The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 15, 1895, Page 14

14 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1X95. MORE OLD FIENDS OF THE NORTH DISTRICT, Eight Men Implicated in the Luring In of Little Girls. THIRTY VICTIMS FOUND. A Picture of Depravity That Stands Alone in Its Horror. THE MASS-MEETING ON SUNDAY. Stead’s Revelations of London Wicked- ness Are Exceeded by the Tale of the Present. The story of the criminal corruption of tittle girls in the northeastern part of this 1st beyond the Barbary Coast, which has come to light with the arrest of Cap- tain Peter F. Lane and Leon R. Meyers, the aged capitalists, and of Philip Ratz, the coarse and poor dishwasher, for re- volting ¢ es, develops into one of the most startling and horrifying tales of | bestial sin that has been given to the world. For months an increasing number of irls of tender years, the ola- nd the majority between 7 and 10 vears of a n continually lured into the 1 libertines resident in the neighborhood. The authorities have the names of twenty-two little girls who, according to the testimony of the girls themselves, have been the victims of Peter F. Lane. the men whose cases will be called in Judge Campbell's court to-day. There are more names to be learned—how many cannot be told. The scene of this woeful tale of crime is that part of the City between Telegraph and Union-street hills on the other side of Broadway. Most of the girls live in the district including the top and western slope of Tel Dupont, ¢, Sansome and Chestnut streets. About this neighborhood iived respectively the three men charged with one of the most serious felonies named in the penal code—one which may be punished with imprisonment for life. According to the separate and agreeing stories of some of the girls, three re- mained all night last Saturday night in the attic of sion, which the eccentric and lonely old man occu The girls all knew each other, and the circle was steadily en-| larged. he arrest of three men and the bring- aph Hill and bounded by | .ane’'s Chestnut-street man- | | of affairs can exist with children uncared for. Then we want to lend moral support | to the courts and officers of the law, and | that counts for a good deal in fighting rich men. Surely, if there ever was a time for | women to exert their moral influence it is {now. Then we want to start a work in | that part of the City that will do some- thing to purify the morals not only of the children, b 1150 of the parents.’” One of most important features of the caseis that two of the men are rich. At the very first there appeared the re- port and belief that money would be used in the case and that it might be hard to secure a conviction of Lane and Meyers. The evidence against them is the stories of the eight little girls arrested on charges of vagrancy, and who were yesterday taken from the Receiving Hospital to the safer seclusion of the Boys’' and Girls’ Aid Society. These giris ‘when arrested told their stories innocently, readily and with hardly any apparent’ sense of shame. Their stories were minutely circum | tial and agreed to the minutest partic Then hittle girls from 10 to 14 years of age could not tell such stories from any- thing but personal experience. The girls all told what they knew of the men and | of other girls, and each sought to shield herself in childish fashion. General McComb, secretary of the So- ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Chil- | dren, Officers Holbrook and McMurray of | that society, Policeman Rourke who dis- covered the first definite evidence, and Mrs. French all consider the testimony of the girls as it has been given as reliable and effective beyond all doubt and ques- tion. But it is feared that the girls will not tell the same stories on the stand. Money is already closing the mouths of parentsand some of the children who are not under arrest, and Lane and Meyers will make & bard fight. Lane is out on bail and Meyers oxgmcted to getouton bail last night, but didn’t. Ratz is impassive and expects to go to San Quentin, Ratz has no money and so his conviction will be easy. The community may soon see what a difference money may make, even in such a case. Captain Peter F. Lane and Leon K. Meyer appeared again in J Camp- bell’s court yesterday and.were srraigned on the second charge preferred 4 them. They pleaded not guilty a preliminary examination s fixed for this morning, when Ratz w appear. It is doubtful if the examination will go |on to-dayv. Attorney N , who repre- | sents Meyers and Ratz, will ask for a fur- { ther continuance and says if necessary he will file an affidavit with the court pro- testing against the cases going on to-day as he requires more time to prepare his defense. Captain Lane has, the police say, not been idle since he was admitted to bail on Wednesday evening. Policeman Rourke | and Officer McMurray, who are working on the case, said last night that they saw him enter several of the homes of the girls who will testify against him yester- | day, and they have’ strong reasons for be- | lieving that it was not for the benefit of | the prosecution. They arrested another girl 11 yearsof | | age last night and were searching for Judge Campbell to get an order from him | for the arrest of two other girls who will | be important witnesses against Captain | Lane, but who are being kept out of the way by their parents. | The officers did not care to run the risk | | of entering private houses without the | necessary warrant. They find that there is a disposition now on the part of other . girls who talked freely at first to be silent, | and this is hampering them in their work. { They are satistied that influence has been brought to pear upon their patrents. ‘The continued investigation of Polcemen Rourke and McMurray led to the arrest last night of James Hinshaw of 7 Hinck- ley place. He is supposed to be a member of the same gang, and will be booked on | the same charge as that on which Lane | and the others are held. Hinshaw is 45 vears of age, and a warehouseman by oc- cupation. KLOSS GUILTY OF MURDER. | The Jury Took No Stock in the Plea of Insanity. The jury in the case of Frank Kloss yes- terday returned a verdict finding him guilty of murder in the first degree for killing William Deady in g saloon on tne | corner of Hayes and TIaguna streets, about a year ago. The circumstances |of the murder were particularly re- | volting. The two men had been friends and worked together in Hayes Valley ward l politics. Leon Meyer. Ehilip Ratz. ing to light of the connected facts was staruling enough, but yesterday it devel- oped that the probe had not begun to sound the infamy. There are five addi- tional men who have been in the same business as Meyers, Lane and Ratz, and to whom the same giris have been going. One or two are negroes, and one is a blind man confined to his room. And there is to be a great mass-meeting of mothers and ministers next Sunday to cry out against the devil’s most fiendish work. Mrs. Rose French, snperintendent of law enforcement for the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, is leading in the mass-meeting movement, and she is vigorously backed by the directors of the s U. and of the Girls' Training Home. Yesterday the directors of the lat- ter institution met and appointed as a committee to co-operate with the W. O. T. U. Mrs. Dr. George E. Davis, Mrs. W. J. Gunn, Mrs. George K. Fitch, Mrs. J. C. Mason, Mrs. J. H. Russell, Mrs. C. Ste- phenson and Mrs. Margaret Mein. To-day there will be a meeting at the ‘W.C.T. U. headquarters, on McAllister street, to periect arrangements for the mass-meeting. “We expect to have several ministers among the speakers,” said Mrs. Finch yes- i{rday. “Dr. C. O. Brown, Dr. Dille and shere, and there will be women speakers emong the otners. “The object of the meeting is, first to srouse the interest of the mothers of this Qity, who should know that such a state . E. B. Stewart will undoubtedly be | been drinking {ogether in a very iriendly manrer, and in_the evening they had a drunken quarrel over some trifling matter. The trouble passed, and again they began to imbibe together, until Deady was stu- pidly drunk. At last,"overcome by his debauch, Deady wentjto sleepin a barroom chair, his head tipped back against the wall. Kloss made some remark about what a fine chance it | was to cut his friend’s throat. Before any one comprehended what he meant Kloss took a cneeseknife from the free-lunch counter and drew the sharp edge across the sleeping man’s throat, making a terrible gash that extended from ear to ear. Deady never awoke, for he bled to death in a few seconds, for the jug- ular was severed. The defense, at the trial, endeavored to prove that Kloss was insane, and that his insanity dated from 1889, when he was struck on the head while working as a stagehand in the Orpheum Theater. ’Isixe jury trying the case did not take much stock in the plea of insanity. It re- tired at 5:30 o’clock yesterday afternoon, and three hours later returned a verdict of murder in the first degree. e The Olympic Team Won. The Olympic Club’s football team defeated the University of Californie team in the third practice game yesterday at Central Park, the score standing 4 t0.0 in favor of the Olympics. Minetti Concert. Giulio Minetii will give a concert this even- Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S. Gov't Report 0yal B2 )] ABSOLUTELY PURE Baking Powder During the day of the murder they had i | herina ing at the Association Auditorium. at which a number of interesting compositions new to San Francisco will be performed. The followin will appear: iss Alice Bacon; Giulio Minetl, first_violin; John Josephs, second violin: Charles Heinsen, viola; Louis von der Mehden, *cello. Vocalist, Mme. Virginia F. Ferrari, soprano. Sigismundo Martinez, accompanist. DEATH OF MRS. TOLAND. The Widow of the Late Dr. Toland Suddenly Passes Away. Mrs. M. B. M. Toland, widow of the late Dr. H. H. Toland, who founded the To- land Medical College, died last evening in the Occidental Hotel of pneumonia. She was about 65 years of age. Mrs. Toland was born in Maine. For many years the family lived on Jackson street, near Stockton, before that part of the City was given over to the Asiatics, but after the doctor’s death she made her home 11 the hotel. The lady was once a leader in the Four Hundred of this City and all of her time she gave to charitable work. She was an active member of several charitable societies. For several years Mrs. Toland spent considerable time traveling in Germany. Deceased leaves a son, who is now in New York. The interment will be from Grace Church, of which she was a member. The remains will be consigned to the family tomb in Laurel Hill Cemetery, where the body of her husband reposes. WITH DURRANT BUT OACE He Denies the Story That He Confessed to Miss Cun- ningham, Lord Sholto’s Mother-in-Law Gets Mixed Up at Los Angeles With the Lamont Case. A story was telegraphed to TuE Carn from Los Angeies last night to the effect that Mrs. M. Mooney, Lord Sholto Doug- las’ mother-in-law, had stated that Miss Cunningham, the young lady reporter who | created a sensation in Judge Murphy’s court during the Durrant trial by refusing to uisclose the source of certain informa- | tion, had made a startling revelation to Mrs. Mooney. The substance of this revelation wa: that Durrant had once confessed to M Cunningham, during an interview in his cell, his guilt of the murder of Blanche | Lamont. F Following is the dispatch: ov. 14.—Mrs. M. ¥, ther-i v of Lord Sholto Douglas, and who has created so much con- fusion in the family of that titled gentleman, says that Miss Cunningham, the Examiner re- §.nru-r‘ told her that once while she was In Jurrant’s cell, before the verdict, Durrant told ern\\ m_of contrition that he had murdered Blenche Lamont, and that Durrant liad asked her afterward not 10 say anything bout it when he realized what he had said. M Mooney said that Miss Cunningham told her this shortly before her departure for Los Angeles. Mrs. Mooney stated that Miss Cun- ningham was a frequent visitor to the house, and on the day she told her this startling thing she had called on her to ask about the Lord Sholto matter. “I believe it was the sudden knowledge of this fact,” concluded Mrs. Mooney, “contained in that sealed letter of Durrant which helped more than anything else to bring on the sud- | den attack of illness of Lawyer Deuprey.” Durrant smiled almost to a laugh when he was asked about it at the County Jail | last night. Hisfirst expression was: “That | is Mrs. Mooney’s version of Mr. Deuprey’s illness, eh ?”” Then he added: “I’ll tell you what to do. Go and ask Mr. Deuprey, then go and ask General Dickinson. ‘Nothing will be got out of me.”’ “But is it true or false?”” was asked. “It is false, every word of it,”” be re- plied, with evident surprise that the ques- tion should have been put to him atall. He continued: **Miss Cunningham was only in this cell with me once, and then Chief Jailer Sat- tler was also 1n the cell. Go and ask Mr. Sattler if' I ever made any such statement to Miss Cunningbam. She was not in this cell with me any other than that one time. “I'll tell you something more: She tried steadily for three consecutive weeks to induce me to permit her to come into the cell and take tea with me. She said she wanted to write up a nice, pleasant interview with me. Now, what do you| suppose she wanted but to get in here alone with me and then make up a story that I had confessed to her? “The one time I did let her in her excuse was that she wanted to shake hands with me and did not want to be seen shaking hands througn the wicket. 1 let her in for a little while and she stood here next to the door with her note- book in her hand and Mr. Sattler stood over there.”” (Durrant pointed a few feet inward from the door). “Go and ask Chief Sattler what I said and if she was ever ir: here more than once. Go and ask them how many times she was in here.” Mr. Sattler corroborated Durrant. He said the one time Durrant referred to had been the only time Miss Cunningham had been in Durrant’s cell and that Durrant | made no such statement to Miss Cunning- ham as that which she is reported to have (v:mi\munlcm.ed to Lord Sholto’s mother- in-law. -~ OLYMPIC'S EXHIBITION. An Excellent Entertainment Which Pleased a Large Audience. The handsomely equipped gymnasium of the Olympic Club was crowded last evening with members and invited guests, who assembled to witness the inaugural exhibition under the direction of. Leader Short. The clever and well-managed en- tertainment reflected great credit on the gentlemen who had the arrangement of affairs in hand. The performance on the Spanish rings by J. B. Arzt and J. F. Brommer was loudly applauded, and the single trapeze and loops act by Master Walter Hogg was perticularly interesting. His daring acts on the trapeze thrilled the hearts of the ladies, who momentarily expected to see the clever young gymnast dashed to the ground; but he never missed a hold. A recitation by Miss Genevieve U. Spin- ner was highly appreciated. An acrobatic feat by J. R. La Rue and Lansburgher brothers pleased those of the members who understood the difficult points of this fea- ture of gymnastics which were admirably executed. The cencing contest, a Shakes- earan combat, between E. Lastroeto and rofessor L. Trouchet, brought down the house. Lastreto took the part of Richard III while his opponent impersonated as best he could in pigeon English Richmond. The combatants used two-handed swords, and during a series of slashes and thrusts the grofessor lost his little sword, which accident saved, so the critics <aid, the life of Mr. Lastreto. The contest afforded great amusement to the ladies, who were delighted beyond measure. The singing of the quartet—F. Coffin, first tenor; F. Tilton, second tenor; M. Bachelder, first bass, and S. Tucker, sec- ond bass—was very good indeed, and the singers receiyed a well merited encore. he other features in the programme which received well-deserved praise were flying trapeze by Professor . Belan, triple bars by Sharkey and G. C. Rathbon, 'song by Jack Cath- cart, balancing - bar by G. 8. Pettes, club-swinging by W. Holdridge, statue by Paul Bernherd, “cella solo by Dr. Arthur Regensburgr. pyramid ladders by J. B. Hozt, H. R. Powell, J. F. Mucs, F.V. Duck, W. Hogg, J. C. Werz, J. F. Brom- mer, C. Cathcart, J. T. Baker and P. Bernhard. Owing to the fact that Henry E. Dixey was suffering from a severe cola, he did not appear last evening, but his place was filled by a quartet from Haverly’s Min- strels, who sang some of the sweetand pooular songs, which, needless to say, de- lighted those who remained to hear the T0 FORECLOSE ROALS, Congressman Maguire De- ‘sires a Government Highway. TO PROPOSE THREE BILLS Tactics to Be Used to Force the Railroads Into a Corner. AN EYE ON THE LAND GRANTS, His Scheme of Taking the 20,000,000 Acres and Crediting Them Against the Debts. When Congressman James G. Maguire boards the train for Washington a week from to-morrow night, he will go, so he says, to demand of Congress that the Gov- ernment of the United States foreclose the mortgages on the Pacific railroads. He Proposes to be on hand and “sworn in with the crowd on December 2, and from then on to adjournment to work and fight for the Government ownership of t}e =ntral and Union Pacific ro: Two_ important bills, Mr. Maguire said last night, he intended to introduce and prf)bubly three. The two would be on railroad foreclosure and to shift the bur- den of proof in the patenting of mineral lands from the shoulders of the miner to the broader ones of the railroad companies. Mr., Maguire estimates that the Union and Central Pacific railroads still have in their combined grants from 18.000,000 to 20,000,000 acres of land that are still unpat- ented, and he contemplates going after the railroads in a way that will force them into a corner. Here 1s where a third bill may become necessary. The third bill would apply all these unpatented lands as credit on the unpaid debts of the Pacific roads. In other words, the Government, b{ such a bill, would take back a portion of the land granted to the Pacific roads and consider it as so much credit against the Pacific roads debts. Mr. Maguire ex- plained his intentions as follows: The principal business in the coming session of Congress will be the disposition of the Pa- cific roads. All the Califcrnia delegation are | pledged against any scheme of extending the term of payment of their debts, and so there ig no question as to our stauding together on any rh\n 10 defeat any effort at legislation like the Reilly refunding bill. Asto whether the other members of the delegation will work with me in any attempt to foreclose the mort- gages and turn the roads over to the Govern- ment for its permanent ownership, I am not prepared to say. 1 will make an effort, however, to have the mortgages foreclosedon the Central and Union Pacific roads. My{;urpnse is to make a con- tinuous public highway from San Francisco to Omaha, over which the trains of all Eastern railroads may run under the direction of Government superintendents and train-dis- atchers. If any refunding bill is introduced will probably offer my foreclosure biil as a substitute. Such a bill would be based largely on the one Iintroduced last year as a substitute for tha Reilly bill. I could not then get the minority of the Committee on Pacific Railroads té agree with me, however, and, therefore, I accepted the Boatner bill, which’ was a foreclosure biil 8lso; but it only contemplated the holding of the Toads by the Government until itcould find a buyer for them. All the minority of the committee were npgused to my bill except Harris of Kansas and Cooper of Wisconsin. accepted the Boatner bill in order to get all the minority to act together. Mr. Maguire’s figures roughly estimate the unpatented lands of the Union Pacific at 10,000,000 acres and those of the Central Pacific at 8,000,000 acres. The reason there is so much land still left unpatented, he said, is because the railroad companies and their grantees have been enabled to enjoy exemption from local taxation through keepirg it from being patented. In thelast House Mr. Mazuire introduced a bl toapply all this land as eredit against the debts of the roads, and Senator White had a similar one in tne Senate. The mining lands “burden of proof’’ bill he intends to send up to the clerk of the House will follow along the lines sug- gested recently in THE %ALL in an inter- view with W. C. Ralston, then secretary of the California State Miners’ Association, and_at present chairman of its mineral lands committee. Under present laws the miners must prove the mineral char- acter of land. Mr. Maguire’s opinion is that where land 1s selected in a recognized mineral belt there should be some pre- “sumption of law that the land was mineral in character, and the burden of proof should be upon the railroad companies. Mr. Ralston’s interview was published after his return from Washington, where he had consulted offivials of both the In- terior Department and the General Land Office. The only thing Mr. Maguire says he wants to be careful of in this matter is to not in any way offer any legislation that might ieomrdize the agricultural and com- mercial interests which he regards as more permanent than the mining interests, though not, perhaps, more important. Spesking of the possible committee chairmanships in the House, he said Tom Reed would without doubt be elected Speaker, and that as he had taught school and practicea Jaw in this State the Maine man was very friendly toward California. Reed, said Mr. Maguire, taught school in Stockton in the early 60's, and was ad- mitted to practice law by the State Su- greme Court. He practiced law in San ose for a while. An amu: story is told of Judge Wal- lace’s examination of the great statesman. Judge Wallace put the question to him, “Is the legal tenderact valid?”’ Reed’s prompt and terse reply was ‘‘Yes, sir.” Judge Wallace, eurprised by this prompt and positive response, observed: “Well, you are certainly entitled to admission to the bar, for there are very few lawyers in the country who know whether the act is valid or not.” The opinion was ventured by Mr. Maguire that California might get some important chairmanships. He said Mr. Loud was entitled by priority of service to the chairmanship of the committee on ost offices aud post roads, and Mr. owers tb that on invalid pensions. he committees California is most in- terested in are the following: Pacific Rail- roads, Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Rivers and Harbors and Appropriations. It is Mr. Magnire’s belief that there can be no legislation on silver or the tariff, be- cause if a free coinage bill could pass the House it would probably be defeated by the Senate; or even if it passed the Senate, the President would veto it; and_if any effort was attempted to restore the McKin- ley schedules, President Cleveland would also veto that. Mr. Maguire is_confident that the San Francisco Postoffice will he commenced early next summer. There is $130.000 to begin with, he said, and also an additional $50,000, and he felt sure that during the coming session Congress weuld make an appropriation of $100,000. His expecta- tions he based on the report of the Govern- ment engineers, Colonels Benyaurd and Mendell. MARRIAGE BUREAU VICTIM. Mrs. Gray, a Young Widow of Oakland, Seeks Another Husband. James M. Madison, alias Monroe, a young man of prepossessing appearance, was arrested yesterday afternoon un O'Far- last feature of a most pleasant and attrac- | tive entertainment. 1 rell street by Detectives Bee and Harper and taken to the City Prison, where he was booked for grand larceny en route to Ouakland. Last evening he and Mrs, McManus, a woman with whom he lived, were taken across the bay by Detective Shorey of Oakland. Mrs. Gray, a young widow of Oakland, caused Madison’s arrest. She was left with three young children when ber hus- band died, and, becoming tired of leading 4 lonely life, she applied to a marriage bureau in this City for a husband. The marriage bureau people sent Madi- son to Mrs. Gray and he soon won hercon- sent to marry him. She owned the prop- erty where she lived and Madison induced her to mortgage it for $1000 on the under- standing that he would invest the amount in the purchase of a jewelry business after their marriace. He went further and so won her confidence that she handed him the $1000. . Madison then told her that he would require to visit Reno. Nev., to settle some business mattcrs and on his return they would get married. She accompanied him to the mole, kissed him good-by, and that was the last she heard or saw of him. Three weeks ago she reported the facts to Chief Crowley and he at once began an investigation. He ascertained that Madi- son instead of going to Reno had taken the train to Portland, Or. He became acquainted with a young lady in Port Townsend and was engaged to marry her. She learned that he was a_fortune hunter and broke the engagement. He returned to this City, sought out Mrs. McManus, with whom he had been living at the time he met Mrs. Gray, and went with her to 8an Jose. Two days ago they returned to this City and engaged rooms in a lodging- house on O'Farrell street, where Detectives Bee and Harper found them. When searched at the City Prison $1100 was found in Madison's pockets. Mrs. McManus will be held asa confed- erate, but it is thought she has had noth- ing to do with his schem, THIS YEAR'S WHALE CATCH The Total Receipts of Oil and Bone Are Smaller Than Formerly. An Indication That the Great Fish, Like the Seal, Are Passing Away. Of the 1895 whaling fleet fifteen vessels are in port, and the harvest among the big fish amounts to 4147 barrels of oil ana 104,595 pounds of bone. Of the other eighteen blubber-hunters three were lost on the Alaskan coast and fifteen will re- main at winter quartersin the north. The following are the home-comersand the order of their arrival in this port: Cape Horn Pigeon, 920 barreis oil and 8000 pounds bone: steamer Thrasher, 100 barrels oil and 2900 pounds bone; Rosario, 3000 ounds bone; Horatio, 90 barreis oil; steamer Narwhal, 170 barrels ofl and 145 pounds bone; steamer Orca, 90 barrels oil and 2650 pounds bone; C. W. Morgan, 1300 barrels oil and 5700 pounds bone; Alice Knowles, 216 barrels oil and 4720 pounds bone; Lydia, 140 barrels oil and 1000 pounds bone;' Hidelgo, emply; Caii- fornia, 70 barrels oil and Bwsnundl bone; Andrew Hicks, SO barrels oil and 500 pounds bone; Mermaid, 100 barrels oil and 2000 Kaunds bone; steamer William Bayliss, 160 arrels oil and 4400 pounds bone; Gayhead, 656 barrels oil and S pounds bone. The tenders to the fleet bronght down 35 barrels of oil.and 60,835 pounds of bone. There were also taken 4415 pounds of ivory. S 3 Thnis year's catch, with the exception of 1876, when only seven vessels took 2800 barrels of oil and 8800 pounds of bone, is the smallest in twenty-two years. The largest catch was in 1887, when forty-one vessels took 32,000 barrels of oil and 603,- 400 pounds of bone. The receipts of oil, })one and ivory here since 1874 are as fol- ows: o1l bbls. Vessels, No. Bone, bs. 86, Ivory, s, 10,000 6300 2,800 300 000, 157. 7,600 25,400 7.000 8,40! 4,147] Total..| 679 330,478/ 4,660,066 324,122 The fifteen whalers now wintering at Herschel [sland in the Arctic are the steamers Alexander, Balena, Beluga, Bel- vedere, Fearless, Grampus, Jessie H. Free- man, Jeanette, Karluk, Mary D. Hume, Navarch and Newport; the barks John and ‘Winthrop. Northern Light and the Wan- derer. The vessels lost during the past season were the Abram Barker, Triton and the W. H. Meyer, the first two named being owned in’ New Bedford, and the last here, It is evident from the catch of oil and bone falling lower each succeeding year that the whale, like his smaller aquatic brother the seal, is passing. The great fish, hunted reason to season, finds no refuge even among the ice-floes of the almost in- accessible north. Few of the larger whales are now caught because, as an old blubber- hunter recently observed, “There is none, the whale having no time to grow.” The present price of bone is §4 a pound, but it 1s doubtful whether the decrease of supply will raise the price, as the market is being riooded with an imitation only a little in- ferior to the real article. Sooner or later the whale fleet will have gone to the bone- yard of ships, and Nantucket and New Bedford will be only a memory. e e Prevarication by Figures. President Andrews of Brown University has contributed to the North American Review an article entitled “*Are There Too Many of Us?” Personally, I should an- swer with an unhesitating ‘“Yes,” espe- cially after bank holidays. He provesbya series of elaborate and convincing calcula- tions that if the world started with a popu- lation of two the increase in 3060 years would have become ‘‘two quintillion hu- man beings, viz.: to every square yard 333314 persons. Or the earth would be covered with men in columns of 83314 each, standing on each other's heads. TIf they averaged five feet tall, each column would be 416624 feet blfih.” All this sounds highly stupendous. To my non-mathematical mind the only in- ference to be drawn from the professor's calculation appears to be that the world is not much more than thirty years old, or, let us say, thirty and a third.” In another ten years or so I suppose we shall have to start work on the columns. Personally I am quite willing to_let 832 of my friends get into position first. I can then climb up and complete the column. How the fractional third is to be made up I know not, unless—happy thought—there is to be an extra allowance of three tailors to every column.—Punch. e e Not Born to Be Drowned. A man named Paquette, who works on the boom just above the first dam at Marinette, had a mirasdious escape from drowning. His work is driving the logs into the sluice, but he missed his footing and fell into the water. The current was so swift that he was carrieq into the sluice and dashed through it into the raging STOLEN FROM THE DEAD, A Bag of Money Taken From James Butler in the County Hospital. WATCHMAN LEWIS SUSPECTED, He Jumped the Hospital Fence and the Police Are Searching for Him. ‘When James Butler died at the City and County Hospital Monday night his band clasped a small bag fastened about his neck. This bag contained the man’ssmall earnings, a matter of several hundred dol- lars, which he had guarded with the great- est anxiety. The next morning the money was gone, and so was Henry Lewis, a patient who a short time before had been made a night watchman. The theft was not discovered at once. When an account was made of Butler's effects the night nurse, Miss L. G. Young, said, “Why, there ought to be some money there,” Then it was learned that, either when Butler was dying or immediately after his death, the bag of money around his neck had been stolen. Miss Young was repri- manded severely, but an investigation showed that neither she nor the hospital authorities were to blame. It seems that when patients have valu- ables they are requested to give them to the secretary to be kept in the safe. A re- ceipt is given for everything so taken charge of. Butler had a watch and chain which the nurse, Miss Young, took. When she tried to remove the bag of money from the sick man’s neck he resisted strenu- ously. The money seemed to be a part of his ver{, existence. It was evidently intended to be the poor fellow’s protection against possible want. The mere mention of hav- ing it go out of his keeping so excited him that the nurse, who had received orders that he was not to be unnecessarily dis- turbed under any circumstances, let him keep his bag of money. Miss Young’s attempt to get the money was observed by a number of other pa- tients in the ward. The sick man’s fran- tic objections were the cause of consider- able comment and the gossip of that sec- tion of the hospital. In this way Lewis received the information that Butler had money. The police were informed at once of the theft. They sent detectives out to the hos- pital to investigate. Nothing has been heard of Lewis up to date, though. The missing man, on entering the hos- pital, gave his name as Henry Lewis. He was a slight, good-looking Englishman, 45 years of age and a little gray. He was a hotel-keeper and had resided at the Ade- laide Hotel prior to coming to the hospi- tal. He had been treated for rheumatism, and being convalescent, was made a night watchman of Butler's ward, without pay, in order that he might remain at the hos- pital till_he was well. The records show “Tumped the fence” as the cause of his discharge. So far as is known, James Butler had no relatives here. He was a laborer, working for Contractor Buckman, and lived at the latter’s camp, corner of Steiner and Her- mann streets. He was a native of Ireland, single and 47 years of age. No one has as et appeared at the hospital to claim But- ler’s watch and other effects. Fast Time From Ocean to Ocean. All previous railroad records in the time made from ocean to ocean was eclipsed by.the Sunset limited train which arrived in this City at12:45 p. ¥, from New Orleans in sixty-nine hours actual running time. 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