The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 8, 1896, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1896. REDWOOD'S BIG SUIT The Potter Removal Case May Be Reopened at Once. NEW EVIDENCE FOUND. Miller & Lux Check Given to a San Francisco Woman by the Executor. SHE REFUTES HIS TESTIMONY. He Had Sworn That a Ranch Employe Received and Cashed the Draft. REDWOOD CITY, Car for the removal of Je utor of the Charles Lux estate sed about a month ago, and since > the decision of Superior Judge | been looked forward to with co There were manv spec- t when the ruling might ected, although from the very ininz Judge Buck has held no hurry about i t the case m nces demand s ¥s az0, on application of d J. H. Cam ttorneys for oners in the s Jan. 7.—The ulations as to j tions taken deceased. ty the next nes: with iim to recall his n San Fran- case had been duly t be reopened. But f against Attorney and the taking of day and labc dge Buck to i n: J. F. Johnstoun mmoned to San s cailed upon to produce rawn by Jesse Potter & Lux in favor of , and indorsed * eck was an exhibit Potter to cause of the Charles trial Potter tes- was 2 roustabout and that Brown after- returned h remit- o & Co.'s was with the Potter told on the trial. It was t that @ woman witness testified tter was on a visit to her house in . where he called for pen and w the check, telling her not to whereupon she got E. 1d the check was ashed by Miller & Lux. =@ that this testimony is a son, ys there has beena | nd fro of the vari- in the outcome of | isa vague whis- | s during the recent i Pillsbury main- the attempt was being made secution todraw from Defend- »ny to feed the Miranda situation to-d in the Mi- Lux matter may also be doubled up o try and accomplish his down- t ou = e THE WINE FLOWED. Storles of Jesse Potter’s Revelry Told by Mrs. Sadle Young in Affidavits. & Miller case is re- g will be the cen- and others have ced account- in 1893 Jesse x, deceased, | ith her for oprietress of a street, of whose At the able cus- ing with other house at reputation th time Mr. Pot ton vits. They are in corroborating Mrs. | 1 of them are upon that | stion. Young, P v flowed even faster than Young does not 1se to sell liquor made a little memo- 1sed. memoranda ms apart of a set of very simple books. When the ac- counts amounted to several hundred dol. | lars she would make out a hittle bill and get money. Mr. Potter’s last little bill amounted to $800. | He paid tbis graciously enough. check he gave her was for $800. It was payable to bearer and was honored | ‘presentation. This was early in The 1 Not ¢ more was said of this till about a mo . Then, she says,th one of whom was Ross Whitta Juse ana questioned her, Th the amount of wine Mr. Potter had nd she had then been called on edetectives, | eT, went to | . Howarth, the housekeeper for | Sadie Young, swore to Mr. Potter’s | t visits to the house and his wine- propensities. She had taken the r $800 around the corner to Ed Mr. Mar- her the money, which she took to her residence. -hand made affidavit to cashing The paving-teller of the bank atiidavit to having received it. The check 1tzelf is in evidence, so there can be no doubt as to Mr. Potter having incurred to Mrs. Young and set- ose in prepar- n be but one purp: i 1t would be to ing this mass of affidavits. show that Mr. Potter was careless of money, prodigal in his expeudm'xyes and a companion of dissolute women. There has been no indication as to how Mr. Potter’s attorneys will meet these charges in order to prevent his being deposed from his posi- tion. Petaluma’s Sensation. PETALUMA, Car., Jan. 7.—Harry H. Maynard was arrested here to-day on a e Sheldon Pot- | of counsel | | the trouble at once, but a messenger who | { they should go to war with the whites | name as Charles Crawford. | caster, Pa. charge of assault with a deadly weapon. This is the outcome of the sensational shooting of Winnie Gossage on the Lake- ville road several weeks ago. Mavnard entered a plea of not guilty and furnished $500 baik. oy ————— PASADENA’S ROMANCE. | 1 Crimes Confessed by a Young Mau Re- | cently Converted. LOS ANGELES. Car., Jan. 7.—The members of the South Pasadena Baptist Church, who had assembled at a prayer- meeting last evening, were astonished | when a young man, who had recently ex- perienced religion and who was a general favorite in the church, arose and stated | that he had a startling confession to make. The young man had appeared in Pasa- | dena about two months ago, giving his | He secured | employment in a store, ana became an at- tendant and then a convert in the First Banotist Church. In beginning his confession, the convert said that his true name was Albert Diffen- | derfer, and this parents lived at Lan-| “In April, 1894 said he, “I was sen- | tenced to the Reform School at Hunting- ton, Pa., for a period of four years. I was convicted on three diflerent charges of grand iarceny, and there is now hanging over m head another charge of forcible ch means burglary in this State. n the reformatory for one oled cn account of my good behavior and influence brought io bear by | father, who is a merchant in Lancas- | ter. GUESTS OF TRUCKEE, Nevada's Contingent Comes on a Special Train From Reno. TRIP TO DONNER LAKE. Visitors Treated to a Sleigh Ride and a Tournament on the Ice. ‘PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE. Success of the Carnival Leads to a Scheme for a Permanent Winter Resort. TRUCKEE, CaAr., Jan. 7.—An excursion I was obliged to report only at cer- | train from Reno brought 150 carnival vis- the cases will be fatal. unusual incident that has occurred during the carnival. Followmng Tue CALL's suggestion, the carnival managers have fenced off the level portion of the toboggan way from the route of the coasters. The double-rip- vers now have to make a sharp turn or go through the fence, and that makes the sport all the better for the boys. Two large sleighing parties came in from Prosser Creek this evening. Itis estimated that there are from 400 to 500 carnival guests here, and the residents are jubilant over this early indication of the success of the enterprise. There is little doubt that before the end can accommodate will be here. the assurance that these carnivals will be annual features, there is already talk of greatly enlarging the hotel facilities, and it is notimprobable that a new hotel will be built in this vicinity especially for a winter resort. An endeavor will be made to have the railroad company grant stop- over privileges on- all classes of tickets durine the carnival time next year. “The carnival is certainly going to be a success,” said Charles F. McGlashan of the carnival committee to-d “It is a success already. This is the first year of the enterprise, and of course, it is not easy to get people started toward a new field of amusement. Bu¢ the people of Truckee are satisfied with the undertaking. The directors do not expect that Eastern tour- This is the only | of the month all the visitors that the town | In view | of the popularity of the winter sport and | will be given prominence in connection | with it, the free use f the tribunes being | conceded the visiting association on all | but the floral procession day. The firemen’s programme is made out, | and will consist of running contests for | hose companies; department horserace: | a wet run, embracing runs to hydrants, | connection of and operation of hose, hose disconnections, transfers of hose and of hose sections; connection with pipe and sacond operation of hos. There will also | be hook ana ladder contest, singie ladder | contest, coupling contests and hub-and- | hub races, conciuding with a general field | day of athletic sports on Saturday, the closing day. No professional fireman will be permitted to compete, and, as these volunteers are a | splendid body of men, numbering some of the finest athletes in the State, the tourna- ment promises to be a notable one. The local volunteer corps, to whose | enterprise and intercession the city is | largely indebted for the arrangement which has secured this meet, has on their own part extended an invitation to the Exempt San Francisco firemen, the vet- eran organization of the State, to attena the carnival as its honored guests. SElesh L CLOVERDALE'S FAIR. Dates for the Annual Exhibit of Citrus Fruits and Wines Announced by the Directors. CLOVERDALE, CaL., Jan. 7.—The iy o S (R L1 1[ 3 T at NG SCENE AT THE CARNIVAL PALACE ICICLED CORKIDOR. IN TRUCKEE. WITH THE ELECTRIC ILLUMINATION OF THE [From a sketch made by a *Call” staff artist.] tain intervals to the superintendent of the | reformator; “I wantcd to lead a better life and wanted to get away from the scenes of my crimes and so resolved to run away, which I did, thereby forfeiting my paroie, and 1 have now three years to serve besides the charge of forcible entry.” The young man arrived at the Sheriff’s i this morning in company with teynolds. The story was related to § ff Burr, and he at once telecraphed to Huntington in regard to the matter. FLAGSTAFF'S WAR SCARE, Startling Rumors of a Navajo Uprising Prove to Have Been Exaggerated. The Posse Sent to Rescue Settlers“ Fails to Find Evidence of Se- i rious Trouble. “ ALBUQUERQUE, N. M., Jan. 7.—The startling ramor last night of an uprising of the Navajo Indians proves to have been exaggerated. A cowboy had ridden into Flagstaff at a breakneck speed and an- nounced that a band of twenty-five rene- gade Navajos had a number of white settlers surrounded at a place about forty miles distant and that relief must be sent immediately. The Sheriff of the county, | with & strcng posse, leit for the scene of | came in from the party to-day reports that the difficulty was but a slight one. While there is some trouble between a few of the Inaians and the white settlers in the immediate vicinity of the reservation in regard to the right of the Indians to graze their sheep on the publiclands, there is no general uprising of the Navajosora threat of one. The Navajos number about 25,000, and if | they would cause serious trouble, for they are all well armed. Roving bands occa- sionally commit depredations upon iso- lated settlers, as in this case, but the Indians have too much property at stake to 2o upon tue war h as a tribe. It has Leen learned that a small band of );.vg;os captured three cowboys who dis- puted the grazing right of the Indians. They were probably released before the Flagstaff posse arrived. MADERA. Cattle King Henry Milleyr Seceks to Dis- solve an Injunction. MADERA, Cawn, Jan. 7.—The case of Kutner & Huffman against Henry Miller came up in the Superior Court here to-day on a motion by the defendant to dissolve the injunction. The ground upon which Miller "relied in suppor.of his motion is that the injunction was irregularly issued, inasmuch as_where there was no great or irreparable damage threatened a suit for trespass and damage was the proper ac- tion. The matter was taken under advise- ment by Judge Conley. e ARGUED Ar e Flow of the Gold Reserve. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 7.—The gold reserve at the close of business to-day stood at $58,685,710. 3 itors to-day, and the town has been given | up to the Nevada people. The Truckee brass band met the excursionists at the depot and led the way through the ice vpalace, then giving a concert at the top of tie tobogzan-slide, while the guests crowded on the Canadian sleds for the trip through space. After noon a sleighing party was made up, and al! the Reno people were taken to Donner Lake and the big ice pond, where thereisa skating surface of twenty-five acres. Then there was more skating on the ponds in town and at the ice palace, for the residents of Reno are expert on the steel runners. The evening was devoted to the usual sports of the carnival, and there werea few social events about town. Another excursion is expected from the eastward on Friday, and it is understood here that a big party will come from Sacramento on | Sunday, when a round trip rate of about $5 will be offered at the capital city. The weather here has been rather mild for an ice carnival during the past two days, and a heavy snowstorm is predicted by local weather prophets. There was some excitement in the town to-night over the news that six of the men | emploved in cutting ice at the Truckee | | meadows bad been poisoned. These cm- ployes were at the big boarding-house on the lake, and 1t is supposed that the poison was contained in canned food. Some of the men were seriously ill, and was not a paysician within three miles of the place, but it is expected that none of except that those who travel this way may | stop over for a few hours. “The main patronage is expected from | the peopie of California and Nevada. To the Easterners an ice carnival is not the greatest attraction. is argued that the trip over the sum- mit of the Sierras and the sport here avail- able ought to be experienced by every Cali- fornia, and that the health benefits to be derived from the athletic exercises in the cold and rarefied air wiil be a great factor nivals,” 1 SANTA BARBARA’S FETE. ismm Firemen to Be Honored Guests at ‘ the Coming Carnival of ) Roses. ) SANTA BARBARA, Cav., Jan. 7.—The | Flower Festival Association is arranging | Its programme for the forthcoming spring festival, to be held on April 13, 14, 15 and 116, and a succession of charming and | brilliant spectacles is promised, far ex- | ceeding both in scove and attraction those | of any previous festival here. An importantfeauture to be incorporated with the great fete this year will be the | tournament of the Southern California | Association of Volunteer Firemen, which has selected Santa Barbara for its place of meeting this year, because of this city’s | when the symptoms were discovered there great liberality in the matter of prizes. This tournament, lasting four days, will l be coincident with the flower festival, and | in establishing the popularity of the car- | SAN RAFAEL ROMANCE Miss Ellen Gable Brings Suit Against Her Fiance. ACCUSATIONS OF FRAUD. The Time-Worn Tale of Faith- less Suitor and Trusting Maid Retold. HE SECURED ALL HER MONEY. | Forgot His Promise to Marry After She Had No More Gold to Give. SAN RAFAEL, Civ, Jan. 7.—A de- cidedly interesting and what promises to be a highly sensational suit has been filed with the County Clerk of Marin County, northern part of the county, is plaintiff, and Hugh McCormick and E. R. Samu-ls are named as defendants. Miss Gable ac- cuses Hugh McCormick, assisted by E. R. Samuels, of defranding her out of over $2000. In the complaint she sets forth the oft-repeated tale of the faitnless suitor and a trusting maiden. The parties to the ac- tion are well known in the northern part of the county, where they reside. Some time ago Ellen Gable bestowed her was apparently a hard-working sort of fellow, and he in turn appeared to love the fair Ellen. After they had been keeping company for some time he promised to marry her, but said at the time that he was hardly prepared to do so from a finan- cial standpoint and represented to Miss | Gable that he needed at least $2000 to fix | up his farm and build a house in which they could live together as man and wife. Miss Gable possessed some means and, trusting bim implicitly, readily advanced the money he needed. In all, so she sets forth in her complaint, she advanced $2100, believing that he would marry her. All | | this occurred in 1894, and he has not mar- ried Miss Gable and refuses to give up the $2100. The plaintiff further alleges that De- fendant E. R. Samuels, whom she has hold its fourth annual exhibition at Hum- bert’s Pavilion on January 29, 30 and 31 This was decided at a meeting of the board of directors—John Field (president), W. T. Brush, M. Menihan, George B. Baer, F. ‘W. Brush and C. E. Humbert—last night. The citrus fair this year will be more | than a local affair. The whole of Sonoma | County is taking a lively interest in it al- ready and displays by the several towns in the county will form interesting features | of the exhibition. Among the displays will be Sonoma County wines, famous all over the world. Of course everything will be subordinate to the citrus fruit displays, which will this year equal anything of the kind seen at the Midwinter Fair. Fear 1s entertained that the pavilion will not be large enough to hold all the dis- plays; stili those that it will contain will | be worth coming miles to see. The orange crop this year around Clover- dale is thrice that of last year, and the fruitis large in size and luscious in taste. Trees are loaded to the ground with both oranges and lemons. . TACOMA £L SUIT. Evidence in the Mineola-Strathnevis Suit Taken. TACOMA, Wasw., Jan. 7.—Tha examina- tion of witnessesin behalf of the steamship Mineola, libelant of the steamer Strath- nevis, was continued to-day before United States Commissioner Worden. ' The evi- dence was ail in by noon, allowing the | steamer Mineola to depart for Honolulu. { The salvage claim of the Mineola is $150- 1 000. The case will be tried here during | tbe February term of court. A CARNIVAL SCENE ON THE TRUCKEE MEADOWS, NOW COVERED WITH WHERE THE MURPHY CABIN STOOD IN THE DONNE [Sketched yesterday by a “ Call” staff artist.] ICE, THE WOODEN CROSS SHOWING R PARTY DAYS. | | Simple made a party to the case, has colluded with | | McCormick in order to defraud her out of the money she advanced to McCormick. | She charges that on October 15, 1895, Mec- Cormick, without any consideration, exe- cuted and aelivered toSamuels a mortga | on his property to secure a promissory | note executed by him to Samuels on the | same day for the sum of $2100, with in- terest at 8 per cent. This was done, she | declares, to defraud her, and she wnnls‘ | relief from the court. Miss Gable is determined to fight the | case to the bitter end, as she considers that McCormick has treated her in an outrageous manner. PALO ALTO EVERTS. University Orators Seemingly Not Anxious to Enter the Intercollegiate Contest. 7.—Students are busy now getting ready for a long semester’s work. With but one week’s recess at Easter, there will be no further break in university instruction for | nearly five months, when the long sum- ists will come here in any great numbers, | Cloverdale Citrus Fair Association will'; mer vacation begins. The postponement of the Stanford suit was a disappointment to the students, all of whom have the university’s inter- ests at heart, and are desirous of seeing a vexatious litigation brought to an end. No appointment has been made to the vacancy cansed by Professor Hussey’s de- likely that such appointment will be made for some time, 2 2 The Daily Palo Alto this evening pub- in which Miss Ellen Gable, living in the | affections upon Hugh McCormick, who | STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Car., Jan. | T | lished a letter from Mrs, Stanford, in which she thanked those students who saved the chemical laboratory from a ruine ous fire during December. | From present indications it would seem that Stanfsrd wiil have a bard time select- ing her debaters to meet Berkeley in the intercollegiate match. So large a number of condidates are daropping from the list that there is anxiety felt lest Stanford be | unrepresented when time 1s called. The debate next Saturday evening isthe first of a series of three. These six orators take part: Nello Johnson’96, J. T. Burcham '97 and W, P. Harrington for the affirm- | ative, and A. M. Cathcart 96, G. L. W liams and Cecil Smith for the negative, The question is: “Resolved, that United States Senators should be elected by popus lar vote.” | | i 1 g b AR PUYALLUP. | 1 WRECK Freight Cars Ditched by the Breaking of an Axle. SEATTLE, Wasn., Jan. 7.—A Northern Pacific coal train, heavily laden, from Car- bonado to Tacoma, was wrecked this after- | noon in a big cut about half way between Puyallup and the Indian Reservation bridge. No loss of life resulted, though the engine and fifteen or twenty cars were ditched, being piled three and four deep in places. Tile rails were torn up, some of them being bent and twisted into every | imaginable shape. | Local trains between Seattle and Tacoma | have been abandoned, though the North- ern Pacific officials say they expect to get the wreck sufliciently cleared and the tracks relaid in time for the regular Port- | Iond train, due at 6:50 o’clock, to reach | Seattic oy midnight. |~ The cause of the accident was the break- ing of an axle on one of the cars about | the middle of the train,in which there were thirty or forty cars. All the cars fol- lowing were ditched and both rails of the track were torn up by the drazging axle for a distance of nearly a half mile. SHNTA CRUL SENSATON, August C. Hihn Fined by Judge [ Logan for Contempt of Court. He Had Ignored an Order to Produce a Lease Wanted as Evi- dence. | SANTA CRUZ, Car., Jan. 7.—Angnst C, Hihn, president of the F. A. Hihn Com- pany, was to-day adjudged guilty of con- tempt of court and ordered to pay 2 fine of $100 or serve fifty daysin the county jail. The cese of Hofiman vs. F. A. Hihn has been in court for the past few days, and in | the proceedings it was ordered yesterday | that the Hibn Company produce a lease of the Pacific Ocean House, which was to be used as evidence by the plaintiffs, who wished to prove that the defendant received $500 which had never been accounted for. It was ordered by the court that the lease ve brought into court at 10 o’clock this morning. When the case was called this morning the lease had not been handed in and a half hour more was given for its pro- duction. August Hihn went upon the | witness-stand ana was examined. When the half hour was up the lease was not forthcoming, and then Judge Logan said: “Yesterday I made an order that the | lease should be produced in court at10 o’clock to-day, and I am of the opinion from the evidence that it is under the con- | trol of the witness on the stand, and that he can produce it. If not his attorney | The witness is in contempt of this court, |and is fined $100 or fifty days in the | county jail, or $2 for every day.” | The commitment was drawn and served [on Mr. Hihn by Sheriff Besse. This after- | noon the fine of $100 was paid and the lease was delivered in court. el Eilks Lawnch a Koseburg Lodge. ROSEBURG, Or., Jan. 7.— Roseburg Lodge No. 326, B. P. 0. Elks, was insti- | tuted to-day with fifty charter members. | A special car from Portland brought forty- seven Elks, who were met by a committee | accompanied by the Knights of Pythias | Band and escorted to neadquarters. The | day was spent in organizing and initiating. 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