The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 24, 1896, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1%96 ABDUL HAMID CHECKS RELIER, Miss Clara Barton Not Allowed to Visit Zeitoun. BARRED BY THE PORTE. Attempt to Prevent Knowledge of Recent Horrors From Becoming Public. CHIVALROUS ACTS OF TURKS. Six Subjects of the Sultan Who Defended an American Woman Against a Mob. CONSTANTINOPLE,TurkEY, Feb. 23.— Miss Clara Barton and the members of her Red Cro party are not going to Zeitoun, owing to the refusal of the Porte to grant them permission to do so. The 1 n Consul at Zeitoun, the city 1 rece y surrendered to the Turks, ter having been held for months by the ans who captured it, has ten 1 condition of the people of Zeitoun. of them, he are naked. Starvation confronts eds of them, and there is much Baron von Calice, the Austrian ription for e Red Cross Soci- to help aileviate Dabit. ara Barton of ager to go Lo Zeitc stress of the w ed by the to prevent the publicity tl there would be g allowed to go, i besent through b She has nt horrors party be aid will ts to the Zeitounls. ng whether e to establish Marash is only a and is situ- of the roughest her base of short.dist ated on the cot n out-station of se fate might have over- ary there, Miss Corinna not been for the heroism cials. These men faced declaring that they would de- American woman with their lives. ob paid little attention to them and pted {0 continue their attack when them like sheep. Minister Terrell declares that the names of those men should be known to the world, for they are heroes. He requested the representative of the United Press to 1 oir names to America and it is ac- done. They are Bezak Effendi, fendi, Mustafa Effendi, Habzan Ef- Issa Effendi and Durak Effendi. KNOWN BY THER VOICES Grace She Can Point Out Her Abductors. Wi'l Not Reveal Their Names Until She Is Certan That No Mistake Has Been Made. LEESBURG, Fra., -There abduction and mal atment of Miss Grace Darrell, the pretty Chicago girl. Miss Darrell has regained constiousness and cs that when she went on the veranda Thursday night some one threw a shawl over her head to muffls her cries and she was thi ic taken away. Shesaysthere were n concerned and thinks she recog- nized their v Soon after. being seized she freed her head and screamed. Then she was knocked senseless. When | she regained consciousness she was nude and tied to a tree. Overcome by horror, she soon relapsed into the unconscious state in which she was found. While Miss Darrell think she knows her abductors, she has not yet | mentioned their names, as she says she may be mistaken, and she does not want | innocent men lynched. It is believed that the outrage was com-, mitted by four young men whose ad- dresses the girl rejected, and who, it is alleged, threatened to be revenged. It developed to-day that Miss Darrell has recently received a number of anony- mous letters of an obscene nature, and it 1s alleged these letters were written by the young men suspected of the abduction, HELD UP NEAR SAN JOSE A San Francisco Man Relieved of His Money on the Los Gatos Road. Convivial Companions Seize a Hand- kerchief Containing the Coin and Dash Away. SAN JOSE, CaL., Feb. 23.—A man giv- ing the name of Henry Findley reported to the police last night that he had been robbed of §22 by two men Wlll! th)m he nad become acquainted earlier in the evening on the Los Gatos road. Fmdley, who claims San Francisco as his home, says he started to walk from Los Gatos to San Jose yesterday mornirg.. He had not walked very far when he was ovgn.akey by a man in a cart and invited to ride. They had some drinks together, and at a road- gide saloon were joined by a third man. After consuming considerpole‘]lquo’r\ the three men started for this city. They passed a beer wagon and Findley pur- ‘chased three bottles of beer. Findley could not make change and borrowed the money from one of the other men to pay for it. The party then drove to a creek and drank the beer. The man who bad loaned Finaley the change demanded his money and Findley pulled out a handkerchief in which he ha+4'§22. The man who owned the cart grabbed the money and ran. Findley refused to run after the man and als fired upon them, scattering | Darrell Confident That| is | great excitement at Centre Hill over the | | took possession of the cart. The man who | bad the money then came back, and dur- | ing a wrangle that ensued both of Find- | ley’s new found friends jumped into the | cart and drove off. . SANTA CLARA’S WATER WORKS. The Town Well Supplied -for Household and Fire Purposes. | SAN JOSE, Car., Feb. 23.—The town | water works at Santa Claralare completed | and as fast as conaections can be made | | the service to householders will begin. | The total cost of the water works is $36,000. The water is supplied by four | artesian wells, each 225 feet deep. The water is pumped by two pumps, with a | capacity of 50,000 gallons per hour each, into four tanks placed an a steel tower 80 | feet high. | The total capacity of the four tanks 1s | 180,000 gallons. There are sixteen miles of mains, the size of the pipe varying from 12 to 2 inches. The town is supplied with | fifty-three hydrants, fifteen of which are | | double—that is, two iines -of hose can be | | attached to each hydrant. From the | tanks there is a pressure in the mains of | between 40 and 50 pounds, but with the | | pumps working a pressure of between 125 | o 200 pounds to the square inch may be | obtained. This affords a good protection | from fire. in erecting the plant the Board of | Trustees provided sufficient boiler capacity so that in time the town can purchase an | engine and dynamo and operate a city | lighting plant. | 2T e | Interesting Shooting Contest. 1 SAN JOSE, CarL., Feb. 23.—An interest- | ing shooting match was held at Schuetzen | Verein Park yesierday afternoon. The conditions of the shoot were that each contestant should fire 100 shots at a Ger- ma rget at 200 yards. There was a large | number in attenda Hubback and Dr. scores. Out of a possible 2500 Barker made 2041. Hubback’s score was 1907, and | | Bangs made 1 R Charged W SAN JOSE, CaL., F. H. Laws, a laborer, was arrested last evening on a charge of insanity sworn to by H. Franks. Laws has been employed on Franks’ ranch, the Stevens Creek road, and of late has been acting in a peculiar manner. i 1] a H H s THE COLVILLE STAMPEE, resumatly | Many Exciting Scenes and Inci- | | dents Attend the Rush to ; the Gold Fields. | | Hundreds of Claims | Recorded but i Operations Prevented by the | Snow. SPOKANE, Wasn., Feb. 23.—Parties are justin from that portion of the Colville Reservation, lately opened, and man stories are told of the grand rush and ex- | | citing incidents thereto. The part opened | has for several years been known to con- tain some of the richest ledges in the | | Northwest, and as every one of these | ledges were known to dozens of different | { men the race when the word was received that the Presiaent had signed the bill wasg most exciting. Ful 0 men were at Marcus, the near- { est point to the Kettle River section, and | as many at other points across the river | from the reservation. | | One hundred and forty claims have al- | ready been located at Colville and forty- eight at North Port. Am these is one found twenty years ago by Walter Galla- | gher, who has waited all these years to lo- cate what he claims to be one of the rich- | est mines yet discovered. The samples are very rich, and if it turns out as sur- face croppings indicate, it will rival some of the Cripple Creek mines, As yet there is a lot of snow in the hills, | and little attempt is being made at pros- | pecting. Only those have gone in who | knew the ledges, - | CHASED A BURGLAR. | He Fires Two Shots, Stops His Pursuers | 1 and Escape: SACRAMENTO, CaL., Feb. ? the absence of Druggist T. F. Phillips and | family from home this evenine a burglar j entered their house at Seventh and P | | streets and stole a pistol and other articles. | A young lady who lives next door saw | | him getting out of a window and called to | a couple of young men near by, who chased | the flee ing burglar a couple of blocks. | Then he turned and fired two shots at | them and they let him go. A TRAGEDY AT SEATTLE, J. M. Soyder, a Restaurant- Keeper, Shot by a Drunken Waiter. | The Fellow Then Tried to Kill Him. | { self, but Was Prevented by a Spectator. SEATTLE, Wasn.,, Feb. 23.— Robert Dolan, a waiter in the Eutopia restaurant, | shot, inflicting possibly a fatal wound, J. | M. Snyder, proprietor of the place, and | then attempted to take his own life, and { because M. rhelps, a witness to the | tragedy, endeavored to- prevent him from committing self-murder, the gun-wielder | fired at his would-be protector. The shooting occurred about 11 o’clock in the restaurant. Phelps, by reason of Dolan's =~ bad markmanship, was not | harmed, and after a desperate struggle he | succeeded in taking the revolver—the | weapon used —from the bloodthirsty waiter. An hour before Dolan took an order, but instead of serving the patron he went out and procesded to get drunk. The proprie- tor sought him and remonstrated with him about the manner in which he was neg- lecting business.. Returning to the restaur- ant, Dolan said, *'If you are going to make trouble about the matter I will kill youn.” He then wheeled and fired at Snyder. The bullet passed into his mouth and lodged in the neck.- Made more desperate by his awful deed, Dolan placed the muzzle of the revolver, a 38-calibre, fo his temple and was about to fire when Phelps interfered, only to be made a target of himself. - With this the would-be murderer and suicideran out ana secreted himself ina room of the Laclede House, near by, where he was arrested half an bour later by Detective Cudihee. Snyder is abont 30 years old and hasa family. Dolan is 35 and unmarried. e S funaway at Santa Barbara. SANTA BARBARA, Car, Feb. 23 What promised to be a very serious runa- way occurred here this afternoon. A horse driven by Mrs. F. W. Beane took fright at & train near the depot and ran several blocks, when it was finally caught by a carpenter who was working on a building near which it happened to pass. Mrs. Beane was thrown out and her arm was broken: above the elbow, and she was -also badly bruised. Her four children who were riding with her got down in .the bottom of the buggy and A. M. Barker, Ed | Weyler has ordered ngs made the best | manders to make fuller reports in case of WEYLER'S REIGN OF BLODDSHED, |Cubans Claiming Amnesty Receive Sword Thrusts Instead. CAPTIVES PUT TO DEATH Authorized Murders Take Place Nightly in the Spanish Prisons. AMERICANS DWELL IN FEAR. Hope a Warship Will Be Sent to Havana When Action Is Taken by Congress. HAVANA, Feb. CuUBaA, General tary com- arrests ot political prisoners. He has al- standing the day was warm and the ground hard a very animated game was played. The Oaklands, or, as the locals claim, the combination of California players, were too heavy for the Colonys and won by a scare 0f 13 to 3. No one except March Brown could successfully tackle Percy Morse, and the famous Olympic halfback scored two trys and three goals. Pommeroy, also of the Oaklands, secured a try. Marsh Brown made a try for the Colonys, but Simmons failed to kick the goal. For the Oaklands Morse, Erskine, Gray, Arlett and C. Pommeroy Flaym an excep- tionally good game, and Marsh Brown and Blair showed up well for tne Colonys. The Colonys had two men injured, R. Owen and Lannowe. After the game Manager Coates dined and wined the Oak- lands at the Colonys’ clubnouse. JOHN BROW SHORTAGE. | Port Angeles’ Deputy Postmaster Used $1200 of Government Money, PORT ANGELES, Wasn.,, Feb. 23.— John Brown, Deputy Postmaster in this city, who is neld for embezzling postoflice money, is endeavoring to protect Post- master Hooker's bondsmen, who will have to make good the shortage. Brown has raised a considerable portion of the amount he is short, which, according to the report of Postoffice Inspector Gordon, is $1200. The inspector says that the for- mer postmaster, J. S. Fenn, was not impli- cated in the affair, which is thought to be true from the fact that when Postmasier | Hooker took charge of the office Brown went out and borrowed enough money from his friends to balance his accounts. Brown covered up his deficit in his weekly reports by issuing money orders to ficti- | tious persons. These orders, together with | enough cash to cover the amount in his | report, were forwarded to Port Townsend by special messenger. It is stated that the money orders were | taken to the Merchants’ Bank of that city | and cashed, after which the entire amount | Weyler's arrival. were uninjured. CAPTAIN-GENERAL WEYL - [From his latest photograph, taken in Spain.] ready ordered a number of prisoners re- leased, owing to a lack of evidence. Nu- merous arrests, however, continue in all parts of the island. Fifty prisoners were sent to the Isle of Pines last week. The number of men presenting themselves, claiming amnesty, is much less since It is generally under- stood that Campos’ offers of amnesty to all who lay down their arms no longer holds good. An American planter from Santa Clara nformed me that Cubans presenting them- selves in the vicinity of his estate are | quietly shot and no questions asked about interment next morning. ‘The press censorship has been removed in name only. American dispatches filed at the cable office are taken to the palace and edited before being sent. The corre- spondents are unable to learn what parts, if any, are striken out. Brief cables re- | ferring to the Senate discussion have pro- duced editorials bitter against the United States. ship will be near, on account of the moral effect, by the time action is taken on the belligerency question. CLARK. SEERE SYMPATHIZERS MURDERED. Nightly Slaughter in the Cabanas and | ‘Moro Castle. KEY WEST, Fra., Feb. 23.—Private ad- vices to this city this morning by the | steamer Whitney report that eight or ten of the Cuban sympathizers imprisoned in the Cubanas and Moro Castle are mur- dered every night by order of General | Weyler, and, in order to stop this bloody | work, the revolutionary committees of the city of Havana have issued a manifesto stating that if it is continued they will blow up the city with dynamite. e No Report of Maceo's Death. MADRID, Sparx, Feb. 23.—A dispafch to the Imparcial from Havana says no official confirmation has been received of the report of the death of Antonio Maceo. The rumor of his death was based on the finding of a saddie bearing his initials after the fight at Caminito. NATIONAL GUAKD, ATTENTION! Prepare for Emergency Calls and Drills and Forced Marches. SACRAMENTO, Carn., Feb. 23.—Adju- tant-General Barrett is developing into a bit of a martinet—so think some of the ease-loving members of the National Guard of California, who in the past have at times borne the distinctive title of “‘tin soldiers’—but the general has determined to place the National Guard of the State on as near a war basis as is possible in times of peace, and emergency calls and drills are the order of the day at the pres. ent time. On March 1 Captain Carrington, in com- pany with the three brigade inspectors, will make a thorough ipspection of all the belongings of the several companies. This will by no means be a superficial inspec- tion, but a thorough overnauling of im- plements, uniforms, etc., and all lacking neeessities will be supplied immediately. As soon as all the companies are equioped with camp dunnaee, orders will be :ssued from time to time for companies to turn out and make forced marches in various directions. During these marches the men will be required to carry their full equipments, do their own cooking and, in fact, endure many of the hardships en- countered during a regular campaign. —_——— FOOTBALL AT PENRYN. The Oaklands Beat the English Colony Club 13 to 3. AUBURN, Cav., Feb. 23.—Twenty-five hundred people witnessed the Rueby football match this afternoon at the Phalo grounds, near Peoryn, between the Eng- .liah Colonys and the Oaklands, Notwith- The Americans here hope a war- | [ would be forwarded to Seattle. The mes- | senger evidently did not understand the combination, for on his last trip he did not have time tocash the ordersin Port Town- send and instead turned them in at the Seattle office. This was notice to the de- partment that there was something wrong | here and an inspector was at once sent to | investigate. Brown also used his reserve to cover up his shortage, and many times | bas been unable to cash small money or- ders presented for payment. He will probably be taken to Seattle Tuesday by | Inspector Gordon. Sneakthieves Working Santa Barbara. SANTA BARBARA, Can., Feb. 23.— The house belonging to G. W. Thompson, on Brinkerhoff avenue, was entered by sneakthieves some time during Friday night and Mr. Thompson’s entire ward- robe was stolen. The overcoat which was taken was afterward found in a store in town, where it had been sold for $1. | | EPITAPHS ON GLASS. A fiew Kind of Towbstone Adopted by | Pennsylvanians. A glass tombstone is certainly some- thing unique. Such a grave-marker stands in but one place in the Unitea States, and that| is in the cemetery overlooking the city|of Kittanning. It has but recently been set up there over the grave of Mrs. Eligabeth Pepper of Ford City by her son, Matthias Pepper. The Kittanning ceme- | tery| possesses many natural and artificial | beanties. It Las been handsomely laid out with winding walks, stately trees and ornamental shrubbery, and in it are many pretentious monuments. Not one of the | piles of marble and granite attracts so much attention as the piece of polished | glass, with its clear inscription, which stands on a gentle slope falling from the hilltop. A description of this tomb glass was given by Judge Joseph Buffington, who is a resident of Kittanning. Before his appointment to the bench of the Unitea States District Court he was coun- sel for the Pittsburg Plate-glass Company, which made the glass at its Ford City works. Mathias Pepper, who had the glass set up, is assistant superintendent at the Ford City factory. The piece used as a grave memorial is part of a large plate which was made of unusual thickness for the construction of circular panes to cover the portholes of ocean steamships. The prac- tical indestructibility of glass was the quality which suggested to Mr. Pepper its use in the cemetery. Marble and granite | seem to many to be almost eternal in their hardness, but they are far from it, and not | at all_to be compared with glass. Wind and rain, heat and cold, have their effects on stone of any kind, and finally wear away the hardest granite and cause it to | crumble. Go into any old graveyard, where stones were erected more than 100 years ago, and it will be found'to be the exception where all the lettering on the monuments can be made out. The stone has crumbled, and the out- lines have been otliterated. No effect is produced by the weather on glass. The Pepper monument is of plate glass one inch thick, a foot and a half wide and four feet high. It stands in a mortise cut into a cube of sandstone. The top of the glass is arched. The lettering on it is made by tne “sand-blast’ process, and is distinct. The monument bears the nscription : *‘In memory of Elizabeth Pepper of Ford City. Died February 4, 1892, Aged 77 years. **Also William Pepper. Husband of the above. Died —. Age—"" From this inscription it may be inferred trnly that William Pepper is still living. The Peppers are of English birth, and came to Ford City vears ago directly from the great Biltingham glass works in Lon- don.—Pittsburg Dispatch. The British empire has upward of 2,145,000 square miles, of which only 121,000 are in the United Kingdom; up- ward of 346,000,000 inhabitants, of whom only 38,000,000 live in the United King- dom ; its revenues amount to $1,160,000,000, of which $555,000,000 are raised at home, MARE [SLAND NAVAL NOTES, The Monadnock, Monterey and Comanche Ready for Service. FORMIDABLE SEA DOGS. The Cruiser Baltimore to Under- go a Thorough Overhauling at Once. COCOANUT FIBER SHOT-PROOF. Discovery by a French Officer Which Will Be Utilized on the Oregon. VALLEJO, Cav.,, Feb. 23.—The cruiser Baltimore having had her flag hauled down, is now lying in the stream abreast of the stone drydock, where she will be taken in on Monday if the tide serves, to be scraped thoroughly to determine whether any of the plates have been pitted and also to have them replaced where found necessary. It is expected that orders will soon be received to thoroughly over- haul the cruiser, as it is the wish of the department to have her in readiness for duty at the earliest practicable moment. As the Baltimore floated past the monitor Monadnock. lying at the wharf, she looked like a leviathan alongside a pigmy, but it was the general impression that in this instance, in case of combat, the pigmy would soon defeat the leviathan. Now that the monitor Monadnock is fully commissioned and ready for sea, with the Monterey and Comanche for company, these three low-in-the-water iron sea dogs, with their long guns pointing from the turrets, could lie in the roadstead this side of the Golden Gate and there bid defiance to any fleet of foreign ships of war that might with hostile intent attempt to enter. A delegation from the Naval Reserve visited the navy yard a few days ago rela- tive to the Comanche being turned over to | the State for use of the reserves. The | monitor is moored 1n the stream, but be- fore being turned over to the State will be docked and painted. No alterations at | present will be made in her armament. Her machinery is all in excellent order and it has not yet been fully decided whether she will be fitted with search- lights and electric outfits. The reserves will find in the Comanche a vessel they need not be ashamed to have visitors in- spect. Now that the battle-ship Oregon is so near completion at the Union Iron Works | she may soon be expected at the navy yard. Asthe contract called for entire | completion at the works little may be ex- | pected to be done to her by the yard forces. The question to be solved will be where | ber crew, numbering some 500 people, is to come from, as the majority of ships | now in commission are in good order and | will require all the men they have. The | invoices of stores to go on board have | ‘been made out, so that but little time | would be lost in sending the stores to her | on arriving at the yard and going in com- mission. It is not even hinted at who will | command this great fighting monster of | the deep. | It is not generally known that hundreds | of sacks of cocoanut fiber were sent from | the yard 14 be placed between the outer | and inner skins of the Oregon to serve as | a protection 1n case a shot should be fired | through her below the water line. “In put- | ting the fiber between the steel sheets it is first trod down, then pressed firm with cotton screws. The fiber is thus used to | keep out water, as the aperture made by the shot would at once close up and take the place of the wooden shot plug in vogue for so many years. The Government, it is said, has to pay | quite a royalty for its use. Its utility was first discovered by a French officer aboard of a KFrench warship lying at Honolulu. The regular target practice was being held, the object fired at being a crater of an extinct volcano. After practice the offi- cer and boat's crew were sent ashore to gather up the shot for future use. They went to the north of the voleano, but could find none of the iron missiles. They did, however, find immense quantities of fiber from cocoanuts and plants. Through this mass they dug and dug, until at last thev were rewarded in finding the shot. The officer then commenced a series of ex- periments by procuring a lot of cocoanut fiber and having it ground up and packed, and tested, the result proving that a shot could be fired through it and a moment thereafter no trace of its ingress or exit could be found. Aboard the Monadnock and other of the iron ships the fiber is also used in the under ceiling of the deck to keep out the moisture, and the men from getting the rheumatism. The above story is given for what it is worth, but it is from men coming here from the Union Iron Works, where they are supposed to know, and may be of in- terest to the public. The commandant of the yard, Captain Howison, entertained the captain and his aid from the Italian warship, the Cristo- foro Colombo, a few days ago. The officers were shown about the yard, the Monad- nock, the drydock, ana every courtesy was extended becoming the representa- tives of one friendly nation to another, for all of which they expressed themselves highly gratified. The friends here of Lieutenant J. W. Carlin are pleased to hear of his being at- tached as executive officer of the receiving ship Independence. Her present execu- tive, Lieutenant-Commander Crocker, has been detached and placed on waiting or- ders. On Tuesday evening, in this city, for the benefit of the Naval Union, Medical In- spector George W. Woods, U. 8. N., in charge of the Naval Hospital, will deliver a lecture, his subject being, “The Charles- ton, Her Initial Cruise, and Incidents of Her Vovagings.” The doctor is a pol- ished speaker, and hasa fund of interest- ing knowledge pertaining to scenes in for- eign lands, and without doubt will treat his chosen subject in an interesting man- ner. The band stand in the park has been completed and was used for the first time a few days ago. The umbrella-shaped sounding-board in the roof gives a fine effect to the music, as played by the Inde- pendence band. i Fifty-three patients are in the hospital, all getting along nicely. Through the skillful treatment of those in charge and the wonderfully good constitution of the patient, Andrew Barr, who had one of his limbs erushed off by a gun belonging to the Monadnock, is so far improvea thathe will be out on crutches the coming week. The gentlemanly apothecary of the hospital, Stephen St. John, who has been there for many years, has just* returned from his wedding trip with his wife (nee Miss Annie Kane), one of our city’s most estimable young ladies, and they are now receiving the congratulations of their many friends. The planting of the acacia trees in front | of the hospital building in memory of its founder, ex-Surgeon General John Mills Browne, U. 8. N., as already detailed in THE CALL, was a graceful tribute to a worthy oflicer and gentleman. Many of the trees about the yard are being cut down, they becoming too thick for health and comfort. The park, how- ever, will remain uadisturbed, and at this season of the year presents an attractive appearance and helps to draw many visi- tors, in addition to the attractiveness of the bLand with their new instrnments on band-playing afternoon: Suit Against Port Angeles Bondemen, | PORT ANGELES, Wasn., Feb. 23.—The civil case against the bondsmen of ex- County Treasurer M. J. Clump will come up for trial Wedresday in the Superior Court of this county. Suit is brought to | recover $36,000, which amount, it is| claimed. Clump did not account forin making his statement with the county. Nearly $3,000 of this sum was embezzlad | by Clump and the balance was tied up in | the failure of the First National Bank of | this city. The case will be tried before Judge Ballinger of Port Townsend, and it isanticipated there will be trouble in se- | curing a jury. SHISHLITOS ELECTION Two Forces Struggling for Su- premacy and a Hot Campaign | Is in Progress. The Principal Fight Will Be Made for Town Trustees and Marshal. | SBAUSALITO, CavL., Feb. 23.—A great deal of interest is being taken in the coming town election at this place. Public | meetings are being held and names sug- | gested for the various offices. The names of George Tasheira, G. Amb- | jornsen and M. Hannon have been men- | tioned for Town Trustees. | For Town Clerk J. H. Pryor, a well- known journalist, seems to have chlu-} sive control of the situation. Charles Dexter, the present Clerk, has stated that | he will not be a candidate for re-election, | and withdraws from the fight in favor of | Mr. Pryor. | The aspirants for the position of Mar- | shal are as thick as flies in summer. The | incumbent, John E. Creed, intends to run again and be elected if possible, but the | names of Paul Trouette, Edward Stahle, Dan Eustace and J. Susavilla are men- tioned for the same position ana each | | | | has considerable influence. | A. Lawrence and Con O'Leary are being | aavocated for Treasurer. Mr. Lawrence | occupies the position now. | There are two forces in Sausalito con- tending for supremacy at the town elec- | tion, one headed by J. H. Dickinson and the other by Commodore Harrison. Both sides are active, and every man who has a | right to vote is being urged to reg- | ister. Citizens are being made at a very rapid rate, and Superior Judge Angellotti of San Rafael has his hands full examining foreigners who desire to | support the constitution and vote at the town election. The vote is expected to be very heavy, as | many people having homes on the hill are | o}\posed to the present Trusteeson account | of the trouble concerning the roads which were ordered widened by the Trustees, the widening of which would bring many fences and vards upon the roads. This question is going to cut considerable figure | in the election, which promises to be one | of the hottest fights Sausalito has ever ex- In ancient i)luminations and paintinzsl all the evil spirits are represented as clad | in black or dark raiment, while the good | angels, if not robed in pure white, re- | joiced in garments of the brightest red, or | blue or gold. | started back home. SLANDER LEADS 10 BLOODSHED, A Young Lady’s Character Was Involved in the Trouble. HENRY PHILLIPS DEAD. His Slayer Declined to Eat His Words und Was Forced to Fight. WATERHOUSE SURRENDERED. The Public Feeling Is That It Was a Case of Justifiable Homi- cide. SPOKANE, Wasn., Feb. 23.—Henry Phillips, who was shot by David Water- house near Rockford yesterday, is dead. The trouble arose over a Miss Blair: It | was said that Waterhouse had circulated damaging stories about her and said they had been told by Phillips. Yesterday Phillips, the father of the girl and several others came to the home of Waterhouse, called him out and de- manded that he ‘‘eat his words.” Phil- lips at the sama time drew a revolver and pointed it at Waterhouse. Waterhouse backed a from Phillips, | who all the time was calling him names, until he got near the house. Then he ran in and out of the back door to one of the neighbor’s, where he got a rifle and While on the roaa he met the party who had been at his house. One of them yelled *‘Drop that gun,” and at that Phitlips shot at him, just grazing his head. Phillips jumped behind a log and started to shoot again, but the other man was too quick and hit him with the ball from the rifie. ‘Waterhouse was very much frightened at what he had done and went immedi- ately to Rockford, where Le gave him- self up. The shooting is considered in self- defense, and it is expected that at the pre- liminary trial Waterhouse will be exon- erated. A Novel Vehicle. Sergeant Heggi of the United States Army, who forms the garrison at Fort Knox, Maine, has invented what his neigh- bors cail a **fiying hailelujah.” This is a log a foot iin diameter and six feet long, provided with three pairs of sianting leas which rest on runners made of long sap- lings bent to form thills. A saddle is securely strapped on the log and a docile brown horse is harnessed to the shafts. Mounted in his saddle and dressed in his military uniform the sergeant is seen daily riding along the roads near the fort and in | the streets of the neighboring village, where the queer arrangement has become so familiar that it no longer occasions comment. B T e — The Night £ditor Got Her. The Youth’s Companion reports that not long ago a lady, calling on another, no- ticed. the absence of a cherished parrot, and asked what had become of it. “‘Oh, I bad to give her away.”” *“Give ber away! 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