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4 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1895. BAIRE 15 CAPTURED, General Carrido Scores Another Victory in Cuba. SURRENDER OF REBELS. Spain Anxious as to the Atti- tude of the United States. ONE DEFEAT FOR FEDERALS, | | It Is Now Certaln That Manuel Gar- | cla, the Bold Bandit, Was ! Not Killed. Maprip, March 7.—An official dispatch received here to-day from Cuba states that General Carrido has captured the town of s were ents sur- The re- g pursued by the Two of t rebel ck the Government asto | 2 United States toward The Minister of Lemaquest the attitude of t the United States | as the reception of | *va Espana at | Tampa demonstrated. of the cruiser had spoken warmly of the | monstration in favor of the | had been made by the | ag wh authorities at Tampa. | KEy WEsT, | The report is | received hera o agement on Tues- day ta Clara, Cuba, between a band of ents and a battalion of Span- sh s¢ The Government forces were defeated, with the loss of several men. A vas wounded. The Cuban loss is | the day that he was reported killed, d a store at Sebamocha. After ob- ; what they desired and were about r*he nteer acolyte 1 soldier, both on the party. one was killed 1rn was killed This oc- ing. was a price on Garcia’s head of 0 from the Government and about 000 from the sugar planters in th cinity, there was quite an ince claiming that the dead bandit w: Par who have seen the dead bandit taken and pub death re res of the ed after his assert it is not the likeness of Gar- When Garcia’s wife was asked the soldiers to go and identify the body she attired herself in black and went with | them. When the party alighted at the | ation she put her handkerchief to her s and pretended to be sobbing. She | then told them she w the body of her band and there was no use fo look at it. did this to deceive the soldie stated that Garcia still lives in the cinity of the place where he was reported to have been killed. Sebamocha i by V. G he ma W ASHINGTON, State Depa: tion here has ort comes direct from man who was there is a much smaller led. March 7.—Neither the confirmation of the | reported de 1l of United ms at Ha- Consul-Gen- | eral in 1884 3 since, ow | Arn persona non d has held the place ever aid, to his high abili- here that he became with the Spanish the discharge of some . connected with the pro- tection of Ame n ci n Cuba. AN IMPOSING CEREMONY. Departure of the Remains of the Late | Grand Duke Alexis. —There was an this evening departure of the s of the late Grand Duke Alexis itch, secondcousin of the Czar | ho died Saturday last, for St. Petersburg. Several ironclads, which were in the harbor, flew the Russian and Italian s and fired quarter-minuté guns as the ge proceeded to the station. bells tolled, the shops N Society women often feel the effect of too much gayety—balls, theatres, and teas in rapid succession find them worn out; or ““run-down” by the end of the season. They suffer from nervous- ness, sleepless- ness and irregularities. The smile and good spirits take flight. It is time to accept the help offered in Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription. It's a medicine which was discovered and used by a prominent physician for many years in all cases of '*female complaint’’ and the nervous disorders which arise from it. The “ Prescription” is a powerful uterine tonic and nervine, especially adapted to woman’s delicate wants for it regulates and promotes all the nat- ural functions, builds up, invigorates and cures. Many women suffer from nervous prostration, or exhaustion, owing to congestion or to disorder of the special functions. The waste products should be quickly got rid of, the local source of irritation_relieved and the system in- vigorated with the *‘ Prescription.” Do not take the so-called celery compounds, and nervines which only put the nerves to sleep, but get a lasting cure with Dr, Pierce’s Favorite Prescription, Mrs, WiLLiamM HOOVER, of Bellville, Richland Co., O., writes: “I had been a great suf- ferer from ‘fe- male weakness ;’ I tried three doc- @ tors; they did me no good; I thought I was an invalid forever, But I heard of Dr. Pierce’s Fa- vorite Prescrip- tion, and then'I wrote to him and he told me just'V how to take it I took eight bottles. I could stand on my feet only a short time, and now I do all wy work for my family of five.”> The commander | f | B \ 7.—The killing of | [ Garcia’s band, | [ the foreign consuls, all the municipal o BIGGESTYE NEW TO-DAY—CLOTHING. THIS LAST SALE OF =House Packed to the Doors. EXTRA SALESMEN! - - - - - EXTRA DELIVERIES! In Fact, a General Bustle Throughout the Entire Establishment. NOW COMES FRIDAY axo SATURDAY, THE LAST TWO DAYS OF THE SALE! AND IT’S GOING TO END IN A GRAND BLAZE OF GLORY! OURS. Two Days More.| A stylish Boy’s Suit, fash- ionably cut and tailored ; your pick from 500 of ’em, sizes 4 to 14 years, Friday)| and Saturday at = = = = = « | $1.00 Two Days More.! A very swell Reefer Suit, excellently made, colla trimmed with wide braid ;| heretofore our $5 suit. Fri day and Saturday’s price - - Two Days More. 300 Boys’ Long Pants Suits, ages 12 to 19 years, in Blue Cheviots and Fancy Tweed choice Spring colorings, sui able for Sunday wear. F day and Saturday at = = = > WAL 0.0 clothing. Days Remember, Friday and Saturday are the Last Two Get ’Em for A Glorious Harvest For Good Dressers, Stylish Dressers, Conservative Dressers. We’ve taken 50 styles, numbering about 800 choice Spring Suits, and a like number of Overcoats, from our $18 and $20 | tables and placed ’em on our $10 tables For Friday and Sa The perfection attained in the cut, finish and fabric of these garments will commend ’em to every lover of swell you can 1000 imported E and $8 for ’em. Two Days More.L ages 4 to Tweed School Suits, 15 years, in pretty colorings, /| all wool ; used to charge $7 Friday and| Saturday at = = = = = = = = nglish| po.00 About 600 pairs turday. hair-line stripes; sell at $5. urday at $2.50. i | i regular $2 Hat. \ahly low price of Two Days More. |ishly cut and perfectly tai-| | lored Trousers at $1.95. BN | Sunday Trousers, in fine| | English Worsteds, ought t Friday and Sat 'TwoDays More. ———S—————— NOW FOR IT—The Fedora\ in blacks’ and browns, the For Friday)| | and Saturday at the remark: i of styl 1 L 5099 v pretty, (INCO:! RPORATED), fiTAxPHAEL’S 9, II, 13 and 15 Kearny Street. ¢ “Qurs Not were closed and the street lamps were draped with crape. The cortege was es- eorted by detachments of Italian soldiers and sailors and was followed by several members of the Russian Imperial family. cers and the state officials, including King | Humbert’s representatives, in the neigh- | borhood. Dense crowds of people lined the streets. — COUNT YAMAGATA PROMOTED, The Commander of the First Army Is Minister of War. Yoxonmams, March 7.—Field Marshal { Count Yamagata, who was commander of the First Japanese army, but who was in- valided home from Manchuria, has been appointed Minister of War. The com- mander of the Second Japanese army, Field Marshal Count Oyama, held the war | portfolio prior to his departure to the front, after which the affairs of the war ministry were directed by Count Saigo, Minister of Marine. ‘WasHINGTON, March 7.—A telegram from Tokio has been received by the Japanese Minister confirming the report of the capture of New Chwang by the First Army under General Nozu. New Chwang was taken by assault after thirteen hours’hard fighting. The Chinese offered a stubborn resistance. Within the town itself, 1880 Chinese were killed and about 500 surrendered. Large quantities of war material were captured, including sixteen: cannons. The Japanese lost 206 killed and wounded. KILLED WIFE AND CHILDREN DEEDS OF A PLASTERER BEFORE TAKING HIS QWN LIFE. Bemva Qur .oF Work HE FEARED THE FamiLy Wourp Die FROM ‘STARVATION. Loxvox, Mareh 7.—A plasterer named Taylor, living at Lower Tooting, near London, cut the throats of his wife and six children this morning, and then took his own life. All the family is dead ex- cept one child, who is at the point of death. The crime was the outcome of the ex- treme destitution that prevails among many of the working classes. Taylor was a sober, steady workman, but had been thrown out of work by the remarkably cold weather, which brought all building operations to a standstill. . Not being able to provide for his family, his mind became unhinged and it is then himself,in order to save all from slowly starving to death, ’ St ¥ Epidemic of Smallpor Feared. Crrcaco, March 7.—Smallpox has broken out in & colony of Tennesseee colored people who recently settled in West Lake street and. five cases. have already. been found by the authorities. There are 100 men in the colony and as all have been exposed more cases of the disease are ex- pected. Another case has been found at the Poorhouse at Dunning and health offi- cers fear another epidemic. —_— Brutality of a Negro Butcher, Gurngig, O. T., March 7.—John Pierce, a negro butcher aged 20 years, quarreled with Cora Cambell, colored, his sweetheart, to-day, and after kicking her into insensi- bility locked her in a room and left town. ‘The girl is dying. '\ The old town of | evident he determined to kill them and | ‘BAD MEAT NOT RELISHED ENGLISH STATESMEN KEEPING AN EYE ON THE CHICAGO PACKERS. THEY MAKE PERTINENT INQUIRIES AS TO THE SANITARY STATE OF CANNED IMPORTS. | | | Loxpox, March 7.—The president of the | mons to-day was asked by Mr. Jeffreys, | member for North Hampshire, whether | his attention had been drawn to a state- ment in the Times concerning the pre- | paring and packing of meat at Chicago said to be diseased and intended for ex- portation to England, and whether he had reason to believe that though a bullock at | Chicago might be condemned as diseased and unfit for food, yet its tongue was pre- served and exported, while its fat | was made into oleomargarine, and whether it was a fact that in many had been condemned had nevertheless been taken out of the condemned tanks after the-inspector had left and then pre- served and exported to England. Finally | Mr. Jeffreys asked whether the Govern- ment would endeavor to vrevent such meat being used as food in England. Replying to the question of Mr. Jeffreys, | Herbert Gardner, president of the Board | of Agriculture, said he had received the statements referred to and proposed to make the necessary inquiries through the Foreign Office. He would also bring to the notice of the sanitary officers here any information which reached him in respect to the ex- istence of danger to the health of the pub- lic arising from imported foods. SLEeim CLARK HAS FOUR WIVES. | Bad Record of the Bigamist Wanted at | Sacramento. | MuskeGos, Mich., March 7.—James L. | Clark, who is wanted at Sacramento, Cal., | for bigamy, has four wives instead of two, |as has been supposed. One- there, one | here, one at Clay Banks, Mich., and one in Wisconsin. His Muskegon wife, who is | No. 3, was Margaret Shannon, a school- | teacher, a widow. He though she had | $10,000 life insurance left her by her first | husband, but on finding his mistake left for | the West. His real name is Ephraim Le } Clere. e i THEIR CRIMINAL HEARTLESSNESS Officers of the Crathie Made No Attempt to Reseue the Elbe’s Passengers. ‘Wameco, Kans,, March 7.—John Wen- zel, a passenger in January on the Crathie, the boat that sent the Elbe to the bottom of the sea with her cargo of human freight, is visiting his brother near here. He claims that at 5 o’clock when the boats col- lided the sky was clear, with no fog, just the reverse of what was testified to by the officers of the Crathie, and that the latter deliberately backed off and left the Elbe to her fate. PUSIIOS Minister Ferrera Resigns. Rio pE Jasrmro, March 7.—Senor Gon- calves Ferrera, Minister of the Interior, has resigned. Sl Rector Ahlwardt Rebuked, BEerLN, March 7.—President von Levit- zow in the Reichstag to-day formally called Rector Ahlwardt to order for in- sulting remarks made about Jews yester- day during the discussion of the Jewish Board of Agriculture in the House of Com- | instances diseased meat which | Ours But to Do or D to Reason Why, ie ”» question. The censure of the president | was received with loud applause. | BT | Glascock’s Suit Dismissed. | Wasnixerox, March 7.—The suit for di- | vorce brought by Charles Glasscock against | Carrie Glasscock, his wife, in which Sen- | | ator Stewart of Nevada was named as co- | respondent, was dismissed in the Equity | Court to-day. | Glasscock had charged Senator Stewart | | with improper relations with Mrs. Glass- i | cock, and the Senator had denied the | charge and claimed collusion between hus- { band and wife with the purpose of black- | mailing him. The suit was first brought during August last. PLEASES THE CRANDTRUNK | TROUBLE AGAIN LOOMING UP BETWEEN - WESTERN LINES. iNow THE ALTON Roap FORCES MATTERS IN REFERENCE TO DIFFERENTIALS. Cn1caeo, March 7.—Trouble is again | looming up before the Western lines over | the question of Canadian Pacifie differen- | tials. forced matters this time and if it sustains f its present position for any length of time | it will certainly force the Canadian Pacific | to withdraw from its agreement with the Western lines. The specific troubles in this instance originated with the Grand Trunk which for several weeks has been working to break up the Western Trunk Line com- mittee agreement. direction was a refusal to maintain standard rates. When it went below the schedule the Canadian Pacific, which had been allowed a differential from Grand Trunk rates by the Western roads, promptly took advantage of its differential in meeting the rates made by the Grand Trunk. The Alton road has now announced that it will not allow the Canadian Pacific differentials as against the cut rates of the Grand Trunk. Chairman Caldwell, when the matter was brought to his attention,ruled against the Alton, declaring the Western roads | bad agreed to reorganize the differentials, irrespective of any action for or against the differentials which might be taken up by the Eastern roads. He produced the rec- ords from the meeting in which the dif- ferential was allowed and they fully sus- tained him in his position. The present conditions are highly pleas- ing to the Grand Trunk, which desires nothing so much as the disruption of the committee agreement. A representative of the Grand Trunk declared that one of the roads which had signed the agreement had said that it would stand by the Grand Trunk in its fight against the Canadian Pacific. The State Board of Railway and Ware- house Commissioners was in session to- day listening to evidence in the ¢ase of James Brown of Dwight against the Chi- cago and Alton Railroad. No decision was reached nor will be until after the Commissioners have considered the briefs to be submitted by both sides. The complaint involves the alleged over- charges of $2 per car on the part of the railroad for shipping facilities at the Union stock yards, and is to be made a test case. An ort is to be made to see whether or not, under the laws of Illinois, the railroads Ao'mg business in Chicago have the right to charge shippers on stock- cars at the stock yards, g \ip The Alton is the road which has | Its first effort in this | 10 ABOLISH THE DISTRIC | FRESNO AND KINGS COUNTY LAND- OWNERS IN A GREAT LAW- | SUIT. THE SUNSET IRRIGATION DISTRICT ALLEGED To BE FrRauDU- LENT. | . | The Sunset irrigation district of Fresno | and Kings counties, which was organized | February 5, 1891, is to be wiped out of ex- | istence if a strong array of legal talent can prevail in the courts. A suit at law for that purpose will be filed in the Superior | Court of Fresno County at the instigation | of the owners of the property composing the district and by the sanction of the At- torney-General as against a corporation. The irrigation district in question em- braces 294,774 acres of land situated in Fresno and Kings counties. At the time the district was organized Kings County ‘was a portion of Tulare, but the subsequent division of the latter county threw a por- tion of the irrigation district’s Kings. Shortly after the district was organized | an election by the property-owners was { held and it was decided by a large major- ity vote to issue $2,000,000 of bonds. Of | this amount $334,000 has been disposed of | at face value in payment for water rights, ; surveys, rights of way and incidental ex- dug nor nas one drop of water been arti- | ficially placed on the land. Of the bonds floated $250,000 was paid over to the own- ers of the Laguna de Tache Rancho for | water rights in Kings River. : The remainder of the $334,000 is held by individuals in this State. None of the bonds have been sold for cash, nor can they beadvantageously disposed of. There- | fore the very work for which the district | | was organized cannot be carried out. That | is one reason why the property-owners de- | sire an order of court to abolish and vacate | the district and all the legal proceedings | that have been gone through thus far. | The largest portion of the land involved | is owned by the Southern Pacific Company | and the Bank of California.- But there are | | many individual owners as well, and most of them are anxious to have the district set aside and the bond issue nullified. There are 800 property-owners in all. At the present time the bonds already floated and | the accrued interest places an immediate | tax of $1 45 on each acre of ground in the district, and as an offset to this tax the roperty-owners have received nothing. ghe petition to the court for the setting aside of the organization alleges among other things that the district was fraudu | lently organized. & Assessments have been levied against the property owners in the district, and C. 0. J{:mes' Tax Collector of Fresno County, has published notice of delinquent sales, to take place on the 16th inst. This list shows that all of the pruggny-owners are delinquent, and the pending assessment and threatened sale of the property have precipitated the suit in question. The attorneys who have prepared the petition and will participate in the court proceedings are: John W. Bourdette and Allen & McAllister, of San Francisco, and Frank H. Short of Fresno. The petition ‘particularizes the points of eomplaint sub- stantially as follows. 4 £ First, that there was fraud practiced in the presentment of the petition. The law verning the organization. of irrigation listricts requires that the petition therefor shall be signed by not less than fifty bona- fide residents and property-owners in the territory proposed to be embraced. Inthis case, there were only twenty-seven names attached to the petition. = Milton Mec- ‘Whorter, who subsequentlyj became a director in the concern, devised and carried outa plan which is now set up as one of the reasons for abolishing the district. He lands into ; penses, but not one foot of ditch has been | ‘ vurchased forty acres of land by payi | nominal sum in cash, and the remainder | secured by mortage. These forty acres he | then had subdivided into twen and a non-resident owner was secured for each lot. The names of these owners were | | then placed on the petition, thereby se- | | curing fifty-one names, one more than the | layw required. | Second—That in the area embraced | the specified boundaries of the dis | i | | v ict there are 100,000 acres of Government land which is not susceptible to the operation of the irrigation district laws. | 'l'hird-v)i'hut the system of irrigation, as | proposed in a contract entered into by the | 0ld "board of directors and P. Y. Baker, is | impracticable and cannot be carried out. | The complaint will also charge irregulari in the advertisement and sale of the d trict’s bonds. Before the suit to abrogate and nullify all proceedings in the creation and ma tenance of the district is filed, however, a | suit for injunction will be entered in the | | Superior Court of Fresno County. This proceeding will be begun next Tuesday. the 12th inst. Its purpose will be to se- | cure a restraining order against the | Collector of Fresno County, prohibiting | him from collecting the a ments that | | have been levied, as already fferred to, | | and to prevent the advertised sales of prop- | | erty for delinquencies, as published in one | | of the newspapers of Fresno County, under | date of January 28, 1895. The committee to whom was intrusted | the initiative work of. abrogating by pro- | | cess of law all action heretofore taken in | | the organization and maintenance of the | | district is composed of G. Howard Thomp- i son, James D. Byrnes and James Jerome | | | Smith. These gentlemen have sent a cir- | cular letter to each owner of property in | the district. The following quotations | from that letter are self-explanatory : The Sunset irrigation district was organized | | under the Wright Irrigation law. _Since the or- | | ganization no action of any kind toward the | construction of the necessary work has been | | done saving and excepting a_survey made by | | G. Eastwood, engineer. The bonds of said dis- | | trict have been aavertised and placed om the | market, both in England and America, for sale; | but, owing to the faulty construction of said | | district and the uncertainty of the so-cailed | “Wright irrigation act,” the directors have been, and still are, unable to &flnce the same. It is plain to be seen that under the existing | circumstances the lands of the said district are held and firmly bound to the Sunset irrigation district and its board of directors. Since the date of the organization of the Sun- | set irrigation district, the board of directors | have issued bonds to the amount of $334,000, | with accumulated interest to date amounting | in the aggregate to the sum of $409,900, there~ by making a subsisting lien and tax at this time | upon each and every acre of land in said dis- | trict at the rate of $1 45 per acre. If you per- | mit said district to remain as it at présent ex- ists, nothing can or will be done toward fu- | ture development of your land b{ bringing | water thereon, assessments will be levied and | the land burdened with additional liens and incumbrances. But if, on the other hand, the | district is disorganized, annulled and all exist- | ing liens removed, private capital can be had to build the necessary canals, etc., and thereby turn the most fertile part of the San Joaquin Valley into thousands of happy homes. On the 6th day of February, 1895, an elec- tion was held for the purpose of electing direc- tors for the ensuing two years, at which elec- tion a majority of the directors, viz.: four, were elected favoring the abandonment and disor- ¥nnizntion of said district—demonstrating the eeling of the residents of said district: To that end a number of land-owners met and organized for the purpose of devising ways and means to disorganize the Sunset irrigation dis- trict, and remove all existing incumbrances now on said land by reason of the issuance of the bonds of said district heretofore mentioned, and to enjoin said directors from advertising or selling'said bonds under and by virtue of the assessment levied on_the 28th day of Janu- ary, 1895. Itis the desire of this committee that all land-owners co-operate with them by signing the inclosed contract and remitting the cash payment thereon at once. The old board of directors consisted of Olvet Whitesides, George M. Kohler, Mil- ton McWhorter, L. M. Frederick and D. 8. Fish. The new board is made up as fol- lows: J. N. King, D. 8. Fish, Milton Me- ‘Whorter, E. T. Mitchell and H. W. Scott. Of the new board all except Mr. McWhor- ter are in favor of sweeping the district out of existence and repudiating by process of law all previous action. A brief review of the history of the dis- irict may be of interest at this time. Im- mediately after the issuance of the $2,000,. 000 bonds Herman Schuss {up to block the progr | contir: er of the Spring Valley Water Company was employed o make surveys and plans for an irrigation plant. He spent afew days in this work and received therefor $20,000 in bonds. Bids were then a tised for for the con- struction of the worl nd J. W. Smith of the Portland Construction C. 1pany putin a bid to do the work for $1,750,000. Mean- while efforts were made to float the bonds here and in New York, but without suc- cess. After that overtures were made to secure English capital. The Manchester Trust Company of London agreed to take the bonds an'idml that Attorneys Gunni- son and Booth and Engineer William C. Alberger passed upon the value of the bonds and pronounced them good. This was done, and a favorable report was made. But a new and unforeseen trouble sprang s of the proposed work. The financial crisis in Australia in which the Manchester Trust Compan was deeply involved, so crippled that cori- cern that it was unable to purchase the bonds or any part thereof. The Portland Construction Company was anxious to go ahead with the work, but as there was no money in sight and the company being un- ling to ac®pwthe bonds, the work was given up. Shortly after this Reed & Baker, con- tractors of Reedley, apveared on the scene. They made an offer to takethe contrac for $1,500,000. ‘Mr. Reed came to n Francisco and asked George W. McNear to place the bonds, if possible, at 85 or 90 cents on the dollar. gl . McNear took the prgfm ition under advisement. Mr. Reed went back to Fresno and stated that he had placed the bonds and that C. P. Huntington had agreed to take $1,000,000 in his own name, and that the Southern Pacific Company would take the balance. Mr. Huntington subsequently stated that he had never seen either Mr. Reed or his partner, Mr. Baker, and had never agreed to take one dollar’s worth of the bonds. All of the other Southern Pacific officials repudiated the assertions of Mr. Reed. In short, it was a false boom which died a-borning. Reed and Baker were inter- ested in the Summit Lake Water Com- pany, the property of which they endeay- ored to sell to the Sunset irrigation dis- trict. The principal assets of this company was a dry ditch. P. Y. Baker of the firm of Reed & Baker finally succeeded in making a contract with the old board of directors of the Sun. set district to build and cguip the irriga- tion plant for $1,500,000. The contract is \ agem on a future decision of the United States Supreme Court in the case of Tregea the Board of Directors of the Modesto irrigation district as to the con- stitutionality of the Wright irrigation law. The attorneys for the plaintiffs in the case assert that this contingency clause invali- dates the contract, and this is another of the points on which they base their suits. —_— e THE POISONING CASE. 4An Examination Reveals That the Cakes Contained Strychnine. Los ANGeLES, March 7.—A post-mortem examination of the body of John Strange, the little boy who died on the east side after eating cookies given his sister by Mrs, O’Hare Wednesday night, revealed the fact that death resulted from strychnine noisoning. Eddie Henderson, the other boy who also ate some of the cakes, is in a fair way toward recovery. This community is very much aroused over the matter and grave suspicions are entertained that the old lady put the poie son in the cakes, notwithstanding her statement that the cookies were found ‘on her doorsteps. Rl Jack’s Sweeping Challenge. NEw York, March 7.—Jack McAuliffe has issued a sweeping challenge, asserting his readiness to defend the lightweight championship in a finish fight with any other claimant. He says he will meet the man determined to be the best man in his class during the same week and at the same place that Corbett and Fitzsimmons meet.