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THE SAN FRANCISCU CALL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1895. 3 T, BOWE MASSACRE Apache Renegades Murder | a Family of Five Persons. cOWBOYS IN PURSUIT. Troops Stationed at Steins Pass to Prevent the Indians’ Escape. THE DEATH OF THE MERRILLS, Details of the Killing of the Rancher and His Daughter Near Ash Spring. G, N. M= Dec. 10.—Another a family by the renegade band Horatio H. egades Near Ash Spring, Ariz. (Reproduced from photographs.} of Apache Indians from the San Carlos Reservation is reported from the San Simon Valley, but details cannot be had. A rancher, his wife and three children were slain on Thursday, following the kill- ing of Mr. Merrill and his daughter. muraered family were Germans who had recently come to this section from the East for the purpose of taking up & home- stead. The killing is reported to have occurred near Fort Bowie, the military post recently abandoned by the United States troops. The Indians were seen by some cowboys about the time of the Merrill murder, and their number is estimated at thirty-five. ing can be learned of the move- the soldiers and cowboy posses. Fort Bayard is stationed at Steins Pass to prevent the escape of the band of rene- | gades into old Mexico, over the old Gero- ninjo trial. -— A CRIME OF FIENDS. How Rancher Merrill and His Daughter Met Death. [Snecial Correspondence of THE CALL. | PH(ENIX, Ar: Dec. 9.—Full details of the Merrill massacre, grim and dread, have at last reached this city, and the story of the crime has caused a feeling of fear to spread throughout Southern Ari- zona. Men hardly know whether an In- dian outbreak is at hand or not, and even 1 | then, on. Merrill and His Daughter, Miss Eliza, Murdered by Apache Ren- The | ent of the First Cavalry from | spoke to the Sheriff of the hopes he had of selling his prodnce at a good price, and with a cheery ‘‘good-night” drove The Sheriff looking back as he r.eached the brow of the hill, saw their figures outline against the purple haze of the hills, and as he listened, heard the concluding stanzas of the hymn. As he rode on the hill bid them from view, and jthat was the last seen of them alive. About two hours later, J. L. T. Waters, | also of Duncan, entered the Box Canyon from its opposite mouth. He was also | hurrying home, but confesses that he felt | uneasy as he entered the gloomy place, {and to cheer himself commenced to | whistle. | He was still whistling and the echoes of e the gloomy place were replying when he rode around a bend and saw a wagon be- fore him turned across the road. Under | ordinary circumstances this would have | revived bis spirits, but he felt even more | uneasy, although he could discern nothing ; but the white cover of the wagon. | The full moon had risen, but only in ! spots did the solitary beams fall across the | Toadway as the stirring breeze parted the the pinon bushes with which the tall walls of the canyons were fringed. The walls cast their shadows across the roadway and the solitary beams served but to intensify the almost impenetrable gloom. But for the sighing of the breeze the solitude was undisturbea, and the unbroken silence re- awakened and intensified Waters’ fear. He suspected some trap, and stopping his | drew his revolvers and proceeded cau- | tiously forward. Arriving within speak- | ing distance he called, but receiving no answer stealthily vroceeded. As he got within ten paces the wind blew aside two tushes which had grown in a crevice in the canyon, ana the moonlight falling across the spot on which his attention was fired made everything clear. Going up to the wagon he saw that one of the horses had fallen, and passing | around a horrible sight met his gaze. | Lying with his head on a rock was old Mr. | Merrill, his mustache and white shirt front dyed with his own and his daughter’s blood. Miss Merrill must have been stand- ing in front of her father when she was | shot down, for her head was pillowed on his breast and in the dying struggle her father had thrown his arm about her neck. | Merrill had been shot three times—once through the brain, once through the heart and then, since both of those wounds must | bave proved fatal, the fiendish Apaches to make sure of his death had shot him in his mouth. Miss Merrill had been shot twice, both | bullets entering her bosom. Her hair had | been untied for the sake of the scarlet | ribbon she was wearing and lay coiled over | her bosom, which was bare, the redskins | having taken her bright-colored necker- chief. Hoping that be was not in the presence of death Waters called to them, but re- ceiving no answer leaned cver and touched | their bodies, which were yet warm. He ‘ again shook and called them loudly, but | again receiving no answer and perceiving WHERE THE MERRIL LS WERE MURDERED, [Reproduced from a photograph of the entrance to the canyon $n which Mr. Merrill and his daughter had stopped for the night when they were attacked by Apaches.] in this city, 200 miles from the scene, the details are listened to and read with eager interest. A reward has been offered for the apprehension of the Apache assassins; a posse led by the Sheriff are hunting for them, and men stop in their daily work to talk it over. It was on Monday of last week that the Merrills were massacred. Mr. Merrill, who owned a ranch near Pima, Ariz., had labored with much industry gathering his crops and threshing his grain. On thal morning he loaded his market-wagon and with his daughter Eliza, started for Clif- ton, where he hoped to find a market and purchase some supplies. Arnving at Sol- | omonville late Monday evening he camped on the premises of Justice Parks and was invited to spend the night with the fam- ily. Miss Merrill accepted this invitation, but Mr. Merrill preferred remaining with his team. Tuesday morning at an early hour, and before the family was astir, Mr. Merrill and his danghter resumed their journey and were never seen again untila short time before they fell victims to the treachery of the murderous Apache. It was Sheriff Jobn A. Black who saw them at this time. It was late in the af- ternoon, as he was hurrying to his home at Duncan that he met them. as they were ascending a long hill lymg between two mountains, and just before they entered the Box Canyon in which they met their death. Mr. Merrill and his daughter were walking beside the wagon, and the girl was singing a hymn as he appeared in sight. When he reached them Mr. Mer- rill inquired the distance to Ash Spring, where is to be found the only fresh water for miles, and where he hoped to water his horses, cook his supper and push on to the river as soon as the moon was up. He | that the bodies were rapidly growing cold | he placed quilts under their heads and | covering them with blankets released one | of the wagon-horses, on which he placed | his saddle, and leaving his own tired horse | rode rapidly to Duncan, where he in- formed Deputy Sheriff Black of the mur- ders. Justice J. R. Haynie was awakened and after impaneling a Coroner’s jury pro- ceeded immediately to the scene. It was a scene well fit for the modern ealistic drama. The moonbeams strug- led through the pinon bushes, relieving the gloom and darkness at times; the men standing with uncovered heads as they took the oath to do their whole duty; | the bodies lying stark and cold in the road- way, the white-canvas covered wagon drawn up by the side of a great bowlder, the sighing breeze mingling with the sub. | dued tones of human voices, all made a | scene well worthy of reproduction. | Mr. Waters and Deputy Sheriff Black | identified the bodies, and a verdiet impli- cating the Indians was found. This con- clusion was reached because of the mocca- sin tracks, and it was found that there were.at least six in the band. Immedi- Iately upon receiving this verdict Deputy | Sheriff Black deputized a few of the men present and started on the trail, following the Apaches northward along the road to Duncan. About half a mile from the scene he found Miss Merrill’s purze. In this was a ring—her betrothal ring. | Miss Merrill was an attractive girl, ac- | complished, talented, dignified and stately and was known through that section as the “Belle of the Upper Gila.” Horatio H. Merrill came to Arizona about ten years ago from Smithfield, Cache County, Utah, where he had lived for twelve years. He located on Cotton- wood Wash, and spent $2000 trying to re- claim a ranch on thedry wash. Being un- successful he moved his family to Pima, and since his residence there has labored incessantly to retrieve his fortunes. He was well liked by his neighbors in fhe Upper Gila Valley. The *‘0ld Spanish trail from Santa Fe to the Great Salt Lake,” as the Spaniards called it, or the Duncan road as it is now called, is deserted, for no one cares to travel its lonely length after the recent tragedy, which has caused a thrill of horror to run throughout Arizona. The crops are neglected, for thie women will not be left alone; customers forget that they are customers and wish to buy, and the venders forget that they have something to sell, and the day is passed in talking over the details of tiis tragedy. Mr. Mer- rill had identified himself with the best interests of his home and of Arizona, and now that he is no more his memory is mourned. Heand his daughter—the belle of the Upper Gila—sleep together beneath the sighing pinon bushes on the mountain side, but their deaths will be avenged. MCCUSES HER ATTORNE, Mme. Poupion Repeats an Unsuc- cessful Charge Made Ten Years Ago. Lawyer Bull Denounces the Action as a Baseless Attempt to Injure Him Publicly. A complaint was filed with the Bar As- sociatson yesterday by Mwme. Poupion, re- newing charges against Attorney Franklin P. Bull that she made nearly ten years ago, and from which he was completely ex- onerated at the time by the same associa- tion. What is peculiar about the matter is the evident intent to give the accusationa wide publicity. Copies of the charges were furnished all the papers at the time the originals were filed. Inquiry and com- parison show that the charges are a rehash of what was long ago proved to be a fruit- less and unfounded attempt to impeach her former counsel. The complaint accuses Mr. Bull of em=- bezzlement, and is brought under a sec- tion of the Penal Code in which it is pro- vided that any attorney using deceit or collusion, with intent to deceive the court or others, is guilty of a misdemeanor. In it Josephine A. C. Poupion avers that in 1881, while she was in France, she left her property at 26 Mission street in charge of a man, to whom she gave the power of attorney, but that:be lost the papers, and when she returned a year later she found two men in possession under a purported lease from her husband. In the course of the next year she succeeded in having the occupanis lecally ejected, and secured a judgment for $300as back rent. Meanwhile, she asserts, a judgment had been rendered against her on a fraudulent promissory note for $2200, payment on which, it "bad been agreed, should be de- ferred ten years. The basis of this pay- 5 ment, it is claimed, was the lost power of attorney, which had fallen into the hands of the opposing counsel. cIn 1885, the following year, having bee ome disgusted, she sa with her attor- neys, she employed Franklin P. Bull to represent her in an appeal taken by the man who had held possession of her house. Mr. Bull, so she claims, was to be compen- sated for his services only in the event of his succeeding in baving the §2200 fraudu- lent judgment set aside and in collecting the $300 back-rent claim against the appellant. She credits Mr. Bull with having won the appeai, but accuses him of baving collected $1100 from a surety on the appeal bond and applied it to the amount due him as fe: The result is that Mme. Poupion de- clares that Mr. Bull never made any effort to set aside the $2200 judgment, and in consequence she had to pay $1600 to keep from losing her property, besides being out of pocket the money collected on her account and appropriated as pay by him without her consent. She claims that Mr. Bull was of no as- sistance to her, as she finally gained pos- session of her property by force after waiting without satisfaction for the law to assist her, and that Mr. Bull neglected so long to attend to the fraudulent judgment that the statute of limitations has lapsed and cut her off from relief. Franklin P. Bull when seen about the matter yesterday said: “It is practically the same complaint they brought about ten years ago, and which the Bar Association passed upon and exonerated me completely. “It is false that I ever agreed to attempt to have that judgment against her for $2200 set aside, for I was not employed by her until a year after it was rendered, and the time for taking an appeal had already lapsed. It wasa judgment rendered by consent of both parties and it could not be set aside. “She and ber friend Tefeyre were ar- rested five times for going out to her house and threatening with pistols to clean the people out. I represented her in those five criminal cases and won them all for her. **According to her agreement the rents were to be devoted to the payment of the amount of the judgment, and it was re- duced to about $1600 when I turned over the rest in Judge Hunt's court and took the clerk’s receipt, which I now have. ‘‘Here is the written agreement that was made with me when I became her attor- ney: SAN FRANCISCO, CAL,, Feb. 20, 1886, Weor either of us do hereby agree and ur dertake 1o pay to Franklin P. Buli any and all sums of money advanced by said Bull for our or either of our benefit in any litigation which he may have been engaged for us or either of us; said amounts to bear interest at the rate of 10 per cent per annum_irom date of advance- ment until paid, and said payments to become due on the rendering of decision or disinissal of the case of Poupion vs. Muzo et al. No. 11,- 472 by the Supreme Court of the State of Cali- fornia, THEODORE LEFEVRE. CLARA POUPION. “That was the ejectment case that [ won on appeal. But when it was settled she had nothing to pay me, and I sued upon the bond for about $1100, which I agreed to take for my fees and the amounts due me, although my claim amounted to much more than that. They were in court at the time judgment was rendered and when I got the $1100. “This tack is simply taken to injure me before the public, as is evident from the circulation of duplicate copies of the charge. “I do not think that the committee of the Bar Association will ever take it up. The records themselves are the best proofs that the charge is an absolute falsehood.” George F. Gordon of the law firm of Gor- don & Young, formerly chairman of the committee of complaint of the Bar Asso- ciation, said yesterday that he had looked into the charge some time ago and had found nothing in it. Arthur Rodgers, the present chalrman of the coiumittee, was not in his office, but his associate said that the complaint was a revival of old charges investigated by the committee and found without any grounds whatever. e The Wolf Eviction. John F. Fulton, who was referred to Jast Sunday as having evicted Nicholas and Jane Wolf for non-payment of rent, writes stating that he has not owned the prop- erty in question for some time. He adds that the present owner, John Walker, was obliged to resort to extreme lawful meas- ures, as it was utterly impossible to collect any rent from the persons concerned. He says: “Mrs. Wolf is not a sick woman :Sd no unfair advantage was taken of them.” IN GAY LOS ANGELES, John ‘W. Dwight and Miss Emma S. Childs Are Married. ‘WEDDED AMID FLOWERS. Bishop Mora, Assisted by Bishop Montgomery, Performs the Ceremony., MANY SAN FRANCISCO GUESTS. The Creme de la Creme of Society of the Two Cities Attends the Function. LOS ANGELES, DiL, Dec 10.— The marriage of Miss Emma 8. Childs, eldest daughter of Mrs. Emeline Childs, to John W. Dwight of New York was solemnized by Bishop Mora, assisted by Bishop Mont- gomery of the Catholic church, this | Misses Craig, Mr. and Mrs. Marcus Childs, Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Cline, Mr._and Mrs. Ozro W. Childs, Albert F. Crank, Redmond A. Chad* wick, Volney H. Craig, Mrs. Mary Cooper. Mr, and Mrs. Richara Dillon, Miss Molly Dil- lon, Mr. and Mrs. James R. Dupuy, Rev. Mr. Barchi, Robert Dupuy, Mr. and Mrs. George Denis, Miss Gnadaloupe Dominguez, Miss Isa- belle del Valle, Professor Ethelbert Dowlen, Ellis, Mr. and Mrs. A. Elderkin, Mr. and Mr ie Benton Fremont, N m Friezner, Mr. and Forman, Miss Eloise Forman, Mrs. Mary D. Flournoy, Thomas Flournoy, Daniel Freeman, . Fleming, Mr. and Mrs. Ar- nry J. Fleishman, Mr. and fot Worcester Ficld. 31 #nd Mrs. Andrew Glassell Jr., M. L. Graff, Griffin, Mrs. M. L. Giaves, Mr.and Mrs. Griffitn, Mr. and Mrs. Gorham, Miss Bessie Gorham, Mrs. L. C. Goodwin, Mr. and Mrs. Juck Griffith, W. Garland, Mr.'and Mrs. Harry Gorham, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Glassell. Mr.and Mrs. Hubbell, Dr. and Mrs. F. P, Howard, Mr. and Mrs. Hermann Heliman, Miss Frieda_'Hellman, Mr. and Mrs. Sumner P. Hunt. Mr. and Mrs. Godirey Holterhoff, Dr. Mre. and JMrs. John K. Haynes, Miss Mary Hoyt, Mrs. Victoria Hurrell. Mr. Charles Edwsrd | F: IHuber, Miss Louise Huber, Miss Gertrude . W. P. Hicks, Mr, and Mrs. Hamil- Nealie Hamilton, Mrs. Hollenbeck. red B. Hendérson, Mr. and Mrs. Frank 8. Hicks, Miss Hotchkiss, Rev. Mr. Harnett. Mrs. Jhmes Irvine. Senator and Mrs. J. P. Jones, Mr. and Mrs, Roy Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Hancock Johnson, Miss Alice Jones, Mr. Charles Jeffries, Mrs. Al bert Sidney John: Mr. and Mrs. Kerckhoff, ) George King, Mr. and M May Kenealy, Mr. lam, Mr. and Mrs. William Kerckhoff. Harry Latham, Sophie Lacy, Mr. and . Henry C. Le and Mrs, Thomas Lewls, . Frauk_Lecouyreur, Mr. and Mrs! . Lester, Miss Ludovici, Mrs, M Lankershin Mr. and M Miss Anna Mullins, Miss Mamie Mullins, Mr. and Mrs. Dan McFar- land, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Macneil, Bishop Montgomery, Right Rev. Francis Mora, Dr. and Mrs. Granville McGowan, Mr. and Mrs. John ieorge Hansen, Mr. and Mrs, James How- | i | i | Judge and_Mrs. Ralph C. Harrison, Mr. and Mrs. John Downey Harves, Captain and Mrs. M. A Healy, Mr. and Mrs. T, W. Hellman, Mr. Marco Hellman, Mrs. Dixwell Hewitt, Mr.'and | Mrs. Horace Hill, Miss Nellie Hiliyer, Miss Ho- bart, Mr. Walter S Hobart. Mr. and Mrs, Charles N. Holbrook, Mr. E.Burke Holladay, Mr. and_Mrs. 8. W. Holla iss_Jennie | Hooker, Mr. and Mrs. George ward, Gen- | eral and Mrs.J. F. Houghton, Miss Minnie | Houghton, Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Huntington, Miss Clara_Huntington, Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Hare, Mrs, Hichtcock, Mr. and Mrs. Timothy HopkKins. Mr. end Mrs. Harry Jerome. Mrs. Frederick Kohl, Miss May Kohl, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Knight, Major and Mrs. Kimball, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph 8. Kuhun, Lieutenant Reynolds Landis, Mr. and Mrs, George R. Lent, Mr. and Mrs.Charles Laton, Mr. and Mrs 1. Loughborough, Miss Lough- borough, Miss Ella Lawrie, Lieutenant and Lyman, Mrs. George Loomis, Mr. and Lester. Captain Marion P. Mans, Dr. and Mrs .Bey- erly MacMonagle, Edward Martin, Walter 8. Martin,Andrew Martin, Peter Martin, Miss Mary | D. McNutt, Judge and’ Mrs. L. W. MeKinstry, | Miss Laura McKinstry, George H. Mendell Jr., | Miller, Edgar A, Mizoer, Mr. Louis F. Monteagle, Mr. and’ Mrs. S. Moody, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel C. Murphy, Mr. and Mrs. S. G. Murphy, Miss Ethel Murphy, Rev. McSweeney, Mr. and Mrs. McLaughlin, Miss McLaughlin, Mr. and Mrs. L. J. McCutches Walter S. Ne M whall, l;eorgc:} Newhall, Lieu- | tenant Robert IH. Noble, Mi: ssie Newland. | Miss O’Connor, Maud O'Connor, Miss Celia | 0O’Connor, Mrs. C. D. O’Sullivan. James i) Phelan, Horace Platt, Mr. and Mrs. Pope. . J. Prendergast, William M. Randall, shop P. W. Riordan, Mr. and Mrs. Ar” thur_Rodgers, Dr. George M. Richardson, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Rising, Judge and Mrs. C. T. tyland, the Misses Ryland, John R. Ryland, C. Ryland, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Ryland, 8. M. P, Rutherford. Mr. and Mrs. Edward G. Schmidell, Mrs. Henry Schmidell, Mr. and Mrs. H. Schussler, the Misses Schussler, Mr. and Mrs, Henry C. Scott, Colonel and Mrs. W. R. Shafter. Edward H. Sheldon, Mrs. George C. Shreve, Miss Bessie | Shireve, Mrs. Charles H. Simpkins, Harry R. Sumpkins, A. H. Small, Colin McRae Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Sprague, James Brett Stokes, Dr.and Mrs. James F. Sullivan, Dr. MR. AND MRS. J. W. DWIGHT (NEE [Reproduced from photographs.] evening at the home of the bride. Miss Hortense Childs, a sister of the bride, was maid of honor and Hon. J. Sloat Fassett of New York was best man. The ushers were Colonel Fred Crocker of San Francisco and Mr. James Slauson of Los Angeles. Miss Ruth Childs, a sis- ter of the bride, and Miss Edith Shorb were the bridesmaids. : Tne ceremony occurred at 8:30 o’clock in the presence of a few intimate friends, after which a reception was given at 9 o’clock to a large number of guests. The bride was attired in a handsome gown of white satin with cascades of point blossoms. The bodice, made high-necked with close sleeves, was trimmed with tulle and seed pearis and carried bou- quets of the same flowers. The groom and attendants wore full evening dress, with buttonnieres of the bride’s flower. The parlors were exquisitely decorated in white and pink orchids, green palms, papyrus and trailing branches of the deli- cate asparagus plumosa. A horn of vlenty filled with the same beautiful blossoms was suspended under the arch of the bay-window, under which the bridal party stood. The veranda and entrance were screened in and handsomely decorated with palms, papyrus and ropes of smilax. The bride is a native of Los Angeles, a daughter of one of the oldest and most prominent families of Southern Califor- nia. The name of her father, 0. W. Childs, deceased, is connected with the early history of the city and some of its most conspicuous business enterprises. The groom is a prominent business man, the president of a Dakota land company, with headquarters in New York, where the couple will reside. After an extensive Eastern tour Mr.and Mrs. Dwight will sail for Europe on January 8. The invited guests in this city were: Rev. J. Adams, Mrs. Ainsworth, Dr. F. K. Ainsworth, Miss Alden, John M. Austin, Rev. Mr. Antil. »irs. L. L. Bradbury, Misses Bradbury, Mr. and Mrs. Hancock Benning, Mrs, Mary Ban- ning, Miss Mary Bauning, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Banning, Mrs. R. L. Baker, Captain William Banning, Mrs. Mary Ann Briggs, Mr. and Mrs. William R. Burke, Mr. and Mrs. William B. Bishop, Mrs. Thomas Brown, Mrs, Adelaide Brown.Mr.and Mrs. Harry Brown, Miss Kate Brousseau. Mr. and Mrs. Telfair Creighton, Mr. and Mrs. Caroline Cole, Miss Grace Cole, Schuyler Cole, Willoughby Cole, Seward Cole. Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Clark, Hon. William Clark, Mr. Cabot, Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Carpenter, Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Conroy, Mr. and Mrs, James Craig, lace on the skirt, caught up with orange | Mossin, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Montgomery, Mr. and Mis. D, Mason, Mr. McLellan, Miss May McLellan, Rev. M. M. McAuliffe, Rev. A. Jo Meyer, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Monroe. Mr. snd Mrs, Henry Newhall, Felix Notman, W. H. W. Norris, Mr. and Mrs. J. C, Newton. Mr. and Mrs. john E. Plater, Mr. and Mrs. iam Pridbam, Mr, ana Mrs. George Patten. Miss Susie Patten. Re Richardson, Judge and Mrs, Erskine M. Ross, General Rosecrans, Miss Anita Rose- crans, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Kosecrans, Mrs. Pey- ton Randolph. Mrs. Francisca Shepard, Mrs. J. J. Schallart, . Caroline § ance, Mr. and Mrs. Mark Sibley Severance, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Silent, Judge and Mrs. Charles Silent, Mr. and Mrs. 1 uson, James Slauson, Mr. and Mrs. J. o rth Shorb, Miss Edith Shorb, MissRa- mona Shorb, Miss Ethel Shorb, Mrs. Campbell Shorb, Mr. and Mrs. de Barth Shorb Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Otheman Stevens, Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Stamm, George Stamm, Fred Stamm, Mr. and Mrs. Sheller, Mrs. Charles Strong, Misses Strong, Frank Schumacher, culonei George Smith, Mr. and Mrs, T. D.Stimson, Miss Isidora Scott. Mr. and Mrs. Cameron 8, Thom, James Tri- man, Mr. and Mrs. Francis Thomas, Miss Towel, Mrs. Walter Thorner. Dr. and Mrs. J. H. U"V?Iy. Mr. and_Mrs. Hugh W. Vail, Mr. and Mrs. J. Vosburg, Mr. and Mrs. I. N. Van Nuys, Mrs. %m_w]lner C. Vose, Miss Lizzie Vail, Mrs, M. K. ail. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Wolfskill, Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Watkins, Senator and Mrs. Stephen White, Mrs. B. C. Whitney, Mrs. Winston, Miss Win- ston, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Wheeler, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Workman, Miss Mary Workman, Miss Lizzie Workman, Mr. and Mrs. Boyle Workman, Will Workman, Mrs. B. D. Wilson, Miss Nannie Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. Charles 8. Walton, Mr. and Mrs. Bhirley Ward, Marion Wigmore, Miss Carrie Waddilove, Mr. and Mrs. James Winston, Mr. and Mrs. DWHM Whiting, Mrs. Rebecca Whiting, Dr. and Mrs, H. Worthington, William Wolters. ~The invited guests from San Francisco were: Mrs. Caroline L. Ashe, Miss Bettie Ashe, Mr. and Mrs. Gaston M. Ashe, Miss Ella Adams, Everett N. Bee, Lieutenant Harry C. Benson, Lientenant Charles Lyman Bent, Miss Jennie Blair, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Blanding, Miss Lena Blanding, Mrs. Marcus Boruck, Miss Flor- ence Boruck, Miss Mary Bowen, Mrs. Denton B. Brown, Miss Anna Brown, Mr.and Mrs. James W. Brown, Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Brugu- jere, Louis Brugueire, Miss Mary H. Burling, Mrs. James W. Bryne, Callaghan Byrne, Mrs. John Brice Jr, Colonel Georgett and Mrs. Bur- ton, Miss Betiie Bre: , Mr. Thomas Brinny. Lieutenant 8idney A, Cloman, Mr. and Mrs. James Carolan, Mrs. Eugene Casserly. Miss Casserly, John Casserly, Miss Edith Coleman, Mr. and Mrs. Evan_J. Coleman, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Coleman, Mrs. Lillie H. Coit, Colortel Charles F. Crocker, Mrs. Clark W. Crocker, Miss Crocker, Miss Julia Crocker, Mr. and Mrs. Henry J. Crocker, Miss Ellen Chabot’ Richard C. Croxton. Welter Leonard Dean Jr., Mrs. Peter Dona- hue, Mrs. V. Carnes Driffield, Lieutenant J. A. Dapray, Mrs. N. P. Dietz, Miss Mary Dietz. rs. A. M. Easton, Miss Mary Eyre, Misses Findley, Mrs. Thomas Findley, Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Frank, Charles N. Felton Jr., General Forsyth, Samson L. Faison, Dr. and Mrs. J. Gallwey, Mrs. W. F. Goad, Mr. and Mrs. Adam Grant, Joseph D. Grant, Edward M. Greenway, Mrs. . Gwin, Mrs. Carrie Gwin. Mrs. John L. , the Misses Hager, Miss Ethel Hager, Mr. and‘ Mrs. W. P. Harrington, Miss Louise Harrington, Miss Harrington CHILDS). William Sullivan, Miss Angela Sullivan, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Sewell, Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Swift. George P. Tallant, Mr. and Mrs. William S. Tevis, Mrs. M. B. M. Toland, Mrs. A. N. Towne, Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Theobald, Mr.and Mrs. Thompson, Hugo Toland. Mr. 8nd Mrs. T. C. Van Ness, Miss Daisy Van Ness, Baron and Baroness. von Schroder, Dr. and Mrs, Alfred H. Voorbie Miss Marie Voor- hies, Mrs. John R. Vail. 4 Judge and Mrs. W. T. Wallace, Miss Romietta Wallace, Mrs. F. J. White, Misses White, Dr. and Mrs. Wiliiam S. Whitwell, Mrs. M. A. Wil cox, Alfred H. Wilcox, Mr. and Mrs. Russell J. Wilton, Lientenant Frank L. Winn, Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Wood, Miss Eleanor Wood, Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Woods, Mrs. Ralph C, Wool- worth, Miss Woolworth, Mr. and Mrs. Clinton E. Worden, Miss Williams, Miss Maric Zane. | BICYCLING ‘PRICE AT VANCOUVER. The War Writer Tells of Fabulous Wealth in the Antipodes. RIVALS SOUTH AFRICA. A Gold-Producing Region That Has as Yet Been Scarcely Prospected. IN AUSTRALIA. How the Only Zimmerman Won the Hearts of a Multitude at Sydney. VANCOUVER, B. C., Dec. 12.—Julius Price. the famous London News war cor- respondent, who crossed Siberia in the winter of 1890 with Wiggins’ expedition and sent English goods successfully to Siberia by the Kara Sea, and who in 1885 | accompanied a Transvaal expedition, was a passenger on the Miowera to-day from Australia. Price was sent to Western Australia in the interests of his paper. He has made £50,000 by fortunate specula- tion and is preparing an elaborate account of his travels. For an Englishman, Julius Price is ex- tremely enthusiastic. He says that West- ern Australia is “reeking with gold;” that the mines are much richer and more endur- ing than those of South Africa. Schin- iesser, the’ world-known German Govern- ment expert, who was in the main respon- sible for the South African boom, told him that he shared his opinion. Price says that the excitement at present in West Australia is intense. That country is scarcely prospected yet. On November 16, at the Sydney cricket grounds, 30,000 enthusiastic Australians surged and swayed and waved their arms in wild excitement as the phenomenal American wheelman, Zimmerman, won the final in the great international cycle race. Australians love sport, and no mat- ter who wins, if he has ridden a fair race, he will get plenty of deserved applause. Martin, the long-distance champion of America, rode pluckily and was loudly cheered, but the applause grew tremen- dous when Zimmerman appeared, slowly pedaling onto the track from the American dressing-rooms, over which floated the stars and stripes. The race of the day was the half-mile championship of Australia. Zimmerman was put against two Australian flyers in the first heat—McInnes and Burk. He won easily in 1:21)4. The winners of the other three heats were Parsons, Ireson and Lewis, all Australians. The Italian, English and German riders were badly beaten. In the final Zimmerman seemed in superb condition, and looked to be play- ing with his competitors. He won easily by thirty yards, but gave the impression that he could have made a wide gulf much wider. It wasa pretty race, and the crowd made a grab for him to bear him in trinmph on their shoulders. He begged to be let alone, and they kept their hands off him, but he had to be escorted to his dressing-room by a body guard. The great American rider is called “Zimmy’’ all over Australia, and every sport in the Antipodes is talking about him. He is pestered with invitations to banquets in his honor, and is the subject of many medical examinations. A board of physicians, after making a careful ex- amination, solemnly announced that the American’s heart was two ounces larger than a human heart should be, and for that reason it beat slower than that of any other rider in the world and he was thus prevented from becoming unduly pros- trated in a quick or violent exertion. SELMA’S Farmers Given a Paying Market for Products of the Dairy. SELMA, Can, Dec. 9.—Selma’s new creamery started on Monday under the happiest auspices. The farmers are well pleased with the prospect of having an en- terprise located here that will insure them a good price for their butter product. Many more applications were made for cans than could be filled. Ranch butter 1s out of fashion and only first-class creamery goes. Selma is situated in the center of one of the finest alfalfa producing sections in the State. Heretofore the hay hasbeen shipped | to market, but it will now be feZ at home. The acreage in alfalfa is already consideras ble, and it is believed that many vineyards that donot yield profitable crops will be dug up and alfalia olanted. That has already been done to some extent during the past season, and now that there is a protitable market for milk the good work will continue. NEW CREAMERY. NEW TO-DAY. 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