The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 5, 1898, Page 3

THE SAN TFRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 1898. IN OUEST FOR BODIES 0F THE LOST e I | I ! | ! Sea Retains the Dead | the Clara Nevada. of i No Longer Hope That a} Single Person Was Spared. Have Been Aboard the Vessel. THE WHITELAW ASHORE. Disaster Overtakes the Wrecker in the Narrows Nine Miles From Juneau. Special Dispatch to The Call. AU, Alaska, March 1 (by ship City of Seattle, viaVictoria, ! , C 4).—Another searching party which went to the scene of the awful wreck of the Clara Nevada has returned without results. As previous- ly predicted, it 1s now certain beyond the possibility of hope that not a soul survived this, the worst disaster of the Klondike rush. Attorney A. M. Reed of Portland, Or., arrived here last Thursday to make as thorough an investigation as possible in the interest of insurance companies and also to look for bodies. He chartered the small steamer Rust- ler, which carried the previous search- ing expedition, and after nearly three da spent in the vicinity of the wreck returned without a word to add to the information already known. Not a corpse was found. It is the rule that bodies of people drowned In Alaska s are never recovered. Once drowned they never rise to the surface. It is impossible to tell into what sub- | terranean caverns the deep undertow and currents carry them; and then the | waters are filled with sharks, which swim in both depths and shallows. [ The wreck is still on the reef on Zldredge Point and is rapidly break- & up. The sides are going to pieces nd part of the main deck is gone. In the next hard blow all of the wreckage | will disappear. | it is now known that a New York | which was returning to Seattle advise friends by wire which of the | n Canal passes to take to the Yu- | kon, was aboard, but as usual names | are wanting. The life insurance com- | nies are in luck, because it will be | party tc P hardly possible to prove who the dead| are. Hundreds of Klondikers have ta- ken out some kind of an insurance pol- | fcy. Life and accident insurance agents | are aboard many of the larger steam- ships bound north. | This morning at 6 o'clock, in a dense | the well-known wrecker. White- and spit, about ten miles below Ju- au. She had a narrow escape from and is not safe yet. A heavy was running. The sand spit, instead of a reef of rocks. is the White- law’s salvation if she is puiled off to- | night at extreme high tide. The | weather is urusually clear to-day, and she can be seen from the Juneau docks | well in shors, with a bad list to port. | The ship was noticed early this morn- ing from the Treadwell Mines. There being no small boat at Juneau to-day which could be chartered for a ghort trip, the identity of the stranded | ehip was not known till late this aft- | ernoon. At that time the Douglas Isl- and ferry brought over several pas- sengers who had left the ship and made the island in a small boat. They told Captain Yorke of the ferry that the Whitelaw was not considered in a pre- n destruction, carious position unless a high wind rises so as to blow her harder on the | shore. he is right in the path of winds, than which there are no harder in Alaska—near Taku Inlet. The Taku | winds are known and feared by every 0ld Alaska sea captain. Captain Car- | roll once said that they would blow the | buttons off a man’s duster, but as high | tide is coming on at this writing (5 p. m.) and there is no wind it is prob- | able that the Whitelaw will not be compelled to assist at the wrecking of | herself, but may live to reap salvage from other wrecks as well known as the Columbia a5 Pigeon Point, the St. Poul in Montersy Bay and the collier Sen Benito at 2oint Arena. The passengers are not msy were not greatly alarmed. T tain of the Whitelaw thinks draw her off himself at high tids. The Whitelaw is bound from San Francisco and Seattle with a heavy Klondike cargo for Dyea and Skaguay. Last week as she was coming into Ju- neau channel during a_hard blow the steamship Oregon was lifted bodily by wind and sea and deposited on the sloping shore of Douglas Island. She got off next day without serfous In- jury. The bark Canada was also ashore at Skaguay, but was saved by the little steamship Coleman. John Housted, a passenger aboard the Whitelaw, told me to-night that the passengers on the Whitelaw, fear- | ing that the crew lacked experience, | signed a petition asking Captain Lock- tiere to put into Seattle, Port Town- send or Port Angeles for a pilot and take the inside passage. He said there was much confusion among the crew aboard the ship on the trip up; that the water barrels were left open, and the sea coming aboard off Cape Flattery spolled the water. A pilot was taken aboard at Port An- geles. In coming through Wrangel Nar- rows sterday morning with the ship drawing only thirteen feet of water and the buoys in plain sight, the ship ran aground and tore off her shoe. She Arew off successfully, but on the voy- age up she lay over every night in sufe waters. The hitelaw jeft San Francisco on February 17 with 144 people aboard, ir 1ding the crew. Housted, who is a Scotch sailor bound for the Xlon- dike, said that instead of trying to make headway this morning in the fog the ship should have hove to until the weather cleared. The Whitelaw was several miles out of her course. She should have been close to Douglas Isiand, whereas she was over on the inain land side, whence projected the sand spit. Housted said it was lucky for the ship that she ran on sand in- stead of rocks. He thinks there is no doubt that she can draw off all right. _ At 10 o’clock to-night the wind be- gan to rise and the Whitelaw had not yet appeared in port. Three Klondikers arrived vesterday . went ashore on the Sheep Creek | BRAVES GREAT DANGERS FOR HIS FAIR BRIDE% In the Presence of Armed Friends a Young Man Is Married to a Wealthy Widow. % <, March 4—An Augusta (Ga.) speclal to the Herald i to Cover Up His g S. A. Groves, a wealthy and prominent widow of Lincoln- was married In this city at 6 o’clock this evening to K. L. Smith, Tracks. a young busi s man of that town. The ceremony was performed in i the presence of an armed guard, who arrived with Smith this after- i 5 noon to prevent threatened violence from Coleman Groves, son of the bride, and Dr. J. W. Caldweil, another member of the Groves family. Confesses to Several Robberies The bride was too weak from prostration resulting from the excite- Committed in San ment of the past few days to stand, and remained in her chair as the Franelsco marriage ritual was read. pings in Georgla history. man Groves. from his shoulder: was admi home. city. here openly to-day that if Smith m at § formed. 8 lence. % sition. PRnNRRERNRN The marriage is a sequel to one of the most sensational horsewhip- On the 27 in the road near their homes in Lincolnton by Dr. Caldwell and Cole- He was taken from his buggy and his clothes stripped He was then given forty lashes on his bare back with a buggy whip. The lash was used by Dr. Caldwell. The whipping istered, it is alleged, because of Smith’s attentions to Mrs. Groves, and when he was restored, half dazed from the blood shed and pain, he was commanded to not again show his presence in the Groves This warning he ignored, and finally Mrs. Groves came to the Expecting that an elopement was contemplated, her son and Dr. Caldwell, armed to the teeth, followed, ade an attempt to marry his mother he would kill him. Smith, however, braved the danger, but a party of friends, armed for an emergency, accompanied him here. o'clock this afternoon, and repalred immediately to thehotel, where Mrs. Groves is stopping, and the marriage ceremony was quickly per- Young Groves and Dr. Caldwell rushed to the scene, but found themselves greatly outnumbered, and desisted from any attempt at vio- It is feared, however, that bloodshed will follow. Mrs. Groves' nervous physical condition her friends tried to dissuade her from marrying this afternoon, but she would not listen to the propo- The parties stand high socially at their homes. RUUBURRIURRRIRNNUREINRININS th of February Smith was attacked and young Groves declared They arrived On account of R o ek Ak R R e R e R e e from Dawson and went south aboard the Farallon. They are Thomas Elliot, Thomas Shepherd and H. E. Peters. All have sacks heavy with gold, amounting to about $4000 each, brought | out, as Peters sald, “As an evidence that there is plenty more came from.” They made locations on one of the “pup” gulches running into Dominfon Creck. Peters said there was plenty of food in Dawson, and that it the Canadian police regulation re- quiring every person going the Klondike to have at lea 1000 pounds of provisions was contin- | ued in force there was not likely to be another food shortage in Dawson. He said that many men in Da n had staked too much ground and in order to work it, as required by law, they must either sell it, let friends in on the location, or dispose of it on shares, as it is impossible to work it all them- selves. This would give other people who have no locations a chance. No new strikes further than previous- ly reported have been made. Peters did not think the number of sleds on the trail behind this season would exceed three or four, as miners living in Daw- son would go down the river when the ice broke instead of poling up. As spring and thawing ice draws near all clalm holders who were at work last winter were looking greedily for- ward to the spring cleanup, much gold in sight. He thought the output of dust would be stupendous. For three days the weather at the head of Lynn Canal and at Juneau has been exceptionally clear and beautiful. Klondikers at Dyea, Skaguay and Sheep Camp took immediate advantage of it. They have been swooping over the summits in swarms, being so thick as to appear from the altitude of the pass like swarms of flies on the snow. The already large crowds at Lake Lin- derman and at Lake Bennett have doubled., Thousands are still on the tidewater waiting to get over with their outfits. Much sickness prevails at Skaguay. There are one, two or three deaths each | day, mostly from an affliction said to resemble spinal meningitis. of the sickness is not positively known, but it is said to be the drinking water. The sanitary condition of Skaguay Is not the best, and when warm weather comes the discarded refuse of the win- ter, now frozen, will make it more se- rious. Crowds are still coming as fast as ships can carry them. HAL HOFFMAN. Falls to His Death. SANTA MONICA, March 4—Ed J. Clark, one of Santa Monica’s most popu- lar young business men, met instant death to-day. triclan, was repairing a private wire a tached to the roof of a block and con- nected with his bicycle store, and in some way lost his balance and fell a distance of twenty-five feet, striking on his head. where this | into | The cause | Clark, who was an expert elec- | CLEVELAND YET FOR SOUND MONEE | Says He Cannot Account for | the Arrogance of Free- Silver Forces. So He Encourages the Gold Demo- crats of Pennsylvania in | Their Stand. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. | PHILADELPHIA, March 4—Represent- | ati of the State organizations of the Jeffersonian met here to-day and resolved to put in the fleld a ticket of their own for State offices, from the governorship down, and | for raembers of Congress In every district. | A letter from ex-Presldent Cleveland was read, in which he says: T hope most sincerely that there may be a sound-money movement In Penn- sylvania that will be strong and wseful. 1 cannot account for the arrogant confl- dence of the free silver forces except upon the theory that they are led to be- lleve that there is very little aggressive | effort to be made by their opponents. It is strange that the apparent apathy in many of our sound money States should give plausibllity to such a bellef. | If any one believing with us supposes that free silver can be prevented from | controlling the two houses of the nex[‘ Congress without effective organization | and hard work, the quicker he abandons | the idea the more useful he will as a sound money man. 1 :m co earnest in my | desire to see our cou *ry blessed with | safe money and a suitable financial sys- tem that I am of the opinion that we ought to give patriotic and consistent support to any plan which insures this result and which has the element that promises its successful advocacy. OVER CLEVELAND. An_ executive committee of fifteen was appointed to carry out the purposes of | the meetings, s S e Going Back to Stand Trial. SAN JOSE, March 4—Edwin A. Lowe, who is charged with embezzling $1500 from the postoffice at Newton, Mass., was taken to San Francisco by a Deputy United States Marshal to await the ar- | rival of an officer from the East. Lowe | was assistant postmaster at Newton. Last | November he found a shortage of $300 in his books. Being unable to make it good, he took $1500 more and fled to Mex- ico. ~He came to California about a month ago. A couple of weeks ago he | surrendered to Constable Martin at | Mountain View. éor E. A. GABRIEL, the Man to Whom Wilett Confessed.| or gold Democratic party | WILETT'S CRIMES OF THE PAST Baden Suspect Hints at Many Dark Deeds. Gloats Over His Ability EXPECTS FINANCIAL AID. Anxiously Awaiting Answer to Telegram Sent 1o His Uncle. an Special Dispatch to The Call. REDWOOD CITY, March 4.—James ‘Wilett, the accomplice of Moore, alias | Raymond, and Winters in the murder of C. A. Andrews at Baden in. Novem- ber last, is waiting to hear from rela- tives he claims to have in Texas before making any further statements con- cerning his participation in the crime. | He was in a joyful mood all day, chat- | ting pleasantly with his fellow prison- ers and cracking jokes with the guards. “I would just as leave swing on the end of a rope as g0 back to Folsom,” | he said. “Perhaps I will swing any- way. It makes no difference. I have| found in my experience that I have to | pay the State for nearly all the tricks I ever turned, and I guess I have not paid all my debts yet He asked several times if a reply to | the telegram he sent to an uncle in | Texas had been received. From the | tone of his inquiries his guards are of | the opinion that he expects help from them to get him out of the present predicament. During the day he hinted | i at several crimes he had committed, and for which he never was Suspected. | For those crimes, he said, he should have spent twice his lifetime in prison, and the sentences he had already served were for crimes in which he was but slightly implicated. Raymond and Winters, he sald, were | his accomplices in most of his recent | crimes. The three worked for several | | days in the vicinity of the Emmanuel | Baptist Church in San Francisco and | held up more than one person. They robbed one man in front of the church early in November. Al they got from him was $20. The man pleaded for the return of| a dollar or two of it, but it was not given him. On that occasion one of the robbers lost his mask. It was afterward found and the police of San Francisco are holding it as evidence against the robbers when they catch them. Wilett sald with a laugh when | he finished the story: ““The robbers are caught.” The prisoner denies having any knowledge of any person serving a sentence at San Quentin Prison for a | crime he had “All the crimes I ever committed I paid for, with perhaps a few excep- No one that I know of is doing tions. committed. time for my tricks.” Sheriff Mansfleld believes | sonally to do with the matter. | formation charging Carpenter with the | Wilett does not hear favorably from | the relatives he claims to have in | Texas he will admit his guilt in the Baden murder and tell of all the other crimes of his checkered career. Wil- ett is fond of boasting of the acts of his criminal life, and when he finds { that he cannot hope to esape a life sen- | tence or avoid the hangman he will tell of many crimes that are yet puzzling | the police of several cities, FIGHT A DUEL. | | WITITKNIVES | | Two Men Engage in a Des- perate Affray on a Gilroy Ranch. Twenty-Four Wounds Inflicted by One of the Combatents Upon the Other. Snectal Dispatch to The Call. GILROY, March 4.—Thomas Nihill, a farmer residing near Gilroy, had a quar- rel with his wife’s cousin, Phil Kelley, last evening, and as a result is occupying a cell in the Town Jail, while Kelley is lying dangerously wounded at the City Hall. The altercation occurred at the Nihill ranch, and was the outcome of a family feud. Nihfll's wife is suing him for a divorce and the case was to have come up to-day in the Superior Court of Santa Clara County. Nihill claims that Kelley made the first attack, while Kelley says that Nihill opened hostilities. It was a bloody bat- tle and lasted a half hour, the men wrest- ling and chasing each other from house to house and over the ranch. Both had knives and Kelley struck Nihill in the head with a spade. Kelley had twenty-four cuts in different parts of his hod?’, and his clothes were saturated with blood. The doctors took seventy-two stitches, and he is one mass of cotton batting and plasters. Nihill was cut on the arm and also on the head. Nihill claime that his wife was the sflmnry cause of the battle. The two had jvided the community property and lived ! in separate houses. Kelley was stopping at Mrs. Nihill’s house during her absertce in San Jose. No charge has yet been entered against the men, as the officers are awaling the outcome of Kelley’s wounds, which may prove fatal. —— CONTRACT FOR THE SAN PEDRO HARBOR. The Wax:k Will Be Done by the Low- est Bidders, Heldemaier & New. WASHINGTON, March 4.—Congress- man Barlow of California received a let- ter to-day from Secretary of War Alger saying that in a few days the contract for the San Pedro Harbor work would be let to the lowest bidders, Heldemaier & New of Chicago. Secking Pasturage for Sheep. HANFORD, March 4—Owing to scarc- ity of wild feed and the long protracted drought here thousands of sheep are to be s?ulppod by rail to Sonoma, Napa, Butte and other more northern counties. 11 the irrigated sections of Kings County cattlemen are renting alfalfa and buying hay wherever they can. Baron von sczroodar has sent in 300 head from San TLiuis Oblspa,” ] WIDOWED IN OLD AGE TO BROKEN HEART Four Days @After Her Husband’s Death Mrs. cumbs to Grief. % %8 % was generally very healthy. her husband killed her. ley. 8uRRRN SALINAS, March 4.—Mrs. Abbott, relict of the late George Abbott, died early this morning from grieving over the death of her husband. Mrs. Abbott buried her husband only four days ago. affected by his death that she never recovered from the shock. Sickness is not attributed as the cause of Mrs. Abbott’s death. ‘Without doubt the grief over the loss of Mrs. Abbott was 76 years of age and was a native of Canada. married Mr. Abbott in 1844, and was one of the early pioneers in the val- NRRRIRURI/UIRLRRIIIIINNRILIIINLS | DIE OF A Abbott Suc- She was so much =2 % % % % She She CARPENTER SUES IS ACCUSERS Stockton Attorney Brings Legal Action for Heavy Damages. Demands Reparation for Having Been Arrested as a Common Thief. Speclal Dispatch to The Call. STOCKTON, March 4.—A. H. Carpen- ter, one of the attorneys accused of grand larceny, brought suit for damages to-day against District Attorney Nutter, who prosecuted him; Justice of the Peace Par- ker, who held him to answer on two charges of grand larceny; J. W. Weln- berg and Louis Sapiro, who swore to the complaint, and B. F. Langford and W. H. Devries, Mr. Nutter's bondsmen. The action is against the bondsmen for $1500, | the amount of their liability, and against | the rest for $45,700. Of this Mr. Carpen- ter thinks he s entitled to $500 for coun- sel fees In the grand larceny case, $200 for loss of time, and the rest count of mental sustained in his business and social re- lations, and his good name and reputa- tion, and his future and continued suf- fering and injuries by reason of the wrongful acts of the defendants.” The complaint declares, first, that the District Attorney, Justice Parker and Messrs. Weinberg and Sapiro ‘“did, for the purpose of injuring plaintiff in his soclal and business relations and of ex- posing him to public hatred and contempt, wrongfully, unlawfully and maliciously conspire, combine, confederate and agree together to falsely charge and accuse plaintiff with the o felony;” ‘that Mr. Nutter compeiled him to give bail in the sum of $2000; that, knowing there was no case or ground or reason to believe a crime had been committed he ‘‘wrongfully, corruptly and maliciously and in_violation of his oath and duties as such District Attornev, prosecuted him; that Mr. Nutter request- ed the Judge of the Superior Court to increase the bail, “for the purpose of subjecting plaintiff to the humiliation and shame Of pleading to said charges and undergoing trials by jury for said false and malicious charges.” He sets forth the fact that the proceedings were pub- lished In the newspapers. Mr. Carpenter is his own attorney in the case. The complaint bears the ‘)arl- nership signature of Carpenter & Flack, but Flack says that he has nolhl‘li\_g p‘er- e in- crime was set aside by Judge Budd in the Superior Court the first of the week. | CONTRACTING FIRMS that if | OFFERED BIG BONUSES. Significant Haste in Completing the Government Fortifications in the Northwest. PORT TOWNSEND, Wash., March 4.1t is reported here to-day that both firms of contractors now constructing fortifications for the Government at Marrowstone Point and Admiralty Head have been offered bonuses to ex- pedite the work. An additional gun pit, not previously provided in estimates for this year's work on Admiralty Head, at the entrance of the Straits opposite this city, will be commenced in a short time. These pits are about fifty feet square, sufficlent to accommodate guns and machinery for operating the same. In addition to the pits proper, there are underground rooms for storing ammu- nition. The work of securing title to land to be used for the Government for- tifications at Point Wilson is being pushed as rapidly as possible, and the ork of construction will be under way there early in the coming summer. HEAVY DAMAGE BY FIRE AT SANTA CRUZ SANTA CRUZ, March 4—Fire was dis- covered at 1:30 o'clock this morning in the Bernhelm building, owned by C. Hoff- e After-several hours’ hard work s brought under control, but the oper part of the building was badiy SPhaged by the flames, while the stores e eround floors were flooded with Water, The fire is supposed to have been N aleed Dby a lighted clgar or cigarette dropped among the paraphernalia of Na- P ons’ Hall, where a_meeting of For- held, followed by a “smoker.” e loss s estimated at $15,000, fully insured. Individual losses are as follow: R “snyder, dry goods, $2500; Strauss, dry_goods, $3000; Fectionery, $500; Dr. F. W. $2000; Native Sons, $1000; C ‘Fhe Native Sons' Hall and club-rooms are wrecked. SHERIFF BROCKLISS MUST STAND TRIAL. GENOA, Nev., March 4—The motion to alsmiss the case against John Brockliss, Sherift of Douglas County, who was 1| dicted by the Grand Jury for willful mis- conduct in_office in permitting lynchers S hang Adam_Uber on December 8 was L etrujed by Judge Mack this morning. The motion was made on the ground that the facts alleged did not constitute will- 0% misconduct, but a felony. Judge Mack declded that they constituted either. Confirmed by the Senate. WASHINGTON, March 4.—The Senate to-day confirmed these nominations: Sol Ferliner of New York. Consul at Tene- riffe, Canary Islands; W. W. Cobbs, Con- cul at Colon, Colombia; J. R. Spurgeor 5% Kentucky, Secretary of Legation at Monrovia, Liberia; J. C. Adams, postmas- ter at Phoenix, Arizona; Captain H. B Robeson, to be commander; Captain W. S. Schley, to be a commodore In the navy. Also other promotions in the army and navy of minor importance. sYom Ao Wwilliam F. Coffman Dead. FRESNO, March 4—William F. Coff- man died_at Madera at 7 o'clock this evening. He was a pioneer of the State, crossing the plains in "4 He was Assess- or of Mariposa County for a number of years and afterward represented that Jounty In the Legislature. In conjunction with Henry Washburn and E. W. C az; man_he bullt the first wagon road inf the Yosemite Valley, esters was gge, co liss, dentist, Hoffmann, A, B “on ac- | suffering and injuries | rimeof grand larceny,a | WILL NOT RUN ICE LOCOMOTIVES Chicago Corporation Gives Up Its Scheme for Reaching Dawson. Abandonment of the Government Expedition Affects the Project. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. PORTLAND, March 4.—The Snow and Ice Transportation Company, which pur- posed to push into Dawson City with its ice locomotives, in spite of the abandon- | ment of the Government expedition, to- | day gave up the struggle. It has stored | | its machinery in Portland, settled with | | holders of its tickets and retired as grace- | fully as possible. | It was generally understood when the | Government expedition was declared off | that the Snow and Ice people, who had organized on the strength of a Govern- ment contract for transporting rellef supplies, would drop their project. But | Manager Rosenfeld thought differently | until, on consultation with his Eastern | assoclates, he decided that discretion was the better part of valor. { Every difficulty that could be imagined | has confronted Rosenfeld at every step, | but he, nevertheless, persisted. He as- | sembled his plant of locomotives and sleds at Portland, chartered the steam- ship National City to carry his passengers sold_tickets by dozens throughout the East at $300 apiece. One thing after an- other hampered and delayed him, how- ever, until now the Government has backed. down, and he could hardly hope to go forward on his own resources, which are said to be limited. It is whispered | that a part of Rosenfeld’s present scheme | is a sult against the Government for breach of contract. INDUCEMENTS T0 MEN OF CAPITAL Hanford Growers Want Raisin-Seeding Plant Erected. M a Could Handle the Immense Crop Expected in Kings County This Year. Special Dispatch to The Call. HANFORD, March 4.—The success of the raisin-seeding machinery and plant at Fresno last year leaves no room for doubt that the main portion of the crop this year must be seeded to find a market. Five plants In Fresno are as- sured, and they are expected to handle the product of Kings County for 1898. The Hanford Farmers’ Club and the Chamber of Commerce have for some time been endeavoring to secure a see ing plant here, and have abundant capl- tal. The successful machine owned by the Fresno syndicate will not be manu- factured or sold to outside persons. Han- ford men are in correspondence with a | New York company having a seeder claimed to be practical. Kings County raisin men are not satisfied to send their raisins to Fresno if capital and inventions can circumvent the Fresno raisin-seeding syndicate. The expected raisin product in this county for 1398 is 15.000,000 pounds, a large portion of which will have to be seeded, even if snipped to Fresno. MUST NOT EXPECT ANY OUTSIDE AID Salvador and Honduras Not Encouraged in Their Impending War. Greater Republic of Central America Believes That Diplomacy Has Not Been Exhausted. Copyrighted, 1898, by James Gordon Bennett. PANAMA, March 4—Conflrming yester- day’s dispatch as to thé attitude of the governments of Salvador and Honduras regarding the impending war between Nicaragua and Costa Rica, I have re- ceived the following from the correspond- ent at San Salvador, which gives Nicar- | agua clearly to understand not to depend upon her for aid. The answer of Salvador ‘to the Diet reads: “After giving due consideration to your message of February 7 regarding the question pending as being of very serious moment, this Government deems fit to inform you that they are of the belief that all peaceable means have not yet been exhausted to avert war between Nicaragua and Costa Rica, and that it is indispensable that the Diet employ all diplomatic_means to avert a war which would cast a stain on the good name which Central America yet enjoys among other clvilized nations. For this reason, as also to preserve the peace in these countries at all hazard, in the name of the Salvadorean people and sacred In- terests of the Central American isthmus, the Government of Salvador asks the honorable Diet to renew its conciliatory negotiations with the end of preventing a war in which it could not take part on account of its firm resolve never to take up arms against a sister republic. “PRUDENC ALFARO, “Vice-President of the State of Salvador, Greater Republic.” Confidential agents of Honduras and Nicaragua to Salvador have returned. Their mission was ineffectual. Senor Lainfiesta, special envoy of Guatemala, has left for Managua, going to Costa Rica later. Loss of a Wrecking Tug- i NEW ORLEANS, March 5.—A special from Norfolk, Va., reports the loss of the powerful wrecking tug Underwood of Boston, in a storm off Hatteras. (CANDIDATES WHO ASSIST THE “GANG |Citizens of San Jose W ith a Craving for Office. Sixteen Petitions Filed on Behalf of Independent Aspirants. | Men Who Are Willing Work the Defeat of the New Charter Club. FAILURE THEIR PORTION, Ticket Named by the City's Reform Element Is Considered Invul- nerable. Special Dispatch to The Call. SAN JOSE, March 4.—Each succeed= ing day sees greater difficulties in the way of the “gang” in the matter of finding candidates to make the race against the invulnerable ticket placed in the field by the New Charter Club. So pressed are the “gang” manipulators now for suitable material that their or- | gan this morning printed an editorial appeal to “business men” to consent to serving the public in the present cam- paign. As the result of this move it is probable there will be a “gang business men’s” ticket in the fleld—that is, if enough reputable and honest men can be deluded by the “gang” into being drawn into a contest wherein their chances of success will be exceedingly slim. Several men who are beyond re- proach in the abstract have already been led into the political fold, which promises to be converted to a shambles on the 11th of April. While there is nothing against these men personally, their affillations with the “gang” or prominent *“whips” of the “push” are such that their independence cannot be counted upon after they are elected. The “gang” will make its campaign against the New Charter Club by get- ting behind certain men which it will select from the large number of inde- pendent candidates who are being tempted into the fight by the facility with which they can become candidates and have their names printed on the ballots. Whatever men may be elect- ed, by some unexpected chance, outside of the regular nominees of the New Charter Club, will be claimed body and soul after the election by the “gang.” But the best people of this city are fully aware that the issue in the forth- coming election is a clear and simple one—on one side the ticket of the New Charter Club, pledged to good and eco- nomical government; on the other all candidates who must necessarily be op- posed to the New Chartes Club ticket either in the interest of the “gang” or their own self-advancement at the ex- pense of the general public welfare. Up to date sixteen petitions have been filed with the city clerk. Only one— that of Adam Riehl—is for a New Char- ter Club candidate. There are twenty- two officers to be elected in all, and the number of candidates promises to be fully three times that number. The pe- titions now on file are the following: For Mayor—Charles J. Martin, A. B. McNetl. City Clerk—J. W. Cook, William J. Dougherty. Appointing Board—Henry Booksin Sr., H. J. Fikes, A. G. Bennett, M. Campbell, A. Friant, A. G. Col, Frank Stock. Councilman-at-Large—J. D. Miner. Councilman, First Ward—J. W. Macau- ley. %ouncllman. Second Ward—Adam Riehl. Councilman, Third Ward—Henry M. N. Spring. Councilman, Fourth Ward—Willlam J. Rogers. ADVERTISEMENTS. 4% YOUNG AT SIXTY. Serene comfort and happiness in ad< vanced years are realized by compara~ tively few women. Their hard lives, their liability to se- rious troubles on account of their pecu~ liar organism and their profound igno- rance concerning themselves, all com- bine to shorten the period of usefulness and fill their later years with suffering. Mrs. Pinkham hasdone much to make women strong. She has given advice to many that has shown them how to guard against disease and retain vigor- ous health in old age. Fromevery cor- ner of the earth there is constantly com- ing the most convinciug statements from women, showing the efficacy of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com- pound in overcoming female ills. Here is a letter from Mrs. J. C. Orms, of 220 Horner St., Johnstown, Pa., which is earnest and straight to the point: “DEeAR MRs. PINgaAM:—I feel it my duty to tell all suffering women that I think your remedies are wonderful. I had trouble with my head, dizzy spells and hot flashes. Feet and hands were cold, was very nervous, could not sleep well, had kidney trouble, pain in ovaries and congestion of the womb. Sipce taking your remedies I am better every way My head trouble is all gone, have no pain in ovaries, and am cured of womb trouble. I can eatand sleep well and am gaining in flesh. I° consider your medicine the best to be had for female troubles.” The present Mrs. Pinkham’s experi- ence in treating female ills is unparal- lelled, for years she worked side by side with Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham, and for sometime past has had sole charge of the correspondence department of her great business, treating by letter as many as a hundred thousand ailing women during a single year. DRUNKENNESS ! Morphine and Opium Habits. Painless treatment. Sixth year; 1000 cured; low. est prices; write to-day for full partlcu. lars. Cut this out. Gold Cure, Sacramento, Cal. 26 Page 8t., 8.