The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 19, 1896, Page 20

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1896. b THE YOSEMITE STAGE HELD LR A Lone Highwayman’s Big Risk for Little Booty. TREASURE-BOX EMPTY. The Frightened Passengers Are Relieved Dollars. OFFICERS HOT ON THE TRAIL. Saveral Arrests Have Been Made. A Total Reward of $go0 Is Offered. of Fifteen | cluded to-day and Judge Pritchard fol- low_ed the decision of the Supreme Court, which compels city employes to go with- out their pay, as all moneys of the city arising from current tax revenue will have to be applied to pay back. warrants amounting to $1,250,000 before the city can ave a cent with which to continue in business as a municipal corporation. LR MINERS DEMAND THEIR PAY. Serious Trouble Narrowly Averted at the Golden Cross Mine. S8AN DIEGO, Carn., June 18.—Berious trouhle among the 170 miners at the Golden Cross mine on the desert was nar- rowly averted a day or two ago. The com- pany owning the great properties is em- barrassed through mismanagement, and W. W. Stewart of this city has just taken charge as receiver under a $25,000 bond, his salary being $8000 per year. T. 8. Failer, former manager of the | mine, arrived to-day with the owners, | Hedges Brothers, to justify Receiver Stew- art’s bonds. Before the receiver arrived at the camp, according to Mr. Kuller, the 170 men em- ployed in the mines, who had not been paid regularly, were in open revolt against C. H. Toll, manager for the trustees, and only the words of cool-headed men among | them prevented trouble. These men in- duced the miners to hold & meeting in Miners’ Union hall and talk over their troubles dispassionately. After assem- bling, they sent for Mr. Fuller, who cau- tioned them against violence. About the time of Mr. Stewart’s ap- ‘ RAYMOND, Car., June 18. —This morn- ing, about 9 o’clock, the Yosemite stage, running be‘ween Raymond and Wawona, was held up and robbed by a lone high- wayman about six miles from town. The slage was running on its regular trip and was driven by John tevens, who unti lately bas been one of the deputy sheriffs pointment as receiver an order was re- | ceived from the trustees at Los Angeles to | make a clean-up of amalgam. As th«reg- | ular time for making a clean-up had not | arrived the miners became suspicious and feared that their pay was to be with- held. The amalgam was not allowed to be sent to Los Angeles, but was locked up in the com- pany’s safe and the building put in charge of two employes, who were furnished with revolvers and given orders to allow no- | STABBED 70 DEATH AT LOS ANGELES, J. F. Wallace Killed in a Quarrel by Horace Dibble. AN EYE-WITNESS' STORY The Men Worked Together and Engaged in a Hot War of Words. 3 SHORTLY FOLLOWED BY BLOWS Then Wallace Staggered Back, Ex- claiming, “Dibble Has Cut Me All to Pieces.” LOS ANGELES, Cirn., June 18.—The numerous friends and acquaintances of Horace B. Dibble of this city ars in great distress over an unfortunate affray be- | tween himself and J. F. Wallace, which | has cost the latter his life under circum- | stances which make it very difficult for the survivor to extricate himself on the sTAONG — The Yosemite Stage That Was Held Up Yesterday Near Raymond on the Road to the Yosemite. [From a photograph.] of Fresno County and was instrumental in | the capture of the outlaws Sontag and Evans. In relatine the story, he said: “I had just made a turn when I saw an object in the road. I did not know what it was at first. It was dressed in gunny- sacks from top to bottom. When I had approached to within twenty feet it proved to be a masked man, who suddenly swung a gun around and pointing it at me told me to halt. When I did so he requested me to throw out the Wells-Fargo box and 1 promptly obeyed. “He then commanded the passengers to throw ont their money. All of the pas- sengers complied with the exception of Captain Bailey, who said he bad brought no moaey with him. The.1obber then told me to drive on, and he kept his gun pointed at the stage until a turn in the road left him alone with his spoils.” There were two express boxes on the | stage, a way box and a through box, and | TACGMA SHOKT OF FUNDS. City Employes Are Compelled to Go Without Their Pay. TACOMA, Wash., June 18.—The argu- ment of the demurrer interposed by the body to remove anything from the office. | The threatened trouble was finally avoid- ; ed by change of management. According- to Mr. Fuller Receiver Stew- art will have no trouble in managing the | property, and the $150,000 necessary to pay | off the debts of the company can be taken from the mines within six months. At | the 300-foot level there is said to be | $100,000 worth of ore in sight. i ——— 84N LUIS LAND SHARKS, They Sola Worthless Property to Over Five Hundred People. SAN LUIS OBISPO, CaL., June 18.—The County Bank of this city has commenced | action in the Superior Court against L. C. | Branch, propriétor of the notorious Morro Bay Improvement Company, to foreclose | a mortgage on some property on the Cor- | ral de Piedra rancho and on 1000 acres of town lots in El Morro. It is a matter of general sincere regret that the suit was not brought years ago. the box that was thrown out was the way | It puts a quietus on the notorious “Morro box, which contained two waybills and a worthless letter. The value of the prop- | erty taken from the passengers is said to aggregate about $15. The stage proceeded on till the Nine-mile House was reached, when a boy was dispatched back to Ray- mond with the news of the robbery, and a telezram brought Sheriff Westfall and one of his deputies from Madera. iff Prouty Sf"M#¥riposa County had also received word of the robbery, and he joined Westfall in the chase. A small posse was organized, and the express-box | was found about haif a mile distant from | where the robbery was committed. Ithad been broken into, the lock on the outside | being broken off, and with the exception of the loss of the padlock was uninjured. There were the tracks of one man lead- ing to where the box was found, and the | tracks of two horses leading away from it in a northerly direction, which leads the officers to believe that the robber had a confederate, who aided in his escape. The officers will continue the search, but | on acccunt of the roughness of the sur- | rounding country it will be a difficult task to capture the robber. There have been three men arrested on suspicion. One of them is an unknown | man here who has been loitering around town for a few days. He wasseen shortly after the robbery coming from that direc- | tion and wasarrested by Constable Leon- | ard. 0 | The other two men are William Little- | fisld and David Robinson, who are both | known to some extent throughout the | country. The indications of guilt, if any, that | pointed toward these men are somewhat vague and indefinite, other than thatit | was thought somebody ought to be ar- | rested. i The passengers on the coach were: M. | M. Goodwin, S. M. Cautler, Captain and Mrs. Beiley, Mr._.and Mrs. D. D. Whitlock, E. M. Tailor, W. D. Kerioot, Miss Kenny and Miss Meloche of Madera. A. H, Washburn of the Yosemite Stage and Turnpie Company has offered a re- ward of $300, which, in addition to the re- ward of $600 offered by the State and Wells, Fargo & Co., makes a total of $900. The last stage robbery that occurred on this line was twelve years ago, and Stevens, the same man that was driving to-day, was driver then. . | Bay Improvement Company,” a scheme which has bunkoed 500 individuals out of | a hundred dollars or more each. The dupes received a supposed title to an in- finitesimal piece of ‘worthless sand dune, | inaccessibly s ituated. | | The proposition, as originally laid before | the public and which received the approval of those cognizant of the proceedings, was to undertake the improvement of Morro Bay and provide such buildings, hotels, roads and alamedas as should make an attractive and popular seaside resort. The capital required was to be procured from the sale of lots. It does not appear that the parties who devised and arrangea the scheme had any intention of making any such use of the moneys received. On the | contrary, their efforts were confined to making a map, printing deeds and pocket- ing the proceeds of the sales made. The victims were given to understand that the ‘‘lots” were sold free and clear of all incombrance, but as shown by the | present suit the schemers did not have the decency to take the small percentage of the winnings required to clear off the mortgage and apply it to that purpose. Consequently in the present action all the unfortunate lot-holders are made defend- ants and the suit will kill off any hopes they may have been foolish enough to enter- tain with reference to their vanished coin, This land scheme has been very detri- mental to the whole county, and every one is rejoicing that the land -sharks have at last been brought up with a sharp turn. |'Many purchasers of lots reside in San Francisco. ARSIV A Graduates® Entertainment. SAN JOSE, Car., June 18.—The Eccle- sian Literary Society of the High School held its third annual graduating exercises last evening at Germania Hail. An inter- esting programme was followed by a dance. The graduates were: Fred E. Borton, { Joseph C. Christenson, H. Ray ¥ry, Ernest W. Gill, Clinton Humphrey, Rudolph C. liam Q. Wright. Disastrous Fire at Alviso. SAN JOSE, CAL., June 18.—A large barn belonging to John Vierra, a mile and a half northeast of Alviso, was destroyed by fire yesterday morning. Ten horses, twenty sots of harness, sixty tons of hay and a number of vehicles and farming implements were consumed. The fire is believed to be of incendiary origin. The loss is $4000. neslng Crazed by Religion. SAN JOSE, CaL, June 18.—Jjohanna Olsen, a domestic, was to-day committed to Agnews Insane Asylum by Judge Lor- igan. Sheis a native of Bweden, aged 36 years and unmarried. Her mania is of a religious turn, and she imagines she is about to be punished for some terrible Hayward, George C. Halla and 'Wil- city to the Gove injunction suit was con- crime she has committed. grounds of self-defense. Dibble is city salesman for the Pacific Coast Crockery Company, doing business at 226 North Los Angeles street. The deceased was a store employe of the same conceri. The tragic encounter occurred at the store early this morning, and reports dif- fer as to the circumstances which led up to the fatal stabbing. Alfred Pearson and witnessed the killing. Mr. Heard states that he was working in the shipping de- partment when he heard the pair engaged in‘an excited conversation. Their words were hot and their actions threatening and emphatic. He was standing about forty feet from them. His attention was at- tracted by quarrelsome words, and he stepped out of the door of the packing- room and saw Wallace advancing on Dibble. At that time they were about fifteen feet apart. He saw Wallace strike at Dibble and push him away, and heard him say, “If you allude‘to that hammer again 1 will strike you.” Heard turned to the shipping-room, when he heard words of a very profane nature used by Dibble to Wallace. Heim- mediately turned and saw Wallace and Dioble close together. He saw Wallace striking Dibble, who, with his leit hand raised, wasattempting to shield the blows. Then the men broke away, Wallace staggering to one side, and Heard caught him in his arms and assisted him to a pallet of straw, on which he was laid. The woundea man said, ‘Dibble has cut me all to pieces.” ‘Wallace was taken to the receiving hos- pital, where he died a few moments after- ward, The last words he utiered were those above quoted. The deceased had been in this city about a year. He leaves a wife and child at 4240 Cbampagne avenue, Chicago. His wite was informed of her husband’s death and she 1s now on the way to this city. De- ceased was about 30 years of age. Horace B. Dibble, the man now under arrest, has resided in Los Angeles nearly twenty vears. He is about 40 years of age, has a wife and resides at 110 Downey ave- nue. Heisa member of the Foresters, A.0.U.W. and Odd Fellows. He is well known and universally liked. He has been employed by the firm for several years. A CaLy correspondent saw Dibble at the jail and asked him if he wished to make a statement. He replied that he did ‘not, except that he had been cowed by de- ceased, threa tened and bullyragged until he was forced to defend himself. NOT A DANGEKUUS DELAY. What Buntington Says of an Unsigned Agreement. ‘NEW YORK, N. Y., June 18.—C. P, Huntington said yesterday that the delay in signing the contract between the Pacific Mail Steamship Company and the Panama Railroad Company did not mean that the agreement had falien through. He knew of no reason why the contract snounid not be signed and beueved that it would be signed very soon. uvertain parties inter- ested had been out of town, he said, and the delay probably had no other signifi- cance than some minor details, which still remained to be arranged. As a substitute for the industrial system which under Republican administration has developed such extraordinary prosperity, our opponents offer a policy which is but a series of experiments upon our system of revenue— a policy whose end must be harm to our ‘manufactures and greater harm to our labor.—JAMES G. BLAINE. ‘ T. W. Heard were the only parties who | without WHISPER IT ABOUT! NEW TO-DAY—CLOTHING. THE BIG KEARNY-STREET STORE IS CLOS- ING OUT THEIR ENTIRE STOCK OF SPRING AND SUMMER SUITS. IT WILL BE A BIG SALE? THE BIGGEST SINCE WE'VE BEEN IN BUSINESS. I Into our big corner window will give yow an insight to whait the big store is doin g at $7.95. RAPHAEL’S (Incorporated), The San Francisco Boys, 9, 11, 13, 15 Kearny St. 333322 0 Those right clever English Homespuns; those very dressy and tailor-like Spring. Swits, in pretty light colorings, medium and, dark, in those right swell plaids yow see worn so muoch. The tailors charge $40 for ‘em. We formerly sold ’em for $12 and 815 ; there's nearly 1500 of ’em; there’s choice picking yet. These are the Suits we have on sale at §§3 $7.95. TWO GREAT DAYS, Friday and Saturday, at the Big Kearny-Street Store. Your Sunday Trousers Ain’t Sunday the day youw dress up? Most people do. Some right smart dressy Trousers, pure woolen fabrics; $6 values. Fashionable Spring patterns; clever fitters. Friday and Saturday, $2.50. Vacation Those happy days of vacation are at hand when the little fel- low is released from study and toil, when he can romp abowt the country as free as a bird. Yow want something inexpensive, yet good. We're prepared to supply yow with ’em. We devote Friday and Saturday to one of the big- Sest sales that the big store has held in many @ day. We'll let prices do the rest. ~ Short Treuser Boys, A glorious selec- tion for those short trouser boys, ages6to 14, made from durable fabrics; perfect fitting. Friday and Saturday only at "$l.48. English Cor duroy. That swell Swit, Tan Corduroy, the strongest suit made, for boys ages 6to 15. Re- member, for Fri- day and Satwr- day only, at $2.40. Long Trouser Boys. Some very nobby Cheviot Swits, swell colorings, for boys ages 12 to 19; made in all styles. Valwes up to $10. Spe- cial, Friday and Saturday only. $4.85. Long Trousers, For Boys, All-Wool Cheviots, ages 12 to 19, $1.50. ~ Wash Fabric Suits. * No end of pretty .. Do you want owr new Book, Hints From a Big Store”? It's a valuable aid to those that shop by mail. Your name and address, please, and, we'll send it to yow. TWO DAYS FULL OF GOLDEN OPPORTUNITIES. ones, in Galateas and, Duck ; prices cutin half. 40c, 65¢ and 95c. Short Trousers, In neat mixtures, ages 4 to T B ] RAPHAEL’S (Incorporated), 9, 11, 13, 15 Kearny St. | The Home of the Masses SANTA CLARKS OUTLOOK Sunshipe Breaking Through the Clouds of Business De- pression. Several Important Real Estate Deals Recently Consummated and More Will Follow. SAN JOSE, Car., June 18.—The past year has been a disastrous one to all busi- ness in this State, the real-estate interests feeling the effect more acutely than prob- ably any other branch. In the general | land of the Morgan Hill and San Martin | ranches have been steadily maintained, and to-day the land is selling at increased figures. C. H. Phillips, who with T. G. Mont- gomery has been directing the sale of these lands, made in March last the largest single sale of real estate ever made in this State. This property was the Chino Ranch. Yesterday two more important i sales were made by Mr. Phillips in San Luis Obispo County—one the Godfrey Ranch of 10,000 acres and the other one of 2080 acres, eight miles from Paso Robles. These _two sales were made to colonists from Nebraska. In connection with these ranches Messrs. large property of great interest to San Jose and the valley, and have plang well organ- ized for an aggressive campaign, expect- ing to close out the Morgan Hil ranch during the year and to make decided in- roads into the San Martin and do very active work in the vicinity of 8an Jose. improvement which is now showing in all lines of business property interests are, as is always the case, among the first to re- ceive substantial benefits. Quiet but very effective work has been going on in this county, which will be of far-reachihg benefit not only to Santa Clara but to the entire State. About four years ago the Morgan Hill ranch, a beautiful domsin of 10,000 acres, improvements, was subdivided and offered for homes. Notwithstanding the great depression that has character- ized business since then, there has grown up on that property a resident population | of 500 people, who can boast of a large $5000 schoolhouse and one of the finest railroad stations on the line. Waterworks have been established and 3000 acres of fine orchards are now wing on the ranch, and young as the trees are, many of 2 Fho Ban Martin, another large propert s ! near the Morgan Hill, has Bunm:r th’. mt:(k'qu for thxi:e yaun, wimm%flnly ing results. "Here are acres Sf the ch‘oicm of Banta Clara lands. The prices that were first put on the TR A PARKER WILL CONTEST. Mrs. Beatley’s Deposition uses a Sensation. SAN JOSE, CAL, June 18.—Some sensa- tional evidence was introduced in the Parker wiil contest this morning by the reading of the deposition of Mrs. Medora Reading of Oa Beatley of Hartford, Conn. It showed | arri: that Emma L. Parker, the contestant, had led & gay and fast life before she met Ed- ward L. Parker. Mrs. Beatley had been an intimate acquaintance of Emma Parker, and she told of theflirtation which led to the contestant first meeting Edward Parker, and of the wine supper and night of revelry that followed. Her narration of the Roeky Hill esca differed ma- :ahr'.a.l&y ttlrom ‘that told by Mrs. Parker on e stand, - In her deposition Mrs. Beatley said she knew Emma Parker, then Emma Hough, | T mother ob- intimately in her youth. to {er meg&ng Emma Hough, but she was bound to do so,and she met her at the house of hef sister, Mrs. Beatley's mother did not want her to have :‘nfit g to do with Emma because she not i Mrs. Parker struck up a flirtation. Phiilips and Montgomery have taken a | think she was a good girl. The deponent said that Mrs. Parker told her whgno she came from New York once in about 1872 that she had been living with two other women, all of whom h: been supported by men. She was well dressed and had diamonds and 3evrelry. On one occasion she said she had been livivg with a man named George L. Brown, and they travéled extensively. She said she going to leave him because she had ob- tained all she could from him. Mrs. Beatley detailed the flirtation that led to Emma Parker and herself meeting Ed Parker and a Mr. Scranton. Kd Parker and Mr. Scranton were on the street, when Mr. Scranton made the advances, and because the witness was bashful Emma referred to her as a simple country girl. The arrange- ments for a drive were made in a hotel parlor while Ed Parker was waiting out- side for the developments. When ar- ranged, Parker and the contestant drove together and the witness and Mr. Scranton. They went to Rocky Hill, where a game supper with plenty of wine was en‘;oyed. They spent the entire evening theredrink- ng and singing. They all became intoxi- cated. On their way back to town an acci- dent happened to Parker’s rig, and the two men took their companions to the Charter Qak building, where they secured a room. | The deponent says Emma Parker was under the influence of liquor when they rrived' at the room. They had more liquor to drink, and the entire party spent the night in the room ther. This afternoon Rudolph Messing and John Stock, who witnessed Geo! H. l’:n?r'u will, were put on the mnu 8 m’:‘ho’ case went over until Mondsy morn- —_——— ¢ NOTORIOUS JIMMIE CLARK. The Prison Again Yawns for Him for Disposing of Stolen Goods. SAN JOSE, Car., June 18, —Jimmie _Clark, who has served nearly a score of terms for petty larceny in this State, was arrested Sunday by Deputy Sheriff Ed- wards for disposing of stolen goods. A few months ago Clark was confined in the same cell in the County Jail here with Sal- vatore Ragosa, who is now serving an eight-year term in San Quentin for burg- lary. Ragosa had robbed the Van Su gs place at Almaden and the residence of W. H. Hamilton on the Los Gatos road, and had buried the plunder near Redwood City. Before Ragosa’s trial came on Clark was discharged; aud Ragosa confided to bim the hiding-place of his booty, with the understanding that Clark was to dis- fiose of it and divide the proceeds with Agosa. Clark secured the stuff, and disposed of some of the jewelry in this city, which Sheriff Lgndon recovered. When Ragosa learned that Clark: had. pocketed the en- tire proceeds of the cacne, he told Sheriff Lyndon of tbe matter. A search was at once instituted for Clark, but he had dis- appeared. e EX-CUNSTABLE BURKE DEAD. An Interesting Reminiscence of His Official Career, SAN JOSE, CavL., June 18.—Edward E. Burke, a well-known resident of Santa Clara, died last evening after a lingering illness. He was a native of Ireland and 55 years of age. fn 1882, while Constable at Mountain View, Burke arrested Dick Kel- lows, the notorious stage robber, who 1s now serving a life sentence in San Quen- tin, While conveying Fellows to the county jail Burke took him into a saloon at the corner of First and St. John streets, and while ordering the drinks Fellows escaped, but was recaptured a few weeks later. sl Rathbone Sisters Flect Officers. BAN JOSE, Car., June 18.—Mizpah Temple No. 22, Rathbone Sisters, has elected the following officers for the ensu- ingterm: Past chief, Mrs. F. J. Brandon; most excellent chief, Mrs. W. Frink; ex- cellent senior, Mrs. G. L. Rodgers; excel~ lent junior, Mrs. J. H. Truman; manager, Mrs. J. 8. Brown; mistress of records and correspondence, Mrs. T. M. Singleton; mistress of . G. Me! walnE of tem Miss Stevenson; protector ard of outer temple, M: 8 % e s ok e - e