The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 11, 1897, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1897 LULORADO'S RAILAOAD CALAMITY Fully Thirty Persons Are Believed to Have Perished. EIGHTEEN SERIOUSLY INJURED. Many of the Victims’ Names Will Probab!y Never Be Known. HORRORS OF THE BURNING WRECK. Conductor of the Stock Traln Under Arrest—The Engineer Is Missing. NEWCASTLE, Coro., Sept. 10.—The wreck that occurred at 12:25 o’cloc! his morning on the joint track of the Denver and Rio Grande and Midiand railways, one and a half miles west of this place. was the worst in the history of Colorado. After twelve hours’ incessant work by the wreckingcrewsin clear away the debris and rescuing the bodies of those who perished, it is yet impossible to secure more n an estimate of the loss of lie, and no: half those known to be dead have been identified. Many of ithe unfortunates never wlll be own, and it is possible that the number d will always be in doubt. From the best info now fully thirty pers: have per- ished, while eighteen were taken out of t fering from serious injuries. The wreck was caused by a Dhead-end coili-ion between a Denver and Rio ande passenger train, running at the e 0f 40 miles an hour, and a special Col- Midland stock train running at a miles. le was the concussion that both nes, baggzage and expresscars, smoker day coach and two stockcars were to- tally demolished and the track torn up for in both directions. To add to the ror of the scene the wreckage at once ught fire from an explosion of & Pintsch 1ank on the passenger train and burned so rapidly that many passengers pinned beneaih the debris were burned to death before Lelp could reach them. The most generally accepted theory as to the cause of the wreck seems to be that Conductor Burbank of the Midiand spe- the time of the special, eal a station’’ and beat into Newcastle. Burbank 1red and, upon orders from Coroner Clark, has teen placed under ar- rest by the Sheriff. The Midlan: engineer, nd a thoro Ostrander, is search zll about e of Lis remains. It is thought that possibly when he saw toe threatened 1ger he jumped from his engine and, reslizing his negligence, took to the hills. Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Strouse, who live one-quarter of a mile from the sc of the accident, report that when tie two trains m.v the shock was so gre iteraily hurl them out of bed. Some noise was heard and the shock felt i Newcastle, cad 2s far as recog an, mail age f Deaven. 1d, tireman Denver and Salida. der Hartman and two sons vesti v n ick of Charles Leeper of illiam Gordon, rion, Pa. engineer pas-enger n. ired are: Rev. Alexander Hart- 1 of Hercher, L1, bc iegs broken and adly burned; Johu S. Stander or Biack- ford, Idaho, ] ad Miss Pearl Cornell o . Or., iipdisiocated; J. C. Y ger of Toledo, Ohio, injured int J. Longman o: Whittier, Cal,, nded; Mrs. Mary Israel of Minn., siightly injured interns Snvder of Independence, Kans i Areneyo. Vicior, Colo, <o of Cockrell, Mo, ace burned; O. V. badly avont th~ o Chicago, back injured; J. Louis, cut in iorehead, rnomas Nash of Moz arm badly broken and face; Frank P. Maanix, bruised and sl Leeper, Pa., bad v bruisea; Brakeman Knapp, ie crushed; James B. Foley, ex- press messenger, bruised; William S, Mis<emer, express messenger, bruised. Thne case of Eng'neer O-trander of the freight eng:ae is still in aoubt. Charred fragments of limbs and bodies of a number of persoas bave besn taken out of the ruins,but it is not hkely thet any more bodies will be positiveiy identi- ed, and it seems certain that the number kill d will always remain in doubt. The Coroner found a shaving-mug with the name **W. Nicholson” upon it, also a goid watch with the name of F.C. Potter aved on the outside. soon as the news of the wreck Vicior, Colo., Iy burned; R. W. Shott, As reached Glenwood a rehef train was sent from that place, and this afternoon the more seriously wounded were sent 10 the Denver and Rio Graude Company’s spital at Salida. General Sunerintendent Sample of the Denver and Rio Grande happened to be in the vicinily of the disaster, and soon reached the -cene, taking charge of the work of removing the bodies. Ten bodies were found in the ruinsof ne car and four in another. Tuecharred remains 0. two women, apparently clssped in each other’s arms, were found. Their heads and lower limbs were burned offe In the dress bosom of each was found « lady’s gold watch, upon one of which was inscribed “From Mother to Mamie.” Telegrams from ail parts of the country iring for friends and relatives are ur ng in constantly. Frank P. Mannix, a newspaper man of Victor, Colo., who was in the smoker and escaped with some painful bruises ard burns, said to-day: “Words cannot express the horror of the scene. The crasn came unexpectedly. Sucdenly all was darkness. The air was filied with cinders, splinters and heated Then the flames darted up on gases. r P eituer sile. The sceme was simply inde- scribable. The flames were in a sense a odsend, for with their eid the windows ware located, even though passengers had 10 jump through the flames.” The first man to arrive at the wreck was E. H. Strouse, who resides on his ranch, abou: 300 feet {rom the track. Mr. Strouse was awakened by the collision. He hur- < to reveal his bones or any ! > | ner head and sent = bullet through her tied to the scene and assisted 1n rescuing the passengers in the smoker and day coach. Wuoen he reached the wreck a few minutes after the coliision four of the cars were all ablaze, and the beat was so ter- rific that it was impossible for any one to gel near them. In a few minutes he thinks that at least fifteen to twenty per- sons were cremated. J. G. Young, one of the survivors, says be was in the smoker at the rear end when the collision took place. The front end of the car and part of the roof was thrown on him, pinning him | down in his seat, but he succeeded in free- ing himself and escaping through a win- dow with a few slignt cuts on his head. There were abont twenty-five persons in the smoker, and he does not think more than eight got out alive, all of the re- mainder being cremated. As to the day coach, immediately behind the smoker, he thinks there were from thirty o thir- ty-five in it, and to the best of his knowl- edge only two succeeded in making their escape. He says thatall who were in the chair- car got out safely before the fire reached it, aiso those in the two Pulimans. Coroner Clark says that only ten bodies have been taken from the burning wreck. These, with Keenan, Holland, Hines and Gordon, make fourteen in all, but there is no doubt that these are less thap haif of those who perished. The most conservative estimate places the list of de.d at twenty-five to thirty- five. The remains of what are supposed to be ten persons are confined in two caskets. There is nothing to identify them, and it is expected they will be buried here to-morrow or Sunday. Fred G. Rockwell, stock agent for the Burlingion, who was on the ill-fated train, was seen by a reporter. He saia: “I had just leit the sleeper in company with a gentieman and passed throt the day coach into the nextcar. We had barely seated ourselves in the smol compariment when we were hurled vio- lently from our seats by the shock of the collision. We got out safely. ‘A moment lateria terrific explosion of gas rent the air and after it came a burst of flame. Ajter getting my bearings I was horrified to discover that the smok- ing-car had ridden over the day coach, cutting its way almost to encasing the car in such a manner as to shut off all hope of escape. “It was in tnis day coach where the horrible harvest of death took place. I procured an ax and with o‘hers managed 1o chop throuszh a window and zetont two women and three men badly hurt and another man who was | struggling to get his foot loose. He was seif-possessed, and told me he was not in- jured otherwise. He could not free him- self, and 1 was compeiled to -tand help- lessly by and see him consumed by the flames. “Tie five that we rescued were the only ones that could possibly huve escaped from the car. It wascrowded with men, women and children. Ishouid say fully thirty adults were cremated there, aside from the children.” Conductor Hawthorne of the ill-fated train does not place the loss of life at so many as is gene: supposed. On checking up his tic as nearly as he can tell, eight were killed in the coaches. ROMANCE GF HORSE HZAVEW, Rivals in Love Fight a Duei After ths | Gbject of 1heir Affections Commits Suicrde. PORTLAND, Or from North Ya noon says: Sept. 10.—A d ma, Wash., this after- Coroner Taggard returned from the Horse Heaven country veater- day where he held an inquest on the body rinda Scritchfield, a handsome girl s, W.0 committed failed to run smoothliy. She was cooking for a threshing crew on rm of Hans Smith, where she was courted by two men employed there. disposed to relinquish the attentions of | ihe other. This resulted in a quarrel be- tween the lovers, and when the estrange- ment took place she borrowed a revoiver rom one of the crew, making a plea that she needed it for protection, and going to her tent, placed the muz brain. Death was instantane A later telegram savs that the giri's death the two lovers repaired to a point a nuiie distant from the tragic scene | purposing to spill their own blood over the girl, who certainly must have been de- mented. doing by some other men, who foliowed them, but not until two shots had been exchanged without injury. —_— PREFERS A CRUELTY CHARGE. Mrs. Mary A. Lounitous’ Suit for Legal Separation. SAN JOSE, Car, Sept. 10.—The divorce suit of Mary A. Lounibous against James G. Lounibous was called for trial before Judge tredge this morning, but aiter hearing some of the testimony it was - definitely continued because of an insuf- ficier of «vidence to sustain the charges nd in order to ailow the piaintiff furt er time to produce proof. Mrs. Lounibous charges her busband, who isa whoiesale liquor-dealer fn San Francisco, with crue! and desertion. She desires half of about $7000 wortn ot community prop- erty and $50 per menth alimony. Snortiy «f:er the divorce suit was com- menced Mrs. Lounibous sued J. Louni- bons, her husband’s father, to compel him to convey to her a pilece of property at Ei Verano, waich it is cisimed the father-n- law promised the plaintiff if she would re- turn to ner 2nd when she once lefi him on accou of his cruelty. Mrs, Lounibous returned to her husband, but the deed was not forthcoming. e FIRE DESTKUY> LIVESTOCK. Conflagration én the Chinece Quarter at Oroville. OROVILLE, CaL., Sept. 10.—A fire started tuis afternoon in a barn back of Chinatown. The Chinese hoss company was prompt in getting a stream on the blaze, but was unable to check it. An ad- joining shed filled with wood was suon on | tire, and by the time the hose companies got streams of wWater going five Chinese stores and dwellings were being con- sumea. By diligent work ‘he hre was confined 1o the e buiidings. The Chinese in their excitement forgot about the horses in the corral and stavle, One horse was reieased after being so uadly burned that it will have to be killed. Three horses were burned to death in the barn, ax were also thirtr-five hogs belon ing to Wo Lung, and kept in a pen bac| of his store. The total loss 1s about $2000, with light insurance. ey The Albicn at San Diego. SAN DIEGO, Car, Sept. 10. — The steamer Albion, Capiain Tawing, arrived to-cay, tweniy days from San Benito, Mex. She brought $3600 in gold bullion and a smali cargo o1 coffee and Mexican fruits. After going on the marine ways here she will sail for San Pedro and go southward on her return trip about the 20th. The Albion is the first vessel of the Lower Califormia Development Company’s new line to arrive here. On her next trip down the coast sne will take a party of twelve Los Anzeles and San Diego mer- chants to work up Mexican trade. - Frawley Capturcs His Man. EUGENE, Or, Sept. 10.— Deputy Sheriff Frawley of Modoe County, Cali- fornia, returned to Eugene to-day with Cornell, the California caitle-tnief, whom ne has been chasing. He caugit his man ias: even:ng on the railroad bridge near Jefferson. The prisoner wi'l ba taken to California as soon as extradition papers are obtained. ————— ALL kinds of job printing at The Star, 429 Montgomery sireei. Phone. Main 358. LW. Lovey. - the seats and | who were | suicide on | ecause the course of true love | They were prevented irom so | FEASTED OPON [ Two Men Die in Tor- | ture at a Nevada City Wood Ranch. George Kohler ana One of His Gues s Expire and Four Others Are 1L Neighbors Hint That They Were Victims of an Enemy of the Aged Proprletor. | NEVADA, CaL. Bept. 10.—Two dead ! men and four who are slowly recovering | from a severe sickness are the net resuit | of eating the food served this week at | George Kohler’s wood ranch on the Wash- ington road, eizht miles above this city. Kohler himseli died there on Wednes- day, and his neighbors, who dropped in 0o enliven the iast hours of the old man, | voted him a victim of cholera morbus. While they were caring for him and g | keeping vigil with his lifeless body they partook freely of the supply of food on band an! helped themselves ‘o alcohol | from tue demijohn which Kohler always kept handy. Yesterday they were all seized by cramps and became partly blind, mani- | festing the same symptoms that Kohler bad in the earlier stages of his attack. August Ambe:g seemed to be in the worst condition, and this mornin he { died in trightful agony. O. P. Davis, Sol | Amberg, W. H. Wrisley and a son of Wil- liam Gilieit had spent the day there and they, too, were taken sick. liel Sol Amberg started for this city afoot and gave out on the wav. up by a passing wagon and brougit town. He says that the food partaken of con- sisted of canned sardines, brgad, peaches preserved in alcohol, and rrg.!‘\ .ruit, and that they drank some of the alcohol. 10 went 1o the ranch thorough investigation. They interviewed the neighbors and got samplcs of ali the eatables ard the alcohol. They fed a can of the sardines to a cat, but the animal was not seriously affected by the meat. They found a box of strych- nine on a shelf, but the men sround there said 1t was oniy used 10 poison gophers. | There are ail sorts of stories afloat amonz the people on t eridee and some of them hint at the likelibcod of a foul crime having been committed. They sa in trouble over timber lands, and some of | them try to connect his death and that of Amberg with that trouble. | Sheriff Getchell, upon his return to- nizht, said that he was almost as much in the dark then as when he started. | He says he has jound nothing so far to show that a crime bas been committed, | and that an analysis of the food and alco- | ing. An inqnest is to be held on Monday, when a searching investigation of the mystery will be made. There are many who think that a cold-blooded vlot to poi- -on old man Kohler, of which plot Am- victims, will be developed. | ! PYLE’S BrnOTHER iESTIFIES. Brother of the Murdered Constable | Gives Strong Evidence Against i HeCamish. LOS ANGELES, CaL., Sent. 10. — AL most the strongest evidence vet presented | against Ed McCamish, on trial for the killing of Constable McCoy Pyle at Cas- | taic, was given to.day by Everett Pyle, brother of the murdered man. declares that there wers powder marks on the face of his dead brother, believed by the jury, would controvert the asseriion ot McCamish, that Pyle was shot by a tramp who was over ten feet d:s- tant, and would sub-tantiate the lheo‘i‘ of the prosecution, that Pyle was killed while he siept in the littie station build- ! ing. In addition to this, Everett Pyle swears that his brother was in the habit | of sleeping on his back, with his mouth | open and lower jaw protruding, and that | such was his position wnen he saw him | dead, and before the corpse had been dis- | uroed. The trial, which has been twice inter- raupted this week by holidays, was given a | sensational turn to-day by the positive statements of Everett Pyle, for if his testi- mony remains unshaken the prosecution hopes for a conviction. The prosecution has not established be- yond doubt that there was improper inti- macy between the accused man and the wife of the deceasec, but there have been witnesses to prove that McCamish bas talked in a way to cause suspicion of his ! sentiments, and tha: he had made state- ments intimaiing that Mrs. Pyle wouid soon be a widow. J. R. Jenkins, a memter of the Cor- oner’s jury, swore that McCamish told him that Pyle was shot by one of the tramps, and specifiex the position of all at the time of the allezed encounter. - On cross-examination it developed that Jen- kins had once been convicted of burgiary. e DROWNED IN WOLF CREER. | J. P. Bruce, a Ve - Known Arizonian, Lowes His life Near Mayer. PRESCOTT, Ariz., Sept. 10.—Word has just reached Prescott from Mayer that | J. P. Bruce, who for the pasi twenty years | has run a freight contracting outfit, was | drowned this aiternoon while attempting | to cross Wolf Creek a couple of miles from | Mayer. George Harrington was with Bruce in a light wagon. When in the | middle of a_creek which is ordinarily a | dry wash, the horses lost their footing rand the wagon began to float. Harrington ! became alarmed and prepared to jump. | The wagou was washed against a tree branch which Harrington seized as the wagon with Bruce turned over. Up to the time of the sending of the report neither Bruce, the wagon nor the team had been | tound. Bruce was weli known and quite a | prominent Mason. Farmers® Institute at Healdsburg. HEALDSBURG, CaL, Sept. 10.—The two days' session of the Farmers’ Insti- tute began in Healdsburg this afternoon. Professor Koebig, Professor Jaffa and Donglass T. Fowler of the State University were in attendance. The afternoon was taken up with the anal!ysis of su.ar ! beets, which aemonstrated that the soil f Sonoma and Mendocino counties was admirably adapted :o itheir culture. A | CHRISTL t his residence, 513 Octavia street, Charles Cnrisilan, = oDasive of Switzeriand, aged 70 years. POISONOUS FOOD They took emeiics and found some re- | He was taken | Sheriff Geichell and Coroner Hocking | to-day and madea | that Koaier has been involved | | hol may show a case of accidental poison- | She had a preference for one, but was not | & AL poion berg and the others became unexpected | Everett | This, if | number of specimens were brought by the farmers, The highest percentage of sugar shown was in beets raised by W. N. Gladden. Among the exhibits of fruits and vegetables in the ball wasa | 52-pound watermeion grown by Charles | Mather. WILL WED AT STANFORD. | Howard Bell and Miss Fuby Hazel Green to Be Married To-Day. STANFORD UNLIVERSITY, CaL., Sept. 10.—Howard Bell '99 and Miss Ruby Hazel Green ' are to be quietly married to-morrow afternoon. The prospective bride has often been spoken of as the pretiiest and most charm- ing of Stunford young ladies. She is very popular and a leading member of tbe Kappa Aipha Theta Sccigty. Miss Green comes from Indiana and is a niece of Professor Rufus Lot Green of the matha- metics department. She has history for her major study and has done her minor work in the Eugli-h department. Howard Wiliiam Bell is a well-known Oakland boy, a son of J. F. Bell, for many vears connecied with the Oakland En- %uuer. He spent bis freshman vear at the niversity of Califorma and came Stanfor { as a member o: the class of '99. He isa man of considersble literary ability and after euntering Stanford secured a position with Honghtoa, M.fin & Co., the Boston publishing-house. Recently he returned to the university for the pur- pose, as it now transpires, of joining his fortunes witu Miss Green. Mr. Bell is a member of tbe Delta Theta iraternity and has history for his major study.. The wedding is to be a very quiet affair, only a intimate friends and relatives having been invited to witness tue ceremony. —_— SLAGEL SEEN IN STOCKTON. Ons of the Ken Who Attempted to Rob the Los Angeles Express Re- turns to the City. STOCKTON, Car, Sept. 10.— Dick Crowe, who works on Union Island, came in from there iate to-day and to-night told Tue CaLL correspondent that Williams | and Slagel, who attempted o rob the Los Arngeles express, near Morrano, Wedn day night, were seen by him on the Union | Iland road at 11:30 o’clock last night. | Crowe knows them both, and stopped to ask what they were doing there, They told him that :bey were out on a dov. huntuing exvedition. The wou!d-be train { robbers were driviug one horse in a light spring wagon. This evening at 6:30 o’clock Slagel was seen by Crowe ia town. At thattime Crowe did not know anything of the hold-up ot Wednesday night, and did not, for that reason, report 1o the authori- | ties. | S aw i PACIFIO GROVE IIINERANTS Clud Memb-re Co tinus to Discuss the Duties of the Pastor. PACIFIC GROVE, CavL., Sept. 10.—The Itinerant Club of the California confer- ence, which began its annual five days’ | work here last night, gives promise of an unusually successful conclave this | year. The club is composed of laymen as well as clereymen, banded togetner for intellectual advancement, and is in a | measure a preparatory school for the | work of the ministry. The first scssion to-day was called to order by President A. H. Needham at 17:30 2 . The topic for study was *‘Church Management’’ and wus taken up after preliminary business and devotional ser- vice, prominent Methodist clergym considering its various departments. Rev. Dr. F. F. Jewell talked ot the pastor in relation to th» quarterly conference; Rev. H. B. Heacock of the pastor in re- latien to chiurch benevolences; Rev, W. W. Case of the pastor in relation to the young peobple’s societies; Rev. F. A. Morrow of the pastor ana churen finance: The discussion which followed the lecturt was general and interesting. —_ ¥alley Road Trains to Visalia. VISALIA, Car., Sepi. 10.—Reguiar pas- senger and freight train service on the lley road between Fresno.and Visalia was instituted to-day. i — Tulare County Will +dvrribee, VISALIA, Car., Sept. 10.—The Board of Supervisors to-day appropriated $1500 | fruit this winter in New York. { Trustees Must Provide Funds. | Some interesting 1aw oa the question of pro- | viding funds for school purposes was handed down by she Supreme Court vesterday. The trustees of the Cnico High School, who are | also the Board of Education of Butte County, sousht to compel the Board of Suparvisors to provide appropriations for the supportof the school, inasmuch as a portion of the com as well as the town itself, a city of the fifth .ss, was included in the school district. Failing in this the board attempied to have the Auditor incluae the item in the tax levy. A writ of mandate was denied, which actiou Wes approved by the Supreme Court, The court heid that th: municipal law, sec- tion 295, was amended in 1891 so that terri- tory added y school district shail be deemed a part of the city ana sball constitute a separate precinct for the purposes of school elections, “and the electors therein may vote for a Board o: Education, and suca outside territory shall be deemed & part of the city for all matiers connecied witu the school depart- meut.” —_———— Some Law on Contracts. The Supreme Court has decided the long- drawn-out dispute between the Pacific Rolling- milis and W. D. English, A. C. Panisell and C. 0. Alexander, the former Board of Harbor Commissioners, over the construction of sec- tion Bof the seawall against the mill com- pany. The contract for this section of the sea- wall was let to J_S. Antonelli, who, in turn, let it to the San Francisco Contracting Com- pauy under terms that provided for a reserve of the price being held until the work was sc- cepled. The coniracting company failed to finish the job, assigning its ciaim to the roll- ing-mills. Antoneili compieied the work, assigning his claim for the guarantee to the Kennedy & Shaw Lumber Company. The rolling-mil.s brought suit to determine to whom this reserve belonged and were non- suited in the lower courts. The Supreme Court sustains this decision, e e o T Winthrop to S.uy in Jail; | The app.ication of Oliver W. Wintnrop for & | new trius has been denied by the Supreme Court. Winthrop is now serving a life sen- tence in San Qnentin for robbery. His kia- naping and abductlon of millionaire James mpeuell of Honolulu from the Occivental Hotel was like a chapter from the decd« of the bandits or Italy, but Judge Wallace and ajury could s2e no romance iu it, hence ine decision of the Supreme Court yesterday that Win- <hrop must siay in jail —— Edwin H. Hosmer Wanted. The Auditor of the War Department has ad- dressed a letier to Internal Revenue Collecior Lynch inquiring as to the whereabouts of Edwin H. Hosmer, son of Thomas Hosmer, late private of L'omglny E, One Hundred and Tentn New York Volunieers and Oune Hun- dred and Twelith Company, Second Bettalion, Veteran Reserve Corps. The letter states that Hosmer resided in San Francisco three or four yeurs ago. o e A Accused of Gra.d Larceny. M. J. Cavanaugh, a recent arrival from Ta- coms, appeared before Judge Conlan yesterday on a charge of grend larceny. He is accused by William Leavney of stealing $2 and two neckties from him in & szloon on Howard street, where they had been drinking together Thursdsy night. Cavanaugh denied any k‘now\l‘edge of (he crime, and the case was cone tinued. e Smuggled < 0ous Se z,d. found 700 Customs inspeetor Campbail cigars stowed away in the forepeak of the steamer City o: Syduey, which arrived from nama iast Thorsday. Yesterda: on the me steamer he fou:d and seized 2250 cigars d a boit 01 silk cloth. The articies were con- | fiscated. toward the maintenance of an exhibit of | STATE TAX RATE NOW 51 GENTS Equalizers Reduce More Interior Counties and Adjourn. Those Which Asked for No Decrease Have It Thrust Upon Them. Black Ryan of Alameda Sends In an Appeal for the Southern Paclfic. SACRAMENTO, Car., Sept. 10.—The State Board of Equalization finishea its labors to-day and the result is that it has fixed. the State rate at 51 cents on each $1C0 of valuation, a raise of several cents over the valuation set last year. When. the boara convened to-day a com- muuication trom Assessor Berkey of Sac- ramento County was read, in which he asked for a reduction of 10 per centon that county’s assessment, stating that his reason for asking for the reduction was that it would only e fair in consideration ot what other interior counties had re- ceived. The request was granted. Ayes— Arnold, Beamer, Colgan and Morehouse. Noes—Chesebrough. Arnold then stated that he had tele- grapned to the Supervisors of Inyo, Mono and Mariposa, asking if th-y desired a re- duction, and had received an answer to the effect that the latter two counties did not, bt that Invo, like Barkis, *‘was willing,” s0 that county was granted a 10 per cent reduciion, the ayes and noes being the same. ke, Modoc and Sierra were then granted a 15 per cent reduction, and com- munications were read stating that Las- sen and Contra Costa counties were tully satisfied with their present assessment and aesired to be left aione. During the deliberations of the board President Morehouse received a telepnonic { message from E. Black Rvan asking if the board wouid consider an application for a reduction of 5 per cent on the Sou Pacific Railroad assessment in those counties through which the railroad passed that*had been granted reduc- tions, The matter was laid before the board and Morehouse read that sec- tion of the code which declared that such applications must be filed be- tween the first Monday in August and the first Monday in September, and pointed out that as the legal time nad ex- pired no scticn couid be taken. Black was 20 informed and the board adjourned. KILLED BX EXPLOSION, Butte County Miner Mangled by Giant Powder, CHICO, Car., Sept. 10.—Word has reached this city of a fatai explosion of giant powder at 2 o’clock on Wednesday afternoon on Balil Creek, forty-three miles irom nere. T. B. Bennington, an old miner oi. Butte County, had taken several sticks of giant powder into a blacksmith shop. A 2 o'clock a terrible report was heard. The 13.year-old son of Benning- ton harried to the cene of the explosion to find the blacksmitn shop blown to atoms and the mangled body of his father iving forty feet from the wrecked build- ing. Bennington had always kept giant pow- der stored in & hoilow oak tree some dis- tance from the cabin, but had taken sev- eral sticks of the explosive to the black- smith shop near the mine. He was aged 48 years and leaves a widow and three cuildren. e Elected Clerk of Butte County. OROVILLE, CaL., Sept. 10.—Henry D. | Lauson was to-day elected clerk of Butte County by the Board of Supervisors, vice Ba Harkness, who resigned to accept a position as assistant cashier of the Bank of Butte County at Chico. EXTRAORDINARY NERVOUSESS. Blindfolded, Could Count Every Seam When Walking Across a Carpest. From the Cupital, Sedalia, Mo. There is provably no one better known in Sedaiia, espectcily among the members of the First Baptist Church, than Mrs. Moilie E. Roe, wife of Mr. Roe, the hurseryman, and nothing is better known smong the lady's acquain tances than that for the past four years she has been & physical wreck from locomotor ataxia, in its severes: jorm. Thatshe hns re. cently recovered her health, sirength aud normal locomotion hss been made apparent by her being seen frequently on the streets and in church, and tais fact induced & repre- sentative of the Cepital to call on Mrs. Roe to fiquire into the circuimstances of her remark- ab.e recovery. Mrs. Roe was seen nt her house, at tha corner of Ohio avenue and Twenty-fourch sireet, and seemed ouly too giad to give the following history of ner case for publication: “Four veprs ago,” she said, “I was attacked with a dis 3{: which the puysicians diaguosed #S 10COm! ataxis, and I was speedily re- duced to a mere wreck. I had no control of my muscles, and could not lift the least thing. My flesh disappeared until my bones almost pierced my skin. The sense of touch became so exquisitely sensiitve that I believe ILcoud by wuiking over the sofiest carpst biindfolded have counted every seam, so ii may be imagined how I felt when trying to MOV y uncontrol:able limbs. ““{h. most eminent physicians were con- sulted, but they gave me 0o relicf, and I wa without hope aud would have prayed ior death but for the thought of leaving my littie children. All thought of recovery had gone, arditwas onl upon &s & question ot time by my husbend mv friends when my troubles would end in ihe grave. ; “One day while in (h:s coucition, I received & newspaper from some fricnds in Denver, with a news item marked, and while reading it my eyes fell upon an account of & remarka- bie cure of locomoior ataxia by the use of Dr. Williams’ Pink P..1s for Pale People, ana the case as aescribed was exactly similar to my own. Iatonce made up my mind o try the remedy, and began accordiug 10_aireciions to take the pills The first bux had not gone when I experienced & marked improvement, aud as I continued I grew beiter and better, until I was totaliy cared. 1 took abcut four boxes 11 ail, and after two years o: the most bitter suffering was as well as I ever wa: Not oniy my feelings but my appesrance un- derwenta change. Igained flesh, and thougn now 43 years old, I feel like a young girl. You can say that Mrs. Roe owes her recovery to Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills, and that she kuows tnat there is nothing in the worid Lke them. (signed) MOLLIE E. RoE.” Subserived Ard sworn to before me this 24th day of August,'1896. GEORGE B. DENT, Notary Public, [sEaL] Peitis Couniy, Mo. Dr. Williams’ Pink Piils contain, in's con- densed iorm, ali the elements necessary to give new life aud richness to the blood and restore shatierea nerves. They are aiso w specific for trounles peculiar to females, such as suppressio s, irrexularities ana ail forms ot weakness. They build up the blood and re- store tne glow of healin to pale and sallow cheeks. Iu men they effrct & radical cure iu 2l cases arising {rom mental worry, over- work or excesses of whatever nature. Pink Pills ar 1d in boxes (uever in loose bulk) at 50 cents a box or six boxes 1or $2 50, aud wuay ve had of all drugeists or direct by mail from Dr. Williams' Meaicine Company, Schenec- ady, N. Y. NEW TO-DAY. mined. stand up erable. One thrown into my I then got some pound and Liver\/k feel like a mew™ of the past. for what it has e A e e A e A A A THREE HAPPY WOMEN. Each Relieved of Periodic Pain and Backe ache. A Trio of Fervent Letters,’ Before using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, my health was gradually being under- I suffered untold agony from painful menstruation, backache, pain on top of my head and ovarian trouble @ try Mrs. Pinkham’s Compound, and found that it was all any woman needs who suffers with painful monthly periods. cured me. I concluded to It entirely Mrs. GEORGIE WASS, 923 Bank St., Cincinnati, O. For years I hed suffered with painful men- struation every month. menstruation it was impossible for me to formore than five minutes, I felt so mis- day a little book of Mrs. Pinkham’s was house, and I sat right down and read it. of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com- Pills. ‘woman; my monthly suffering is a thing shall always praise the Vegetable Compound done for me. MRS. MARGARET ANDERSO At the beginning of I can heartily say that to-day I 363 Lisbon St., Lewiston, Me. Lydia ®. rinkham’s vegeable Compound has cured me of painTutvmen- struation and backache. The pain in my back was dreadful, and the agony _ suffered during menstruation nearly drove me wi'e Now this is all over, thanks to Mrs. Pinkham's medicine. ana_aavice.—>3rs JArriE V. WinLiams, Seuth Mills, N. G The great volume of testimony proves conelusivery that Ly « dia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is a safe, sure and almost infallible remedy in cases of e bt e 1 monthle neriod MISCELLANEOUS. MANHOOD RESTORED. *““CUPIDENE.” s great Vegstable iz2r, the prescrip- ot 'a Famous French physictas, will quickly cure you ali necvons or dis- eises of the ive organs. s 1.0st Mankood. 1 nia Painsiothe Back, = TER Jeminal Emissons BEFORR, = AFTER . Norous Beoility, nz Drains. ¢ all losses 5 qu hacze, s Lo Spermatorrhea and all the horrors of Impotency. CUPIDENE he liver, the Kidneys aud the ary orgapns or all impurities. CUPIDENE strengthens and restores small, weak organs. The reason sufferers are not cured by Doctors is because ninety per cen: are troub ed with Pros- tatitis. PIDENE is the oniz known remedy to cure without an ojer t'on, 5000 tesiimonials. A written guarantee given and monev returned if six boxes 4o not effect a permanent cure. 100 a DOX. 8ix for £5.00, by mail. Send 0r FREE Cir- cuiar aud cestim niais Address DAVOL MEDICINE €O., 1170 Market stree., Sau Francisco, Cal. For saiv by BROUKS PEARMACY, 119 Fowell strest. DR. TOX SHE BIN, Chinese Tea and Herb Sanitarium, 615 Mearny Sireet, San Francisoo, Cal. 1 have taken treatment for my kidneys, waich nave bothered me for along while, and also catarrh of the stomach, and aiso chropic diarrhea. and was cured In two weeks by Dr. Tom She Bin: also ulood poison in my thumb. WM E. BRY \ », 8 Martha place, San Francisco. Sax FRANCISCO, March 6, 1897. kiduey Lrouoie four years. My D:. Tom She Bip. He felt my 1 had gravei a friends <ent m pulse and he to d me what trouble {sad Iputmy | case I his hands a:d ook herbs cwice & duy. In four weeks my troubles were wfl cured. Now my flosh is ail govd. 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Tral enye nud are due (o arrive at NAN FRANCISCO. (Main Line, Foot of Market Street.) * LEAVE _— FROM AUGUST 15, 189 A Niles, Sau Jose and Way Statior d Sacramento. .. caud Redding via a d Rum: 7:004 Vacavile a 2 an Ramo 8:004 Atiautic bxpress. O en and Bast.. - 0A Niles, S Jose, Stocktou, Ione, Sacramento, Marysvifle, = Chico, Tehama and Red JinfT... 9:004 Valiejo, Fresu o *1:00p Sacrawento 1:30¢ Marticez ar: 2:00p Lizermor: vay Stations i endota, Haoford sod Visalia . 4:00p Murtinez, Sau T Napa, Calistoga, ¥ Santa Re [} @ ~ Vallejo, Verano and 4:30p Lathrop, o mond (for Yosemite), Mojave (for Randsburg) bara and Los A sar 4:30P Santa Fe Jonte, Al a for Mojave aud rast s :00F Enropean M den and Fast. Express Portlaud, Puget Melrose, Seminary Park, Fitchburg, Elmhurst, San Leandro, South San . Leandro, Estadiilo, Lorenzo, Cherry and Haywards., uns through to Niles) rom Niles. et SANTA CKUZ DIVISION (Narrow Gauge). RAILROAD TRAVEL. SAYFRANCINCO & NORTH PA- CIFIC RAILWAY (0. Tiburon Ferry—Foot of MarketSt. San Francisco to San Rafael. 9:00, 11:00 A.»: 1%: P. % Thursdays—Extra Saturdays—Exira trips 2 1: 11:10 o w.: trips A 1:40 S:48 :00, 6:35 P. . Between San Francisco and Schuetsen Park same schedule as sbove. Leave Arrive &an Francisco. "l:"""’?" 8an Francisco. 1597, WEER | SUN- SuN- | Wem Dava | pava |Destivafion. | JUX | PRAE T80 A 800 A| Novato, |10:40 x| 84D X B:30 px §:30 Ax| Petaluma, | 6:10 Px 10:25 Ax 5:10 px|5:00 Px|Santa Rosa.| 7:35 ru| 6:22 P Falton, I 7:80 ax Windsor, 10:28 2k Healdsburg, Lytton, | G?Y&!rvfllev 3:30 Px|8:00 ax| Cloverdale. | 7:38 7:30 An | Ho h\n«cl | 8:30 Px| 8:00 ax| CUkian. | 7:35 7u/ TB0 ax| 1 110:25 A 'Bmmiflnemvlllol 7:35 rxl 3:30 vx| i 8:22em T804 800 AN| Sonoma |10440 ax| B:40 AN an 5:10 P3| 5:00 ¥x! Glen Eilen. | 6:10 rx| 6:227x T30 ax 800, A 10:40 ax|i0:25 AN 3130 72| 5 00 rc| Sebmscopol. | 17108 TG 0a Stages connect at Santa Rosa for Mark West Springs: a: Geyserville for Skaggs Springs: at Cloverdale for the Geysers; at }o land for Hign. and_Springs, Keiseyville. Soda 5ay. Lakepors | and Bartiett Springs: Ukian for Vichy Springs, saratoga Springs, Blu- Lakoes, Laurel Dell Lake, | Upper Lake, Pomo, Potier Valley, Jonn Day's Riverside, Lieriey’s, Buck nell's. sSanhedrig EHeights. Hullville, Booneville Orr's Hot Springs, Mendoctno City, For: Bragg, Westport, Usal. Saturday to Monday round-trip tickets a redugel races. On Sundays round-trip tickets ta sll poiaws be rond San Rafael at balf rates. Ticket Offices, 650 Marke: st., Chrontcls huflding. A. W, FOSTER, R X RYAN, Pres. and Gen. Pass. Agean KORTH PACIFIC COAST RAILROAD (Via Sausalite Ferry). From San Francisco, Commencing May % 1897 WEEKDAYS. Ml Valley and San Rafael—7:00, #8:15, P 115507 ar i *1:45, 3:.0, 4:00, 518, *6:00, 6:30 2. 3 Extra trips for San Rafael on Mondays, Wednes days and Saturdars st 11:30 p. M SUNDAYS For Mill Valler and San Hafael—*8:00, #9:00 €10:00. 11 11:30 a. M. 1:00. *1:43 *2:30, *4:00, 5:30, 5.11:00 2. . 11:00 A M. d0es 10: ruu to San Katael; 6:30 and 11:00 P. M. do noi run (0 Mil, Vaila: Trains marked ~ run to San Quentin. THROUGH TRALNS. YO A. . weekeays for Uazadero and way sta- tions; 1:45 T M. Saturdavs for Cazadero and {00 A x Suudays fer Fomi 1:30, 3:30, | A M. ~undays for Cazsders | i (Foot of Market Street.) 8:15A Newark, Centerville o Boulder Creek, Saiita Cruzand Way Santa Cruz and Principal Stations = 4:15p San Jose and Glenwocd. %4:15p Felton and Santa Cruz. CREEK ROUTE FERRY. Prom SAN FRANCISCO—Foot of Market Street (Slip 8)— 5 11:00aM. 3100 *2:00 13:00 *4:00 3 *6:00r.m. Prom OAXLAND—Foot of Broadway.—*6:00 8:00 10:004.M. pat *14 $2:00 0 $4:00 ~5:00rae TOAST DIVISION (Thivd & Townsend Sts.) $6:55A San Jose and Way Stations (New 2:302 Almaden Wednesdays ouly) 2304 Sunday Excursion for San u Sauta_ Cruz, Pacific Grove and Principal Way Statiops.. 9:004 San Jose, Tres Piuos, Santa Cruz, rove, Paso Robles, Sau po, Guadalupe, Surf aud Srincipal ¥ 4:15r ¢ San Jose and Viny & L oe:ada 0A -8an Jose aud Way Statiovs 5:30¢ *2:30p San Mateo, Redwood, Menlo Park, Santa Clara, Sau Jose, Gilroy, *3:15p San Jose, Santa Cruz, Pacitie Gro and Way S!xl;‘rli'; 150 San Joseaud 5:00p San Jose and Principal Wey Stations *8:35A 5:30¢ H;:’x.l‘ and Principal Way Stations _*9:00A. P San Jofe aud Way Stations. 33A 3¢ San Jose and Way Statious, 7309 A for Moruing. P for Afternoon. * Sundays excepted. $ Sundays only. {Saturda Moaday, Thursday and S . » only urday nights only. and Sundays. § Sundays and Mondaya. G sa| SANTA FE Sanfa F (R Route " |FYrm Trains leave from and arrive street Ferry. SANTA FE EXPRESS TIA DIRECT LINE—i EAVES DAILY 4:30 P. M. arrives dally 6:15 . M. Palage Pullman Drawing-room, 8iso moiern upholstered Touriss Sleeping (ars, Cakland pler to Chicago, vis Kao- #as Clty. Anuex (ars for Denver and St Louis. Sauta Fe Express via Los Angeles—Leaves daily 94 M.: arrivesdaiy 7:45 A M. sosion EXcursions via Kansas City, Chicago, Montreal and (he White Mcuntains leave every Tuesday. The best railway from California to the East. New raf 5. Dew Lies, 0O _uSt, inieresting scemery, and go-d meals in Harvey's dining-rooms. Market« San Frapcisco Ticket Ofce—644 Mare Ket street, Chronicle Building, Tele phone Main 1531. Oakiand—1118 Brosdway. | HODYT TAMILPAI SOEN'C RAILWAY (Via Sausailto Ferrr). Leave San ¥Fraucisco Cemmnencing May 1897: WEEK DAYS—9:45 4 X.: 1:45,5:15 », 3 BUNDAYS—8:00, 8:00, 10:00, 11 & a; 830 P x. July 3, 1897, trains will ru’ on Sunday time. Tickeis sor ale at MILL VALLEY or THOS, COOK & 621 Marke: st. San Francisce ' Telepho e Main huds (under Faisce Seiel)