The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 13, 1896, Page 4

. Lane, Mrs. Judge Budd, Mrs. H. E. Ad- sixty prominent citize . were leaving the store they were fired 4 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1896 STOCKTON CROWNS DE VRIES' VICTORY Public Reception in Honor of Grove Johnson’s Successor. The Young Congressman’s Resi- dence Decorated With Floral Devices. - LADIES CALL ON MRS. DE VRIES Mirth and Music Prevail Among the Stream of Visitors Until a Late Hour. STOCKTON, CaL., Nov. 12.—The public reception to Marion de Vries in honor of his election to Congress from this district opened at his handsome residence at the corner of El Dorado and Acacia streeis at 3 o'clock this afternoon. Extensive prep- aratfons had been made to signalize the event, and the committees appointed left nothing undone to contribute to the suc- cess of the affair. On the top of the roof stood a miniature imitation of the Capitol at Washington, D. C., made of chrysanthemums. The floral National Capitol was illuminated | to-night as & part of the electrical display. It is five feet high and eight feet wide. About the house and yard were strung many Chinese lanterns and illuminated | Japanese parasols. To the right of the vorch had been constructed a pretty al- cove, carpeted and cheerfully set off with potted plants, flowers and lanterns. This afternoon was the fair sex’s oppor- tunity to congratulate Mr. and Mrs. de Vries, and many ladies calied until a late hour. Mrs. de Vries was busy all day wel- coming the many callers, and as a hostess she was & most pronounced success. She wasassisted by the following-named ladies: Mrs. J. D. Peters, Mrs. George E. ‘Wilhoit, Mrs. George J. Becker, Mrs. J. D. Young, Mrs. J. M. Welch, Mrs. Frank E. ams, Mrs. George Clark and Mrs. Charles Haas. There was no set programme, but & number of beautiful selections were dis- coursed by a Hungarian orchestra of four pieces brought irom San Francisco. To-night tbe De Vries residence was crowded. The stream of visitors kept up until a late hour and the hand of the young Congressman from the Second Dis- trict is tired to-night from the hearty grips of his many friends. The committee having charge of the affair_was composed of E. R. Thompson (D.), J. L. Phelps (R), Irving Martin (R.) and Colonel J. J. Noonan (D.). The three last named are publishers of the Inde- perdent, Record and Mail respectively. SUPREME JUSTICES BANQUET. | Sacramento Citizens Elaborately Enter- | tain the Distinguished Justices at the Sutter Ciub. SACRAMENTO, Car., Nov. 12.—Some ns of this city gave a banquet to-night at the Sutter Club to | the Justices of the Supreme Courtand it | was.an clegant affair. Besides the Jnstices | and Supreme Court Commissioners there were present as guests Governor Budd and | all the State officers residing in this eity. | The souvenir of the occasion consisted of @ full-sheet lithographic group of the seven Justices, with the signatures of the | citizens who gave the banquet. It was a| beauiiful thingand came as a sugprise to | the gu sts of honor. Each persofpresent | received a copy. | The address of welcome was delivered | by Joseph Steffens, president of the Cham- ber c¢f Commerce. Each of the Justices was the subject of a sentiment proposed by some citizen, to which the Justices responded in their turn. The menu was an elaborate one, and the halls of the Sutter Club were beautifully decorated for the occasion with potted plants, paims, flowers, etc., and an orches- tra played choic- airs during the banquet. Tt kS CAUGHT. PAaISLEY Both kOB Here Wounded oy the Postmaster and One May Die. PORTLAND, Or, Nov. 12—The two men who robbed the Paisley Postoffice on the morning of November 6, aiter a des- perate fight with Deputy Postmaster Al- drich, have been caught. They are A. J. Hilton and G. A. Wilson. Deputy United States Marshal Wharton at Lakeview, Or., notified United States Marshal Grady at Portland to-day that he wonld start for tiis city with cne prisoner as soon as he coula safely travel. He did not state which one he had in custody, but heis =0 badly wounded by the postmaster’s shots that heis in a pre- carious condition. Deputy Wharton says that the robbers got $196 50 all told— $22 50 in cash and a registered lettor. Paisley is forty-four miles from Lakeviow. Both men, it 1s stated, had a narrow es- cape from being killed outright. As they upon and the posse tracked one of the rob- bers south by his bloodstains. s OMAN'S WOk AT WHIITIER. 4n Excellent Change Made Through e Lady Irustee’s Efforts, LOS ANGELES, CaL. Nov. 12.—The gratitude of every girl at the Whittier State School, as well as the parents of these girls, is due to the persistent deter- mination of Trustee Adina Mitchell to se- cure the principalship of the girl’s depart- ment in that institution for Mrs. Mary E. Threlkeld of this city, founder of the Newsboy’s Home, a born lover of children, a woman of mature years and splendid ex- | ecutive. ability. In the election of Mrs. Threlkeld by the unanimous vote of the board of trustees Trastee Mitchell’s course in behalf of needed reforms bas been com- pletely vindicated. Mrs, Mitchell has just returned from the institution, where she installed the newly electsd principal, who takes the placeoi Vesta Olmstead, re- tired. The other new officers are Misses Brooks, Donohoe, Germain and Lyon and Mrs, Thompson. -— WHAT BEAT McLACHLAN, Los Angeles Physicians Sawd to Have United Against Hum. LO8 ANGELES, CaL., Nov. 12.—A sin- gular discovery has been made in relation to the medical fraternity hers which 1s anything but creditable to the rank and file of the profession, popularly supposed to have been broadened and liberalized by tue general diffusion of knowledge in this country. The ‘‘regular school’” of physi- clans in this city opposed McLachlan’s re- election to Congress. In u tooughtless moment he had permitted an advertising | They were sent to tke County Jail. 1abored on the dead quiet early and late to secure his defeat. ' ——tae. Hunter dccidentally Killed. LOS ANGELES, Cir, Nov. 12.—Leo- peld Borkorni, an Austrian 28 years old and single, was accidentally killed while hunting on Mount Gleason, near Acton, yesterday. He was in front of Ben Wil- son, and, turning around suddenly, caused the latter’s shotgun to strike an over- banging branch and the charge to be ex- ploded, entering Borkorni’s thigh, He bied to death. His brother is a merchant of San Francisco, — GHIS TEMPLAR. for the ARIZONA Grand Commandery Officers Ensuing Xear. TUCSON, Ariz, Nov. 12—The Grand Commandery, Knights Templar of Ari- zona, in session here, have elected John M. Ormsby grand commander; B. N. Fredericks, deputy; P. P. Parker, gen- eral: H. D. Underwood, W. C. G.; Charles J. Chase: Prelare; Fred Brecht, G. W.; A. A.Johns, 8. W.; C. H.- Knapp, W.; George Cheney, O.; F. M. Zuck, C. of G. The officers of the different grand lodges visited the university to-day and to-night a grand banguet and reception was ten- dered them by the local lodges. 2513 yivegy sebol PESTS OF NTANISLAUS. Bounty on Tails of Squirrels and Scalps of Kabbits. MODESTO, Car, Nov. 12.—The Boara of County Supervisors, now in session, have adgpted an ordinance placing a bounty of 2 cents on each squirrel tail and each rabbit scalp of animals killed in the county. The pests during the past year have mnltiplied at an alarming rate, this summer destroying hundreds of acres of grain in the county. The farmers sought aid from the Supervisors, hence the ac- tion. ot Fremont Druggist’s Fatal Blunder, SEATTLE, Wask., Nov. 12.—The babe of Mr. and Mrs. R. Cheadle is a corpse to- day, having been given tincture of opium, substituted by mistake by a Fremont drug- gist 1n filling a prescription for paregoric. SEATTLE'S QUEER CASE, Stephen J. Overton Is Forced to Testily Against His Bride of Three Days. An Attempt to Cheat Justice Ends in the Woman’s Conviction of Robbery. SEATTLE, Wass., Nov. 12.—Stephen J. Overton filled probably the most peculiar role of hislife this morning—that of ap- pearing as & witness against his bride of three days. The bride, too, filled not an ordinary role—tbat of a prisoner charged with robbing the man who three days ago made her his wife. Essie Winters was the maiden name of Mrs. Stephen J. Overton. Tue Carw last Tuesday told the story of the marriage between Overton and Miss Essie Winters. The latter robbed Overton in the south- ern part of the city in September last. She and R. J. Gould, with whom she was intimate, were arrested and confessed all. The Winters woman received repeated calls from Overton; in short, he wasinlove with her and Tuesdsy a'ternoon they | were married. Under the law of this Slate a husband cannot testify against a wife, or a wife against a husband, except where a crime bas been committed by one against the other. The police say that the marriage was nothing less than a conspiracy to save the Winters woman and Gould from the State Penitentiary. This morning the case against Overton’s bride came on for trial in Judge Humes’ court. She and her counsel expected that the court would not permit Overton to testify against his bride, but Judge Humes fooled them. That little excelption in the State law which says virtually that the husband can testify against the wife where she has committed a crime against him was not in Essie’s favor, and Judge Humes made Overton testify, much against his will. Overton went on the stand and told in | detail how he had been robbed by the | woman who later became his bride. | said that he married his wife because he | loved her. He Then the bride went on the stand and swore that what her husband said was untrue. She admitted that she was with him on the night of the alleged robbery, but claimed that she did not take any of his money. The other evidence against the woman was sirong, she having con- fessed all to the police. The jury found ber guilty. Her counsel say they will appedl.” The case has ex- | cited the widest interest in this city and during . the trial the courtroom was crowded. JOSEPH S. MILLER TO RETIRE. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue Will Be Succeeded by ex-Congress- man Forman. WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 12.—It is understood that the resignation of Joseph 8. Miller, Commissioner of Internal Reve- nue, Treasury Department, is in the hands of the President. Prior to the election Mr. Miller had a conference with Secre- tary Carlisle and the President, during which he intimated his desire to retire from public service and engage in private business. He was asked to pestpoae bis intention unuil after the election. Mr. Miller’s relations with the President and Becretary Carlisle are said to be very cor- dial. Mr. Mauller bas been the companion of the President and also of Secretary Car- lisle on several hunting and fishing expe- ditions, Commissioner Miller is a native of West Virginia, from which State he was ap- vointed to his present position during Mr. Cleveland’s first administration. He re- tired on Mr. Cleveland’s defeat for re- election, ana was succeeded by another West Virginian, Mr. Mason. ~ Commis- sioner Miller was one of two men who served under Mr. Cleveland’s first ad- i ministration who were reappointed. The name of ex-Congressman Forman of Illinois is mentioned as Mr. Miller's successor, SRl ab sty H The National Grange. WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 12.—The morning session of the National Grange was devoted to the consideration of re- ports, amone them being those of the gate- keeper, assistant steward and National lec- turer, Alpha Messer of Rochester, Vt. His report shows a gratifying progress in the condition of the order. At (he close of the business session a resolution was ten- dered the members of the Ass ciation of Agricultural Colleges, at which short Spseches were made by Assistant Secre- tary of Agriculture Dabney, Commis- sioner of Education Harris, President Ath- erton of the Pennsylvania Agricu!tural College and President Johnson of the Na- tioual association. Stiie VAW California Postmasters. WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 12—The following California postmasters were ap- pointed to-day: R. 8. Roycroft, at Bella Vista, Shasta. County, vice R. G. Hamil doctor who had relieved him of a distress- ing case of catarrh’'to use his (McLach- lan’s) portrait and testimonial in an ad- vertisement. For this crime the old schools not only voted against him but P ton, resigned; F. O. Strong, at Copella, Mendocino County, vice G. M. Cov, de- ceased; W. 8. Nunes, at Gibbons, San I;nh .gfmpo County, vice D. C. Powell, re- sign SEATTLE CROOK'S CRUEL. DECEPTION Lures Many Home-Seekers From the Lone Star State. Twenty-Three Texans, Five With Families, Bunkoed by a Polish Jew. ANOTHER COLONY IS COMING. Fleeced Victims Left to Ponder Over Their Folly and the Land Agent Levants. SEATTLE,Wass., Nov. 12.—By a fraud- ulent land transaction M. McCofski, a Polish Jew, is $230 in pocket and twenty- three adnlt Texans, five with families, have been transported from their homes at Bremond, in the southern part of the Lone Star State, to the strange but hospi- table shores of Puget Sound. They arrived at Seattle via the Northern Pacific, paving in addition to $10 apiece, for which they were each to be located on a homestead claim of 160 acres of land, $45a head trans- portation. McCofski, who is as destitute of home- steads as honesty, appears to have worked his swindling game upon unsuspecting Texans wholly through the medium of the mails, claiming to be the head of a concern styled the Washington Land Com- pany. He represented that he resided at 227 Poplar street, this city, and so he aid uatil within about four days prior to the arrival of his victims, when he suddenly disappeared, leaving for parts unknown. The authorities are searching for McCof- ski, who is said to have practiced similar frauds in the middle Northern States, but with little prospect of locating him. Fortunately most of those who came so many hundred miles on false errands bave money—some enough to purchase return tickets, which a few will do, while others will remain and make the best of the situation. Fouror five of the num- ber found employment to-day. Those here report that another colony was ex- pecied to ieave Bremond for Seattle afew days after their departure, having also been fleeced in a similar manher by Mec- Cofski. BET HEAVILY ON BRYAN. Having Foolishly Lost His Money Wil- liam Stenger Commits Sutcide, ERIE, Pa., Nov. 12—The body of Wil- liam Steneer, who cut his throat and dis- appeared from his room at the Schneider Hotel at Corry, Pa., yesterday morning at an early hour, was found this afternoon in a pond near the radiator works of which the suicide was a proprietor. The young man had bet beavily upon Bryan and Sewall, and his frenzy over his loss drove him to drink. He carried a knife from the supper table and yesterday morning plungea it into his throat, inflicting a horridle gash, and lay down on his bed to die. Death canie too slowly for him. Putting on his uister and turning the collar up to con- ceal his wound from the peuple in the office he passed out and walked ten biocks to the mill pond, where he finished his desperate deed by drowning. Stenger was about 30 years old, single, and came to Corry from Titusville. A few years ago while under great mental ex- citement he wandered away from home and was gone some time b:fore he was found. SRS i SANTA ¥E RECEIVERSHIP. Now That the Speculation Is Over Pro- credings Will Be Dropped. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Nov.12—A con- ference was held here to-day between General Solicitor E. D. Kenna of the Santa Fe and C. F. Johnson of Oskaloosa, Kans., the receiver of the company named by Judge Meyers. Asa resuit, it is said on what is supposed to be reliable authority that it is not likely that there will be any more sensational developments. The case will be tried in the courts, it is said, and it will be decided that Judge Meyers did not bave jurisdiction and that will be the end of it. " The tip was that everything was all right. On the-other hand, Judge Meyers says if the attorneys ask him to hold a special session of court, which he believes they will do to-morrow, he will do so, when the contempt procveedings will be heard. £ B SR Suicide of a Boniface. WASHINGTON, D. €., Nov. 12.—Bou- tell W. Frazier, a well-known hotel pro- prietor of this city, having become de- spondent because of ill health, vesterday sought a lonely spor along the Potomac River near Chain Bridee and fired a bullet into his brain, which evidently proved fatal immediately. Mr. Frazier had been in the hotel business in Washington for twenty vears. FAS S SRR S Short Line Reorganization. NEW YORK, N. Y., Nov. 12.—The re- organization committee of the Oregon Short Line gives notice that the August (1896) coupons on the company's 6 per cent bonds, with interest to November 13, will be paid on presentation of certificates of deposit at the Central Trust Company of Netv York and the o!d Colony Trust Company of Bostorn. Went by the Bullet Route. CHICAGO, ILn., Nov. 12.—E. J. Ballou committed suicide in Jackson Park to-day by shooting himself through the head. The reasons for his committing the deed are unknow He was the local agent jor the Publishers’ Collection Agency of St. Paul and he also represented a magazine g}nllekd City Government, published in New ork, —_—— Peruvian Indians Slain. NEW YORK, N. Y., Nov. 12.—The Her- ald’s special cable from Lima, Peru, says: General Parra’s division entered Huanta after a sharp fight, killing more than 500 Indians with their Hotchkiss and Mann- licher guns. The troops lost three officers and fifty soldiers. The Government will send re-enforcements. It is determined to inflict a lesson on the Indians. 4 St e Sinking of the Tewas. NEW YORK, N. Y., Nov. 12. — The court of inquiry to investigate and de- termine the responsibility for the recent accident to the battle-ship Texas con- tinued its investigations at the Brookiyn Navy-yard to-day behind closed doors. It was said at the navy-yard that the court would probably be in session a week. ——— Two Horsethicves Killed. DALLAS, Tex., Nov. 12—United States Deputy Marshal Erwin arrived here to- day with a wounded Mexican prisoner named Hosea Cardinas, captured in a fight last Saturday in Childress County, in the Texas Panhandle. Murshal the Sheriff of Childress County ana a posse attacked five Mexicans who -had stoien fifty head of horses in Oklahoma, and had killed two men and committed a nuam- ber of higway-robberies in New Mexico and Colorado. In the fight two of the Mexicans were killed and one wounded and two of the posse wounded. Two of the Mexicans escaped. There is $3000 re- ward offered by Colorado officials for the two dead Mexicans and the one captured. TGA s PROGRESS MADE BY WOMEN. Miss Willard Shows That They Are Showing Their Equality All Over the World. ST. LOUIS, Mo., Nov. 12,—Miss Frances E. Willard, president of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, has com- pleted a survey of the progress of women in all parts of the world, chietly in 1896. She enumerates that women have about succeeded in gaining admission to the general Methedist. Kpiscopal ~corference and have been successful in preaching the Gospel in all but the Episcopal and Cath- olic faiths. She says: *“Women are engaging more and more 1n business and their occupation embraces nearly all the trades, arts and professions. Out of 451 colleges and universities in the United States only forty-one are closed to women. All the others are now co-educa- tional, and besides women have 143 schools of the higher education with 30,000 students. One-fourth of the fellowships of the University of Chicago are held by women. Eleven States and fourteen col- leges or universities are represented. “Three women fellows have given in- struction in the university this year. Of 400,000 teachers in the United States 42 per cent are women; in England the pro- portion is even greater. Russian girls are thirsty for knowledge. There were 500 applications for the 150 vacancies in the entering class for the higher course for women at the University at St. Petersburg at the recent examinations. There are 123,955 women teachers in England. “‘Twenty-five States have given the edu- cational ballot' to women. Oae, Kansas, the municipal, and Wyoming, Colorado and Utah have made them full citizens. The Russian Government has essigned an annual grant of about $48,000 to the medical school for women in St. Peters- burg and the city undertakes to provide $11,500, while private munificence has raised an endowment of nealy $200,000.” Honorable mention is given to the fol- iowing women: Rev. Margaret E. Barnoe, Chelsea, Mass., of the Unitarian denomi- nation; Rev. Caroline Angell, Universal- ist, Norway, Mo.; Mrs. Maggie N. Van Cott, evangelist, who has conyerted 70,000 souls; Countess Schimmelmann,a Danish lady, who is preaching the gospel inall’ parts of the Baltic; Clara Barton, foreign | missionary: Dr.Grace Kimball, Armenian missionary; Mrs. Shattuck, missionary to Korea; Miss Anson Phelps Stokes, mis- sion-worker in New York; Mrs. H. J. Bailey, president of Maine W. 8. A., who made a gift of $5000 to the Women's Chris- tian Temperance Union; Miss Lillian M, Hollister, Detroit, who has organized the Ladies of the Maccabees, now numbering 52,455. Among the others mentioned are: Mrs. C. H. Spurgeon, London, who has raised $150,000 for clergymen; Miss Alice Luce, Miss Ida J. Hyde, Chicago; Miss Matthew Simpson, Mrs, John A. Logan and Miss Elizabeth J. Somers. . BIG SWINDLING SYNDICATE. Five Persons Arrested and They Are Ail Prominent in Business Circles Except One. NEW YORK, N. Y., Nov. 13.—The Her ald says this morning: The beginning of the end of the swin- dling syndicate supposed io have been headed by William R. Valentine, now under arrest in Brooklyn, has come. Five arrests have been made, the pris- oners, except one, prominent business men. More arrests will follow soon. Among them is a man in a Western State, who is settling his affairs preparatory to going to Europe. His properiy is worth $1,000,000. The names of those\now under arrest are as follows: R. E. McLaughlin, Daisy Hampton, John E. Hoffmire, John D. Hoffmire, Edward Records. Daisy Hampton, 19 years of age, and Charles Waldring, aged 29 years, were ar- rested in Hoboken late last night after baving been caught in a swindiing opera- tion involving $700. Waldring was identified as R. F. Mc- Laughlin, who is wanted in New York in connection with previous swindles, and who has been recoguized as one of Valen- tine’s former friends. The most important find, however, was the charter issued by the State of West Virginia to the Standard Case and Iron Company and the United States Trust and Title Guarantee Company, which Val- entine used to procure commercial ratings. Some notes and checks found were signed by J. H. Baker & Co., while others bore the name of Mc¢Laughlin. John D. Hoffmire is the son of John E., and the two formed the firm of Jobn E. Hoffmire & Scn, which failed last July, it being stated that they had been swindled by note-brokers. It now turns out, however, that they are accused of being in league with mem- bers of the robbing syndicate. Edward Records was arrested some days ago at the request of the Boston police, charged with obtaining by false pretenses bonds valued at $33,333. It is now charged that he was the agent of the syndicate to rob in Boston in 1895. Letters and telegrams have been found which show that he was well acquainted with the fraudulent notes that were discounted by the Pheenix Contract Company, the firm name under which Valentineand Abbott aia most of their business. L gt Fire in a Chicago Schosl. CHICAGO, IrL., Nov. 12.—The Chicago English High and Manual Training School at 165 West Monroe street, one of the largest public institutions in the city, was partially destroyed by fire this afternoon. Superintendent” Robinson estimated the damage at $60,000. All of the machinery used in the institution, valued at $35,000, was a completa loss, fn- blaze, it is sup- posed, originated from the furnace in the foundry. RESULT OF AN INQUEST. A Half Sovereign Swallowed Twenty- Six Years Ago Recovered. Y An extraordinary story was told at an inquest st Peckham the other day. Twenty-six years ago the dead man was speaking with a half-sovereign in his moulh. Suddenly he exclaimed, “I've swallowea it.” Itwastrue; he had, and O THE COLORADO . BOUND FOR YUMA Thrilling - Trip of George Flavell and a Com- panion. Through Awful Gorges the Lone- liness of Which Is Most Appalling. SOLITUDE WORSE THAN DEATH Tossed About by Unseen Cnrre()ts and Hurled With Mighty Force Over Cataracts. SAN DIEGO, Car., Nov. 12.—*I cannot say 1 should like this trip again,” writes George Flavell, the famous trapper and hunter. Last fall he lef: Yuma and went to Green River, Wyo., thejheadwaters of the Colorado River, and, securing a stout boat and getting a companion as daring as himself, he started down the Colorado, bound for Yuma, over 1500 miles distant, pasting through gigantic gorges and un- tracked wildernesses in the heart of the mountains. A friend in Yuma received a letter from Flavell, dated at Lees Ferry, on the Colorado, October 13. In the letter Flavell tells of some of the features of his exciting trip. 2 “The loneliness of these frightful gorges is something insupportable,”” he writes. “The solitude is more impressive than that of deatb. It is like a visit to chaos or a sudden glimpse of the moon at close range to see these awful walls hanging black and threateningly over our heads for miles and miles. In many places we could look up at noonday and see the stars shining. “We arrived at Lees Ferry after forty- eight days, during which time we traveled some 891 miles—539 miles of the distance between canyons, eight in number. Their names are: Dolor, Ladore, Split Moun- tain, Usher, Stiliwater, Cataract, Narrow and Glen. The latter (Glen) is over 150 miles long and barren in the extreme. Not the least vegetation was to be seen anywhere. The walls are aimost perpen- dicular, rising from 500 to 1500 feet in beight.”’ in some of the canyons Flavell and his companion passed through narrow escapes, being swung with terrific force from one wall to the other by swift and unseen cur- rents, dashed upon sandbars and hurled through rapids. Flavell, who long ago gave proof of his intrepidity and ingenuity in emergencies, managed somehow to keep from total disaster, running the most dangerous cataracts with apparent fear- lessness and making camp at night in the trembly, dark shadows of gloomy can- yons. ““We are having far better luck than we expected,” he writes. “Since we entered the Colorado only one oarlock has been broken and only once has the boat been | filled with water, and that was owing to | my carelessness. The greatest fall in any place has not exceedaed ten feet to the 100 yards. The rapids are all short; very few reach half a mile in length. Our boat is just as sound as the day it was launched at Green River, Wyo., and before six weeks we hope to see the end of the grand canyon and the last-of the smaller can- | yons, where there will be ne hikelihood of a wreck. I have made the trip from Needles to Yuma many times and of course have no fears of that part of our journey.” Kiavell is known along the river by the name of Clark as well as Flavell. Two or three years ago he was one of the R. E. L. Robinson party that visited Ti- buron Island, in the Gulf of California. On that trip Robinson and a companion named Logan lost their lives at the hands of the Seri Indians, who will not allow any whites to land upon the island. General Market for danta Barbara. jinent loyalist. This has been repeatedly | a sealed package, inform him that it con- | | tains letters and request him to take it to | i teers—have been thus terrorized, and that SANTA BARBARA, CaL., Nov. 12. Santa Barbara is soon to have an innova- tion in the shape of a general market. The parties who have charge of the enter- prise are representatives of the Chicazo packing -houses of Armour & Cudahy. The eaifice will be unique in design and orzament to the city. It has been decided to have it of iron, painted white, which is to be the predominating color of the at- tendants’ _costumes and the delivery wagons. Work is to be commenced at once and the place will be resdy for occu- pancy in the near future. WOMEN IN WAR. That the Fair Sex Can Fight Is Shown by Many Experiences. . 1f the “new woman’’ needs any further encouragement as toequality—or is it su- periority 2—of the sex when. compared with men, she can perhaps derive it from the knowledge that some of her sex are very good fighters. By thisis not meant the class of women who engage in tene- ment-house brawls, but bona tide combat- ants, armed and equipped in all the anoply of war. L epreynm feminine soldiery in the Cu- ban army who are doing brave service for the cause ot iiberty, and women bave been found of great service in other conflicts. The French troops found in their African campaign tbat the Danomey Amazons were very good fighters, indeed. The annals of all wars contain records of women discovered fighting in the ranks disguised as men. A few famous instances are recalled by the Horse Guards Gazette as occurring in the British army, Mrs. Christian Davies, nicknamed ‘“‘Mother Ross,” served as a dragoon in several cam- paigns under the great Duke of Marl- borough, acting as a squadron leader of the Scots Grays at the battle of Blenheim. Hannah Snell was another female wor- thy who, having been deserted by her husband, adopted male attire and tray- eled to Uoventry in search of the run- away. She there enlisted in Colonel Guise's regiment of foot and marched with them to Carlisle at the time of the Scotch Rebellion of 1745. She afterward enlisted in Frazer’s Regiment of Marines and proceeded to Portsmouth, where she | sailed in Admiral Boscawen’s squadron for the East Indies. There she assisted at the siege of Pondicherry, where she received twelve wounds. Through all her adventures, including a couple of flog- gings with the terrible army ‘‘cat,” she managed to preserve the secret of her sex. At the close of her mintary life, however, she revealed her secret, and was awarded a pension of $90 per annum. ary Anne Talbot served four years as a soldier and sailor under the name of John Taylor, and took part in severe fight- ing under Lord Howe in the early years of the present century. Pheebe Hessel, ac- cording to her tombstone record in Brighton churchyard, served for many years as a private foot soldier in difterent parts of Europe, and fought at the great battle of Fontenoy, where she was -badly wounded. King George IV personally interposed to give her a pension of half a guinea & week in her old age. She drew it regularly until December, 1821, when she died in the 108th year of her age. Mary Dixon served sixteen years in the British army, fought at Waterloo and was | still living in 1865, when she was described | as ‘‘a strong, powerful old woman.” | Perhaps iy the time America has an- other war women may be a:welcowe at the recruiting stations. —_———— INSURGENT LETTERS, ! Methods Used by the Patriots to Get Them by the Spanish. The question is often asked, “How do insurgents’ treasury, as the price of im- munity.—Harper’s Weekly. ——e——— Bismarck as a Hand-Organist. It is credibly related by a German jour- nal that during the reign of Emperor Wil- liam I, when the present Emperor wasa boy, Prince Bismarck, walking one day through & corridor of the royal palace at Berlin, came upon a strange scene. Hear- ing within the room which he passed a great racket he opened the door and saw | the young grandsons of the Emperor danc- ing about, while their father, the Crown Prince, ground the handle of a hand-organ. All were in high spirits, and, seeing ths Chancellor, the young Princes laughingly mvited him to join in the dance. Prince Bismarck declined, but he offered to turn the organ it the Crown Prince would join bis sons. The Crown Prince consented and the Chancellor turned the handle with great animation. The laughter and sport grew louder with the increased speed of the playing. Just then the old Emperor came in. He took:n thesituation at a glance. “T see, my Lord Chancellor,” he said, with a smile, “that you are beginning early to make the Princes dance to your music.” 11 the incident was accepted as prophetic it was soon proved illusive. The eldest, at least, of the old Emperor's grandsons—the present Emperor—bas never since 0 danced to any one’s music but his own.— Youth’s Companion. When Napoleon Loearned Humanity, Bonaparte had ruled men’s hearts by his use of a cause, securing devotion by rude bonhomie, by success and by suffi- cient rewards; Napoleon quenched devo- tion by a lavishness which sated the greediest, losing the affections of his asso- ciates by the demands of his gigantic plans. As he felt the foundations of his greainess shivering, he became more and more humane. Early in 1813 he said: “I have a sympathetic heart like another, but since earliest childhcod I have accus- tomed to keep that string silent, and now itis altogether dumb.” He was mistaken; throughout that season he was profoundly moved by the horrors of war; his purse was ever open for the suffering; the King of Saxony wasreleased from his entangling engagements; in spite of his hard-set ex- pression, on the retreat from Leipsic he forbade his men to fire the suburbs of the city in order to retard the pursuit of their foes, and before he left Mainz for St. Clond he showed the deepest concern, and put forth the strongest effort, ir behalf of the dying soldiery.—Professor Sloane, in the Aungust Century. — e Nearly every guest at a Norwegian wed- ding brings a present to the bride. The gifts are mostly of a useiul character, such as clothing and proyisions. Kegs of bute ter are the presents which find most favor. TEAI 920 90 920 20 90 90 90 per cent man and 10 per cent weakness may not seem very much to the be- ginner, but 1f the waste con- tinues the end is certain. It will te 10 per cent man and 90 per cent weakness. . Don’t fali into this condition. If you are suffering from a waste or a loss; if you pass £/ 0 °/o °/o °/o °/o /o the insurgents manage to forward their letters from the island, the ports of which | are in the hands of the Spanish?” In very many ways which the ingenuity of men and women can always contrive, but | the safest and most expeditious messen- | ger that the Cubans can choose is a prom- sleepless nights, wake tirea and listless; if you are pre- maturely decayed; if yon have the symptoms of failing manhood, be sure to get that which will cure you. It is the remedy treatment 90 90 90 90 °/o %o Ofc. tried, and the plan has worked to perfec- ! tion—somewhat as follows: A committee | of the insurgents waits upon a wealthy | manufacturer or planter who is identified | with the Spanish cause. They show him | New York and there deliver it to the| Cuban Junta. He indignantly refuses. The commiitee insists: “You are well known as a loyal- | ist; the authorities will never suspect you; | you can go and return without being searched—a thing which is impossible for one of us.”” And then a threat is added: | “If you take the mnext steamer for New | York, and if we get a cipher dispatch from the Junta saxing that you | have delivered this package to them with | the seals intact, at the earliest possible | moment, then we shall be much obliged | to you, and your property in Cuba will be safe. But if you refuse or delay your fac- | tory will be desiroyed by dynamite. Here, by the way, is some of the dynamite’’— and the insurgents show him a quantity of the explosive. It is said that several eminent persons in Havana—even officers of the volun- in one case the unwilling messenger, on his arrival ;n New York, actually made a contribution, through the Junta, to the NEW TO-DAY. _against opinion It'’s No Argument Needed Leader speaks for itself. We do not forget that “‘a man convinced suit yourself—not us. terest lies in the amount of your satisfaction, for we value your in- clination to buy of us in the fu- ture above everything else. Our Overcoat Leader, $7.50. —our Winter Overcoat his will is of the same still.” your privilege—here—to Our in- | Blue or Black Kerseys and Beavers—single-breasted—fast color or your | money back. Sewed with silk, heavy lasting lined.. Re-enforced interlinings. | Stout men’s sizes among "em. g the coin was produced at the inquest. 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