The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 8, 1898, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 1898 BRAVE AEVOY'S LAST BATTLE Witnesses Describe the Fight With Tom Flannelly. | | | | Details of the Desperate Com- bat on the Dairy | Ranch. | Wolleys of Bullets Exchanged by the Sheriff’s Force snd the Parricide . BRICE HAS A DISCIPLE Now Comes Dr. Everette With a Formula for Making Gold. Claims to Have Produced Yel- low Metal From Pure Antimony. Elaborate Explanation by the Ex- Alaska Explorer of the Secrets of His Process. tspatch to The Call. Spectal JOS March 7.—The details of | the officers at tne dairy \ where the shooting of Sheriff oy occurred and of the arrest of given in the Flan- cide were wrder trial t da.; es Crowe of Redwood was recalled this morning. He e was at the Flannelly house af- e killing, but did not hear Mrs. vy say, “I don’t blame To: and Claude Fox were but their testimony ant » Charles B. Barton of Red- vea the notices on Tom = ;s L and Doyle to vacate the s and was present at the de- nt's st. He served two no- , Tom Flannelly and D. H. The first notice was served on October 13 and the next on October 26. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. TACOMA, March —Dr. Willis E. Everette, a prominent chemist and as- announces to-day that as a re- sult of fifteen years' of experiments he has discovered how to transmute an- | timony into gold. The slag also con- tains traces of coppe but how much cannot be told until a /s are com- pleted to-morrow. The climax of Dr. Everette’s work came this morning, when after fifty hours’ work he cooled off the cupel in which the refining pro- | cess had been completed and at its bot- | tom found a tiny button of gold. The discovery of this pin point of precious metal pleased him more than a check | for $10,000 could have done. It meant that his years of experimenting had not been in vain; that he had dis- covered one link in a chain of knowl- edge which, when fully known, will probably permit of the transmuta- tion of what are known as elements | convenient for United States citizens. a demand for rent. The first w cond was a emand upon them to va- | into new and valuable combinations. | When he served the | Dr. Everette sald: cate the prem S, papers on Flannelly on the night of Oc- | “This is the first experiment with an- tober 26 the young man said: | timony in which I have obtained any- “Take those papers back to my |thing practical and tangible. I have fathe F r and tell him to keep them.” nnelly at first seemed angry at the serving of the paper. Afterward when his partner spoke to him he be- he would burn them. took the pape! Constable Barton said he visited the ranch later in the evening with Sheriff McEvoy to arrest Flannelly “When we arrived at the place,” said he, “Sheriff McEvoy halloed for Tom to come out. The Sheriff then knocked and the defendant responded, ‘Leave door alone.’ T heriff called ai the second nd the She ed a key and 1 to open the door. Failing in this ned a hatchet and tried to pry or open. McE did not suc- ing the door. Under Sher- having arrived two or ter the Sheriff had dant for the last time to open t The door wa forced open 1 1. I heard a ghot as the door went in, followed by six others from Mansfield. About sev- enteen shots were fired in all. The de- fendant was afterward 1 following Mansfield, Flan- nelly was in bed. I saw no weapon at that time, but when I pulled the bed- clothes off T saw a_Winchester rifle 1y ing in the bed on his left side. Man 1 took the defendant into custod Sheriff J. H. Mansfleld of San Mateo County was then called, and told of the blocdy fight at the dairy ranch. Said h i at the ranch house occu- omas Flannelly at about ,ck. Sheriff McEvoy was in the vard and went into the dining- om and then opened the door of the ,om, where Flannelly was sup- fo be. Before opening it I ked loudly and called out several times, but received no response. I then kicked the door open. Immediately there came a shot from the inside. saw who fired it; it was Thomas Flan- He was sitting on _the bed with hands. He fired from ots in all. I fired about een shots myself. I stood in the ay, about eight feet from Flan- ’ T ceased firing when Flannelly 2id he had enough and that he was used three revolvers. I did the room as soon as the ypped. 1 again asked Flan- had enough. He answered, 4’ He was wounded in even places. t secured the rifle 1 i up his pillow and found a re- volver. one he killed his father with. Thers were three empty shells in it when I found it. There was one loaded cart- ridge and it was next to the hammer. When Sheriff McEvoy was shot he handed me his pistol. After the shoot- ing was over Deputy Sheriff Butt handed me a shotgun and then I e tered the room and covered Flannelly Sheriff Mansfield said that all the shots were fired within ten or twelve seconds. It was in the nature of a fusillade. When the rifie was picked up it had four loaded cartridges in it. There were a number of empty shells on_the bed. Simon Winner testified that about three weeks before Flannelly killed his father he sald that “if the old man troubled him any more he would show him what kind of a boy he had.” The witness admitted on cross-examination he was weak minded and had attempt- ide on two occasions. It is expected the prosecution will close its case to-morrow afternoon. WILD WEST SHOW MARRED BY DISASTER. Aeronant’s Balloon Is Burned and a Bronco ‘“Buster’” Dragged by His Steed. STOCKTON, March 7.—An amateur “wild West” show at Goodwater Grove Jast evening had a disastrous ending. The programme was to have opened with a bailoon ascension, and Just as the ven- turesome sky pilot was about to sail away to the clouds the big canvas bag caught fire and was blown around in every direc- tion. The spectacular exhibition was at- tended by such danger that spectators sought safety at a distance. The next was the breaking bronco epi- sode. A local man named Conklin mount- the animal and was promptly thrown. His foot became entangled in the stirrup 2nd the horse started off on a run. The e straight for the fence, and kening its speed, knocked off few boards and dragged the bleeding 2nd mangled man after it. Conklin was finally released and removed to his home. After an examination the doctors did not express much hope for his recovery. He is very low to-d and it is not thought that he will survive. 1 Two Deaths on the Desert. SAN BERNARDINO, March 7.—Jacob Taylor of Daggett and Samuel Litts of Needles died suddenly on Saturday night, and the Coroner has gone out to inves- tigate. Their death is thought to have been due to the sale of deadly wood alco- hol at Daggett. It has caused six deaths on the desert in the past month, a stran- ger named Kelley dying on Thursday. Run Over by a Wagon. SAN BERNARDINO, March 7.—A teamster. James Orr, employed at Hes- peria by F (F. Kelley of this city, was run over in Cajon Pass last evening and killed. The wagon seat was rlckelg and Ll;]%gj;)l;(nfi”‘brnk; l(l, throwing Orr back ar wheel, which sed over . hi~ bead and chesi P b e more calm, but he said that if he | He said the revolver was the | obtained gold and traces of copper. The slag seems to contain more copper. The result is to prove that antimony, gold and copper are not elements, strictly speaking, but compounds. It may be that all so-called elements are simply compounds of one element. Others have obtained gold and silver from base metals, but no one has previously ob- ‘li‘llned copper. These experiments are a ew York, Tissandier of France, Brice of Chicago and others. Emmons makes | gold from silver. I have been notified that antimony has been used as a basis of a compound from which gold has been obtained and sold to the mints.” As far as known Dr. Everette is the | second chemist to produce gold from antimony, the other being Brice of Chi- cago. sult of his own experiments and corre- spondence. He mixed antimony eight other elements and compounds, the object being to produce the great- est heat and pressure in the furnace. | These ingredients were carbon, oxlde of soda, silicon, sulphur, iron by hydro- oxide of magnesia. These, as well as the antimony, were from Merck’s lab- | oratory in Germany and guaranteed chemically pure. This makes it abso- lutely certain that none of them con- | tained gold or copper before it was heated. These nine substances were subjected to long continued and very great heat under great pressure. ong the line of those of Emmons of | lowed him for some distance, and without any warning struck him over the head with a cane. Hurst grappled with his as- sailant, threw him down and called lust- 1ly _for help. ‘When assistance arrived Jacobs was released and allowed to go. He left town at an early hour this morning. CANADA WOULD CLOSE THE KLONDIKE GATEWAYS. Uttawa Statesmen Ridicule This Government’s Requests for Concessions. TORONTO, Ont.,, March 7.—The Ot- tawa correspondent of the Globe (the Liberal Government’'s mouthpiece), re- ferring to-day to the passage of the| Alaskan homestead law by the United States and the concessions to be asked from Canada in return for the privi- lege of bonding goods at Fort Wran- gel, says: “The answer of our Government to | the remarkable legislation passed by | the Senate at Washington on Friday, should it receive the President’s sanc- tion, will be a courteous reminder that we intend to navigate the Stickeen un- der the treaty rights, which give us| this privilege forever. “The bill adopted in effect gives us the right to enter goods at Wrangel and tranship in bond only on certain important conditions, among them that we shall allow all American miners en- | tering the Yukon to carry in a half ton | of food, clothing and tools free of | duty; that we shall allow American | fishermen the right to purchase bait in our ports; that we shall give char- ters to American railways beginningat | Dyea and Skaguay and desiring to | build through British territory; that we shall issue miners’ licenses at points “There is not a petty South American State that would allow itself to be held up in this manner, and there is a good deal of scornful amusement among members of Parliament over the de- mands of the United States Senate. It will be probably intimated to the au- thorities at Washington as plainly as diplomatic words can intimate it that | Canada will shut up the Yukon as tight | as a bottle, turn back all American | miners and keep the gold fields as they are, undeveloped, until a railway can be built from an ocean port of British Columbia into the region, rather than submit to terms of the sort contained in the bill.” CRIES AGAINST A 'GAS MONOPOLY Carter of Montana Speaks of an “Infamous and Audacious Out- rage” in Washington. WASHINGTON, March 7.—To-day’s ses- ston of the Senate was devoted entirely to consideration of the District of Columbia appropriation bill. At the hour of ad- journment the bill had not been disposed of and its discussion will be continued to- morrow. The present monopoly in the city of the | | Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Com- pany on account of high rates was se- verely scored. Carterof Montana urged that the bill go Dr. Everette’s formula is the re- | with | rested. When | oo " oxveen gas, oxide of alumnia and The | | average temperature was 4700 degrees | | Fahrenheit. At times, especially dur- | ing an explosion purposely caused in | the covered crucible while in the fur- | nace, a temperature of 5000 to 6000 de- | grees was attained. Ordinary fire | brick melted like water under this tremendous heat. The transmutation | is brought about by a change in the | atomic weights of the substances. Dr. Everette reasons that if by changes brought about last night gold and cop- per can be produced, who can tell what future combinations of atoms and re- | sulting substances may be brought | about under greater heat and pressure | His gold-making prc requires fift hours to complete and consists of five distinct parts. The tiny button of gold red was obtained from twentyv-five | grammes of chemically pure antimony. | Tast' October Dr. Everette says he transmuted pure silver into gold at the rate of $3 gold from thirty-two ounces of silver. He is certain he is now on the right track and will push his expe- | riments. | | secu 'SAYS BRITAIN CONSPIRED ’ TO INCREASE FAMINE. Grave Charge Made by an Irish Member in the House of Commons. scene in the House of Commons during the discussion of the grant for the rellef | of distress in Ireiand. John Swift Mac- Netl, anti-Parnellite member for South | Donegal, charged the Government with | having tried toward the end of last sum- | mer to check American donations. He quoted a telegram from Earl Cadogan, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, respondent of a New York newspaper in support of his statement. Gerald Bal ur, Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieu- nt, interposed: “No, no. nothing of the kind. The ob- ject of the telegram was to check exag- gerated accounts of the distress.” |~ Mr. MacNeil repeated that the Govern- | ment had tried to paralyze American as- sistance in order to increase the distress | and bring the Irish people into the power of the landiords. He asserted that Peel promoted the Irish famine of 1847 in order to remove the surplus population and he demanded a reply from the Chief Secre- | tary. | _Mr. Balfour declined to reply, saving | that the speech of the honorable ‘member | for South Donegal answered itself. | e | POULTRY AND PET STOCK. Many Entries for the Coming Show in Santa Barbara. | SANTA BARBARA, March 7.—The San- | ta PBarbara County Poultry and Pet | Stock Assoctation will hold {ts first an- | nual show on March 9, 10, 11 and 12. The | secretary has already received the entrles of 100 dogs and 250 fowls. Amongthe many fine dogs entered are: Stamboul, a_litter brother to Champion, Countess Noble, | Queen of Counts and C. A. Loud’s Nita Gladstone, fine English setter. Charles Sumner of San Diego will have on exhibi- tion his fine fox terrier. 8. L. Roberts of San Diego is to judge American and Aslatic, and S. Tyler of Pasadena Mediterranean poultry.” C. A. Loud of Santa Barbara is to judge piseons and pet stock. In the dog class . Tyler, Pasadena, is to judge grey- hounds and deerhounds; C. A. Sumner, Los Angeles, fox terriers, and all other classes, H. T. Payne. Those up in these matters state that this will be the finest an Og an oult: show Vi T “southern’ Calitornia. TSR o THRASHED FOR HIS PAINS. Troubles of a Divorcee Who Thirsted for Revenge. WOODLAND, March 7.—A few months age Mrs. Neal Jacobs obtained a divorce from her husband. Since that time Ja- cobs has acted In a very erratic manner. He has kept a close surveillance upon his divorced wife and those with whom she assoclates. Jay Hurst, a son of one of her attor- neys, called at her residence on Sunday night. AS be was leaving Jacobs fol- LONDON, March 7.—There was a little | to the cor- | over until to-morrow as he desired to of- | fer an amendment relating to the gas | supply of Washington, | T “more infamous and audacious out- ge was never perpetrated on an inof- ve public than is nightly perpetrated the Washington Gaslight Company.” rancher living in the Jamesburg country had a race for his life this morning. With | the main artery in his leg severed he | drove ten miles to reach physicians in| | fe by declared Carter. “and I desire to present | an amendment that will afford the suffer- | ing peopie of this city an opportunity to | force the company to give them what they | pay for.” | At his the bill was laid aside and at the Senate went into executive session and soon afterward ad- During the morning hour Allen ka presented the petition of 18.- v men of Pennsylvania In favor of legislation to prevent the abuse of the writ of injunction. WOUNDED RANCHER RACES WITH DEATH. With a Severed Artery He Travels at Breakneck Speed to Reach a Doctor. SALINAS, March 7.—John Souza, a uggestion 5 m. this city. | James Lewis, who was chopping wnod; nch, in_some unaccountable | on Souza’s cay let the ax slip off the handle and the rp edge struck Souza on the instep, | | Sinking to the bone and severing the ar- tery. The unfortunate man’'s condition was quite apparent to Lewis, and he well knew that unless Souza could receive medical _aid at once he would bleed to | death. The limb was hurriedly bandaged; | then the man was put into a spring wagon and driven to this city as rapidly | as possible. By the time he reached a | doctor's office here he was extremely | Weak from the excessive loss of blood, | but it is thought he will recover. | e | SEALING OFF MONTEREY. Two British Schooners in Quest of Ocean Fur-Bearers. i MONTEREY, March 7.—Two British | sealing schooners, the Santiago and the | Anooka, from Victoria, bound southward, came into port here to-day for water and to avold the rough weather outside. These vessels are now sealing along this coast, and are manned by four white men and twenty British Columbia Indians each. They carry eighteen Indian canoes for the use of the Indian sealers. While about six miles off Point Sur light two days ago the Anooka lost two boats, and turned northward to find them. The boats—a ship's boat, containing two white | men, and a canoe in which there were Indians—were hunting, and were unable | to find their vessel in the fog. They have since been heard from, safely ashore near Point Sur. The sealers will leave here as soon as the present storm abates. — - VICTORY FOR A RAILWAY. Nebraska’s Freight Rate Law De- clared Unconstitutional. WASHINGTON, March 7.—Justice Har- 1an to-day delivered an opinion in the Nebraska maximum freight-rate case. He held the Nebraska law to be contrary to the fourteenth amendment, in that it au- thorized the taking of property without due process of law and was therefore in- velid. Hence the railroad won. Justice Harlan’s opinion affirmed the opinjon of the Circuit Court of Appeals oF the eighth circuit, which was against the maximum freight-rates aw and fa- vorable to the railroads. SUFFERS AWFUL BURNS. GRASS VALLEY, March 7.—A lamp ex- ploded in the home of Mrs. James Tyrrell on Church street to-night, just as she was about to retire. The flames ignited her clothing and her screams attracted the neighbors. The doors all being locked, they had to break In. The woman’s cloth- ing was still on fire and she was horribly burned before the flames were extin- guished. The building was gutted by the fire that was started by the explosion. ———— Brings a Foreclosure Suit. SAN JOSE, March 7.—A judgment for $99,000, principal of a note, and $2000 at- torney fees against Tyler Beach, pro- rietor of the St. James Hotel, was flled Br'‘juage Hyland's court to-day. Tms decision is the result of a foreclosure suit by the regents of the University of Cali- fornia, who_advanced Beach t{e out of the Lick trust fund. aged property consists of the St. James otel and its annex. A decree of fore- closure has been ordered. st e Westlake’s Third Trial. SALINAS, March 7.—The case of the People vs. ex-Tax-Collector Charles L. Westlake was called in the Buperior Court this morning. The present case is for embezzlement of county licenses for 1807, amounting to $37L Mr. Westlake Is under four indictments for embezzling county funds, aggregating about $15,000. He has bean tried on two charges. un one he was acquitted and on the second the jury COMPLICATIONS [N THE ORIENT England Not Informed as to the Demands of Russia. Deep Interest Taken in the Latest Move on the Chinese Frontier. Much Uneasiness in Government Cir- cles at Peking Over the Threats of the Czar. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. LONDON, March 7.—Replying in the | House of Commons to-day to Sir Ellis Ashmead Bartlett, Conservative, Mr. | Curzon, the Parliamentary Secretary | for the Foreign Office, said the Govern- | ment could not confirm the message to the London Times from Peking, pub- lished to-day, saying that Russia has | demanded that China surrender to her all sovereignty rights over Port Ar- thur and Talien Wan for the same pe- riod and on the same conditions as in the case of Germany at Kiaochau Bay, besides demanding.important railroad concessions, giving five days within which to receive a reply and threaten- ing to move troops into Manchuria in the event of non-compliance with her demands. Mr. Curzon also said the Government had no confirmation of the report that | Russia had occupied Deer Island, Ko- rea, nor could the Government confirm tting forth that Russia was strengthening the forts at Port Ar- thur. X dispatch from Nagasaki, Japan, to the Daily Mail says the Korean Cabi- net, with the exception of the Foreign Minister, Min Chong Mouk, have re- signed because Min granted the Deer Island concession to Russia without the consent of the Cabinet. PEKING, March 7.—Much uneasiness is felt in Chinese circles in consequence | of the Russian demands. The Russian | Minister of Finance, moreover, is re- ported to have urged these demands peremptorily. and to have complained that the Chinese loan was settled in spite of the disapproval of Russia. 'All kinds of speculators are flocking here for the purpose of securing con- cessions for electric lighting, street rallroads and regular railroads, etc. The Chinese merchants are showing agerness to participate in the the reports se ODESS. March 7.—The Russian Government has ordered thirty new 1gment the Russian torpedo-boats to au Pacific squadron at Vladivostok and Port Arthur. Russia also proposes to keep eight cruisers of the volunteer fleet continually in far Eastern waters instead of the Black Sea, so as to avoid the possibility of being hampered by Great Britain closing the Suez Canal CALIFORNIA STREAMS WILL BE IMPROVED. Robert T. Devlin Certain That Con- gress Will Grant the Appro- priation, SACRAMENTO, Devlin, who, with J. M. Gleaves of Red- ding and J. A. Buell of Stockton, has been in Washington, D. C., in the inter- est of legislation for the San Joaquin and acramento rivers and their tributaries, | has returned and in an interview in the Bee to-day says that the river and har- bor bill will be passed at either this ses- sion of Congress or the session beginning in December. Several of the large items that have hitherto gone into the river and harbor bill are lh’fs year in the sundry_civil bill, other things for the continuance of work at Oakland and San Pedro harbors. By lacing these items in the sundry civil Eill the river and harbor bill will be light- ened to that extent, and will enable the committee on rivers and harbors to re- port a bill carrying a larger appropria- tion than would be possible if it also had to provide for the harbor work, which ap- pro?natlonn will be made In the sundry civil bill. Mr. Devlin sald that the chairman of the committee, Mr. Hooker, was person- ally famillar with the necessity for the jmprovement of the rivers, and had so expressed himself, and that there could be no harbor bill was reported to the House ap- propriations would be made for the im- provement of the Sacramento River, in accordance with the recommendations of the engineers. Devlin further said that the engineers had not yet reported plans for the building of dams or restraining barriers, and untll such a report was made Congress could take no action. It is understood that the laws of Congress prohibiting hydraulic mining will not be | amended in any particular. BOLD ROBBERY OF A MADERA RANCHER. Assaulted by Thieves and a Load of Provisions Taken From His Wagon. MADERA, March 7.—George Healy, a wealthy rancher of this county, met with an unpleasant experience this afternoon. Healy had been in Madera laying in a stock of provisions, and had returned toward his home as far as the gate lead- ing into the surrounding fleld. While on the ground opening the gate, two men who had driven up jumped out of thelr wagon and one of them struck Healy & vicious blow in the face, felling him to the ground. Before he could recover his feet his assailants had removed his pro- visions into their wagon and driven away. An officer was notified, and after a hot pursuit of two hours thé men were over- taken and placed under arrest. It was soon afterward learned that the rig the men were driving had been stolen from Samuel Owens, who has charge of the Yosemite Stage Company ranch. The men under arrest are strangers, and are thought to be ex-convicts. - AUSTRIA’S NEW COUNCIL. § Personnel of the Ministry Announced at Vienna. VIENNA, March 7—Privy Councilor Count von Thun Hohenstein has con- structed a Cabinet and Emperor Francis Joseph will receive the new Ministers to- morrow. The personnel of the Ministry is ”}"m"ludwsé t the Council and M resident o cil an Inist f th‘a‘ llx;(erlor—f‘:o;:{, e I’I‘htun Hohensteln. nister o nstruction—C Byjandt Tinerdt. o K; inister of Agriculture—Baron von ast. Minister of Finance—Dr. von KalsL Minister of Commerce—Dr. von Baeren- Reither. m::,ster without portfollo—Herr Jan- cs. ister of Justice—Dr. von Ruber. Minister of Natiol Defense—Count Y mnter of Bailways—Dr. er Of . Vol e orens of Justice, Nenonal tie tem: and Rallways are unchanged. —_—— WASHINGTON, Pacific oast Pensions. March 7.—Pensfons have been granted as follows: California: Original—John F. Foote, San Francisco, $12: Joseph V. Dodds, Prospect Park, $8. Reissue and increase—Dionysius Maron San Jose, $8 to $10. Original, etc. Dore, San Francisco, $8; Rosa- San Francisco, $8; Catha- i and angelic creations. March T7.—Robert T. | which provides among | uestion that when the river and | rine Fickes, Middletown, $8; Susannah J. Park, San Francisco, $8. Oregon: ginal—John . _Parry, Moro, $6. Additional—Robert M. right, Holley, $ to 3. ‘Washington: Original—George = Wick, Dayton, Reissue—James J. Garrett, Douglas City, $6. Original widow, etc.— Minerva M. Grimes, Ellensburg, $8. ————— WHO STOLE THOSE HATS? A Question of Ownership That May Cause Trouble in a Club. On Geary street—the sunny side—be- tween the Avenue Grant and the Rue de Stockton, stands a ’stablishment where ribbons and plumes and dainty bits of lace are by deft fingers artistically and with finesse adjusted to the bonnets, of diversified shapes and sizes. In the rear of this particular source of young husbands’ woes are located the rooms of a San Francisco edition of New York’s famous Thompson-street Poker Club. The apartments where ebon-hued butterflies of fashion are wont to while away their leisure hours are gained through a plebeian-looking gateway and an alley that runs alongside the millinery parlors alluded to. About two months ago Miss Manning, the proprietoress of the palace of style concerned in this narrative, missed from her stock of feminine finery two elegant Intuitive power it probably was that made the lady at- tribute the disappearance of the ‘‘perfect dreams’” to the uncomfortable closeness of the colored gentlemen’'s lounging place. Of course, she could not positively declare that any of the club members had filched the hats, and she }N!{‘e her loss with philosophical equan- mity. On Friday afternoon a young lady em- ploye of Miss Manning stepped to the doorway of the bonnet studio to note passing events. Hearing the pitter-pat and thud of feet emerging from the club rooms of the rear, she prepared to ob- serve whether or not the advent of Black Pattf and her gay troubadours had wrought any change in the fashions of colored swelldom. From the gateway tripped jauntily forth a _raven-hued couple, and upon the head of the female of the two reposed one of the silk and satin creations that had vanished weeks before. The assistant rushed post haste to her principal with the information and a con- sultation was called' to consider what steps to take toward seeing to it that the guilty were made to suffer. The de- liberations resulted in the summoning of the president of the association that had entertained the hat. An officer of the law was also called. The president expressed himself as being sorry that his organization had sheltered in its midst a black sheep and he gave the names of the couple under surveillance. The policeman advised that arrest would be injudicious, as the evi- dence was only circumstantial and hardiy | sufficient for conviction. Miss Manning, of course, realizes that | by this time the hats are of no value to her; but she desires to uphold the majesty of the law. She intends to consult a lawyer, with a view of instituting search- warrant proceedings, and the wearer of | the hat will be called upon to tell where | it was she got her latest thing in the line of cranial covering: THREE OUTLAWS PUT 10 DEATI Reported Lynching of Sheriff Hoy’s Murderers in Wyoming. | Friends and Neighbors of the Officer Quickly Avenge His Death. Special Dispatch to The Call. SALT LAKE, Utah, March 7.—A spe- cial to the Tribune from Rock Springs, Wyo., says: News was brought in to-day from Brown's Park on the Colorado-Wy- oming boundary line that three of the members of the Robbers' Roost band of outlaws who last week murdered Stock- man Hoy had been captured and lynched | by a‘?osfle of Hoy's friends and some of Sheriff Edgar's deputies. The men re- | ported lynched are Louis P. Johnston, a man named Bemeret and one unknown. Johnston is the man who two weeks ago shot and killed a boy named William Strange at Hoy's ranch in Sweetwater County, Wyoming. While in pursuit of Johnston with a posse Hoy was ambushed and killed by a party of the Robbers’ Roost outfit. The pursuit of his mur- derers was kept up by a posse of his neighbors and officers from Colorado, Wyoming and Utah. The scene of the capture and reported Iynching is seventy- five miles from the railroad and definite detalls are hard to obtain. Hoy was shot on the afternoon of March 1. The next morning Jack Ben- nett, an associate of the outlaws, was captured. He was lynched the following morning at 10 o'clock near La Dora, Colo., by about twenty-five masked men. They took him from Deputy Sheriff Farn- ham of Colorado. Bennett pleaded for his life, promising to tell all he knew. He was told that it was too late—that he had lived too long already. Harry Tracey, David Lant and Patrick Johnston were captured by Deputy Sher- iff Peter Swanson and posse of Rock Springs on Friday last near Powder Springs. They showed fight but finally surrendered. Johnston was the first to throw up his hands. Tracy and Lant are risoners of Colorado and Johnston of Wyoming. There is, however, small pos- sibility of the courts of either State being bothered with them. There are one hun- dred armed men in Brown Park determ- ined to deal with them as they did with Bennett. 1t will take extra precautionary measures on the part of the officers to bring their prisoners in alive and there is little expectation that the lynching of the entire outfit can be provented. —_——e——————— OWN THEIR CEMETERIES. The Chinese Have Purchased Two Tracts of Land in San Mateo County. Henceforth the Chinese will not be com- pelled to contribute to the San Fran- cisco treasury for the interment or ex- humation of thelr dead. The closing of the City Cemetery com- pelled the Mongolians to seek a tempor- ary resting place for their dead country- men, and as San Franclsco was too small to accommodate them they were forced to seek a place in_some other section of the country. This they did, by pur- chasing two_tracts: The Ning. Yung Company, which has on its books fully alf of all the Chinese in the United one- Slates, bought five acres from ex-Super- Visor Patrick Buckley of San Mateo County, adjoining that of the Roman Cathoiic Cemetery at Holy Cross. This was purchased at the low figure of $00 an_acre. Two miles farther out toward San Ma- teo the Yung Wo, Chong Chow, Sam Yep, Shoo Hing and the Hop Woo companies jurchased ten acres at a much igher gure.than that paid by_the Ning Yung Company. In the Nm% Yung Company’s cemetery none will be interred but those belonging to that society, while in the other cemetery the members of -the flve il find & temporary resting companies Wi Shaced until their bones are removed for transportation to the home of their fore- fathers. The bones of a Chinese woman or those of children under ten years of age are never removed after once they are con- Signed to the earth. The reasons given by the wise men of the Mongolian race for this is that a woman loses her iden- tity, as well as her usefulness, when she departs for the unknown territory. 1;1’1 the case of the death of infants and minors, it is held that their “fli demise is an infliction on their parents for some unatoned crime committed, and as a consequence the unoffending babe {s hur- riedly got rid of immediately after death without -any ceremony whatever. From a financial point of view the Chi- nese are pleased with the change, as it relieves them of the discrimination tax that was forced on them by the superin- tendent of the City Cemetery, where he charged them $2530 for the o] of every grave, as against $1 to all others who had a_graye opened within the closure. The distance of fifteen miles, however, is a matter that annoys them somewhat, as it will cost more to convey the bodies and the funeral eatables for the defunct on his long journey to the 1and of the rising sun. ‘Bach cemetery will have a white man for superintendent, as the Chinese do not favor grave 3. P. OFKY. MUST PAY ITS TAXES Attorneys Make Unsuc- cessful Efforts to Head Off Stout’s Bill. Now a Case of Putting Up for the Franchise or Losing It Altogether. Unless a Settlement Is Soon Made the Legislature Will Finally Pass the Measure. Special Dispatch to The Call. FRANKFORT, Ky, committee of attorneys of the South- ern Pacific Company, headed by Alex | P. Humphrey of Louisville, to-day called upon Representative German | Stout of Woodford, who is pushing the bill to repeal the charter of the South- ern Pacific Company, and asked that he withdraw his bill from the Legisla- ture. Humphrey stated that the com- pany was perfecting arrangements with the State Board of Valuation and Assessments whereby it would pay a tax of nearly $6000 annually on a schedule of approximating a ‘police protection’; that he had been author- ized by the Bouthern Pacific Company to pay to the State between $20,000 and $30,000 back taxes, and that the com- pany would continue to pay an annual tax In amount to be agreed on. Stout said that the bill had been ad- vanced to its third reading; March 7.—A that he had had the promise of the committee ROMANCE OF A WHITTIER GIRL Escapes and Is Wedded to the Man of Her Choice. Recaptured After the Cere~ mony and Again In- carcerated. Will Be Free a Month Hence to Return to the Home of Her Husband. Special Dispatch to The Call. > LOS ANGELES, March T7.—Former Helena Dahl is in hard luck, but her husband, John H. Griffin, is, if possible, in worse fortune than his pretty bride. A few days ago Helena and John were married in the regular way and accord~ ing to the rites of the Catholic church at the cathedral, all the legal require= ments having been conformed with. And now, after enjoying married life for but a few days, Helena is an in- mate of the female department of the ‘Whittier Reform School. Helena formerly resided with her parents at Haywards, in Alameda County. She loved this same John H. Griffin. The parents of Helena de< clined to give their consent, and in=< stead manifested their displeasure in a very emphatic way. A complaint was sworn to and Helena appeared in tha Superior Court of Alameda County She was committed to the Whittier Re< Il’:‘x;;n School as an incorrigible young on rules to call the bill from the orders of the day to-day and place it on its passage; that the company had refused to recognize the corporation laws of Kentucky until a suit had been filed, and seemed now disposed to disregard Helena came down to Whittier and at once won favor. She was pretty, quiet and in no sense unruly. There~ fore she soon gained the confidence of the officers. Nevertheless, she did not abandon the law and not be answerable as other corporations under Kentucky | the ldea of marrying the man of her laws. The company enjoyed all the choice, despite all of the efforts of the privileges of other corporations and Stout further agreed hence was liable. not to call his bill up to-day and stat- ed frankly within the next two days and called up and passed by the House. Said Stout to-night: “This company promises before, and there is no | has made fair when it seems to think remedy to reach it does not care. prospects for a settlement on so small a basis will not be satisfactory to the board, but if the money is paid it will show a disposition of the company to act.” Stout was also in conference with the members of the Board of Valuation and Assessments. Humphrey had pre- viously held a conference with the board. Stout was shown the franchise tax fixed by the board, which had been resisted by the Southern Pacific Com- pany, having a hope of securing a set- tlement on a nominal sum. The com- pany is reported to be worth $20,000,- 000, at an actual value of about hailf this amount. The franchise tax law provides for assessing at the rate of 52% cents on each $100. The company must now pay up or suffer the conse- quences. Suit is now pending for $44,000 in the Fiscal Court against the company. Stout said he’found practically no op- position to the bill in the House. PURCHASE BEET LAND. Messrs. Spreckels May Erect a Sugar Factory at Gilroy. GILROY, March 7.—Gilroy’s citizens are rejoicing over the news that the Messrs. Spreckels have purchased the Soap Lake tract of land of 9900 acres lying southeast of Gilroy. Prominent citizens say it means the erection of a sugar factory and_the development of this garden spot of the State. The tract is pronounced by experts as the best in the State in wet or dry seasons for the cultivation of the sugar beet. Gilroy people readily see the advantage of this purchase to the valley, and rejoice at the dawn of a new era. if a bill was not reached the money paid that the measure would be instructors to prevail upon her to dis- miss him from her thoughts. They supposed that he could do nothing, as he was 500 miles away. But in this they erred. He was nof 500 miles away, but was right on the ground. The location of the girls® building at Whittier is very convenient for those who desire to flirt with the incorrigible females if they so desire. Of late an unusually robust young man The | has been seen in the vicinity of the girls’ department, but as he kept in the public highway and did no overt act he could not be driven away. When the girls appeared he was in the habit of performing dangerous feats upon a bicycle, and, more particularly, of at- tracting Helena's attention. One morn- ing recently Helena and her companion were missing. A search was instituted by the officers of the school, but not until the issuance of a marriage license to Helena and John was published in the local papers was any trace of her discovered. Inrvestigation proved that she had been regularly married and was living with her husband on Macy street in this city. While her age in the mar- riage license was given as 18 it turned out that she lacked a month of her ma- jority, so the officers proceeded to take her from her husband and return her to the school. Her parents were noti- fied. If they desire they can have the marriage annulled, but within another month the Whittier officials will have to give the girl her liberty. If the mar- riage is annulled Mrs. Griffin—for that is Helena's name now—will wed Griffin again. Griffin himself appeared before the officials and made a manly statement. He informed them that he had come to Southern California to marry the girl and that he had done so at his first opportunity. He said that she was his wife and he intended that she should remain so. A Scottish diver in the Clyde recently excelled all European records by re- maining under water for forty minutes at a depth of 186 feet. | ADVERTISEMENTS. CURES IN THREE DAYS ANOTHER GREAT RECORD FOR THIS FAMOUS LIFE-GIVER. DR. 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