The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 12, 1897, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1897. 1 » SACRAMENTO 1 _ FOR G00D ROADS ONE AN STOPS__ 10 HONDRED S | Agitation of the Popular| How a Miner Brought a Subject Taken Up Railroad Company in Earnest. to Terms. What They Mean in a Finan-| With a Winchester He Levies | cial Way to the Ci'y Toll for Right of Way and County. on His Claim. ! Commissioner Luhrs John Carson Is Now Regarded as vors the Prcp Bonds fer t Boss of the Randsburg District. Special Dispatch to THE CALL. zood- : LOS ANGELES, Nov. 1L—*“The first e Al man whomakes a move on my claim is Wheelimen to geta ballin his frame that wil when the jave to be dug out with a dredgar.’’ able consid- | -y e remark John Ca by the people Wil | ;e as a gang of about 200 laborers w the meantime | commencing to buld the railroad now in ay ission has truction be y Kramer © s on his mi im at St. ) istric to TEE CaLL the men siopped their work a officials of the road attemptad to persuade X he assurances to give them right of way over his co-overation of THE im. All the while a compr was remained on g efeat of this Proposi- | peing effecied Carson d erlasting disgrace to the | wit; pis Winchester rifle in his hand nento Count or in-| rendy to useit on the first attempt any his county is located the | 550 made 1o grade and lay track on his or lvery two Fears | claim. c e, and | e only rock-cutting on the Randsburg 1 ons of | jine s at St. Eimo. No attention was vaid al, commercial, 82- | 15 gotiing a right of way across C c rial be 1ble | o1gim until it was reache Then Carson ere, N 1 donot thy appeared on deck and halted the work in rce of g e manner. Chief Engineer J. and Superintendent of Con struction W. T. Woodward were at once summoned. and they a vanced to Car- son’s cabin carrying a whit Carson 4 peremptol A. Worthen e kept his Winchester to his ~hou'der, but allowed the railroad oflicials to come within tal distance o0i him. Carson was obdurate and insisted upon D $250 in casn and a written contract s ve all the rold ledges un red by the biasting. said he wanted to see s i i1, but he must have some- ng in good hard cash for any right of y ac his claim, F t rmore, he ann ced to the officials tnat he w kill the first trespasser who strick a ¢ into any of his gronnd. Chief Ecgineer Worthen arrived 3 conclusion that the company iiad s a snag, and that the cheapest way f o difficulty was to accede to Carson’s emand. The hardy a t Leg- | prospector remained on veople | in gold coin was placed in h S you out’ | a writien co givine him the owner- supposed, ces uncovered in blasting, powder and 2 arms, are y ¥ ne claim for In addition he nd am the 200 men whom he cowed and intimi- n as the boss of the ed upo! I wc Sarn ve such an offer SUICIDE AT GRASS VALLEY. Mr. Luhrs, Clara el Miss Trewhella, a Popular Young Woman, Ends Her Life With a Bullet. GRASS VALLEY, CaL, Nov. 11.—This alterncon at 4 ock the community was startled by a report that hiss Clara 1 o woman living with her her and two brotherson Chapel street, d committed She was found in her brothier’s bedroom, Lefore the bu- reau, with a 38-caliber Smith & Wesson clasped in herright hand and a gapinz bullet wound in the right temple, the bul- let almost entirely tranversing the brain. | Two chambers were empty, cne bullet | baving lodged in the wall on the opposite icide, in formulating Iressed to tho | side. Death was instantaneous. for their o cause is known r the deed. he d pieasant home surroundings, and the suicide, an intelligent, lovable v lady, hiad just taken a cup of tea with mother and was ready 1o go out to give mu-ic was a Valle a native of Grass ars old. - Death of a Pioneer at Banford. HANFORD, Nov. 11.—Henry N. Howe, a native ot Maine, died at his home in the State, to the perintended 20-mile | Cross Creek disir ¢t yesterday at the age o and | of Deceased was a pioneer. He ernoon the came to California from his native State Le seen on the |in 1850 and settied in San Jose. In 1876 way still yoing | e moved to this (then Tulare) county ning until sun- | with bis family and seitled, where ne . died. He leaves a family of seven ch ood that noop-| dren and a widow. Nie of the Improvements Sacramento’s Good-Roads position will come in the shape of an or- ganizad effort, unless it be from the south- ern part of the county. The attidude of tre peopla from that section, if correctly reported, cannot be understood, as the tion of the Folsom road will no bt lead 1o such legislation as will pro- vide for its extension to the city of Stockton. Iy that event It would pass throu:h F Klk Grove and Galt, three of the pr towns in the southern portion of th ty. It is belicved that when the quesiiun is finally and thoroughly dis- cussed in that secticn the reported oppo- sition down there will be changed to the support they will ask for when it comes 1o extending the bouievard to Stockton. One or two members of the Board of Eupervisors have been reporied as being @.gainst the projoct, but up to the present 1e THE CALLcorrespondent has been un- able to find anything iike such a feeling. As each day passes, and tke attention of | {ke people is more fally given toa con sideration of the matter, an overwhelm- ng yote in its favor grows more certain. | Bro LOOKS BRIGHTER FOR LEAVITT Perhaps the Blind Man Did Not Strangle Alice Brown. Small Hands That Could Not Have Made the Marks on the Girl’s Throat. Large Clam-d by the Accused Vender That May Ald His Defense. Fortune Spectal Dispatch to THE CALL. BOSTON, Nov. 11.— sing turn in the Alice Brown murder case. Itmnolonzer looks so black for the blind song-vender, who is charged with the killing Ly the only weapons possib'e toa blind man—his bhands. Two bright lawyers have been retained, rel Leavitt’s claim o-day saw a sur- P ing for their pay upon upon a legacy of 000 lett by bLis foster- her, who cut him off with a paltry five- dollar note. The mystery in the cace is deepened by the claim tbat the smail hands biind man could not have made the marks on the throat of the murdered woman. If this is so, who was the murderer? The | body of Mary Alice Ruderhan, or Alice as she was better known, has not yet been buried. William F. Ruderhan, her brother, claimed the body, and was going to take it to Rindge, N. H., to-day and consign it to a grave beside her mother’s in the village churchyard, buta sensa- tional William C. Leavitt, the biind song-vender, will prevent any atiempt to remove the body. Early this morning the lawyers ap- pealed 1o District Attorney Oliver Stevens to restrain any persons from burying the body until they have had an opportunity to photoeraph the young giri’s throat. physician and an visited the Morg e of the | move made by the attorneys for | tinger-marks on the A photographer, & | conaition of the streetin front of their xpert in measuring | houses, but it has been impossible 1o get ery mark on the | A BULL TAKEN - BY THE HORNS Councilmen of San Jose Proceed to Abate a Nuisance. Open Sewer Trenches Left by Unpid Contractors Being Filled Up. In Anticipation of Trouble a Squad of Po'ica Is Guarding the Workm :n. €pecial Dispatch to Tie CALL. SAN JOSE, Nov. 11-—What has been a menace and an eyesore to the residents of a considerable portion of Juiian street for two months will have disappeared by to-morrow morning. ais afternoon Counc.lmen J. P. Fay and William T. Nolting took summary measures toward | baving the decp sewer t'enches that have vlockaded Julian street from First to Toird filled in. The trenches are five feet | across at | three at the bottom, and are from twenty to twenty-five feet deep. The dirt thrown out of them bLas obstructed nearly the en- | tire width of the strees since the contrac- tors two months ago refusei to go on with the work, owing to the complica- tions that have arisen over the payment | for work already done in connection with | the menner in which the contract was | secured by Maybury and Farrell. | The investigation yesterday by iCounml of the charges of coilusion be- tween the successful contractors and the others who had bid for the work ended | without result and the settlement of the | entire sewer problem is apparently as far off to-day ason the day it became a | problem. Frequent protests had been made by the residents of Julian street, | between First and Thira, to the Council | relative to the dangerous and unsightly any relief from the Council, as it is evenly girl's threat was closely scrutinized, every | divided on the sutjectand Mayor Koch portion of the bedy was separately photo- gravhed. it and suggestive. will be made to prove that the hands which so powerfully c utched the throat of Alice Brown were not those of the blind song- vender. The blind song-vender ms that the finger-marks on the throat of Alice Brown were too large to have been | by him. The measurements were for the purpose of proving this. vitt has a pecul'ar thumb on his left The attornevs cla‘m that the de- scripiion of the thumt-mark does not tally with that of one which Leavitt’s thumb wou!d make. Leavitt al-o c'aims that he was not near Atice Brown’s room when it 1s supposed tiae crime was commitied. ere at the Coming-street to find a man for whom ned the door 10 let in it. They will account ance n the hall by his 10 let this man into the His attorn houre and blind v vs v tried s he has a fighting chance of the fortune left by his Herbert D. Leavitt, wl:ich 1s 5,000 If he succeeds der it 1s his inteniion, he says, to try to | upset the will (f his benefacior. Leavitt understood to have in his possession allesed facts regerding a conversation that a woman living near the Leavitt family in Melrose overheard about the t:me the wil! was made. By tte wilt of Herbert D. L-avitt, filed for probate at the Middlesex County Courthouss, East Cambridge, Frbruary 3, 1803, and drawn Maren I8, 1891, the adopted son, Wiiliam Craw. ford Leavitt, was cut off with a bequest of $3. PATRICK FLANNELLY'S WilL, Filed for Probate at Redwood City. The Kurdered Man Leaves All to His Wife. REDWOOD CIT wilt ot Patrick F anne Nov. , who was mur- dered by his son on October 26 last, wes vesterday filed for probate in tha Supe- rior Cour.. The estate disposed of is quite large, the amount of which will not ve known until « ffic apprai el. All of his projerty, bo.h real and per-onal, is given to his wife, Catherine Flanneily. The children, of whom there 6 seven living, are intentionaily leit nothing by the terms of the will. All former wills made by him are revoked. Advocates Have in View T 1 move is considered to be important It means that an attempt in | 11. — The | | has no vote, even 10 decide a iie. | For ihis reason Fay and Nolting early | this afiernoon put a iarge force of men at | work, under the supervision of Street | Commissioner George Morrison, filling in | the trench. They are at work to-nizht | and will be kept to their task wi hout in- | terruption until the street is once more in proper condition. It was feared that the contractors might attempt to interfere with the work, so the police patrol wu:on was ordered to the scene, but there was no occasion for the services of the guardians of the peac | Serions complications are expected to re- sult. SAN JOSE PROMISED A SENSATIONAL CASE | Lively Family Contest Over the | Estate of the Late Eleazar | Frost. Battle Royal Over Alleged Burled Treasure Will Be Ccmmenced To-Day. Special Dispateh to THE Carnl. SAN JOSE, CAv., Nov. 11.—Sensational developments are promised 1n the cele- brated Frost estate case in Lorigan’s court to-morrow afternoon. It has been | repeatedly and persistently claim~a by | the two sons of the late Eleazer Frost that their father had buriea about $40,000 about on the grouud the River-street touse in which the Frosts lived. This { has bean strenuously denied by the widow of Eleagar Frost and his daugn:er, Mrs. Sarah Wissman, who are the execu- trices of the estate. | 1Inthecourse of testimony given before | Judge Lorigan last weck in connection | with’ an accounting of t:e estate, it was unexpectedly disclosed that about §6000 | had been unearthed and taken possession | of by the executiices, who claimed that | the “decessel had made gifts of this mount to them by m+~ns of notes he had left instructing them whre to dig for this money. as beei opposed to his stepmother and his sister in this matter, claims that this money is part of the estate and should | have been nccounted for by the ex- | ecutrices. tis attorneys to-morrow will | ask the court to remove the executrices and to retuse to allow them $320) due as | fees. It will also be claimet by | sult of their digging up the premises on | River street. Both sides have made prep- | arations for a battle royal to-morrow, | when the hearing on the accounting is to b: resumed. —_——- Boswell Will I+ Dischargea, HINGTON, Nov. 1L.—George E. Bosweli, First Infantry, Presidio, will be discharged from the army by order of the Secretary of War. (5 , WILLOW CREEKER ,)NAS nc [SEWIDGE. the suriace of the grouna and | the Erwin Frost, one of the brothers, who | Erwin | Frost that a much larger sum than $6000 | was secuired by the executrices as the re- | \ | Schwerein, the German Minister at Port { The HAYTI NUST HAKE REDRESS Germany Sends a Ship of War to Port au Prince. Satisfaction Demanded for the Imprisonment of Herr Lueders. An UnJust Fine and Datent!on That Will Cause the Island Repub- l.c Much Trouble. €peclal Dispatch to THE CALL. BERLIN, Nov. 11.—The German war- ship G-fion in under orders to sail for Port an Prince, Hayti, this month, in order to insist upon redress for the arres: there of Herr Lueders, a German subjec’, and hi< unlawful imprisonment, for which Count au Prince, has demanded an indemnity. Lueders is now believed to be in Germany, having escaped from prison, the natives of Portau Prince having threatened to mob the German legation and Lueders. The fiting out of the warship is being hastened as much as possible. The offi- cials of the German Foreign Office do not belicve the matter will be aujusted for some time to come, because the Haytian Government has formed a stubborn atti- tude. The German newspapers are blaming the Government for the delay in bringing Hayti to terms. The German version of this affair is that Lueders was sentenced {to pay a fine of $48 and to undergo a I month’s imorisonment for resisting a policeman, which Lueders denied. Thbere- upon he demanded a second trial, ob- tained it, and witnesses testified that they had not seen him :trike tbe voliceman, but in spite of this Lueders was resen- teicea, this time to pay a fine of $500 and to undergo a year's imprisonment. The original trouble between Lueders and the police, it is claimed in his brief, was due 10 the latter forcing his way into his resi- dence, contrary to law, in order to arrest one ofhis servants. After Lueders’ second trial the German Minister took the matter in hand and on October 17 he went to the Presi- dent of Haytl, tiresias Simon Sam, and vemanded in the nawe of the German Emperor that Lueders be set at liberty and also demanded that lor every day the latter_had spent in prison, twenty-three days in all, an indemrity of $1000 in gold. Minister added for every other day Lueders was kept a prisoner after Oc- tover 17 he, the representative of Ger- many, would demand an indemnity of $5000 in gold. President Sam at first refused to grant the Minister's demand and Luede:s re- | Gage that he cannot pus: mained in prison six davs longer. Tuere- pon the ( Minister notitied the Hayrian Government that he had hanled down lis flag and had sent the archives of the German legation to the legation of the United Siates, thus severing all diplo- matic relations with the Government of Hayti. The action of the German Minis- ter caused a great deal of excitement at Port au Prince. There were threats to lyneh the prisoner. The life of the Ger- man Minister was threatened, and it was proposed to aitack the legation. Acting upon the advice of his counselors, who were not desirous of precipitating further trouble, the President released Lueders. He reached New York on October 30 and sailed for Europe ihe same day. AUBURN'S FLURAL FESTIVAL. Over a Hundred Varieties of the Chrysanthemum on Exhibition, Social Buds as Managers. AUBURN, Nov. 11, — Auburn’s an- nual chrysantbemum festival opened to- night at the Pavilion under the auspices of the Congregational ladies. The build- ing is a perfect mass of the prevailing flower, and over a bundred different va- rieties are shown. The largest exhibits are made by Mrs. F. A. Birce, Mrs. P. W. Smith and William Watts. The enter- tainment features are represented by the various booths, inciuding farces and tab- leaux presented in the Spanish booth. The prettiest social buds of the foothill~ the latier. Tho:e are ed in in charge are: Mre. Wildman, Mrs. Johnson, Mrs. McCul- lougn and Mrs. Robi isn booth; Mesdam ders, G. W. Hamil'on, W decorators ot the Span- 0. Smith, F. L. L Jounes, Misse: Davis, a and Mabel Bronson, Lily Coker, Nettie Scanabal, Minnie Corres, Rose Free- man; Little Eo-Feep booth—Mesdames Bissell and Sneperd; Queen of Hearts—Me Graham and 'Lawrence; flower Looth — Mrs. Chamberlain and Miss Willitis; farmers’ wives Mesdames Kooney and Hugties; doll hooth isses Hazel Clark and Ethel ; Kio- dike booth — Mesdames Willia: ve and Biggs and Mixses Spaulding snd’ Mead; re- freshment booth—Mesdumes Hed e, MeGuire, W, Fellows, Ward and Misses Deadmun, Brown, Fuller, Skinne Brown and Dickson. — - 1i Ie a Hupothetic 1l Question. WASHINGTON, Nov. 1L — Attorney- General McKenna bas notified Secretary upon the ques- tion of the status of Deputy Collectors and Deputy Marshals for the reason that be 18 asked 10 decide a bypothetical ques- tion. Secretary Gage some time ago re- ferred to the Attorney-General the ques tion raised by Collector Braay of Virg:nia, who appointed a number of deputy coi lectors without consulting the civil ser- vice list. The Secretary of the Treasury Lias been unable to decide the matter and asked the Attornev-General to give an o) inion wheilier theterms of deputy col- lectors expire with the term of the collec- tor, as held by Collector Brady; if the terms so expired, whether the successors should be appointed from a civil servic: list or by the collector himself. Assistant Attorney-General Boyd first took the matter in hand and wrote an opinion to the effect that Deputy Col- lectors are net within the provisions of the civil service law. This opinion was subm:tted to the Attorney-General for his approval or rejection. Instead of doing either, the Attcrnev-General declines to pass upon the question on the ground meniioned. The Treasury Department has now turned the question over to Mr. O'Con- nell, the Solicitor of the Treasurv. When his opinion is obtained Secretary Gage will mive the matter further consideration and will issue instructions to Collectors throughout the country as to what steps to take in these appoin. ment:, PR Foi'ed bu Perverse Fate, SACRAMENTO, Nov.11 —After Stephen Baumann bad killea his wife, last Satur- day, he was taken to the Receiving Hos- pital to b2 treated for the bullet wound in his own jaw, produced by himseif. Per- verse fate wou.d not permit him to die, and Baumann got along so well that on Monday he was removed to the County Hospital. There he progres-ed rap dly toward recovery. To-dav a complaint was sworn out cuarging him with murder, Seavey, Lininger, aud he will have his pre/iminary examina- tion to-morning. NEW TO-DAY — CLOTHING. Wind! THE 5 ; PUBLIC ARE PULLING WITH THE TIDE AND IT CARRIES THE# DIRECTLY TO OUR STORE. Henry Ward Beecher onece remarked : “No one ever prospered in the world by luck unless it was the luclk of getting up early, working hard and maintaining honor and integ This is exactly what we are doing. We get up early to attend to our business. We work hard to please you, and we maintain honor and integrity by requesting you, if you are dissatisfied with a purchase made here, to bring it back and receive your money. Now we will talk a little on ocur immense sale—which is sailing on the tide of public approval. For $10.00 we sell you a swell Overcoat, fly front, in a Kersey, Beaver, Melton, Cheviot or Worsted, whichever suits your fancy. Its value is double. For the same price you can purchase a Single-breasted or Double- breasted Sack Suit, or 3-button Cutaway, in any color or weave imaginable. Good values for $15.00 and $17. S. N. WOOD & CO., ColumbianTWoolenMills 718 and 722 Market Street, AN Corner Powell and Eddy. STATEMENT CONDITION AND AFFAIRS —OF THE— HANOVER FIRE Insurance Company GGOD TEMPLARS AT PASADENA. Election of Cfficers and Mass-Meeting for the Benefit of the Vallzjo Orphans’ Home. PASADENA, Nov. 11. — The third day’s session of the ihirty-eighth annual 0. corvention of the 1 G. T. to-day elected officers as foliow: Theodore D. Kunouse of Tropico. chief tem- plar; Rev. F. E. Couiter of Seima, counciio: of Fresno, grand vice-templar; { sauta Cruz, grand seer : e s e F_NEW YORK. IN THE STATE OF NEW Taylor of Bryan rand tr. = 2 & % e York. on the st dav of December, A. D. 2 r North, grand secretary of 1896, and for the year ending on that dav, as made juvenile work. Trustees of the Grand Lodge— | to the Insurance Commissioner of the State of . Drew, Fresno; A. Smith, Fresno; | mrrml.n,”wf aut to i 'rn]\hinhluf u”im“ Fred I Taft, Sunta Mouica. Trustecs of Home | 610 and 611 of the Poatical Code. condensed as pec 16 OchailsMrs icehis Judge J. A% Wall. | blank furnished by the Commissioner. iuz, Mrs. , William g | To-nizght a grand muss-meeting was | CAPITAL. held for the benefit of the Orphan<’ Home | Amount of Capital Stock, paid up in at Vallejo. The convention will c'ose to-| Cash..... . . -$1,000,000 00 MOrrew. | i R | ASSETS. New Californiu Fostmasters. | & #450000 00 WASHINGTON, Nov. 11.—The follow- fex . 7,000 00 ing Culifornia_postmasters were appointed | ' Tonds owned by company 1,864,334 50 to-day: At Yuba, tter County, Luiu | Apotnt of L enred by vl Arant, vice W. . Smith, resigied; a | €5 as C0 000 00 apay, Yclo County, Samuel Scuwab, pany’s Office 944 80 v.ce M. C. Nurse, removed xeter, | tue and accrued on all Stocks Tulare County, H. R. Siephens, vice Sans, nter 1d accried on Bonds and Mortgages Henry Newmun, removei; at Piru Ciy, Ventura Count red K. Woods, vice K. | P S i i Coririe of Coliee Sampson, resizned; at Paulina, Buue | entsdueand accrie = County, Mrs. K. Park vice Frank on 108! y paid L ulare County, ugene L. Scott, Paul, resicned; at Plan Mary E. Thomton, vice remov d, Total LIABILITIE! and Un : ess of Adjustment or in Biie tron * Hisurance | 64,270 67 The French Pri Im- >perial, poor ~ voung fellow. > was slain b wvages, “for | Lecome due want of a| Total Li hors His saddle- | = | girth broke; the strap was rotten. Life de- 4 ENEOME. p(‘"(‘x“ on little things. \;;Tl(“"\:l\nrhnllv received for Fire Pre- Some httlclwmkv Receive | for mterest on Bonds and some little thing | . ed for | nd dividends on 11 | wrong, and life is lost, | Fhiiyst karmterpstind dividends o | or health is lost, or r\ Acurce "fortune is lost. People e dom realize from | TotslIncomé what apparently trivial causes their prospects are thrown aw: [ EXPENDITURES. 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