The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 31, 1897, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JANUARY 31, 1897 5 PETALUMAS FIRE { HEND CAPTURED C ug Scene of His Third Conflagration. Warehouses and Contents Valued at $4>,000 Lost in Fiames. Imb:cile Intent the Entire Tewa. Incendiary an on' Destroying an. 30.—Whitney’s discovered to be ning, and oke out in t a Wooten- Juses w 1 early hour Mills in East Petaluma. & was also discovered the ge over Petaluma 3 e and the by prompt ac- five in number, mills were saved estroyed. Filled fire illumined the ost panic- has been felt in the ecially since hn Cavanagh’s lumber-yard of Wednesday last. bave been in the air, and slarmed had the people grown ht a regiment- of watchmen < been empioyed by private citizens to 1selves and even the regular o are being hourly held up by the ged amateur squad. city is othing more than its ta of tramps, d a rendezvous.’on the outskirts at a place known as the who of the town Willo ave always heretofore behaved ed toward the Wi , and it was ed that a plan had, been laid there for on and the looti iting of places at the.same time, so s to the concerted working of the o-night, while the sky is still ed by the smoldering fire of the big uses, and the watchmen on dark ng terror to the hearts of bition of their own zeal, the cause e ala ),000 W wall of 1oors of the Coun nanner of 't rt roperiy is_pounding the Prison, calling - upon the-head rrested him this shal Collisis, who, detto is an Italian who has nder picion of the Marshal for ome months asa vagrant. He is rather unfortunate. v ino Bi ilrpad section during the st year and worked steadily L summer he suffered a su oke and since his recoyery he has done nost no work and as a consequence has He has become a ar figure to thosé whose duties keep n_abroad between sundown and sun- Two. engines -stand 1n .the.railroad < during the early hours of the morn- up to be ready for duty, and he yas been accustomed to climbing into 0 to get warm when no better shelter ed. r. Mego, -the ‘bridge-tender, also an gave him' a place to sieep for ts, put was finally compelled ¢ll'him fo find new quarters. Befora-h isfortune and while he was employed, Benedetto wrote to 1 Ttaly to come to him with their e children.” She refused to do so, and med to prey upon him. Abou{ midnight last night Benedetto seen about the railrond yards as and when Mego at 5:45 o'clock was crassin bridge he saw Benedetio e the opposife direction. Mego speke to m, but the man in the dark sw pased otner side. As Mego arehouse a few minutes at the door was slightly ked in and saw a furnace of ned out of all possible me beca biock away, heard the cry, saw the flames and kept his head sufficiently to turn in the.alarm properly, and in a very few min- ute tiremen were at work. ‘Their entire sttention was directed to- ard confining the fire to the big ware- for they weie already doomed. 2s a big enough job for the depart- but they did it well in spite of th bat several of the near-by buildir ht fire. Over 2000 tons of hay ere housed in the frame building, the flames that were eatingit emendous relish, with a roar 1 be heard a half mile away, and a tongue that scemed Lo be_leaping up to Jick the stars, had awakened the city and its people toward them another ck. It was for the that started in the engine-house 1-mills across the creek. ement that aiready swayed the as of course intensified. Chief t hose comvany 2 to the place, d in time to aid the early nguishing The mill is an immense stories high, It has been time and was_ getting tions on Monda ° the fire, bu the structu have been wholly d there is no telling - what nes at the they had e surroand- hose com- The fire is an , Who ha =ht sust cdetto, ulthough 1on ¢s am inof- on in East Petaluma about 10 norning sitting before a stove z his socks. Ooe of bis shoes was vand found to fit exactlv into the nt of a shoe that bad run through the the woolen-mill just before discoyered. ted and charged with the 1itstoutly. Megoasked usge at the Marshal’s TeC why he did not reply when he Mego) svoke to him on the bridge just efore the big fire was discovered. At this - e broke down and confessed. He became cefiant at once. He said it was he who set tire to Cavanagh’s lumber on Wednesday night. There was & quan- ht Hurrying From the| ructures in the | nothing could | -| estate. mpt to burn the bridge-on the All'sorts of | so | er their proverty, and the ci tizens night visited every winter by | above the .average . manner -of but as the have been un- wably of incendiary arigin ‘the s of the p immediately | f the city | fires in different and | well as to each other by | s of the loss of some | He was'a laborer em- | the flames they | tity of hay there and he had touched a match to it—tuat was all. He had taken some of the hay and placed it under the bridge and touched a light to that also, | the same night, while the firemen were at | work in the lumber-yard. Last night, he said, he had better succesz. He had taken a quantity of the oily waste used in clean- | ing the engines in the yard and pl.\ceq'u | on'the stringers unde: the bridge. I'e | had then gone to the warehouse, effected | an entrange aud had touched a matchrto e center of the main aisle. | He returned to the bridge and struck a | light there. * Then be cross d, meeting Mego, the bridge-tender, who bad be- | friended him, as h- ran. - | He went straight to the woolen-mill, | and there, placing some scantling on end, | be put some of the waste under itand 4 his third fire. The fire at the nt out of itself after burning be hay in t had toid about it. o was placed in acellat the n and lett to himself for some is evening, wien Marshal Col- upon bim, the man nkets of his’ bed ana tin vessels of his cell and 2 out through the bars, and ns hud scattered the remains of the photographs of his four children st he had torn into small vieces. He he.had done with th:m all. He was : barefooted and half-dressed in hal put him into another cell, where he could not throw lothing. The fellow made it, it requiring several men The man is doubtless a desperate il o overcome him. | insane. His description of his preparations un- | der the bridve and at the woolen-mill tallied so well with the iacts known as to leave no doubt that be is the firebug, and that he was alone in his operations. The farshal is certain that the cause for alarm has be moved in his arrest. The Whitney warehouses consisted of a cluster of five builaing, oceupying nearly the whole biock bounded by C, D and | First streets on the north, south snd w and the river on the east. They were | by 126 feet in dimensions, and were built ago by the late Al- over a score of ye: | bion P. Whitney, being still owned by his There were nearly 3000 tonsof hay in the building, according to Superintendent Fred Walker, besides tackle, furniture, implements ani merchandise. Ten of | €aptain Walker's famous flock of Maltese cats were burned. The total-loss-is estimated at $40,000, the losers being asfollows: \Whitney ng, $5000, partially insured; 4 3 { merchandise, $5000, in- sured for $3000; George P. McNear, 500 tons of hay, $2000, not insured: Goiden L tons of hay, $1500, not in- n Hill, tons of hay, $:500, not insured. The remainder of the losses range from $20 to $200, being sus- tained by merchants and farmers who had | smail quanitities of h:y in storage. Risk Bros. had 600 tons of hay in the | wooden warehouse across the street, but | | pr: | est this, witn Ka’s grain warehouse adjoin- d battle, saved. ot Forty Sheep Burned to Death. SEATTLE, Wash., Jan. 30.—The plant of the Frye-Bruhn Packing {ing, was, attera b large Com- pany, valued at $250,000, was partly de- siroved by fire to-nighl. Forty sheep | were burned to death, the flames gaining ch headway before the fire was discov- ered that their rescue was impossible. The loss is »stimated at $15,000, and is fully covered by insurance. | CHEAP DRUGS FOR SAN JOSEANS. | el Secret Societies Will Open a Co-Operative | Store and Announcs a Cut on | Rates. SAN JOSE, CAL, Jan. 30.—The drug- gists of this city have been dragged into the war that has waged for some time be- tween the physicians of the county and a number of the secret societies, and steps have been taken by a number of the | lodges to establish a co-operative drug | store. The trouble onginated a couple of months ago W 1en the Santa Ciara County Medical Society passed a resolution bind- ing its members not to act as physicians for societies for iess than the regular rate charged by the profession. This aroused | the ire_of .several organizations and the | Sons of_St. George and the Foresters in- | cuced Dr. George Owen "Willis of Grass Valley.to come to San Joseand elected him their physician. Thne inedicos passed resolutions agreeing not to associate with or aid Dy. Wilis in any manner. A petition was circulated among the druggists_asking them to re- | fuse to compound Dr. Willis’ prescrip- | tions, and all the drugstores, with the ex- | ception of one, entered into the compact. | The lodges mentioned have now engaged a druegist and will shortly open a store to dispense drugs to the various iraternal societies and the trade generally. They also propose to make a big cut in all kinds GUTLAW THYLOR ENTLY TRAGPED The Murderer of the Meeks Family Taken Near Hanford. Surprised and dverpowered at a Sheep Camp Where He Was Employed. Hed Escaped From a Missouri Prison When Under Sentence of Death. HANFORD, CaL, Jan. 30.—George Taylor, the man who is wanted for the murder of the Meeks family near Brown- ing, Mo., in May, 1894, was captured at this point yesterday by W. V. Buckner, Sheriff of Kings County, and his deputies, Andrew Ayres and Howard MeGinnis, B. F. Lane, a painter by trade, who ar- rived twelve months ago from the town where the murder was committed and who had known the whole Taylor family from boyhood first sighted Taylor, alias “Rattlesnake Bill,” yesterday afternoon. Lane states that he believes Taylor recog- nized him, but he gave no sign of recog- nition that would put the outlaw on his guard. Lane went immediately to Sheriff Buckner, who caused a search to be made. The only fact he could elicit was that Tay- lor had made inquiries for the Jacobs ranch. Televhone communication was had with the foreman of the ranch, who was instructed to keep a sharp lookout for the suspect. On Friday morning a message was re- ceived from the foreman, stating that the man described had been there at 11 o’clock, but that he had been dispatched to a sheep camp some eight miles away, where work was given him. Plans were made for his capture at supper-time. One of the blacksmiths employed on the ranch wassentahead to reconnoiter. He wasin- structed to wave a lighted lamp about the cookhouse if Taylor was there. The blacksmith found Taylor at supper, and upon the signal being given the officers rushed in and took bim as he stood in his shirtsleeves in front of the camptire. Taylor was unarm-d and made no re- sistance. His capture was a clever com- bination of detective work and disguises, Lane, the man who claimed to have known him from boyhood, having changed his appearance and visited the sheep camp to see if the man whom it was pro- | posed to arrest really was Taylor. Taylor refused to answered any ques- tions put to him by reporters. He isina ragged condition, but stili bas not the ap- pearance of a tramp exposed to wind and weather. A bey who was with him, and who is held for what he may know, states that he and Taylor came down from Ore- gon recently. e o CRIME OF THE TAYLOKLS. George Mecks, His Wife and Two Chil- dren Put to Death. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Jan. 30.—In May, 1804, the Meeks family, consisting of Georze Meeks, his wife and three children, siarted to drive from their home, near Browning, Mo., to Oklaboma. Meeks was a witness against William and George Taylor, who had been charged with steal- ing cattle and whose trial was to com- mence the week following. On the morning after the family left home little Nellie Meeks, aged 6 years, aroused a farmer near Browning and told him that her father, mother and others of the family had been killed and that their bodies were in a strawstack in a field. S8he herseli was wounded in the bead. She said the Taylor brothers bad killed ‘them. The two brothers on learning of the finding of the bodies fled from the neigh- borhood. They were afterward arrested in Arkansas and voluntarily returned to Missouri. They were tried and convicted on the of drugs and proprietary articles. ool STOLENSILVEEWARE RECOVERED Detective Jocates Property Taken From the Spencer Keaidence. SAN JOSE, CaL., Jan. 30. -Detective Anderson to-day recovered several pieces of siiverware in Sixth.street Chinatown that were stolen from the residence of Judge F. E. Spencer nearly two years ago, | at which time the house was set on fire to de the theft. At the time of the robvery worth of diamonds and $700 worth of silverware were taken, but no partof the loot was rucovered until to-day. Among the pieces iound was a silver shay- ing-mug marked with the letter “8.” D tective Anderson is confident of being able to locate more of the silverware and part of the diamonds. Shortly before the fire was discovered | on the evening of the robbery, Ah Wone, Chinese cock, was seen hastening | toward Chinatown with a larze bunale der s arm. He was arrested on ges of robbery and arson, but the evidence was slight and the jury dis- | agreed. Charges of being unlawfully in | this couniry were then preferred, and he | was_deported. Wong evidently had the | stuff cached, and the hiding place was confided to a confederate. S UisT A MONGOL. 1HIS PARKH Lee Long Begins a Purity Crusade in San Jose’s Chinatown. SAN JOSE, Cav, Jan. 30.—8an Jose has ia Chinese Parkhurst. His name is Lee | Long, and he proposes to reform the Mon- golian fallen erhood or drive dt into the outer darkness of Portland orgome other ungodly plac Lee Long 1s nipt an ordinary heathen. He is a Christisgized Chinaman, and a member in good stand- ing of tne Salvation Army. Lee made his first move toward the puritication of Chinatown this morning by swearing out warrants against Suey | Yeng, Eh Hong and Lung Yit, three little maids from the slums. Before Jus- tice Dwver the three pieaded not guilty, | and gave bail in the sum of $5 each for | their appearance before the bar of justice immediate | oy all on February 2. Mranwhile Lee Long | threatens tp descend likea thief in the night upom sundry other resorts of un- | questionableness and gather in more brands trom the burning. — - Alleges Farlure 1o Provide, BAN JOSE, Can, Jan. 30. — Olive M. George has commenced suit against Ed- | ward C. George for divorce on the ground of failare to provide. They were married in this city in 1892 and have a chijd 3 years old. Forthe past two vears George has failed to vrovide for his wife, and she has been compelled to depend on friends and | relatives for food and shelter. She wants | $30 per month alimony. Seon gStiol Failure of on Orchardist, BAN JOSE, CaL., Jan. 30.—M. C. Curtis, an orchardist near Los Gatos, to-day tiled a petition in insolvency. His liabilities | are $22,700. | testimony of little Nellie and sentenced to be hanged. They had been wealthy, and every effort that money could bring to bear to save them from the gallows was without avail. On the nignt of April 11 last George es- caped from the jail at Carroliton, Mo,, where he was confined, together with his brother William. The latter also got out of prison, but was recaptured and hanged in Carrollton ou April 30. A number of reports have been sent out over the country that George was at the head of an outlaw band in Oklahoma, and others that he had been seen in Nebraska. RIGHTS GF WATER COMPANIES. Judge Torrance of San Diego Submits an Opinion Bearing Upon His Recent Ruling. SAN DIEGO, CAL., Jan. 30.—Judge E. 8. Torrance of the Superior Court this afternoon rendered a written opinion in the case of ELa B Ward vs. the San Diego Land and Town Company, upon which was based his decision of January 16 over- ruling the demurrer of the defendant to the plaintiff's amended complaint. The decision was directly opposed to that of United S:ates District Judge Ross of some months previous. It holds that the company had no legal right to double water rates, as aileged in the complaint, and holding that the com- pany had the right to make specific con- tracts with consumers for water rental for any length of time, regardless of whether the Supervisors bad previdusly fixed the rates or not. The present opinion is considered of far- reaching importance, as it goes into the details of the irrigation question as no previous opinion Las dome. It recites that in 1857 Ward purchased. from the company five acres of land for $1500. The company, by written aud printed documents, bad aiways advertised the lands as irrigatrd to January, 1896, ana that the annual charge for water rental was $350 peracre and no more. Such represeniations were made as induce- ments to prospective buyers. In 188 and until Jannary 1, 1896, the company assessed and collected but $3 50 an acre rental. On that date it issued a circular in which it raised the rate to §7 an acre. Ihe plainuff determined to make a test caseand accordingly tendered the old rental as usual. Tne complaint declares that the shut- ting off of water, which the defendant threatens, will cause great loss and irre- parable injury, and prays to have the de- fendant enjoined irom doing so and to have the defendant’s claim tor increased rental declared void. The opinion declares that the decision hinges on whether the defendant bas the right to increase water rates heretofore water corporation under the constitu- tionsl laws of the State. The defendant claimed that in the ab- sence of fixed rates made by Supervisors it has the legai rigut to charge and collect rates as it deems proper and to increase them whenever the business requires it, and also that the compang, being a\ quasi public institution, it would be against public policy 1o hold it so bound to previous contracts as to preclude it from exercising its law-ziven right, . The opinion says this new and startling doctrine was not until recently snpposed 10 be embodied in the law which governs the rights of persons carrying and disirib- uting water. It is certain that the intent of the act of 185 was to have a certainty sbout water rates and that there should be some permanency as to the period during which rates once es- tablished should continue to be collected. The statute gives the water corporations no right 10 change rates once estab- lished and coliected, and the constitu- tion prohibits the rizht io collect rates except by authority of and in the manner prescribed by ihe iaw, and the statute provides that when rates once establisted by the Supervisors have been abrogated by the board, the actual rates established and coliected by the company shall be deemed legaliy established rates. 3 e g LAWMAKERS AT 84N DIEGO, Governor Budd and Party on Their Southern Junket. SAN DIEGO, CaL., Jan. 30.—A special train bearing Governor Budd, Thomas Flint(President pro tem. of the Senate )and a party of thirty legislators, who are now touring this end of the State, arrived in San Diego at 3 o’clock this morning. The visitors wer- met at the depot by « dele- gation of city officials and escorted at 9 o’clock to Pacific College, which has been tendered to the State for use as a brauch Normal School. Tue proposed site for a university on the heights wus also visited. The revenue cutter Corwin was placed at the disposal of the pariy for the afternoon, which was spent in cruising outside the harpor. This | eveninz the visitors were guests at a ball given 1n their honor at the Hotel Coro- nado. The special train le:t at 11 o'clock tor the Highlands Insane Asylum. ‘Tne proposition to locate a nermal school in this city meets with favor among the legislato: ——— Santa Cruz Convention. SANTA CRUZ, Can, Jan. 30.—The quarterly convention of the Women's Home Missionary Society for the central district of Baptist churches began its ses- sion here yesterday. No session was held to-day, owing to the absence of delegates, who were prevented by the storm of Thurs- day from reaching Santa Cruz. The meet- ing yesterday was begun with devotional services led by Mrs. K. T. Sanford, presi- dent of the Santa Cruz society. Lunch- eon was served at noon. At the evening session tne reports of the several presi- | dents of the societies in the district were read, showing the advancement of the missionary work. Funeral of a Fancouver Monkey. VANCOUVER, B. C., Jan. 30.—Because a pet monkey which died in this city last week was Interred in a plat in the local cemetery, indigrant citizens are agitating the drawing of a monkey line at the cemetery gates. The pet animal had been living with a Vancouver family for years. When it went the way of all flash, it was announced in the local press that the monkey’s owner, 8 woman, had been nervously prostrated for several days over the shock at losing it. A handsome casket was purchased, and the remains were buried with pompin the cemetery. Some treat the matter as a jest, but many de- clare against monkey interments in the graveyard where their relations lie at rest. - Telephone Company Incorporated. LOS ANGELES, CaAL, Jan. 30.—The Home Telephone Company wes incorpa- rated to-day. It proposes to carry on busi- ness in seven southern cities. OREGON BANDITS ELUDE PURSUERS Railroad Detectives Find No Trace of the Train Robbars. Confident That Case and the Pool Brothers Are the Culprits. Mountain Fastnesses to Bs Thorcughly Searched by a Corps of Officers, PORTLAN D, Or. Jan. 30.—The out- laws who boarded the Shasta express near Roseburg Thursday night and wrecked the express-car with dynamite after slightly wounding Eugineer Morris with a bullet are still at large. Division Superintendent Fields of the Southern Pacific Company arrived from the scene of the robbery this evening and says that thus far no positive clew establishing the identity of the bandits has been found. Both the railroad company and Wells- Fargo bave detectives at Roseburg, and vosses of officers and armed citizens are still searching every. fastness and hidinz- place for miles around in the Lope of dis- covering trace of the robbers. Wells - Fargo Detectives Hume and Thacker are directing the posses, Several moro detectives will arrive from Sacra- mento in the morning to join the force. Ex-Sheriff Cathcart of Douglas County is positive that John Case and the Pool brothers were the ones who robbed the train. He arrested them and secured their conviction about two yearsago for train robbery, but they escaped on a tech- nicality and were lately seen in the moun- tain fastnesses near the scene of the recent hold-up, near which occurred also the robbery for which they were convicted. | They are desperate men, and knowing that a second trial for this offense means, | in all probability, life sentences, will fight to the death to prevent being taken. To- morrow a party of officers will leave for the mountain stamping ground and con- duct a thorouzb search. It is the generally accepted opinion that | the outlaws escaped in a rowboat from the wrecked train, and thus leit no trail be- hind. They could have dropped down the { river to Roseburg after secreting their | plunder, and there mingled with the crowds attracted to the streets by the re- | ports of the dynamite exploded in the ex- | press-car. Five men were seen approaching the river just below the bridge near which the train was stopped. Two of these might bave been coniederates, who kept in the background and bad everything in readi- ness for their escape. The big safe, which was badly warped by the fire in the express-car, has not yet | been opened, so the extent of the loss oc- | casioned by the overheating of the safe cannot be determined. NEW TO-DAY- 7 DOCTOR ANY, A Physician Whose Reputation Is Established by Ten Years of Successful Practice at 737 Market Street, San Fran co, Cal. LOST MANHO0 DEBILITY of Young, Men, And all the attendin ailments of NERVOU Middle-Aged and Old indiscretions of youth, excesses of mature years, drains which sap the vitality, failing strength, aching back, diseased kid- neys, inflamed glands, varicocele, hydrocele, dizziness of the head, gloom and despond- ency, poor memory and wandering mind. BLOOD AND SKIN DISEASES All blood staints from any cause whatsoever, eczema, etc. BLAD“ER- Irritability, cytitis, §tricture, etc. RUPTURE work, no experiment, New method, sure cure, painless 1 treatment, no detention from no knife, no truss. A positive, certain and permanent cure. LADIE WRITE If awax{ to Health,” a Will receive special and careful treat- ment for all their many ailments. from the city. Book, “Guide treatise on all organs and their diseases, free on application. CALL OR ALCDRESS F. L. SWEANY, M.D,, char ed, and this rests upon the proper construction of tbe powers and duties of a i 7237 MAREKRT STREBRET, BAN FRANCISCO, CAL. JOY’SFORJOY No Pimples—No, Not a Mark on Your Face When You Take This. VLTI, LR e L ASALLLIRTD — e oL SO, A ForTuxaTE CoMBINATION OF THB Mose Esrective Blood Purifler, Stomach\Regulatorand plegontia P In existence. A compound of the juices of Vegetable Alferatives indigenous to California. PREPARED ONLY BY TEE EDWIN W. JOY COMPANY, CEEISTS, Sax Fraxcisco, CALIFORNTA None genunine withowt this signatures No druggist owns stock in Joy’s Vegetable Sarsaparilla. Any druggist claiming to pay its advertising bills is a fraud. Don’t let the drug clerk talk you into buying something else for Joy’s Vegetable Sarsaparilla. He laughs at you when you leave the corner store with a substitute. Watch him. * For a long time,” said the farmer's wife, **T suffered from gastric troubles and dyspepsia. After all my meals I experienced a disagreeable, heavy sort of feeling and oftentimes in the-morning my tongue would be coated ; in fact, this would be the case for whole days at a time. I had recourse to the whole cate- gory of correctives, aperients, laxatives, etc., but the relief I found was only temporary. Indeed, in most cases, after 1 had taken them for any length of time, the early eficacy seemed eatiely vitited. I kad s0 often seen in the ad- ments of Ripans Tabules the statement, one gives relicf, that at last it so impressed itself upon me that I decided to give them a trial. A trial was entirely convincing and in a short time I was well. While I have now no regular use for them I always keep them on hand, to be used in case of emergency.” ' Weak Menand Women po- | QEHOULD USE DAMIANA BITTERS, THE Téib | S'great’ Mexican Remedy: gives Health aad Strength to the Sexual Organs. NOTARY PUBLIC. HARLES H., PHILLIPS. Law and_Notary Public, 638 Market st., site Palace Hotel. Telephone 570. Residence Feul street. Telephone * Pine ” 2591,