The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 17, 1898, Page 3

T THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1898. DAWSONITES CLAMORING FOR MAIL Have Not Heard From the Outside World in Weeks. Quantity 'of Letters and Pape Held at Big Imon. Food Becoming Cheaper and W hisky Dearer on the Klondike. A MURDER AT SKAGUAY. Gambler Ambushed and Shot at the Threshold of His | Cabin. | P R Y R R R R R XN Special Dispatch to The Call. PORT TOWNSEND, March 16.—The steamship City of Seattle arrived short- | ly before 10 o’clock to-night from Skag- | uay, with forty-flve passengers on board, one direct from Dawson City. This was H. C. Pettit of Snohomish who arrived at Dawson on Sep- mber He went to the Klondike in ' st of a St. Paul and Snohom-| svndicate, and returns with inter- | ests in twenty-one claims. He brought ), and expects to return to the north in the course of a few weeks. . me out with Atwood, the tes mail carrier. They left bruary 8, th- trip out be- ing without special incident. Ev s e pursuing the even tenor of their way at Dawson City, Mr. Pet- tit says, “grub getting cheaper every day vhisky dearer.” s now on his way out, Salmon three ~days Atwood and Pettit. He Lake Bennett, however, still there when the other | e out. There is said to be | complaint about the failure of rrive at Dawson City from | e, and, according to Mr. | story, it was delayed for weeks good reason. bout 1000 pounds of mail or Walsh’s party, and Big Salmon, the point made camp. It is claimed mail could have been sent on | » Dawson at any time during the | winter, and that, in fact, dog teams had no difficulty in going back and forth between the camp and Major ‘Walsh’s headquarters. People at Dawson were willing to pay big money to have the mail taken in to them; but it would not be given up for delivery, and none has been received at | Dawson, Mr. Pettit says, since he went there in September. ZThe City of Seattle brings news of another fatal shooting at Skaguay, a man mamed Sam Roberts being shot | just before the steamship left. He was | supposed to be running a gambling | me at Skaguay, and on the morning steamship left he was shot just as he was entering the door of his cabin. He difed almost immediately. It ould not be learned yhere he came and nothing wa8 known of his | cedents. The authorities were in e dark about his assailants, nothing whatever about the perpetrators of the crime being, known at the time the | steamship left. | The Bark Prussia Aground. ATTLE, March 16.—The steamship of Seattle arrived in port late to- night. While sailing throngh Queen Charlotte Sound the City of Seattle sed the wrecked steamer Corona in tow of the tugs Lorne and Maude, bound for Victoria. The bark Prussia, hich left Seattle more than a week ) for the north, grounded at Wrangel | Narrows. As the Seattle came south | the tug Tacoma was trying to get the Prussia off. KNEW NAUGHT OF KASSON. Testimony of a Claimant for the Dead | Miser’s Wealth. STOCKTON, March 16.—The legal fight over the big Kasson estate continues to attract crowds to the Superior Court room. The most interesting feature of the case to-day was the admission of George W. Lindy, one of the claimants, t he did not know that Thomas Lindy | his father nor .aat he was the son on, as it is being attempted to prove. Lindy said that he had never known any other name and had always looked upon the Lindys as his parents, It also developed that he had been named | George by the Lindys at the request of | Kasson, his alleged father. | During the time Lindy was on the stand | to-day Judge Jones frequently alluded to him as Mr. Kasson. The case will be| continued to-morrow. e SIGHTS A WRECK AT SEA. Vessel Bottom Side Up Seen Off the | Columbia’s Mouth. ASTORTA, Or.,, March 16.—Captain | Amsbury of the British bark Puritan, which arrived to-day from Hiogo, re- ports that on the 12th inst. a vessel was | sighted bottom up eight miles north of | | | the Columbia River lightship. The keel | was about ninety feet long and the bot- | tom newly painted with copper paint. | Captain Amsbury sailed within a_few feet of the derelict, and saw a few float- ing spars around the hull, but there w It is eported | nothing to fr te what she - supposed to be the % o o mook by y sealing schooner Hetzic. DAlly foritin Drives Off a Grade. EUREKA, March 16.—A heavy snow- storm h been raging In the adjacent mountains for the last few days. Mail | Carrier Hitchings met an accident while | en route from Bridgeville to this city, his | rig running off the grade in a blinding snowstorm. Through the Instinct of his horse he found his way to the nearest set- tier's place . where he obtained a saddle | horse and brought the mail through to | this city. Operation of the stage line has | been discontinued until next Monday. B Dervishes Cross the Nile. party of CATRO, March 16.—A large Dervishes crossed the Nile to Shebalya Island on Sunday last, but were repulsed by the Egyptian troops with the loss of eighteen killed. ~The only Egyptian casualty was the wounding of Major Sit- | well. — - Grand Parlor Delegates. HAYWARDS, March 16—At the meet- | ing of Eden Parlor No. 113, Native Sons of | the Golden West, last evening, George A. | Oakes and N. A. McConaghy were elected delegates to the grand parlor. Dr. A. J. Pntwell and J. Smith were elected altef- nates. — Sails for Southampton. NEW YORK, Mgrch 16.—S. F. Judah of San Francisco was a passenger on the steamer St. Louis, sailing for Bouthamp- tou to-day. | sent a right on the chin. TRAINS A CANNON | ON A RIOTOUS MOB OF LONGSHOREMEN Captain of the Steamship Cleve= land Subdues a Belligerent Skaguay Crowd. TACOMA, March 16.—The steamship Cleveland of San Franelsco Alaska prepared for war. ued a hundred riotous Skaguay longsheremen by meunting cannon on the bridge and if the longshoremen did net instantly retreat. The long- they into the mouth of the d4-nch brass cannon and the They knew that Captain Hall meant busi- d on the deck ready to glve orders to fire if the long- choremen persisted in Interfering with the discharging of the Cleve- Some of them not only retreated, but "mcooted.” were satisfled to get out of the gun's range. The leader of the Longshoremen’s Union finally told Captain Hall ahead and the longshoremen would remain away. goes to Hall subd the ship’s wharf with it shoremen dld when not retreat trafned on thelr position. ness, for he stoo Jand’s cargo. to go ever, for less. discharging the vessel. @ PPOOPIPPIPPVOPPVV0I00OOOO6060000000S LOGGERS FIND ANEL DORADO | Placer and Quartz Gold on Vancouver Island. Rush of Prospectors to the Banks of Nimpkish River. Discovery of Rich Ore Made Through Information Given by & Squaw. Special Dispatch to The Call. VICTORIA, March 16.—Dr. Van Wag- ner of Seattle returned this morning | | from Nimpkish River, bringing news of large finds, both placer and quartz, along the banks of that stream. He says a large crowd of prospectors is hurrying to the new diggings, and al- ready twenty-two clalms are being worked with success, the dirt returning as high as an average of from $8 to $10 a day. Gold was discovered there by loggers, who were at work cutting trees and rafting them down the river from the upper Nimpkish to Alert Bay, where there is a sawmill and settlement. A squawman was told by his Indian wife of finds of the shining metal along the river by Indians. He at once told his companions, Hansen and Anderson, and together they began a search. Many places were tried without success, but at last the searchers were rewarded by discoveries of placer gold running in some cases as high as 35 cents to the pan. They determined to keep the find se- cret, but Indians who went down to the | settlement to trade told of the discov- eries, and immediately a rush began from Alert Bay and vicinity, and al- ready many men here are thinking of going to the scene of new finde. On seeing the prospectors coming in, Hansen and Anderson endeavored to get all the ground they could by re- cording claims in the name of Indians who were working for them. This was reported to local commissioners, who will investigate. About five miles away from where they discovered placers, Mathers, a settler, who owns a small ranch near the mouth of the river, has found a ledge of rich free-milling quartz, which, if worked, would pay | royally. He intends to come down to | Victoria and try to raise momey to es- tablish a smelter. Nimpkish River is at the upper end of Vancouver Island, and is easy of ac- cess. NAHER EASILY BESTS 0'DONNELL Philadelphia Pclice Stop the Fight in the Second Round. Speclal Dispatch to The Call. PHILADELPHIA, March 16. — Peter Maher finished Steve O'Donnell in short order at the Arena to-night, the referee stopping the fight in the second round, | when Steve was so groggy as to be all but knocked out. At the opening of the bout, which was to have been of six rounds, Maher objected to O’Donnell wearing bandages on his right wrist, but this was quickly settled by the Australian removing them. First round—They fiddled for an opening. Maher led Tight on face. Steve countered with left on face and Maher went to his knees. Steve again landed on the jaw and Peter sent his right to the chin and left and right on the ear, O'Dennell going down. He took the limit to get up. Peter put a right on the jaw and Steve again went down. O'Donnell Maher ‘led and missed, but a second later put right and Jeft on the jaw and Steve resumed his intimacy with the boards. Maher landed right and left on the face and Steve a left on the face, re- peating as the bell sounded. Second round—Maher landed a left on the ear and a right on the face. Steve returned with @ left on the ear. Peter put a right on the jaw and O'Donnell went down again. Maher banged right and left on the jaw, send- ing O'Donnell down. Maher walked to his corner as if it was all over. O'Donnell got up and went for him. Maher turned and rushed him into his corner. Steve went to his- knees and stayed there in very Eroggy :::'p:‘ and tbe referee stopped the one-sided a victory, though it did not seem to wholly skipper, whose belligerency was by this time fully aroused. he invited the longshoremen’s leader aboard to have a drink, thereby declaring the hostilities ended. In the captain’s cabin a discussion ensued between them, which resulted in blows, followed by the sending of the ashore in an unceremonious manner. This trouble was precipitated by the longshoremen's demand of 76 cents an hour for dlscharging the Cleveland’s cargo. ship landed several of them went aboard and asked Captain Hall if they should discharge his vessel on the same terms as on his prev- jous trip. when he paid them 50 cents an hour. but the work was scarcely begun when thelr leader appeared and notified the captain that the price for the work would be 75 cents, pecause living at Skaguay came high and they could not afford to work Captain Hall immediately ordered every longshoreman off the ship, and some were assisted in leaving. members of his crew, including pantrymen and walters, to commence The longshoremen then became deflant and prevented the crew from working by standing along the wharf so near the ship that the trucks could not be moved. that the cannon was brought into play. | feet wide. | Mareh 7, Captain On Monday, ordering his mate te clear the saw a 6-peund canister sheved gun carefully Others This was the Cleveland’s How- satisfy boss longshoreman ‘When the steam- The captain accepted, The captain ordered thirty It was to dislodge them 290060099 PPPPCPPPPICPIOIPIOPIIINIPPIPSPPOPIISISS RICH ORE 03 THE STICKEE Important Discovery ofj Placer and Quartz | Mines. | Good Fortune of a Small Party of Argonauts From | Seattle. Find a Paying Ledge From Eight Hundred to a Thousand Feet Wide. Special Dispatch to The Call. SEATTLE, March 16.—The first au- thentic news has reached Seattle from Telegraph Creek, at the head of the Stickeen River, of important discover- fes of placer and quartz claims. This news is contained in letters from James R. Hayden Jr. to his father, Major Hay- | den, the well-known Seattle banker. Mr. Hayden is one of a group of men that has obtained a lease on 200 miles of rich placer grcund on the old chan- nel of the Stickeen River. From a pros- pect of about thirty pounds of gravel that was taken to the camp, the dirt averaged 75 cents per pan. Several small nuggets were taken out of the prospect hole. The dirt was taken off the rim, and no attempt was made to g0 to bedrock. Mr. Hayden says that work on a cross cut of the channel was begun, and de- velopments will be prospected. “If the dirt continues to be as good as present prospects—and the indica- | tions are favorable—we will have a| Klondike of our own,” he says. One of Mr. Hayden’s letters is dated | January 1. The other is dated “Tele- | graph Creek, February 24.” 'The fol- Jowing from one of the letters contains the account of the quartz find referred to: | There is quite a quartz excitement around here now, and it gives promise of amounting to small sized Klondike. In any case, flve of us—Frank Calbraith, W. 8. Martin, Charley Wright, Harry | Chapman and myself—have located eight | claims In two groups. We left here at 3 o’clock in the morning last Sunday, tak- ing three dog teams. The property is only ten miles from here on the Stickeen River. | ‘We arrived there about daylight and | went right to staking claims. On Tues- | day morning Wright and Chapman and | two dog teams went on to Dease Lake, a | distance of ninety miles, to record the | claims. We then came back to Tele- graph Creek, and now the excitement,is at the top notch. We have three claims in one group and five in another. The ledge in both places is from 800 io 1000 Our assays have run from $5 to $200 per ton, with an average of about $20. We can't bank very much on our | assays vet, as the appliances here are | limited. | Mr. Hayden enclosed five samples from the face of the ledge, which were turned over to a prominent assayer here. To-day Hayden received the re- port, which gave the following results: No. 1—$392 40 per ton gold, $230 per | ton silver. Y No. 2—$184 in gold and a trace of sil- | ver. | No. 3—$1 in gold. No. 4—40 cents per ton in gold. No. 5—60 cents per ton in gold. | It will be seen that Mr. Hayden's as- savs made at Telegraph Creek barely | indicated the richness of the ore. i Mr. Hayden went north last fall by way of the Stickeen River and Tele- graph Creek. While at the latter place | reports reached the camp concerning | the discovery of an immense ledge of very rich quartz, and Hayden was one of the first to reach the spot. He lo- | cated several claims, and assays of | samples sent to his father indicate the | richness of the ore. SPEEDS A BULLET : FROM AN AMBUSH. Lyman S. Bell Kills Richard Murray Upon the Latter’s Indian Diggings Claim. PLACERVILLE, March 16.—A shooting affray occurred at Indian Diggings, this county, last evening. Lyman 8. Bell, with a Winchester rifle, shot and killed Rich- ard Murray upon the mining claim of the latter. No one saw the shooting, but before his death Murray made his way to the store of John Kohiert and told of being shot from ambush. Bell is in th 5% the officers, but bevond admitting. sy | | | | GOADED BY FLAMES T0 FATAL LEAPS Great Loss of Life At- tends a Fire in Chicago. Occupants of a Burning BuildingJump to Their Death. Others Perish Before They Can Reach the Deors or { Windows. LONG LIST OF MISSING. Heroism of a Fireman and a Brave Woman In Rescuing the Imperiled. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. CHICAGO, March 16.—It required just twenty minutes this afternoon for one of the most savage fires Chicago has | the case down to the circumstances | seen since the famous cold storage | which directly connect George Clark | warehouse fire on the World's Falir grounds in 1883, to take from flve to | principal evidence of Mrs. Clark is all | fifteen lives, maim thirty people and Teduce a six-story brick building to a | bile of blazing timbers, red hot bricks and twisted iron. The number of dead | 1s still in doubt, and probably will not be definitely known untll the debris of | other in rapid succession and by noon | the building is sufficlently cooled to ad- mit of a search belng made for the away, and the damaging testimony bodies that are undoubtedly in the ruins. This will be days hence at least. Three men are known to be dead. They are: SAMUEL A. CLARK, bookkeeper for the Olmstead Scientific Company. MILES A. SMITH, salesman for the Olmstead Scientific Company. EDWARD BINZ, cashier for Sweet, ‘Wallach & Co. The list of missing includes over a score of names. The building was six stories high, had a frontage of fifty-eight feet on Wa- bash avenue, and extended back 160 feet to an alley. It was of what is known as mill construction, and had two elevator shafts, one in front, one in the rear, and reaching from the third story to the roof was a light shaft which gave the flames every chance, | and it was because of this shaft that the fire spread with such awful rapid- ity. The building was occupied by a number of concerns, some of them em- ploying large numbers of people. It is estimated that 400 people were at work when the fire was discovered. The origin of the fire, which was fol- lowed by an explosion, is in doubt, but the weight of evidence seems to be that the explosion was in the lower part of the building, for the flames shot up the light shaft at once. The elevator in the front of the building was & deliberate aifair, in good order, but not calculated to make much speed in such an emergency as con- f1 mted it to-day. Gleason made one trip to the seventh floor, carried down a load of women, and although the smoke was rolling through the building in dense clouds he started up again. At the fourth floor he stopped to take on a crowd of girls from the rooms of the National Music Company, being assist- ed in his work by Miss Katharine Car- | ney, the forewoman. A man attempted to force his way into the elevator, but Gleason shoved him back into the hall that the women might have the first chance. The man never came out. At the rear St. John did equally good work, but was not able to make more than one trip, as the fire swept through that part of the building be- fore it attacked the front. In less than ten minutes after the explosion all escape of the inmates by the stairs and the elevators was cut off. Many of those who could not reach the fire escape made their way to the front windows, and it was out of these that Clark, Smith and Binz hurled themselves to death. One fireman distinguished himself by & darin~ rescue. He was up on a ladder close to the building when he | heard a cry ringing out above the roar of the flames. He steadied himself on the ladder and peered into the dense smoke. Just then a gust of wind cleared the scene. The fireman saw a CONVICTED BY HIS OWN POOR WIT of Clumsy Attempts Clark to Deceive Officers. Proclaimed HisInnocence Before Accused of Murder. Tried to Make It Appear That His Brother Was a Suicide. NOT AN ADEPT FORGER. Viotim’s Farewsell Note Which He Produced Said to Be in His Own Writing. Epectal Dispatch to The Call. NAPA, March 16.—The second day’s session of the Clark trial has brought | with the murder of his brother. The |in, but it is possible she may be re- | called toward the close of the prosecu- tion. Since Mrs. Clark’s release from the stand witnesses have succeeded each | all preliminaries had been cleared DEADLY FUMED POISON TIMBER Government Agent Makes an Investigation at Keswick. Forests Destroyed by Vapors From Large Smeslting Plants. Will Submit a Report Unfavorable to the Mountain Copper Company. Special Dispatch to The Call. REDDING, March 18.—Special Agent Cullom, acting for the Department of the Interfor, has been here for over two weeks making an exhaustive investiga- tion of the devastation of Government timber by the poisonous fumes from the roasting and smelting plants of the Mountain Copper Company at Kes- wick. It was not disclosed until to-day that such an investigation was in pro- gress. The operation of the vast plant of the Mountain Copper Company is of inestimable advantage to the entire county, yet the ever widening circle of dead timber, reaching now for miles beyend the plant, has caused a com- plaint to be lodged with the Govern- ment, and the official investigation is the result. | The special agent is sald to have made such progress as to enable him to formulate his report, which will be | unfavorable to the company. The de- partment will be guided by his report and recommendations. The agent is | convinced that the fumes are poisonous | to all vegetation, and the dead pine timber standing and the entire absence | of life in the smaller trees and shrubs | bear evidence of the deadliness of the fumes. He will recommend that the Mountain Copper Company be en- | joined by process of law from operating against Clark was being taken. | The testimony of the St. Helena con- stable was the strongest so far, and the | defense tried in vain to break it down on cross-examination. His testimony | regarding the footprints of George Clark made on the morning of the crime !was clear and complete, and it will be hard for the defense to correct the im- pression it made upon the jury. | The first few questions put to Mrs. | Clark during the morning session were stopped by objections from the District Attorney. They referred to the early life of the witness. Then, coming down to the time of the murder, Mr. Hogan drew from her the fact that her hus- band suspected a man named Signorelli, as well as his brother, of having poi- soned his coffee. She was then asked about a conver- sation she had with George Clark, in which George called attention to some poison he had and to that found in Will Clark’s coffee. George | Clark showed her some poison he had, and asked her if it were the same as | that Will Clark had found in his cof- | fee. She said no, and then George | Clark said: | “Then you can see I must be inno- | cent.” | This concluded the examination of | Mrs. Clark for the time being, and then | George Daks, son-in-law of Mrs. Clark, was called to the stand. He was asked as to the events of the morning when William Clark was found dead, and his | testimony was a repetition of that of | Mrs. Clark given yesterday. | Bertha Clark followed Daks to the | stand. She was questioned as to one oc- casion when she had heard her mother call, and, going down to the kitchen, | she found George Clark and her mothes there. Mrs. Clark had testified tha then George Clark had attempted to assault her, and he desisted only when she called one of her daughters. J. G. Johnson, marshal of the town | of St. Helena, came to the stand to tes- tify to the circumstances which connect George Clark with the crime. He was called to the house early in the morning of the shooting by Dr. Osbourne. He told how, when he had seen the body on the floor and the pipe and pistol which lay near it, he marked the place where the pipe and pistol lay before he picked them up. Johnson produced | Clark house, and it was admitted in | evidence. He also produced the pipe, | and it, too, was admitted. | Proceeding with his testimony John- | son said he, Dr. Osbourne and George ! Daks went over to the cottage where George Clark lived. They knocked on from his bed they told him that some the pistol he found on the porch of the | the door, and when George Clark arose | man in a wiL_ow of the fifth floor | 3 carrying an inanimatc form. That the | Dneflh&d llil"ed hi;]llwmthe‘rér He said: vas about to throw the un-| “H'm, I guess g0 over. S ton "i| He commenced to dress, when the conscious hu?un heirmz into the street | he vain hope of saving the man | g—‘oél a death by roasting was evident. | into custody, as there had been some The fire was roaring so that no voice | Suspicion against him. Dr. Osbourne d. Putting u ds | reminded Clark he had said a few days coilliibe; DeR & up his hands | 1O RO at he had lost a pistol, and Constable told him he had to take him as a signal to wait until he got ready, the fireman again braced himself upon the ladder, and reached out his arms fcr the rescuer to drop the unconscious man to him. With a shock that nearly knocked the heroic fireman from his po- sition upon the ladder, the body of the ‘man struck the fire-fighter. But it did not get away from him. He held the unconsclous man through all the swaying and swinging of the ladder. Hastily descending, the fireman turned his unconscious burden over to the po- | lice and returned to his post. The man | who had saved the unconscious work- | man had disappeared. Katherine Carney, the forewoman of the National Music Company, who was thought to have been burned to | | death, left the building by means of the fire escape. “1 did all I could,” said she, “to get the eirls into the elevator, and then when I started to get in myself there was no room for me. I did not think there was such great danger at the time, but in a few minutes, after the elevator had gone down, I saw the flames were spreading so rapidly that I must run for my life. T hurried to a window, which was near the fire es- cape, climbed through it and came down to the ground. A man at the bottom of the escape was holding a ladder, and he helped me and a number of others to get out. I had not a min- ute to spare, as the flames burned my face and hair when I left the building, and it was so hot that the rungs on the fire escape scorched my hands. All of my girls got away alive, although one or two are bruised up a little.” SENATORS INSPECT A NORMAL SCHOOL. SAN JOSE, March 16.—The State Nor- mal School was inspected by the Senate committee on State institutions this morning. The buildings were looked over and Principal Randall, Miss Blaisdell, shooting, makes no statement. Both men | secretary, and Trustee James M. ;%em olm (“lelé?‘e:‘fl gf“ thé;i :,:&nt , between | were %mmed in n(m lu“ uhogl ‘::‘:tl: - or over a | ters, s afternoon committee le: Clark said yes, he could describe it, and he did so. Then Johnson showed the pistol he had found, and Clark said it | was not his. |~ Johnson say the shoes Clark was | about to put on were covered with | mud, and so he directed Clark to wear others. On the way to the jail Clark | sgaid he believed it was a case of sui- | cide, and if so his brother must have | left a note to that effect. Then, after | they got to the jail, Clark said he lied | about the pistol. He said he wanted to correct his former statement—the | pistol Johnson showed was his. | ¥ Johnson told how he examined the | streets after putting George Clark into jail, and he found several fresh foot tracks in the mud. Some were going toward the Clark house and some were | going from there. Then he took Clark’s shoes and putting them in the tracks he found them to fit exactly. In the afternoon Johnson saw Clark again, and Clark said he had a paper | at his house which he thought peculiar. | He said it was a statement made by his brother, saying he contemplated suicide, and saying, too, that it asked that George be not accused. In re- sponse to Johnson's request he wrote as much as he .could recollect of the contents of the paper. Johnson asked him where he got it, and Clark said he had found it behind a picture in the Clark house. The paper was admitted in evidence and was read to the jury. With cor- rections of spelling it was as follows: I bought of G. A. Riggins strychnine. am Ared of life. Te]fgceorggyhenxgeno§ guilty. I did it myself. W. A. CLAR The cartridges you will find in the base- ment. The prosecution will attempt to prove that the letter of which George Clark said this was a copy was written by George Clark himsel: A Significant Inquiry. RALEIGH, N. C, March 16.—Gov- ernor Russell to-day received a mes- sage from President McKinley asking how many troops the State could fur- nish in case of hostilities. The reply of the Governor gave the number at 245,000, What you will find behind the cfock. | its plant under the existing conditions. Should the department obtain a tem- | porary injunction it will then be asked that a permanent injunction be issued compelling the company to resort to a system of condensers. In other copper smelting regions such action was taken | and the smelting companies compelled | to construct condensers. At times as high as 1,000,000 pounds | of ore is dumped in a pile at Keswick, | fired, and permitted to burn for weeks, sending forth a volume of poisonous vapors, which spread over miles of ter- | ritory, sparing no kind of vegetable life. The first vegetation to succumb to the deadly smoke was the Digger | pine, and in some quarters trees are standing dead and desolate ten and even twelve miles away. Within closer limits to Keswick not a spear of grass por a green shrub of any kind has sur- vived. The town of Shasta and its vicinity are the greatest sufferers. The smoke | there at times is almost unbearable and the damage is constantly growing. Far up on the mountains dead trees are multiplying and nearer by entire ridges have been devastated. In Redding | many pine trees have been killed and it is feared that other vegetable life | will suffer a like fate. The smoke | reaches this point by following the | course of the Sacramento River. The bulk of the damage is being done, how- ever, in the section lying northwest and west of Redding, the smoke being car- | ried thither on air currents passing up | the Spring Creek Canyon and over | toward the Clear Creek Range. | AUBREY BEARDSLEY | DIES AT MENTONE. | Best Enown by the Eccentricity 1 Which Was Displayed in the | Posters He Designed. LONDON, March 16.—A dispatch from Mentone states that Aubrey Beardsley, | the well-known artist and writer, died to- { iiay in that city from hemorrhage of the | lungs. Mr. Beardsley was born in 1874. He be- | gan working for the Pall Mall Magazine | and the Pall Mall Budget in 1892. He was | elected a member of the New English Art | Club in 1883, and subsequently he worked for various publishers. He designed a | number of posters that attracted con- siderable attention, owing to the eccen- | tricity displayed ih them. He supplied drawings for several illustrated publica- | tions, including ‘“Le Morte d'Arthur,” | ‘Salome,” “The Rape of the Lock” and “Under the Hill.”" e contributed a large number of drawings to the Yellow Book and Le Courrier Francais. TR R 1 San Rafael Flower Festival. | SAN RAFAEL, March 16.—A mass- meeting of the citizens of San Rafael be held next Friday evening at the Covgliul} | rane-McNear Hall for the purpose of | making final arrangements for the hold- | ing of a great flower festival during the first week in May. | | | 30 years' standing. condition your Belt cured envelope is sent with the letter of inquiry. book about it, free. forever. Office hours, § a. m. to 8 p. 2043 South Broadway: Portland, street; Dallas, Tex., 26 Main s ¢ no treet. mistake in LAST TRIBUTE T0 THE DEAD Body of General Rose-= crans Consigned to the Tomb. Veterans Sing the Old War- rior’s Favorite Hymn Over His Casket. Bishop Mentgomery Feelingly Refers to the Life Work of the Decessed. Special Dispatch to The Call. ™ LOS ANGELES, March 16—The fo~ neral of General W. 8. Rosecrans was the most largely attended of any ever held in Southern California. At 9a m the body was removed from the City Hall to the cathedral by a military es- cort. A tremendous crowd ed the cathedral and flocked in as SooR as it was permitted to enter. Rela- tive of the dead general emtered shortly after 1 o’clock, when the fu- neral rites began. After mass, Rev. Bishop Montgomery delivered a brief address, taking his text from the first book of St. John xi, 21-27. In brief the speaker said: “The words of the Savior of mankind form a promise to all Christians—& promise of immortality for belief. Christianity is the mainspring of civi- lization and liberty; it is that which gives man his dignity, his character, his independent spirit. 1 believe that this is a particularly pertinent oeca- sion for reference to this fact. It is a blessing held out to the despairing; to those bereaved by death. It is & promise which invests the bodies of the dead in our church with the spark of immortality.” The speaker referred to the appHea- tion of the text to the occasion and said: “Almost against the expressed wishes of the family of the deceased General Rosecrans, 1 am compelled to refer briefly to his life work. General Rose- crans needs no eulogism, no panegyric. His acts as a citizen, as a soldier and as an official speak for themselves. He served his country in its perilous need with fidelity, courage and zeal. He served it religlously and to the satis- faction of the Government and the people. He is part of our nation and part of our history. In paying a last tribute to the dead, Catholics have a special right to pride themselves, for he was one of them. He served his country well, but in that duty he served a higher power; he served the church and he served the ruler of all governments. He was a soldier, but he was a Catholic—an intelligent, prac- tical, consistent, devoted Catholic. As such, I say, the Catholics have a special interest in the deceased. He early entered the church to which his family had already given a son, who became the Bishop of the diocese at Columbus, Ohio. “As a Catholic, as a soldier, as a true patriot and citizen, General Rose- crans passed away. With how much justice may it be said of him, ‘Well done, thou good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful in a few things: I will make thee lord over many. Enter though into the kingdom of heaven.” ™ Absolution of the dead was then per- formed and the chant was resumed. The pallbearers took up the casket, which was borne to the waiting hearse, drawn by six white horses, with black trappings. The funeral procession then moved to Rosedale Cemetery, where services simple and impressive were held. The floral offerings were numer- ous and beautiful. The city of San Francisco sent a great pillow of car- nations, of which the center was a shield made from red and white car- nations, the whole being bordered with lilies of the valley. 0ld soldiers gathered at the grave in large numbers and sang General Rosecrans favorite hymn in chorus, “Rock of Ages.” An address was delivered by Comrade A. C. Schafer and a prayer was ofe fered by Comrade W. A. Knighten. After this the casket was placed in the vault and the body of General Willlam Starke Rosecrans was at rest. Business was suspended throughout the city during the hours of the fu= neral. Confirmed by the Senate. WASHINGTON, March 16.—The Senate to-day confirmed these nominations: Horace H. Thomas, Appraiser of Mer- chandise, District of Chicago; Charles M. Sehlbrede of Oregon, Commissioner in and for the District of Alaska. Postmaster California—J. N. Turren= tine, Escondido: M. Robinson, Vacaville. ADVERTISEMENTS. . +0+6+0+0+0+0+9+9+0+0+0 +0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0 AWFUL VARICOCELE. 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