The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 25, 1897, Page 2

(6] THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, MAY 25, 1897. STRANGE STORY OF THE BLACK ART Expert Assayers Test the Claims of Edward C. Brice. They Report Adversely to the Theory That Gold Can Be Manufactured. But the Enterprising Chicago Man Says He Is Making the Preclous Metal. WASHINGTON, D. C., May 24—A strange story, in which the black art of medievalism applied by modern methods and the threatened upsetting of the present financial conditions are leading featu came out to-day through the submission of an official report to the y of the Treasury by Preston, Di- rector of the Mint. The report tells of the investigation by three Government officials into the pro- cess for producing or creating silver and gold from base metals, the secret that al- chemists have been trying to solve for centuries. The investigation has created excitement among men of high financial standing, mystified scientitic men and caused uneasiness and amazement in the Treasury Department. The man who secured the investigation Edward C. Brice of Chicago. The rec- rds in the Paient Oflice show that on May 7, 1896, he filed an application for a patent for creating gold and silver, claim: ing he could rroduce these from base metals such as lead, tin and antimony. The patent was twice refused on the rround that no practical application of the process had been shown, but Brice conti to press the claim, and the Patent Office officials promised to give him a chance to show what could be done by his method. Last month the Secretary of the Inte- rior asked Secretary Gage for permission o make experiments in the laboratory of the Mint Bureau. Director Preston on May 3 aprointed a commission of three of the best sssayers in the Government ser- vice to carry out Gage's instructions. They are Andrew DMiason, Superintendent of the Assay Office at New York, D. K. Tuttle, melter and refiner of the Philadel- phia Mint, and Cabell Whitehead, as- saver of the Mint Bureau in Washington. The commission metat the Mint Bureau May 5, and after making many experi- wents of their own devising, at Brice's | snggestion submitted to Director Preston last Saturday a report, which was handed to Secretary Gage to-day. The supplies purchased for the experiment were labeled “chemically pure.”” Brice had requested that only chemically pure materials be used. The commission made a test by | Brice’s formula and found ‘*‘small but weighable quanties of gold and silver in | the so-called chemically pure antimony.” Other samples were produced from differ- ent sources with a like result and things looked bright for Brice. “While seeking for pure antimony,” says the commission in its reporr, “‘we accepted the offer of Brice that he should supervise and direct the trial of the pro- cess upon antimony known to contain emall amounts of silver and gold anda that be should conduct the assay of ihe same antimony for comparison of the re- sults from his own assay methods with those from his creative process. His as- say in which he scorified one-nalf an assay ton of antimony (one assay ton equals 29,166 grains) with one-half an assay ton of lead showed the antimony to contain .066 ounces of gold and.317 ounces silver per ton. “Brice now subjected five ounces of this antimonv to his creative process. His vield after treatment showed gold .084 ounces per ton of antimony, and .870 ounces of silver per ton of antimony used. Your committee followed up the work by making an assay of the same metal, following well known and approved, methods of assaying, with the following resalts: Gold, 100 ounces per ton, and siiver 120 ounces per ton of antimony. A comparison of this result will show that Brice found by his assay 66 per cent of gold and 26.40 per cent of silver actually present in the materials used. By his creative process he recovered 84 per cent of goid and 55.84 per cent of silver origi- nally prevent in the materials.” 1t was judged by the commission that they were not likely to obtain decisive re- sults as long as they worked on materials containing appreciable quantities of silver and gold. They found =all the available samples of metallic antimony to contain minuate but appreciable quantities of gold and silver. They undertook the task of preparing antimony upon which assay should not show even a trace of either of these metals. The report gives in detail all the experiments conducted and sums up as follows: “During these experiments, which have now extended over some three weeks and have involved an amount of painstaking | | | the laws governing the public domain and that the Court of Private Land Claims ned no jurisdiction to determine ftitle. The Court of Private Land Claims gave judgment in favor of Sandoval and re- jected the claim of Morton to the land. The judgment 1n favor of Sandoval was reversed and that against Morton affirmed. The judgment of the same court in the case of Joel Parker Whitney et al., claim- ants of the Cochiti grant in New Mexico, was affirmed. Toe claimants wanted about 100,000 acres. The court gave them about 5000. Justice Harlan announced in the case of Peter Milotti vs. Kate May Diilon and Mary Ives Crocker that eny pre-emption of homesteaa swamp land or other lawful claims to Jands in California pending at the time of the passage of the Centra! Pa- cific land grant acts of 1852-54 was not dis- turbed by the operation of those acts. The c.alm of AnnaJ. Dominguez de Guyer et ul. to possession of the Mormon Islands, in the inner bay of San Pedro, California, was decided adversely. Jus- tice Harlan stated in this decision that the court did not pass upon the claim of William Banning to the island nor ques- | tion whether lands under navigable waters of the bay passed to the State of California upon its admission Union. The jndgment in the case of the claim of the Rio Arriba Land and Cattle Com- pany for confirmation to its title to the Canyon de Chama grant in New Mexico, comprizing 473,000 acres, was affirmed. The city o1 San Angelo, Texas, will have to pay $10,000 on bonds issued in 1889 for street improvem:ents, After is- suing the bonds the incorporation was dissoived because of alleged irregularities in the proceedings and immediately rein- corporated under the same name with the same officials. The new corporation repudiated payment of the bonds, but the Supreme Courc to-day said they would have to be paid. The court when it adjourned caried over until the next term twenty-one cases that have been argued this term. Among them was tke case involving the validity of aland grant to the Southern Pacific Railroad in California; the case of Wong Kim Ark, presenting the question whether son born in the United States takes citi- enship by reason of his nativity; the case of the Westinghouse Company against the Boyden Brake Company, involving the validity of air-brake pat«nts, and the Ne- braska maxim freight-rate cases. The power of the President to remove at wiil Uniied States Attorneys and other four-year-term officers was affirmed in an opinion by Justice Peckham. Lewis E. Parsons Jr., attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, was the complainant. He was removed by Cleveland in 1893 be- tore bis term bhad expired, and sued in the Court of Claims to recover the fees of his offica for the residuve of the term. The Court of Claims decided against him, and tbat judgment was affirmed by the Su- preme Court. ekl el ACTION ON THE TARIFF BILL. Satisfactory Plan Arranqed at the Meeting of the Caucus of R:publican Senators. WASHINGTON, D. C,, May 24.—1¢ took over four hours for the caucus of Repub- lican Senators to reach an a:reement to- day on a satisfactory vlan of action on the tariff bill. This result was not reached without much heated debate, the wool men in particular being very outspoken | and aggressive. Clarke of Wyoming made | one of the strongest speeches in favor of higher rates on wool. The only formal vote in the caucus was on the provosition to appoint a steering committee to take charge of the tariff bill during its journey through the Senate, which was opposed by many Western Senators. jority of the caucus, however, was with the Finance Committee and the motion was agreed to. Finance Committee, and three others to be appointed by the chairman of the cau- cus. Allison, in order to reduce to a8 mini- mum the delay in disposing of the tariff bill in caucus, agreed that its members deliver no long set speeches, and attacks of the opposition are to be replied to in the Eriefest manner possible. On the ques- tion ot amendments, offered by individual Republican Benators, it was practically agreed that these amendments should | first be submitted to the Finance Com- mittee. If the committee decided against the amendment, then the caucus would be called to pass upon it, and the pro- poser would abide by the verdict of the caucus. There were some very pertinent remarks upon the sugar schedule, but it was agreed to postpone action upon this and other particular schedules in dispute until after Aldrich’s statement 15 made to-morrow. The caucus of Republican Senators on | the tariff bill jasted from 12:15 o’clock un- til 4:15 this afternoon. Among the prin- cipal speakers were Senators Aldrich of Rhode Island and Perkins of California. Senator Perkins advocated a stamp tax instead of the proposed internal revenue tax on beer, tea and tobacco. He thought that a five or ten siamp to be affixed to bank checks, stock certificates, morigages, deesds and papers of that kind wbich are asa rule citculated by wealthy or well to do people would furnish as much revenue as the proposed internal revenue tax on | beer, tea and tobacco, which would fall most heavily upon the poorer class of peo- | ple. He thougnt the stamp tax would provide ample revenue to make up the deficit. He cited as aninstance the stamp tax on mining stock certificates which was orce imposea in California and furnished a revenue of several thousand dollars a month. Benator Perkins also advocated a com- promise measure with regard to the Ha- waiian reciprocity treaty. He sald that was cultivated praying that the treaty be Jabor which we hope has not been entirely | abrogated, and he could not ignore their ‘wasted, we bave not seen the lightest | wishes. At the same time he had been evidence of any creation or transmuta- | Petitioned by business men and mercan- tion. On the contrary the claimant failed in every instance to recover the entire amount of silver and gold knowa to be | compromise measu: present 1n the materials. “The claimant for recovering & portion of silver and gold koown to metallurgists as being present in many commercial metals, sach as anti- meony and lead.” Brice 1s not satisfied with the result of the commission’s work. He claims as the supplies for conducting the experiments were purchased from the best de: tte country and regarded as chemically pure, the goid obtained was created by his process. Brice also ciaims he is produc- ing gold and silver on a commercial scale st lns works in Chicago and making 1t He savs he bus produced thousands of dollars and has invested $25,000. IN THE SUPREME COURT. Several Important Land Cases of Interest to the Pacific Coast Are Passed Upon. WASHINGTON, D. C., May 24.—Sev- eral important land cases were disposed of Ly the Supreme Court to-day. The first oi these were appeals of the United States and Levi P. Morton from the judgment of the Court of Private Land Claims relating to what is known as the San Miguel Del- bado grant in New Mexico, containing 351,000 acres claimed by Juan Sandoval et al. It was decided that unallotted por- tions of the grant at the time of the tile organizations in San Francisco and other Ualifornia cities asking for the con- tinuance of the ti y. He proposed a by which the duty nds would be fixed on sugar from the i ems to have devised a | at )¢ cent per pound after a year’s notice variety of irrational and wasteful methods | D8 been given; or, as an alternative proposition, that the duty be gradually re- duced from 3 of a cent a pound year by year for & period of about five years, until finally California would be able to produce beet-sugar enough to supply the people. S:nator Perkins said to THE CALL cdr- respondent to-night that it looked as if the general schedule as finally passed by both houses would be eguivalent to a specitic auty of 1} cents per pound on sugar from cther countries than Hawaii and that if after one year's novice a duty of }4 cent should bs imposed on sugar from Hawaii it would be an equitable settlement of the matter. Senator Perkins made the suggestions on merely tentative proportions from the standpowt of party expediency, although he is rather of the opinion that the Hawailan-treaty clause of the Dingley bill will be restored. e Closing in on a Murderer. LOUISVILLE, KY., May 24.—Johnson Smith, who killed Sheriff Patterson of Monroe County last weex, has been lo- cated on Turkey-Neck Island in the Cum- berland River just over the Tennessee line, and he and the pursuing pe exchanged several sbots. As he is well- armed and has the advantage of being bidden, the posse had not advanced upon him at the last advices, but it is only a uestion of a few hours untii they do. As mith is satistied he wiil be lynched, he will probably make a desperate stand. —————————— Guadalupe Hidalgo treaty were subject to | for Morbid Conditions take BEECHAW'S PILLS. to the | The ma- | The steering committee | will consist of Republican members of the | ALL LITIGATION NOW AT AN END Mrs. Hinckley Is in Full Possession of Blythe’s Estate. Dismissal of the Writ of Error by the Supreme Court, The Highest Federal Tribunal Had No Jurisdiction to Interfere in the Struggle. | WASHINGTON, D. C., May 24.—The disposal of the Blythe millions by the | Supreme Court of California, by which | they came into the possession of Florence Blytbe Hinckley, daughter of the de- ceased millionaire, will stand. The efforts of the members of the Blythe family to | induce the Supreme Court of the United | Btates to bring the case before that tribu- | nal have failed. Chief Justice Fuller to- | day announced the dismissal of the writ | of error for want of jurisdiction. The dismissal in the United States Su- preme Court yesterday of the writ of error sued out by Henry T. Blythe and others, known as the “Gypsy Blythes,” to have | the Supreme Court review the decree | of distribution made in favor of Florenca Blythe ends the long litigation for the possession of the millions which the late Thomas Biythe accumulated. Counsel for the gypsies fancied tkat the cases could be tied up in the United States Supreme Court for several years. The attorneys for the heiress are gratified | that the question was settled within sixty | days. The point was raised and presented to | the Supreme Court at Washington that | Florence Blythe, being an alien, could not | inherit property and that the law of the State of California giving aliens the right to inherit was invalid, and that nothing but a treaty could confer on her the right of inheritance. W. H. H. Hart and Aylett R. Cotton moved to dismiss the writ of error, on the ground that the question sought to be ! raised in regard toalienage is a State ques- tion; that the several States have author- |ity to confer upon aliens the right to in- herit property. The United States Supreme Court dis- missed the application for review op the ground that it did not present a Federal question. Ex-Attorney-General W. H. H. Hart, the chief Iawyer of the heiress in the long litigation, returned from Washington yes- terday morning. He was sesn at his resi- !dence last evening and expressed the | opinion that the litigation was now at an end. He seemed delighted over the vic- | tory gained for his client, and remarked | tbat San Francisco would participate in the benefits of the final settlement of the case. He said that Mrs. Fiorence Biythe Hinck- | ley couid now go abead and improve the | valuable property in the center of the City. There were no long leases to inter- | fere with plans for constructing business | blocks on the desirable land. In fact the Iady bas been In possession of the prop- erty for eighteen months, but the menace { of litigation prevented improvement of | the premises. Mrs. Florence Hinckley is living in Oakland. As soon as the message was | received from Washington announcing the decision of the Supreme Court in her favor sbe was advised of the victory. The lawyers connected with the win- ning side, apart from General Hart and { Judge Cotton, are John Garber, John H. Boalt, Thomas B. Bishop and W. W. Foote. The original contract provided | that the lawyers should receive 40 per jcent of the estate. The value of the | estate in San Francisco, rating property at dull-time prices, is not less than $2,500,000, |CUBKNS CAPTURE A TRAIN Continued from First Page. themse¢lves temporarily, and to-day a large number of leaves of absence were granted to members on the assurance that no action will be taken on the question pending & message from the President. There is no prospect of a message from | the President until he has heard from his | special Commissioner, W. J. Calhoun and | until the peace overtures now being made to Spain are finally rejected. RIS I REQUESTED TO EETURN. Premier Canovas Appeais to the Con- sercatives and Liderals. MADRID; SPAIN, May 24 —As s result of the quarrel between the Duke of Tetuan and Senor Comas, Liberal members of | the Senate, the Liberals and principal dissenting Conservatives absented them- selves from both houses of the Cortes to- day. Prime Minister Canovas made suc- cessive addresses in the Senate and Cham- ber of Representatives, declaring that inasmuch as the Tetuan-Comas incident had been settled he saw no reason for the attitude of the opposition, which seemed designed merely to compel a crisis. He appealed to the patriotism of the absen- tees in the presence of zrave international troubles, saying love of country shonld lead them to resume their duties. He hiuted it was especially desirable that Sagasta, the Liberal leader, should return | and thereby contradict the rumors regard- ing his attitude toward Cuba and- the United States. In conclusion Canovasde- clared tnat whether the abseatees re- turned or not the Government would con- tinue to carry on public business. The Government supporters then adopted a re«o ution requesting the President of the Chamber of Representatives to attempt to influencé the absentees to return. Lomai L Cuban Relief Measure Signed. WASHINGTON, D. C., May 24.—The Vice-President to-day announced that he had signed the resolution for the re ief of starving Amerigans in Cuba. The Presi- dent signed it within ten minutes afier it ‘was received. SRy L Congratulations Cadled to Vietoria. WASHINGTON, D. C., May 24.—The Pres:dent to-day cabled his congratula- tions and those of the American people to Queen Victoria upon the seventy-eighth anniversary of her birth. Guatemala Bank Obligations, WASHINGTON, D. C., May 24 —Min- ister Coxe has telegraphed the Siate De- partment that the executive decree which became effective to-day relieves ali Guate- mala banks from obligation to redeem their notes or other obligations in specie and makes bank notes legal tender till January 1, ———— > JERRY SIMPSON BOBS UP. But as Usual His Objection and Motion Meet tte Lisapproval of the House. WASHINGTON, D. C., May 24.—The House galleries were well filled to-day in expectation that the Senate Cuban resolu- tion would be reportea and mignt lead to excili!g scenes. The attendance of mem- bers was large. As soon asthe journal was read a motion to correct it was made by Simpson. He showed the Senate pen- sion bill had been referred to the commit- tee on invalid pensions and as there was no such committee he moved to strike out that statement. ‘‘Strike it out of what?” the Speaker asked with an air of bored indifference. *Out of the record or out of the journal.'” *'Out of the journal,” Simpson replied “J suppose it is the same in the record.”’ The Speaker put the question on the motion to strike 1t out, and declared it lost. The journal was then approved. The death of Senator Earl of South Carolina was announced by Johnson and the House at 12:15 o’clock adjourned till Thursday. e OF INTEREST 70 THE COAST. De Haven’s Nomination for District Judge Assured— Postal, Military and Pension Notes. WASHINGTON, D. C., May 24.—It is believed that John J. De Haven’s nomi- nation as United States District Judge will be mads immediately after Judge Morrow’s nomination as Circuit Judge is confirmed. Itis now conceded by every- body that D Haven will be appointed. Some of the Callfornians have wired him 1o that effect. 3 Senator Perkins said he thought that Irving B. Dudley of San Diego would be appointed Minister to Peru. . Michel H. de Youngis in the city. He is endeavoring to keep his presence in Washington ufiknown to the corespond- ents, He called on Senator Perkins to- day. He is bere on business connected with Hawailan sugar plantations, as well as totry to appease Mark Hanna and se- cure a foreign job. The following order was issued to-day by the Postmaster-General: ‘‘Establish the free-deliverv service at Marysville, Cal., with two letter-carriers ana fourteen street letter-boxes, the service to com- mence June 1. Provide the necessary booke, blanks, satchels, etc.’” 0. Dickson was_to-day appointed Postmaster at Swanger, Humboldt County, Cal., vice W. F. Dickson, resigned. First Lieutenant John D. Miley, Fifth Artillery, now on temporary duty at the Presidio of San Francisco, Cal., is ordered 10 report to Brigadier-General William R. Shatter, commanding the Department ol California, for appointment and duty as aid-ce-camp to that officer. _ Pensions—California: Original — Wil- lism Goldsberry (dead), San Francisco; Augusius A. Gignac, Placerviile; Henry A. Guernsev, San Bernardino; John Mul- ligan, Soldiers’ Home, Los Angeies. Special, May 18—Merrits C. Beymer, Uni- versity, Los Angeles. Increase—Lewis Abinger, Los Angeles. Original widows, etc—Annie M. Goidsberry, San Francisco. Oregon: Original - Anthony Neuwder- meyer, Fuiton. Original widows—R. C. Elizabeth A. Woriman, Medford. Washinglon: Original—Jonn H. Keal, Copalis; John Mgore, Sprague; Lewis Lewis, Renton. Original widows, etc— Abbie L. Hayward; Aune Dennison, Fri- day Harbor. e PGWERLESS TO FIX RATES. P Just.ce Brewsr Renders an Important Decision Against the Interstate Com- merce Commission. WASHINGTON, D. C., May 24—Sev- eral cases involving the construction of parts of the interstate commerce law were decided by the Supreme Court to-day. The most important was that of the In- terstate Commerce Commission vs. the Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Company upon the question asked by the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Cir- cuit, ‘‘Has the commission power to tix rates?” The question was answered by the court, said Justice Brewer, in announcing judg- ment in the case 1o which the commis- sion and the Cincinnati Southern Rail- way were parties last year, when the court said: “We do not find that any provision of the act expressly or by neces- sary implication confers such power.” That and other views expressed in the decision were vigorously and earnesly challeged by counsel for the commission, and the court decided to re-examine the question in its entirety and determine what powers Congress had given the com: mission in respect to rates. State legisla- tion on the subject of railr control was reviewed at length, preliminary to the discussion of the act of Congress. The conclusion reached by the court, from which Justice Harlan dissented, was that *‘Congress has not conferred upon the commission legislative power for pre- scribing rates, either minimum or maxi- mum, as absolute. As it did not give express power it did not intend to secure the same result indirectly by empower- ing that tribunal to determine what in relerence to the past was reasonable and just and then enable it to obtain from the courts a peremptory order that in future ra:lroad companies should follow rates thus determined to have been in the past reaonable and just.” P LET OFF WI/H A FINE, Light Sentencs of the Man Who Kobded the Congrr-asional Library. WASHINGTON, D. C., May 24.—Philip McElhone, recently convicted of stealing valuable historical papers from the files of the Congressional Library, where he w. employed, and selling them in New York for ca<h, has been ler off with a fine of . The penllty‘rrofided for the offense is a fine not exceeding $5000 or imprison- ment not exceeding five years, or both, in the discretion of the court. McEihone had been out on bail since conviction and was sentenced to-day. Judge Bradley’s lenicney caussd great surprise, us appa: ently there were no extenuating circum- stances, Lewis Turner, implicated with McEihene in the theits, also an employe of the library, will be now tried. He was aceused by McElhone of being the insti- gator of 1he thefts and has been in jail since the arrest, unabla to obtain bail. bl oy NOW RRaDY 10 PROCEED. Diéstrict Attorney Darie Anwzious to Be- gin the Trial of Haremeoyer, WASHINGTON, D. C., May 24—Dis- trict Attornsy Davis has snnounced his readiness to proceed to-morrow with the trial of H, 0. Havemeyer in the Criminal Court before Justice Bradley. Davis thinks that only a day or two will be re- quired for the case, and tne court will then promptly take up the case of Johun Searles. Tue question asked by the Sen- atorial investigating committes in 18%4 to which answer was refussd was this: “'Senator Allen—I wi.l ask you to pro- duce {uil deta as to ail money contributed by the Americnn Sugar Refining Company or any of 115 cfficers in d flerent States in 1892-93 for political purposes to any polit- cal party whether at a Natonal or “State election.” Qg et Drclined the Spanish Mission. WASHINGTON, D. C., May 24—The President :everal days ago offered the Spanisl Mission to Representative Hitt, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relationsi who declined the honor. BELIEVE THEY HAVE | CAPTURED DUNHAM The Campbell Murderer or His Double in a Texas Jail. Recognizad Through His Por- trait by a Traveling Companion. San Jose Officlals Are Notifled and Leava to Identify the Suspect. LA GRANGE, Tex., May 24.—Officers of Fayette County are satisfied that they have safely in their possession J. C. Dua- bam, badly wanted in |California for mur- der, and Sheriff Loessin has received a warrant from California and a notification that Ban Jose officers will arrive in a few days to identify the prisoner. The man under arrest claims to a busi- ness man of Fort Worth, Texas. He says his name is W. H.D. Merrill ana that he knows nothing of Dunham. Detective Shoff of 8an Antonio and J. 0, Ferguson are responsible for his arrest. Ferguson claims to know him well, and farther claims that Dunham has related to him at various times the adventures of his many escapes from officers who were searohing for him. When the t¥o reached San An- tonio Ferguson saw a detective paper contained a description and picture of Dunham and also that $11,000 was offered for him, | Though no name had been given him Ferguson at once recognized his traveling companion to be the man wanted, so he hunted uo Detective Snoff and the two then went on a search for Dunham. He evidently had become suspicious, for he had left town. The officers followed him, after ascertaining that Dunham had come in this direction. They overtook him here, and while the detective kept his man in sight Ferguson notified Sheriff Loessin and the arrest was effected with- out trouble, though the officers expected it and were prepared for it. Sheriff Loessin has notified the Califor- nia authorities and has received instruc- tions to hold the prisoner, as they are sat- fied the right man is held, and they will at once come for him. e CAUGHT IN THHEEE STATES. Sheriff Lundon Receives Telegrams That Put Him in a Quandary. | SAN JOSE, CAv., May 24.—Sheriff Lyn- don to-day received news of the capture of James C. Dunham. the McGlincy mur- derer, in Wyoming, Alabama and Texas. Eachof the arresting officers is sure he has the right man, and the Bheriff is re- quested to send some one to identify him 50 there will be no unnecessary delay in geiting the $10,000 reward offered for the fugitive. The first telegram came from Caspar, ‘Wyo, The Constable there has a man un- der arrest who answers Dunham's descrip- tion in every way. J. T. White, Marshalof Guin, Ala.. was next heard from. The news came in the | shape of a letter, with two pictures of the suspect. They bore no resemblance to the murderer, and Sheriff Lyndon ordered the man released. This afternoon a dispatch was received from Dan Jenkins, Marshal of Smithvilte, Tex,, saying he had arrested Dunham. A few minutes later Sheriff A. Loessin of La Grange, Tex., was heard from. He said James C. Dunham had been lodeed | in jail by Marshal Jenkins and requested | the Sheriff to come aiter him. He also said the man confessed to being wanted | for murder in California. Sheriff Lyndon notified the Texas officers to send on pictures and description of the man ar- rested. The Sheriff’s office places little reliance in any of the arrests, although the man has been ordered held until his descrip- tion arrives. Sheriff Lyndon is neither confident nor satisfied that the man in jail at Fayette, Texas, is James C. Dunham, the fugitive murderer of the McGlincy family, but has taken steps to have a thorough investiga- tion mace. This course is pursued with every report that Dunham has been cap- tured, and as a result there have been many investigations during the past vear. In an interview this evening Sheriff Lyn- don told of the correspondence in regard to the present suspect. “We received a telegram from Smith- ville, Tex., a little town near La Grange, last Wednesday. It was from a man named Dan Jenkins, who wanted to know if we wanted J. C. Dunham. We at once sent him circulars containing a minute description of the fugitive. Early this morning we received another telegram from Jenkins to the effect that he had Dunham under arrest. He wanted usto send some one after the prisoner. We an- swered that owing to the long distance we wanted to be sure that Dunbam had been found before we would send an officer. We insiructed Jenkins to have the pris- oner’s picture taken and sent to us, and told him that if he was the right man we would be after him as fast as the train would take us. “Jenkins answered thathe would have the pictures taken at once and would mail them to-day. That was the last we heard of Jenkins. He must have turned the prisoner over to Sheriff Loessin of Fay- ette County, for the next telegram was from that official and wasdated Lawrence. Itsaid: ‘I hold one James C. Dunham, who confesses 1o be 2 murderer from Cali- fornia. Come at once before he escapes.’ “We had received no information to justify a belief that the prisoner was Dun- ham, but to insure the holding of the s pect pending an investigation we tele- graphed a warrant of arrest. Soon after we Teceived another telecsam from Loes- sin, in which he said that the prisoner agreed with the description furnished the Pinkerton Detec ive Agency. He sent no description, however, and we telegraphed 10 him for a detailed siatement and a de- seription cf the prsoner. ‘Lhis telerram has hot yet been answered, but we expect piy to-morrow morning.” BLACK HILLN MIN:NG DS4L. An Eastern Syndicats Incests Two and @ Half Million Dollars, DEADWOOD, 8. D., May 24.—A mining deal of importance to the Black Hills was consummated to-day by the transfer of thirty-five mining claims and several frac- tions by the owner to whatis known as the Pierre syndicate, comnosed of a num- ber of Eastern capitalists. The ground lies adjacent to Lead City and is very rich, the ore holaing the same mineral charac- ter as the celebrated Homestake ores. It is the intention 10 erect & 200-stamp miil on Belle Fourche River. Altogether the deal involves an expenditure of $2,500,000. “AT SLOANE’S.” LAST WEEK —_— O —— CLEARAN CE SALE. CARPETS, RUGS, LAGE CURTAINS, DRAP ERY GOODS. ELEGANT DISPLAY OF FURNITURE. W. & J. SLOANE & CO., |{CARPETS —FURNITURE —UPHOLSTERY. 641, 643, 645, 647 Market Street, SAN FRANCISCO. FITL VIEWS THE FIGHT ON CANVAS Declares That the Vera- scopic Pictures Are Elegant. Makes Excited Comments on the Blows as They Are Repeated. Scoffs at the Talk About a Foul and Threatens to Bring Sult for Damages. NEW YORK, N. Y., Mey 24.—Accom- panied by Martin Julian and a few friends, Fitzsimmons to-day viewed the verascope mictures of the Carson fight for the first time. He made excited comments on the blows as taey were repeated on the can- vas. Inthe sixth round, when Fitzsim- | mops was pictured as dropping on his knees, his arms slipping down and around Corbett’s knees, Fitz leaped excitedly to his feet in the stage box, yelling: i “He threw me. He just got hisarm un- | der mine and twisted me over. It wasn’t a knockdown, as one can easily see. Siler’s counting goes for nothing, as he is trying to follow Muldoon, the official timer. | Can’t you see Muldoon counting off ihe seconds? And there’s Jimmy Colville, Corbetv's official timer. Why doesn’t be: make a how! about my being down more | than ten seconds? Why don’t hundreds | of sports who are holding watchesaround the ring? Because I am only down nine seconds; no more.” ‘When the Cornishman on canvas re- sumed fighting, 2 man in the gailery cried: “Knock him out, Jim; give it to him. Fitz jumped out of his chair, and look- ing up toward the place from which the remark bad come, was about to say some- thing in reply. “Dony't get excited, Bob,” said Julian. “Keep your eyes on the fight.” The next moment Julian became ex- cited and, forgetting where he was, yelled to Referee Siier to *‘get out of the way.’ As the light went out and the announcer told the crowd that there would be an in- terval of three minutes before the final round was put on, somebody yeiled “speech.” Instantly the crowd burst into loud cheering. When he could make himse'f heard the champion said in a clear voice ‘Ladies and gentlemen: Ever since the fight at Carson I have heard all sorts of talk from Corbett about foul blows and bow he was robbed of the fight. He has said, *Wait for the pictures and lhcy'“a show how I made a monkey of Fitzsim- | mons.’ Well, 've waited for them, and you yourselves can see who is the mon- | key. Iforced the fight from the start and | I fought him fairly. I have not seen the last round, which will be put on in a few minutes, but I'll bet $10,000 that the ‘World snd Journal faked the pictures which show me hitting foul. “Corbett simply quit. You will be able to say after the last round whether I won fairly and whether it is my duty to fight this fellow again. In the fight he had the advantage of height and weight, ana 1 was handicapped with a broken thumb; yet I licked hir, and licked him good.” These remarks were received with tu- multuous applause, and th n the vera.| scope man turned on the current. “Now we'll see about this allegea foul blow,” said Fitzsimmons. *Look at theke wallops 1 am putting on_to his nedd. ‘Why, he’s gr.ggy now. Here’s whe/e nail him on his solar plexus and he lose: As Corbett began to sink Fiiz leaped once more to his feet and exciamed: “Bee! I've moved away from him and his knees are siill off the tloor. Idefy anybody to sav that I hit him when dow He’s sinking slowly and I'm ten fsetaw: There’ one knee just tonching the floor now- I fouled him, eh? Itsu lie, and anybouy with half an eye cin see tnat I'm sway from him before ¢ is down. Look at bim crawling away/from me on his hands ani knees, I7 be's strong enough to do that why doesh’t he get uu inside of ten seconds .and, take his med:- cine? Because nhe knowy® that anoih:r unch will knock the smses out of him. f he isn’t beaten fairly in that picture I'll | eat my hat. He ougit to have betier sel than to tell the public to see tnis wroduction of his gownfall.” After the exhibitjon, when asked his opinion of the pictees, Fitzsimmo: id : “Ehpn; They show no foul, aaa I'm going to sue the World and Journal for camages. German Cathoiios of Michigan Celebrate. DETROIT, Mics., May 24 —The celebra- t AR AR AT AR A A AR A Ak Ak A : : g | | | purity’ the © 00 ieth anniversary of St. the oldest Gerwnan Cath- olic organization in the Northwest, is in progress to-day. The ceremonies were in- augurated Sunday with a parade partici- pated in by the German Catholic societies of Michigan. This was followed by the celebracion of high mass and a musical entertainment in the evening. To-day solemn requiem mass was celebrated for the repose of deceased members, and dur- fne the dsv and eveming a reunion and banquet will be giver. et G SENSITIVE TO A FAULT. tion of the Joseph’s Societ Brewer Drowns Mimeelf in a Vat B cnuve Kebuked by Hie Foreman. CINCINNATI, Ommo, May 24 —There has been for some time a great deal of quarreling among the workmen of the big Moerlein brewery. One man in par- ticutar, named John Wolff, scemed to be more quarrelsome than any of the others. The foreman determined to stop the bickering, and to-day, when Wolff was making more noise than ever, the fore- manspoke to him sharply and ordered him to shut up or leave the brewery. Wolff did not say a word, but simply turned away and began to climb the steps leading to the root of the big building. “Where are you going?” shouted the fureman. “Oh, I'm just going up to look at the scenery,” quiatly replied Wolff, The foreman said notbing more, and thinking it the better plan to leave the man to himself, thoaght no more of the matter. Alter an hour had passed and Wolff did not return the foreman began a search. With several others he visited tue roof and not $eeing Wolff anywhere they searched a big vat up thers and soon found the body of the unForlunn!a man. His fellow-workmen say that Wolff was a very seasitive man and tbat he had drowned himself because the foreman spoke sharply to him. —_— 4 MES. MYHRMAN'S MISSION. Leares for the International Convention of Good Templars at Zurich. CHICAGO, ILL., May 24.—Mrs. Othelia Myhrman, delegate from Illincis to the international convention of the Inde- pendent Order of Good Temnplars, to be held at Zurich, Switzerland, the week of June 15, leit Chicago to-day for that place. The attendants upon the inter- national convention will comprise over 400 delegates, representing every country throughout the civilized world. Mrs. Myhrman isa prominent member of the organization, and has made her in- fluence felt at past conventions by secur- ing the establishment of separate grand lodges for the Scandinavian members of the order in the States of Minnesota and Massachustts, and it is her intention at the coming gathering to endeavor 10 se- cure a similar concession for the Scandina- vians of Illinofs. 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