The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 23, 1897, Page 2

] 1 circles. Heisa veteran of both the Civil and Mexican wars. Another interesting figure on the Queen is Jobn Muir of California, the noted mountain-climber and explorer, aiter whom the famous Muir glacier in Alaska was nemed. He will go over the white trail fromn Skaguay and expects to reach the Yukon before the winter freeze. ‘Word was received this afternoon from Nanaimo that the steamer Rosalie had put in there for coal and would reach Seattle about 7 o’clock to-morrow morn- ing. The Rosalie comes from Dyea and Skaguay and it is presumed will have some interesting news. The schooner Moonlight got away this evening for Dyea and Skaguay with about seventy-five passengers and a cargo of lumber. The Moonlight will be towed by the tug J. M. Colman, and it is expecied that the trip will te made in six days. The lumber being taken up to S8kaguay by the Moonlight belongs to J. B. Rogers and W. Nichols, and is to be used to build a hotel. Captain Cantillion will be in charge of the schooner. 1t 1s announced that Saturday next the barkentine Blakeley will enter the Alaska trade to be sent north by Martin & Co., charterers of the Moonlight. She has| capacity for 400 passengers, bat will only | taze 300 and wil take a large cargo of lumber and supplies. The rates will be the same as the Moonlight’s. The Blake- ley has been engaged in the codfish trade to Bering Sea, and is the vessel over which so much trouble was had in the United States courts over a year ago, and | finally became the property of Tracy Rob- ertson. The small steamer Detroit is being over- hauled and made ready to send north Wednesday to be used between Juneau and Skaguay. The big steamer Willam- ette is due from Dyea to-morrow. The City of Topeka is expected in on Tuesday, althougk both vessels may bea day late. A nuinber of passengers have been se- cured in Seattle for the steamer Bristol, which leaves Victoria Tuesday morning with 250 passengers for the Yukon via St. Michael. Men from St. Lious, Pittsburg, Cincinnati, New York and other Eastern points will leave here to-morrow night on the steamer City of Seattle for Vic:oria, where they will be transferred. A atatement was made by a passenger on the Bristol, booked from Chicazo, and | 8 friend of P. B. Weare, of the North American Transporiation and Trading Company, in which he said: *I was told by Mr. Weare to get to Seattle and take | the first steamer for St. Michael and the | Yukon, as I would probably have until the middle of October to get up the river; that the rush in the spring would surpass the most vivid imagination, and that all | the boats possible to be built between now | and spring could not handte the business, | and rates, instead of being lower, or even remaining as at present, would more than | likely be consiaerabiy higher.” | s chobi sl MANY OUTFITS LOST. Bad Condltlon of the Whita Pass Trall From Skaguay Where Gold Seekers Are Struggling. SEATTLE, Wasn., Aug. 22.—Possibly the vest idea of the condition of the White Pass trail from Skaguay is given in a let- | ter from Duke Prigmore received in this | oty yesterday. It was brought down by the steamer Starr. After leaving camp tSkaguay Mr. Prigmore says: “The first three miles is a fairly good wagon road, which leads to the Skaguay River, a rather shallow but very swift siream. There the miners have erected an improvised bridge, over which only one Lorse can be taken at a time. Beyond the bridge for three miles horses and wagons | can beused. Devil's Hill is then reached. The trail is pot over two feet wide hers, | while the climb is at an angle of 45 de- grees. At the summit of the hill horses are compelied to makea jump of nearly two ieet bizh, only to alight on a slippery reck. Further down the trail isa steep | incline, on which logs have been laid, | forming a kind of ladder. After crossing the first hill a hslf mile of fairly good traveling is encountered when the big hill is reached. The path over this hill can scarcely becalled a trail, as Mr. Prigmore says it is quite narrow and at places is almost impassable for horses. The formation is of a soit and siippery slate rock. The traill winds crookedly around the hill or rather moun- tain, while below it sheers off 500 feet to the river. Acthis locality many horses and packs bave been lost. It is almost impossible for horses to pack any consid- erable amount of supplies around this binff. After traversing several miles of | this kind of road the biz marsh is reached. Here the packers become frightened, as & horse will either flounder and roll in the mud until he gives up from sheer exhaus- tion, or else loses the pack or breaks his leg. This bog is one and a half miles long, and many of the miners are here camped | waiting for the winter freeze, so they can get over it. A party ahead on the marshtold Mr Prigmore that very few had passed them and they were making but slight progress, which fact leads him to believe that scarcely ten parties have thus far this summer crossed the summit by way of Skaguay. —_— TO TAKE 200 GIRLS. Ralph K Montmorency of Seattle, Fitting Out a Novel Expedi- tion In Boston. BOSTON, Mass,, Aug. 22.—Ralph K. Montmorency of Seattle is hers on a novel expedition. He is going to takea ship load of handsome young Boston girls 1o the Klondike—about 200 of them, he ex- vects. In anintervied to-day he said: am going to take aship load of young Boston girls to Alaska during the coming season. Ishall take them as passengers. If they choose to get married as soon as they get there, that’s their own lookout. Or they can teach school, set up tailor- ing establishments, become hotel house- keepers, or do missionary work among the Indians, forall I care. I shall char- ter a staoch steam craft and make the trip around the Horn and up across the Pacific to Bering Sea and to the mouth of the Yukon. Assoon as tneriver is clear of ice I shall push right up to the goid fielde. It may take five months, I shall take as much freight as possible. *‘My main object 1s to get a gocd steam vessel around to the Pacific to doa gen- eral transportation business between Puget Sound and Alaskan ports next summer. You can’t get a craft of any sor. out there now for love or money. With 200 young women passengers at $250 a piece, making $30,00), and something on the freight, I shall make a good proit.” A Boston friend of the Seattle man twit- ted him with being the Eastern agent of L. M. Keenan of Ola, South Dakota, in his Alaska matrimonial business. With char- acteristic Western frankness, Mr. Montmo- tency vigorously denied this. *I consider tnat fouth Dakotan’s scheme to take un- suspecting girls to the Klondike and sell them like cattle as perfectly infamous.” e SRR GREENHORNS ARE TN LOCK They Make Most of the New Discoveries in Trinity. Very Rich Quartz Located Up Near the Head of Coffes Creek. Hundreds Are Yet Heading for the Digglings in the New EIl Dorado. REDDING, Can, Aug. 22—This bas been an extremely hot and suitry day in Redding, but the intense heat has had no effect whatever in preventing the usual number of prospectors from departing for the Coffee Creek gold fields. Since sunrise this morning the streets have been thronged with miners, pros- pectors and green horns fitting themselves out with supplies and outtits, and the majority of the stores, usually closed on Sunday afternoons, were compelled to keep their doors open late into the after- noon. About sixty prospectors arrived on the overiand 1irain this morning, all bound for the gold fields. Besides these at least 100 people have arrived here from the south in varions kinds of rigs from a pack mule to a prairie schooner, en route for Trinity. These newcomers, added to about 100 who arrived yesierday and de- parted to-day, bring the total number of departures up to nearly The departure creating the most excite- ment to-day was a young sandy-complex- ioned greenhorn togged out in the new- woman stvle of bloomers, red <tockings and blazing tennis coat, mounted on & bi- cycle, the tires of which sank to the rims under the heavy weight of the outfit and man. Besides his blankets this bicyclist carried with him picks, pan, shovel and supplies for two months. News of new, but small, s'rikes floated in constantly to-day and from all reports the ‘‘greenhorns'’ are thus far the most lucky of al! in finding gold. One small, unnamed creek flowing into Coffee Creek near its head has, on account of the great number of *greenhorns” camped along its banks, been named Greenhorn Creek. In speaking of the place a couple of driv- ers returning to camp to-day gave it the name of Greenville. The town-site boom Las started in good earnest and several brokers in this city have already floated lots in Coffeeville on the market. Charles H. Schollerman, a well-known Gerian farmer, living three miles east of Redding, and who left here a week ago Wednesday with a wagon-ioad of' twelye prospectors, returned to this city to-night with the best piece of news brought down for the past week. He says that just be- fore he left the base of the mountains up Coffee Creek the camp dwellers were ex- cited over the discovery by a couple of Trinity County miners of an immensely rich quariz ledge up near the head of Coffee Creex. The discovery was an acci- dental one and has transpired to be one of considerable impertance. Schollerman says the two lucky miners dug out ore from the new ledge, which was not far from the surface of the ground and literally covered with go!d, and one or two large pieces they ex- nibited was plastered with the precious metal until it was impossible to see the quartz at all. They had estimated the value of the oreand claim it will go as high as $30,000 per ton. Having no other means of transporting rock, one of the miners took a pair of overalls, and tied a rope around the bottom of each leg. The other treated the sleevesof a shirt jumper in like manner, and, filling these im- promptn ore-bags with quartz specimens, gold dust and nuggets, turew them over the backs of pack-mules and started by trail for Delia, a distance of some thirty miies. Schollerman says the news of the big strike spread and the entire district along his route coming home was up in excite- ment. Many who had been prospecting down the creek packed up ,their tents and immediately started for the scene of the new discovery. Schollerman also brought news that many new strikes are being made. When asked as to the reliability of reports sent down during the past few days regarding new strikes he remarked that he was cer- tain of ja number of rich strikes being madae, and vouched for the reliability of the report that several greenhorns were taking out big pay along Coffee Creek and Morrison Gulch. He counted on his way down 329 prospectors bound in rigs for Trinity. Reports from Weaverville and French Gulch state that old-timers who have heretofore scorned the idea of rich discov- eries on Coffee Creek, and who had vol- unteered the information that the coun- try was worked out, are now flocking to the Coffee Creek district and that some of them are making good pay along the creek and tributaries. Bporting men from this city are now leaving in large numbers, expecting to do good business in the new camp, and especially at Trinity Center next week, during the series of races to be held there. A rich gravel deposit was found yester- day on Oregon Gulch, four miles west of this city and near the Loag mine, where the rich find in quartz was made Satur- day. Jim Mcntgomery, owner of the new discovery, came to this city this evening, bearing the news and also some gold dust. The discovery was made about 5 o’clock yesterday morning, and since that time Montgomery has been washing gravei and taking out an average of $5to the pan. This deposit is near the spot where six months ago a miner named Berg took out about $4000 in a single pocket. This sec- tion of Shasta County is known to be ex- ceedingly rich in pay gravel, but a scarcity of water has prevented its devel- opment. A company is now in process of organization to construct a ditch convey- ing water from Clear Creek for mining purposes. With water on the ground some big discoveries may be looked for. A letter received here this morning states that a party of sixty-two:. Mis- sourians would leave Kansas City Mon- day, bound for Trinity’s new gold fields. News has just reached here that J. M. Bryan of the Golden Eagle Hotel of this city has struck a rich claim on Morrison Gulch and is on'bis way home for supplies and implements to work the claim. St g Pack Animals for Trinity. SAN JOSE, Cav., Aug. 22.—J. A. Armor A house well built of first-class brick will outiast one constructed of granite. and G. E. Bowen, horse traders, will start for the Coffee Creek mines on Wednesday \\\,‘ f a7 3 bl 3 \ i\ ‘ d [From a photograph taken especialy for “ The Cult> by R. B. Middlemis of Redding.] !(”ul/// i “ &)\ R. J. Enright, an Old 49 Prospector, and His Favorite Donkey En Route to Coffee Creek. with a drove of pack muies and burros, which tney hope to dispose of to miners going into the Trinity mines. For the past week they have been buying pack animals and now have about thirty on hand. If they do not dispose ot all their animals in Trinity County they will push on to the Klondike, going overland to Junean. _——— BOOMING COFFEEVILLE. Rivals Amalgamate and tha New Townsite Wil Be Lald Out on an Elaborate Scale. CARRVILLE, CaL., Aug. 22.—The town of Coffeeville will be laid out in the morn- ing and boomed at noon. The rival townsite boomers amalga- mated to-day and it is agreed that the new townsite shall include the eighty acres be- longing to George L. Carr adjoining the property of the Graves brothers and also the 160 acr:s belonging to the latter. E. T. Casey of Raundsburg, one of the original boomers of that place and earlier of Guthrie and Cripple Creek, re- tains his partnership with Carr, and will be the leading boomer. He has tele- craped to Randsburg for some of the sporting fraternity of that now quiet place 10 come right up and start the town. It is the theory thata dance hall and gambling-bouse are the tirst requisites in booming a new mining town. A special effort to sell lois in San Fran- cisco will be made. The new place will be on the old Oregon stage rcad on the west bank of the Trinity, at the mouth of Coffee Creek and six miles north of Trinity Center. A new stage road across to the railroad by a shorter route is talked of. The future of the town depends on what will follow. A reliable mining man returned to-day from Hickory Gulch, at tbe other end of Coffee Creek, with the report that Burgess and Murphy are driving an open cut into the hill where they made their strike and are taking out a good deal of gold with heir rockers in a crude way. He says that he saw about 250 pounds of the dirt and soft rock put through the rocker and that the vied was fully an ounce or about §20. This material was not taken from the peculiar ledge of soft porphyry, but from about five feet of the formation, including both ledge and wal Is, and about half of the material went un- ground and undissolved in the dump where it Is saved for future working. Constable Moxley of Siskiyou County stated that the day before he had washed about $150 from one pan of selected dirt. The richness of the Burgess and Murphy strike, as far as mere surface indications 2o, has not been much exaggerated, but the amount taken out has been. When I saw the find a week ago less than a cubic yard of dirt and rock had been moved al- together, and at that time the amount of gold actually washed out of this material was about $240, and not $80,000, as th growing rumor had it. Since then they have been building a cabin and a trai! and path from the mine 200 feet down the hill to a spring, over which the material is now hauled to the rocker on a sled by a mule. They have just fairly begun regular work and may possibly have taken out $1000 by this time. They are about to stact a tunnel in the continuance of what is now an open cut. Yesterday Donovan, who bas had a quite promising ledge of quartz on the west side of Hickory Gulch, struck rich rock in sinking the ledge. Thomas Riley, who recently located a claim-a mile or so east of the Burgess ana Muipay location, claims to bave found a good ledge a foot wide, two miles east, down Coffee Creek. Dr. E. W. Bathurst of Aeina mills, in Scott Valley, Siskiyou County, visited Trinity Center to-day and reported that a man named Stewer had fouud a ledge of quariz running $100 to the ton in Whites gulch, on the north fork of the Salmon river, twenty miles west of Aetna mills and thirty miles northwest of Hickory Creek in an air line. He had also heard in passing that good quartz had been struck on Grass Creek, on the fork of the Scott River. “] saw Murphy, the partner of Burgess, yesterday,” said the doctor. “He was on his way back from Dunsmuir. “Last year when he was working as a ranch hand in Scott Valley 1 took out a finger joint for him and be stopped at Ztna Mills and paia bis bill. All he saia about his mine was tuat he believed he bad all he wanted.” 5 A mining expert from Balt Lake is try ing to negotiate the purchase of the Bine Jay mine from the Graves brothers ana Carter. If the proverty is not sold the Graves boys will begin tunneling for more pockets as soon as their townsite matters are got fairly going. Nearly 100 men to-day re-enforced the 600 ou Coffee Creek. Among the outtits were a special stage, bearing seven, and two wagon loads, one of eleven gold- seekers and their supplies. About a dozen started home disgusted to-day, after having put in from two days to a week on Coffee Creek and having found no goid on the trees. J. 0. DENNY. The death rate in London is twenty-one per thousand of popuiation, in Paris twenty-eight, and 1u New York twenty- one. DESPERATION OF THE ARMENTANS Announce That They Will Establish Uni- versal Anarchy. Circular Warning the Powers to Look to the Safety of Their Subjects. Resolve to Die Rather Than Endure Present Suffering—Lively Meet- Ing at Trafalgar Square. CONSTANTINOPLE, TurkEey, Aug. 22. —The Embassadors here recently received simultaneously a circular signed by the Armenian revolutionary committee, com- vlaining that the powers had done noth- ing for their nation, which was approach- ing ruin. Continuing, the circular said: “Europe has remained mute at the tears mothers have shed over murdered children. We have tierefore resolved to establish universal anarchy on the 3lst of August, the day the destroyer of our na- tion ascended the throne. Take measures for the safety of your fellow subjects, whom we do not wish to harm. We are all resolved to die rather than continue our suffering.” LONDON, Exa., Aug. 22.—A mass meet- ing was held at Trafalgar Square this aft- ernoon to protest against the cruel treat- ment of prisoners in Spanish jails. Of the 5000 people assembled, the majority were drawn by curiosity and seemed com- pletely indifferent to the object of the promoters of the gathering. A large number of detectives and policemen were scattered through the crowd. The conductors of the meeting were chiefly London socialists who desire to disavow any connection with the an- archists, One speaker who had the te- merity to declare that be was an anarchist found bimself interrupted by & companion on the platform, who vigorously pulled his coat tails and apparently warned him not to further commit himself in that di- rection. Only two or three Spaniards, recently deported from Spain, charged with being auarchists, were present. It was stated that the remainder had already leit Eng- land. . Letters of sympathy were read from Henri Rochefort, James Keir Hardieand others. The best speakers earnestly and effect- ively denounced the cruelties perpetrated by the Spaniards, while others declared their intention to make England ring and 1o set BEurope aflame. This tickled the crowd, with the exception of some of the less enthusiastic. Dr. Aveling made a violent attack on Canovas, who, he declared, had been exe- cuted, while Golli was murdered. Toward the close of the meeting an op- position gathering was started near by. Those taking part became boisterous and finally mobbed and hooted the anti-Spain speakers. One of the latter, being siruck, felled his assallant tothe ground. The police protected those whom the Spanish sympathizers would have mobbed had it not been for them. For a time it looked like a riot, but order was soon restored. ‘While the trouble was going on at the meeting one of the refugees, named Gana, and some of his comrades, were mobbed in another direction, The police rescued them and sent them to their lndgings in a cab. STAMP COLLECTOLS TO MEET. Delegates on the Way to Boston to Attend the Convention of the Philatelic Association. BOSTON, Mass., Aug. 22.—Stamp col- lectors from all over the country will flock to Boston this week to atiend the twelfth annual convention of the American Philatelic Association. The hottest fight of the convention will be the contest for the next meeting place, 8an Francisco making the biggest bid. New Yorz will put 1 strong opposition. The president of the association is ex-Mayor Frank F. Oiney of Providence, who has a collection valued at $100,000. The three vice-presi- dents are all Boston men; the secretary is George F. Bard of Muscatin, lowa; assist- ant secretary, H. B. Pnillips of Berkeley, Cal. ; international secretary, E. Doeblin of Pitisburg; t arer, N. W. Chandler of Collinsville, Ill., and the superintend- ent of sales and purchasing agent is G. N. Mekeel of St. Louis. The convention will last three days. It will be called to order in Wesleyan Hall, 26 Bromtield street, Tnesday, at 10 A, M. At the first days’s session committees wiil be appointed, officers’ reports received and new officers chosen. On Wednesday the delegates will enjoy an all day’s ex- cursion. On Thursday the businessof the convention will be completed. Special entertainment will be provided for the ladies. The delegates will be quartered principally at the Revere and Norfolk houses. Oune of the matters of business to come up at the convention is reincorporation to secure a change of name. One reason for ‘ the desire to change the society’s name is the tendency of many people to use jbe initials A. P. A., which are identi- cal with another well-known organiza- tion. There will be a few changes in the officers. The president and vice-presi- dents will undoubtedly be re-elected, but there is a contest for the position of secre- tary and treasurer. g STOLE WHEELS BY WHOLESALE. Arrest of a Young Attorney of Omaha Who Was the Chief of a Band of Bicycle Thieves. OMAHA, Nrp., Aug. 22—A. R. Smith, a young attorney of some standing in Omaha, is in jail an acknowledged forger, bicycle thief and all-round associate of dangerous crooks. For a year he has been leading a dual life, and none of his nu- merous associates in respectable circles suspected anything wronz. He had offices in the New York Life building, and for a month dozens of wheels belonging to tie lawyers of that building have been stolen | in a mysterious manner, and no one could understand how the room 1n which the wheels were kept could be entered. Now it is explained since Smith had a key. He became so bold that Saturday he took seven high grads wheels from the room, pawned two of them in Omaha and shipped the others to Chicago auction dealers. The same day he forged a promi- nent business man’s name to a $200 check and got it cashed. He was just starting to the Klondike when arrested. One cf the wheels pawned here got him into trouble. In his pockets were found lists of auction dealers in Chicago, St. Louis and Kansas City, and notes showing he bhad shipped them 277 wheels since Jan- uary 1, These wheeis are supposzed to have been stolen here and elsewhere and shipped to Smith, who was head of an o1- ganized gang of bicycle thieves. Smith contessed all when arrested. He came bere a year ago from Doyleston, Pa., where he is highly connected. - LOKNG-DISTANCE SUPERVISION. By the Use of Telephones and Meg- aphones Mr. Stanley Conducted a Sunday-School While in Bed. WICHITA, Kans, Aug. 22.—The only Sunday-school in the United States ever conducted by telephone is that connected with the First M. E. Church here, which was directed to-day by Superintendent W. E. Stanley from his sick bed. The Sunday-school is the larzest in Kansas, and for over twenty years Mr. Btanley has served as its superintendent. On July 18 he was thrown from his buggy and sus- tained a broken thigh, His friends sent to New York for three megaphones, and by attaching them to telephones connect- ing Mr. Stanley's home and the church, Mr. Stanley was enabled to hear all that went on in the church auditorium and to make his voice audible to the people as- sembled there. He requested the pastor, Dr. W. B. Slutz, to lead in prayer, and an- nounced the songs. After the class recitations he asked James Allison, a cousin of President Me- Kinley, to conduct the lesson review. When the regular routine had been com- pleted, Mr. Stanley talked to the school, praising the good work done, and thank- ing his friends for the pleasure the experi- ment had afforded him. ‘I'he singing by the Sunday-school gave Mr. Stanley great delight, for the music came to him over the wire without losing any of its nower and sweetness. To-night Mr. Stanley in his bed listened to the ser- mon by Dr. Stutz, and scores of people, not only in this city, but in Hutchinson, Arkansas City, Winfield and Wellington, also enjoyed it by telephone. DEATHS UF MANY EXILES. Perish 80 Fast at a Spanish Penal Station That Coffins Give Out. LIVERPOOL, Exe., Aug. 22.—The Brit- ish steamer Niger has arrived here from the island of Fernando Po, on the west coast of Africa, where is situated one of the Spanish penal stations. She left Fernando Po July 19, at which time there were reports of Cuban and Philippine ex- iles dying so rapidly that coffins could not be obtained in which to bury them. The authorities supplied some, the bot- toms of which opened on hinges. In these the bodies would be placed and lowered into the earth. Then by a manipulation of the ropes the coffin would be raised, the weight of the body causing the bottom to open and the corpse to drop to the bot- tom of the grave. Then the coffin would be hauled out to be used again when oc- casion arose. — Tha Shooting of a Judge. WOODSTOCK, Vr., Aug. 22.—Thom: 0. Seaver, Judge of the Probate Court,was shot through the right lung this morning by William Lawrence because the Judge had issued a restraining order azainst Lawrence involving the custody of the Jatter’s child. The wound is dangerous, OVER NIAGARAS DEADLY FALLS Fate of Three Men Who Lose Control of a Sailboat. Capsized in the Rapids and Swept Into the Roaring Abyss. Five Thousand Spectators Witness the Tragedy, Powerless to Aidj the Victims, NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y., Aug. 22— This afternoon three men were swept to death over the brink of Horseshoe Falls. F.ve thousand people witnessed the awful occurrence, powerless to aid the victims who were in a small saitboat of the clinker | fashion. The spectators first noticed that the craft was further down the river than such boats usually go. No one then, however, anticipated a fata lending, bat faster and farther down the stream t e boat drifted with the curreaf. The sails were not working effectively or else those in the boat knew little about sailing. tion of the boat was nearer the Canadian sbore and for it the occupants seemed heading. When the first reef and first line of breakers were met those on the shore realized the danger and crowded to the edge of the r.ver to watch breatblessly. Then the three occupants fully realized their danger and two of the men got the oars out and began pulling with all their strength, but their efforts were fruitless. ‘They had gone tuo far with the current and as the boat plunged over another reef it was capsized and the three hali-crazed human beings were thrown into the white-capped waters. On one of the Dufferin Islands stood Thomas Young, Chiei of the Ontario police, noted for his daring. He had been an observer of the danger to the boat and its occupants, and his hope was that he mignt in some way aid them, but when the bort capsized it was seventy-five yards off from where Chief Young stood. “Isaw tne boat capsize,’’ said he, ‘‘and the three men thrown into the water. One of the men grabbed anotiter as thoush determined to save him. The other man swam with great strengt: and bravery toward the shore, and would have reached it bad the falls not been so near. Both he and the others who bad disappeared pefore were swept over the falls.”” The boat was carried by the currentinto the head of one of the islands, where it was soon sarrounded by a crowd of peo- ple, many of whom carried home pieces as souvenirs of the tragedy they witnessed. On one piece of an oar picked up after the accident the letters “M. P.” were marked. The boat was not from this port, and the conclusion isthat it came from further up the siream or from one of the numerous Sunday parties on :he islands in the navigable portion of the river. The three victims were Frank Weber, 40 years old, of Buffalo, who leaves a wife and three children; Warren Bush, 21 years old, of Chicago, and Cbarles Glas- ner, 29 years old, of Chicago. The bodies will not be recovered probably for some days, if ever. CONFESSION OF THE CREOLE. Little Doubt That He Committed the Murder for Which Two Italians Were Lynched. NEW ORLEANS, La, Aug. 22.—The confession made yesterday by Antonio Richards, alias the Creole, that he was the murderer of ths old Spaniard, Joa- quin Roccena, for whose assassination two Italians were lynched at Hahnville on August 8, 1806, and for whose murder the United States paid an indemnity to the Italian Government of $6000, is likely to lead to the reopening of ihe invesiiga- tion into the lynching. The two Italians lynched were Salvador Arens and Giuseppe Van Slarella, At the same time the other Italian confined in the same jail at Hahnville, charged with the murder of Juies Guesmary, was iynched. The authorities of 8t. Charles Parish said they had absolute proof, although i of the guilt of Arena and Van Slarella, who on more than one occa- sion had threatened the old Spaniara’s life because he interfered with their bus:- ness. The Creole gives such details of 1he murder as to leave little doubt of tue truth of the confession. He murderea Roccena, he says, for robbary, and was disgusted to find only 50 cents on his body. The murder was committed with The posi- | | It is not. from tehind and killing, as he always did, with a single blow. The body was then drawn by a rope t a neighboring ditch and partly buried there. Ureole to-day ciearly identified the weapon with which the murder was committed and which has been in the pos« session of the Sheriff ever since. Creole seems to be a monstrosity. Hi father was hanged for murder. All his murders have been brutal and cruel, and all but one were commitied for robbery. He is considerably over 6 feet tall, weighs 250 pounds and is a giant in strength. A single blow from him with a ciup or bar has always been fatal. There seems to be no doubt of the truth of the confession, as the bodiss ot four of bis victims have a ready been disinterred where he had buried them. el e Gathering to Divcurs the Seals. HALIFAX, Novi fcotia, Aug. 22—The Bering Sea Claims Commission opens in this city on Tuesday. Sir Charles Tupper, Hou. F. Peters and E. V. Bodwell, coun- sel representing the sealers and Canadian Government, are here. Don M. Dickin- son, one of the connsel representing the United States, has aiso arrived. On Tues- day Judge William Putnam, the United States commissioner, and Judge King, the Canadian commissioner, will arrive and open court. -— President of Creote’'s Assambly. CANEA, Crere, Aug. 22—A lawyer named Benezilo has been elected Presi- dent of th2 General Assembly. Although a Cretan by birth he is a Greek subject. He is a warm advocate of the annexation o7 Crete to Greece. He owes his election to the Ethmke Hetaira, which, it is c&]ain)ed, forced G:eece into her war with arkev. NOW. N SETTING OUT TO MAKE YOUR fortune if you see things with a clear eye you will admit that you waste no time over anything. You take quite a good dea! of care though that you do not get misled. Is the journey of life less im- portant than your chase after fortune? No money on earth will repay you for a system utterly depleted. [Isyours getting depleted ? The truth is “Yes.”” You know that when you read this. Wny not take a little care in getting yonr system rebuilt. Thbe grand “HUDYAN" treat~ ment for weakening manhood is open for vour most exacting queries. 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