The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 7, 1896, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JULY 7, 1896. 5 = ——————— GORY REVEL END Two Women of Montecito the Victims of an Assassin. SHOT AND STABBED IN THEIR HOME. Mrs. Richardson Is Mortally Wounded and Her Daughter Put to Death. VENGEANCE THE MOTIVE FOR THE CRIME. A Man to Whom Suspicion Pointed | Commits Suicide to Escape Arrest. SANTA BARBARA, Car., July 6.—The hand of an unknown assassin has wiped out the surviving members of one of the best-known and most respected of all the wealthy and cultured families who have made their homes in beautiful Montecito. The dwelling of Mrs. H. R. Richardson vaded last night by this fiend, the Dunham in savage feroc- 1 of Butc was wounded death is hours, Her I was murdered, the rom the house, after n k by clubbing the girl into in- d then cutting her throat. ardson’s son, who had threat- lives of his stepmother and step- under suspicion; but the sht of Cyrus Barnard, an- may clear the mystery and he innocence of the relative. miles from town, a little beyond metery, n the frequently traveled 1 to the beau ! suburb of Montecito n a slight eminence fronting the sea, v villa surrounded by nd flowering shrubs. This erected six years ago by Henry ason, a Canadian gentleman of th and a former resident of Coaticook, in the province of Quebec. The Richard- intelligence, but of tastes. daughter, Ethel, 18 years old, attended the Santa Barbara High School, graduat- ing two years ago, since which iime she has been taking post-graduate studies at the same school, with the intention of re- moving to Berkeley to pursue a higher course this fall. hel was a pretty girl of ht, with & girlish figure, a beautiful biue eyes and a quaint, In character and disposition complexion, b; ace. general w her. e mother was & woman of middle age sweet and kindly disposition. The er was generally recognized as an up- and faithful friend, but somewhat A wayward son, Mr. Richardson’s child rst wife, was their one sorrow and On March 30 of this spring Mr. lichardson died, h condemning his son. Since his e wife and daughter have lived on t servantsin the great house, oc- ving a friend there for com- = rday afternoon they drove to visit a sick irtend and afterward to y to give kindly directions to sexton to permit the burial of a friend’s n their lot. They returned home at d from this hour the history of it is a mystery, the subject of speculation. aborer, Frank Cordero, passing down 1 on foot at 6:30 o’clock this morn n a field beside the Richardson 15, at a point where they angle sharply with the road, what he conceived to be the body of a man lying on the ground. He walkea on to the camp and reported the circumstances to a fellow- workman, proposing that they return and ine it, as it might be some one they exa knew. The men returned and, entering the field, beheld a horribie and piteous sight. Prone on the stubble-field, lying on her face, cold in death, horribly bruised and d ed and covered with blood, was the body of pocr Ethel Richardson. There were bullet holes in her neck and cuts on | her head, and the young figure was nude, save for a blood-stained little knit shirt that but partially covered it. Her arms were folded under her and in her hands was a nightrobe drenched with bloood. Pools of blood stood on the black soil about her. Kindly hands placed a sheet over the mutilated form and the Coroner and Sheriff were summoned by telephone from town. Meantime Cordero and his Cali- fornian friend proceeded to the house, knowing that the two ladies dwest there alone and unprotected, and suspecting that the tragedy which had found so ghastly a termination in the field might have had its beginning there. The stillness of death reigned in and about the premises, confirming their worse forebodings, but they found all of he doors securely locked. These Cali- fornians are men bred to note and value every trivial indication, and before the crowd of curious and sympathetic had in- vaded the premises they made a thorough and searching examination of the grounds. They found the track of a small man’s foot leading 1nto the grounds from a point near the public road and close beside a tle cowshed at the end of the stable. ootprints they traced to the house and they aiterward found the print of the girl’s bare feet leading from the front ve- randa around the house, drops of blood marking her course anc the tracks of the man following, the paces of both far apart, showing the wild race the girl had made for her life around the honse. They fol- lowed them and along the road leading to tlhe entrance to the grounds, where a stout chain hung bevween two stone posts. Here Ethel evidently climbed over the chain, intending to reach the nearest neigh- bors, the Wallens, living an eighth of a mile distant. The man leaped a barbed-wire fence and intercepted her, finishing his bloody work by firsy beating her with the loaded Their only | medium | with almost his last | stick he carried until it broke and then drawing his knife and cutting her throat. When the Coroner arrived, he broke open the door of the house and found all of the lower rooms in perfect order. The ground floor of the house consists of a | square front hallway, a parlor at the right | beside it, a library behind the hall, a | dining-room beside it and in the rear | kitchen, butler’s pantries and closets. Up- | | tle room extended across the roof of the front veranda, which in all probability afforded the murderer a means of ingress | and of concealment. Beside it 1s the mother’s room, a large front ehamber, simply but handsomely furnished. A long, narrow entry separates it from the daughter’s room, which is at the head of the stairs and from another room in the rear of the front chamber, while there are smaller chambers, bath room, etc., at the rear. They met a horrible and ghastly sight as they reachea the upper story. Across the threshold of her chamber lay Mrs. Rich- ardson, unconscious, her head on a pillow drenched and clotted with blood. Her night dress was stained with crimson and her pretty gray hair and comely face bathed in blood. Great pools of her life’s fluid were around her; the bed was stained with it, and on the further side of the bed, near its head, was a blackening pool, showing where she had evidently leaped from the bed to escape the assassin and received a second or third bullet. A hasty examination showed that her wounds were fatal, and the only hope has been that she might recover consciousness ]‘ to speak her murderer’s name. This, the paysicians declare, there is no hope for. | All day long she has been lying uncon- I‘scious, slowly drifting toward the eternal | | shore, where husband and daughter are waiting. No attempt has been made to make a thorouzh examination of her injuries, the only effort being to render her few remain- | ing moments of life comfortable; but Dr. | Winchester states that she has a bruise | across her forehead, cut down to the skull, a parallel bruise two or three inches fur- | ther back on the head and a bullet wound | oneinch below the left eye. This rangea | upward and backward. ~ Another passed through one hand and there are numerous other wounds and injuries. She is dying of internal hemorrhage. The bruises and cuts upon her body were evidently inflicted with the stick which | was found beside little Ethel’s body. This stick is about the length of an ordinary cane. Itisabout an inch and a half in diameter at the head, tapering to the end, which has no ferrule. drical cavity has been made in the upper end, and the pieces of lead with whica | this was loaded were picked up on the floor of Mrs. Richardson's room. The cruel blows had splintered it, and it was | broken in twain as well, and stained through and through with blood. It is said that the wood of which it is mAde grows only on the Santa Barbara Channel islands. Before the forenoon was half gone the Richardson home was invested by sight- seers and friends. At an early hour it be- came necessary to closze the house to all but those admitted by the Coroner’s or- ders. Meantime the officers of the law were not idle. All roads leading out of town were watched and every suspicious charac- ter in town was under surveillance. Men | went out to search the mountair trails for a track similar to the murderer's, and before noon the report was received that on the old Romero trail, crossing the Santa Ynez range above Montecito, a footprint | had been found which corresponded to the | tracks about the grounds. A posse of officers and citizens at once started on this trail and at a late hour | had not yet returnea. So convinced were | the officers that the fiendish crime must | have been the work of personal enmity and therefore of the poor women's only exceedingly winsowe, and she | declared foe, the absent stepson, who had | favorite among all who| | spent some time in Santa Barbara, leav- | ing here for the East two years ago, that | descriptions of this man were sent broad- | cast over the country. | The fact of his bitterness toward his | relatives, combined with his father’s re- cent death and his disposition of his prop- erty to his wife and daughters, there being one daughter by the first marriage (a Mrs, Norton, living in Boston), the deeds and will having_ been only recently filed, seemed to afford a strong chain of reason upon which to base this hypothesis. At | one time a report was received from Ven- ‘ tura that Scott Richardson had been ap- prehended there, but this proved to be | baseless. At an early hour a Coroner’s jury was | impaneled, “consisting of the following | citizens: J. R. Vance, F. D. Mever, Ben | | Hayne, W. H. Maris, Jerome C. Wilson, dward Harper, W. H. Myers, John B. avitz, C. A. Mabbott, E. Packard, T. F. lie, H. Appor, J. M. Emery, Aliter viewing the body and the premises at | o'clock they began the taking of testi- mony. Frank Cordero was the first witness | called. He testified to the finding of | Ethel Richardson’s body in the field ad- joining o’clock in the morning. It was clad 1n a | single undergarment. ~ The body waslying i face downward. { J. Ayala corroborated the testimony of | Cordero, with the additional circumstances | that beneath the girl, under her arms, was 2 nightdress soaked with blood. A pe- | culiar feature of his testimony was his us- | sertion that in passing the place on horse- | back at 6:15 o’clock he had not observed the body, which was quite plainly in sight from tne road. | Mr. Eckels testified that at an early hour this morning he was called upon by Frank Cordero and informed that a girl’s | body was found in the field near the | Richardson place. He went with Cordero | to the place and identified the boay as that of Ethel Richardson. He corroborat- ed the preceding testimony and added that he went to Mrs. Wallin’s and pro- | cured a sheet and covered tkLe body, not | disturbing its position. He then went to | the cemetery and telephoned to the Coro- ner and the Sberiff. Antonio M. Ruiz, the Coroner, was the | first person to enter the house'after the | discovery of the girl's body. He described the position and condition of Mrs. Rich- ardson. Mrs. Thomas Taber, an old fam- ily friend, testified as to the manner in which the rooms were occupied by the family. She explained that Mrs. Richard- son occupied the room at the right of the hall, in the front of the house, and that her daughter slept in the room across the hall from this, at the head of the staircase. There was no communicating door be- tween the rooms, which were separated by the hallway. ! She examined these sleeping-rooms this order, bearing no_evidence whatever of a started to lie down. Her impression was that Ethel was about to retire when she beard her mother’s screams and ran to her. There was nothing to indicate that she had been attacked until she came out of her room, yet the trail of blood down the stairs and out of the front door was evidence that she had been attacked witnin the house and ran out of doors, wounded and bleeding, to escape her murderer. Mrs. Taber positively stated that there had been no opening of bureau drawers or disturbance of any kind to indicate that robb ry had been the motive for the mur- der. Even Eihel’s jewel case, which stood in her room, was undisturbed and the con- tents intact. Mrs. Taber . testified that a son of Mr. Richardson and astepson of Mrs. Richard- son, one Scott Richardson, was living. Ethel had never seen her hali-brother and did not know him. Herfather and mother were unwilling to have her know him, as they were afraid he might do ner some harm. She stated that during his last ill- ness Mr. Richardson told her that that bad boy of his was killing him. His grief over the boy’s behavior made him unwilling to | stairs, across the front of the hall, is a lit- | A cylin- | the residence grounds at 6:30 | morning and found Miss Ethel’s room in | struggle. The girl’s clothing was lying | on a chairat the head of the bed, the bed- | clothing partly thrown back as if she had | get well. He said he bad never heard Scott make threats of personal violence, but he had heard from others here that Scott had said he would kill that — wife of his father. But Mrs. Richardson was very kind to him and his family, and while he lived in Santa Barbara ‘carried him and his family provisions to make them comfortabie. Mrs. Taber's testimony was very clear, thoughtful and intelligent, and in spite of her seventy-odd years she proved the best and most helpful witness summoned. Mrs. Fanny V. Wallin, a neighbor living 100 yards distant, stated that after she re- tired last night, about 9 o’clock, she heard a noise that she attributed to some trouble among their stock. A few minutes later she heard a groan, and although it did not sound in the direction of their barn she believed it came from an old horse of theirs. A few seconds later she heard an- other prolonged groan, and told her hus- band that she was sure thistime that some human being was in distress. He there- upon arose and went out to the barn and found that everything was all right. Be- ing superstitious, she concluded that the sound was a premonition. Twice after they heard a noise and groans, and her husband went out twice again and searched for the cause. They heard no screamsand no pistol-shots. Mrs. Wallin stated that she usually saw a light in the Richardson residence after 10 o’clock, but thought the family had retired earlier since the old gentleman’s death. V. L. Rust testified to knowing a man, Hiram Barnard, who used to work for Mrs. Richardson, with whom he often talked. He described him as a short, slight man with drooping mustache, On Friday af- ternoon he saw him on State street, clad in a blue suit. He said he had tramped up to the northern part of the State and had had a hard experience. When asked if he had any reason to connect the man with the murder Rust stated that Barnard on Friday offered to sell him a new $17 rifle for $10, declaring that he would have to have the money before 6 o’clock, and that he would leave town on Sunday or Monday at the latest. Hearing of the mysterious small footprint found upon the Richardson place and remember- ing the man’s small foot he volunteered this information thinking the man in ques- tion might be worth looking up. Dr. Ricbards J. Hall testified to having made an external examination of Ethel | Richardson’s body, which was sufficient to determine the cause of death. She died, probably, of hemorrhage, from a stab wound in the throat. let wounds in the neck, either of which | wounld have caused death, and numerous | other injuries, cuts and fractures of bones, | including a buliet in her left arm, none of which would have caused death. | the bullets avpear to have emerged from | the body. The stab wound was probably | inflicted where she died. The body was cold, but no rigidity had | set in, so that it was not likely that she | had been dead more than four .or five hours. His judgment was that she had been dead not more than five hours nor less than four hours; yet she was so cold | that it was possible she had been dead ten | or twelve hours. The bullet wounds ap- peared to have been made with about a | 82-caliber ball. | She was probahly stabbed while in a | | standing position or struggling on the | ground.” This knife wound cut the trachae | and ®osophogus completely through, sev- | ering many small vessels, but not the | jugular vein. It was possible, in his judg- | ment, for her to have run to the spot | wheré she was found after receiving the | shots. She had a bruken forearm, a broken | elbow, a cut on the ear, a cut on the scal and numerous bruises, eviaently inflicze with the loaded cane found close beside | the body. | Eben J. Packard, a neighbor and dairy- | man, testitied as to his acquaintance with the stepson, Scott Richardson. He saw | him two years ago, before he leit here, o | tensibly for Minneapolis. Mr. Packard as- | serted that he had heard Scott Richardson | declare he would get even with the famil He would see them in hell. They had rob- bed him of his rights. | He was referring to the stepmother and half-sister. He heard Scott make these threats at least six or eight times, He | might not have said the precise word | “*kill,”’ but his threats involyed their de- struction. He was usually drunk when Mr. Packard saw him, and the witness only reproved him. Mr. Packard said that this bitter quarrel was the only subject on which either | father or son’ could converse. When he | met either they talked about the other. ject. Scott’s enmity seemed most particu- larly directed against the father and this girl, his half-sister. He said they had the property if the step-motaer and daughter were not in existence. Mr. Packard had attached little im- portance to the man’s talk, regarding it as man. | _The verdict rendered by the jury was that Ethel Richardson, a native of Canada and a resident of California, came to her | death by a pistol shot at the hands of a party or parties unknown to the jury. IHE DEATH OF BARNARD. Shoots Himself After Resisting Arrest With Bullets. { SANTA BARBARA, CaL., July 6.—An- other tragedy was added late this evening to the day’s horrors, which will either | clear the Richardson murder mystery or add to it another tangle. Word way brought to the Coroner that Cyrus Ber- nard, the former gardenerof the Richard- sons and who was, by Will Rush’s testi- mony, connected with the crime, had shot himself. This report was found to be correct in its essence, although somewhat fauity in circumstances. Ex City Marshal Hopkins, acting now as a deputy Sheriff, had canvassed the Jist of personsin and about Santa Barbara who might have been connected with thiscrime. Withoutany particular reason, as he states, but acting rather intuitively, he settled upon Cyrus Barnard, being confirmed in his suspicion by the discovery that Bar- nard had recently pawned his gold watch and a 38-caliber revolver with a local bar- keeper and on July 1 had redeemed the weapon, stating that he should need it. It was ascertained that Barnard’s shoes cor- respond to the murderer’s tracks. After conferring with Sheriff Hicks, | they agreed that it would be wise to arrest | the man, and determined to keep the ar- rest secret, as they were sure they knew his character well enough to relv upon | easily extracting a confession from him | should he be guilty of the crime. H"l" | kins called upon Deputy Sheriff J. N. Johnson to accompany him, and a little | before 10 o’clock proceeded to Barnard’s | cottage. As th2y reached the gate they saw Bar- nard coming up the street. He called out, “Hello, Hop? What do you want?” | ‘Good evening, Rarnard,” Hopkins re- plied, *I want you.” | _ Barnard dodged within his cottage, leav- ing a screen door closed between him and the men. Hopkins incautiously struck a match, intending to follow him and wish- ing to see his way. “What do you want?” asked Barnard again. ““Come out and I'll tell you,” was the | response. | “Tell me now, Hop; look out!” | By this time the match had flamed up brightly, revealing Hopkins’ and John- son’s forms to the man caged within the tny cabin. A shot sounded ana a 38- caliber ball pierced the rim of Hopkins' feli hat, ranging upward, but powder- burning the ex-Marshal's face, at such close range were the men. Hopkins instantly answered the fire, taking a center aim as well as he could in the darkness. The screen door sprung to and a second shot was heard from Bar- nard’s pistol. The two officers, not know- ing the effect of Hopkins' shot, decided that as the man was evidently desperate it would be wise to get more help. They went off, leaving the house in darkness. When they returned with iights they found Barnard lying dead on the floor, shot through the heart. Only a superficial examination of the dead man’s pockets and of the premises There were two bul- | All of | They seemed almost insane on the sub- | stolen $10,000 from him. He would have | only the excitable utterances of a drunken | could be made to-night anda nothing was found of a directly incriminating charac- ter. To-morrow papers and letters found in the house will be examined and may throw some light on the mystery. Bar- | nara has been generally looked upon as a weak and susceptible iellow, whose frailty has been a disposition to conceive violent passions for young ladies with whom he bad no acquaintance. He has recently set up in the profession of a dog-trainer and is said to have car- ried a stick similar to the one found on the scene of the Richardson tragedy. His mother, an excellent woman, a Mrs. Pet- ersen, lives in Santa Barbara. All eyes are turned in expectation to the revela- tions the morrow must bring forth. VETERANS CAPTURE HUENEME. Over Five Hundred Are Entertained at the Homestead of Hon. Thomas R. Bard. VENTURA, CAL., July 6.—The South- ern California Veterans’ Association cap- tured Hueneme to-day, and to-night but | one name is heard in Camp Phil Sherri- dan. Hon. Thomss R. Bard is the hero of the hour. The members of the association and kindred societies to the number of 535 were entertained at the Bard homestead at Hueneme, the tables being located on the lawn fronting his residence. Prior te the luncheon speeches were made by Commander Downing, Superior Judge Buckley of Sonoma County, and Mrs. 8. C. Sweet, president of the Woman’s Auxiliary Association. The address of welcome was made by Rev. Morrill on_behalf of the citizens of Hueneme and Hon. Thomas Bard. At the conclusion of the address Colonel John Brookes handed the reverend gentle- man a handsome badge of the association and presented him with an honorary mem- bership on the association. To-morrow will be observed as Ventura’s day under the auspices of Cushing Corps, G. A. R., for whom the day is named. Friday the annus) election will be neld. Andrew J. Bell of Ventura is the only name so far mentioned for the post com- mander. Unless unexpected opposition develops he will be chosen, making the second time in the history of the organization that the honor has come to Ventura County. An item of interest to the G. A. R. asso- | ciations throughout the State is develop- |ing in the proposed scheme to divide the Department of California into two divi- sions, with the division line at Tehachapi. The sentiment among the rank and file strongly favors the proposed scheme. If oppos:tion develops it will come from San Francisco and the past commanders, who will exert their united influence to defeat the movement. No definite action has been taken, but the idea is rapidly gain- ing sirength in the southern tier of G. A. R. posts. LOS ANGELES PRESBYTERY Rev. Burt Estes Howard’s Name Dropped From the Rolls of the Church. The Westminster Congregation Will Be Invitea to Return to the Fold. LOS ANGELES, CaL., July 6.—Rev. Burt Estes Howard is a Presbyterian pastor no longer. The circumstances of the division and strife in the fashionable old First Pres- byterian Church of this city and Howard’s part therein has been considered and passed upon by two Presbyteries, one synod and one general assembly, the lat- ter being the highest ecclesiastic body of the denomination. The synod refused to sustain the First Presbytery’s action re- l‘ln\ing to Howara’s affairs, and later the assembly reversed the judgment of the | synod. Allin all, Mr. Howard has been | the unwilling cause of much tribulation, | and some acrimonious contentions. | At a meeting of the local Presbytery | here to-day, the relations between Rey. Howard and Westminster Church | were formally dissolved, his renunciation of the Presbytery’s mnhorit?' recorded and his name forever dropped from its rolls. This action leaves Rev. Howard and the Westminster Society in the position of a distinct and independent religious body. The ministers composing the Presby- tery were by no means a unit on several of the points involved, and as a result warm discussions followed tne several resolutions, It was moved by Dr. Hartley of Riverside that a committee be ap- vointed to draft a pastoral letter, to be is- sued to the individual members of the ‘Westminster Church, urging them to re- turn. Mr. Chichester suggested that this was an_excellent means of showing their ood will toward the Westmnster Church. he proposition was adopted. e Tragedy at Fort Jones. YREKA, CaL, July 6.—Frank Cory, aged 24 years, went home from a Fourth of July ball at Fort Jones on Saturday, and gomg to his bedroom attempted to commit suicide. Members of his family found bim on the floor with a bullet wound in his side. Cory had just received his discharge from the United States army at Vancouver, Wash. His family is one of the most_prominent and highly respected in Scott Valley. He will nrobably recover. ————— Sonora Murder Case Continued. SONORA, Car., July 6.—The trial of Joseph T. Newcomer, charged with the | murder of the late Colonel Caleb Dorsey, | will not take place until August 10. This was decided upon this morning. The pro- ceedings took an unexpected turn. Dr. E. T. Gould, who conducted the autopsy and upon whom the prosecution relied most to rove its case, yesterday went to San raucisco with his wife, who was ill. Dis- trict Attorney Otis justified Gould’s ac- tion and Judge Nicol granted his motion and continuea the case. —_— LAKEVILLE RANCHER DEAD, Passing of William Bihler, Once Owner of the Fair Kanch. PETALUMA, CaL., July 6. — William Bibler died suddenly at his home at Lake- ville last evening. He was a well-known rancher and stock-raiser, and was the for- mer owner of what is now known as the Kair ranch. Mr. Bihler had been suffer- ing from Bright's disease for some time, but the immediate cause of death was the bursting of a blood vessel. The deceased wae a_native of Germany and 66 years of age. His estate is said to be worth about $100,000. — e Stockton’s Fatal Shooting. STOCKTON, CAn. July 6. — William Wolf, ex-Superintendent of Streets, who was accidentally shot by Gus Gianelliin the latter's saloon on Weber avenue on Saturday, died yesterday. Gianelli was showing a pistol. and he removed the cartridees and placed them or the bar. He then stepped aside. Before his return either Wolf or a whisky darummer from San Francisco, who was with him, re- loaded the weapon. Gianelli returned, and, thinking the revolver was not loaded, he snapped it at Wolf. The bullet entered the breast just above the heart. SN Fate of Rwmsey’s Rurglar. WOODLAND, CAL., July 6.—A motion for a new trial in the case of Charles Stew- art, alias “Boots,” convicted of robbing the postoffice at Rumsey, Yolo County, was argued by counsel before Judge Grant to-day. It denied, and the court sen- tenced him to ten years in State’'s prison. [CAMPING IN THE SONOMA VALLEY, League of the Cross Cadets on an Outing at Agua Caliente. LIFE IN A TENTED CITY Strict Maintained by Those in Command. MASS SAID UNDER THE TREES The Pretty Camp Named Montgomery, in Homor of Los Angeles’ Bishop. Camp MONTGOMERY, LEAGUE OF THE CRoss CADETS, } AGUA CaLeENTE, Cal., July 6. ‘When the sun went down behind the rounded hills of Sonoma Valley to-night a huge bonfire was built before two big trees in the center of the clustered tents. The cadets and scores of visitors from Sonoma, including a number oi ladies, gathered around on improvised seats und made the night ring with campfire and collezesongs. The cadets have been encamved here since last Saturday. By this time all the tents are well stretched and arranged and everything is snug. They will remain in camp until Sunday evening. Many dis- tinguished visitors are expected this week. About 125 men are in camp, comprising chiefly Companies A and [ of the League of the Cross Cadets. The strictest military discipline is main- tained. It is far from being all play. There is a guardhouse, which, us yet, has been without a prisoner. At night there isa countersign, anrd is worth almost a man’s life to get through the lines with- out it. A guard is kept up during the day. The cadets have guard mount after dress- parade in the evening. The officers are: Company A—Captain, Frank 8. Drady,; first lieutenant, William C. Hooper; second lieutenant, R. G. Drady. Company I—Canvtain, Peter J. Haggert first lieutenant, Charles F. Skelly; second lieutenant, Henry J. Power. Dr. A. P. Mul- ligan is camp physician, and doing chap- 13in duty is Rey. James A. McDonald. Military instruction is given by Major T. Drady and Captain H. P. Filgale. To-day Lieutenant Skelly was officer of the day, and Lieutenant R. Drady officer of the guard. Among the visitors expected at Camp Montgomery during the week are Rev. Father M. P. Ryan, chaplain of the re ment of the League of the Cross Cadets; Rev. Father P. C. Yorkxe, and possibly Bishop Montgomery of Los Angeles. The camp is named after Bishoo Montgomery. He is the founder of the League of the Cross Cadets. Other visitors coming during the week are the Grand Council of the Young Ladies’ Institute of San Francisco. They will arrive Saturday morning and remain until camp breaks up on Sunday. dancing platform has just been erected. One of the most solemn and imvressive and at the same time pretty scene of the camp so far was military mass, which was said under the trees in front of head- quarters yesterday morning. The Catholic Church at Sonoma was recently burned. There was a little multitude from Sonoma worshiping under the overspreadinyg trees, in addition to the cadets. The camp is about three miles out from Sonomx, but trains stop directly in front of Camp Montgomery. Company A belongs to St. Military Discipline Is| The | young ladies will number about thirty. A | Mary’s parish and Company I to St. Peter’s in San Francisco. AFTER BLYTHE'S MILLIONS. Kentucky Members of the Family Wil Staw With the Case. LOS ANGELES, Cav., July 6.—The fight for Millionaire Blythe’s millions is still on. | B. M. Blythe of Downey left to-day for i San Francisco. He received letters from | his attorneys saying that they are ready to | appeal the case of the Kentucky Blythes to the Supreme Court of the United States. “I am going to put up the money to Mr. Blythe. The attorneys for Florence Blythe at that trial contended that she was adopted under section 230 of the Code of Civil Procedure. She was iliegitimate and a subject of Queen Victoria. England has no adoption law. The Probate Court decided she was adopted under section 230. The case was appealed to the Supreme Court in banc. ‘‘We think we will defeat her in the | Supreme Court of the United States,” said | Blythe. *‘Mrs. Florence Blythe-Hinckley is an impostor. She is the daughter of ! Joseph Jumes Soperoft, who married her mother when Florence was 3 years old. She is not the child oi Thomas H, Blythe, and for that reason and many others I am going to stay with the fight till the Ken- tucky Blythes win.” SOLANO REPUBLICANS, Hilborn Indorsed for Congress by the County Committee. VALLEJO, CaL, July 6.—The Solano County Republican Central Committee met at Suisun to-day and called a primary election for August 15 to elect detexates to the Congressional convention at Vallejo on August 22. J. J. Luchsinger of Vallejo and Charles Newman of Dixon were chosen as delegates at large, and two dele- gates from each of the five Supervisor districts will be elected. The committee adopted a resolution calling upon the delegates elected from Solano to use all honorable means to_se- cure the renomination of Hon. S. G. Hil- born to Congress. The following was | adopted:: Resolved, That we take pleasure in indorsing the course of the Hon. S. G. Hilborn in Con. gress and warmly commend him for the spleu- did work and uns h interest shown by him in behalf of the district which he has so ably representea. e WOODLAND SENSATION. Capitalist Allen Charged With Attempted Jury Briving. WOODLAND, Caw, July 6.—A sensa- tional affidavit bearing on the motion for anew trial in the case of Leland Allen vs. Elizabeth Allen was filed in the Superior Court to-day, in which J. G. Allen, a wealthy and influential citizen, who is the charged with endeavoring jurors at the former trial. This suit was rought by Leland Allen against his mother to recover money. A jury decided in favor of the mother by a vote of 9 to 3. 11 is now charged that one of the jurors was improperly influenced by the’ elder Allen. It is alleged that during the re- cesses of court Allen interviewed friends on the jury and asked them to decide against his son. The Allens are members of one of the oldest families in the county, but have been separated for years. e e Adventure of a Woodland Woman. WOODLAND, Car., July 6.—Mrs. Fred Snavely, while dnyving from Knights Landing to Woodland, was pursued by an unknown man on horseback Saturday night. Mrs. Snavely urged her horse and after an exciting ride arrived at the home of her father before the wretch could over- take her. George Fustis, the father of Mrs. Snavely, came to town and swore to a warrant for the arrest of the stranger, but he has not yet been apprehended. A i Mission Canyon Disaster., SANTA BARBARA, CaL, July 7.—At a late hour to-night C. R. Diver, superin- tendent of the streetcar line, that a team of horses attached to a wagon of some sort had been discovered dead at the bottom of a gulch up Mission canyon, and that tne owner or driver had not been found. Officers have zone to investigate. et Killed at Graniteville. NEVADA, CaL.,July 6.—At Graniteville, twenty-eight miles above here, Edward H. Tartease, 8 sheepherder from Wheatland, was accidentally killed during a horserace | on the Fourth. His horse swerved to one | side and he was thrown, his head striking | 2 log. to defray the expenses in that appeal,” said divorced- husband of the defendant, is | influence | reported | SPIRITUALISTS ~ GHTHER, Friendship Hall Dedicated to the Doctrines of That Re- ligion. Addresses of Welcome by Mrs. Kate Haskins and Other Features of the Programme. Friendship Hal!, at 326 and 328 McAlhs- ter street, was opened to tke public last evening by the Ladies’ Aid Society of the spiritualistic cult, and dedicated to that religion. Hereafter all their meetings will be held there. The commodious hall was approvriately decorated with flowers, ferns and the National emblem. Over the platform hung large pairtings of Washington, Lin- coln and Garfield. | The exercises were opened with an ad- dress by Mrs. Kate Haskins, who extended a cordial greeting to the representatives of the spiritual societies present, and encour- aged them to take heart in their work, saying that the light is spreading, and many mourning hearts are deriving come fort therefrom. Mrs. Haskins’ address was followed with a duet by Mrs. George Winter and Mrs. Sarah Cooke, after which Mrs. Hendee- Rogers made a few remarks, dwelling especially upon the subject of unity. Miss Jennie Pamperin followed with a vocal solo. Mrs. May Drynan of Chicago then gave some good and timely advice to “those who are endeavoring to spread the glad tidings of the gospel of spiritualism.” She was succeeded by Mrs. Clark in a vocal solo, *If the waters could speak as they flow.” Professor C. H. Rin-es then made a short review of the work accomplished in the spiritual field of late years. He was fol- lowed by Mrs. Eugenia Tully with an in- strumental solo. After some kindly words by Mr: Shiner, Professor Richard Young violin solo, accompanied on the piano by Mrs. E. Young. In a few apt and well-chosen words Mrs. | Harriet Wren expressed the wish that, as | the hall was named Friendship, all might meet there as iriends. Mrs. Jennie Tully iollowed with a vocal solo, “‘Just Tell Them that You Met Me.” The proeramme was ended with a few friendly words by Mrs. Fauny Place. Among those present were : Mrs. Hudson, Mrs. Perker, Frank McCann, Ferdinand Olsen and wife, M Mr. and Mrs. E. Nevill, Mr: Terry, Denver; Louis Pure Mattie Dunham, Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. A, Roberts, Mrs. Jane S Mrs. Denver; Mrs. Hattie Wrenn, Buzello, Dr. Mrs. Martin, Dr. and Mrs. R. Romeal, Weleome, Cornelius, Portland; C. W | lor, Cl G n, Mrs. J. McKey, Griffin, Mrs. Carrie J. Meyer, Mrs. TS, Carrie War- | mouth, Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Small, Mr. ana | Mrs. Simpson, Professor and M H. | Rin-es, Mr. " and Mrs. G. W. hinn, Mr. and Mrs. I. M. Sloper, Mr. and Mrs. D. N. Place, Mrs. Bird, Mrs. M J. Hendee Rogers, Mrs. Dr. Francis Treadwell, Mrs. M. J. White, Miss Meda Haskin, Mrs. May Drynan, Mrs. Eg- | gert Aitkin, Mrs. A ie Slosson, Mrs. Welcome, Professor Richard Young, Madame Young, Mrs. Harland, Mrs. Emma Stemwood, Armstrong, Mrs. John Langan, Rev. J. ents, Mrs. Rav of San Jose, Mrs. Ladd Finican, n, A, CRUZ. SPORT AT sa Fishermen Credit the Salmon Run to the Departure of Warships. S8ANTA CRUZ, Car., July 6.—The fish- ermen are crediting the big run of salmon to the departure of the warships and the cessation of booming cannon over the waters of the bay during the target prac- tice engaged in by the Philadelphia and Monadnock. They say that while the | ships are burning powder at Monterey all the fish at that point will come to Santa Cruz. However that may be nearly 200 salmon were taken to-day and fewer boats were | out than yesterday. 1t does not matter to | the fishermen nor the sportsmen what is the cause of the sudden rush of salmon into the old fishing-grounds. They are here and since the supply of sardires is increasing the prospects are favorable for a heavy and long run. e Fire at Chinese Camp. SONORA, CaL., July 6.—The residence of Morris Bros., merchants at Chinese Camp, was burned to-day. Loss, $5000; partially insurea NEW TO-DAY. The cost to us cuts no Every garment is this seaso! Be fashionable and be frugal by purchasing at this gigantic sale of Dresses, Jackets, Capes and Shirt Waists. There’s $75,000 worth, and everything i marked down. price with us so longz as we can sell the goods. Every garment reduced and marked in pliin figures. i It’s almost any gure in this sale. 's make and the styles are the latest. n IMPORTED MODEL CAPES, $25.00 $40.00 These are Paris, London and Berlin make, imported by us es- peciallv for our trade. Cost us $55t0 $75. No twoalike. Made in black and white velvet and silk, and fine cloth effects. Made up of BROCADE SILK SEPAZATE SKIRTS, eclegant bro- cade silk that $10 $12:°° F15. Stamas soners many choice patterns—lined with rustie lin- ing and bound with velveteen. The same skirts sell elsewhere for 15, $18 and 82250 SEPAEATE Fine black fig- SKIRTS, o5 ured mohair -2 3 rts, $22° $328 4. v o veteen bound and lined with rustle lining. $35.00 TAILOR- MADE DRESSES, $10$12:°$15 No use to worry away time with dressmakers 1 tailor-made dresses at these prices. They're made in reefer siyle and of fancy mixed Scoich cheviois—in tans, grays and browns—jackets all lined—swell buttons—rip- ple backs—wide skirts, lined with rustle iining. See them and you wil agree with ns that they = are worth twice the prices we ask. when you can buy swell, | |JACKETS, $ase $750 g9, | Elegant Tan Mixed and Tan Kersey Jack- | @'s—pearl buttons, fancy backs, box fronts— Jackets for which you pay $10, $1250 and | 815 everywhere except at our sale. i | oLoTH These are last season's jnckets JACKETS, o Souoms lacke 450 . . andsoid then for §1:3° &2 $2 $10, 12 and | #15—are made of all-wool cloth—ar: both | lined and unlived—ha: big sleeves and come in all shades. SILK All our $7 50, 1 $9 Wikses ror $5. &I Fancy Silk Waists at one price. $5, for this ale. me in choice colors, all shad- ADE DRE SSES, These are rog R BLAZERS, & ular $25 (0835 $18 $22 dresses, up-to- iy date styles. They come in :rays, blues, tans and browns, and are made of the finest all-wooi cloth. CAPES, So 7 = h%ldx: Srl fine all-wool ¢ 3 . 5 cloth — latest st $2 $350 om0, gl lnvests sold everywhere #lse at from $4 50 to $11. SILK AND Silk Capes, silk lined and VELVET CAPES, trimmed with jet; Velvet 5 %6 &7 Capes, silk- lined and + trinmed with jet; Velvet apes, silk-lined and jet embroidersd. All ele- gant and dressy and fit to wear any where. | ings and best styles. | SHIRT ANC T7RC These are | Watsrs, 00° 75° 1. fhay .o | dered waists that were $1, §1 25 and $1 50, | ‘The celebrated Derby Waists, guaranteed perfect. STAR WAISTS, Sold always at $2. LAWN, DIMITY AND BATISTE WAISTS, with detachable collars—$1 25, | $1 50, $175. $1.25, laundered. DUCK Blazer styles—cadet, tan and DRESSES navy ground, with white stripes, $1 50. Same in Reefer styles $1 75. 120 KEAR NY STREET, Special attention given to Country Orders. Satisfaction guaranteed. * % PR TR T T E R s w o