- fore many years committed suicide. Later she marricd Councilman McAfee of ~Alle- gheny. A few months ugo she saw the name of SenatorShoupn the papers, and thinking he might be a relative, wrote him, and was pleasantly surprised to finl hé was ier brother. ~ He had gone through the war, been overnor of Idaho territory, and later beécame senator. He has boen on a'visit to his and not only told her of two other surviving orothers, but assured her of her title to a share in the family estate, amounting to many thousands of dollars. Forsaken by the Saints. Tho death of Mrs. Amelia C. Rhodes at the county infirmary, at the age of seventy seven, and her burlal in a pauper grave, reminds som old citizens of an incident which hap- pened somo twenty odd years ago, says the Salt Lake Tribune. She and her husband came from Denmark at an early day, devout Mormons, and were in his time willing sub- jects of Brigham Young. Rhodes became possessed with a large amount of gold at one time and was asked to turnit over to the great prophet, seer and revelator of the kingdom of God on earth, so brother Rhodes took somothing over sixty pounds of old to Brigham and lald it ut bis foot a8 & reo gift, and of course it was taken in. The moral of this will be fully understood by all old residents, while the newer citizens can figure out how much good that sixty odd pounds of gold would nve done tho old Ity n her last days, and saved her from becom- ing a county charge. Living Tomb fora Boy. A twelye-yearold boy named Hutchinson wholived withhis fathey between Kibbey and Monarch, Mont., recently started out on foot across the country. Ho becoming be- wildered by the blinding snow, lost has way, andin crossinga coulee partly filled with snow was submerged by a high mass of suow which slid down upon him and being unable to extricate himself was frozen to death. At least that is tho theory acvanced, judging fromthe position In which tho body was found, and also to the fact that the spinal column was broken. Mr. Hutchinson who had given his boy up for dost aftor spending all the week in & fruitless search for some trace or vestige of him, happened to be inthe same couleo and attracted by a dark object which tho melting snow_exposed was horri- fied by discovering tho frozen body of hislost son. F'rom tho immense amount of snow on allsides asuow-slide musthave extombed m, Went Wrong Afcer a Pardon. The latest. abscouder from Tacoma is Wal- ter E. Quaife, who has been in the employ of Phil A. Wood, a wholesale liguor man. At one time he was purser on one of the Pacific Const steamship company's steamers, He had recommendations from all bis old em- ployers, but they were probably irnorant of his’ real moral character, Ho asked for a balf-day's absence, but has since failed to re- turn to the offic. As he was not back by the evemng of the next day his em- ployer becamo alarmed, Examination oy wi expert accountant shows that Quaife Is at least $2,000 behind his accounts, About a year ago Quaife was committed from King county for wife-beating. He was subse- quently pardoned by the governor for that offense, Scalded While Skaving. Here s & pretty tough yarn that comes from Genoa, Cal.: During the receat cold snap, ice formed to the depth of several inches on the reservoir, built last spring by Cromwell & Lamy, on theirranchn Alpine conty. The reservoir is supplied with @ continuous stream of hot, water from mineral springs. A morry party of young people took advantage of this opportunily for a skateand, wore gayly gliding over the glassy surface, when a member of the party, & young lad met with an unfortunate and peculiar acci- dent. She had reached & weak spot in theice, her foot went through, and was severely scalded by the hot water beneath. Killed in the Forest. Fred Kapriso, a German, about a year ago settlod ona homestaead in Lewis county, Washington, far out in the pathless woods boyond the Bossfort settiement. There, with truo German thrift and industry, he built @ house and cleared off several acres of land, but failed to dispose of & tuft of tall fir trees mear by, One of these, nearly ten feet in diameter,” fell across his house during a high wind Which prévailed saveral nights ago. When found by a party of el hunters the poor man was in bed, crushed in 8 most norriblo manner, and his house wds rent into millions of splinters. The mangled remains were taken to Chehalis and shipped to friends w Portland. ‘ell to the Lowest Notch. Tn the Onkland, Cal, city prison thers is a man serving o fifty-threcday sentence on charges of arunk, vulgar language and bat- tery, who has an interesting history. J. W, M. Chisholm is the man's name. and he s the son of a former congressman of Louisiana, from which state the prisoner came somo years ngo. According to the .police records okilled s man in Texas, and committod other crimes which caused kim & number of terms of imprisonment, Ho reads and trans- lates Latin and Groek, and bas & splend education. Fora time he was employed as an army clerk, and later was a school teacher. The wan of accomplishments has a compavion in the person of & Chinaman in nis cell, Wanted to Make it Binding. A marriage liconse was granted in Butte, last Friday to William 2. Darling and Elmira P, Robinson. | Immediately after pro- curing the necessary ‘document Darling and his prospective bride waited upon a clergy- man propared, as they supposed, (o have the evorlasting knot tied: ‘As tho minister was about to promounce the words which would make tho couple man and wife, he discovered that the official seal, of the court was not upon the license, and he therefore declined to proceed with the ceremony. Lyarling at once went to the court house, where the stamp was afixed, and this evening the man and woman were made one. Co a e Some time ago a Frenchman who lives at Pasadena, Cala,, was astonished to see one of his best cows lying apparently dying in froat of his barn, The auimal lay there mert,with open eyes, oblivious af everything, The man called @ veterinary surgeon, who could not diagnoso the case, and a hiteher was sent for to bieed the animal He was some time inareiving, and when he did como the cow was found eating at a haystack, but with logs alittle uncertain. An investigation followed, nd it wes found that the cow had caten co- plously of tho refuseof a noigh boring winory, This stuff, composed of grape skins and stoms, had fernented and induced & state of intoxication. Determined to Die. Charles Johnson a_gravedigger at Mount Moriah cemetery, Butte, Mont., was found upon the bed in hiis cabin, within the grounds, one morning last weok, witha frightful gash n his throat, which had evidently caused his death several hours previous. Judging by the position of the body, Joinson stretched himself upon the bod, nid opening the small blade of his pocket-knife, plunged it iuto the right sido of his neck. Then, with wonder- ful determination, hohad drawn it half across his throat, severing the jugular vein, After this, with equal determination, ho had lain withouta struggle and bled to déath. Drink- ing aud gambling had mado him tired of 1ife, Britliant Yankee Scheme. A man who lives In Nogales, just across the Arizona line in Old Mexico, nas & bril- linut scheme for evading tho high tariff on eggs. He proposes to feed hens on the cheap erain of Mexico, and have them lay in the United States. For this purpse a long building will be placed ou the lino, half in Mexico and half in the Unitod States. They will feed and water in the Mexican end, and when they want to lay they go to the further end of the building, and in that way escape ¢ the duty. The projector of this en- is0 came from Maine. Boys in a Prize Fight, Stockton, Cal., police onenight last week stopped a bloody ‘“scientific boxing exhibi- tion’” atthe Aurora club rooms, aud took the names of many persons there. The contes- tants wore boys and they fought hammer and tugs, bringing vlood 0 that it colored their stripped bodies. _ Then the police rushed in and stopped the fight, but madeno arrests, The club managers hd recoived notice early in the evening that. their oxhibition would not be allowed but the crowd wanted the svort, The matter will be laid before tho district attorney. Brakeman's Presence of Mind, By tho preseace of mind of a brakemau at Tacoma, Washington' s drunken sailor was saved from a horribie aeath, Ho went down to the wharf and lud down between the rails to sleep. A switch engine was ap- proaching _and by the merest chanco the Fratcoman nappencdto seo him. He jumped from the engine and grabbg *ack’ by the shoulder jerked him to onoside and dropped lim into the bay, the engino escaping him by barely three foet. The cold water "sobered the boozy mariner wonderfully and he swam ashore and managed to find his ship. Woman's Kough Experlence. Mrs, Zinkard, wife of old Andrew Zinkard, who keeps tho toll ouso two miles west of Princeton, Mariposa county, Cal, met with a very rough expericuce theotherday. Some cattle belonging to their rauch were fignting on the road, and she andertook to dvive them away, when she was knocked down, trampled on and nearly killed by the excited animals. The unfortunate woman had o leg, an arm and threo ribs broken and a shoulder dislo- cated beforeshe was rescued. It 1s feared her injuries are fatal, News that Didn't Circulate, Frank Campbell, a noted character of Vio- toria, B, C., died a fow days ago. For more than twenty-one years he carried on a store and_ was krown to every person in the city for his good humor and” widespread charity, But ho was better known as editor of the Bulletin, This was not a paper, but was a big blackboard on which was placed every bit of local news as soon as itwas kuown, Frank was a genius in his way, and the people of Vietoria consulted the Builetin with as much confidence as they did their nowspapers. Penalty of His Sin. A telegraph operator mamed Steeves, working at Strauss, a small station on the Southorn Paaific in New Mexico, was found with the wife of a Mexican employed by the company. The Mexican came upon the guilty couple unawares and _struck Steeves o terrible blow on the head with an axe, The operator was picked up unconscious and taken to Bl Paso. Although ho had the best of cure he never recovered consciousness and diea. He has relatives in Tulzie, Cal, Cow Ditched a Train. A west-bouna freight train on tho Great Nerthern Jnst week ran into a cow near Pop- lar Creek agency, in eastern Montana, ditch- ing tho engine and fifteen freight cars, kill ing Brakeman Lawrenco instantly and fatally wjuring Fireman Kelso. Theengine and cars wero piled on ono_ another in an in- extricable mass and badly smashed. Trafio was delayed twelve hours by the wreck. Murder Will Oat, Ten years ago [homas Poole and two chil- dren were murdered at his farm near Pem- berton, B. C. A neighbor named Gorbam was suspected and tried for the crime, but was ucquitted. 1t has recently been learned that the real murderer was an Indian chief named Nemsah, who is guilty of killing a Chineso miner on Fraser river iwo years ago. A strong detachment of police have been sent to capture the villain. Good Fish Story. A fish hawic pulled a large salmon out of Elk river, near Del Norte, California, a fow days ago. The fishwas too large for the bird to carry off, so leaving it on tho sand the bird flew off to a pile of di ftwood uud picking up a stick with a_sharp_and jagged edge, ro- tarned with it to whete tho fish lay sawed it i two, when it flow away wit of thosalmon. Bought a nan Head. E. Heringhi bought a pasteboard box and contents at a recent “*old horse sale’ held in Sacramento, Cal, by Wells, Fargo & Co, Upon opening it he was confronted by @ de- caying human head. There is no record by the company of where it came from and tho box was unaddressed. It is thought to have been o prank of some medical student in. San Francisco. and nalt A Hero Killed, August Reipitz, a laborer at the Clatsop mill, Astoria, Ore, was caught in the ma. chinery and was 50 badly infured that he diod in a fow hours. Some years sgo he was on the steamer Shubriek.and with fiye other sailors distinguished bimself by saving lives on the Clatsop Spit, for whichho was deco- rated with medals by the United States gov- ernment. California. Oakland s suffering from the invasions of burglars. Visalia has'given a subsidy of $3000 and buildiug site to haye & fruit cannery staru there, £d Spaulding, a professional horse-trainer, was fatally injured at Oskdalo by & ronaway team he was driving. Fishermen in Carquines stralts are having no end of trouble iu keeping sea-lions from destroying their uets. Moses Hopkins has donated $7.000 toward the purchase of asito for the Flahnemann hospital in San Francisco, John Meyors, a balf-breed Indian, was shot dead near Junction City by Georsre Nichols. The men quarreled OVer a 8quaw. The owuers of the Piru oil claims in Ven- tura county have raised $20,00 with which to sink wells and develop the doposits, Archbishop Riordan laid the coruerstone | i | of St. Michael's Catholic church at LA\'er-Tnmrk another mammoth vein, this time more, I'hie new edifice will cost §20,000, A contract was slgned by the city counel of Santa Ana with & Los Angeles firm 1o build a system of waterwords for #8,000. Ju Rose, who recently killed his wife fn an Francisco because sho left bim for a va- riety actor, was acquitted in Saa Francisco, “The city council of Santa Barbara has or- dered every eucalvptus tree that stands within 100 Teet of @ water maln 10 bo cut dow Robert Milroy has been elected so of the Blood Horso as 8. Cul county, Detectives at Morced believo that the Dal- tons, two of whom are in jail at Visalia and one at San Luis Obispo, are the Alla train ro bbers. Union moulders continue their assaults upon non-union moulders in San Fran cisco, and tho newspapers prodict that bloodshed will ensue, A roport from Hanford states that tho famous Loguna do Tache Rancho of 48,000 acres has been sold to English investors for 4,000,000, T. W. Fenn, bookkeoper and cashicr in San Francisco of the Svea Insurance company, has decamped with money belonging to the institution. Tho directors of the California athletic club have decided to turn over the Le Blauche-Mitchell contest to o detective for investigation. Sevorat San [rancisco physioius who have been interviewed on tho subjent differ in thor views as to hypnotism beiug a cure for drun The new te -y building being erectod by D, O. Mills inSan Franciseo 1s designed especially for law offices in the stories above the ground floor. The newly elected board of education in Oaklana will give preferenco to Oakland girls in employment of teachers, and will employ no married women. David Boceoll a lad, while walking on tep of a picket fence, foll and was impaled oua picket at Petaluma. He died after a weok of excruciating pain, The thermometer marked 02 in tho shade at Healdsburss last w The highest tem- perature in San Francisco this season reg tered 76 S on March 20, Proderick C. Beck, the waiter who killed Johu M. Bowen, a ' grocery elerk, in San rancisco,on Novembor I, 18¥),was sentenced n Quentin for Life While testing some new hose at Santa Cruz the nozzle got. away from the fireman and the full forcoof water struck o small variety store and runed the conternts Julah Boaz and E. Politzer have boen ar- ed in San Francisco on mdictments ging them with g the mails for the distribution of lottery circulars. Rev. John W. Ellis, late pastor of the Cen- tral Presbiterian tabernacle in San Francisco, s charged by tho trustees of the church with embezzlement of mon clonging to the church. Zolezzi, the Ttalian fisherman charged with the murder of his partuer, Sabella, in the hay at Sunta Rosa while out ' fishing, ' was held over for murder, with bail fixed 11 the sumof H20,000. At Yreka, Frank Cochran was found guilty of manslaughter for the killing of N. G De Freese at Sisson last_summer, was sen- tenced to seven years' imprisonment at San Quentin, Jobn 1, Casoy, formerly chief switchman forthe Santa ko roadat theNeedles, died in the county jail at L.os Angeles, the result of a protracied spree. He has prominent tives in Chicago. Judge Rix directed a San Francisco jury to_scquit n prisoner n_his court charged with an offense against public decency, on a technicality. The jury refused to do so, and found a verdict of guiliy. Hermosilla. is the name of a new town located about threo miles east of Cisa Grande, on the Southern Pacific railroad. Two hundred acres of section 34 have beer set apart for the townsite. The city authorities of Napa have decided to build a steel bridge across the river that willcost $14,000. A special election will be held on April 2% to decide whether bonds for this amount shall be issued. The German orgauizations of California propose fn uniting in o grand celebration in San Franciseo o1 October 8, to commemorut e the date of the landing. of the first German immigrants on the American continent. Ttis proposed to change the name of Lake Mernitt in Oakland to Lake Peralta. 1t was expected by many that Dr. Merritt, upon his death, would leave a bequrest to build & boule- vard around the lake, but he did not do so. John R. Bery, collector of the port of San Diego, has beer sued for $15,000 bythe owner of the British ship Scandinavia, which, it is alloged, was not allowed to unload her cargo on February 21 whenshe put into that port in distress, Tom Owens, o noted horse thuef, escapec trom & deputy sheriff while on the way to Folsor. He jumped from a train in Soledad canyon, Sheriff Lacy of Santa Ana went afér Owens and recaptured him near the town of Newhall. # At San Luis Obispo, in the trial of Josoph Benjamin Browa, charged with killing Lar- ens Skoy near Arroyo Grande on February 4 tho Jury found the prisoner guilly of mur- derin the first degreoand fixed tho punish- ment at imprisonment for life, Wayne Brinton, after being released from juil 4t Colton, where he was coufined for drunkenness a few days ago, bought forty grains of morphine and swallowed it in the depot. When ho was found an hour later the poison had done its work, A Santa Rosaboy who had been intrusted with a gun_clinbed a fence with it. The weapon was discharged, the load tearing away a large portion of the right side of his face’ and ear, and laying the nerves and arteries bear. 'The wounds are not fatal, An Americanwho formerly dwelt in the Hawaiian islands, but of late years has been in business near Smn Miguel, San Luis Obispo_county, is reported to' be afficted with leprosy. “The people in that section are filled with dread less the disease spre ad and become epid emic. 1t is generally understood thaton the ex- piration of the term of General MeComb as warden of the San Quentin prison, he will be appointed to the position of depuly postmas- terin the San Francisco postofice. Post- master Backus and he are warm personal frionds. His term will expire April 1. The supreme court in San Francisco has decided against the plaintiff in the suit of Mrs. Kate V. Cosgrove against the Southern Pacific compay for damages for the killing of her husbaud, James W. Cosgrove, a brake- ‘man who was killed by a collision on March 19, 1888, The case went, from Piacer county. A discarded cigaretto exploded %00 pounds of giant powder and a quantity of other ex- plosives at Watson's camp on_the Turlock canal, Merced, the other day, the concussion killiniz a horse and wrecking a buggy. Fran- cis McEwen, o workman, was_ picked up and hurled a distance of fifty feet, but escaped uninjured, At Alturas, Modoe county, A. J, Frank, a saloon keeper, was shot and killed by J. W Hurrington, an attorney. The men had trouble over money matters and Frank at- tacked Harriogton with a bowieknife, but was shot dead before he could effectually use it. Horrington was held for murder and bail 'was fixed at $10,000. It is stated that'the Tracy & Armona branch of theSouthern P; ailroad will becompleted to the north bank of Kings river, nine miles north of Armona, Tulare county. Track laying will be bogun from Armona northward at onee, Tt is expected that trams will be runing through toSan Francisco early in April. A syndicato of farmers from Illinois have purchiased the entire Deano colony consisting of 00 20-acre tracts. L'he_colony is located about three miles wost of Merced, Cal, and admirably adapted for the culture of 'figs, runes and ralsins. Every 20-acro tract will 0 occupied by a family. The people are al ! Americans and Presbyterias. The state teachers' convention, in session at8an Diego with 500 delerates, tlocted the following officers : W. W. uns of Los Angeles, president; H. J. Baldwin of Natic al City, Emily Ricoof Ohico, C. M. Ga and G, W. Luckey of Ontario, vice presi- dents ; J. 12 Greeley of Santa Aud, seeratary: J.T. Hamiltouof San Franoisco, treasurer. Riverside was selected unanimously as the next place of meeting. Washington. Citizens of Bifine have raised 85,000 as a subsidy for & mateh lactory, The Cowlitz County bank has boen incor- porated under state laws with o capital of 000, rotary tion to succeed r, tho assewblyman from Alameda st fnsane asylum ded to build an addition 1 the main st ture that will cost 25,000, e wopel in the Falthaven mioe has | stanbed soven times by a | ana John Edwards, convie twenty-two tool of clean ooking conl. In twoweoks Sam Currior captired sevoral large wildcats within a half miloof Buckley. Ono of ther wolghed thirtyseven pound While hunting up Take Coeur d'Alene William Foster killed & white swan, meas uring from tipto tipsoven and one-half feet Natural gas has been found in sufiicient quantity to illuminate the workings in the Fairhaven _coll mine. Crude petroloum is also bewg found. Thomas Burke, a barteuder at Ocoste, was an named Brown and is supposed to bo fatally injured, His assailant escaped. Herring areso plontiful in Redman creek, near Ocosta, that the boys are caiching th with their hands along the bank of the creek The water isalive with them. A Tacoma company which rights to an invention for applying the el tric current to streot railwavs has beon iu- corporated, with a paid up capital of £500,000, I'red Dix, a foreman of construction on the Fuirbaven & Southern railrond, was killed rcently near Whatcom by _belng throw: from flat ear under the wheels of the train. The supremo court reversed the decision of the lower court in the ease of John B, Roso od of the murder of the Frederickson family atOysterville, and ordered a new trial. The Industrial Federation of Washington has been organized. It is an alliauco bo tween organized labor and the farmers' alli- ance. The first regular meoting will be held next December at Bllensburg. oo Boardman, bookkeeper for M. Sellor of Spokane Fills, committed suicide at ‘oour d'Alene City by jumping into the lake, The rash act is believed to have been the re- sult of an attack of tom porary insanity. Careloss marksmen indulglng in target practice near Moatesano a fow days ngo nar. rowly escaped causing the death of Mrs, Mowbray. A bullet passed througl id struck the lady in the house kmen in the John Day _country repprt le loss of stock. Many stockimen have been out of hay for two weeks, and there is still eighteen of snow on tho ground, It is inpossible to secure feod at any price. The proposition to bond Dayton for §i%5,000 with which to construct asystem of water. works met with tho alnost unanimous ap proval of thecitizens of the town, Outof the total voto cast, 23, but 26 were in oppo sition to the plan. It is stated that thirteen Indians have d on the Coeur @' Alene reservation during the two weeks of pneumonia and many rs ure now suffering from the samo dis- case. 1f this continues there will soon be uo need of a rescrvation for this tribe. 18 Keuntzel, aged Forty-five, of Puyallup silea on & warrant forwarded from onsin, charging him with robbers of thy States mail. Keuntzel bos a wife and family and has beenin Puyallup about threo months, He protests his innocence ana says lio had fixed the matter up A new varlety of fish, called kennell fish, 3 sail to have made an an appearance in quina bay, and itis sail tho water is alivo with them just now. In appearance they ro. nblea large smelt, aud are about the 20 salmon trout. They mal very pilatable dish when proverdly prep holds th rod George Suffern and Jim Finuegan were ary ettle for robbing the postoflice at Port Townseud, March 7. ~ Nearly all tho stolen goods were recovered. Suffern mado a dash for liberty, but was stopped by bullet from an officer’s pistol, fwhen ho Wi found to be shot. in the thigh 'and arm, A. E. Koreman, a contractor at Kelso, sent to a drug storo for some limewater recently, and by mistake the druggist st him a_bol tle of embalming fluid. o took two large doses bofore he discovered what it was, and it took three doctors all night to keep him from dying. He isnot yet out of danger. Charles Dean, aged twonty-six, the main supporter of a crippled father,living at South Prairie, was crushed by alog’ rolliug from logging train of which “Dean was foreman, near Wilkeson. The log crushed the loft sido of theabdomen tothe knee, causing prob- ably fatal injuries, aud breaking the leg in tw 0 plices, Dean was removed to the hos pital. The arrestof the gang near Spolkane Ealls same tine ugo that was making a business of running largo herds off the cattle ranges in that section las not had the effect of stopping the thofts. The loss of stock in_great num- bers is still reported, andevery effort to traco the thieves has proved ineffectual. 1,200 cattlehave heen swolen along Crab creck since lust spring. Ouoof the clectric stroet. railway lines of Fairhaven, will be in operation by~ April 15 The other is also pushing ahead wath all pos. siblo speed, but cannot have cars runoing until about May 15. The latter is_being built by United States Senator Hiscock, ex- Senator Plattand J. R. Hill, son of Prosi- dent Hill of the Great Northern. Surveys are still in progress on the third line in the southern part of the eity, g Johmnie King, an eccentric genins who for many years farmed and mined in_ the Black Halls, died at Marcus. Ho went there six months ago to settlo the estateof his brothor, Dick King, who was murdered in Okonagan county. He got lost whilo out hunting and remaiied out in the woods over night ina storm, which brought on pueumonia. King had hived in the Hills country since 1576 and was sixty vears old. Quito & good sized crowd was - teacted to the depot, says the Yakima Republic, the cause being the pres- ence of oan Alaskan divinity, which was on the road eastward, in the hope of securing new couverts in benighted Chicago at the world's fair. Theidol was carved out of s0lid wood somo tywenty feet long, and it didw't seem to mind the gaving crowd one iota. On the same car was a poculiarly con- structed cance bound for the same place. Oregon. Philadelphia sparmakers have §100,000 worth of Oregon masts bound to that city via Cape Horn, A compuuy has been organized to build an electric motor to connect Portland with Ore- gon City, fifteen miles distunt, “There is now more snow 1 the Cascads mountains adjacent 1o Crook county _than there has beon since the wintero f 1884-5, Prominent citizens of Dallasare organizing & joint stock compuny, with a capatal stock of 810,000, for the purpose of building and oper- atinga woolen mill, The Umatilla Indians object to the terms of thesile of their reservation on April 1. They demaud that the money received in the sale be turned over to them at once, A Lower Columbia saw mill was recently compelled to decline a proflered 20,000,000 feet lum bor contract Tor the Australian mar- keton account of inability to secure vessels, A child of Henry Livongood of Newberg was playing near un open firepiace when her clothes caught on fire. She rushed out of he room and ran some distance vefore she was caught. Her injuries proved fatal in a few hours, E. P. Rogers, assistant genoral froight and passenger ugent of the Southern Pacific com- any, has been plice under arrest on an in- tment by the grand jury at_ Albany for violating section 4 of the' Hoult law, in dis- criminating in frelght chargeson grain ship- ments, The ship Knterkin, now at Astoria, mde what is smd to bethe fastest passage evor mado to that port from London. The Enter- kin made the passage in 110 days. She is an ironship of 1,548 tons register, and had m cargoof 2,70 Eons on_board, au 0x traor suiniry largeone for a ship of hor tonnage. - Times Have Changed, Henry County (Ga.) Weekly. world was once so small, 'tis said, That forty days of rain Brougnt on a flood, the like of which Will ne'er be seen again, But since that time the world has grown o be so large and great, il fifty days of rain won't flooa ugie little state. Warned ina Dream. teh from Charlotte, N. C., says that the other vight Engineer Dillon of the Dau- ville, Macksville & Soutnwestern rallrona dreamed that a laege rock had fallen on his road near Leatherwood Creck, and that lis engiua, having come in contact with it, was broken to pleces, The dream so impressed him that ho declined to mako bis usual (rip over the rad in the moruing until ho hac telopraphed to ascertain if thero was auy- thing the matter at Leatherwood Croek, An answor was returned that veritied bis vision. "T'he messago was flashod back that a huge rock had falen onthe track within a few foot of the identical place dreamed about, wnd that, although hands bad beon working for. hourt to remove it, the track was still im | passable. 11 STARTED APOOR NAN'S CAMP Relooating the Famous Broyfozlo Mine Lost Many Years Agoin Doath Valley, WHAT WAS A MYTH BECOMES A BONANZA. Prospectors Rushing to the Sceno of a Big Find Whero Free Gold s Ploked Up and Labor Counts. Thore is not a miner or old sottlor fn the southern part of Californa who is not familiar with the story says the San Fram ciso Chronicle, of the famous Broyfogla mine, It ranks with the Gunsight, the Polog and tho Lost Cabin legends. Like them it has costdozous of lives, and 0 um: successful and fatal have been the many ox. peditions made in search of the mine that it has come to bo rogarded by many 18 & myth, According to the old story away back i the early fifties @ party In which & man named Broyfoglo set out for California by wuyof the Southern Utal voad, w routa which Jay through the southeen portioss of Utah and Nevada, skirted Death valle, traversed the Mojave desert and flnally ter minated in either the San Bernardino or Loy Angeles valles Brey fogle was somothingof a miner m his way, and while prospecting in a wild and for- vidlen region he found o place whern he could literally dig great nuggots of gold outof the decomposed quartz or coment,as he lled it,with his kuife, As he deseribed t ao, there wus a largo deposit of an ex cenllngly rich character—enough 1 make th whole party wealthy, He retured to the camp, butthe travelers were short of pro. visions and water, and the Indians wers troublesome, und thero wi no tmo to wo=io in mining, They pushed on toward heir destination, but betwoen the Indians and thirst. only'a fow of them ever reached civil- ization. Ber the nuggots hie b > told his story 1 dug out and carefully pre. the rest of his life in served, and then s pent « froitiess searco for the deposit. Ot who heard the story followea his e and for upwards of forty mine has been a veritabl ing men to destruction in the terrible deser of southern California and southwestern Nov Mon tgomery, d miner well-known m the Wood river region of Idaho, wason a pros. pecting trip in the region to the southeast. t of Death valley. The rond after leav- ing San Bernardino eity runs through th Caojon pass and then strikes off in a north. eustorly direction across the Mojive. dosort, passing Resting Springs, the Kingston moun tains and then traversiog the Pahramp c. This valley lies just on the bound between California and Nevada has & general nortwesterly and sotheasterly course, the Kingston mountains lying to the west and the Pahrunp range to the east. While prospecting in the mount named and at the upper ond of the valley Montgomery made a discovery early in Jai uary which bears every indication of being thelong sought Breyfoizle mine, or, at least, one exactly similar. But the Llocation answers tothat given by Broyfogle, while the gold has been found just as he said—so _plontiful that it coukd be dugout in nugeets witha kiife. One lodge located by Montgomery is eight foot wide, and has beon traced by its out- croppings for o distance of 6,000 feet. In the decomposea surface rock the gold is found al- most ko plums in a pudding. Pieces of quartz picked out. are from a quarter to o halt bright yellow gold, whole, with o _haud-mor- tar, the lucky discoverer poundod out 1na short timo & veast powder can full of nuggets of various sizes, All along the ledge free gold is found in quantities that astonish the oldest prospectors aua which seems _scarcely credible, After making several locations Montgom- ey spread thonews of his discovery, the ro- sult being that some tharty to forty miners are nowat work in the valley, while others are hurrying in from various direction. Monigowery himself packed up as large quantity of the richest specimens as he could -y and made his way across the desert to izett, the nearest railroad point, 160 miles y. From there he went to San E'rancisco, where he is_getting tools, supplies, ete., to open_the mines. He will retum, put up o small mill andgo towork getting out ore. The mines, Montgomery says, are tho rich- est heever saw, and he is satsfled that ho can realize a fortune by workiug them him- self, There ought to” be plenty of placer gold in the gulches leading from the ledges thiat have been discovered, butno effort has been made to find any. Al the miners vot intho camp are busy on the quartz claims they have located. Om one “cluim taken up by Montgomery @ cross-cut s been pushied for twenty foet across the vein without striking the hanging wall, and it is froo milling ore all the way. Besides the deposits of gold, some rich sil- ver velus have beon found, assays from which run over a hundred ounces to the ton, Lead and copper also abound, but at presant gold 1s the solo object of search, Therois plenty of mesquite wood for fuel in the valley within threo or four miles of the mewly discovered eamp, while in the mountains fifleen miles away are forests h afford abundance of timbering ma- al. Water can be had at a moderato depth in Pahrump valley, while at Ash Meadows, fifieon milos away, are streams which could be utilized for power, The camp has been named Montgomery in honor of the aiscoverer, and a meeting “bas been called for April 1 1o organize a mining district under the laws governing such cases, Inis emphatically what. is known as a **poor man’s camp.” The ore is of a character that can be readily worked with haud mortar of arastra, while thereis almost a certainty of the existence of rich placer deposits. The nearest railroad point to the Parump villey is Dageott, on the Attantic & Pacifio railroad. ¥rom ‘that point it requires four days to makethe journey of 160 miles iu a northwesterly direction. There is a_good road, and water at frequent intervals, Fecd, however, must be carried for animals, and no one should fora moment, think of undertak- ing thejourney on foot. A party numbering soveral well known mining mon from San Francisco is now en routo there, @At last the Breyfoglo mystory scems to ve been solved, aid perhaps this fact will give another stimulus to the search for the mi; L KE GeEwk unAni’S. had a cancer on my Fatal ngue that spread un- Inadilts Ly thro ¢ was so -] ctol thatlcould ke om ; swallow, My physi-] cancer- jansmid it was o case JOUS Sores ery simir to Genl | have G anvs. 8.8 8 cwed) often me sound and well 1 I lieye it saved my life. averted stus. A M. Coldmith, | by tal ooy, N Y| g §. 8. 8. ook on Blood and Skin diseasc 8 froo. Fortyfive bighest awards havebeen recived by Bea- bury & Johuson from dif forent Inte #itions for the superk of thelr Porous and other goods. Benson's Pliwsters have many com- etitors but no rivals. It I8 not n nostrum. Get the b | BESSEE FRENGH SPECIFIC, and permanent E for ARTRRSANE g ollar. See sigratureoi E. L o By All Druggliste.