The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 3, 1895, Page 1

VOLUME LXXVIIL—N 0. 64. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 3, 1895. PRICE FIVE CENTS. CAUSED BY ACCIDENT, Defeat of the Defender When Victory Seemed Certain. MAINSAIL GAFF BROKE. | The New Herreshoff Creation Was Speeding Away From Competitors. - THE VIGILANT WON EASILY. One Hundred Crack Yachts of the American Fleet at the New= port Regatta. NEWPORT, R. —The De- fender lost her first y, and great was the pity of it, for she had walked away se competitors and was near- en a new-fangled gaff at the of her mainsail broke and most in- iously the aspirant for cup honors was obliged to take a line from a common, everyday tug and retire from the race, al- Jowing the Vigilant to win. The $500 cup ered by Ogden Goelet was the prize for h the syndicate boat was racing, but fame of a craft that seeks inter- nal honors was at stake. Pitted \inst her were the persistent antago- George J. Gould’s Vigilant, the pre- er of the America cup in 1894, and al Charles J. Paine’s unknown, ilee, built for a cup-defender in 1893, t chosen, and also J. Malcolm I successful cup-defender of 1887, the Volunteer. With three opponents fit to try her fleet s the latest Herreshoff creation out to Brentons Reef lightship, off entrance to Newport Harbor, and put up ited the big crowd of spectators until after rounding the second n, sailing thirty-two miles of the thirty- it of the course. Then her new hollow broke near its middle and the great became a misshapen bag. An unconscious groan escaped from the crowd and doubtless there were words spoken on the decks of the Defender which might have shocked Mrs. Iselin, who was on board. The spar was hollowed out and bound together like a barrel in order to save weight. Hollow spars were first used in England and the Herreshoffs have elaborated on the foreign idea. ‘‘Better go back to the solid Yankee stick,” was the | general opinion of yachtsmen to-day, who were conjecturing as to “‘where we would be at’if such an accident happened in a | oy race. efore the mishap the Defender had pressed to windward seventeen and a half miles and run eighteen miles with the wind astern and spinnaker out, and had turned the second mark with 11 minutes and 35 seconds advantage over the Vi, lant, 16 minutes 21 seconds over the Jubi- lee, and 34 minutes 33 seconds over the Volunteer. This was clearly a demonstra- tion of what the new boat is capable of. In the windward work the gain over the Vigilant was 2 minutes 25 seconds, and in the run 9 minutes 6 seconds. The wind was about 14 knots an hour at the start, dropping to 10 knots at the first turn and increasing during the run to 18 knots, at which rate it was blowing when the gaff gave way. The boat was close pulled at the time and there was a lumpy bit of weather, which may have had something to do with the carrying away of the gaff. After the Defender withdrew the Vigilant sailed home an easy winner. General Paine’s Jubilee not only failed to crowd the Defender, but could not push the Vigi- lant near as hard as she did in the trial rdces of 1893, showing that either changes in the Vigilant have improved her or the changes in the Jubilee have not improved her. Calculations of the Valkyrie’s perform- ances, taking her superiority to the Britan- nia and the latter’s defeat of the Vigilant in British waters, will not hold good, therefore, for the Defender beats the im- proved Vigilant and not merely the old Vigilant. The performance of the old Volunteer to-day showed how much we have progressed in yacht-building since 1887, when the boat which was over half an bour slower than the model of 1895 easily beat the Thistle. The race of the sloops diverted attention from the race for the $1000 schooners’ cup, also offered by Mr. Goelet, which was sailed at the same time over the same course. There were nine crack schooners in the race. The best elapsed time was made by the Lasca,and was5 hours 42 min. 36 sec. The Vigilant covered the distance in 5 hours 3 min. 59 sec., or almost 39 minutes better than the best of the schooners. Emerald was the second schooner to finish, and was given the prize on time allowance. Amorita was the thivd. Others finished in the following order: Mayflower, Merlin, Elsemarie, Neara and Loyal. The last two are schooners of class five, and were racing for a special cup which was offered at the New York Yacht Club regatta June 15, but was not decided then, owing to a mistake in classification. The Loyal won the prize to-day, by 2 min, 19 sec. corrected time. In all Newport’s history of yachting no such attendant fleet accompanied the racers over the course as was the case to- day. To-day was a perfect one for comfort as well asa fine one for sailing. In the early morning there was so little air that m:\n’y of the yachts were obliged to tow down past the Dumplings, in order to reach the starting line. This delayea the signal for the race for half an hour. When all had arrived the scene off Brentons Reef was one thai will be long remembered. In the fleet were 100 of the finest steam yachts that float on American waters, a score of passenger steamers and tugs and sailboats and launches without number. Secretary of the Navy Herbert, with a large party of guests, was present on the Dolphin, and Uncle Sam’s yacht followed the race from the start to finish. The Sec- retary’s boat did what a great many of the others failed to do—it kept at a respectful distance from the competing yachts, and her from g home W ing the international races off Sandy Hook. There was a gray hulk of a lightship labeled ‘‘Brentons Reef,” instead of Sandy Hook, but there was the same old Atlantic Ocean stretching away, with a pale blue line of land in the distance. The Sylvia, with the regatta committee on board, dropped anchor at 10:40 o’clock opposite the lightship. She signaled them that the course would be the triangular one, with the first turn near Block Island and the second near West Islana. The wind was southwest, holding fairly true all day. It varied in strength from 10 to 18 knots. The first leg of the course was thirteen miles an@ a half southwest, four- teen northwest, and was beat to windward. The second leg wasa rup from northeast b_y east three-quarters east, with the wind directly over the stern for eighteen miles, a_nd the third leg a close west by north of six miges and a half, finishing at the start- ing point. The preparatory gun was fired at 11:20, and ten minutes later the big sloops were started. The Defender crossed first, with the Volunteer lapping her. The Jubilee was two minutes later, and the Vigilant, noticing that the wind was strengthening, lay back until near the expiration of the five minutes handicap time. She was just four minutes later than the Defender in crossing the line.” All four boats went over on the starboard tack. All except the Volunteer brought out baby jib sails just before crossing. The four boats carried club topsails and the regular lower sails. The Defender began to creep away from the others the moment she was over the line. She pointed higher and foeted faster. The Vigilant started in a lively chase after the Jubilee and the Volunteer, and soon overhauled thelatter, which had been passed by the Jubilee. At 12 o’clock the Vigilant was creeping up on the Jubilee, and it was plain the Boston boat was going to disappoint her numerous friends. The wind continued to freshen, and at 12:05 the Jubilee took in her baby jib topsails. Four minutes later she set them again. The time of the finishes was as follows: Vigilant 4:38:09, Jubilee 4:44:00, and the Volunteer 04. FAST TIME FROM ENGLAND All Records for Warships Fairly Beaten by the Colum-~ bia. In a Little Less Than Seven Days the Blg Vessel Crossed the Stormy Atlantic. NEW YORK, N.Y., Aug. 2.—The United States commerce-destroyer Columbia, next to the Minneapolis the fastest warship afloat, arrived here to-day from her racs against time across the Atlantic. No Yankee warship ever sailed away from British soil with such celerity and no war- ship ever built crossed the ocean in the same time. These are the priacipai figures: Time from The Needles, Isle of Wight, to Sandy Hook lightship, 6 days, 23 hours and 49 minutes; course, 3112 knots; average hourly speéed, 18.53 knots; best hourly Tun, 20.60 knots; best four hours’ run, 80.50 knots. The daily runs were from 2 p. M. July 26 at The Needles to noon of the following day, 405 knots, and to noon of each suc- oeeding day 467, 470, 458, 454, 453 and 405 to Sandy Hook lightship at 8:49 a. M. to-day. On July 30 at 2 A. . it was squally and a storm threatened. The wind was south- west by west, heavy seas came over the bows and for four hours the speed was re- duced to eight knots an hour. In the evening of the same day in latitude 46.05 longitude 48.20 the Columbia ran near an iceberg, which was about 150 yards long, 100 yards wide and 45 feet high. The Columbia took on a pilot 400 miles east of Sandy Hook, only slowing up sufficiently for the purpose. She passed quarantine shortly before noon reporting all well on board and dropped anchor in the North River lessthan an hour later. She looked as though she had been doing something with the elements. Her four great funnels were covered with salt crystals where they were not black with smoke. Soot covered the upper structure and her sides were smeared and streaked with rust. Her decks were covered with coal dust and cinders, and although she looked as though anearly scouring at the navy-yard would be the best thing for her. The Hamburg-American line steamer Augusta Victoria, from Hamburg and Southampton via Cherbourg, followed the Columbia in, arriving at the Hook at 10:50 At The distance covered by the Augusta Victoria from Cherbourg was 3054 knots, and her time of pascage 6 days 20 hours and 20 minutes. The average speed of the Hamburg steamer on this trip was 18.54 knots per hour. The 8t. Louis of the American line left Southampton the day after the Columbia, passing The Needles at 1:40 P. M., or 23 hours and 43 minutes after. She is ex- pected early in the morning. Commenting on the cruiser’s perform- ance, the officers of the Columbia said: “It should be remembered that our highest speeding is lower under forced draught and is supposed to be availed of in spurts when chasing the enemy’s mer- chantmen or eluding more powerful war- ships, and while designed to carry enough coal for cruising purposes and such spurts, she cannot carry coal necessary for a trans- Atlantic run under forced draught. Nor is it likely that she would ever be called upon to make such a run. *“This run across has shown that she can steam the full speed of natural draught the entire distance, and show her heels to most vessels with little more thar her nor- mal coal capacity.” The express steamers of tne trans-At- lantic passenger lines use forced draught and burn 300 to 500 tons of coala day. Some records of interest in connection with the Columbia’s record are the fol- lowing, between New York and South- ainpton: Paris, 6 days 16 hours 43 mi utes; New York, 6 days 7 hours 14 min- utes; Fuerst Bismarck, 6 days 10 hours 32 minutes; Normannia, 6 days 12 hours 30 minutes. e Pawned a Borrowed Violin. DENVER, Colo., Aug. 2.—Paul Egry, an Hungarian violinist, was arrested here to- day, charged with stealing a $6000 Stradi- varius violin from J. J. Joslin of this city. The instrument was borrowed for a recital some time ago and was recovered to-day neither gave the wash nor shut off the wind. William K. Vanderbilt’s big Valiant and a score of other yachts and steambozts did both. The scene at the start reminded one of \ in a pawnshop, where $30 had been vanced on it. Egry has been released. He is an eccentric musician and his friends will ligely save him from prosecution. KILLED A NEGRO BOY. Gen. Flagler’s Daughter Shot to Frighten Him Away. BUT AIMED TOO WELL No Tragedy in Recent Years Caused More Excitement in Washington. THE PISTOL-WIELDER CLEARED | | Frult and Flower Thleves Had An- | noyed Residents Beyond Fur- ther Endurance. WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 2.—Miss Elizabeth Flagler, daughter of Brigadier- General Daniel W. Flagler, Chief of Ord- nance, U. S. A, shot and killed a colored boy named Ernest Green, whom she detected stealing fruit at the suburban Chief's private room awaiting the Coro- ner’s inquest late this afternoon. General Flagler was telegraphed for and it is announced he is now en route to ‘Washington and will reach here to-mor- row evening from Canada, where has been outing. The inquest was begun late this after- nooh at the Morgue and a number of wit- nesses examined. None of them had seen the shooting, but all heard the shots. Miss Flagler's testimony was the only in- eriminating evidence offered. Ifshe had denied the shooting no one could have proved otherwise. Miss Flagler, accompanied by Captain Shaler and Miss West, a daughter of ex- District Commissioner West, arrived atthe Morgue shortly before 5 o’clock and took refuge in the office of the Captain of Po- lice. Her friends were anxiously solicitous and newspaper men denied access to her. Her manner was cool and coilected, and though her features were almost as white as the dress she wore she betrayed no ex- citement. The jury reached a verdiet within a short time after hearing the evidence. But one ballot was taken and that was unani- mous in the expression that the shot was fired without murderous intent, and that Miss Flagler could not be held responsible for the unfortunate death of the little colored boy. GRANTED ABSOLUTE DIVORCE. Mrs. Corbett Will Get Heavy Alimony if She Remains Unmarried. NEW YORK, N. Y., Aug. 2.—Judge Gil- T0 PUNISH SETTLERS, Agent Teters Demands the Prosecution of ‘the Men WHO SHOT THE REDSKINS Poor Rations Caused the Ban-~ nocks to Leave the Reser- vation to Hunt Elk. INDIANS VERY SCARCE NOW. But They May Soon Return to Jacksons Hole to Seek Satisfaction. MARKET LAKE, Ipano, Aug.2.—The following was recéiyed from a correspond- ent who is with the United States troops in Jacksons Hole: Itis impossible to say at this time how long the troops will remain here. It is residence of her father, about noon to-day, ! dersleeve in the Superior Court signed a ' quiet now, but no one doubts that should respected and assured to them further trouble from the red men may be averted. If this is not done the Indians will surely seek some other method of retaliation. If they are to becut off from their hunting ground they must be given more rations by the Government until such time as they become self-supporting. “On the other hand. Major Teters, will not these lawless settlers make trouble if some of them are prosecuted ?” was asked. “Yes, they undoubtedly will. They have sworn among th emselves never to let the Indians hunt in Jacksons Hole again. The only permanent solution of the ques- tion that I can see is for the Government to exte nd the National Park so as to take in all the Jacksons Hole country as far south as Fall River and Hoback River. “The National Park will not preserve the big game, as it ranges all through the ter- ritory to the south, and elk and moose will soon be as the buffalo—only a matter of history. Jacksons Hole will be the seat of a yearly reoccurring conflict between the white hunters and the red hunters until it is taken in charge by the Government or the game becomes extinct. The officers in charge of the United States troops all sup- port my course in this trouble, and do not hesitate to say so.”’ Asked regarding the recent interview of Senator Dubois in which he criticized Agent Teter and called him a carpet-bag- ger, Major Teters said: . “I don’t think it is very good taste for the Senator to condemn a man for being a carpet-bagger in the face of the fact that our Senator came here a carpet-bagger, and has never been known to be anything else but a carpet-bagger and office-seeker. PILES OF RAILS AND FISHPLATES FOR THE VALLEY ROAD ON Txi'mrx BANK OF MORMON CHANNEL, STOCKTON, 1From a recent photograph.} and was discharged by the Coroner this evening on the ground that the homicide was unintentional. No tragedy of recent years in Washing- ton has caused a sensation or been fraught with more immediate excitementin the neighborhood of its occurrence. The resi- dence of General Flagler isin the north- western section of Washington, on Califor- nia avenue, and the grounds surrounding it have been carefully cultivated for the product of fruit and flowers, and this at- traction was the indirect cause of to-day’s fatal event. These premises, as well as many more in that section of the city, have been de- spoiled by youths and in many cases adult men to an extent that has tried the pa- tience of the property-owners, and to-day a sad culmination was reached when Miss Flagler, who is between 25 and 30 years of age, saw some one busily engaged in break- ing the branches and gathering fruit from one of the trees in their garden. A demand to leave the premises not being immediately complied with the lady, without, it is asserted by herseif and her friends, any further intention than to frighten away the intruder, discharged the contents of an army revolver in the direction of the plunderer. The bullet plowed through the body of the boy, who was about 15 years of age, and his death followed on the instant. An alarm was sounded and a policeman found the boy lying dead upon the ground. The buliet had passed entirely through his body, and he could hardly have breathed a moment after he was shot. In the meantime Miss Flagler had left the house and her parents, being absent from the city on a summer pleasuring, sought Captain Shaler and accompanied him, promptly proceeded to the office of Major Moore, the Chief of Police, and sur- rendered herself. A police ambulance had been summoned to take away the yet un- identtfied body, and the congregation of a large crowd, principally composed of colored persons, who were greatly excited and murmuring profusely their indigna- tion at the killing, gathered upon the ap- proach of the ambulance. As many as wished were permitted to view the dead boy, with the idea of secur- ing his identification, and one woman pro- nounced him to be the son of a notorious colored man who has frequently given the police trouble, whereupon there were ex- cited remarks and predictions of trouble from the blacks. The man, however, afterward looked at the body and said it was not his boy. Finally the body was recognized by a colored boy as Ernest Green, whose father is employed as a messenger in one of the executive departments, and a very respect- able man, residing on Pierce street, in the northern part of the city, a thoroughfare numerously occupied by colored residents, and the excitement then calmed down considerably. ‘Whether any demonstration would have been made against Miss Flagler herself had she remained at home is rather un- certain; but while the murmuring and ex- cited comments were loudest, the lady was safe in the custody of the Chief of Police accompanied by Shaler and a Miss West. She was outwardly calm and dignified, and had little' to say beyond acknowledging she fired the fatal shot and averring it was not aimed at the intruder, not intending ‘that it was a case of suicide. any effect beyond scaring him away. She was very quiet during the day at the police station, where she was detained, | Christ Schweig, 348 decree to-day granting Mrs. Ollie Corbett absolute divorce. The decree provides that Corbett shall pay her $5200 a year ali- mony. In case Mrs. Corbett remarry she will forfeit the alimony. She was authorized to resume her maiden name and may re- marry, but Corbett cannot remarry until her death. BURNED IN FOREST FIRES Ohe Hundred People Said to Have Perished on an Island. Had No Means of Escapling From the Destroying Torrent of Flames. MARINETTE, Wis., Aug. 3.—Tt is re- ported that 100 residents of Beaver Island, located in Breen Bay, at the entrance of the straits of Mackinaw, have been burned to death in the forest fires which have desolated the entire island during the last few days. Captain Young of the steamer Cuba, who arrived here to-day, reports that Beaver Island is all afire. Wednesday night the island was enveloped in flames, which could be seen by passing vessels for many miles out into Lake Michigan. The inhabitants, who are employed in fishing and lumbering, number about 100. The island is fifty miles away from the mainland, and it is not believed that aid could have been secured in time to save life and property. Beaver Island is the largest of the group of islands near the Straits of Mackinaw, and on this island many years ago James J. Strang, the Mormon prophet, attempted to establish a Mormon kingdom, which failed upon his death. His body is buried on the island. The capital of his kingdom was St. James, at the northern extreme of the island. The land is very fertile, and in parts is heavily wooded. Farming and lumbering are carried on to some extent, but fishing is the principal industry. Few vessels stop at the island, but vessels bound through the Straits of Mackinaw frequently pass in sight of the islands. ———— WKECK ON THE B. & O. Reported Killing of the Engineer and Fireman of a Train. ZANESVILLE, Onio, Aug. 3 (4:30 A.M.)—Word has just reached this city that the B. & O. passenger train which left Chicago about 2 o’clock Friday after- noon has been wrecked twelve miles east of here, having struck a freight train. The report says that the engineer and fireman were both killed and several per- sons injured. The railroad officials will neither confirm nor deny the report. A Body in the Lake. CHICAGO, IuL., Aug. 2.—Thisafternoon some fishermen found a hat and coat lying near the lake at the foot of Chicago avenue and reported it to the police, suspecting The lake near the shore was dragged and the body of a man, supposed to Christ Schweig, was found and taken to the Rolston Morgue. Inthe coat was a card of the Kansas City Canning Company. and on the back of it was written the name of Nebraska avenue, though not under lock and key, in the | Kansas City, Mo. the troops depart the Indians would come back and a conflict ensue, as a class of the settlers here would at once attack them. When asked to-day by TeE CALL cor- respondent what he could say of the situ- ation as he found it General Coppinger said he could say nothing further than that so far no one settler has been molested by the Indians, but that the settlers had massacred several Indians. Indian Agent Tetersand his clerk, Mr. McBeth, went to the settlers’ fort yester- day and demanded of Justice Rhoads the names of the men who were implicated in the killing of the Indians with a view to bringing criminal proceedings against them, as predicted by TEE CALL cor- respondent exclusively last Monday. The names of the men were secured after some difficulty. AGENT TETERS' VERSION. The Prosecution of Settlers for Killing Indians Demanded. MARKET LAKE, Ipano, Aug. 2.—In- dian Agent Teters of the Fort Hall reser- vation arrived in Market Lake late this afternoon on his way to the agency to learn just how many of his Bannocks and Shoshones are missing, but before leaving he gave the CALL correspondent a full and comprehensive statement of the condition of the present Indian troubles in Jacksons Hole. He still maintains in the strongest terms that the lawless settlers are the guilty parties and not the Indians. From his tone it is evident that the clash of State and Federal authorities predicted by the CaLL correspondent several days ago is about to occur. Agent Teters said: “The scouting parties sent out by the troops reported to General Coppinger yes- terday that they could not locate any In- dians in the Hoback Canyon country, and that they did not believe there were any Indians within fifty or sixty miles of Marysvale. It is evidentto me that the Indians who have been scaring the settlers in the Swan Creek and Salt River valleys are those who were camped in Hoback Canyon when I made the first investiga- tion there two weeks ago. “They are returning to their reservations through the southern entrance to the Jacksons Hole country, and the alarm the settlers feel I believe is entirely ground- less. “If T had the co-operation of General Stitzer and other State authorities who were in Jaoksons Hole when I was there the first time I believe this whole trouble might have been averted. “] urged the settlers then to assist me in preserving peace and ia getting the In- dians to return quietly to their reserva- tions, but the lawless elements among the men were determined to give the Indians such treatment as would prevent their re- turning in other years. They said to me that they had the assurance of Governor Rickards that they would be backed by him in their efforts to drive the Indians out, and to take such steps as were neces- sary to drive them out. “These settlers mot only massacred sev- eral Indians, but they left their dead bodies upon the ground. One Indian, ‘badly wounded, was for seventeen days with only a few mouthfuls of food, and to all this was added common thievery, for all the equipage of the Indian camp that was raided was carried off. “If the Government will take steps to prosecute the settlers implicated in the murder of those Indians and the Indians are shown that their treaty rights will be Furthermore, it is the settled policy of the department not to appoint local men as agents of Indian reservations. I do not stand 1n with Senator Dubois because I do not believe in squandering the Indians’ money.” The following message was transmitted to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs by Agent Teters immediately upon his ar- rival here this afternoon: MARKET LAKE, Idaho, August 2. To Commissioner of Indian Affairs: I have re- turned from Jacksons Hole. Everything quiet there. I will recommend that you request the department of justice to investigate the killing of peaceable Indians by lawless settlers in Uintah County, Wyo., with & view to the prose- cution of the guilty parties. ~ TETER, Agent. SETTLEKS ARE DEFENDED. Governor Rickards of Wyoming Replies to Criticisms. CHEYENNE, Wvo., Aug. 2.—In re- ply to a letter written by Secretary Ryder of the Indian Department of the American Missionary Association to the Interior Department relative to the Indian up- rising in Wyoming and in which he criticized the action of the State authori- ties in arresting Bannock Indians and slaughtering them, Governor Rickards said: “The statements by Secretary Ryder are erroneous. 1 have information of the kill- ing of but one Indian while a party of them were resisting arrest for the violation of the State laws. His statement that ‘those of us who know the brutal character of many living in the western territory’ would imply that he spoke from personal knowledge. If so, he is slandering the people of Jacksons Hole, who are an in- dustrious, law-abiding class. His gratui- tous advice to the Governor in this matter is unnecessary. It was an effort to enforce the law that brought on the conflict, and if the officers exceeded their authority there is a legal remedy. which will be ap- plied. His statement that the whites were the first aggressors is also false. There is no disposition on the part of our people to be cruel or unjust toward the Indian, and no white man has ever molested him when at home on his reser- vation. The residents of Jacksons Hole are not aware that Indians bave the right to come from an Idaho reservation to their very midst and indiscriminately slaughter elk for their hides only, while they could not kill one for food for their families without violating the law.” “«OUR WIFE” TOOK A HAND. An Editor’s Spouse Chastised an Offen- sive Rival. ST. JOSEPH, Mo., Aug. 2.—V. T. Wil- liams, editor of the Stanbery Herald, and F. A. Weimer, editor of the Stanbery Sen- tinel, have been indulging in & newspaper quarrel. Williams stated in his paper yesterday that he had accumulated all his property himself, and while his taxes were not as much as the editor of the Sentinel, none of his wealth had come in the way of a hymeneal contract made at the altar. Mrs. Weimer considered that the para- graph reflected on her. She is the daugh- ter of J. W. Hampton, a Denver million- aire, who lived for many years at Mount Pleasant, Iowa. The day of her marriage her father presentea the editor with a check for $10,000, and it was to this present that reference was made by Williams. In the afternoon Mrs. Weimer, accompanied by her husband, went to the Herald office and horsewhipped Williams, while Wei- mer struck his rival on the head with a Tevolver. TIGHTEN THE SCREWS Evidence Wrung From the Quinlans Against Holmes. VISIT TO THE “CASTLE.” Information Gathered at the Scene of the Supposed Murders. WANTEDIN THE STATE OF TEXAS Crooked Record of the Insurance Swindler's Accomplices Used to Make Them Talk. CHICAGO. ILL., Aug. 2. -There werea few important developments in the Holmes case to-day. Geyer, the Philadel- phia detective, arrived this morning, held a conference with the police and left again for Philadelphia to-night. His conference with the police was in the presence of Pat Quinlan and his wife. In company with the police officials Mrs.Quinlan went to the Holmes “‘castle” to-day and gave the offi- cers considerable information. Some of the furniture in the Quinlan apartments there was identified as having once be- longed to Julia Conner, who, with her daughter, is thought to be dead, a victim of Holmes. Mrs. Quinlan gave the police mUch information. After the police had talked with Geyer and permitted Geyer to talk with Quinlan and his wife the two be- came much more communicative. The police became mysteriously alert, and it ‘was at once announced that imporaant in- formation had been received. To a re- porter of The United Press Chief Badenoch said: “We have secured some new and very important information from Mrs. Quinlan. Sne has given us some strong evidence against Holmes.” “Does it relate to the charge of forgery or murder?”’ “That I will not say at this time. We are using the information and adding to it by new discoveries made by the use of her evidence. We are not through yet and will not give the information to the press until we are.” “Is it not true that the Quinlans are staring a twenty-years’ sentence in the penitentiary in the face when they contem- plate a charge and requisition to Texas?” “Yes, that is true. We have undisputed evidence that will send Holmes and Mrs. Quinlan to the penitentiary for twenty years in Texas, and I think Pat will soon be placed in the same net.” “Youare using this asa lever to make them talk?" *Qur information is coming from Mrs. Quinlan. She is the one who forged signa- tures to the notes and to a 'trust deed se- cured by the notes. The limit for this crime in Texas is twenty years.” “Mrs. Quinlan is more willing to talk, then?” “Yes, she has already talked some.” “About Hatch or Holmes?” *“No and yes. Iwill not say what she has told us about Holmes. We believe she has told the truth, but we will know abso- lutely whether she did or not before forty- eight hours.” “Did Detective Geyer give vouany in- formation ?”’ “Yes, he did. ally.” From the fact that Geyer has gone to Philadelphia, and that Lawyer Capps has also gone there, it seems probable that there will be a convocation of Holmes’ ac- cusers in Philadelphia some time next week, and that it will then be decided who has the strongest case against him, and arrangements will be made for requisition. To-day Detective Geyer said : “The Toronto authorities are anxious to get Holmes. I know they can prove the identity of the Pietzel children whose bodies were found in the cellar of the house on Henry street. The Texas people, I mean the faction represented by Attor- ney Capps of Forth Worth, can send Holmes to the penitentiary for twenty years easy enough. Holmes would rather 20 to hell than to Texas, and I don’t blame him so much for that.” When asked what has been the result of his search for the body of Howard Pietzen in Indianapolis, Geyer said: “Thus far there have been no results, but I have not given up. I think that the body is buried somewhere in Indianapo- lis.” “Do you think either of the William sis- ters is alive ?” “No. If either were alive Holmes would not attempt to explain how one of them was killed. If their blood was not on his Geyer aided us materi- hands he would have no story of blood to * tell about either one of them.” Chief of Police Badenoch left the city to- night, saying he was going to his summer home 1n Wisconsin and would not return to Chicago until next Monday. He has not been in the habit of going there until Saturday evening, and it is believed that he is on his way to some other part to verify evidence given by Mrs. Quinlan against Holmes. A significsnt remark made by Lawyer Capps while he was here is recalled by the developments of the day. The remark was: “Mrs. Quinlan’s head is in the nooze. Imean she is guilty of crimes in Texas that will land her in the penitentiary there. As for Holmes, I can say that we have evidence that will place him behind the bars for twenty years in Texas. unless he proves that the Williams sisters are alive. He can’t prove it. He can prove they are dead, though. He wishes he could prove they are alive; he would much rather do so than retutn to Texas.” For Rowe’s Extradition. ST. LOUIS, Mo., Aug. 2.—A special from the City of Mexico says that the necessary ‘papers for the extradition of Richard Rowe of Poweshiek ConntB. lowa, have been re- ceived at the State Department. Extradi- tion will be refused, pending the finding of the court now treating the case of Chester Rowe, the defaulting Treasurer of the Iowa county above mentioned. For Pacific Coast Telegrams see Pages 2, 3 and 4.