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4 STOCKING ENTERS FOLSOM PRISON The Forger and Perjurer Recaptured Near Stockton. Oificers Learn His Whereabouts by Following Nellie Riley. Claims H: Was Unassisted in His Escape From Deputy Degan. . SACRAMENTO, Car., Dec. 23.—Frank L. Stocking, perjurer, straw bondsman, ward politician and ‘“dope fiend,” who last Friday evening escaped in this city from Deputy Sheriff Degan while en route to Folsom State Prison to serve the State for a period of tenyears for perjury, has been recaptured and landed in the peni- tentiary, and the cloud of suspicior which bad been slowly gathering over high places in San Francisco has drifted away. Al- though the respunsibility fer his escape has been fastened upon Nelly Riley, tor whom Stoc! furnished straw bonds and by swearing to them Janded himself bebind the prison bars, and although it is claimed that in her gratitude to Stocking this woman planned his release, there have also been whisperings to the effect that Nelly Riley was but an instrument in the hands of others, and that during the past, when Stocking did dusty politics, he obtained a hold upon certain successful peliticians, who had & hand in the pie when Stocking got away. Be that as it may *‘the best laid plans of mice and men gang aft aglee,”” and Deputy Sheriff Fitz- gerald has placed Stocking where he rightly belongs. Last Friday evening Deputy Sheriff Degan arrived in Sacramento with Stocking ana another prisoner,, en route to Folsom. He decided to lodge tnem in the County Jail until the train left the following morning for Warden Aull’s caravansary. Hand- cuffing his men together, he started up through Chinatown, and .on the way Stocking produced a key, unlocked the handcuffs,\dashed into a Chinese opium den and disappeared. As soon as the news of his escape reached Sheriff Whelan he detailed Dep- uty Fitzgerald to take charge of the case, and the latter, with the aid of the San Francisco autkorities, soon discovered that Nelly Riiey, the woman in the case, was on the point of leaving for Sacra- mento. He followed her and her male companion, known as “Dutch Harry,” to this city, and, procuring the assistance of Policemen Maley and Fisher, soon located the couple and kept them urfder constant surveillance. The next day, according to his story, he placed both under arrest, and found in “Dutch Harry’s" possession alet- ter from Stocking, addressed to his mother at 2511 Uctavia street, requesting her to send a steam launch to Stockton, and an- other letter to a certain person, requesting that funds and a disguise be forwarded immniediately to the ranch of a man named Ray, a brother-in-law of Nelly Riley, who resided between Acampo and Siockton. Placicg his two prisoners in close confine- ment, Fitzgerald returned to San Fran- cisco and had all the plans carried out. The launch started ior Stockton, con- v. ying officers, with a white cloth bouna around the smokestack as a distinguish- ing mark. - Fitzgerald then returned to this ei and dispatched Deputy Degan and Policemen Maley and Fisher to Ray’s ranch. The party arrived at Galt and there engaged a Deputy Sher:ff as guide and then drove to the Ray residence, arriving some time after dark. Stocking heard the carriage drive up fnd remarked that his hiding-place bad been discovered. He attempted toclimb out of a window, but gave up the idea when he saw Officer Fisher standing out- side with adrawn revolver. In a short time Stocking was in irons ana on the return trip to Sacramento. The oflicers reached here with their prisoner at 4 o'clock this morning, and when the train lett for Fol- som a few hours later Stocking was on board in custody of Degan and Fitz:erald and Officer Maley. After his recapture Stocking told the officers tbat it had been his intention to I-ave the farmer’s house last evening, but he tinally concluded that he would wait until this morning. He had told Farmer Ray that he and a iriend had got into trouble over a gambling game and that the friend wasabout to be tried on a charge of gambling. The friend would be ac- quitted if Stocking, who was wanted as a witness, would keep away. Stocking told the officers that it was his intention to go to New York and lead an honest life. He did not deny his guilt in having com- mitted perjury, but he believed the sen- tence was excessive. [n his opinion two years would have been sufficient. He had perjured himself in order to save a friend. Btocking said -he himself had made the key with which he had opened the hand- cuffs. When he ran through the Chinese opium den, he *hid fora time on a rear porch. Deputy Sheriff Degan passed close to him when he was searching for him. A few minutes later, Stocking says, he climbed over a fence and made his way 1o Becona street, where he boarded a P-street car and rode to Twelith street. After go- ing to a station and telephoning to friends 1n San Francisco to come to his rescue, he went to a vacant house, where he passed the night in a basement, almost perishing from the cold. The nex: day he procured a buggy from a livery stable and drove to the Ray ranch. ——— SHERIFF WHELANS CUNNING, How He Frooured Information From Chinatown Opium * Fiends.” Sheriff Whelan did a clever bit of de- tective work in connection with the cap- ture of Frank Stocking, the forger who escaped from a deputy at Sacramento, He looked the ground over carefully when word came that the criminal was at large and knowing his associations in this City concinded that his friends could be “‘pumped” if properly handied. So the Sheriff made a few changes in his ordina- rily natty business garb and took a trip through the haunts of opium ‘“fiends” and the low characters with whom Stocking traveled. ™ He soon located a gang of the forger’s intimates and the. use of a little money loosened their tongues to an extent that gladdened the Sheriff’s heart. After they were properly primed the subject of Stock- ing’s escape was brought uv, and the Sheriff took occasion to speak admiringly of his nerve in making his leap into the cellar. h, he’s all right,” said a “fiend,” *and he has fooled Whelan dead easy. Kit Riley has gone with her friend to help him out and he will never serve his term at Folsom.” : < Sheriff Whelan bad gained all the infor- mation that was to be had in that quarter, but the tip about the Riley woman was enough, and within a few moments his deputies were apprised of the news. This 1| designed early mn J led to the watch on the forger’s female friend that finally led the officers to Stock- ing’s hiding-place. he following is from a letter written by Stocking to his parents after his escape, and found by Deputy Sheriffs Fitzgerald and Degan of San Francisco on the person of Henry Verhellen,” the companion of Nellie Riley, at Sacramento. Through this communication Stocking was traced and retaken: Dear Mother: This will introduce to you Mrs. Wingrove, who will tell you everytbing. Trust her, my dear mother and father. It was impossible for me to let you hear from me any sooner, as I can trust no one. This lady has been with me and her husband from the start. She knew I was going to get away, and she and her husband followed me up on the next train. She will tell you all that has happened sincel left San Francisco; also where {ll:]n now and aiso about the buggy ride we ad. Iam now with her friends and waiting for {ransportatiou, and Harry must do just as he is told to do. He must do everything just as he is told and ask no questions, as I shall have made all my plans and all my con- nections and if any one fail or miscarry ali is lost. But If he does just as he is told to do, all will be well and all my plans will connecton time: But Harry must be on time and also do_just as he is told. Thisis what beis todo: Tues- day afternoon he must go down to the Wharves alone and find & smail gasoline launch and rent it for Thursday to go to the City, where I shall take a steamer for New York at once. Mrs. Wingrove will tell you everything I went done. This means my liberty. You must tell Harry that he is notto talk to any one or tell any one, not even his gir, if he have one. First see Charley and get his overcoat and his Prince Alber: or cutaway coat—no sack coat—and a vest and a stick of bluck cosmetie. Do these things up in a bundle and send them 10 Mrs. Wigmore by Charley’s wife. No one woulid ever suspect her, aud she nced not throw herself. ! These things must be r2ady Tuesday sfter- noon for me to get Wednesday morning. I will take the best of care of them and return them to him Friday. The next part Harry must attend to per- sonally. He must have tiae launch at the exact pluce he is told and must tie a white rag on the exhaust pipe so I can recognize it without asking any one. 1willdoall the rest. Mrs. Wigmore will give you directions for Harry, but do not tell him what they are until he is ready to start at 6 o’clock Thursday morning. Cheer up, my dear parents, as all is now bright before me. Remember that I have only one object now ana that is to work and get some money for & Endou from that unjust m:d cruel sentence that is now a bleton my e. 1 will see you and say a brief good-by before the steamer le . To Dear Brot arles: I must not torgetmy children in my troub.e and what little Iask you can attend to. Seud them all some nuts aud candy and some little toy from papa and picture books and a nice story book o Bertie, some litile oy or engine and cars for Toots— that is what he asked me for Friday—ana a lit- tle doll for Freddie. Be sure and burn'this up as soon as possible. Good-by, dear Charles, until I see you. I wisk you and all the folks and your children a merry Christmasand Happy New Year. BROTHER FRANK. SANTA CLARA GROWERS ' ACT. Will Petition the. Ways and Means Com- mittee for.a Duty on Green and Drred Fruit. SAN JOSE, CaL., Dec: 23.—A meeting of fruit-growers and citizens will be held in Judge Lorigan’s court room Saturday afternoon, under & call issued by the Board of Trade, to take action looking to the imposing of a duty upon green and dried fruit. Suitable resolutions will be adopted and forwarded to the Ways and Means Committee of the House of Repre- sentatives, which will give hearings upon the subject of duties on fruits and frait products about the 1st of January. The meeting is called in accordance ‘with a suggestion made by Congressman Loud in a letter received by the Board of Trade a lew days ago. President T. R. Weavers has named the following as a committee to prepare suita- ble resolutions io -be submitted to the meeting: Ralph Hersey, Professor C. W. Childs, J. H. Flickinger; E. A. Wheeler, E. E. Goodricn, E. F. Freitag, William Wehner, W. W. Turney and F. M. Righter. The imporiance of a revision of the tariff on fruit and wines may esti- mated, as stated by a fruit man, through the computatiop of a duty of even 1 cent a pound based Tpon last season’s crop, which would mean about $350,000 upon dried fruit alone, added to which areason ble duty upon wines,; and this valley rould bs ihe richer by nearly half a mulion dollars. The above being true of the past season, the same authority de- clared that with a tuil crop from all the trees now in bearing and in good vintage, aariffl properiy framed would mean not less an increase in the wealth of this val- ley than $1,000,000. — - Fell With a Scaffolding. SAN JOSE, CaL, Dec. 23.—Thomas Hol- land, a paimnter,.working at 242 South Tenth street, sustainea a fracture of the | skuil about 11 o’clock to-day owing to the | breaking of a scaffoiding and his falling a distance of about twelve feet. It is thought the injury wili prove fatal. Hol- land has been ciosely identified with the work of the Florence Night Mitsion, and has lived in this city for a number of vears. Heis anative of England, about 50 years of age. 1 —— SA4YS OTIS 15 SLATED, Congressman- Elect Lewis on the Cabinet Situation. SEATTLE, Wass., Dec. 23. — Colonel James Hamilton Lewis, Congressman-elect from this State, has returned from a pro- fessional visit to the National Capital. Concerning his views as to President Mec- Kinley’s cabinet appointments the colonel said: “I am inclined to think that General Otis of California will be given the port- folio of Becretary or Assistant Secretary of War. Mr. Eckels will continue, it is said, as Comptroller of the Currency, if Mr. Dingley is made Secretary of the Treasury. Grosvenor of Ohio will be given the management of the tariff measure of the incoming administration. Senator Wilson is seeking to. have the Commissioner of the General Land Office come to this State.” —_—— Stanford’s Holiday Vacation. STANFORD UNIVERSITY, CaL., Dec. 23 —The university closed to-day for the Christmas vacation, and for two weeks the students will be free from the toil and worry of the classroom. All day long the ’buses were busy carrying away the students who will spend their vaca- tion at home. There are a considerable number of students, however, who will remain on the campus, or vicinity. The diging-room in Encina closes to-morrow, and the boys will take tbeir meals in Roble with the girls. Santa Cruz Pies Proved 'His Undoing. SANTA CRUZ, Car., Dec. 23.—George Hickey has obtained judgment ina Jus- tice court for $225 against W. J. Crawford for losses sustained in the handling of a patent pie-lifter. Hickey purchased the right of sale for Santa Cruz County under agreement that the pie-litters should cost at Portland, Or., $5 per hundred. The Portland heuse mude him pay $7 per han- dred and many of the lifters proved too light for Santa Cruz County pies. As Hickey’s retail price was only 50 cents he could not afford to hoist pie at that figure, bence the suit. g Santa Cruz Salvation Work. SANTA CRUZ, CaL,, Pec. 23.—The Sal- vation Army has secured the use of the old vacant building, formerly the broad- gauge depot, on Park street, for the pro- posed shelter to be estabiished. Work- men are engaged refitting and making it habjitable and it will be put to -the use uary. A — v Los, Gatos’ New Hecorder, LOS GATOS, CaL., Dec. 23.—The Town Trustees have appointed B. P. Schuler Town Recorder for the coming year, / THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TH.UR{SD;AY,- DECEMBER"- 24, 1896. NATIONAL CITY ASSASSINATION Fruit Thieves Fire Upon the Watchman in an Orchard. Charge of Shot Enters the Vie- tim's Back and Causes Death. He Had Attempted to Driv: Away in " Their Wagon to Summ(n Assistance. SAN DIEGO, CaL., Dec. 23.—An atro- cious murder was committed on Sixteenth street, National City, after dark to-night, at the Land and Town Company’s or- chard. Jobn Patterson, the watchman, was the victim, and his assassin is un- kiaown. Two men are supposed to be im- plicated. . About 8 o'clock a young man named Meade was*riding on a wheel along near Tenth avenue, National City, when he neard a cry for help come from a man sit- ting in a wagon by the roadside. He wen: to his assistanca and found that the man was dying. It was Patterson. Meade heid Patterson while others who were at- tracted by his shouts ran and got Coroner Johnson, who lives not far away. Patter- son was almost gone, and before he could answer a question from Meade he gave a few gasps and died. His bn? Wwas re- moved to the undertaker's nedr by and examined. It was found that his entire left shoulder and back was riddied with fine bird shot, causing internal hemorrhage. The vehi- cle' that he was in when found was then examined. It wasa light spring wagon, drawn by a small dark bay horse. The horse was sweating profusely, and had probably run away with Patterson. The spot at which the dying man was found was about two miles from the orchard where he was shot. The Land and Town Company had missed a lot of fruit from the orchard and determined to place. a watchman’ .there to catch the thieves, Patterson was hired by Al Cope- land, the foreman, he being Copeland’s brother-in-law. . This was his first night at the orchard. ¥ A hasty survey of the situation indi- cated that Patterson had seen thieves ap- proach the orchard and bad hidden from them. When they were inside gathering oranges he jumped into the wagon and tried to get to town with it to hold it for evidence. He was unarmed, and proba- bly did not care to tackle the two men. They saw him driving away, and shot him in the back. He either had strength left to drive to town or the horse took fright and ran away with him, leaving the thieves in doubt as to whether they had killed him. The appearance of the wound in the back showea that they were not far distant from the victim. About 8:30 lo-nn‘fht Sem Black, a for- mer constable and the man who was czippied . by Chris Evans while trailing that desperado, appeared at police head- quarters and said his horse and wagon bad been stolen by iwo men in Telegraph Canyon, ten or twelve miles seutheast of the city, beyond the orchard where the shooting occurred. Black described his rig. it was theone in which Patterson had been killed. He said he had been hunting and was temporarily away from the rig, leaving his dog behind. He saw two men get into it and drive rapidly away. He chased them as far as he could, but they drove too fast for him and got out of sight. His gun was in the wagon and they got away with everything, even his hunting coat. He asked for help to look for the thieves. Deputy Sneriff W. J. Ward joined Black and they left for National City an hour after the murder was reporied. In the wagon was found the dog, the hunting coat, a package of tobacco and a number of quail and rabbit. There were several sacks such as orange thieve8 would use. _ The officers can do nothing until morn- ing. PUWER FOE SACKAMENTO, FElectrie Curvent Transmitted Over the Newenstle Line. SACRAMENTO, €aL., Dec. 23.—To-day occurred the first transmission of the elec- tric current to this city over the new line of the Central Eleciric Company. It was a success. The company’s power-house is at Newcastle, thirty miles distant, the power being furnished trom the reservoirs of the South Yuba Water Company. Three high potential wires carry the cur- rent to the station in this city, which is furnished with two motors and two are light dynamos, which will run 120 arc lights.” Iu has also eight step-down trans- formers to reduce the voltage, and the switchboard is furnished with several of the latest improvements. This morning a current of 15,000 volts was turned on at Newcastle to test the line, and it was found to be in perfect or- der clear to this city.’ On Christmas night the company expects to test its arc lights. L Carson’s dssault Cane. CARSON, Nev., Dec. 23.—To-day was the fime set for the plea of District At- torney Charles A. Jones, charged with as- sault on the person of Editor S. P. Davis with brass knuckles, with intent to mflict bodiiy injury. The case was before Judge Mack, and the Wlefense stated that before entering a p.ea they wished to interpose the objection that the District Court had no jurisdiction. The trouble between Jones and the Appeal editor occurred on the block occupied by the Postoffice. Tne records show that this block was deeded to the United States, and the claim of the defense is that the local courts have no jurisdiction. Both counsel wanted time to loock up the matter, and the case was continued until the first Monday in Jan- uary. g Rail Casualty Near Stockton. STOCKTON, CAr., Dec. 23.—A passenger train which passed through Stockton this morning northward bound killed a man who was walking on a trestle north of this city. An effort was made to stop the train, but it could not be halted in time. After the man was knocked off the trestle the cars came to & hait'and he was picked up. He was still alive at the time, and was taken on to L.di, but died before reaching that place. The man was about 60 years old. He carried a roll of blankets, and was evidently a tramp. N fiddac dasadioes oh Death at Santa Margarita. SAN LUIS OBISPO, CAL, Dec. 23.— Jonah Houghton, a_pioneer resident of this county, died suddenly at Santa Mar- garita this morning from heart failure. His home is in the Anolo Grande Valley, where he owned considerable property. He leaves an estate said to be worth about $100,000. Tacomn Ratlways to Be Sold. TACOMA, Wasn, Dec. 23.—The suit of the New York Guaranty and Indem- nity Company vs. the Tacoma Ratlway and Motor Company to foreclose a mort- gage on all street railways of the city was decided to-day in favor of the plaintiff b; Judge Hanford in the Federal court. The sale of the property was ordered as soon as the four weeks for legal advertising will have expired. The defendant was given until February 1 to redeem. s fuiad e ioh THE VICTORIA INQUIRY. Witness Contradicts Captain McLean Re- ~ garding the Price Brought by * the Favorite. VICTORIA, B. C., Dee. 23.—Before ‘the Bering Sea Claims Commission to-day Theodore Lubbe, continning his evidence under crass-examination by Dickinson, said he had no interest in any of the claims now before the commission. Pe- ters then put a question as to the price the Favorite sold for, wanting, he said, to show that it sold for $4500, and not for $3000, as stated by Captain McLean. Justice Putnam raised an objection to the case being again opened on a question of value. Peters said he did not see why he should not show what price the schooner was sold for. Putnam said the Commissioners had some rights as tg the time taken up by the counsel. Peters replied that the counsel also had, rights and it was within their rightsto put the claims in a satisfactory manner. | Justice Putnam said he had the highest regard for counsel on both sides, but there were times when the best of connsel needed checking. Peters admitted this, but said that when counsel were checked and beld that they were rightit was then within their right to persist. Captain McLean had been put forward as an 1mportant wituess, and in making a statement of facts did not show the date when the schooner was sold, although ae was interested in the sale and had knowledge of it. He proposed, he said, to show that the Favorite was valued ata much higher price than Captain McLean said. As that evidence was not only to be used in the case of the Carolena, but would also be made evidence in other cases, he claimed the right to show whether it was to be relied upon, and to show the sales in which Captain McLean was interested. Dickinson considered that Captain Mc- Lean’s valuation was for 1886, and the witness had stated he did not know of any sale in 1886. Justice Putnam finally withdrew his objection. Lubbe, in reply to Peters’ question, said that in 1883, on the 14th of November, a fourth interest in_the Fa- vorite was sold to Captain McLean for $1337,50, and in 1884, on December 10, it was sold to Mr. Spring for $4500. ” : JAILED AT SANTA ROSA. Capture of a Man Believed to Have Been the Masked Outlaw Who Entered a Bodega Store. BANTA ROSA, Car, Dec. 23.—Frank Coleby was lodged 1n the County Jail here to-day, charged with bhaving been the masked robber who made such a bold at- tempt to hold up Mr. Goodman of the firm of Goodman & Co. at Bodega last night. It'appears that the would-be robber was armed with a shotgun, which was leveled full at Mr. Goodman when the command, “‘Hold up your hands and dig up your money,” was given. The shotgun had no terrors for the in- trepid Bodegan, however, and instead of ‘“digging up” he made a rush for the in- truder, and succeeded in grasping him by one hand. The gun was discharced in the struggle which followed, and the twelve, big buckshot that lodged in the store wall vrove that the robber meant business. Meanwhile the burglar was using his iree arm to batter the storekeeper in the face and a staggering blow soon left him free to escape in rhe darkness, leaving his gun, hat and mask behind. A clattéring of hoofs in the direction of Sebastopol told how and in what direction the fellow had fled, and a posse, including one brave young lady, soon gave chase, They were unable to catch sight of the fugitive, and the fact that a bareheaded man gallopea through Sebastopol at9:30 o’clock proves the robber to have been weil mounted. The gun left by the outlaw was soon identitied by several young men-as one used by Frank Coleby of Occidental, and as the constable of that burg was absent a posse of citizens, headed by Sam Stump, arrested Coleby in his room at Robinson’s Hotel, Occidental, this morning. The hotel people say that Coleby went to his room at 11 o’clock by the back entrance. The accused man was once tried for’burg- lary in this county, the jury disagreeing. He protests his innocence, but will make no statement in regard to his whereabouts last night or the ownership of the gun. CRBIERET T Nevada’s Officers- Elect. CARSON, NEv., Dec. 23.—Governor Sad- ler yesterday issued a proclamation de- claring elected all the candidates on the Silver party ticket, save Mr. Hardin, nom- inee for Lientenant-Governor. The Gov- ernor was influencea in this by the opin ion of Attorney-General Beatty, to the effect that there has been no vacancy in that position. Secretary of State Howell to-day signed the ceriificates of the suc- cessful candidates and sent them out. B Sgalaet Spokane’s Municipal Row. SPOKANE, Wisn., Dec. 23.—Mayor Bell to-day preferred charges before the City Council against Chief of Police Haw- thorne and asked that he be removed. The charges are based on the grounds of incompetency ana refusal to obey the orders of the Maycr. The Council took the matter under consideration. Haw- thorne was appointed chief by the Mayor six months ago. AR e Mowrning wn Santa Crus. SANTA CRUZ, CaL., Dec. 23.—Miss Pearl McCann, daughter of the late Judge Frederick J. McCann of the Superior Court, died this morning from consump- tion. Miss McCann was a leader in social circles, and her death is deeply mourned by a large circle of iriends. ‘She had re- cently returned from a visit to her broth- ers 1n Mexico. e g U Brought Back to Sacramento. SACRAMENTO, CaL., Dec. 23.—Captain of Police Rober Ash arrived from Vir- ginia City, Nev., this morning, having in custody J. W. Dunbar, who, it is said, de- frauded Sacramento people out of several hundred dollars last week. Dunbar re- fuses to say anything bearing on his troubles. He will be tried on charges of forgery and obtaining money under false pretenses. e Ll Fire at Modesto. MODESTO, Car, Dec. 23—Fire last night destroyed the residence of Mrs. A. E. Medley, at the corner of Tenth and J streets. Mrs. Medley went into an ad- Jjoining "bouse to see a sick grandchild, leaving a lighted lamp on a table. Itis supposed the lamp exploded. The loss is about $1100, with light insurance. — i Frightens Enst Santa Cruz Women. SANTA CRUZ, CaL, Dec. 23.—Some unknown miscreant hias been irightening the women of East Santa Cruz. His latest eacng&de ‘was to throw a gunny-sack over the head of Mrs, J. R, Wolfley and attempt td drag her away from the yard of her home. e Riches ¥rom a Wilcow Mine, TUGCSON, Ariz., Dec, 23.—It 1s stated at Wilcox on good authority that ore ship- ments from the Pierce gold mines bave given an average return of 000 for each of the last four months. For "Decem- ber it will reach a hali million. 17 People say in Turkey that it takes ten Jews to equal one Armenian and five Armenians to equal one Persian in sharp business dealings. T 3 SHOT T0 DEATH. BY IS PURSUERS “ Bunko Pete,” a Notorious Cowbhoy, Killed Near Hagerman. Opens Fire Upon a Party That Threatened Him With Lynching. Was Making for the Mountains After Wounding a Man in a Bar- Room Brawl. BOISE, Ipano, Dec. 23.—Harry Kline, a sheepherder known over a large partof this State as *Bunko Pete,” and all-rouna bad man, paid the penalty with his life for the attempted murder of Marion Gar- ner at Hagerman to-day. During a brawla quarrel was commenced between Garner and *‘Bunko Pete” in a saloon where the crowd had been drinking. Suddenly “Bunko Pete”” whipped out a revolver and shot Garner through the body, and it was thought he had killed Garner. After firing the shot Kline ran out and mounted his horse and started for a cattle camp, twenty miles distantin the moun- tains. Ou the way he passed a house where a woman was staying to whom he was en- gaged. He made signals indicating that he was pursued, but yielded to her im- ploraing to stop and say good-by. The posse in pursuit, consisting of,Sheriff’s deputies and an indignant mob of men, came in sight of Pete’s horse standing in front of the hause. They came up before Pete was halfway out of the house. There was a chorus of yells of ‘‘Hang him!” The desperado shouted back, “Never,” and opened fire on the crowd. One man was wounded. Kline refused to throw up his hands and the posse opened fire, killing him instantly. Kline was a cowboy and was considered a desperate character. He had killed more than his one man, it is said. His victim, Garner, will probably recover, al- though he has a dangerous wound. PAID 10 THK HOMN L [ Continued from First Page.) *‘would have beenworth $8000 to Schwetzer’ if her husband had been killed on the night that he was shot at. Farther, it is said that the daughter who was wounded has always maintainea thatshe recognized the man who fired the shot, and that it was Barker, a man who had lived near her father’s place on Pine Ridge. Detective Harrison has still another ¢ir- cumstance to add to all this. He declares that he was approached by a brother of Deputy Constable Henry with an offer of a “*consideration’’ to hush this matter up. ‘‘Henry came to me,” says Harrison, “and remarked that he understood tbat there was something out against Schwei- zer. 1told him there was considerable out against him. He said that Schweizer was a man of family, that any trouble of the kind indicated would ruin not only him but others, and if it could be avoided he wonid like to have it done, as he was a friend of Schweizer’s. I told him that I knew Schweizer was guilty and that I thought he (Henry) did too. Henry re- plied, ‘Yes, I believe there was something wrong about it, but it would ruin his whole family if he were arrested.’ “In order to put him off I told him that I couldn’t say what might be done with- out consulting my partner.. With that I left bim, saying that I would telegraph and let him know. The next day I met him and he asked me what I had heard, if anything. Itold him the matter could not be fixed.” These are the statements which have been made before the District Attorney, and which he will present to.the Grand Jury at_its session on Monday. They have bit by bit become public talk and e interest in the seandal has grown to fever heat. The citizens have taken sides ac- cording as they believe or do not believe them. The verv many friends of Charles Schweizer, gained through a large and honored business career in this City, not heretofore marred by a single act that might lay him open to distrust, are not ready to forsake him in the face of what seems altogether impossible charges. De Morais, who is figuring prominently in the case, was formerl¥’ a partner of Lehmann in a sawmill on Pine R:dgze. The mill was destroyed by f(ire and this broke up the partnership. De Morais is well known throughout the county, but his record is not of the best: Abouta year ago Mrs. Kate Miichell, a lodging-honse keeper, had bhim arrested for bresking into her trunk and stealing several hundr:d dollars, De Morais claimed that it was a scheme to blackmail him, his al- leged persecutors being Mrs, Mitchell and George Rupert. ' The case was in court for some time, but was finally dismissed. De Morais js now working on a ranch in the country. ;He formerly had considerable money. Al Henry, the Deputy Sheriff who says Hurrison was bent solely on extorting money from the merchant, declares that John 'W.Lambert, who shot and killed Alex Betbeder last summer at Firebaugh, was a party to the alleged scheme ard acted as go-between for Harrison.. Mr. Henry has made the following statement: I was at work in'tue Courthouse park on the forenoon of the 14th of this month when John Lambert came up to me. He began to speak about the kindness thatI had shown him while he was confined in the county jail awaiting trial for murder, and he said that he believed that the time had come when he could return the favors. ““He knew, he said, that I was a good friend of Charles Schweizer, and he con- sidered that any favor he could do for the harness-dealer would be very much ap- preciated by myself. This he was in a position to do, he added, and would be glad to render any assistance to Mr. Schweizer. ~ “Lambert then told me thatsome de- tectives from San Jose had gathered evi- dence showing that Schweizer was guilty of a serious crime, and intended to insti- tute proceedings against him. Lambert wanted me to tell Schweizer of if, as the information might be of service to him, I asked what the charge was, but Lam- bert said he did not know. I went to see Schweizer as soon as I could and informed bhim of what I had been told. He ap- veared to be very much surprised and re. plied that he could not imagine what the charge could be, as he had gon- nothing in his life to warrant any such action. ‘In the evening I met Lambert again Y Doble’s saloon and.told him what g::hwdzar had said, and we talked about the case for some time. All that Lambert said he knew was that the charge was a very serious one, and he hoped that Schweizer would get out of it as he was & friend of+ mine. The following evening about 7 o'clock Lambert came to my house on North I street, and said that he had learned something of the charge against Schweizer. in substance it was that Sehweizer had bired a fellow to murder a man on whose life he hela a $5000 insur- | ance policy. The gun used and the hat of the shooter were in the possession of the detective. Lambert said that he thought the matter could be ‘fixed,” however, if they could get around to it in time, before the case was brought to the attention of the authorities. €Ve then airanged that 1 should have a meeting that uight with the detective who proved to be John Harri- son. I wanted tp foliow the matter up as far as Fcould. “"“Harrison and I held our meeting in a back room at Doble’s saloon, and there for the first time I learned that it wasthe Lehmann shooting with which Schweizer was being_connected. The detective so told me. We then talked of having the case dropped, and Harrison remarked zhas ‘No small sum of money could do it When 1 asked for an approximate figure he answered, “Lwo or three thousand dol- Jass.’ He could not give me any definite proposition, he said, until he bhad heard from his partuner, who was in San Jose. 1 inquired how long it would take to hear from him, and Harrison said about 11 o’clock the next day, which was Wednes- day. The detective would not teil me anythin, about the evidence he had against zSchweizer. He asserted it was conclusive. “The next morning I saw Schweizer and told him of the proposition that had been made. We went to Attorney Walser's office, and they both asserted pcsmv_e]y that they would yield to no blackmailing scheme, and were willing for Harrison to shoot his guns. At 110’clock thedetective came to me in the park and told me he had heuard from his partner and was in a posi- tion to do business. He wanted me to meet him at Doble’s saloon that evening. I did so, and then communicated Schweizer's answer to him. Harrison seemed to be very much put out. He re- marked that if Schweizer did not put up the money by the next day he would be arrested.” i Afzer this the Deputy Sheriff saw noth- ing more of Harrison or Lambert. CROKER AG.IN IG THE FIONT, Wilt Lead Tammany Hall in the Next Munioipal Campaign. NEW YORK, N. Y., Dec. 23.— The Evening Sun published the following: A close personal and political friend of Mr. Richard Croker said to-day that Mr. Croker has finally decided to lead Tam- many Hall in the municipal campaign next year. He will not attend to all the details of the work, leaving those to sub- ordinates, but will openly resume the real leadership of the organization. Accord- ing to this friend Mr. Croker will go to England in March lor a visit to his son, who is at school over there, but will return in about six weeks or about May 1. From that time forward to the end of the cam- paign he will be in personal charge of Tammany and will shape the policy of the organization for the first election in the Greater New York. Governor Morton Banguety His Successor. NEW Y ORK, N. Y., Dec. 23.—Governor Morton gave a dinner this evening at his home, 871 Fifth avenue, in honor of Governor-elect Black and the members of the Greater New York committee. Among the guests were: Mayor Strong, General B. F. Tracey, ex-Mayor Thomas F. Gil- roy, Seth Low, General Steward L. Wood- ford, Lientenant-Governor-elect Timothy L. Woodruff and Hon. Thomas C. Platt. —_———— One Tugboat Sinks Another. NEW YORK, N. Y., Dec. 23.—The tug- boat T. E. Mead was run into and sunk by the tugboat Hercuies in the East River to-day. 'Both tugs belonged to the Stand- ard Oil Company and the collision was due to the thick snowstorm prevailing at the time. The crew of the Mead suc- ceeded in getting on board the Hercules. THEIR HOPES BLIGHTED. The Career of Defeated Presidential Candidates Since 1860. Seward’s Presidential ambitions van- ished when the nomination which" he cov- eted went to Lincoln, and Breckinridge and Douglas were the other wrecks left on the shore by the political storm of 1860. During the war the former commanded a Confederate regiment in the field and served ifor a time in Davis’ Cabinet, but his heart was never in the secession movement, and when it was overthrown he felt that his career wasended. He went back to Kentucky, expecting to take up the practice of law, but did not live long after he retired to private life. Doug- las, when the war opened, was prompt and outspoken in support of the Union, end had he lived he probably would have been one of Lincoin’s most valued ad- visers. But he had been ailing for more than a year ana the mighty strain of tie canvass of 1860, coupled with grief at the hopeless rupture of his party, undermined his con- stitution.. He sank rapidly, and when it was evident thatv his day was ending he sent for his sisler to come and nurse him during his last hours. After hisdeath the manilestations of respect revealed the mighty bold which ne had upon his party and the admiration his great opponent had come to feel for him because of his splendid stand for the Union. No part of Douglas’ iife so well became him as its close. After the campaign of 1864 General Mc- Ciellan emerged but_once from his self- sought reiirement. In 1877 he was nomi- nated for Governor by the New Jersey Democratsand elected. This was the only political office he ever held, and when his term was over he returned to his pleasant home in Orange, where the balance of his life was spent., He died suddeniy, wita- out warning of illness, some ten yearsago. Horatio Seymour survived for a dozen years or more the crushing defeat by Grant 1n 1868, but thereafter took small if any part in public affairs. Horace Greeley aied less than a month aiter the election of 1872 His death, however, was not due to dhlb&)oinlmenl at hid failure to reach the Presidency—he had known for weeks that the tide had set strongly against him—but to the exhaustion of the campaign, fol- lowed as it was by the tender nursing of his wife, who fe!l and died afew weeks be- fore election day. The strain was too great. Insomnia seized him with all its horrors, and it seemed to those who knew him as if he, realizing that he had danger- ously strained nis physical and mental powers, gave up at once without making a stl:ll_lgfile Tor life. . 1ldensin 1876 accepted the loss of Presidency with perfect compomre.o lful:: had personal di:appointments or nour. ished resentment no one knew it. Within a month after the seating of Hayes he carried through an important business enterprise which added millions to his already large fortune. A little later he bought a beautiful place on the Hudson and dividing his time between tuat and his city home at Grammercy Park spent :lol‘!l lll:i.e‘d';"i;:kp“u hanu serenity, sur- S al i u:;cumu{iun. nd by men of the high. eneral Hancock was never heard to gllng at his defeat by Garfield in 1880, :fi aine, within a week of his deieat four years later, was hard at work on the sec- ond volume of nis “Twenty Years of Con. Bress,” givingno token of disappointment at the outcome of the canvass, which had brought him within 2000 votes of the Pres- idenc{. Cleveland, as soon as his first :l.erdm n the Waite House was ended, set- L Nduwn to the practice of his profession n New York City, and, although he - per- mitted his laborsto be broken in upon by Ppolitical inclination and a desire fora re- nomination, probably made more money during the ensuing four years than at any other ‘period of his life. While in 1893 Harri-on, following Cleveland’s example, at once went back to his lawbooks and to his old place as leader of the bar in_In- diana,—8t. Louts Globe-Democrat. A PECULIAR FISH The Turbot’s Ball and Socket Eyes Are of Black and Gold. Lying limp and slimy on a fishconger’s slab, or dry and sandy in the Dutch fish- wives’ baskets, the turbot is perhaps the least interesting of fish. When swimming in an artificial sea or lying on the sandy bottom it is the most attractive of all the denizens of this mock ocean, and whether at rest or in motion hasan air of vigilance, vivacity and intelligence greater than that of any of the normally shaped fish. This is in part due to his nabits and in part to the expression of the flat fish’s eye. This, which is sunk and invisible in the dead fish, is raised on a kind of turret in the living turbot, or sole, and set there in a half-revoiving apparatus, working almost as independently as the ‘‘ball and socket’ eyes of the chameleon. There is a difference, however, in the eye of the lizard and of the fish—the iris of the chameleon is a mere pinhole at the top of the eyeball, whick is thus abso- lutely without expression. The turbot’s or‘butt’s” eyes are black and gold and in- tensely bright with none of the fixed, staring, stupid appearances of ordinary fishe’s eyes. It lies upon the sand and jerks its eyes independently into position to survey any part of the ground surface, and the water above or that on either side at any angle. If it had light rays to project from its eyes instead of to receive the effect would be vprecisely that made by the sudden shifting of the jointed apparatus which casts the electric light from a warship fat any angle on the sea, sky or horizon. The turbots, though ready, graceful swim- mers, moving in warlike undulations across the water, or dashing off like a flash when so disposed, usually lie per- fectly still upon the bottom. They do not, like the dabs and flounders, cover them- selves with sand, for they mimic the coler of the ground with such absolute fidelity that except for the shining eye it is almost impossible to distinguish them. It would appear that volition plays some part in this subtle conformity to environ- ment, for one turbot, which is blind, has changed a tint too light and not all in harmony with that of the sand.—London Spectator. ————— The Tyrant on the Mantelpiece. It is no exaggeration to say that the clock is gradually enslaving the whole of the civilized world. Notone of us butcan call to mind among our acquaintances in- dividuals who belong body and soul to the clock—whose whole lives are dominated by its chimes and intervals, The attitude of such persons is one of servile deference to the clock. Everything they do is with a view of conforming to its wishes. They sleep by the clock, dress by the elock, eat by the clock, sit, walk, read, smoke, work by the clock. Their heads are full of periods of time—hours, minutes and seconds. They spend their lives counting them. They can never enjoy themseives or let them- selves go without pulling themselves up suddenly for fear they should forget the clock. They will stop doing something useful, intereum:i’and enjoyable and force them- selves to do something duil and uninter- esting simply because the clock happened to strike. Aad no matter how greatly they desire to change an irksome occupa- ticn they will stick to it, because, for- sooth, the clock has not yet struck. They may be enjoying the most delightful slum- ber of a morning, but wiil bound out of bed like a skyrocket because the clock happens to strike. And though they have not the slightest inclination for sleep they will put themselves forcibly to bed be- cause the finger of the clock marks a cer- tain hour. Their whole lives are spent in trying to force their natures into accord- ance with a mere machine. Such people are as much slaves to the clock as the genii in the story of Aladdin were slaves to the lamp. They are per- petually at its beck and call, and must obey its voice as they would that of the veriest tyrant.—Pall Mall Gazette. 00 5 MAN, 90 °/% 90 °/% 90 °/, 90 °/o 90 °/o 90 °/% 90 °/, 90 °/, 90 per cent man and 10 per cent weakness may not seem very much to the beginner, but if the waste con- tinues the end is certain. It will be 90 °/, 10 per cent man 90 °/, and 9o per cent 909/, weak‘ness. : Don’t 90 °/, fa'll‘ into this con- dition. If youare 90 °/% : suffering from a 90 °/% waste or a loss; if 90 °/ you pass sleepless 90 °/o nights, wake tired 90 °/, and listless ; if you 90 °/, are prematurely 90 o/, decayed; if you 90 °/, h?veftl}le: symptoms of failing man- 80 o hood, be gsure to 90 °/% get that which will 90 °/5 cureyou. 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