The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 24, 1898, Page 2

ARCH 24, 1898 away, but was deterred by the advice of many who had gathered in safe places, they telling him it was almost certain death. He faltered only for an instant, but went toward Burke with the people calling him to come away. Grasping Burke by the arm and the shoulder and watching Haynes, whose ratlike eyes could be seen peering from the small window on the east side of the cabin, Cashel dragged Burke to where willing hands helped to lift him tenderly and place him in the patrol wagon. Accompanied by an eye-witness of the scene named Jack Waters, Cashel drove his horses at breakneck speed to the €ity and County Hospital. On the way the dying officer asked for a priest. Cashel left him in the physician’s hands on the operating table and sent Officer Marlowe in a buggy after Father Lyon of St. Peter's parish. The priest arrived in time to administer the rites of the church, given in ward A, to which Burke had been removed fror\ the operating table. He died shortly afterward, about three-fourths of an hour from the time he received his wound. In the meantime the Chief of Police had been notified of the death of Lieu- tenant Burke and sent Detectives Ryan, O'D P. Sullivan, Graham, Reynolds, Silvey, Dinan and Dillon to the scene. Immediately afterward a squad of riflemen were hurried to the place of battle. Sergeant Baldwin was in charge, and along were Policemen Morris Duane, J. C. Edwards, Bunner and Lewis. Sergeant Christiansen hap- pened to be at the Central Station, and he, too, went out in a buggy. As soon as the squad of riflemen reached the war ground they found that hostilities had been renewed. The s were deployed round about se in every sort of position con- ceivable and were shooting into the house, in which the murderous tinker was concealed, from all sides. He was shooting as rapidly as he could from his position in the doorway. Not only did the man have two revolvers of his own, but as soon as Lieutenant Burke had fallen he had walked out and se- cured the officer’s weapon, thus giving him three with which to shoot at his Subsequent developments showed that he had box upon box of ammunition within the place of refuge. Just as the rifle party arrived Ken- nedy came back with the shotgun. After the first few shots of the squad were fired Kennedy got a good crack at Haynes' head in the doorway and fllled it with birdshot. Then it was that he was seen to drop to the floor and immediately afterward came out hold- ing up his hands, in one of which was clutched a revolver, and exclaimed: “Don’t shoot; I will surrende Sergeant Christiansen, Edwards and Duane were then a few feet from the door and the sergeant yelled to the | men not to shoot and then to Haynes to throw down his weapon. He might have done so, but just at this juncture some thoughtless officer on the hill fired another shot at the man and he immediately opened fire on Christian- | sen and the two officers with him, but | missed, and they beat a precipitate re- | treat. Haynes slipped back into the | house, and the fusillade again began. | In a short time Haynes again came to | the door and holding up his hands | shouted not to shoot, that he woula | surrender, Sergeant Baldwin was at | this time at the northwest corner of the shanty with his rifle leveled on the murderer. He advanced, still keeping | the man covered, and told him to throw away his revolver. Then he grabbed him just as Officer Duane and Detec- | tive Ryan came up from the hillside and laid hands on him. Baldwin had the murderer dragged out of the door- | way by the time the other two were close enough to render assistance. He was then manacled and placed in the patrol wagon. Captain Gillin, who had arrived on the scene in time to direct the move- | ments of the detectives, together with | Sergeant Baldwin and Detectives Rey- | nolds and Ryan, took the prisoner to | the City and County Hospital in the | patrol wagon, where his wounds were dressed. It was found that one of the | small birdshot had taken effect in his | right arm and there were superficial | flesh wounds on his left cheek, fore- head and nose. He was taken from the hospital to the City Prison and book- ed on a charge of murder. Attorne: Eddy Sweeney has been retained to de- fend him. — CAUSE OF THE TROUBLE. Haynes Tried to Kill Hopkin- son Over a Land Squabble. | Hopkinson’s description of the batt!el and the causes that led up to it is as follows: “By the old survey I was off my line | two feet ten inches at the front and sixteen inches at the back. I built my] barn on the proper line three years ago, and Haynes warned me that I was stealing two feet of his property. By the new survey I was allowed sixteen inches at the back and two feet at the front. Yestergay I began fencing on the new survey. Last night he spoke to me again and said that I was steal- ing two feet of his land, and I told him to mind his own business as I did not bother him. He went off muttering threats against me if I did not stop. This morning I was taking my mare out to pasture and led it through the pathway leading across his lot. He looked at me but never said a word. On my return he was waiting for me and when 1 got within twenty feet of my fence he yelled ‘Hey.’ I turned | around and saw that he had a pistol in his hand and was excited. Thinking that he was going to shoot I moved | toward my house when he yelled, ‘You | , don’t you know that | you are stealing two feet of my prop- | erty? 1 answered, ‘Look here, you mind your own business; T'll put my fence on my property line—" and with that he yelled, ‘What do vou say, you ’ and then leveled his gun at me as if to shoot Being un- armed, I ducked and dodged and kept on running until I got behind my fence. My wife was standing at the kitchen door, and I called to Wer to pass me my rifle, but before I had time to run upstairs for it-he was behina me. I ran around the alley to get out of his way, and just as I turned the corner he fired. I then went down to Twenty-fourth street and looked for a policeman. I had not gone many yards when I heard a second shot, but I dia not learn that he had tried to kill my hunting dog until after the affray. “Not_being able to find an officer T asked John Graham to telephone to the Seventeenth-street station. Within a short time two mounted officers, Ken- nedy and Wilkinson, came put. They attempted to arrest him, but he ordered them away at the point of a pistol. ‘While one watched the house the other telephoned Lieutenant Burke for fur- ther instructions. Abcut a half hour after the patrol wagon drove up, in which were Lieutenant Burke and two officers. After warning him of his dan- ger, he ordered me to stay at the cor- ner, fearing that my presence would anger Haynes. 1 saw Burke walk up to Haynes' door and the latter motioning him to keep off, and on his approaching nearer deliberately raise his gun and shoot the poor lieutenant down. Burke | | the affair.” | thought enough | tenan | MURDERER HAYNES' BATTLE WITH THE POLICE ON THE MURDERERS) WEAPONS fell to the ground, but raised himself on his elbow and fired at Haynes, but ssed. The two officers behind Burke began shooting and the “tinker” ran into his house. I then ran up to my house and after getting my gun began firing. As I was passing the gateway he saw me and fired. He then fired twenty or thirty more shots at the dif- ferent officers from his doorway. To get a better view of the officers he came | outside, when he was struck by the con- tents of a shotgun. He fell to the ground and the officers closed in on him. “He has threatened to shoot me at various times. I have charge of the lots adjoining his land, but he said they belonged to him and fenced them up. He used to steal my chickens, I| caught him at it and knocked him| down two or three times, but every | time he got up he would try and brain me with a rock, his favorite weapgn. “I was afraid there might be some shooting when Kennedy and Wilkinson first came on the scene, and to prevent it I walked out and told him if he would lay his gun down I would fight him fair. He raised his weapon men- and the policemen told me to inside. That is all I know about KENNEDY'S PART. Police Censure Him and Wilk- inson for Lack of Bravery. In direct opposition to the acts of | Kennedy and Wilkinson, who are ac- | cusedof cowardicein certain police quar- | ters was the herolc act of Patrol Driver | Cashel in rescuing the lieutenant from | his dangerous position after he had | been shot. Cashel not only ‘had fore- | to have a stretcher provided after this act but saw that the wounded officer had a drink of brandy to revive him before the trip. All the officers taking the principal part have made statements to Chief Lees. Kennedy says: I spoke to the Ueutenant when he came up along the south side of the house going north, and I warned him that the man would kill him. He stepped down to the northeast corner of the house, and I remained at the southeast corner. t Burke told Haynes i star, that he was an offi going to hurt him. Hayne R aw: u robber,” and fired. The lieu- tenant 1 back and fired and fell on the ro: an around to the northwest corner and fired at Haynes. I fired five shots at him and he fired six at me. When my pistol was emptied I ran, and he fol- lowed for a way and then stopped. I ran | down the street, through an alley way, and a citizen handed me another pistol. | 1 emptied that at him across the lot. I ran down the street and jumped in a | buggy and rode three or four blocks away and borrowed a shotgun from another | citizen, and came back up with the snot- gun and took a position northeast of the | house, and from there I fired eight or ten | | more shots, until Haynes came out and surrendered. It is seen by his own statement of the facts that Kennedy played no courage- ous part. Wilkinson cannot afford to stand on a roof and proclaim the bravery of his deeds, either, for that | matter. It looks very much like the | desertion of the officer who died at his post of duty on the part of his inferiors, | and a deal of unfavorable comment is | in the wind. | SO B THE MURDERER’S TALE.I Chief Lees Scouts His Evident‘ Plea of Insanity. | The theory that Haynes is crazy is | scoufted by Chief Lees, and while talk- | ing with him in the City Prison yester- | day afternoon after he had been in his | cell for two or three hours he seemed | to talk quite rationally. “They have been for years,” he said, “trying to take my property from me. 1 bought the land thirty years ago from E. O. Brown, and I hold not only a| United States grant to it, but also the | lion and unicorn grant. Fifteen years | ago Sheriff O'Brien tried to take the property from me, but he failed. In September last the Sheriff’s deputies | broke the windows in my house to get | in and dispossess me, but I put my ef- | fects back again and have held posses- sion since. Do you think it was right for the Sheriff's deputies to break into my house and throw my things into the | street? | “Hopkinson and Rooney have bee“i ti¥ing to get the lot adjoining my prop- | erty, but I claim that it belongs to me | as much as to them. Yesterday I built a fence around the 16t and last night | they came and tore down the fence and | threw stones at my house. This morn- ing I found a portion of the fence in | Graham’s store and I found out that Hopkinson had torn it down. When 1 went back I saw Hopkinson and we had some words about tearing the fence BERNAL HEIGHTS. down and he made at me with an ax. I drew a revolver and chased him into his yard, when his dog flew at me and 1 shot the dog. That was the oply shot I fired. “Then the policemen came to my house and wanted to arrest me. I told them to arrest Hopkinson and let me alone. Then the lieutenant came and asked me to surrender. I told him that I had done nothing wrong and he had better let me alone. He told me to surrender and fired a shot at me and then I fired at him. If he had not fired at me I would not have fired at him. Then a lot of them came and fired at me and my house and I kept firing at them till I gave up. One of the | bullets from a Winchester struck me on the eyebrow and nose and another on the scalp, knocking me down. It was then that I made up my mind to surrender. “I am an old soldier and fought with General Sherman during the war. Hop- kinson was fighting on the other side. He has done everything to take my property from me and I blame him for the most of my troubles. They had no right to try and steal my property from me, and I consider I had a right to defend it from the police or anybody | re you sure that Lieutenant Burke fired at you first?" 3 “Of course he did,” was the reply, “or why should I have fired at him?” Haynes is not so crazv. as he evi- dently knows the value of the plea of self-defense. His statement that the lieutenant fired at him first is con- tradicted by several eye-witnesses. As against the crazy plea Chief Lees also points to the fact that Haynes knew exactly the location of each of the cans containing his money and their contents. HAYNES’ EVICTION. Why He Hated Sheriff’s Depu- ties and Made Threats. On September 17, 1897, Sheriff’s depu- ties were sent out to dispossess Haynes of his property, because J. 8. Reed, the real owner, wanted possession himself. Haynes was not at home, and all the property was put outside the place by the deputies in Haynes' absence. He returned shortly afterward, and, taking an ax, broke in the door, which had been barricaded, and replaced all his property. He was furious and stated that he would have killed every deputy in the party if he had been there. At this time the deputies found two shotguns, two revolvers and a murderous-looking dagger in thehouse. The dagger was kept by Deputy Sheriff Galland and given to Under Clack, who turned it over to Chief Lees yesterday. Reed let Haynes remain on the prop- erty after the action of the Sheriff's deputies, because this gave him all lawful claims,-and until he needed the property he wanted no trouble in evict- ing Haynes. A THE CABIN RIDDLED. A Law Book on Unlawful De- tainer Found by Searchers. The shanty in which the murderer took shelter is almost torn to pieces by the bullets fired at him. It is a miracle that he was not hit. From all sides came the fire, and all the walls are full of holes. The door has about ten holes in it. A heavy keg inside had four bul- Jets in it. Three Lullets went through the rear of the cabin within half an inch of one another and lodged in the house on the opposite side of Mont- salm street. Showing the mind of the man and the umbrage he had taken at a former eviction by the Sheriff, on a shelf lay a book entitled “Every Man His Own Lawyer; or, the Clerk and Magistrate's Assistant.” It was opened and a weight laid on the page where the subject of forcible entry and detainer was treated. The whole cabin reeked with the odor of salt pork in a barrel, and Detective Silvey, who was taking measurements in the afternoon, was obliged to go out every now and then to get a breath of fresh air. detailed to watch the cabin, S o MONEY BURIED IN CANS. How the Murderer Hoarded His Money and Hid It. ‘When Haynes was searched at the City Prison on his person was found the sum of $130.10 sewed in a cotton belt worn under his clothing. He told the Chief of Police that he had between | hi Sherift | Officer Desmond has been | > COUNTING ; JTHE MONEY OF JTHE MURDERER $900 and $1000 hid in some cans under the flooring if his cabin and he was afraid somebody would steal it. Since it was seen that the journey would not hurt him he was sent to the cabin in | charge of Sergéant Baldwin and a search made. Sure enough, the money he has earned by tinkering was found in three cans under the floor. One had been there so long it was rusty. The larger can, when the money was count- ed out in the Chief's officd, with the prisoner an attentive witness, was found to contain the sum of $300 2 mostly in silver. There were a fe $10 and $5 gold pieces, but the larger portion was in denominations under a | dollar. Another can contained $100 and the third $6410, making a total of $964 35. In another can was a lot of | trinkets, such as lockets, chains, brooches, etc. When the fact that the money had been hidden in the shanty became | known it was stated by some persons whose conversation was overheard by a car conductor on the Folsom street line that the murderer of Lieutenant Burke would have died long ago if the | fact had been learned sooner. i o5 His Revolver Shattered. When Sergeant Baldwin laid hold of | Haynes and he was rendered harmless | the first search was for weapons. The, were found, including the lieutenant | revolver. The handle was badly shat- | tered, the pieces lying on the floor. On | being questioned as to how this hap- pened the murderer replied that a bul- let struck it while he was holding it in his hand and it was knocked out of his grip. It must have been a rifle bullet, | as one from a revolver would not have had the force necessary to do so much damage. How Haynes' hand escaped mangling is only one of the peculiar }hings that happened during the shoot- ng. —_———— BURKE’S WOUNDS. Chief Lees Has the Body Taken The interment will take place in Holy Cross Cemetery. BURKE’S RECORD. A Brave and Efficient Officer and an Honest Man. The murdered officer was born in Gal- way County, Ireland, on March 3, 1852. He came to this city when a young man and while a watchman in the employ- ment of the Southern Pacific Company he was appointed a substitute officer on the police force under the McCoppin act. Owing to his splendid record as a substitute officer he was the first one to be appointed on the regular force under the act. He was promoted to be a sergeant on Septem- ber 22, 1890, and when the Board of Supervisors by an order established the rank of lieutenant he was one of the five promoted to that office on De- cember 1, 1895, Ex-Chief Crowley and Chief Lees looked upon Lieutenant Burke as a model police officer and he had their confidence and esteem. Both were deeply affected when they learned of | his death yesterday and Chief Lees | gave utterance to his feelings by say- ing, “Lieutenant Burke was always considered by his superiors to be an A No. 1 first-class officer in every re- spect. Besides, he was a genial, honest and conscientious man with a big, warm heart, and did not know what fear was. He was quick to think and act and his judgment was seldom at fault, His work while a member of the department will stand favorably with that of any other officer, and words would fail me to do justice to his ster- ling worth as an officer and a man.” Other officers bore tribute to the dead lieutenant’s worth. As one of them said, “he was the whitest officer that ever wore a star.” His untimely death cast a feeling of sadness over the de- to the Officer’s Home. At the request of Chief Lees Dr. John Gallagher held the autopsy on Liuten- ant Burke's body at the City and Coun- !ty Hospital. He found two gunshot wounds, either of which would prove fatal. The one, however, which entered death, as it produced internal hem- | orrhage, the bullet having cut one of | the principal arteries in its pasage. The other shot entered the body on the right into the abdominal cavity, where it lodged, as did the one which entered at the groin. It was not known that | two shots took effect until after the | autopsy. Death was caused by internal hemor- rhage. The body was removed to O'Conner’s undertaking parlors at 767 | Mission street, and then to the resi- dence, at 238 Shotwell street, where it now %es. Chief Lees saved the body from being taken to the Morgue by tel- ephoning Coroner Hawkins the facts, | that official cheerfully waiving any ex- amination, The Chief himself arrived | on the scene as the murderer was en- | tering the hospital gates. Chief Lees detailed Sergeant Price, an old friend of the family, to break the news of the death to the widow, but Rev. Father Cummins heard of it and went to the house with the sad story | first. Sergeant Price has been told by the Chief to stay at the house and try to comfort the widow until he is satis- fied to leave. The funeral will take place to-mor- row from the residence at 238 Shotwell street, thence to theé Church of St. Charles Borromeo, where a requiem the left groin was the one that caused | side on a line with the navel and passed | partment and expressions of sorrow | were universal. | One of those who feel his death most | keenly is Serzeant Price. He and | Burke were appointed to the force | about the same time, and for years | they were associated together in the | Mission district. In these days the | Mission was overrun by the toughest element in the city. From Seventeenth street to the county line robberies were | almost of daily occurrence, but Burke | and Price started in with a will to clear | the toughs out, and their names soon | became a terror to evil-doerg. In less than five years they had brought order | out of chaos, but not without having many narrow escapes from being in- jured or murdered. Price was in time transferred from the Mission, but Burke remained there and he came to be known as thé father of the Mission. He was known to every man, woman and child in the dis- trict and all loved him for his genial, kindly ways. = Five or six years ago, while in charge of the Chinatown squad, Burke did splendid service in breaking up the highbinder societies, and no two men | were greater feared by the highbinders than Burke and his old comrade, Price. Captain Gillin, who is in charge of the Mission district, addressed the men at the Seventeenth-street station last evening. He was deeply affected as he spoke of the lieutenant’s death, speak- ing of him not as a brother officer, but as a dear friend, whose loss would be hard to replace. The captain pointed out that every police officer carried his Jife in his hands frorh day to day, as was exemplified by the untimely death of their lieutenant while in the per- formance of his duty, and he urged them all to take example from his de- votion to duty and intrepidity, . Outside of the department the dead mass will be celebrated at 10 a. m. | lieutenant had a host of friends who| | will deeply mourn his loss. Among them are many newspaper men, who | had ample opportunities of knowing | and appreciating his genial and oblig- ing disposition. = They always found him courteous and pleasant and ever ready to help them in their work. They at least will sadly miss him. ‘About five weeks ago the lieutenant had an operation performed upon him at St. Mary's Hospital. A cancer had grown on his lip from smoking and the operation was successful. Some years ago he was struck én the back of the head by a brick thrown at him ‘while arresting a tough, and for a time his life was despaired of, but the removal of a large quantity of pus that had gathered saved him. The effect of that blow never really left him. The lieutenant leaves a widow to mourn his loss. She has been an inva- lid for years, and it is feared that the shock will kill her. He was a tender and devoted husband, and constantly worried himself about her health. They had no family. A brother of the lieu- tenant is Patrick Burke, who is em- ployed by the Southern Pacific in this city, and he has another brother who is an officer of rank in the Royal Irish Constabulary. e e s o CLOSING JUBILEE ACCOUNTS. The Executive Committee Winds Up Its Financial Affairs and Turns Over a Surplus. The executive committee of the Golden Jubilee held its final meeting last night and after paying all indebtedness turned over $700 to the general committee. The trtal amount collected from all sources was $21,936 83. 'Of this amount $21,017 55 was collected by subscription; | from the Wild West show, $288 88; Turn- | ers’ fiesta, $83 2; military tournament, mslgu; souvenirs, $317 55; Angels Camp, 3 15. “The total expenses up to_ last night were $20,842 81; still due from Mining Fair, $39 88, The bills ordered paid at last night's meeting reduced the amount on hand to $700, which was o:‘;ilered turned over to the general committee, Lieutenant Roudiez of the U. 8. A., who conducted the military tournament, sent in a bill for $181 10, which was allowed by the committee. Assistant Secretary . T. Y. Schenck was allowed $150 for his time since the day of the celebration. Mr. Openheimer, who had the sale of the souvenirs, amounting to_ 14,207, sold 4767, for which he turned in $317 50. The Mining Fair got 5988, for which $5988 is \still due. There are still out in the hands of Mr. Openheimer 3227, for which he has been dilatory in making returns, al- though requested by the committee to do 0. Two of the collection books were lost, but it was stated that no collections were made on them. —————————— COLONEL McKENZIE DYING. He Was City Marshal Over Forty Years Ago. Chief Lees was notified yesterday that Colonel John W. McKenzie was dying at his residence, 120 Broad street, near Ocean View. The colonel is a native of Newark, N. J., and while carrying on the business of a jeweler there he sold out and enlisted in the army. He fought through the | Mexican War and was orderly sergeant | in Duncan’s famous battery that saved the day at Palo Alto and Buena Vista, After the war he settled in this city and was elected City Marshal, holding the office from September, 1854, to July, 1855. Then he was appointed chief clerk to the | City Marshal and property. clerk, these positions being then combined, and held the office till June 3, 1859. He was for many years colonel of the First Regiment, and was considered one | of the best shots in the regiment. ————————— HEALTH BOARD WARNED. Smallpox and it;b;;i: Plague on the Increase at Hongkong. | ‘W. M. S. Beede, M. D., United States Consular surgeon and foreign corre- | spondent of the San Francisco Board/ of Health at the port of Hongkong, has sent a warning to the local board regarding the prevalence of smallpox in the dis- trict %here he resides. He found the total number of cases of smallpox for | the week ending February 12 to be thirty, with fourteen deaths. There were also four new cases of bubonic plague, with five deaths. This shows an Increase of | over 50 per cent in the number of cases of communicable disease since January 15, but the remark is made that the fatal diseases are confined almost entire- ly to the Chinese and Portuguese popu- lation. ————————— Must Retreat to the Wall. The Supreme Court has upheld - the judgment of the Superior Court of Placer | County in the case of E. P. Reed, wha | was convicted of murder in the second degree. Reed killed his partner, an old man named L. G. Brown. The two were cutting shakes and friends of Reed came up to the cabin. Brown did not treat them nicely and Reed took up the matter and received several knife wounds from Brown. He then went outside of the cabin and a minute or two later Brown appeared, still with his knife in hand, but he made no attempt to use it again. Reed seized a club and struck Brown on the head, inflicting injuries that resulted in his death. The Supreme Court holds that Reed's plea of seli-defense does not hold as he did not retreat “to the wall” in the meaning of the law, and he must stand the consequences. — e A Testator’s Intentions. In the will of the late George True of Alameda County his widow and Theodore Gorner were named as the executors. Before the will was filed for probate Gorner renounced his right to become the executor at the request of Mrs. True. However, he changed his mind and with- drew his renunciation before the letters were issued. The widow contested his | right to withdraw" his renunciation and she was successful in the Superior Court. Gorner appealed and the éudg‘ment of. the lower court was reversed, it being held Gorner had a right to withdraw his re- nunciation before letters were issued on | the ground that Gorner derived his right to be appointed executor from the tssta- tor and not from his co-executor, say- | ing: ‘‘The appointment of each is a part of the testator's will equally with the disposition made by him of his estate.” —_————————————— GARFIELD CORPS' SYMPATHY. At the last held regular meeting of James A. Garfield Rellef Corps No. 21, W. R. C., resolutions of sympathy were adopted for those who were bereaved by the loss they sustained in the death of relatives on the Maine, and there was an | additional resolution: “That we recog- | nize and respect the bravery and hero- | ism of those who stood beneath the peaceful waving of the American flag and were Suddenly hurled into eternity, for they are no less heroes than those who were summoned by the tocsin of war and met death at the point of the bayonet.” —_———— Manufacturers’ Election. The annual meeting of the members of the Manufacturers' and Producers’ Asso- clation was held vesterday. The old board of directors was re-elected without opposition, the nominating committee el:esem.lng the _following names: James W. Kerr, A. Sbarboro, W. F. Bowers, Frank L. Brown, L, R. Mead, Charles R. Allen, A. McLaughlin, J. P. Currier, Samuel McKee, Charles H. Crocker and E. Everctt, Enights of Tara and Wolfe Tone. The Knights of Tara will hold a great celebration on June 21 at Metropolitan Terple in honor of the birthday of Theo- bald Wolfe Tone, the patriot and martyr of Irish liberty. A strong committee has been appointed and a splendid programme will bé provided: It 15 the Intention to make it one of the greatest celebrations fig x:.he centennial year of the Irish rebel- Suspected of Incendiarism. Nicholas Tendis and Constantine. John were arrested yesterday on complaint of Marshal Towe and held pending an in- Vvestigation. The two men are partners in a restaurant at 115 Fifth street. Tues- day afternoon the place took fire, and when the firemen arrived of oil were found and crooked work was at once suspected. The fire was extinguished be- fore much damage was done. PRISON (PEND FOR A CROOL «RebelGeorge,”the Bunko Man, Convicted at Yreka. With Two Confederates, He Robbed an Innocent German. Jury Convie's Him of the Crime After Only a Few Minutes’ Deliberation. Special Dispatch to The Call. YREKA, March 23.—The notorioud confidence man, “Rebel George,” an ac- count of whose life appeared in The Call a few days ago, was convicted of obtaining money by fraud and trickery in the Superior Court in this place this afternoon, the jury having been out only fifteen minutes. “Rebel George,” in company with two confederates, engaged an innocent German named Yetter in a game of cards on the Southern Pacific Railroad, near Sisson, and bunkoed him out of $250. It is thought that Judge Beard will give this notorious swindler a heavy sentence, as he has been dealing severely with the criminal element lately. The wife of “Rebel George” was present at the trial and mlade a hard fight to save her husband. ; N e RIVAL SCRIBES COME TO BLOWS Lively Physical Argument on the Ferry-Boat San Rafael. Between Two Newspapers Leads To a Shedding of Editorial Blood. War Special Dispatch to The Call. SAUSALITO, March 23.—Editorial blood was spilled here yesterday on the deck of the ferryboat San Rafael, as she was lying at the slip, just before her de- parture for the metropolis on the 8:15 o'clock trip. Ernest Hewson, the youth- ful editor of the Suburban, a small paper published at Corte Madera, planted his fist upon the right optic of W. H. Pur- telle, the editor of the Record of Lark- Spur. . Bad feeling has existed between the editors of the rival papers for some weeks, but until yesterday only editorial comment has been indulged in. Lark- spur and Corte Madera are only a half- mile apart, and each burg is envious of the other. The . Corte Madera paper. without mentioning names, accused Pur- telle by innuendo of complicity in a num- ber of shady affairs, and last Saturday Purtelle’s paper came out with a bitter attack upon young ilewson's parents, accusing them of having been in some petty swindling and “invited” to move out of town. It was this that led to the encounter on the boat vesterday. Hewson, who Iis about 20 years old, got on the boat and | waited for Purtelle, who is _his senior by ‘over 20 years, When the Larkspur edi tion arrived Hewson walked up to himl and asked him why he published the scurrilous article about his folks. Pur- | telle made no reply, and the youthful ed- itor drew back his arm and let fly a ter- rific right-hand blow, catching the other directly over the eye, splitting the skin under the lid and causing Purtelle to lose some blood. The young man was not satisfied with this, and followed up his attack by rushing the Larkspur editor to the railing, where he commeced to play a tattoo on his already flushed and cut features. Detective Bainbridge of the San Francisco police at this juncture in- terfered and ended the fracas. 2 Sy et S Sister Alphonse Marie Dead. SAN JOSE, March 23.—Sister Alphonse Marie (Anna Aloyse Vermylen) of Notre Dame Convent died to-day after a linger- ing fllness. She was a native of Belgium and was & years of age. The deceased had been connected with the convent here for a number of years. Innocent Children Sacrificed. The “slaughter of the innocents” continues, unti] it is estimated that fully one-fourth of the human race die before attaining their fifth birthday, owing in great measure to our rigorous’ and changeable climate. And there are thousands of adults, even in this land of plenty, that stomach, iiver and bowel com- plaints are reducing to confirmed invalidism whom _ Hostetter's Stomach Bitters would promptly relieve and invigorate. Malaria, rheumatism and kidney trouble yield to the " ALASKA SECURITY—FOR GRUBSTAKES. THE_ALASKA PROSPECTORS' SYNDI- cate Company offers for sale five thousand (5000) non-interest bearing bonds of the value of five dollars (55 00) each. 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