The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 18, 1897, Page 3

THE AN FRAN CO CALL SATURDAY, DE JEMBER 18, 1897 ATTENPT 70 JUSTIFY THE | | i UBER HORROR : Signed Statement From | Citizens of Carson Valley. | SAY.. THE LYNGCHING| WAS DESERVED. | Their Views Contradicted in a Petition by the Genoa Faction. EXCITEMENT REMAINS AT| FEVER HEAT. )Ths Vic''m’s Attorney D His Cllent Couid Not Have Convicted. clares Been Epecial Dispatch to THE CALL CARSON, D now b in refe Ge 17.—Two Ing circulated in Dou *nee to the Genoa lynching. petiiion 1s as follows: jetitions are las County The | the State of | 1 any | of the | most bar. Adam Uber | but Litle brutal €10 insen ung him to & tree in r of a mile from with their inhu ™ 8 A tATge! to bim with g effect out leaving him ity, | ned citizens and tax- , appeal o you 1o | g o suitable reward, so as o | 1 foul 1 from our est of law and | justice and | od | payers of Do &b e us to wipe ¢ have sho & Apache Carson Valley do entiment, ume d, if th Douglas us in our it right and just, r io publish the same h our appended names:, | . the attorney who was re- tained by Uter, make: the following statement over his own signature: A coroner’s was held over the bodv of Hans Ande and tesij- mony taken nd 4 ¥ examination was had ot 1 did not ing, and I or wiprejudiced man ntelligence to soy that Uber was guilty of murder wud I now claim that is the he was lynchea. the | back wunen he was knocked | iant, and was mped was 0o time for deiiberation, e be any exhibi’ the act. Thou- | ands been acquited | provocaiion. He was on sands who ki upon tho 1 with les n 10Ut cross nade Lhet 2 . and tsken by the xemi-aton, The iderson simply waived the latter fell, and hand fo heip h.m r shot. Thi , and the sy shows it 1o be a Uber'had been | warued by ellers to and his | pariner had left under t arni It s snid | jerson’s name is signed to oue of | , but tnat is speculative only a: | is that Anderson shoved Uber | a bl 1ard table, which prevented him s vel it rignt up and the wali, and that Uber sred wud leil over a chair, which also fel), t Anderson kicked t chair away and nd was failing wits his Tight tended to- wards Ube:’s throut, right ove er, wien ne was +5Lot, and tie doctor's testimony with ref- erence to the course of the bu.let fully proves ctand tne position of tue men ould not huve been extending his hand He followed his attack viciously | and Uber couid not have be- he has written in his me that he was in danger of arm at the very moment that he th He ¢ for_help. and speed lieved othe ~hot Now, in palliation of the act of the commit- taat | to to suy all that was told m man named Williams w ebout n yeAr ago; that )r grub and iricd 1o get away paymen. ot the debt, anda threat- liv s of respectuoie citizens and soil liguor to Tadiaus, and chased irs arouud. and were generaliy worthiess. I have resson | 10 be ieve it is all tru Hans Anderson wes a working teamster and well liked vy all Who knew him. He was popular ut dauces sanud pirtes, snd would w ride any d.s- fancs to attend a social of any Kind, and if he | jound s teamster stuck in tne mud he would work a day to heip him ou". 1 desire d a Bling »0 well and 1avoraviy known, his kill- ing by & wortnless feliow exciied a degree of hich seems to have been irresistibie, anger as .5 € done. I may further say that the mob acted on the tents and lies of those who were present. ced by tne manuer in which it was state 1 do not believe tha: if the truih had been kn: hut & sufficient number of men cou.d uve been gotten together 1o do what was done. ALFRED UHARTZ. The Courier office rec-ived notice la‘t | night tbat a mob would attzck it and a-med gua:ds watch the office all night. Constable Gray says that only eight or ten men were masked on the night of the lvnching ana the otters could berecog.i B undred and thirteen men, mostly foreigners, signed the petition against offering a reward, This diegualifies them as jurors. Some Wwho signed say they were forced to it. GEORG: W. RAWAGE DEAD. San Luis Obispo County’s Tax-Col- lector Succumbs to a Brief illness 2N LUIS OBISPO, Dec. 17.—County Tax Collector George W. Ramage died to- after a short illness, He was one of the pioneers of the Stare, havng come Lere from Ohio in 1849. After a few years in the mines he cpened a general mer chandise store in the oid Montgomery mimed in San Francisco. He came to this nigh | selves joint succes | frequentiy intox cated. county thirty years ago, opening a store jat Cambria. Rimage was influential in Repubiican routics He was electel Justce of the Peace and Supervi was nominated for tue Assembly in 1875, elected Tax Col- lector in 1890 and re-elected in 1892 and 1894 He was one of the best known citi- zens in this part the State. So great was hi povularity in this county that in the camuvaign of 1894 e never left his office, d yet he wus given a handsome majorit The Board of Supervisors which elects bis succes-or, is compused of two Repub- licans, two Democrats and one FPopulist. here will be numerous applications for the office, e ONLY CSEVENTY-FIVE. Mrs. Cgden Mills and Mrs. Sloane Cut Down the Four Hundred. NEW YORK, D 7 —The burden o rUmor that is stirnng the domain called socieiy 1s that Mrs. Ogden Milis and Mrs. Henry T. Sloane have consiituted them- s of the late Ward McAllister, and are engaged in the deli- Cate duty of biue-penciling his famous list of elizibles. Ward McAllister fenced in an enclosure which would accommodate 400 and not one more. In later life he con- tracted the boundaries so that only 150 could be sheltered inside, while the re- mainder were perm tted tolook over the fence. Mrs. Ogden Mills and M Sloane are more arditrary n the arbiter who has pissed away. Or, at all events rumor credits them with the intention of cuiting the 150 in haif. To be specific, these two mulrons are Organizing a s=ri 10 teke place during January, invitation list to which wili include only seveniy-tive names. <. Henry T. LA £ DECEMBER WAEAT DELIVERIES. Armour Alone Sends Out Over a Killion Eushels of the Cereal. CHICAGO, Dac. 17 g for deliveries of Dacemtber wheat material- 1zed this afternocn, 1,250,000 bushels being sent out, over 1,000,000 busbels by Armour. It went around smong a number of com- mission houses in bundles and landed iefly with Allen & Grier, the leading brokers of the Leiter party, who paid for 1,030,000 bu hels. The rest was taken by Geddes, Kirkwool, Wrenn and a others, 8o farthis month nearl bu<hels have Leen deiivered by tud ele- vator men to Alien & Grier and paid for b; them, or about nalt what they expecied 0 y for. the D-cember contracts, they have materially reduced them and enab.e number of the commission houses to settle their trades. There 1s still a large guan- tity to be delivered, and it is expected that it wiil come righ. along. The short interest in December has been reduced over 50 ier cent since the first of the month, and 1t now lies chieflv between the L iter party and the elevator men. TREASURY LEAKS 10 BE STOPPED Millions May Be Stripped From the Big Appropria- tion Bills. | Expenses of Navat Officers May Be Pruned, but Not Mileage of Congressmn. special Dispatch to THE CALL. CaL Orrice. Rises House, | WasHINGTON, Dec. 17. Small treasury ieaks as well as big ones are to be stopped by the administration. At least that is whai a member of the House, who is friendly to the administr. tion, said at the Carvitol to-day. He de- clared that the pruning-knife will strip millions from the big appropriation bills, but the effort will notstop there. Smaller i;ems will be given attention. As an ex- ample of the lutter the Congressman said that department officials are considering allowances made to naval officers for traveling expenses. An allowance of 8 cents a mile is made by law to an officer who is transferred and must travel over the country to reach his new station. Trips across the continent often become neces- sary, owing to the important int rests of the navy along the Atlantic Coast and at san Francisco. Last vear the traveling expenses of naval officers cost the Govern- ment about $140.000. The Congiessman who talked of the matter said that ! the officers had been allowed 5 cents per mile for transporta- tion and $3 per day for oiher expenses avout half ihe $140,000 might have veen saved. Otker cfficers of the Govern- ment receive simiar allowances, and there may be a general consideration of the cos' of travel. A Congressman re- ceives 10 cents for every miie between his home and the capital, and 10 cents per mile for the return trin. No genersl de- mand to reduce that amount nas become apparent among the statesmen. A PREY TO ThE L.QUOR HABIT. Causes That lea; Jai the Court-Mar- tialing of Lieutenant Leefavor at Mare Isiand. VALLEJO, Dre. 17. erick H. Leefavor, U. N., of the sieam- shinv Wheeling, who now being tried by courcmartial at Mare Island for scan- dalous conduct and intoxication while on duty, entered the naval service irem Onio on July 24, 1866, as midshipman, aud he isnow sixty-seven on the list of senior lieutenantis of the navy. While person- aily well liked by the crew, it is stated by ihose acquainted with him aboard ship that be hus too greata fondness for the flowing bowl. Since the Wheeling left uere some of the officers say he has been When sober he uas the repuia.ion of being very gentle- munly, but when drunk he is disagreea- vle an . continuaily engaged in argum nts with brot er otficers. The charges were preferred two week« ago 1o the department by Lieutenant B. ¥. Walling, tue navigatur of the vessel. ‘The swory, as told by a junior officer of the vessel, is 10 the effece that one day Lieutenant Leefuvor was ashore on leave, and auring his absence Lieutenant Wali- ing, being next in rank, acied asexecu- nuive officer. On Leefavor's reiurn Wall- ing reported to Lim some matters which nad occurred during his absence, and Leefavor replied that these — second- grade lieutenants had more 1o =ay than the captain. When they got aft the con- versution was continued aud became ex- ceeding warm, resultin= in Wailing, pre- ferring charges of drunkenness and scan- dalous ¢ nduel. Captuin Whiting is president of the board and Lieutenant Perkins judge ad- vorate, Rear Admiral W. A. Kirkland has re- turned from his vication down ihe coast, and during his ubsence nis offices nave been entireiy refurnisned. Captain Henry Glass acted as commandantduring his ab- sence. Lieutenant Fred- few | 500,000 | ¥ i | can do. 1| " Althourh the deliveries do not clean up | | alt VERY BLEAK FRIDAY FOR MURDERERS Six Men Pay the Death Penalty on the Gal- lows. CARR’S DRAMATIC FINALE. Excitement of a Maddened Mob at the Execution of a Child-Slayer. SCENES OF THE AFFAIR TO BE PERPETUATED. Cinmatograpih Machine in Use and P.ctures of the Ghastly Event May Bs Exhiblt Special Dispatch 10 THE CALL. KANSAS CITY, Dec. 17. — William Carr, the child murderer, was hanged at the Clay County courthouse at Liberty this morning. Carc passed a restless night. When breakfast was brougitto him he turned from it with disgust, lighted a cigar, and tood for a long time looking out from his window. Presenily the undertaker ar- rived and asked Carr what d:sposition he wanted made of his body. ‘‘Let my wife take care of 1. On, let her take care of oe exclaimed with a sob. His spiritual advisers then came in and urzed him to face his fate like a man “I’ll try,”” sobbed Carr; *‘that’s the best 1 The Bible was read to the pris- oner, and then followed the singing of a hymn, during which Carc sobbed and trembled like a child. Carr presented a pitiable sight as ho was finally led, to the gallows, but he braced himself spasmodically and went through the ordeal show of strength. The Sheriif julled the trigzer at 10:34 and two minutes later the lite hud zone out of the child murderer. The neck was broken, cracking like a whip cord. Fo lowing the first momentary lull sfter the ¢rop had fallen 800 spectators, as if moved by a single impulse, rushed for- ward, calling, crying, shrieking and laughing as they surged under the gallows and Tnev would not be satisfied until aclose view of the hanged man was ob- tsined. The men were angry and cursed one another, tried to force themselves up the galiows steps and cried and hooted at the Sneriff. Finally the crowd attempted ‘o breax down the barricade surrounding the scaf- fold, and Sheriff Hymer rushed throungh the first breach and excitediv warned the crowd against any further violence. ¢ Sheriff’s deputies ranged thems-lves about him and the crowd halted for a moment. Then suddenly, with one accord, a mighty scream was sent up, and, surging forward, the maddened men swept back the puards ana burst their way through the frail stockade. Once in the street they gave vent to their feelings with further shouis, but finally dispersed with- out trouble, and what lor a few minutes looked like a small-sized riot ended quietly. Alter the execution it became known thac a thrifty photogravher had been admitted to the inclosure with a cinematograph machine, and that he had been permitted | to photograph the closing incidents of this revoliing tragedy in sll its horrible de- tails. The machine was in operation trom the moment Carr appeared in the inclosure unul the body was catdown, and it is claimed that on a tilm 1000 fee: long 1800 pictures were taken. An at- tempt will be made to exhibit these pic- tures throughout the couniry. When Carr was a prisonar 1n the Coutny Jail at Kansas City, tbe same parties persnaded him to recite his story of the murder into a pnonograph. Wiliiam Car:’scrime was one of the most brutal and unprovoked in the history of the State, and his capture and execution tollowed with fitting dispaich. On Octo- ber 15 last the boay of Belle Carr, a 3- year-old child by the mnrderer's fir<t wife, was found on _a sandbar in the Missouri River, near Kansas City. The case re- mained a complete mysiery unti! October 25, when Carr was arrested at his home in Liberty. He at first denied his guiit, but when brought to Kansas City to prevent a lynching, broke down and contessed. Later Carr, who is a gaunt backwooas- man, 37 vears ol€, toid without the least suow ol emotion how he nhad carried the child from its home, tied its arms and imb: securely, corded a heavy stone to the little one's breast, and then, not heeding -her query, “What are you going to du, vapa?” threw her into ‘the water. He admitied that Mrs. Carr told him to get rid of the child, «nd it deve'- oped ibat she haa been bruial to Beile, but Carr maintained stoutly that his wile had no hand in the crime. For a time Carr delighted in his noto- riety, and talked glibly to his visitors of tie crime. This was followed by a speil during which he begged 10 be done away with withontdelay. “At his trial on No- vember 16 Carr wss promptly convicted, and since then be has weakened percepta- biy. Only a week ago Sunday he tried to commit suicide by swallowing pounded glass. OTHERS PAY IHE PENATLY. Murderers of Gzorzia, Alabama and Tennesses Executed for Tnelr Crimes. ATLANTA, Dec. 17.—Grady Reynolds and Bud Brooks were executed at Jeffer- son to-lay orf the murder of M. C. Hunt of Belton, Gr. Robbery was the motive, Brooks and Reynolds were moonshiners. Reynolds negotiated with Hunt for the purchase of his stock of goods. Reynolds told Hunt the money was in the bank in Harmonvilie and invited him to ride in a wagon with him. Midway Brooks joined them and the two committed tne murder, robbed their victim of $1200 [ ession and buried the body. Rey- nolds w-s arrested, confessed and impl cated Brooks. The execution was re- markavle in many ra.pects. After tue ride to the gzal.ows, a distance of balf a mile, they were robed in white and per- miited to spenk to the throng of 1000 peo- ple who packcd around the galiows en- closure. Ou the gallows the two men neid a brief conversation with each other inquiring after each other’s spiritual con- dition. Among the twenty men who saw the execut-on were the three brothers of the murdered man. BIRMINGHAM, Axa., Dec. 17.—Bud with a comparative | packed close around the dangling | | corpse. Bird, colored, azed 14 years, was hanged at Carroliton, Dickens County, at noon to-day. Bird assaulted the eight-year-otd aaueghbter of Ben Croczer, a farmer at Re- form, Ata., in Decem ber. COVINGTON, Texx., Dec. 17.—William Jennings was hanged to-day. He walked 1o the scaffold quietly and” maae a ful confession. Company R, National Guard, was present to prot« ct tue prisoner shouid there be signs of lynching, but their presence was not needed. — - — HANGED BY A MOB. Summary Vengzance Dealt to An- other One of the Murderers of e Smith Family. BROOK HAVE Miss, Dec. 17.—An- other nezro was lynched at Bankston Ferry, Simpson County, on Wednesday, as an accomplice of Charley Lewis in the murder of the wife and four children of Brown Smith on Wednesday of last week. Upon evidence given by a colorea woman a mob of 400 men beld another meeting at Bankston Ferry, bringing before them three negroes—Oscar Ferreil, Tom Waller and Giles Berry—who were with Lewis on the night of the murder. Oscar Ferrell testitied beiore the mob toat Lewis, Giles Berry, Tom Waller and him- self went to church across the river on the night of the murder. R:turningtoa cotton house where they had been stop- ping, all retired tocether. Lewis and Waller did not remain longand left about 2 o'clock, returninz just at daybreak with some fresh meat, and remarked that they had kilied Brown Smitwn’s wife and four children pecause she refused to cook them a mea The mob became infuriated ard placed a rope around Tom Walier’s neck and | dragged him up the hill and banged h'm within a few feet of where Charley Lewis was hanged several days ago. W.TH PISTOL AND KNIFE. Lively Shooting and Stabbing Affray in Which Several fien Are Wounded. LITTLE ROCK, Agk., Dec. 17.—A spe- cial to the Arkansas Democrat from Chin- ton, Van Buren County, says: While the family of Mr. Patterson, a prominent | farmer living six miles southeast of here, wezre seated at the supper table two men, closely masked and presenting Winches- ter«, appeared. Wiihott stating their object they fired, one ball striking the old man squarely in the mouth. The wound- ed man rushed into another room for his | pistol, where one of the masked men had gone, and was closely followed by the other man, who in turn was followed by the Pattersons, son and brother. There the shooting continued till their ammu- nition was gone. Then they siashed right and left, cutting Patterson’s throat from ear to ear, choking his brother until sense- less and slashing the throat of young Mr. Pattersoa’s wife, but not seriously. The murdarer: rode aw. Mr. Patterson was found dead with his face lying in a pool of blood. Young M Patterson’s erm was shattered by a bullet in the combat. Two arrests have been made on suspicion. The only reason known tnat the old gentlemen was supposed to have considerable m DARING BURGLARS 1007 A STORE Carry Their Plunder Away in the Prcpristor’s Delivery Wagon. Audacious Crime Upon Which the Portland Polica Are Hard at Work. Spect * Dispaich to THE CALL for ingenions sudacity surpasses any that was ever before committed in Portland touk place at 4 o'clock this morning. The grocery store of E. W. Allen on Sixth and College streets was broken into by thieves, who not only carefully selected $300 worth of the most veluable part of ihe stock, but borrowed the grocer's delivery wagon and horse to carry it away with, The burglars are probibly now engaged in caching their p'under, as the police have found no trace of them. The horse re‘used to be a party to such a wholesale aespoiling of his master and broke his barness and returned home during the morning. The thieves deserted the cart at the same time, but failed to leave either groceries or clews behind them. The cart was found in the afternoon stuck in the mud a mile from the store. After going througn thestock and select- ing the very bestci everything the thieves backed the wagon, which stood in an ad- joining lo!, up to a fence, vassed the siolen goods over it and bitched up the horse, whicu was stabled near bv. They found only hali a harness, and made the rest from a clothesline which they took from the arjoining yard. The police were notified, but have found no clew. . HELEN 4 JMOURNS. ST, Treasurer Kiggine’ Hody Borne to Its Last Keating Place. ST. HEL! A, Dac. 17.—The funeral of the late town treasurer, George R. Rig- gins, was held tbis afternoon. The town has been in mourning the past two days for its dend official, and a flag has been at half-mast on the town hall. The funeral cortege was headed by tie St. Helena band and had in line the Knights of Pyth- ias, Druids, town officials and a long line of carriuges. The pallvearers numuersd two each from the Knights of Pythias, Druids and town board. Business wa: suspended throughout St. Helena during the hours of the uneral services. Mr. Riggins has conduc.ed a drug busi- ness in St. Helena for the past seventeen years, He served two terms as Town Trustee and four terms as Town Treasurer, having been eiected thrze times wi*hout opposition and two times as school trus- tee. By hisdeath St. Helena loses one of her most prominent citizens and one re- spected by all. FOUL FL+Y FEARED, Constable Ralph siarrison of Danville Among the Miwing. SACRAMENTO, Dec. 17 —Some anxiety is feit were concerning Consiable Raiph Harrison of Danville, Contra Costa County. He came lere last Monday in search of a Spaniard named Leon Ser- vante:. He found him out ou the Haggin grant on Tuesday evening, bu. the Span- 1acd got away after » ch; That night Harrison went to Roseville by train, say- ing he wonld walk back ths next day, twenty miles, and search for Cervantes on the way. He promised to let the police know what luck he had, if any. That was the last seen or ueard here of the ofli- cer. If he wentbick home he had to pass turouch the city, and he police fear he may have met the Snuniard in some ont of the way place ana been shot. It is pos- sib.e he may have returned to Contra Costa Cqunty. .——— Lavigne Has Gone East, John L. Hergot better known as Young Mitchell, went to Oakland last evening to see Lavigne about bis coming fight with Griffo and the advisability of pulliug cff the mateh fn Uaklaud, but he was informed that Lavigne and his brother had departed for the East on the evening train. Mitchell is of the opinion that Lavicne will return to Oakland in time for the fight. for the affair is | | | i | | i | | | | | n America. “SATAN'S [NVISIbLE WORLD" Stead Scores the Boss Rule of Greater New York. SCATHING CRITICISM OF THE EDITOR. Tammany Hall’s Chief Styled the Arch Fiend of the Inferno. DARK FUTURE FOR THE METROPOLIS. Herding of the Population In Larga Citles Dec'ared a Menzca to the Republlc. Spectal Dispatch to THE CALL CHICAGO, Dec. 16.—The Inter Ocean bas printed a voluminous review of | W. T. Stead’s new book on New York, saying in part: William T. Stead, author of the Pall Mall Gazette ex- posures, **If Christ Came to Chicago’ and other whitebot writings, has paid his re- spects to Greater New York in & red-col- ored pamphlet called “Satan’s Invisible World Displayed.” Itisaresume of the tremendous exposition of rottenness that resulted trom the Senatorial investigation headed by Lexow, joined to much other matter of a similar character. It is done in Stead’s singularly lucid and strong style, and is destined to make a sensation in all English-speaking countries. As astatement of what Tammany Hall has been, what it is, and what it hopes to be, the brochure is a valuable contribu- tion to political history and the proplLecy of doom. It does not undcerestimate the gigantic powers ot the oldest, most pecu- liar and frankest political organization in America, and gives some foresayings of the resunits now thst Tammany coatrols the government of by far the largest city It declares that what New York has been London, Glasgow or Mel- bourne will be if the citizens lose interes: in the good government of their citv. Mr. Stead doesn’t believe in the Greater New York scheme. is worse. In his vemphlet under consideration he say: “The trite old sayinz ‘Truth is stranger than fiction,” has seldom been better ex- emplified than in the story of the way in which the second city in the world has | | been governed, unless it be in the conse- | For if | the Lexow ! | &% | tiverate decision of the ablest and most | | public-spirited Americans that tnere is no | PORTLAND, Dec. 17.—A burglary that | quences of the resulting despair. the revelations made before committee are almost incredible, tne de- way of escape save by the | | | sessions in Temmany Hall as wiiches Sabbat of the new era, and be- hind them all, e ent, but dimly seen, the omnipresent Central iorce, whose name is muttered With awe and_wnose icandate is obeyed nith speed, is the same somber figure whom his devo e2s rezard with passionate worslip, and wuom his enemies dread even as they curse his name. And this modern Sathenas—this man who, toevery £ood Republican is the most authentic in- carnaiion of the spirit of evl, the ve table arch-fiend of the political world—is the boss of Tammany Hall.” Tammacy Hali, its founders, its sup- porters, from Tweed to Croker and Car- roll, its plunderings, its Lexowings, its €pace and pictured in darkest colors. _Of the future of New York City, Stead is not buoyantly honeful nor unduly cast fown, He thinks Croker may f)ilow the ample of Prince Hal, who, succceding to his father's crown, informea Faistaff, Bn’rdolnu. P.stol and ali other “round- ers’’: Presume not that I am the thing I was; For hesve That Lhive turnel away my form So will I those who k- compan He expresses no unbounded confidence self; easi! that New York’s Democratic boss will not. In the meantime Stead will perch in his London eyrie and watch. He draws com- fort from this fact: “‘Every one can giva chapter and verse in support of their be- ir ‘Satan’slnvisible World.” "’ BLINDEo BY HIS LHIRSI. sight Lost to an Uld dan ood Alcohol. WOODLAND, Dec. 17.—Patrick aged 50, was admitied to the Hospital this afternoon becazuse blindness. Last Tueslay quantity of wood alcobol. He felt no effects from ir, and retired to bed in ap- parently goo: health, When he awoke in the morning he was astounded to dis- cover that he bad lost his signt. He at- tributed his uffliction 0 tue use of the Who Imbibed Moore, County | eleobol Phy: Wood alcobol usually results fataily and operates the same as other poisons. - Dies in a Privon Cell. VISALIA, Dec. 17.—Wi m Mehrtens, a pioneer resident of this vicinity, died after he had b en iocked up by an officer himself, Mehrtens had been a hard drinker for years. Twenty years ago he was one of the wealthiest farmers in Tulare County, but in the past eizht years he lost nearly everything. A widow and several cbildren survive him. An inguest was lield over the body to-day and a ver- dict of death from natural causes r:u- dered. | | | | He regards itasan | unwise attempt to escapa from the evils of | the old government by setting up one that | vreface to the lurid | hamstrunz | Ceesarism of tne cnarter of Greater New | York it is still more marvelous as a con- fession of the shipwreck of faith. “8in, when it has conceived, bringeth forth death, and the corruption that rotted the administrauon previous to 1894 has only brought forth its natural fruitin the adoption of the bastard Bonapart- | ism of the second empire as the best gov. ernment for the first city in the American republie.”” {e pays his tribute of admiration to the | mighty Hudson; he becomes infused with the rushing, driving, constantly hurrying life that is characteristic of the great city; nhe says that it is one of the most wonder- ful, beautifully sug:estive of scenes. He enjoved his visit and was painfully im- piess=d on landing vy the vast energy that seams a part of the air. New York was to him a typical city of American life. Looking at its swarms and deafened by ite mighty roar, he be- gan to understund something of the race that in littie more than a century has re- claimed a continent. iypewriting machines—of gigantic type- writing machines, driven by demons who | never tire, in some vast hall of Eblis—the ciank of type, the swish oi machinery, the quick, nervous ring of bells, all in- agefinitely multiptied and magnified, filis | the vast space with reverberating claug or | This clangor continuousiy increases unt.| | | its very vibrations seem 10 become ciot- ted and ill the air with a sound that can be feit in every pore. It is like the vressure of an atmosjhere so dense you can almost cut it witha Kknile, an atmos- phere that is never st ll, but perpetually frets and moans and snarls with feverish unrest. How many machines there must be to crowd the air with this a million times multiplied by the misery of the click and clang and clang and click, that never stops, but rises and falls, rhvihm- less and rude, like the waves of a choppy sea on a rocky beach. Now and ugain through the infernal hubbub there pierces a dreadful wail. You are not even in the outermost circles ot Dante’s “Inferno.” You zre trying to sieep in the neartof Ceniral New York, in the midst of all the thunder and rush | and roar of her million crowded streets, | aitong which surges as the restless tide the turbid and foaming flood of citv lile. The belis of tram cars continually sounding, the weariless trampling ot i1or- shod hoofs over the granite roadway, the whirling rumbiing of wheels, the roar of trains which on eievated railways radiate tue uproar irom a kind of infernal firma- ment on high, all suffused and submerged in the hum that rises unceasing from hurrying footsteps in the crowded street, that inart culate voice of New York —tsad as the wail that irom populous earth all day and night to high Olympus soars’’—and that dreadiul shriek is the tarewell of an ocean hner, sounding a sonorous note with stentorian lungs as 1t quits the wharf, 2 The English writer believes with De Toquevilie that the American tendency to nerd in cities is full of the gravest danger to the republic. He calls aitention to the fact that the percentage of urban popula- tion to the total population oi the United States was 3.35 in 1790 and 29.12 in 1890. Cities hold 25,000,000 of the estimated 7. 000,000 1nhaviants. Greaier New York now equals the total population of the Uniteu States at the ume of the deciaration of independence. 1is population of 3,200,000 exceeds nearly fourfold the toiai vopuiation of Americau ci ies at the time De Toqueville visited us. Mr. Stead thinks it possitle the iate ol the American republic may become bound up with the fate of Greater New Yo:k. He pays a pioper amount of re- spect to the far-flung influences of Wall street. He thinks it possible, but does not say it is probable. “Here in New York,” says Mr. Stead, “we have the whole infernal phantas- magoria once egain, with heciers for witches, policemen for witches, and sacret A pandemonium of | The population of | | | SMOKING JACKETS. make a MEN’S BUSINESS SUITS, in_bro S k and Frock Sui brown and blue Kersey SMOKING We have 1000 of them—ric , rezularly worth $7 and $7. BOYS’ STYLISH MIDDY SUIT, Biouse 8i BOYS' REE worth $5 THE BIG WHIT Parkhurst and tenderloin are eiven much | doth know, so shall the worlG per- | that Croker will do this thing. One reads | !y between the cynical lines the belief | lief that New York under Tammany rule | the past really deserved the title of | of total | be drank a| an ians consider the case peculiar. | last night in the jiil at Tulare snorily | who found him too intoxicated to care for | KEW TO-DAY-CLOTHING. WERE OVERLOADED! GOT TOO MANY SUITS, OVERCOATS AND goods, for our entire stock is mew, but just now— Xmas, Holiday, Stock-taking time—we have to re- duce stock, and the quickest and surest way is to tartling in Prices. These goods are what you see the SWELL DRESSERS OF FRISCO wearing. that build up a good reputation. thing else and we won’t advertise a lie. WE aim to sell Suits and Overcoats that FIT BOTH YOU AND YOUR POCKET—clothing that you don’t need to ask your money back on. n, gray and tan R gular and honest value, $15. MEN'S OVERCOATS. LIGHT-COLORED COVERT TOP COA supertly firistel, a Special Holiday Offer, 50, but just 1o show you our iempting prices t .ey saall all be suld, and sold quick.... CLOTHING. t and Reeier, all-wool goods, blue, tan, brown and gray, worth $5 and $6. FER COATS, Boys' Cape Over: £ BUILDISE, COR 200° 206 ;. KEARNY SE*"™ 1 10 ESTABLISH L Bl PLANT The Cramps Will Go Into Ship Building in Seattle. Preliminaries Arranged for Beginning Operations in tha Northwest. Promise of Lively C:mpetition for the Union Iron Works of San i Francisco. Special Dispatch to THE CALL. NEW YOUR mp & Sons, St Company of Phi 17.—The William and Engine Build- letpbia is going 10 ing construct a ship building plant at Seattle to compete with the Union Iron Works at San Francisco. The establishment cf the State Steam- ship line by the Cramps is but a prelimin- step in the enterprise which contem- ary plates the expenditure of more than $10,- 000,000. The new plant will be as large if not lareer than the one now being oper- ated by the Cramy Frank Chadsey of Chadsey & Young, vith two representatives of the newly organ State Steamship Com- | pany, which purchased several of the Ame aa line steamers for the Yukon trade, who is 1n the city, szid to-dag “I am in acuve negotiations wich J | seph H. Hoadley, first vice-president the State Steamskip line, regarding the purchase of certain valnable tide lands ! which our firm hotds and wuich the State | fine needs for the eslublmhmem of the aocks of the company. ““The acquirement of the tide lands by | the State Steamship Company, while necessary, is but preliminary step in this enterprise. The next move is ths | purchase by th» Cramp interest of ths ! ship-building plant of Moran Bros. at Seatile, which is aireadv very axtensive. “The enlarzement of this plant to permit the bu .aing ot the targest batileships of will immediately follow ana Saun Francisco buiiaers will tten have a competitor of the most formidable sort. Of course they are new Slash They are goods We won’t sell any- SUITS. siugle and doutle-bre Astet:l $10 TS: JACKETS. create a special barga n and $5 $3.35