The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 22, 1898, Page 4

ENFORCING PROHIBITION IN ALASKA Collector Ivy Seizes All the Liquor He Finds. Many a Hidden Cache Despoiled of Its Contents. Means to Enforce the Law Throughout the Entire Terriory. MURDERSUSPECTSCAUGHT Alleged Slayers of Gambler Roberts Arrested After a Fight With Pistols. Special Dispatch to The Call. of Ala will soon be without an oc- cupation for the fiat has gone forth that ska is to be a prohibition territory. before the ship Faralion, h arrived here this evening, sailed m Wrangel, United States Collector ound to the various saloons and hotels where liquor was sold and in the name of the United States seized all | the spirituous liquors he could find. | llector Ivy as ju t returned from Washington, D. C., and it is understood ARGONAUTS ‘A5 N ber of vessels constantly Seattle for Lynn Canal and Copper the number stated 11,763 have been OIOIOIOJOJOJOXOXOIOJOLOJOJOJO) Zood earnest, as 5906 people sailed. The pr River. their object. [010JOIOJOJOJOXOXOIOLO) othel OJOJOJOROJOJOROOROJOROROROXORO} BOOGE WOULD ~ DIVIDE ALASKA Former lowan Circulating is more than three-foyrths of the entire number leaving the Sound. Of the balance, or 2803, landed at Port Valdes or Oria. gold seekers left here for the North. nt month, it was expected, would run up to at least 10,000, vet thus far only 5379 went out. Of this number 1379 departed for Copper The crowd that has gone so far this year was composed first of those who expected to cross the Chilkoot or White passes on the snow, and go down the mighty Yukon over the ice fields. who wanted to get across the passes to Lake Bennett before the rush came. They were willing to suffer all kinds of hardships to accomplish The Copper River crowd went north early for a some- what different reason. These prospectors did not know just what they were running up against, and considered one method as good as an- colololciolololololololololofolOlokO) his action is the outcome of an inter- | 24 he had with the authorities there | a Petition at Fort i the liguor question. | Yukon. the Collector begun his rounds | ceepers could hardly believe he | in earnest when he seized their oods. Having received no warning | acks for the Creation of a were surprised. As soon as the news got abroad endeavors were made | to secrete liq but very few of the | dealers were in this, the liquor in ng unearthed | i saloon men are in- | a in emphatic terms | of the Collector, | a infringement on | their rights as American cit i Collector Ivey, who is back large number of citizens the protests and has where liquor r ently establi d in an interview assengers of the Far- at Wrangel. with one of the allon that he intended to rigidly en- force prohibition throughout the length and breadth of Alaska, and would shortly proceed toJuneau, aguay and sale in _those and bar- uor on lig 3 saloons brings news that H. two others, whose names re not given, all said to be from San -0, have been arrested by the authorities and are now being heid for trial for the murder of Samuel Rob- erts, the faro dealer who was shotdown in the doorway of his own cabin on the Dyea trail on Monday last. The author- itie ! cription of the murderer by * friend, who ac- companied the & r to his cabin on the night of the murder. Acting on this information, they immediate e trail of the three San Corbett and Fr who fitted the description. > found on the Dyea trail on last and resisted arr In that ensued firearms were used and H. ett was shot in the shoulder, being severely though not fa tally wounded. The suspects were ulti- tely overpowered and taken to . whence it is understood they will trial. ation at Skaguay remains g has broken out, n closed Gamblin; > gar ses having L for but . but now it is said nothing but “legitimate gambling” is allowed, all sure-thing, confidence and bunko games being barred. In con quence of this many of the rough ele- - leaving Skaguay, crowds go- to Juneau on every steamship. me down en route to Seattle llon. The report that thugs s have seized the Skaguay on the and row ar it_is denie The weather at Skagua: trails has been mild, and if it continues so for a short time there will b trouble whatever in getting over koot or White Pas trails. As present many are going in, making journey from salt water to the lakes in about two days. Most of those now going in are hurrying to Big Salmon River and Walsh and Rosebud creeks, where big strikes were recently made. As a consequesnce of the mild weather it is reported that over 2000 people with several hundred teams of horses and a great number of dogs and many outfits are stranded at the mouth of the Stickeen River, the ice having been made unfit to carry any weight. TRUTH DECLARED COMPLETE JUSTIFICATION bircuit Judge Spencer Delivers a Most Important Decision as to Newspaper Libels. ST. LOUIS, March 2L—Judge S. P. Spencer, of the Circuit Court, to-day handed down a decision on the rights of newspapers to plead in justification in libel suits that the article sued on were true. The point came up on a motion for a rehearing of the case of Charles 8. Stark v Co., in which Stark sued for damages on account of articles published. Judge Spencer refused a rehearing of the case, which had been decided in favor of the defendants. The defense was that what was published was true. Judge Spencer said in part: “If the substance of the publication in its full and fair meaning is alleged and proved to be true, the justification is complete.” Results at New Orleans. NEW ORLEANS, March 21.—Weather clear; track fast. Six furlongs, selling—Nannie Davis won, Udah second, Blitheful third. Time, 1:16. Two-year-olds, four furlongs—Four Leaf Clover won, Houseltoff second, Winner third. Time, :46%. One mile and a_sixteenth, selling—Rob- srt Bonner won, Paul Kauvar second, Jim Hogg third. Time, 1:48%. seve furlongs—Brighton W Seven furlongs—La Moore won, Hano Belle second, Ovation third. Time, 1:29. One mile, selling—Russella won. Alamo second, Berclair third. Time, 1:42. S = Lord Elgin Will Resign. LONDON, March 21.—The Standard says t has reason to believe that the Earl of Elgin _and Kincardine, Viceroy of India since 1893, desires to resign his post, and ;hat the Government is considering um| wointment of a new Viceroy. Al Publishers George Knapp & | Handicagi Pa orrissey second, Fervor third. | Territory to Be Called Lincoln. Promotor of the Project Not Averse Becoming Its First Governor. to Special Correspondence of The Call. FORT YUKON, Jan. 2—Judge J. E. Booge of Sioux City, Iowa, is for the time being in charge of the North American Trading Cempany’s business here because of being stranded. His destination also was Dawson. He dis- placed Fred Gash in charge. Mr. Booge is circulating a petition for the division of the District of Alaska and the mak- ing of a new Territory out of the north- western portion, embracing the Yukon River district, the name to be Lincoln and the capital to be located at the mouth of the Tanana, the name of the city to be Weare, after the name of the president of the North American Trad- ing and Transportation Company. It is Booge aspires to be of the new Territory, and that his com- ing here was a part of a plan to that end laid by influential stockholders and officers of the trading company months ago in Chicago. The trading company has large influence with the admini- stration, Secretary Gage himself being one of the principal stockholders. The movement to divide the Terri- tory ccmes as news to the people here. At the place designated for the capital, at the mouth of the Tanana, there are four logs laid crosswise in order that no mistakes as to its whereabouts may be made. : Mr. Booge, the prospective Governor, came here the instance of P. B. ‘Weare of Chicago, almost with a day’s | ag the last lot sent down the latest ma- | He was free to come, as he notice. n £ His mission had retired from business. and see what was going on. He insists that, althcugh stranded at this isolated place, the refuge this winter of the es- pecially unfortunate, he is still glad he came to this country.. He was formerly engaged in the business of pork pack- ing at Sioux City, and at one time, he declares with some pride, “killed as ! many as 250,000 hogs a year. It is the purpose of both the Alaska | April 10 for Trinity County, where he | Trading and, Transportation companies |5 clafm adjoining the famous Graves | ! Commercial and the North American | to develop the Tanana country this year. Boats will be sent up that river and trading posts built, and the town or post of Weare will be established | whether it be the captial of Lincoln or not. 2 | _ Without regard to the politics of the | situation, Captain Ray is convinced ithat the mouth of the Tanana is the key to this whole lower country. There | seems to be no end of confidence in the | riches of the Tanana and Copper rivers | and Captain”Ray shares it. This is | how he explained’ to me his plan for | establishing a mail route from Cooks | Inlet, a line that could be depended { upon for a weekly service all the year | round: | . “From reliable prospectors who have | been over a part of this trail I learn | that there is a practicable route from the head of Cooks Inlet up the Shu- | shitne River; that the right or west fork of that stream breaks through the Alaskan range by a new pass and that the Indians from Tanana travel this route in the winter to barter with a | trader located at the ®®uth of the Shushitne. From Circle City Tanana, via the head of Birch Creek, is, I am informed by minery 10 have been over the trail frequently, not more | than 125 miles. The Indians say that it is from fifteen to seventeen sleeps from the Tanana to the store at the mouth of the Shushitne, which, at their rate | of travel, would make the distance to be by trail about 340 miles, making the | total distance from Cooks Inlet to | Circle City 445 miles. I notice that by | Jatitude and longitude it is less than | gers became mutinous, and the captain | | 400 miles. | “The advantages of this route over | that of Juneau and Dyea is apparent, | as the distance from Circle City to Ju- neau is estimated at 1040 miles and the route impracticable for winter travel, and besides lies mostly through a for- | eign count: SAM W. WALL. | = Damage by Wind. | FRESNO, March 21.—A heavy wind. | storm prevailed this afternoon and con- siderable damage was done both to buildings and in drying- the ground. The wind blew at the rate of twenty-two miles | an hour. Officials and attaches of the | Courthouse were badly scared in the | afternoon, as the tower building vibrated so0 as to shake the whole structure. The | false columns of tin were badly damaged by the wind, one belng parted at the joint, and the two pileces flapping in the gale. They were secured by wire before blown down. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, NOT UMEROUS AS WAS EXPECTED Seattle Ship-Owners Disappointed in the Small Number of Passengers. SEATTLE, March 21.—Many misgivings are now being expressed that the expected rush to the Klondike from this port is likely to be disappointing. The present fleet of vessels from here on the Skaguay- Dyea run consists of twenty-four steamers and fourteen sailing vessels. The copper River crafts number tén steamers and two sailing vessels. These fifty vessels have a carrying capacity of nearly 20,000 passengers a month, but they are all running very light at present, with the num- increasing. Since January 1 the total number that has taken departure from River points is placed at 14,566. This landed at Skaguay or Dyea, and In January 3281 February started the rush in Then came those OEPPPEPEREPOEPEEEPPOOREROREOO® TRIKE 0F GOLD AT CLOVERDALE Paying Ore Discovered on a Sonoma County Ranch. Specimens Assay Four Hun- dred Dollars to the Ton. Vein Uncovered by a Farm Manager While Excavating for a New Dwelling. Special Dispatch to The Call. | months ago A. M. Daly, manager of the | Eckert ranch, near Moulton Hill, about | | a half mile beyond Cloverdale, while | excavating on a side hill for a barn and | house, found promising gold ore. sent some of the ore to San Francisco to be assayed and the report came back | “41 cents to the ton.” This was not re- | markable, but was not bad for surface | rock.” Later more ore was sent down | and this assayed $516 to the ton. This | was encouraging, and more rock, se- | cured after considerable labor from the | heart of the vein four feet wide, was sent to San Francisco. This third report of the assayers has an open secret in here that Mr. [ been received and it has set all the | the first Governor | tongues in Cloverdale to wagging and | | caused nine-tenths of the male popula- | tion to dream of wondrous riches within | their grasp. The last shipment of ore | assayed $400 to the ton. This is the best | report ever received from Sonoma | County gold ore. The ranch upon which the find was | made is owned by Mrs. Cora E. Eckert, | daughter of Mr. Daly. Mr. Daly was in |town ¢n Monday and filed mineral | claims on the gold-bearing land, this being necessary under the law, not- | withstanding Mrs. Eckert already owns qthe land on a patent right. Last Friday blasting with powder | was begun, and on Tuesday a ton of rock will be sent to San Francisco to | be smelted. If this ore proves as rich chinery will be put in and the vein worked in real earnest. The ledge is he says was just to 100K things over | foyur feet wide. Its length is not known, | but high-grade ore has been found in five different places as far as 150 yards | apart. Mr. Daly, who has made two | fortunes in California mines, and who is recognized as an authority on min- eralogy and geology, says: “I know we have found gold ore in paying quality and quantity.” Mr. Daly has arranged to leave about | has valuable mining interests. He has | Bros.” Blue Jay mine. It is located in | the bed of an ancient river and the dirt | runs from 5 cents to 50 cents to the pan. | His plans are to work this mine in sum- | 'mer and the Sonoma County property iin the winter. | MUTINOUS PASSENGERS QUELLED BY FORCE. Trouble on the Schooner Morrill on the Voyage to Alaska. SEATTLE, March 21.—The schooner | Bering Sea returned to-day {rom the | Copper River country. Her destination | was Disenchantment Bay, but there were too many icebergs there to make | navigation safe, so the twenty-six pas- | sengers were landed at Yakutat, a | small village on the coast. Captain | Grotte reports that but little progress | has been made by the gold hunters to the now at Disenchantment Bay. The bay | | has been frozen over during the win- | ter, but the ice is beginning to float out {on the tide. | According to the reports brought | down by the Bering Sea there has been serious trouble between the skipperand } passengers on the schooner Morrill, now |at Yakutat. Before reaching there ad- | verse winds were encountered and she | was driven some distance out of her | course. During this time the passen- quelled a row by a liberal display or | guns in the hands of himself and crew. Further trouble ensued, but without serious result. ALLEGED TIMBER TRESPASS. Third Trial of the Suit Against the Copper Queen Company. FLAGSTAFF, Ariz.,, March 31.—To-day the Attorney-General of the United States commissioned E. E. Ellinwood as Special Assistant United States District | Attorney to assist in the trial of the case of the United States vs. the Copper gueen Consolidated Mining Company. 'his is a suit by the Government to re- cover . from™ the Copper Queen Mining Company for alleged timber tres- pass, and is probably the most important case of this nature in the West. It has twice been tried. with the result of a ent of the jury at each trial. BLAMES THE WOMAN FOR HIS CRIME Sole Burden of the De- fense of George Clark. Counsel Seeks to Prove That He Was but an Agent. Points to the Victim’s Widow as the One Who Planned the Murder. CASE NEARING AN END Closing Plea for the St. Helena Frat- ricide Will Be Concluded To-Day. Special Dispatch to The Call. MARCH 22, 1898 NEVIN'S POLICY NOT POPULAR Why the Santa Fe Has Lost Prestige in Caealifornia. President Ripley. Coming to Investigate Recent Com- plaints. Change in Management May Be One Result of His Visit to This State. Special Dispatch to The Call. HALE HOUSE LAID IN ASHES Miners’ Hotel at Butte De- stroyed at an Early Hour. Two of the Inmates Killed While BEscaping and Several. Others Badly Injured. Improvised Ropes Give Way and Frightened Boarders Precipitated to the Ground. Speclal Dispatch to The Call. LOS ANGELES, March 21.—Within | the next two days President Ripley of | the Santa Fe system will arrive in Cal-i| ifornia. He is now at Albuquerque, N. | M., and General Manager Nevin of the | Santa Fe and Pacific will meet him at | Gallup and accompany him on his| westward trip. | The object of President Ripley’s visit at this time is given out at the general | offices of the company in this city as simply an inspection of the company's property, but it is understood that| more significance attaches to his com- | ing than the officials here will admit. | The policy pursued by General Man-| NAPA, March 21.—It was a day of | words in the Clark case, and if words | could save the murderer’s neck he | would never mount the gallows. Mr. | Hogan resumed his argument in the | morning and throughout the opening | session devoted himself to showing how | | the woman was responsible for it all | | He denounced the widow of murdered William Clark and declared that if a | murder was committed at all it was | because of her. Clark, according to | | him, was a person easily led by the | | temptress, and to her Mr. Hogan at- ager Nevin in handling the Santa Fe system in Southern California has given rise to a great deal of criticism. These strictures have come from indi viduals, firms and shippers generally, who have in the past been stanch friends of the Santa Fe road, but who are now up in arms against the road. The result has been the creation of a | public sentiment in this section of the | State which not only has a disastrous effect on the compnay's business, but which also has been a source of annoy- ance to President Ripley. A great many who could not obtain : | a satisfactory adjustment from Gen- | tempted to trace all blame for the death | era] Manager Nevin have referred their | of William Clark. He compared the | differences to the president's office, | plain, homely, expressionless face his | carrying them over Mr. Nevin and ap- SANTA ROSA, li;;rch 21.—Some two | He | 1it! patra; to the fascinating wife of Poti- phar; to all the beauties of history who | have led men astray, and the defendant himself he compared to Joseph—who fell not. | He called attention to the attitude of the defendant througout the trial—an | attitude which has all the sprightliness of an intelligent clam—and asked if such a man could be guilty of such a | crime. The construction . of George Clark’s head was also called into the | case, and Mr. Hogan declared Clark's | appearance justied his reputation for | peace and quiet. | | This same head is the talk of all those | who have taken sufficinet trouble to | come up into the courtroom to see it. It is all set forward of the neck. It| seems in a straight line up from the shoulder blades and then the outline | hurries angularly over the crown and | | down over the shallow, lowering brow, | until it leaves his eyes just on a level with the middle of his ears; and then | | leaving a dish nose and a mouth whose | weakness cannot be hidden by the | growth of hair around it, it wanders off into a stubby growth of beard and | there ends in the air. His eyes are | “lack-luster,” inanimfate, expressionless | orbs, and altogether he looks a paradox | —a man capable of nothing and cape- | ble of anything. “The woman did it! The woman did it!” was drummed into the jury all day. ‘‘She lured him on; she led him first into the path of dishonor and then into the path of crime, if crime there vas,” reiterated Mr. Hogan. ‘“‘She did She did it!” was the burden of the | argument, and the man who, even | granting that temptation was there, sacrificed his brother’s honor, wrecked | his brother’s home and then took his | brother’s life, was held up as one fitted | | to be again turned looseon a Iorbearingi community. | | Hogan described the defendant as one | who had lied to save his paramour’s | honor and who would die if necessary | to save her name and liberty, but the | testimony shows that Clark was the first to assail the woman’s attempts to| !lead a better life by a threat to tell the | world all she had been doing. | There was a point made about the absence of mud on the porch of William Clark’s house and also the fact that no pistol shot had been heard nor had the fall of Clark’s senseless body been | noted by any one in the house. | Mr. Hogan also showed how a pistol | | might have been held in the right hand | s0 a man might have shot himself in | the left side of the head, and he tried to | show that the woman might have pinned the message Wwhich asked | George to come over at § o'clock upon | the door. | There is a growing sentiment in Napa and the surrounding country that the | chances are there will be a verdict fix- |ing the penalty at life imprisonment. There is no ground for the beMef, how- ever, except that George Clark is al- most an idiot, and the jury may take that into consideration and so show some leniency. It is not expected that there will be any hesitation over a ver- dict of guilty. Mr. Hogan will coraplete his argu- ment to-morro BILLS RELATING TO PACIFIC RAILROADS. Senate Committee Decides to Report Measures for the Settlement of Central Pacific Debts. WASHINGTON, March 21.—The Sen- ate Committee on Pacific Railways to- day decided to report the bills for the settlement of the Central Pacific and the Sioux City and Pacific debts. - The Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary | of the Interior and Attorney-General are created a committee to settle the debt and to make such extensions as may be necessary to sécure the Government’s in terest. “In the case of the Central P cific an amendment was adopted prov |ing that the full amount of the Govern- | ment’s principal and interest must be paid. No limitation was placed on the Sioux City and Pacific, and it is probable lthat Senators Morgan and Harris will' | make a minority report in favor of a sim- ilar restriction to that placed on the Cen- tral Pacific settlement. CANAL COMMISSION NOW AT PANAMA. Copyrighted, 1598, by James Gordon Bennett. PANAMA, March 21L—The Panama Canal Commission to inspect and report on work done, and upon whose report the future of the scheme depends, ar- rived at Colon last evening. The com- mission began its work- to-day. looking over some of the work done. The com- mission is composed of General Henry E. Abbott, representing the United States; Herr Koch, engineer of the Kiel canal, and M. Choron, engineer-in-chief. S e st Shicn Wik Femasn I Colombia about o tmeath © 1o | a new Cabinet. | hearers had all seen upon the stand to | pealing directly to the head of the | | the glorious, still living beauty of Cleo- | road. President Ripley, while here, will, so it is understood, investigate the causes of complaint that have been made against Nevin and ascertain what foundation really exists for them. The president will also endeavor to | place the Santa Fe road in its former position in the esteem of the people of | Southern California, who have always looked upon it as a safeguard against any Southern Paciflc exactions. Nevin's friends assert that he will have no difficulty in proving to Presi- dent Ripley that he has acted wisely in handling the shippers in this section. Nevertheless a change in management is looked for as one of the possibilities of his visi | CHILE CONFRONTED | WITH A NEW CRISIS. Members of the Cabinet Have Been | Dismissed, While War Talk Is | Again Resumed. | VALPARAISO, March 21.—Chile is con- | tronted by another ministerial crisis. The members_of the Cabinet have been dis- missed, and to Senor Eulojo Altamiraine has been entrusted the work of forming The confidence of all the political parties is now sought by the Government in view of the seriousness of internal and foreign affai In private circles one hears nothing but war talk. Generally itis believed that a conflict is unavoidable, but I have good reason to believe that Chile will not declare war. Argentina will not do so because she has too much to lose. | z s CROPS BLIGHTED BY WIND. | - Gale in the Interior Taps the Soil of Its Moisture. | VW OODLAND. March 21.—On Sunday the cold wind seemed to have subsided, and | the early hours this morning gave prom- | ise of fair and warmer weather. About 9| o'clock a furious north wind_sprang up | suddenly, and it is rapldly sa~-ing the little moisture left in the soil. The prospects for grain and fruit crops are not at all hopeful. The latter crop was almost destroyed by frosts, and the former is seriously threatened by winds and lack of rain. R RETURN OF THE PINTA. Naval Reserve Ship Casts Anchor at Santa Barbara. SANTA BARBARA, March 2L.—The Na- val Reserve vessel Pinto arrived this evening. Ensign Joseph Delaney of Santa Barbara reserves reports a pleasant and uneventful voyage. Two boats, guns and cutlasses for the division here were delivered by Lieutenant Gunn of the Pinta. An informal reception was held | at the Armory in honor of the Pinta of- ficers to-night. i mgsly Confirmed by the Senate. ‘WASHINGTON, March 21.—The Senate to-day confirmed these nominations: Perry Glasscock of Indiana, to be Consul at Baracoa, Cuba; Webster Street, to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona. Army—Commissary subsistence department—Lieutenant-Colonel C. P. gan to be colonel, Major J. J. Clague to | be lieutenant-colonel, Captain A. L. Smith to be major; also numerous other pro- miotions in the navy and the revenue cut- ter service. ATl Stolen by a Mail-Carrier. BISMARCK, N. D., March 21.—The mys- terious disappearance of a package con- taining $1000 from the mails between Wil- lamsport and Livonia was solved by the confession of Walter Boutellier, mail car- rier, who has been under arrest. Bou- teilier said he concealed the package in a deserted barn, where it was found by the inspector, all the money and checks being found but 360. s TS Flannelly’s Death Warrant. SAN JOSE, March 2L.—Judge Lorigan to-day signed the death warrant and commitment of Thomas Flannelly the | Redwood City paryicide. The place of exe- cution was specified as the State prison at San Quentin, and the condemned prisoner will be taken there to-mOrrow morning by Deputy Sheriff Tennant. Sheriff Mans- field, of San Mateo County, will join the | officer at Redwood City. Pioneer Woman Gone. SEATTLE, March 21.—Mrs. Lavina Clark, an old pioneer of the Pacific Coast, died in this city at the age of 67 years. She left Philadelphia in 1856 via Panama, to rejoin her husband in Mendoctno, Cal. After residing in that State until recent yaairs. the Clark family removed to Se- attle. S b, Countess of Warwick Has a Son. + LONDON, March 21.—The Countess of ‘Warwick, formerly Lady Brooke, has given birth to a son. RS P A reward of $10 is offered for the arrest and conviction of any person caught stealing copies of this paper from the doors of subscribers. The_largest printing office in the world s in Washington, D. C.; it is fo Government documents. 5 e BUTTE, Mont., March 21.—The Hale House, a large three-story brick build- ing on East Broadway used as a lods- ing and boarding house by miners in the employ of the Anaconda Mining Company, was entirely destroyed by a fire which broke out shortly after 3 o’clock this morning. So far as known two men are dead from injuries re- ceived in jumping from windows, an- other is dying and twenty are missing, while a search of the ruins may dis- close the fact that many transient lods- ers lost their lives also. The casualties were as follows: Dead—Matt Doyle, aged 45, miner at the Mountain Con- solidated, jumqed from a third-story widow, turned over in the air and struck on his head; Frank Rohedy, | aged 40, lately from Portland, Or., jumped from a third-story window, turned over and struck on his head and shoulders, fracturing his skull. Dying—Hugh Boyle, aged 30, miner at the Anaconda mine, started to lower himself from the third story by means of an improvised rope, which parted fifty feet from the ground. He was just recovering from the effects of a broken | leg through an accident a month ago. Injured—Pat Gilligan went down with the third floor when it collapsed and was rescued by firemen, badly burned; John T. Carter, a stranger in the city, got cut by means of a fire escape, badly burned and cut by glass; J. J. Conroy, burned on hands and frac- tured bones of one foot by leaping to the ground; Barney Reynolds, fracture of right leg, he found escape cut off and made a rope of his blankets, which broke when he was twenty feet from the ground; Mike Judge, right arm broken; he had rescued Patrick Boyle, who was hanging by a section of im- provised rope that had broken from the weight of Hugh Boyle; he and three companions made another rope; the others got down safely, but the rope broke with Judge. John Irwin, burned about neck and face and cut by glass; he jumped from the third story, but was only stunned by the fall. There were 250 men and women in the building when the fire broke out. Of these it is believed about 200 escaped without injury. - The fire started in the bakery house in the center of the build- ing and had a good start before dis- covered. As fast as the inmates were rescued or jumped those injured were placed in vehicles and carried to the different hospitals. Those injured or only slight- 1y hurt betook themselves to the houses of neighbors and friends in order to se- cure some clothing. No one saved any: thing but what he or she had on at the time of the fire. The night was bitterly cold, the thermometer registering 5 de- grees below zero. As long as there ap- peared any chance of people being in the building the firemen devoted their | attention mostly to saving human life. |, It was only after there was no further chance to do this that they began work | |on the fire in earmest. The fire had gained such headway that two hours after it began the walls had fallen. The Hale House belonged to the Ana- conda Company. It was built in 1895 at a cost of $70,000, and with the furniture and belongings of the lodgers the loss | will reach fully $100,000. HAVE NOT ENTERED INTO A CONPACT An Official Chinese Denial of the Alleged Acts of Two Viceroys. While Complications the Far East Increase, Japan Hastens in War Preparations. Special Dispatch to The Call. PEKING, March 2L—An official Chi- nese denial has been issued of the state- ments made by a special correspomdent of the Shanghai Mercury at Kiu Kiang, alleged that the Vice- g and Hu-Kuang and roys of Kan Ki the Governor of Hunan had entered into | a compact to direct the affairs of the en- tire Yang-tse-Kiang valley and its ad- oining territories. It is added that the mperor of China has no higher confi- dence in _any one man_than in the vice- roys of Nan King and Hu-Kuang and the | Governor of Hunan. YOKOHAMA, March —The Parlia- mentary election returns show that the two varties will have about equal strength, and that some fifty neutrals will probably hold the balance of power. VIENNA, March 21.—The newsbapers announce that Javan, between 1895 and 1905 will have devoted 193,000,000 ven to the building of warships. Forty-seven have already ‘been ordered, with short terms of delivery, in England, France, Ger- many and the United States. —_———— Dies in the Penitentiary. SAN QUENTIN PRISON, March 21— Eugene Lafferty, who was serving two and a half years for a crime committed in San Francisco, died in the penitentiary 22, CAPTURE OF A WILD MAX Pursued to His Cave and Taken After a Hard Fight. . This Most Peculiar Human Freak Frightened Farmers of Connecticut. Hunger Compelled Him to Sally Forth and Finally Led to His Pursuit. Special Dispatch to The Call BOSTON, March 21.—After an excit- ing chase of three hours through the woods in the vicintiy of Beacon Falls, Conn., a posse of citizens, headed by Chief Hosford of Naugatuck, late last night captured a wild man who has been terrorizing residents of Connecti- cut for many months. The freak wore only a pair of trous- ers, torn off at the knees, and his face and body were covered with a long growth of shagry hair. He was hunt- ed from the outskirts of Naugatuck, where he was spied by Dennis Ken- nedy, who gave the alarm, to his cave in the hills three miles from habita tion. When he reached the mouth of his cave he attempted to bar the wayof his pursuers by letting down a door made of young trées. His captors wers close on his heels. however, and the barrier was broken down and the queer object was dragged out. He fought like a tiger and it required the com- bined efforts of eight men to subdue him. Instructions had been given to the pursuers, who were armed with clubs and revolvers, not to shoot or strike the object of their chase, as it was desired to capture him alive. Once subdued he was carried to the lockup, securely ironed. He talked in a rambling vei and said no harm could come to him, as he had supernatural assistance. After some questioning he said his name was Charles Bradley, but refused to say where he belonged. In his cave were found kitchen utensils and a quantity of food—chickens and vegeta- bles stolen from near-by farms. The man has been seen frequently of late dodging about farms, where it is be- lieved hunger had driven him. INTERESTS THE PEOPLE OF THE PACIFIC COAST. J. J. Hebbron of Salinas Argues a Request for the Extension of the Cattle Quarantine Line. WASHINGTON, March 21—J. J. Heb- bron of Salinas, president of the Cattle Rangers’ Association of Monterey County, who is in Washington in the interest of having the cattle quarantine line in Cali- fornia further extended, was to-day ac- companied by Senator Perkins, Represe tative Castle and A. J. Harrell of Visali to see Secretary of Agriculture Wilson and Dr. Salman, chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry. Hebbron presented the case to them, saying that unless the department extended the guarantine line the cattlemen would lose_over 100,000 head of cattle this season. He said that in that section of California in whick: the cattle_ had suffered so much from the drought most of the cattlemen owned or controlled lands in Nevada, and all they asked was that the department regula- tions be modified by extending the line allowing them the privilege of re- Hebbron als sments of the State_Agricultural Society and afiidayits from leading cattlemen of C: s. The aid he would take the mat- deration and will report | Secretary | ter undér col in_a few days. The House to-day passed bills granting ensions to Mrs. Hannah C. Pile and rs. Louise Anderson of Los Angeles at the rate of $30 and $24, respectively. A postofice was to-day established at Homestead, San Joaquin County, Cal and John C. Grider appointed postma: ter. The Senate passed a bill to remit the | Fenany of $32.823 imposed upon the Union ron Works of San Francisco for of required speed of the Monterey on her trial trip; also to pay the same company $14,742 for extra work on the Monterey. Representative Loud to-day presented a geuuon of the Manufacturers’ and Pro- ucers’ Association of San Francisco ask- ing for a modification of the interstate commerce law. Representative Hilborn to-day presented a resolution of the Chamber of Commerce of San Francisco, favoring the passage of the bill for enrollment and organization of the naval reserve forces of the United States; also a petition of citizens of Oak- land and_ Sacramento, prayving for the i)assage of the immigration also reso- utions adopted by a Republican m: meeting held in ameda asking for the repeal of the ci service law. epresentative Barham to-day present- ed resolutions_adopted by Santa Resa Grange No. 17 (Patrons of Husbandry) favoring the establishment of a postal savings bank. Representative Loud to-day introduced { a bill providing for the consolidation of | all_postoffices_within the limits of what | is_known as Greater New York Pensions have been granted as follows: California- -Original—Joseph _ 'W. Dail Plateau, 36: Robert Biddle, Pasadena. $; Wesley Smith, San Diego, $8; John Alvin Hall, Stockton, $. Original widow: —Laura C. Headley, Fresno, $17; E Burnside, Fresno; $8. Mexican | ows—@rpha Robinson, Boaneville, $3. | _ Oregon—Original—William E. Copeland, Salem, $8: John J. Gard, Clarkes, $8. In- crease—Henry Richards, Myrtle Point, $8 o $12. Washington—Original—Henry S. Lilla~ gare, Orting, St e POWER FOR MARYSVILLE. Electric Current Transmitted From a Point in the Sierra Nevada. MARYSVILLE, March 21.—W. Frank Pierce, president of the Blue Lakes Water Company, at 5:30 this afternoon, touched the button connecting Marysville with the | power plant of the Yuba Power Company, | which produces its current twenty. | miles distant in the Sierra N das. The | town is jubilant over the advent of the | company, which reduces illuminating this morning of consumption. He was 24 | rates 5 per cent and affords cheap power years old. | for manufacturing. i ADVERTISEMENTS. ELECTRO NERVOUS Palpitation of th o SINKING SPELLS awful effects Body and Brain, < the only successful cure for Jem ° 76 THE YOUTH. who is safurin DLE-AQED ana OLD MEN who are w'!m- life, tais treatment boay; it returns, strong, in fact the whoumt:lng Possess 12 order by cope WL Sa suffering from such troul Heart, Dizziness, TE iness, Fi CONSULTATION FREE ria, Chronic Headaches, Nervous Twichings, Evil Forebodings, Melaneholy, gl NERVOUS DEBILITY and all its attendant neslefled or l:ni‘proporly treated cases, hest pains and other distressing rymptoms, Ons Eic iy o Electro- stiffering the results of indiscretiens, io the MiD- -MEDICAL DISEASES WEAK AND allments. “The Producing Weakness of the penaliies for excesses ana ng isa certain cure. It imparts new life to the h? oy invigorates the weak and dormant ength the d by ¢ sand nuov'-.m = e L Ji ) ‘h& brs‘ - m:.hion is necessa; bles our treatment is it is certain; it is 3 lasting; fails; it maki memyun'no!v:‘o‘t:i kel L e Write if you cannot call. their natural strength the muscles become nmn-‘na new life and vitality, mng ? m to R = o absolute; the MAN -I ‘We can truth: THE CURE; it is MAN at Office or By Letter, STATE-ELECTRO MEDICAL INSTITUTE ENTRANCE, 3 EDDY STREET, SAN FRANCISCO.