The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 23, 1896, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1896. When W MEN'S FINE AND RICHLY TAILORED SUITS AND SLAUCHTERED. Will AND $6.95 $9.95 $12.95 at $12.50. Will Will WOOL COATS made to sell at $18. CLASS DRESS OVERCOATS made to sell at $20, $22 and $25. OVERCOATS now buy MEN’S SUITS OVERCOATS made to sell MEN’S ALL- AND OVER- now buy SUITS MEN’S HIGH- SUITS AND now buy MEN’S PANTS BELOW COST. Buys MEN’S $3.00. o Buys MEN’S $5.00. Buys MEN’S $6.00. $1.95 $2.95 $3.95 ALL-WOOL PANTS, worth ALL-WOOL PANTS, worth ALL-WOOL PANTS, worth | Latest Style Hats at Less Than “ the Factory Prices. e Shout B arg ains - They’re Surely in Sight! Those who have begn hoodwinked into buying Shoddy Goods (at a big profit) through the fake advertisements of those “Greengoods” men of the clothing fraternity are invited to come and inspect our GREAT AND BONA FIDE BARGAINS in the Finest Clothing obtainable on this continent. WE NEVER ADVERTISE A LIE. Richly Tailored and Reliable Clothing at a Big Genuine Reduction in Price is the cause of the Phenomenal Rush of business to our store since our GREAT SACRIFICE SALE first commenced. THE SHE A SHEPHERD BOY who watched a flock of sheep near a village brought out the villagers three or four times by crying out “Wolf! come at last. killing the sheep!”’ it easily, lacerated and destroyed the whole flock. MORAL—There 18 no believing a liar, even when he speaks the truth.— Esop’s Fables. Wolf!” ana when his neighbors came to help him laughed at them for their pains. The shepherd boy, now really aiarmed, shouted in agony of terror: “Pray, do come and help me! But no one paid any heed to his cries nor rendered any assistance. The wolf, however, did truly The wolf is The wolf, having no cause of fear, took We have never cried “Wolf!” unless there was one in sight, and in answer, when the people have turned out they’ve always found something to justify our shouting. BOYS' AND $2.45 $3.45 $3.95 CLOTHING NOW GOING AT ABOUT HALF PRICE. IS ALL YOU'LL HAVE TO PAY FOR ALL-WOOL SUITS. Made to sell at $5.00. IS ALL WE ASK FOR BOY® SPLENDID Worth $6.00. IS ALL YOU HAVE TO PAY NOW FOR STYLISH SUITS that were made to sell at $6.50 and $7. CHILDREN'S ALL-WOOL SUITS. chiefs, Mufflers, Jewelry etc., at and Xmas Qifts. BARGAINS In Smoking Jack- ets, Silk Handker- Underwear, Cuffs, Neckwear, Suspenders, Gloves, Collars, below cost. == The Loss Is Great, but ‘ the Goods Must Go. CASH ONLY Buys at these prices, deal- ers not excepted. No dis= counts given even to the trade. Now Dispensing the Best Clothing at Shoddy Prices, CORNER KEARNY AND SUTTER STREETS, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. STORE OPEN Every evening this week. Flooded by arc and incan- descent electric lights. DUNHAM SLEPT AT THEIR RANCH Vallecitos Valley Farmers Claim They Saw the Fugitive. Send a Courier to San Diego to Summon Officers to the Scene. Detective Eilsworth Hastens to Sacra- mento for Extradition Papers. SAN DIEGO, CAL., Dec. 22.—Lino Lopez arrived to-day from Valiecitos Valley, fifty miles south of here, with a message to Detective Ellsworth from his brother, Elmer Eilsworth, who is farming at Valle- citos. Lopez failed to find the detective, as the latter is at Sacramento, or due to arrive there, in quest of requisition papers authorizing him to enter Lower California on the search for murderer James C. Dun- bam. It wason this business that Lopez came up from Lower Califoraia. “Night before last,”” Lopez said to-day, *a stranger came to our rnnghhouse at Vallecitos and ssked for something to eat. He was ready to pay for it. He would not come into the nouse, but stood at the doorway while food was hanaed outto him. He acted rather suspiciously, but 1 thought notbing of it especially until he was seen afterward in the barn. He asked permission to sleep 1n the barn and, of course, (he request was granted. “Eymer Ellsworth was in the Jhouse when toe man called. He had a good look at him in the lamplight in the door- way. After the man had gone to‘tha barn Elisworth got out a printed picture 91‘ Murderer Dunham and we all looked at it. BSure enough it was the same man, except that the stranger with us had no mus- tache; but as the man did not seem to bave zny lirearms and was neat in s manner and not at all desperate ih action or appearance, we had some doubts ln‘d agreed to take another look at him. So we scrutinized the photograph closely and then made ready togo and look at the man, under a pretext that we were afraid the hay might catch fire. “We procured a lantern and went to the barn, keeping in mind the looks of the man in the photograph. The stranger was lying on a pileof hay and we ap- proached. He got up and waited for us, but showed no sign of fear. Ellsworth carried the lantern and spoke to the fel- low about the danger of fire and so on, and then suddenly thrust the lantern up and threw the light squarely in his face. The man stared a second and then put his hand up over his face and turned partly away. Butonly asecond was needed for us to getalook that was indelibly im- pressed upon us. The man was Dunham or the printed photographs lie. “Elisworth anc I talked the matter over, but decided that we could do nothing. As Dunham is free in Mexico, and we had no Tight to hold him, we might have got into serious trouble if we had taken the law into our own hands. We were too far from the line to think of running the risk | of hustling him across. Theonly thing to do was to come up here and_get requisi- ! tion papers as quickly as possible, and put the officers on Dunham’s trail. That’s why I am here. 4 “The man seemed to be heading south when he was in our neighborhooa. Yes- terday morning he offered to pay for his | food and lodging, and then struck south | in the direction of Ensenada. . Wedid not | see any signs of firearms on him. He was i very silent, and did not say a word except wien addressed.” Itis not known here whether Detective Ellsworth has secured adeputyship or not, but he has probably succeeded, or he would find difficultyin securing requisi- | tion glpers. With the papers he will | probably go to Ensenada direct and work with the Mexican officers in hunting for Dunham. SPOKANE COULI#0OOM TRAGEDY. ‘uicide of a Woman Found Guilty of Assault. SPOKANE, Wasg., Dec. 22.—Mrs. J. H. Barnes, an elderly lady found guilty of assault on a neighbor in the Municipal Court to-day, tried to commit suicide in the courtroom. She had some trouble { with Mrs. Anderson and was arrested. She admitted having struck Mrs. Ander- son, and the Judge gave her the lowest fine, $56. She said noihing until after court had adjourned, when noone but the Judge, clerk and bailiff were in the room. Suddenly ste jumped up, pulled off her hat and veil, and, j:rkinga knife from her pocket, tried to cat ber throat. Bailiff Holmes was too quick for her. He grasped the knife in time to prevent ner from doing herself injury. Later in the day, when the officer tried to put her in jail, she created another scene. She isa poor woman, and unless friends come to her rescue will have to remain in jail. —_—— Stanford Musicians Depart. STANFORD UNIVERSITY, CAw., Dec. 22.—The Glee and Mandolin clubs left to- day for their trip through the Northwest. The men all get away somewhat early, as the vacation doesn’t begin untit Wednes- day afternoon. The musical ciubs will be Attempted | absent about two weeks, SET A FIGURE ON HUMAN LIFE This Serious Charge Made Against a Respected Wresnoite. Accused .of Having Hired Qne Man to End the Career of Another. His Friends Declare That He Is B:ing Persecuted by a Blackmailer. FRESNO, CALn., Dec. 22.—A profound sensation was caused to-day when it be- came generally known that the Grand Jury, which will convene next Monday, wiil have submitted to it whai is claimed to be positive evidence that Charles Schweizer, the Mariposa-street harness- dealer, paid a man $1500 to murder Solo- mon Lehmann, who was running a saw- mill on Pine Ridge, last Julv. This is put forward by the persons making the charge as the solution of the mysterious attempt made one night last summer to assassin- ate Lehmann. Schweizer’s friends ciaim he is the victim of attempted blackmail. Lehmann was riding out Blackstone avenue, with his daughter seated by his side. Suddenly there came the report of a shot fired from ambush. Miss Lehmarn rave a shriek and would have fallen but for her father. She had received a charge of shot in her back. Lehmann took in the sitvation at once, and whipping up his horses escaped with a whole skin. The attack cauzed a sensation and sus- picion fell on several perzons, but inves- tigation failed to substantiate it in each instance. Now, however, there are per- sons who claim to have actual knowledee of the instigator of the crime. The man against whom the finger of accusation is poirted ha. for many years been an hon- | ored resident of this city, a man of eentle ' manners, a merchant who enjoys a repu- tation for integrity second to none and who counts friends by the score. The substance of this report is that Schweizer held an insurance policy on the life of Lenmana, with wom he had ex- | tensive busiuess trnsactions and who was indebted to him. Seeing that there was no probability of his getting the money any other way the citizen afore- said, according to the report, hired a man to put his debtor out of the way, so as to secure the insurance money. The man who makes the charge is John Harrison, a detective, formerly of San Jose. He has positive proof, he says, that Schweizer was implicated in the attempt- ed murder; he had not done the shooting, but was one of the leaders of a plot to kill Lehmann. The party who did the shoot- ing was hired to do so by Schweizer and other enemies of the mill-owner, Harri- son refuses to state what Schweizer’s motive was for wanting to have Lehmunn killed, and will not say anything further along this line. Concerning the allegation of blackmail, the detective denies its truth. He had made no proposition for hush money, he asserted, but he hinted that Schweizer had attempted in a roundabout way to bribe him to drop the case. Harrison says that he had been paia to investigate the case, but will not tell by whom. He declares he has gathered conclusive evi- dence to prove that Schweizer and others planned to murder Lebmann, and had hired a man, whose name the detective would not give, to do the job. This evi- dence he has laid before District Attorney Snow. Schweizer refuses to be interviewea and refers all newspaper men to his attorney, Mark Waliser. Mr. Waiser speaks freely about the case and openly declares that it is & scheme to blackmail his ciient. T. de Marais, he says, has acted as a go-between 10 see Schweizer a number of times and thrown ont hints which caused tne har- ness-dealer to believe that D> Murais was trying to 1nspire him with fear. Mr. Schweizer gave him no satisfaction, how- ever. Deputy Sheriff Al Henry, whoisa friend of Schweizer, says that Harrison malle a proposition to him that if Schweizer would pay $3000 he wonld drop the case. Schweizer, when told of lhis,tbuolutely refused to entertain it. Wuen asked con- cerning the insurance policy thisevening. Attorney Walser said: *Mr. Schweizer's business relations with Lehmann have been quite extensive, and the latter owed my client considerable money. Lehmann has made enemies during his business career, and it has been reported that his life was threatened more than once. In order to protect his interests in case harm came to Lehmann, it was agreed that Schweizer should take outa policy on L:hmann’s life, covering the amount of the indebtedness, and the men who have been trying to extort money from him probably thought this fact gave them the advantage they de- sired.”” The whole case has aroused the greatest interest, and was the sole subject of dis- cussion on the streets to-day. Sudden Death at San Rafael. SAN RAFAEL, CAL, Dec. 22.—Mis May Lovett, about 44 years of age, who has been stopping for some time with friends here, left their house this after- neon to return to her S8an Francisco home. She went to the depotin a carriage, and just as she arrived there was attacked by a hemorrhage, and died in the carriage. SAN JOSE ELOPEMENT. Parental Qbjections Set at Naught by E. W. Dunn and Miss Georgia Newhall. SAN JOSE, OAv., Dec. 22.—A marriage of two well-known persons in this city that was bitterly opposed by relatives of the young lady was consummated to-day through an elopement. E. W. Dunn, the man in the case, came to San Jose several years ago, and ior some time was the sec- retary of the Young Men’s Christian Asso- ciation. Subsequent!y he became a dried- fruit broker and established himself in a small office. He called himself the secre- tary of the Eden Fruit Company. Through business dealings with rs. Syivester Newhall, he became acquainted with her daughter, Miss Georgie Newhall. Mrs. Newhall is quite wealthy and the family lives in_an elezant house on Lin- con avenue. When Mrs. Newhall found that her daughter and Dunn were engaged sue bitterly opposed the marrizge. She was aided in her opposition by her son, Carl 8. Newhall, and_her son by a former husband, Fred A. Stoddard. The mar- riage was to have taken place to-day at the First Presbyterian OChurch, of which Dunn and Mrs. Newhall are members, but Dr. Diusmore, the pastor, refused to per- form the ceremony on account 6f the op- position of the young lady’s mother. It was supposed that the marriage had been indefinitely postponed, but to-day, in the absence of the brothersand mother, the girl left the house, met Dunn, nmf they boarded the 11:25 train for San Fran- cisco. They were accompanied by two unmarried sisters of Miss Newhall. One great objection of the family to ths match was the difference in the ages of the pair. It is claimed that Dunn is 43 while Miss Newhall is 23. It is supnoused that they were married in San Francisco this afternoon. —_——— SAN JOSE ELECTION CONTEST. Taking of Testimony in the Kelsey-Mc- Laurin Suit for an Assembly Seat. SAN JOSE, Car., Dec. 22.—Testimony in the election contest between J. D. Kelsey and J. J. McLaurin for a seat in the Assembiy from the Fifty-fifth District was taken before Justices Dwyer and Herrington to-day. In the official can- vass of the votes McLaurin was declared elected by fourteen votes. G. W. Cozzens, H. E. Schilling, George Lilly and Fred Posky, election officers in Crandallville Precinct, testified that the cards of instruction to voters were not sted in the booths. This precinet gave cLaurin a_plurality of thirty-three. In the Fourth Precinct of the First Ward of the city of San Jose J. F. O’'Keefe, one of the election officers, testified four bal- lots were rejected because bf irregularity in marking the Presidential electors. These ballots were ihufi for Kelsey and one for McLaurin. O’Keefe was corro- borated by W. E. Crossman, another of that election board. H, H. Collier, an election officer in the Fourth Precinct, testified thatin this pre- cinet four votes were rejected for the reason that eighteen Presidential electors had been voted for upon them. Three of these were for Kelsey and one for Mec- Laurin. C. B. Kelley, who claimed to be a wit- ness, testified that he had heard it said that two votes that were cast for Kelsey were thrown out. The cause was that the ballots were marked for eighteen Presi- dential electors. Both the Democratic and Populist electors were voted for. Testimony will be taken each day from 10:30 to 12:30, and from to 5:30. — e Cuthbertson Sues for Damage: SAN JOSE, CaL., Dec. 22.—Sidney M. { Cuthbertson, a Stanford student, who was | injured by colliding with a strestcar on { October 3, has sued the San Jose and Santa Clara Railroad Company for $20,000 damages ana for $275 medical attendance. o iy Zo Create £nother Court. SAN JOSE, CaAL.,, Dec. 22.—An effort will be made by local members of the bar to have the coming Legislature create an- other department of the Superior Court in this county. This will be asked for on ac- count of the crowded condition of botn departments of the court now existing, which is due to the large number of civil cases tried in this county. There are about 160 members of the bar in the county, and it 1s said they are unanimous for the creation of a new department. e Strange Denth at Portland. PORTLAND, Or., Dec. 22.—Sherman Oard, an employe of the North Pacitic lumber-mill, met with a frightful death to-day. A splinter from a tooth of one of the circular saws struck him in the neck, burying itself so deeply that it closed his windpipe and he was choked to death. A v Fatal Affray at Mount Echo. IONE, Car, Dec. 22—While on a drunken spree at Mount Echo last night Samuel Wilkes killed William Wiley by stabbing him in the neck with a dirk- knife. Sheriff Gregory has the defendant 1 custody. The cause of the trouble is not yet known. DR. XORMAN KERR, the eminent English physician, says : DR. LESLIE E. KEELEY says : GOVERNOR ALTGELD of Mlinois, GOVERNOR MATTHEWS of Indiana, GOVERNOR RUSSELL of Massachu- setts and hundre!s of theusands of other prominent men and women say: GENERAL JAMES W. FORSYTH, GENERAL A. J. SMITH, CAPTAIN ROBINSON, LIEUTENANT BELL and LIEUTENANT TREAT of the U. 8. Army say : K-E-E-L-E-Y! “Drunkenness is a disease and can be cured if properly treated.” “Drunkenness is a disease and [ can cure it.”’ “Drunkenness is a disease and the Keeley treatment cures it.”’ “‘Statements made about the Keeley treatment’s being deleteri- ous to health are bosh. It is just exactly the contrary.” What is true of drunkenness is true of the opium and tobacco habits. us—not through the saloons. Investigate through unprejudiced sources—not through The EEBLEY INSTITUTE 1170 MARKET STREET, (Formerly at Los Gatos). 5 PRIVATE ENTEANCE, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. 18" TAYLOR ST.