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6 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1896. AN EFFORT T0 SAVE THE BOYS, Friends of Majors and Will- more Urge Reform Measures. | APPEALING TO VICTIMS. The Men Who Were Robbed Will Be Asked to Give Their Assistance. WHY MAJORS SR. WAS HANGED. Lawyer J. Richards’ Reminiscences of the Famous Murder Trial Twelve Years Ago. OAKLAND OFFICcE SAN FrANCISCO CALL,} 908 Broadiay, Feb. 8. § Now that the excitement concermng the arrest of the boy burglars and safe- crackers has subsided and the youthful prisoners have told their stories, there are not wanting those who think that the prisoners should be kept from going to State prison. It is evident to all who have passed a few hours in the boys’ com- pany that they do not realize the enormity of the many crimes they have committed. The lads are not desperadoes; they are reckless, thoughtless boys. They are not sentimental, and there is nothing babyish | about them, but neither are they entirely callous. There is probably a great deal of truth in the story té!d by Majors, that his first ideas of burglary and safe-cracking were inspired by a story of crime and the methods of carrying it out. The part thatis most puzzling is that played by Mrs, Wilimore. All the police officials that have investigated the details of the case, from the Chief down, say they are positive that she must have known all that was going on. It was intended to place her under arrest to-day, but Chief Lloyd said to-night that although abso- lutely convinced that she knew all that | Mrs, Majors-Wagner, the Mother of One of the Boys Arrested at Oakland. [From a photograph.} was going on it would be impossible to | secure a conviction so long as the boys | stuck to the story that she knew nothing, } and so he sees no use in making the arrest. | It is very evident that young Majors’ | love for the Willmore girl is very strong | and that he will not say a word against | her mother. Although questioned several | times since his arrest he will say nothing that will tend to show that Mrs. V .iimore knew of what they were doing. The young girl, Ina, is a particularly bright little woman aund for six months it has been known among their friends that Mrs. Willmore sanctioned the engagement to Majors and was willing that they should marry early. - Abe Majors makes no secret of his love for the girl. The boys express sorrow that they com- mitted such deeds, but the police think that there is nothing in iheir manner to indicate that they would not do the same again if they were free. They told Ser- geant Hodgkins to-day that they have been taught a lesson by their arrest and imprisonment that they coul d never forget for the rest of their lives. They both de- clare that when they get out of their pres- ent trouble they propose to lead upright lives. It is not thought probable that the boys will be sent to San Quentid, and it is the opinion of many lawyers that they cannot legally be committed to the penitentiary. Attorney Ayers, who is defending the boys, says that there can be no real de- fense where the boys unequivocally con- fess their doings, but he sayshe will do everything possible to keep the boys out of the penitentiary, He is trying to per- suade all the storekeepers whose stores or safes were opened by the lads to sign af- fidavits that they think the ends of justice will be best subserved by having the young burglars committed to a reform-school rather than to the penitentiary. ‘It is very evident,” said Atttorney Ayers to-mght, “that the boys are mot thoroughly bad. They have been wild and reckless, but I do not think they are beyond the pale of reformation. Ido not believe that any one whom they have wronged will wish to see them branded as convicts for the rest of their lives. They got their silly notions from trashy liter- ature and they seem to be really penitent. Both boys have lacked the bringing-up that only a father can direct, and to a great extent they are to be pitied. They both worked when they could get work and up to a few months ago Abe Majors was good to his mother. I shall probably plead not guilty for them in the Superior Court soas to gain a little time and partly because the lads do not realize what they have done and are not, therefore, legally guilty.” Mrs. Wagner says that her divorced hus- band, who is now in contempt of Judge ‘Wood's court, is responsible for Abe tak- ing a dislike to home and going to stay at Mrs. Willmore’s. Wagner is at present keeping out of Chief Lloyd’s way, and it is thought that he could perhaps give some light on his stepson’s career if he could be found. : 3 Abe Mayors was asked to-day about some trouble that it is reported he once got into in the Bierra Nevada Mountains in which be is credited with doing some shooting. Both the lads deny the story, and although questioned separately they tell precisely the same story. Wilimore said that the trip was under- taken shortly after he found the Hinckley diamonds. He said: “I had been work- ing for Mr. Mason steadily for about three and a half years, and he told me I could take a vacation. Archie Majors and I started out together, after he had bought a couple of horses from the proceeds of the bicycle which Mr. Mason had given me as part payment for the diamonds. Atter I had a quarrel with Archie Majors 1 walked back. I was gone about five weeks. We did net have any trouble with anybody while away.” ‘When asked if he ever thought of the certainty of arrest Willmore replied: “I never gave the matter a thought. I just wanted to get enough money to leave town. I had heard that times were better at Los Angeles, and I was trying to get enough money together to go down there. I intended to take my mother and sister along although 1 had not said anything about it.” Both the boys were in the Police Court to-day, but only for a few minutes. Their attorney asked that the examination be set for next Monday. Abe Majors has shown aversion all day to seeing his mother. He was asked this evening if he had any message for her,ana he replied, “No; but tell Mrs. Willmore to come and see me.”’’ Several times during the day Abe has asked people to tell Mrs. Willmore that he wants to see her. Mrs. Willmore’s absence, and her remarks that Abe has led her boy astray, have been con- veyed to young Majors, and he hinted this evening that only his love for Ina has kept him from talking. About six months ago Archie Majors, ‘who is supposed to be in 8an Luis Obispo, told several of his friends that there were diamonds in the Willmore house, but it was thought that the boy was romancing. Now it is believed that the stories were true. The incident referred to was before Abe went to stay at the Willmore house and soon after the Hinckley diamond episode, Every effort is now being made to find Archie and bring him to Oakland. Ii Archie tells all he knows for the pur- pose of saving his brother there will prob- ably be a revelation. EHNERE THE RESPONSIBILITY. Oakland Is Agitating the Question Whether the Boys Should Go to Prison. There is a general discussion in Oakland of the moral responsibility of the boys and of the law of heredity in connection with this case. In an editorial yesterday the Tribune said: The two young rascals who have been ar- rested in this city for & seriesof burglaries have made an extraordinary record oi crime. It is doubtful if it can be matched by any’ other criminals of the same age in all the country. What astonished the community was the youthfulness of the criminals. Young in years, they were old in crime. Now, whero did they get their schooling? They had & complete set of burglar’s tools, most of which had been made to order. They knew how to drill a safe, put in a stick of dynamite, arrange the fuse and make as complete & job &s any old eriminal who had speut half his life in the penitentiary. Are these congenitaljeriminals, who needed very little schooling to fall into criminal ways? Ore of them is the son of & man who was exe- cuted in this city for one of the most diabolical murders ever committed in the State. He did not commit the act, but planned it and then induced three others to rob and murder an in- | offensive old man who wes living in a lonely cabin in the hills of Santa Ciara County. The criminal inheritance of the other is not quite soclear. But he is so desperate thathe ac- cused his mother of & knowledge of some of his crimes. He had not even the chivalry of an ordinary criminal. The boldness end rapidity with which this series of rascalities was commilted disclosed & genius for crime that has seldom been sur- pessed. These fellows are young enough to be sert to a reform school. It is doubtful if there | is any training at Whittler that can make them | other than what they are now. The peniten- tiary is a very poor school of reform; but it is quite the safest place for thosewhose inherited instincts and aptitudes are all for crime. The Enquirer says in regard to the same subject: In the general mind the idea of heredity as applicable to crime is that of yielding to irre- sistible inclination, and the view taken of re- sponsibilities under these circumstances is ex- pressed by the remark which has been heard during the last twenty-four hours, “A person is not responsible for what he can’t help and should not be punished for it.” Such expres- sions as these are prompted by & general and not an intimate knowledge of the doctrine of heredity, as; it is held by scientific men. How the latter look at it was explained by Professor Jordan of Stanford in a lecture which he de- Tivered in San Francisco last evening. The following is & condensed report of a portion of his remarks: “When the individual is born,” said the speaker, “he finds that ‘the gate of gifts is closed.” The characteristics he inherits are, £0 to speak, ‘stage direction’ by which his life is ordered. If he is a well-balanced man he may develop new characteristics, acquire new individualities, develop the best and suppress the worst of his inherent quelities. He inher- its many diverse and discordant elements. It is the work of training in life to bring these discordant elements into harmony. Many in- dividuals go through life and never do any- thing except by the ‘stage direction’ of heredi- ty. Many of the so-called ‘double lives’ are the zesult of failure to bring these discordant elements into harmony. Lives sometimes fall apart through degeneracy. Every man’s an- cestry has left him a mosaic of characteristics which be may, if he works right, weave into beautiful pictures, or which may be a simple jumble of inchoate elements. If he does not work them right he is simply @ machine for spoiling so much oxygen.” s It will be seen that in the way President Jordan puts it all responsibility does not go out when heredity comes in. We are all to some extent victims of eriminal heredity, be- cause we all inherit some vicious tendencies along with our good ones. The boy Majors has had many sncestors and has inherited from all of them; he did not get his whole nature from his father. By the clergymen who have been inter- viewed about the proper punishment for the boys the following opinions have been expressed : Rev. Dr. E. 8 Chapman: “I believe. they should be dealt with with such severity as to in- timidate any others from attempting to follow their example. They are not bhoys. One 17 years of age is as old as one was at 30 when I was a boy. Ihave no faith at all in reforma- tory institutions for such, for they are beyond the age when they can be reformed. I have the greatest interest in boys. 1 have been a teacher among them for years. I believe in teaching them the power of government and authority.” Rev. Dr. Alfred Kummer: ‘‘The question of what to do with them is a grave one. Young fellows who are so hardened in crime as 1o be ready to take life, however, cannot be allowed to go unpunished. The manner of punishing them and at the same time to make something out of them is one of the unsolved problems as yet. It is pitiful to see such young fellows going to the bad. I believe it is greatly due to the literature they are allowed to read. There is a romantic streak in most boys which causes & great deal of such trouble, even when fed on proper material. They arenot hardened crim- inels, but are carried away easily, owing to a lack of early training.” Rev. Dr. Robert F. Cogle: “Such crimes as these boys have been guilty of should be pun- ished. The punishment, however, should be of a, reformatory nature, which it has not always been. But because it has not is no rea- son why punishment should not be meted out to such offenders,” Among the announcements of the church services for to-morrow are the fol- lowing: Market-street Congregational Church,. Rev. E. 8. Chepman, D.D., pastor—Subjects, at 11 4.3, “A Plea for the Boys'’; at 7:30 P.M., “How You May Be Without Blame for the Ruin of Others.” Pilgrim Congregational Church, Rev. M, Wil- lett, pastor —Subject in the evening, “The Promise ana the Flight of Youth.” Rev. John Hughes will preach at the Univer- salist church both morning and evening; sub- jects, morning, “Moral Environment”; even- ing, “The Law of Sympath: LT THE CRIME OF MAJORS. Lawyer Richards Tells the Story of the Celebrated Case of 1883. The murder of William P. Renowden and Archibald McIntyre, for which Lloyd Majors, father of Oakland’s boy burglar, was hanged, was characterized by inci- dents of the most dramatic interest, such as make it one of the celebrated cases of California. This is the story as told by John Rich- ards, counsel for Joseph Jewell. The laiter was a companion of Majors in the crime. “Lloyd L. Majors came to San Jose in the early part of 1876,” said Mr. Richards. “‘He brought with him a young wife. He was about 35 years of age, a big, ungainly man, awkward in manner, homely of face, having a dark, stern, rather covert and altogether forbidding expression. He wore a thin, straggling beard that only partially covered a mouth the ugly lines of which constituted almost a deformity. “His wife, on the contrary, almost a child in years, was very fair to look at, trim of figure, simple in manner, modest and full of winsome grace. “Majors was a carpenter or wagon-maker, and set himself up in a shop on the outskirts of the town on what 1s known as the beautiful Alameda. He pro- fessed to be something more than a worker with his hands, however, and engaged the attention and won at least the familiar ac- quaintance of myself and other lawyers of the town who happened to have graduated from the Anp Arbor Law School by de- claring that he, tao, had done so. He also enlarged his circle by joining the Metho- dist Church and taking a prominent part in its work. 5 ‘‘His shop suffered from a series of fires, from which he always collected the in- surance. No suspicion regarding.the fires attached to him. Apparently broken up from their effects he left San Jose and went to Los Gatos. He joined the church there, but was handicapped in his progress in that direction by opening a hotel with a bar attached. This brought him into dis- favor in ‘the church. The step from a hotel with a saloon attached to a saloon without the hotel was easy and took place directly, and Majors became known as a plain saloon-keeper. e “Meanwhile he took to politics in lien of religion, and was an_active figure in the Garfield campaign. That was in 1880. He organized a uniform company in Los Gatos and traveled the country over making speeches, in which he was quite forcible and effective. His wife bore two children at that place. His place was known as Majors’ Mill from a large wind- mill which he had built with the purpose of not only developing power for pumping water, but for other purposes. His saloon became the rendezvous of the idle and rough ¢lement of the entire neighborhood. “I had a personal meeting with Majors shortly after the thstallation of Garfield that impressed itself upon my memory,” said Mr. Richards. *Garfield was in diffi- culty with National high lights—the con- troversy with Conkling being at its height. Majors callea in at the office and the con- versation turned to this. He became ex- cited with the topic at once. “‘I know Garfield,’ he said. ‘I was a pupil at Hiram College when he was a Drofessor there. 1 tried to enter a_certain class, but failed in mathematics. Gartield took a fancy to me and offered to help me along in this study; gave me his evenings for personal instruction until I cnu%ht up with that class. I entered Hiram College because there a boy had a chance to secure an education by working forit. Iknow Gerfield and—’ “The man_ paced up and down the room and worked himself into a passion, giving me such a demonstration of passion as 1 had never seen. It was frightful—his _dark, vindictive face was seamed and distorted by its violence. He swung his arms and increased his gait, great drops of perspiration stood upon his face, while he -beat the air and swore, declaring over and over again that if the men who were opposing and block- ing the wheels of his administration were within his reach he would tear them fimb from limb. This voluntary exhibitian of violence amazed me, and, as I say, fixed itself in my memory. “In the mountains near Los Gatos there lived an old_woodsman named William Renowden. He bwned 200 acres of the mountain side, lived in a cabin, was some- thing of a recluse and was popularlv sup- posed to bave considerable money hidden away. His cabin stood far up on the mountain‘side, and from its door a picture of incomparable beautY stretched away below, the mountain leading down in gentle slopes to the !nr-usreading valley, with its winding river and the white vil- lages in the far distance. “‘Recluse that he was,Renowden had one friend in Archibald McIntyre. McIntyre was an ideal mountaineer, a Scotchman, agile, strong, fine looking and known far and wide. His every acquaintance was his friend. This young man lived with the old man much of the time. ‘“One morning in March, 1883, the village of Los Gatos was aroused by s messenger from the mountains, who brought the news that old man Renowden and young MclIntyre had been murdered and their cabin destroyea by fire. Of course, this created frant excitement; parties went out to the place and people talked and specu- lated of nothing else. Majors’ saloon be- came the center of all this, and Majors himself was loudest in denouncing the atrocity, and-most eager for the capture of the murderers. ‘A mountaineer had first brought the news to town. He lived some miles away from the Renowden cabin, but had seen the light of its burning. F'enful as these men are of forest fires and quick to com- bat them, he had hurried toward the light until he came to the edge of a deep can- yon, on the further side of which was the burning cabin. He saw that he could do nothing and turnedback. Next morning, however, he made his way around the can- yon and found the ashes of the cabin and near by the body of Renowden pierced by two bullet holes. Afterward those who went up from the village searched among the ruins and found something of the trunk of what had been another human being. It wasonly a portion of the lungs and the upper portion of the heart. These were carefully pre- served at the time, afterward sent to a physician for examination. % ‘“‘Interést in the crime grew as time passed. Nothing developed further, how- ever, for two or three days, when it was noticed that two men who had figured quite conspicuously in the life of the com- munity were missing. They were John Showers, a young, big-boned, brutal fel- low, and Joseph Jewell, a man almost his opposite in every characteristic. Two horses had been stolen from Majors’ stable the night of the murder, and the tracks of two horses, ridden at speed, were noticed in the road leading toward Gilroy. Then came the news that two men answering their description had been seen at Gilroy, and one of'‘them was arrested. The other esca% Showersit Eroved to be who was arresied. Locked up he confessed. Witha relish of its details that proved him the fiendish inventor of many of them, he ‘told_this story: . “With Jewell he had been a frequenter of Majors’ saloon and of all the number Majors had selected them to do this mur- der, that had long been in his mind. Majors would invite them to remain at night after the others had gone, fed them on whisky, and after a while broached the subject-—explained how ansllg it might be doue, the improbability of detection and -murderer told his who the money that might be secured. Mur- der was not a necessary incident in the first discussion, but it came to be con- sidered as a matter of course afterward, Jewell and Showers when the left Majors’ place would wander to the banks of Los Gatos Creek and there elaborate their plans. They intended to torture the old man into a confession of where he kept his hoard, as they called it. They woul burn his feet and with pincers pull the nails out of his toes until the old man was forced to tell. When they had secured the treasure they would humanely kill him. These details were evidently the invention of Showers. “On the day appointed the two went up the mountain to a point above the cabin, where they could reconnoiter. They soon discovered that Renowden was not alone. Thev had plenty of whisky slong, and waited in the brush all the afternoon, hoping that McIntyre would leave. When the sun was going down they determined to wait no longer; they wonld go through Wwith the enterprise anyhow. They de- termined to approach the cabin for some- thing to eat, :ncrgnenurd to ask the way to Los Gatos. One would remain in the cabin while the other went out to receive the directions, and when the two men were thus separated they would attack and overcome them. The plan was carried out. They were made welcome at the cabin and given supper. Then Jewell asked to be shown the way to Los Gatos. The old man led the way out, and proudly, as though this prospect presented to their eye were his one luxury—a feature of his hospitality, and, awalting the expected exclamation of surprised salight from his visitor, he pointed his finger to the far- away point in the beautiful valiey, where the windows of the little village had caught and held the light of the setting sun. “‘Showers remained inside. He heard a shot and then another. McIntyre sprang up, drew his gun and rushed to the door and on the threshold received a ball that struck him dead from Jewell’s revolver. This was Showers’' story, remember. Showers carried a 45-caliber, and Jewell a 38-caliber revolver, according to this same story. The two men were dead, and the murderers, alarmed at their work, forget- ting the plunder, hurried down the moun- tain, and about midnight, heated and worn, rapped at the back door of Majors’ saloon. They were admitted, and in a {few broken sentences told the instigator of the crime what had taken place. He gave them two horses from the stable adjoin- ing and they fled through the night toward Gilroy. This was Showers’ story. ‘‘Majors was arrested, and so, shortly afterward, was Jewell. Although the revelation 4s to Majors created some sur- prise at first, it was generally believed. A neighbor had noted on the morning after the murder that Majors’ mare, as she stood in the stable, showed signs of having been ridden hard the night beiore, being cov- ered with mud, and evidently very tired. A man who lived a couple of miles from town on the road toward Renowden’s place had been awakened by the sound of a horse’s hoofs going at a gallop over the neighboring brig , and about an hour af- terward heard the same sound again, the horse traveling back toward the town. *This was the circumsiantial evidence against Majors. It explained the fire. Majors’ plans had not carried. His two tools had murdered two men, and were flying the country. A fire destroying the bodies of his victims would leave him se- cure. “Discovery would come with daylight, and daylight was but a few hours away. 1t was never exactly known, but no one doubted that it was Majors’ horse that crossed the bridge track at a gallop be- tween midnight and morning, and between the going and returning of which the mountaineer discovered the light of the burning cabin. “But in their hurry the murderers had probably not told him that old man Re- nowden’s body was not in the cabin. *‘Of this murderous trio, the man Jewell was the mystery,’”” continued Mr., Richards. “‘He was a young man of most pleasing appearance and address. He was an artist, and a good one; correct in his speech, a gentleman of some education. He carried himself well, was neat and well dressed. He was distinguished for his loye of chil- dren, and every child in Los Gatos was his chum. He spent his spare hours in the homes of little children, and would spend hours with the little tots, apparently per- fectly happy. For some months, however, it had been noticed that he grew idle and was drinking. : ‘*Showers, because of his confession, was sentenced to life imprisonment. The trial of Jewell was taken up. I was appointed by the court to defend him. The trial lasted eleven days. He was convicted and sentenced to be hanged. It developed during the trial that Jewell was not his name, but where he came from, why he came to Los Gatos, why he concealed his identity, all that was made known to but one man, who alone succeeded in gaining his confidence. That man was his sworn enemy, the nearest friend of the murdered man McIntyre, who has taken an oath to pursue the murderers through his life and to the ends of the earth if needs be. The man’s name is Morrill, and he is now a well-to-do_rancher, near Los Gatos. He gave up his business and devoted himself solely to the conviction of the men. He gathered much of the evidence for the prosecution. He visited Jewell in his ceH every day and so won upon him that the e story, though under vromise that Morrill would never reveal any part of it but what pertained to this case. “His people, he said, were highly re- spected and he would not have them dis- graced. Morrill was confident that Majors was the chief devil in the scheme, and it |. was for his conviction he was working. Showers had insisted that Jewell fired the shots that killed both men. It was the effort of his counsel to raise doubts with the jury as to the truth of this story. Jewsll consented to go on the stand. fi’e said that when Renowders led the way out of the cabin he (Jeweil) had no notion of committing murder. He intended to trip him up and secure his hands, believ- ing it would be easy for him, a young man, to do so. The old mountaineer turned npon him with such vigor, how- ever, as to take him completely by sur- prise. He started to retreat, but the old man came after him in such style that he was compelled to shoot. The first ball struck him in the shoulder and only seemed to enrage him. He shot again and killed bim. At the same time he heard a shot from the cabin and Showers came running out alone. “A remarkable corroboration of the truth of this was presented. It will be, remembered that only a handful remained of the body of McIntyre—something of the lungs and the heart, Asthe physician examined this remaining portion of the heart there drospgd upon his table a bullet. It fitted a 45-caliber revolver which S8howers had confessed was the size of his own. This fact was made much of to save the life of Jewell, and I was given to understand it almost prevailed. “Then came the trial of Majors. It attracted even more interest than the other. There was the testimony of his two confederates against him and the cir- cumstantial evidence mentioned. But against it all there was the presence in the ‘courtroom of his broken little wife— still young and still pretty, with her little Wwisp of a figure, but broken utterly. *‘And unconscious of what it portended to them their two beautiful little boys, piaying about the courtroom through. those long summer days—Little Abe, the younger, with his long brown curls, his confident, childish days, went from one to another in the courtroom making friends with everybody and drawing uent tears {rom the more tender of those who realized what he did not. The picture of that mild, broken little woman and her babies has remained with me sinea and always will. Ihad lost sight of them, however, until |- this new tragedy in their lives has come to hfiht like a sequence to a blight. They saved Majors from a death sentence at that time, for the jury’s verdict pleaded mercy. But Majors’ Nemesis was there in the per- *EPhe pepis tisfied. M. .“The public was not sa . Majors had been tried for the murder of Renow- ders. Morrill, backed by public senti- ment, urged a prosecution for the murder of MclIntyre. The defense secured a change_ of venue, and the second trial took place in Oakland, Majors was convioted and sentenced to hang. Shortl; he maae a desperate irenk for liberty, and made his way from jail to the open street and fought his way, hand to hand, with his pursuers for a block and until his arm was broken. Then he surrendered, and was hanged while his arm was still in splints.”” . HEALDSBURG REJOICING, The Fruit-Canning Industry Was Never in a More Prosperous Condition. HEALDSBURG, CAL., Feb. 8.—The sale of the Magnolia and Healdsburg Cannery to Fontana & Co. has been the topic of discussion in Healdsburg to-day, and fruit- growers are rejoicing over the fact that the afterward, big cannery is jto be operated the coming season. Last.year great difficulty was ex perienced in handling the fruit crop, ¢! while seventeen new dryers were erected, the orchards which came into bearing for thelfirst time increased the output mate- rially. NeyVer since the establishment of fruit canneries in this city have conditions been more favorable than at the present time. In February last year over 40,000 cases of unsold canned goods were stored in the fruit-packing concerns of this place, while | loiday there is but 500 cases remaining un- sold. Miller & Hotchkiss, proprietors of the Russian River cannery, have made an offer to purchase the Sebastopol cannery, to-day & CALL reporter wag informed g;dM: Hotch]kiss that n}e; sale Wtolélhd | tainly occur. “If we ge ) ey s said e, 1t will be operated. | cannery,” e E\Ve srz not putting our money into the | buildings for fun, but because we desire to | handle the product of the Gold Ridge | g:chards. Every case of goods put up by | us since the establishment of our packing- | houses has been sold at satisfactory prices, | and we wish to extend our capacity. ,"I‘ue | Analy eountry offers the field desired. The residents of the Geyserville country | look largely to Walden & Co. for a market | for their fraits. Last season the firm ex- | perimented in the matter of putting ! up brandied fruit, and it proved a suc- | cess. SEVENTEEN TONGUES OF GRATITUDE. All of Quimby, Comprising the Hon. D. J. Quimby and the Leading Guests of the Quimby House, Portland, Oregon. Joy’s Vegetable Sarsaparilla Does Good Where’er It Goes—It Is Appreciated and Indorsed by the Good People of Portland, Oregon. THE QUIMBY HOUSE, PORTLAND, OREGON. HON. D. J. QUIMBY. ¥. SNYDER. J. MURRAY. C. TROXELL. GEORGE PEASE. JOHN McGINN. F. HILDEV. J. H. ELLIOTT. F. HILL. A. J. MORRIS. F. BUTTON. L. W. BROWN. P. KALICH. J. 8. JENKINS. W. H. HUNTER, JOHN BRADY. - the leading business men of Portland, and I was interested in him to-day for nearly two hours. We spoke of the result of the new bond idsue, and we agreed in looking forward to “Well,” said he, *‘I'm glad it is coming. T feel able to cope with anr amount of extra work, I am reallyand trulya strong man. I was ot in good spirits or health a few months ago, but that was before I used the GREAT HOME REMEDY, JOY'S VEGETABLE SARSAPARILLA, To tell you the truth, all of the regular a good spring business. | It is a great remedy. I recommend it. C. TROXEL—Joy’s Vegetable Sarsapa- | rilla has many friends in Portland. | GEORGE PEASE—Put me down as an | indorser of Joy’s Vegetable Sarsaparilla. | JOHN MoGINN—I believe Joy's Vege- | table Sarsaparilla has more friends in Port- | land than some of the best-liked men. It | pleases every one. l F. HILDEO—Joy’s Vegetable Sarsapa- rilla cured me: Ilikeit. I recommend it. 1 J. F. ELLIOTT—We all believe in Joy’s for the jaded. F. HILL—A druggist tried to talk an- other blood medicine, but I ordered a bottle of Joy’s because Joy's is the best. —_— PORTLAND, Oregon, Feb. 5. I send you herewith the photographs of some of the best people of Portland, and I write to tell you that Joy’s Vegetable Sar- saparilla has touched the hearts of the people of this city. I have personally spoken to and noted the different people of the Quimby House who have used Joy’s Vegetable Sarsaparilla, and they all praise the great remedy. Portland js doing finely. Business is not absolutely rushing, yet one meets few idle people and everything has an air of business. Go on the streets, in the mar- kets, to the theaters, allis life—not the hurly-burly, bustling life of Chicago, but the staid, solid business life of a substan- tial city. The Hon. D. J. Quimby is now one of ;\.. N ‘\_\\\\\\\‘\s | {f > AR AN\ | AR HON. D. J. QUIMBY. guests of the Quimby House had spoken to me so hizhly of Joy’s Vegetable Sarsa- parilla that I was induced to try it, and the result is simply marvelous. Iam now a strong and vigox:ons man. I suffered very much from biliousness and liver complaint, I can truly indorse Joy's Vegetable Sarsaparilla.’” 3 Afterward I conversed with the gentle- men whose names appear above, and I give you the exact substance of my con- versation. 2 MR. F. SNYDER said: “Joy’s Vege- table Sarsaparilla is a good remedy. It was recommended to me. I took it. I feel better—stronger. I am not now jaded.” i MR. J. MURRAY—Headaches bothered me, I used Joy’s Vegetable Sarsaparilla, A. J. MORRIS—Joy's Vegetable Sarsa- parilla cures skin disorders. I had a i friend who suffered much—he now praises | Joy’s Vegetable Sarsaparilla. F. BUTTON—Joy's Vegetable Sarsapa- | rilla is good for the blood. I like the remedy. L. W. BROWN—We all praise Joy's. P. KALICH—Joy's is the great medi- cine now. J. 8. JENKINS—T have used Joy’s V_egnnble Sarsaparilla. Ttis good. W. H. HUNTER—Joy’s for me every time. JOHN BRADY—I know a score of people who praise the great remedy, Joy's ‘egetadle Sarsaparilla,