The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 3, 1895, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1%95. RAN A PHCENIX MINT, Checkered Career of James Young, the Notorious Counterfeiter. ONCE AN HONEST MINER. The Fortune He Won in the Gold Fields Squandered by a Wanton. HIS ESCAPE FROM PRISON. Wounded and Recaptured and His Compa: Killed—Will Be Ar- ned To-Day. Dec. 2—When the convenes here lo-l s Young will be | ting and passing ates coin. It is alto- at he will escape rere appears to be no e now in possession of | al Meade. The story career, gained from h accused and accaser, | roman’s wiles. e low-thatched ed farmbouse that nestled grainfields arouna 11, that James Young first saw tof day twen ight years ago. ts were upr , honest people, hat disposed to boast that no r blood had ever disgraced the me. Every evening before retir- the oid father—for James was the t child—wo stand in the glow blazing fire and read from the Under such influences was g reared, until he left them to ne in the golden West. For he was a miner, and for years an roof of ago in the course of his ame to Arizona and in the mines located o 0 | priating the cash to his own use. exchange clerk of either a San Francisco or an Oakland bank. = DE. PROSSER'S EXODTS. Phaniz Tradesmen Defrauded by a Man From San Francisco. PHENIX, Ariz., Dec. Prosser, erstwhile of San Francisco, but lately founder, president and staff of the Arizona Medical Institute of this city, has fled, leaving a small army of disappointed creditors. Dr. Prosser was a dapper little man who arrived here two months ago. He rented a suite of four rooms in the Monahan block, which he richly fur- nished, renting the material from R. Hey- man. Then he opened his institute. Busi- ness was good and he sent to San Fran- cisco for his family. When they came he same way. Four days ago, however, Dr. Prosser sent his wife to Denver, borrowing the money from B. Heyman, and thus begin- ning the Prosser exodus. Two daysago he sent nis children to Los Angeles, apd last nig! clude every tradesman in the city and his liabilities will aggregate about $300, with assets consisting of a large collection of empty bottle: Fate of a Suisun Cattie Thief. SUISUN, Car., Dec. 2.—Santino Russi Buckles to four years’ imprisonment in Foisom. Russi was formeriy in the em- ploy of a rancher named D. Mini and was in a trustworthy position, having a herd of cattle under his control. dence he flagrantly abused by selling eighteen head of cattle for $450 and appro- Russi pleaded guiity. WOES O POENI WIE | Attempts to End Her Life After Being Beaten by Her Husband. Mrs. Leslie Resolves to Evade Domes- tic Strife by the Morphine Method. PHOENIX, A. T., Dec. 2.—Mrs. C. C. Leslie, proprietress of a Jefferson-street restas attempted to commit suicide here by taking twenty-five grains of m 1 Mrs. Leslie was married six years ago, | have come to bless her | | 1'::3( no childr | home, and th fact made her husband desponden 2 bis sorrow he has been drink- in | rett in his usual condition, oached him and he retali- trict. Standing in water nd bad ventilation were ally undermined his health, left his work to go out among th spectin d in search of healt ade several the h rtune al To took a partner in the p Smith, a clothing merck a saloon, the | g men who | and consequently, those came in contact with, and a regu- | lar brokerage business was to be carried on over the shining bar of the Sun Shine | saloon. \ The purchase! of this saloon proved to | be the cause of Young's downiall, for soon | after becoming its owner he commenced to consort with Frankie Farnsworth, a no- us woman whom he hired to g for is patrons, after the custom of Arizona. this occurred about two years ago. kie “made the money lv did it disappear that Y ss, his sal gone. All tc F rapi found himself pen d and his mines f 5 i 8 (-} m lds a two-thirds interest. This in- t, however, he tried to sell repeatedly | | sed abou ich time he came to P! : m to Phenix he brought noth- ing but his empty pockets and bad luck, for Frankie, after the manner of her class, had found it convenient to leave after hav- ing spent his money. It wasw. ing here on the corner one day latter part of last Augut that Young, ac- cording to his story, was approached by a maa whom he did not know who gave him about $15 in counterfeit coin, telling him how to make it, and persuading him to go in *‘cahoots” with him in the manufacture of the stuff. This, he says, he refused to do, but he kept the coin and carried it to room. To what purpose he put the | 1oney is not now known. | When Johnny Moore a gambler here, takes the stand to-morrow he will furnish avaluable link in the chain of evidence which has been woven about Young. Moore will tell how, in going home one morning, he found a lot of plaster of paris sprinkled over the floor and upon his bureau. He called the landlady’sattention to the fact that a woman had been in his room. The landlady denied this assertion and told him that Youngand a man named Murray had been in his room boiling something over his oilstove. As soon as Moore discovered what this powder was his suspicions were aroused and he pro- ceeded immediately to the Sheriff’s office, where he informed Deputy Sheriff William Widmer and Deputy United States Mar- shal J. W. Slankard. ‘These two men will go upon the stand and state how they proceeded to the room occupied jointly by Young and Murray and found a complete counterfeiting outfit, composed of a mold for quarters and dimes, a can full of oil, the kind usually used by counterfeiters to grease the molds, alarge quantity of plaster of paris, some Babbitt metal and some half-finished coins. ‘When this was found Murray and Young were arrested and confined in the County Jail. Both of the men stoutly preclaimed their innocence. They were put into the strong corridor, however, and held to await the next sitting of the court. In this cor- ridor was also confined a man named Price, convicted of murder, Price and Young soon became fast friends and con- cocted 2 scheme for breaking jail. This was successful and the men escaped last Christmas day while the jailer and guards were at dinner. They were followed as far south as Ajajo, 2 mininz camp in Ari- zona, about seven miles from the Mexican Jine. When overtaken they showed fight, but, after a hard battle, in which Price was killed and a Deputy Sheriff wounded, Young was captured. He, however, did not give up until he was severely wounded. He was returned to the hospital ward of the County Jail here, where he has since been confined. During the last term of court Murray escaped through some tech- mcality in the complaint. Young has a brother living in Butte m | been and choking her. ported the attack to the . who arrested Leslie and th drunkenness. He was d upon returning hostilities. Mrs. Leslie ap- ve held her own, and as a re- cked his grip and left. as her husband had gone, Mrs ed to her room and swallc me. A | atec LOS ANGELES’ PENITENT. Clitton Mayne's Dying Appeals Allowed to See His Erstwhile Ward Not to Be Granted. dition of Clifton E. Mayne is unchanged to-night, and he is constantly asking to see under the care of Mrs, Wright. Notwithstanding Mayne’s dying condi- tion and the intervention of severa! char- to have the wish of the dying man grati- fi Miss Shipton declines to go to him, g that the wrong he has done to her | and her sister is too great to permit of any consideration on her part. It is hardly possible that Mayne will survive until morning, though he rallied somewhat to-night. No credence is given to a story published ina morning paper that Chris Buckley caused Mayne's downfall, though the source from which the money used so freely i e prosecution was received is still a mystery. e JOERDAN'S WOMAN MURDERER. Mrs. Hannah Doomed to Pass Her Life in Prison. ALBANY, Og., Dec. 2.—Sentence has pronounced upon Mrs. Emma G. Hannah, in the District Court here. She was convicted last Wednesday of mur- der in the second degree for killing Mrs. Lottie Hiatt, at Jordan, in Linn County, last September. Judge Burnett convened court at 9 o’clock and Mrs. Hannah was soon after brought from the jail. A motion for a new trial was overruled, and the woman was sentenced to imprisonment for the term of ber natural life. Mrs. Hannah appeared unmoved , when the sentence was pronounced, and pre- sented the same stolid countenance she maintained throughout the trial, without shedding a tear. The case will go to the Supreme Court on an appeal. g i ACCIDENT AT ASTORIA. Enginesr Harris of the Mayflower Proba- bly Fatally Injured. ASTORIA, Og., Dec. 2.—George Harri- son, engineer on the steamer Mayflower, met with an accident yesterday which is likely to prove fatal. When the steamer reached this city on its return from Olney it stopped at one of the east end slips to discharge freight. Shortly afterward, when Harrison en- deavored to start the engines, they were found to have stopped on the center. The engineer picked up a crowbar to use as a lever in throwing the disk over, when the bar flew out of his hands and stiuck Four of his ribs were broken, the back of his head was cut and it is feared he sus- tained ir ternzal injuries. I CAJON PASS ACCIDENT. Iwo Youths Play With a Rifle and One Is Now Dying. SAN BERNARDINO, CaL., Dec. 2.—As a result of playing with a loaded rifle Ar- thur Meyer, the thirteen-year-old son of Henry Meyer, who owns a vineyard in Cajon Pass, near this city, lies at the point of death. On Sunday afternoon Otto and his voung brother, aged 10, were in the yard playing with a rifle. The younger lad was handling the gun, when it was ac- cidentally discharged, the bullet lodging in Otto’s head on the left side, near the base of the brain, ranging upward and coming out just under the left eye. It to- tally destroyed the sight and the hearing of the left ear. The boy is in a very criti- cal condition and there is little likelihood of his recovery. S e THAGEDY NEAR HANFORD. Merchant Kelsey of Fisalia Accidentally Shot While Hunting. HANFORD, Car., Dec. 2.—Robert Bro- der, deputy constable of Visalia, and Wil- liam Kelsey, ex-city marshal and a merchant of Visalia, left here Saturday for a hunton the West Side. Yesterday, while out hunting in a buggy, a gun was accidentally discharged, the load striking Kelsey and irizhzfufiy lacerating one side County, Cal., a sister in Colusa County of the same State and a cousin, who is '.hel of his head. The wounded man was taken to Lamoore, where he died at noon to-day. rented a house, which he furnished in the | it himself fled. His creditorsin- | was sentenced to-day by Superior Judge | This confi- | Saturday night, when he | biy disposed persons, who would like | him upon the body with terrific force. | IN TUOLUMNES JAIL - Miss McReynolds and Her Brothers Held for Murder. |ACCUSES HER VICTIM. The Girl Declares That Morris Died Because Her Honor" Was at Stake. GREED LED TO A CONFESSION. | She Admitted the Crime in Order to Secure a Mythical Insurance Policy. STOCKTON, Car., Dec. 2.—The McRey- | nolds—Wesley and Albert—are now in the custody of the Tuolumne County officers, | charged with the brutal murder of George | Morris, November 8. The confession of the girl is in the possession of Detective Riley of San the assistant postmaster and | Wells Fargo agent at Chinese Camp. on | confident that robbery was as much a mo- l tive for the murder as revenge. He be- lieves that the McReynolds boys intended to “kill two birds with one stone” and rob as well as kill young Morris. Morris was counting some money at the time, and from the time he was last seen by the stage- driver until the shots were fired there was not sufficient time for the brothers to make any demands upon him to marry their sister. The McReynolds bovs claimed to their sister that their act was one of vengeance on Morris for his treatment of her. The murderers live about two miles from Chi- | nese Camp and could easily have made | their way home before the officers started on their search for the assassins. Miss McReynolds is about 17 years old, and the oldest brother 1s about 23. While never regarded as eligible to the better class of society, they were never looked upon as actually bad citizens. Sheriff Yancy, who has the trio in cus- | tody, says the girl is one of the most cold- blooded beings he has met in all his expe- rience s an officer. The Grand Jury is in session and will proceed at once to return indictments against the McReynolds, in order that the | case may be brought to trial at the present session of the Superior Court. Holder, the stepfather, is well known here, having conducted a barber-shop here before he went to Columbia. A sister of Ada, named Belle McReynolds, was for- merly a waitress in the Yosemite Hotel at this place and is now said to reside in Fresno. Those portions of Ada’s confession | which prefer serious charges against Morris are discredited by his friends and relations, who maintain that itis only an attempt to cover up the motive of robbery. There is considerable excitement at ! GEORGE MORRIS, THE M [The young man was McReynolds has con; to marry her. ant Postmaster and We ed that she induced her brothers From a photograph taken a few days be, URDERED EXPRESS AGENT. ls-Fargo's agent at Chinese Camp. Ada Morris because he refused the murder.] \ Francisco, and if some unaccountable mis- | take has not been made, or the girlis nota | fired the fatai shots and the othcr was | active in the killing. Morris was killed about midnight in a LOS ANGELES, Car., Dec. 2.—The con- | ight with two supposed robvers. One of | | the men returned his fire, blowing the top | of the agent’s head off with a shotgun. | e Shipton, his_erstwhile ward, who is | With this ghastly wound Morris lived | about two hours. He was, of course, un- conscious up to the time of his death, so | | no clew to the identity of the murderers could be obtained. They vanished from the scene as though the earth had swal- Ithough the officers ir efforts were { lowed them up, and a began the search at once ¢ not rewarded. | Contrary to reports, the express com- | pany and postal authorities did not pursue | the unknown assassin with the usual vigor, | believing that, like the Weber murder, the | guilty persons would become known in the | natural course of events. The brothers of the murdered man, how- ever, were determined to bring the perpe- trators of the crime to justice as soon as possible, and to that end sent to an agency in San Francisco for a detective. Riley responded about ten days ago, and from the first had hiseye upon the McReynolds. | A clew had been given to him by Morris’ | brothers, who knew of the serious nature E of the charges made against George by the | girl, and while not discrediting the theory of robbery, they thought that Miss Mec- | Reynolds was the instigator of the murder. | The detective immediately sought the confidence of the girl, representing him- | self as the ageut of an insurance company in which he claimed young Morris had | secured a policy for $5000 in her favor. He told her that the company intended to | fight the payment of the policy on the ground that Morris had shot himself, but | that if it was proven that he was murdered she would get the money. Being promised | exemption from consequences herselt, she, | doom. | Forsome time Morris and the McRey- | nolds girl were on very close terms of | friendship, but for six months prior to his | death they were estranged and Morris would have nothing to do with her. This angered her and her brothers, and, accord- ing to the brother of the murdered man, } one of the McReynolds was heard to threaten Morris’ life. ‘The express agent denied his relations with Miss McReynolds were more than of a friendly nature, but the young lady de- clared that they were carried farther than that. She urged young Morris to procure a | marriage license. This he declined very | positively to do, and refused to have any- thing more to say to ber. Itis asserted in Chinese Camp that the girl bore an un- savory reputation. Be that as it may, i Morris ignored her thenceafter, and one day ordered her from the store. The girl claims she did not know of her brothers’ deed until they confessed it to her after its commission. proposition loosed her tongue, and she told the detective all she knew about the killing of the express agent. She then made a written statement, in which she said that the fatal shot was fired by her brother Wesiey, and that he was accom- panied on his murderous errand by her other brother, Albert. The guilty lads have lived in the vicinity of Chinese Camp for some time., They formerly lived near Columbia, where they conducted a barber-shop. The boys and Ada have a stepfather who was formerly a barber in Btockton, but the name which they bear is that of their father. It is claimed that the step-parent left the house with the boys on the night of the murder for the ostensible purpose of going on a hunting trip, but for some reason the old man is not accused of any participation in the crime. Riley told the girl he was a detective, but claimed to be out in the interest of the New York Life Insurance Company for the sole purpose of investigating the actual causes of the death of young Morris. The brother of the dead express agent is in her greed for money, sealed her brothers’ | The money | | Chinese Camp, but nothing serlous to the | prisoners is apprehended, owing to the o Be | deliberate prevaricator, one of the boys | preparations of the officers to bring the case to & speedy trial. | SURVEYING AT EUREKA. Engineers Staking Out the Line of the Cali- fornia, Oregcn and Idaho 1 Railway. EUREKA, CaL., Dec. 2.—The chief en- gineer of the proposed California, Oregon and Idaho Railroad, who came to Eureka a few days ago with President Bassett of Oakland, commenced the survey this morn- ing. The first stakes were driven at | Clark’s Addition, the proposed terminal on | deep water south of the city. The line as | laid runs up the water front through much valuable property. The citizens’ committee engaged in pro- moting work at this end of the line reports that most of the rights of way have been | secured. About half of the first 5 per cent payment due upon the securing of the ter- minal has been paid. The company agreed i to put engineers in the field when a certain sum was paid, and this has been done. | The surveyors will finish work in the | vicinity of the city before doing any pre- | liminary work in the mountains. | —-—— | GLANDERS IN ROCK TREE VALLEY. ] The Family of a Rancher Contracts the Dread Disease From Affected Horses. | UKIAH, Car, Dec. 2.—Word was re- ceived here yesterday to the effect that cer- tain persons in the northern part of this } county were afflicted with some contagious disease, but its nature was not learned. | C. P. Smith, chairman of the Board of | Supervisors of Mendocino County, re- | quested particulars regarding the matter | from the Little Lake authorities. This | afternoon he received the following tele- | gram: | 7o C. P. Smith: In my opinion the McCabe family is afflicted with glanders, and I recom- mend that the proper county officials make an investigation at once, and take any steps that may be necessary for the safety of the family the community. W. J. EDMUNDSON, M.D. Dr. Edmundson isa physician of Wil- lits. The McCabe family’is composed of a farmer, his wife and three or four chil- dren. They reside in Rock Tree Valley, about ten miles north of Willits. Itis thought the disease was contracted by the family from horses belonging to a neigh- | boring rancher, which are supposed to be afflicted with glanders. Physicians were sent from here this eveninfi to investigate the matter and check the disease in its infancy, if it exists. e - L B PORT TOWNSEND KIDNAPING. County Treasurer Hogg Carried Out to Sea While Trying to Serve Papers Upon a Tug's Captain. PORT TOWNSEND, Wasn., Dec.2.—An attempt to get 8 lot of streetcar rolling | | | NO FIGHTS AT COLMA San Mateo Supervisors Reject Applications for Licenses. DECISIVE ACTION TAKEN. Grand Jury Indictments Will Follow Attempts to Bring Off Mills. SHERIFF MEVOY'S PROTEST. He Refused to Any Longer Officiate as Judge at the Slogging Matches. REDWOOD CITY, CarL., Dec. 2—The so-called sparring exhibitions at Colma are at an end. At to-day’s meeting of the Board of Supervisors two applications for permits were refused. Chairman Bryan of the board favored granting the applica- tions and Supervisors McEvoy, Adair and Brown opposed them. Supervisor Adair of the Fifth District moved that the applications be refused, and said that he had been informed by a prominent citizen of Santa Cruz, who was present at the fizht between Sharkey and Miller on November 7, that it was more brutal than the Corbett and Sullivan fight at New Orleans. Chairman Bryan said there was no blood shed. Supervisor Brown, who represents the Second District, which includes San Mateo and Burlingame, said that the people in his district were opposed to more licenses being granted. Sheriff McEvoy said he had been required to be present at all the glove contests at Colma. If they were not brutal it was be- cause they had been stopped. He said that he did not think the board should compel him to act as judge and say when the fights ceased to be scientific and when they became brutal. He had stopped five orsix fights. that position again. He refused to act. Chairman Bryan said the applicants had been to some expense, and snap judgment should not be taken against them. Why not let them go ahead with the present applications and then repeal the ordi- nance? District Attorney Walker urged that it mould not do to repeal the ordinance. If a permit was refused and the ordinance was violated then the parties would make themselves liable. Wher it came to a vote the applications were refused pervisors McEvoy, Adair and Brown voting against and Chairman Bryan in favor. Supervisor Burke was absent. The Grand Jury will meet to-morrow. If the contests are held in violation of the ordinance, as it is claimed they may be, indictments will probably follow. Su- perior Judge Buck will support to-day’s action of the Supervisors.’ SAN DIEGO INVADED. An Army of Tramps Arousing the Peace Officers of the City to Activity. SAN DIEGO, Carn., Dec. 2.—The tramp question is getting serious in San Diego. An officer has discovered a camp of tramps located in the willows, in the Sweetwater River bottoms,and tbirteen men were found there reveling in stolen turkeys, beer, horse blankets and overcoats. Ranchers are alarmed and afraid to resist the told demands for food. Hold-ups in thecity are reported, and at 4 o’clock this morn- ing a belated stranger was slugged and left for dead, after having been robbed, in full glare of the electric lights. The officerslast night found a rendezvous of tramps at the foot of Ivy street, and learned that the men scattered during the day and evening and begged, afterward pooling their issues and buying a keg of beer, which they carried into camp. Petty- larceny thieves have been captured by the half-dozen, but stores and honses are plun- dered with a boldness that is astonishing. Two hundred tramps have arrived in the city within two weeks; sixty came in a bunch yesterday and forty more arrived to-day. The Police Commissioners are chain-gang is at work, but it catches only & few. Citizens generally are aroused and will take stringent measures to rid the community of the lawless portion of the travelers. o BARKERSFIELD'S MYSTERY. The Body of a Murdered Man Found Near the City. BAKERSFIELD, Car., Dec. 2.—Albert Hyett’s body was found near the railroad bridge a mile from town this morning with & hole in the back of its head and presenting unmistakable evidence of mur- der. The crime mnst have been com- mitted last Wednesday, as the body had been rained upon and the last rain fell Wednesday night. A sineular feature of the case is that the body all this time lay on the open ground In plain view of the raiiroad only sixty yards away, but no one noticed it. Hyett is supposed to have been a South- erner and a machinist. Nothing was found in the pockets of his clothing and on the name on a hatband identified him. is supposed he was murdered and robbed by tramps. Kidnaping at Seattle. SEATTLE, WasH., Dec. 2.—The two- year-old chila of Mrs. Philip Abrahams, who received such notoriety about a year ago through the San Francisco and Seattle | stock out of this county last night before the County Treasurer could legally detain the property for the payment of $400 taxes has probably got some one into serious difficulty, as it ended practically in the kidnaping of County Treasurer Hvogg and caused much excitement here. All day yesterday a big gang of men was at work loading property on a scow, and when Treasurer Hogg learned that it was to be towed to Seattle he armed himself with the legal papers necessary and pre- pared to serve them immediately after midnight. Fiiteen minutes before 12 o’clock a tug took hold of the scow ana | Hogg boarded the tug, intending to serve the papers after midnight. He went inside the caflin, and when he came out a half bour later found that another steamer had taken the scow in tow and that he was being carried out to the straits to prevent his arding the steamer for attle. Hogg will bring action against the tugs for damages. S——. Old Rookeries Destroyed. LOS ANGELES, CaL., Dec. 2.—A fire broke out in the rookeries belong- ing to the Spence estate on the southwest corner of Fourth and Spring streets, occu- pied as a soda water, cigarand fruit stand, cobbler’s shop and minor trade shops. The loss was ;M; fully insured. I papers by reason of her husband, in hisde- sire to be rid of the woman, having sent her on a mission to join him in Honolulu, when, in fact, he was Liding in the Golden Gate City, has been kidnaped. Abrahams is in Australia, and the supposition is that the child, a pretty little girl, is being taken to bixm. At the time the little one was spirited away Mrs. Abrahams was en route He weuld not be placed in | about to employ extra men and the county | Ly to Alaska in search of her runaway hus- Ib&nd, having left the child in Seattle in | the care and custody of a Mrs. Montgomery. iy Arraigned for a Franklin Crime. SEATTLE, Wasg., Dec. 2.—David Ban- nister, accused of mvrdering Thomas Day, night engineer in the Oregon Improve- ment Company’s cozl mine at Franklin, last September, was placed on trial for his life to-day in _the criminal departmentof the Superior Court. The evidence against him is circumstantial. S el TAMALPAIS' SCENIC ROAD. Directors of the Company Chosen and Preliminary Plans Laid. MILL VALLEY, Car., Dec. 2. —The directors of the Mill Valley and Mount Tamalpais Scenic Railway will be Lovell White, Thomas Magee and Henry C. Campbell representing the Tamalpais Land and Water Company; Sidney B. Cushing, representing the San Rafael Elec- tric Light Company, and the smaller share- holders will be represented by some person not vet decided upon. The price to be charged for the rouna trip has been placed at $1, which the jectors of the enterprise say is lower than the rate charged by any other mountain road. The charge for the round trip at Mount Washington and Pikes Peak is $5; at Mount Wilson $2. In Europe the rates are about 30 cents a mile. From the extreme western reach of the road on Tamalpais a wagon-road two miles long will be built, connecting with the Bolinas County road. This will make a five-mile drive from the road to the Willows beach, considered the finest bath- ing beach in California. HENEY'S TRIAL AT CARSON, Arraigned for the Second Time for the Alleged Theft of Bullion. The Venire of Talesmen Exhausted After Five Jurors Had Been Selected. CARSON, Nev., Dec. 2—When court opened to-day, ready to begin the second trial of James Heney, charged with taking bullion from the mint in this city, one of the accused man’s attorneys, William ‘Woodburn, arose and cailed the attention of thecourt to an article in the Lyon County Times relative to the case. It charged that the jurors who voted to acquit the prisoner must have been very stupid, or that money was used to cause a | disagreement. Mr. Woodburn held that the article was a flagrant violation of the order of, the court laid down at the begin- ning of the trial. The paper containing the article was filed and the matter taken | under advisement. | The prosecution charged that a man | named Roheart of Virginia City was talk- | ing of the case in the presence of jurymen. | He was rebuked by the court. | The selection of jurors then began and | | when the court adjourned at noon five | jurors naa been selected and both sides | | had exhausted their peremptory chal-| be | every tendency to lenges. The following were chosen before | noon: J. Rodenbaugh of Douglas, J. W. | | Bowles of Douglas, W. Ballinger of Lyon, W. Evert of Washoe and P. C. Peterson of l Douglas. 7 In the afternoon an affidavit, signed by the defendant, was read. In it he charges | the United States Marshal with not being | the proper person to select jurymen, The | affidavit stated that when Heney was ar- rested by the United States Marshal that official made an ostentatious display of handcuffs, and remarked that his prisoner was guilty and would get a stronger pair. The Marshal went upon the stand and under oath pronounced the affidavit false. The motion to place the selection of jurymen in the hands of some other per- son was overruled by the court. he | venire was exhausted with no more jury- men selected, and a new venire, returnable | to-morrow, was ordered. | During the exanmation of jurymen, Edmund James testified that Mr. Me- Gowan, one of the defendant’s attorneys, had talked with him about the case. e gy | SANTA YNEZ VALLEY COLONISTS. i Promoter Shaffer Arranging to People the Great Zaca Ranch WithgSettiers | From the East, | SANTA BARBARA, Car, Dec. 2.—A. | W. Shaffer, the successful, California | colony promoter, is in Santa Barbara, having recently brought out the Fair | Oaks colony. Mr. Shaffer is now planning to bring out a colony to settle the great Zaca Ranch !in this county. This tract, comprising some 50,000 acres of fine arable land in the | center of the Santa Ynez Valley, has hitherto been cultivated for wheat and | barley only. & . | Itis finely watered, and if brought into | proper cultivation with fruits and vege- tnblr;s, grain and root crops, could be | made to support a small populace in prosperity. The refusal to subdivide the large | ranches has hitherto been the main im- ediment to Erogress in the Santa Ynez Valley, but the recentcolonization of a part of the College rancho and the pros- pective colonization of this great tract will | introduce a new epoch in the country’s history. { —_— e | THOMAS DIBBLEE’S WILL. | His Widow and Children to Share the Santa Barbara Estate. SANTA BARBARA, CaL., Dec. 2.—The | will of the late Thomas Bloodgood Dib- ! blee was to-day filed for probate. The i estate is estimated to be worth $650,000. Mr. Dibblee’s interest in block 230 in this city goes to his wife. This block is in the center of the city and comprises the old De La Guerra mansion, still occupied by Mrs. Dibblee's parents, brother and sisters. I It is a picturesque adobe, still furnished and maintained in the pretty Spanish fash- ion. The title to_this property some time ago passed into Mr. Dibblee’s hands, and by his will he generously sought to restore it to the De La Guerra family. All the rest of his property he left in the hands of three trustees, direct- ing that they pay $350 per month to his aged brother, W. Dibblee of New Jersey, for life, and $25 a month each to another brother, H. F. Dibblee of Santa Ynez, and to his maiden sister, Frances J. Dibblee of New York. With the exception of some minor bequests all the rest of his property is to be held in trust for his widow and children. | many heavy NEW TO-DAY. HOLIDAY HINT NO. 2. 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