The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 3, 1897, Page 3

priesibate A A A ‘ THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, APRIL 3, 1897. 3 WATER POURNG THROUGH BREAKS Alarming Simatibn"in the’ Mississippi Delta District, Qne Thousznd Families at Green- ville Surrounded by Rushing Curreants. ; At St.-Lcuis the R'ver Continuss to Rise and Railroad Communica- tien Is B:ing Shut Off JACKSON, Miss., Avril -2.—The .only change in the situation in- the delta is for the worse. The water is:still pouring through the bresks and encroaching upon places - heretofore thought above the danger “line. Plantatioms neyer -before under water are mow submerged. The streets of Greenville are now navigable only by boat. The flood from above nav- ing met and joined forces with that from above, nearly 1000 families in Greenville are surrounded by water.” Still, some p tions of the little city are dry. Thé levees there still, hold, however. Thousands of delta. negroes are now homeless and will remain s> until the flood subsides. ST.-LOUIS, Mo., April 2.—The this point has made a new record. Within thirty-six hours.it has risen 4.7 and is still upward bound, the gauge at 6 o’clock. this evening marking 2.7 feet. This is only 2.3 feet below the hieh water of 1893, which was so disastrous. Profiting by the dire experience of that flood, the people of East 8t. Louis bave raised the levees and the railroads have built up their road beds. river at 'FOUR LIVES TAKEN T0 PAY FOR ONE Assassins of Sheriff Frank Chavez Executed at Santa Fe. !Drop From a Gallows Guarded by a Cavalry Troop and Milifia. Their Crim2 One of the M.ny Inci- dent to Cut-Threat Politics in New Mexico. SANTA FE, N. M., April 2.—Francisco | Gonzales y Borrego, Antonio Gonzales y | Borrego, Patricia Valencia and Lauranio | Alarid to-day saffered the death penalty | for the murder of ex-Sheriff Frank Cha- vez in this city in May, 1892, and one of ihe most biiterly fought legal contests in | the criminal annals of the Southwest was | concluded. Owing to expected attempts at rescue on the part of friends of the condemned | men, Sheriff Kinsell iast night placed a heayy guard within the county jail, where the execution took place, and this | morning. as a frther precautionary meas- ure, Governor Thornton ordered a detail | of cavalry and military to guard the jail. The men bid their families and friends | a final adieu late yesterday afternoon, and | passed through this trying ordeal with- out breaking down. ‘They passed a rest- | ful night, the death watch reporting that not one of them stirred dauring the night. | The men rose esrly, end after eating a | hearty breakfast they prepared for death. its members, and Chavez's friends and other Democrats found it convenient to remain indoors after nightfall. One man, however, did some talking. He was_ex-Sheriff Chavez’s jailer, Juan Pablo Dominguez by name. Thirty days after Cbavez's assassination the Borrego brothers and Alarid met him at dusk in front of the Archbishop’s residence and Juan Pablo bit the dust, shot by rrank Borrego. In fil , 1893, Governor W. T. Thornton became the chief execut:ve of New Mexi- co and in thirty days he had detectives at work, both in San Miguel and Santa Fe counties. The white-cap eung was broken up, several of them wére publicly executed and thirty-seven members thereof are now serving various sentences in the peni- tentiary. In Santa Fe County cause was found for the removal from cffice of the District Attorney and Sheriff Conklin, who were succeeded by District Attorney J. H. Crist and Sheriff W. P. Cunningham, a fearless Texan, and before many weeks the law officers had secured statements from Juan Gallegos, Frank Rivera, Luis Gonzales and other iormer members of the Button gang, who had previously been afraid to taik, and_the Sheriff's office was noiitied by tbhe Governor to arrest the chief conspirators. Hipolito Vigil resisted arrest and was shot and killed bv Chief Deputy Sheriff Thomas Tucker; Frank Borrego, Lauri- ano Alarid and Patricio Valencia were soon behind the s, and Antonio Bor- rego made a brave stand in one corner of his family bedroom, but surrendered while tbe officers were preparing to dynamite the house. District Judge E. P. Seeds was on the bench at the preliminary trial and promotly committed the accused without bail. Tie formal trial took place in April, 1895. The case was appeaied on writ of | error to the Territorial Supreme Court by the sttorneys for the accused. Pending this appeal voluntary confe-sions of the crime were made by Alarid and Valencia, but the case went on, and finally, in De- cember last, was passed upon by the United States Supreme Court, which de- cided the action of the Territorial courts regular in all respects. e g it Exseution of the Blance NEW ORLEAN —Ernest and Alex Blance were hanged at 2:11 o'clock this afternoon in the yard of the parish jail at Lafayette. They displayed 1o fear of death. The crime for which the Blances were hanged wes the murder of | Martin Bagnaud on April 22, 1896, at Scott, a small station on the Soutnera Pacific Railway about five miles from Lafay ette. ALL FOOLS' DAY HIS DAY OF WOE Frank Adams of Stockton Pummeled by Frank * Gould. Misunderstanding Arising Over a Supposed Joke Causes Trouble. The Social Leader Swears Out Warrant for the Arrest of the Folitician. a STOCKTON, CAL., April 2.—Social cir- cles are agog to-night over the story which came out to-day in which Frank H. Gould aud Frank Adams—the latter a society. leader—fizure as participants in a fight that took place last night. Adams this afterroon swore out a warrant for the ar- rest of Gould on a charge of battery. According to Mr. Adams’ statements to Prosecuting Attorney Rhodes he was sit- Club rooms last night when some one struck him on the side of the jaw, knock- ing bim from his chair. This blow was followed by others and he was dazed. His eyes were blackened and there was an abrasion on his face. The man who made the unexvected assault was Frank Gould, the former chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee. He said after- ward to Mr. Adams: *If you want to know what tkis is for ask Mr. Naher.” The cause was this: Just after the Naher party at the Imperial Hotel Adams ting reading & paper in the Yosemite | coln-street steel drawbridge, which crosses Mormon Channel near the woolen mills, was moved an inch to the Horthward yese terday afternoon by the barge Oso, whica struck the iron piers under the structure. The bridge had been opened. to aliow th barge to pass, but the tide was going out a1 the time and the current was so strong that the heavy barge, carrying about thirty tons of wheat, got beyond the cone trol of the men who were aboard and it uck with great force. It delivered such a powerful blow that the foundations were moved northward at least an inch, the | cast-iron rim just below the large cogs was broken out for a space of a foot or more, and a héavy wrought-iron brace was badly bent. | On the south side of the bridge were two sets of piles, each consisting of three piles closé together and bound with wire cable. One set stood directly under the bridge » | south of the center, and the other about fifteen feet further west. Bo'h sets were ‘| knocked out of piace. SlII.Tl ROSA WANTS -THE LINE. Aid “ Pledged to the Promoters of the " Froposed Sonoma County Elec- tr.c ‘Railway. SANTA ROSA, Oar, April 2.—A meet~ ing was held last night for the purpnse of discussing ways'and means for hastening construction of the Santa Rosa and Sono- { ma County Electric Railway. 7The lead- ing bankers, lawyers and business men of this city were in attendance, and ail de- clared in favor of the speedy construction of the road. 2 Colonel Stone, the president of the new | corporaion, delivered an address showing the progress of the enterprise. He said that the promoters of the road were not asking for donatious, but ‘simply wanted a guarantee of patronage sufficient to pay interest_on the bonds iswned for iwo years. N. W. Grinwald of Kenwood, one | of the new line’s most active gpromoters, also ‘spoke on the road's progress. He stated that 250 of Sonoma's forem:ost citi- zens had agread to paironize the road to the extent of $5 per month during the first two years, and that it wouid Se ne- cessary that 650 subscribers be obtained before commencing active bulding. 1 was the opinion of all those present that the request was reusonable and one eanly compliel with, and a c)mmities, consisi- ing of W. D. Reynolds, B. M. Spencer and W. F. Russell, was appointed 10 look after - | the matter. s A resolution was passed heartily indors-- ing the project and asking the people of the county for their support. J. P. Overton acted as chairman of the At7:30 o'clock Sueriff Kinsell appeared and read the death warrant to the pris- | oners, which was received by the Borre- was chatting with a numiber of persons | and there was considerable joking about | one thing and another and one lady re- | Merchants along the shipping front. have begun to _move their stocks to higher ground.” The lumber district north of the ACQUIRES A SAN JOSE ESTATE. g Eads bridge is exp: and should the record gauge of thirty feet be reached there, the loss would be very heavy. Trains are runping irregularly. The St. Louis and San Francisco had, up to to-night; the only track ‘that gave Western roads an iplet here. ST. PAUL, MIx~., April 2—The flood in this region and other Mississippi. points in the State’'and in South Dakota remains seriols.. Tlie Water rose. here to-day, showing 2.4 feet above the danger line. M:. Huddl=son of Prescott was' drowned ‘] trying to cross the Trains eclion of River Hank and Tomn Greenvetie | gos with sorae facetiousness. The priests | were then admitted, and remained until | the procession moved lor the scaffold at 19:05. {11The four men walked with a firm step | and mounted the seaffold without assist- | ance. Each of them maintained a stolid | indifference in the presence of death, and | mede no statement except to request the | Sheriff to be particular about removing | all traces of the cause of their death be- fore turning their bodies over to their families. Their request was complied with. The ropesand caps were adjusted and at 19:09 o’clock, just two and a half minutes | after they bad mounted the scaffold, the Miss Emma Axford Rewarded for Kind- ness to an Eccentric 0/d Kan. SAN JOSE, CaL., April 2.—An order was made by Judge Hyland this morning giv- ing to Miss Emma Axford the estate of G. T. Schenck, an eccentric old man, who died in this city about three years ago. The estate has been contested in the courts Zor the last two years. Schenck bad been possessed of some wealth and he made a will bequeathing | his property to Miss Axford, who had shown him many kindnesses. At that time he resided in acabin on Park avenue, near Live Oak Park, but shortly before marked: *On, wasn't it too bad about the runa- way.” Adams had heard of no runaway and 1magired that it was an April fool “josh.” He decided to see the joke and 100 bad, and then went on to give some barrowing details of what he supposed was a mythical runaway. was a lady in the hack, and that she screamed and the horses took fright and she was thrown out. It chanced that there really was a runa- way and that Gould was in the conveyance with some lady. The remarks ‘made by Adams sounded rather peculiar, and upon g0 it one better, so he said it was really | He said there | ascertaining that there was reslly a runa- | | meeting and W. F. Russell us secretary. | —— | PAEKEKS STATION SUICIDE, | 41chie Bridges, 79 Fears of Age, Ends | His Life With a Shotgun. CORVALLIS, Or, Avpril 2.—Archie | Bridges, aged 79, committed suicide near | Parkers station, on the West Side, at 11:30 o'clock this morning. by shooting himself through the head with s charge of shot. Bridges lived alone in a cabin 100 yards from the home of his son. He had been suffering from asthma for a dozen years, and recently grew worse. He was at his | son’s house gt 10 o’clock this morning but i " failed to appear at the latter's iable ag heard from. Wagon bridges are down | Btoneville, Avondale, R""“’“‘e;"d 1‘“"“‘ ARt ;g;’::gy"; the ofice, WhICh | /o) wes sprung and the four condemned | his death he went fo reside with A. A. | Way he weat to the Dersons with whom | dinner time. An investigation after din- sud dams -have gone out, letting great | Foint,’ joins "_'F“‘I“.“‘ Coal l\)\{"x}:' | i o by assassins paid the penalty of their crome. | Geer and wife. Just before his death he | he bad beer joking and explained matters. | ner led 1o the discovery of the body and delugosinioihe big river. course lies through Issaquena, Washin, Tha Hocks The river is still rising at Huron, 8. D., a heavy. rain having fallen during the night. The Grest -Northern Railway bridge s in danger, and no attempt is be- ing made to move.trains on the north and west lines of the. Northwestern road. ton, Balibar and Coaboma counties, the | very richest in the whole State, and where | its embankments are.unusually high and strong. i Touching the main river levees as it { does at Lake Lee, -Greeaville, Huntington, | Currency Circulation. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 2.—The monthly statement showing the amount of gold and silver coins and certificates, United States notes and National bank notes in circulation on April 1, issued by of all except that of Valencia were broken. He was the lightest in weight and died from strangulation. His however, ceased to beat four min- fter the drop fell, while the puise of Alarid, the heaviest of the number, beat gave Geer several thousand dollars’ worth | of stocks, mortgages and jewelry. Public | Administrator Secord began an investiga- | tion and succeeded in iocating about $1200 | worth of property beionging to Scnenck and the will devising it to Miss Axford. When the estate was about to be dis- Goula evidently did not hear about the remark until yesterday, when' it was re- veated to him, presumably by Mr. Naber. ‘Without stop-yng for an explanation he assaulted Adams on sight. % —— | the.evidence of ths tragedy . miller Dies ut San Diego. 5 | SAN DIEGO, CaL., April 2—Professor . B. Milter, general assigtant naturalist of the United "States Fish Commission i Fi V. ervice, died at 3 o’clock this morning g | RoseadlsaBd: Point; five t ! | the Treasury Department to-day, gives|for nineand a half minuies. Frank and | ributed, a claimant appeared in the per- CRASHES INTO 4 BRIDGE. fboud A Lk i ALTON; Irw., -April The Goverp. | Rosedale and iridrs Point, five great reser- | | o 104i0n per capita as $230L ba-ed on | Antonio Borrezo were pronounced dead | son of Caroline Scheack, an inmate of the PR = > tross, now in the harbor. He had been in ment_ forecast officials at St..Louis wired | VOIrs are formed which return the waters | ;, “ogimated population of 72.547.000. | at the end of six ard a half minutes, Agnews Insane Asylum, It was said the | Pamage Done by a Hearily Laden Barge | (105% DOV 0 00 87 OF £ (8 D ) & L here to-day that a disastrous food stage | thatmay poui in from any crevasse in | Tpg goid coin in circniation on the dats| Death was instantaneous in each case, | Young woman was a daughter of Schencx, | 4n Mormion Channel. s P will be reacned by Sunday. The river has already risen to twenty feet- above low- ‘water mar, the highest'point touched for five years, and this intelligehcé caused a’ mild panic among those who have hoped for relief. The lower levees in St. Charles | County gite way to:day and munysplen- did wheat farms are undeér water. - Hun- dreds of familiés have been compelled to move within tie past. twenty-four hours, and several relief boats were called out. this evening. . DROWNED 1N THE FLUOD. Bodies Found in Hising War ST. LOTIS, Mo., April 2—A. special from Cairo, I, states that s report reached there this morning that five os were foptd dead yéstérday at a t about threa .miles below New: Madrid, -~ Mo: “The information - was brought to Cairo by-a commercial traveler who states that = relief boat yesterday found the bodies of a young girl, an ‘aged woman and & child in & flooded house on the Missouri side of the river at a point’ about thirty miles south of New" Invaded by } 92 | days. “On Cabinet days visitors will be re- | was far greator than thet as much in her favor in cases to follow, as Madrid. The people hi evidently starved | through this country on the bigh banks | cefveq fr8m 9 until 10:30 o'clock. No | pablic weal or thelr love for shes adupieg | 17O brothers and a sister of Charles Eilis 10 death or died of fright, The. warer was | Proposed, . foreseeing " wnat the resulis| yisitors will be received at other hoare| Bociic in Pennsylvania are supporting the Pub- at the eaves of the house and the victims | WOUld be. The banks as fiist constructed | except on urgent official business.” tic Ad ministrator in his fight. ‘were in the attic. A negro- and a while inan are alse re- ported as ‘having been found starved to death on’ the platform of a temporary refuge in the same locality. — . . Five Men Drowned. : NEW ORLEANS, La., Aprit 2—Five men near Indian.-Bay, Monroe County, are known to have been drowned while flee- ingfrom the rising waters in White River bottom. Qn the whole the. situation is very distressing. IN THE DELT4 DISTRICT. Doomed to & Worse Fats Than Flooded Regtons 4bove 3 The awful experiences from the flood in the Atkansas low grounds sboye Helena, | | the river levee until they rise high enough | | to break over the second or railroad levée, when they pour through into the next pool | and so on. : J The various culverts and other openings | in ihese embankments are entirely inade- quate to carry ¢ff even a smail fraction of | the vast volume of water which a crevasse | in the river levee will furnish, and so in- | stead of being allowed to foliow its natural | course and spreading gradually over the | whole country keep the depth below the point of danger and destraction it is con- | fined to & limited area for the time, untitit | is entirely drowned out and then passes on to do the same thing over again, This multiplication ‘of crevasses and the ac companying rush of the huge masses of | | water largelyamultiply the damage and destraction they cause at places least pre- pared; and everything in front is doomed, the very soil itself for hundreds of vards | around being torn ont to a depth of | twenty-five or thirty feét and fertile fields and gardens turned into permanent lakes and swamps. _-The planters for a long time strenu- | Gusly opposed the passdge of the railroads have been gradually raised until now they in many places are higher and stronger than the river levees themselves and 1n- sure the worst to the unfortunate district which they enclose, When a break does come, granted the’ presenl high water | continues any time, as it seems now cer- | tain to do, the whole strip of country irom Friars Point to Vicksburg between the ma:n stem of the Iliinois Central and the Mississippi River will be covered by water to the height of the railroad em- bankments. S s FIRE ON THE WATEE FRONT. Many Boston Wood- Working Establish- ments Keduced to Ashes. BOSTON, Miss, April 2.—The East Boston district was visited by a fire to- | the named was $517 75 month of $810,061 dollars $54.50 an incre: for standurd. silver rease of $871.443; ) rold_certificates $37,456 335, a decrease of ! $58 480; treasurv note: $9,244 810, crease of $4,698,189; United States notes $§248,513,640, ' a decrease of I Nauonal Bank notes § rease of $3.159,840. Th on April 1 was $1,669,000,694, a net de- crease of $6,694,259. The ne: increase in the money and bullion in the treasury during March was $7.808 842, ——— Secretary Gage Strikes, WASHINGTON, D. C., April 2.—Secre- tary Gage has siruck against the impor- tunities of office-seekers. For the short eriod he has been in office littie oppor- tunity has been given him to attend to office business. His room has been crowded early and late with people who waat positions and those who have friends who aie candiuates. This morning the Secretary had no opportunity to look into the affairs of the department before going to the Cabinet meeting. This alternoon he took the bit in his teeth and issued this order: “Hereafter the Secretary will re- ceive visitors only between the hours of 10 and 1 o’clock on days other than Cabinet S L After Aiken's Job. WASHINGTON, D. C.. April 2.—An effort to remove the office of supervising architect of the treasury from the classi- fied service was begun to-day by Senators Plait of New York, Proctor of Vermont and Quay and Penrose of Pennsylvania. They had a conference on the subject with Secretary Gage. The Senators represented that the office was of too much importance to be subject to the civil service rules, particulariy as the duties involve the ex- penditure of severai million doilars annu- ally. All the Senators have candidates for a successor to Supervising Architect Aiken, 505 T Gl B, Pailey Has No Clawhammer Coat. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 2.—Rep- resentative Bailey of Texas, the recently the body of Valencia being the only one to show the slightest quiver. At 9:31 the men ware all pronounced dead by the at- | tending physiciane, and at 9:35 the bodies | were cut down and placed in plain black coffins supplied by the county. The bod- ies showed no marks but the usual discol- oration attendant on this mode of death, except in the case of Alarid. Owing to his weight and the length of the drop, the rope cut his neck almost to the jugular, making a cut three inches long. At 10 o'clock the bodies were turnea over to the families and taken to their homes. The tunerals will take place Sun- day from the cathedrul. The four. men exscutea for the murder of Sheriff Frank Chavez were the victims of vicious political methods which have long prevailed in New Mexico. The strug- gle tor uffice in Santa Fe, San Miguel, Mora and several other counnties has been carried on for years through the medium of secret political societies, composed mostly of ignorant natives, having the moral support and backing at least of a certain class of American residents, wh craving for official power and patronage Out of this condition of things erew the reign of terror and bloodshed which cul- minates in the execution of a righteous judgment of the courts, whicn is hailed far and wide as a viciory for law snd | order, 1n 1891 these political methods brought about the organization of many so-calisd Kniglts of Labor lodges, supported only by Democrats, and Republican League sucieties, backed up by the Americans who affiliated with that party. Many crimes were directly traceabie to these or- gamizations. In San Miguel County, of which Las Vegasis the county seat, the Democrats held sway and there the Koights of Labor flourished and did as they pleased, rezardless of law. In Santa Fe Gounty the Republican taal Protection, commonly *“Button gang,’’ did likewise. Frank Chavez was Sheriff, Democratic boss and fearless and unscrupulous but the evidence to establish the claim | was lacking, and some sort of & compro- mise was made. The estate 1s valued at abort $1200, but there are evidences that Schenck was in- terested in valuable mines in Mexico, and | heir to a rich estate in Germany, and 1t is beheved that more property will be un- earthed. MRS, SANDS VICTORY. Decision in Favor of the Contestant of Amanda Euis® WAl SAN JOSE, Cav., April 2—Mrs, Kate P. | Sands, the adopted dsughter of the late Charles and Amanda Ellis of Los Gatos and the contestant of the will of Amanda Eilis, got a decision in her favor this aft- ernoon from Judge Kittredge, who ruled that she was entitled to letters of admin- istration with the will annexed upon the estate of Charles Elilis. In this wil Mrs. Sands was left $10 and by the will of Mrs. Eilis, who was the principal legatee of Charies Ellis, Mrs. Sands is made the principal legatee of the estate, which is valued at $2500. The Public Administrator tried to get control of the estate but failed. The victory for Mrs. Sands is counted T Chorus of Endeavorers. SAN JOSE, CAr., April 2.—The Santa Clara County Cbristian Endeavorers are traming a chorus of 150 voices for the In- ternational Christian Endeavor conven- tion in San Francisco. The choras will be under the direction of Miss Minnie Mackay, the chairman of the local music committee, and J. M. Revnolds. All the leading vocalists in this vicinity have generously offered their assistance, and it is proposed to make this immense choir the best in the St: SAN RAFAEL'S NEW INDUSIRY. Factory Where Mushrooms Will Be Manu- factured jor the Market. SAN RAFAEL, CAL, April 2.—Messrs. Evans & Walsh have bought a lot in the STOCKTON, Caw., April —The Lin- TOW. . N\ % NEW TO-DAY *k\\\\\\\\\\\'\\\\\\fln — CLOTHING. il . already being repeated in.the Yazoq Delta | BiBDt that caused about $50,000 damages i lerder in Santa Fe, and his influence was | Warden Tract, close to West End station, 4 i . 5 region, petween- Frines Point ang Vi:k-- and at one time bid fair to wipe out a eleclfeddlnder of dthed_l)emocr'nxc party, ‘siuch as to m]nn; llmrln a formidable and | and will build @ mushroom factory. They 3 3 burg, threaten Jo exceed dnyihing ever | 1aTg¢ Dumber of wooden and brick build- ;‘C “:; “"l "“:" “',' ""’“d fi"“ "(): the b ik i e Bm‘a“"‘:n “;f:‘":: are entirely indifferent to the fate of the O NO A i kriown before along the Mississipyi. The | ing8 along the water front. The teiritory | "retident to the Ways and Means Com- | FOTENESCE O 08 | WHon RARE met N | hingley bill and its effect upon the price ° : whole volume, of ‘whter whick, pouring | 12 1.;,;:1, :ccupmd t;;l' hmn\n‘-millsdnnd \:;“‘)‘::g:’c‘;‘_ “;‘fi';‘h‘“fi’fi‘x"‘l’? ::’““;"";’ shorn of his power, even if he had to be re. | f labor. Their factory 5{,‘" consist of a . ik wood-working establishments, and _is| 58 to-nig plaind e : basin or cellar, 20x40 feet in di- ! : throughi .ihe several crevasses beiween |congidered a dangerous one by the fire. | Presidentin advance of the dinner that|Doved by death. Others who were | cONCrete bas fr New Madrid and Helena, flooded ine wirole country “from’ the Mississippi to men. The fire started in the planing and he was not the owner of a dress suit. The Chavez's friends and supporters were also placed under espionage by this secret so- mensions, and sunk eight feet below the surface, and the machinery will be suita- tumber mill of E. T. Manson on Border | Republican {riends of Builey are having o ; ble layers or beds of mulen. There will To-day and To-night till 10:30 Crowleye. Ridge, making & stream forty | sireet, and before the firo was under con- | & iot of fun with nim. Tey aliee that | o The Borrego ' ‘brothers; —thelr | ble lesers of, Dofs of mwiow,, fhere wli 2 & 3 miles wide at-Memphis, is coming back | trol this building —a_four-stors brick | he has the Presidential bee in his hat and H c P into the narrow channel between thé high ground &t Helena and the strang levees on thé opposite side: Four huge crevasses are aiready- pouring mighty rivers into the low lands on the Mississippi siae, and with“the-constantly incressing volumes of water from above, the larger area exposed ana the richer property interests involved, the ‘damage and destruction which is bound. to foliow will more than double beds of “the several lines of railroads structure at 97 and 105 Border street—a two-story frame building a:joining, a four-story brick and 109 ana 111 Border | street were badly damagad. Four alarms | were sounded, which served to theroughly | arouse the whole city and as a resuit an immense crowd watched the progress of the fire. The heaviest losers are: E. T. Manson, planing and lumber mill, $20,000 | on building and $10,000 on stock, covered by insnrance; Phonoharp Company, on stock $5000, on mschinery $1500; * WASHINGTON, D. April 2—Public Frame & | P is affecting a species of Jeffersonian sim- plicity on which he hopes to ride to the White House. o Changes in.the Army. WASHINGTON. D. C., April 2.—Army changes resulting from Major-General Ruger's retirement to-day have been ar- ranged, and according to the slate Gen- eral Wheaton, who is to-day promoted General Brooke, who ranks him, will Thrown From a Bicyole. Vigil, an aspiring politician; Patricio Va- lencia, whose ambition it was to serve as town constable; Juan Gallegos, Frank Rivera and others of the Button gang were designated & committee with power to do as they pleased for the promotion of the good of the cause. Frank Borrego had been defeated for the office of Coroner and Chief of Police by Sylvester Gallegos, the personal friend of Sheriff Chavez. In a street fight one night_Borrego shot and killed Gallegos. Sheriff Chavez pl and Alal s 1n their political aspirations, und one night he disappeared. of bon vivantis in ihis county and the me- tropolis. When the demand overreaches the product of the plant they will enlarge it _or build others. But this small room will soon turn out a large supply every second day. This will be the first funci- factory on the coast, and there are few in the country. N Morements of dhipe ai SAN DIEGO, CAL., April lan Dieso. —The United States revenue cutter Corwin to-day re- cisco on July 15. The flagship Philadel- takin, your opportunity still lasts to get one of these beautiful All-wool Spring and $5,85 Summer Suits for $5.85. ° The assortment left ‘is not large; but you may strike “just your size.” Colorings and styles, very latest, . that of the fiood district aboye. Every- | MCPherson, cabinet-makers, on machin. | Make another vacancy by retining May §, iff Chave placed Borrego in irons In | ceived orders to go ona six months’ craise remember. Each suit guaranteed puré thing b Toug B ek ery &nd stock $3500; L.L. Harris, drug. | When General Brooks will recaive his de- | the county jail ard sssaulted him while | 3 4 1ockan waters. It will leave in a few Good lini d J g betwen Long Ridge and the river as | £33, A0d sto i Lol , drug- | e rred promotion to major-general. In | he was handcuffed. Lawyer T. B. Catron, RN s aEna le wool. ood linings and excellent far down as Vicksburg is almost certainly | ¥’ ner coresins will suffer small losses | this way General Wueaton will be able to [ 10W Delegate in Congress, as attorney for | ays. il TNee b : . doomed.. Below Vicksburg .the f100d | that will bring the total locs abave $36,000, | etire 28 & major-goneral, and General | BOrrego, obtained bis release from jail on | ing ship Adams sailed thix afternoon to sewing. ses Yver to the Louisiana side, EEREC GAosror ks dine “""" | Brooke will be able to do the same thing, | bonds. Fanstin Ortiz, a roundaboui town | Magdalena Bay on the Mexican coast. ! The high embankments carrying the Zhe Public Frinting Office. ———— character, was affiliated with the Borregos | Its officers expect to be in San Fran- Single and double-tgreasted sacks i His b on 1200 tons of coal and a . i. traversing.tbls section are playing a most | Printer Palmer to.day resamed charge of | WASHINGTON, D. C.. April 2—Mr. | 13 Tound in & sandy ravine monr toay | Dear's provisions and equipment prepara. only. 5 important part in the matter of confining | the Government Printing Office after an | ROVert L. Baines, chief of the returning | thirty days later. The Borregos elaimed | tory (o its departure for Honolulu. Hurry up now. . and distributing the flood waters. The | absence of three years. He found a hand- | 3i¥ision, dead letter uffice, was this after- | that certain Demoerats had kiiled Oruz, —_— various lines runmng north ana squth{some bouquet of roseson his desk from the own from his bicycle, and his d accused Sheriff Chavez of shielding Nrw Steamer to San Diego ek X3 -between Vicksburg and Memphis, through the Yazoo Delta country, belong to the Yazo0 and ‘Missisaippi Valley Rallwey Company, which lately bscame.a part of ihe Illinois Central svstem. The 'main line runs north from Vicksburg through Roiling Fork, Hallandale, Leland, Lyon and Lula, about half way between the Mississippt and Sunflower rivers, while tie “River Line,” as it is called, leaving the main stem at Rolling Fork, runs nearer to thte river, through Hampton, Mayvilte and Lake Lee to Greenville, and thence by .employes, all of whom were elad to see him back. He appointed W. H. Colfins to his old place as chief c.erk, vice W. 8. Waterbury, who served with Mr. Bene- dict. Mr. Waterbury, as are ail the employes of the depsriment, is under the protection of civil service law, but his Bppointment.having been a personal one | with the retiring Public Printer, he hsd made arrangements to go into business elsewhere, Mr. Collins went into the Government Priuting Office as an appren- tice over thirty years agoand worked him- self up through ‘various grades of the ser- { throat vice. Mr. Palmer aiso reappointed Captain ruck on a sharp picket of the Postoffice department fence, making a ter- rible gash and knocking out a number of teeth. Hé was taken to the Emergency Hospital. The accidentmay resuit fatally. e e Pacific Coast Pensions. ‘WASHINGTON. D. ., April L—Pen- sions have been granted as follows: Cali- fornia: Additional—Leonidas C. Bbey, Los Angeles; original widows, etc.—Mar- tha H. Churchill, North Pomona. Oregon: Original— Oliver F. West Fali; original midows, e | Bmith, Grants Passe om. One ‘the night of May 29, 1892, Frank Chavez, who had lost_his office as Sheriff byithe elect.on of a Revubiican, Charles M. Conklin, was assassiuated while on his way home and circumstantial evidence rointed plainly to the two Borregos, Hi- polito Vigil, Valencia and Alarid as the men who killed him. Vigil slipped and lost the heel of his booL st _the scene of the murder, and many witnesses saw the others going to and returning from the bridge from which the shots that killed Chavez were fired. 8till no one dared to talk. The Button gang bad full sway, certain officials were BAN DIEGO, Car., April 2.—0On ac- count of the increased trafficon the steam- ahip line between San Diego and San Francisco,-it_was announced to-day that the steamer City of Puebla would be put on the San Diego run to izks the place of the Santa Rosa. - San Dicge Burgiar Sentenced. SAN DIEGO, CaL., April 2. — Judge Hughes to-day sentenced William Bar- stow to five years in San Quentin peniten- tiary. Barstow pleaded guilty to robbery in a lodging-house in this city a few weeks 230 S.N. WO OD & CO. (COLUMBIAN WOOLEN MILLS), : 541 Market Street,. Directly Opposite Sansome. be buried with miintary honors te-mor- . "