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Call VOLUME LXXXIV —NO. 171, A SHER ITCHING PALM VICTIMS OF IFE'S Youthful Convicts Tell Alice Rix How They Were Railroaded to San Quentin. A Recital That Demands an Immediate In- vestigation of the Methods of Certain Officials of San Luis Obispo County. ptain boys o given no opp thelr behal | “Do you know how you happened to be sent here?” “No'm.” “Did you know you were coming here?” Touseley said: *I kiffder thought we were would be a Reform School, but I heard some of the men in the jail say it would be San Quentin.” 3 ome of the officials in the jai 'm, the other prisoners.” nd how did they know “They didn't know, but they said they essed it was a case of rallroad fees.” nd do you think it was, Earl?” know,” said the boy, looking T'm all mixed up about it yet.” “I wish you'd tell me the whole story.” He shrank back in his chair. *“Chris said, flushing. * sald Chris, flushing too. “You Why don’t you tell, Guy?” Guy shook his head. “It aln't much of a story,” said Earl wly, “but an awtul lot came out of it. were going to camp over at Pismo Beach. We'd been saving for it and we had nearly eight dollars apiece d the rses and wagon and things, d we ted from Portlock’s house, @idn’t we, a ris-nodded. That's at Bakersfield. It must be about e hundred and seventy-five miles over the Beach, but w were tak- it easy, so we did: c Then e of our horses gave out d ® mal sling them on horses. | stable—Constable Hubbell, his name was. We asked him didn’t he remember what we told him about how we came to take | the horse, but he said: ‘That’s all right. You come on now and don't make any | trouble.’ | “We'd just got the camp fixed fine” Earl went on, “but they took us just the same."” “To San Luls Obispo?” “Yes'm.” | “And then?” | “Then they took us before a Justice of' | the Peace and of course we pleaded not | guilty and he sald our case would be | fixed up In a week. Then they put us in | Jai— The boy's lip stopped speaking. hand up across his eyes. “Go on,” said Chris. “Go on.” shook a little and he on, obediently, “and the District Attor- | ney. The Sheriff asked us if we wanted | an attorney and we told him we'd have to write home for money. He sald ‘all | right” Then we asked for paper and things to write with and he said ‘All right.’ | And when we asked the jailer afterward { he said ‘All right, by and by.” Then the | Sheriff kept talking to us and saying it wouldn’t do any good to bring our folks over because it was a clear case against | us and we were sure to be convicted in | | that court and that we didn’t have any | witnesses and we'd been caught with the | horse. The District Attorney said . the same thing and they both said that the easiest thing for us to do was to plead | guilty. They said we'd get off with a vear In jail and that only need mean ten months but if we tried to fight the case they’d keep us in jail at San Luis Obispo for six months before the case would | going to be sent here. Chris thought it | come up at all. They talked so nice to US| ¢the American Peace and as if they meant well by us and we thought they’d ought to know—"' “We'd nmever been in any trouble be- fore,” said Chris. “And we didn't want to give our folks | any trouble and expense,” sald Guy. “My father has to work.” “We a week, ? “put they said the Judge—Smith I think his name was— had to come all the way from Santa Cruz and he'd be all the harder on us i Wwe made him come over a second time. did just what they told us to. We sure from the way they talked that meant well by us, weren't we?” The other boys nodded. “And after it was all over and we were convicted and sentenced and it was too late, then the man who owned the horse said - we'd done an awful foolish to plead guilty, and that meant to dismiss the case. Then he talked to us and gave us some good advic about behaving well over here and getting credits and gettng the sentence shortened maybe—" “I wisht we could,” sald Chris, “then maybe I could get home and my folks would never know."” Don’t they w vet?” aid boy. *They don't.” cen’t you sent them at’s the use? They RAILROADED TO SAN QUENTIN BY AVARICIOUS OFFICIALS. Justice’s (¢ were sentenced r Court to one an Quentin. singly. The istone Port- San Quentin Lamb on August 2 Augus And on is Obispo soner the and expenses. sald Captain Birlem. They rose introduction— nree ta bred youn an awkward, I asked, looking at ces above g fa the prison stripes The boys colored, shuffed a little and smiled sh smallest of the three “He's Guy said, pointing to the tall, fair bo Guy Lamb fi his fair hair and his eyes full of t “And he's Ch boy went on h boy on his right, Zarl what?” “Earl Tousele; Then these two sat down. “Are you the oldest?” “No'm. I'm sixteen going on seventeen and Chris he's just sixteen and Guy he's seventeen.” “Ien’t it against the law to send@ minors ' I asked the Captain. " answered the Captain hey swear they're older.” * I asked the boys. left. one Portlock,” the other rriedly, po and I'm We'd passed lots ing to death on ti “Feed was so scarce out to forage for them ing,” Interrupted Chris. es they did,” Earl went on. “And | when we saw this old horse stagge | along we took him for on “You didn" 3 | “That’s all righ boy quickly. ‘He didn’t have anyt taking the horse himself. Fe didn't want us to take it. He was way on ahead of us «nd he didn’t even see the horse. We poor old horses starv- ad— turned them es or die try- didn’t ke any difference.” “It oughtn’t to have made any difference nd I'm giad it didn’t. We were all in t together,” sald the valiant Earl. | *“We never, any of us, thought of steal- ing,” added Chris. “No,” said Earl; “we didn’t. We put a pack on the old horse, and wnen we'd gone along & Ways we met a man and he sald, ‘dHere! That's my horse you've got there, and he showed us a bill of sale he had for it and the Blackburn brand on the horse, and we told him all right and explained how we happened to take him, and he didn’t seem to think anything wrong, and he toock the horse along, and we never thought any more about it until they came down on us in camp.” “Who?” “Twelve of them.” “We'd have been scared enough of, | three,” added Chris, “‘but twelve of themf | came. They said they'd come to arrest | us. and we saild ‘What for? They sald they guessed we knew well enough— horse stealing. The man who owned the j borse was one of them. He was a Con- ring | & to do with | swore to an afidavit to that too, but it | |1t any now. T've been in prison and they | can’t help that and there's no use mak- | ing them miserable. I'm never going to | tell them.” “Where do they think you are?” | *“They’ll think I'm camping and that I'm just mean and wouldn’t write.” | “T had to tell my folk ald Earl. | “They found it out through my brother. He's a Constable and he brought a man | The boy up here and saw me and—" | broke down at the recollectiol | "D your people know, Guy? | He noddea miserably. | “My folks are working for me” said | Barl. | ““So are mine,” sald Guy. Chris set his lips together. “I'd rather stay here forever than let mine know.” he id. | "“What do_you think of this case?” I asked an official high In power at San Quentin as 1 went out the gates. “I'think,” he said, “that it's the damnd- est case I ever heard of.” ALICE RIX. BIG RETAINER FOR GENERAL HARRISON Ex-President Gets $100,000 as a Starter for Representing the Venezuelan Government. NEW YORK, Nov. 17.—A dispatch to the World from Washington says: Ex- President Benjamin Harrison has been retained by Venezuela to represent that Government before the Arbitration Com- mission that sits in Paris within a short time to settle the dispute between Great Britain_and Venezuela over boundary lines. General Harrison is said to have received a retainer fee of $100,000. Ex-Secretary Tracy is said to be an as- sociate with General Harrison. and his retainer is reported to be $.0,000. Guy Lamb put his “The Sheriff came to see us,” Earl went | So | AMERICA MAY HAVE TO SUBMIT AN ULTIMATUM Spain Presents New Obstacles. | TEXT OF HER MEMORANDUM INSISTS ON SOVEREIGNTY IN THE PHILIPPINES., In Addition Refuses to Discuss Her Action in Pledging the Re- sources of the Islands. | Special Dispatch to The Call. | The clerical force of Commission was | busy nearly all night in translating the | Spanish memorandum presented at | yesterday's » joint session. While the | | translators and typewriters were ren- | dering the Spanish argument into | printed English, counsel for the Ameri- | can commission studied it sheet by | | sheet, making notes of records to be ex- | amined and of law points bearing on | the matter in hand. As a result, when | the Americans gathered for the daily | session to-day, the Spanish present- | | ment lay before them in English, ready | | for consideration and accompanied by | | data bearing upon it. | No unofficial person knows the con- | tents of the document presented by the | { Spanish Commissioners yesterday, but} it i safe to assume that, added to her| insistence on the reservation of her | Philippine sovereignty and her proposi- | tion to arbitrate the construction of the | third article of the protocol, Spain has| made two other imrortant statements: First—That, on the high ground of financial probity, she cannot allow any discussion here of the validity of her action in pledging the resources of the | Philippines for the payment of the Philippine debt. | Second—That in connection with the American proposal to reimburse Spain | for her pacific expenditures in the Phil- ippines, she cannot ~Amit of any in- quiry as to how she has spent the pro- ceeds of the loans based on the Philip- pine pledges. If Spain has assumed this attitude, and it is believed she has done So, she practically compels the American Com- missioners to consider at least the en- | tire Philippine debt and its assumption { by the Unitéd States or’ the Ph ine | Islands as a condition to Spain’s ami- | able surrender of her sovereignty over | those islands. | It is difficult to understand how the Americans can reply to this in any other manner ‘".an by strictly outlining | their position and giving the Spaniards a time limit in which to accept the propositions of the United States. But the American Commissioners may pa- tiently continue their endeavors to ar- rive at an amicable understanding on the subject. SHIPS READY FOR SERVICE NEW YORK, Nov. 17.—A Washing- ton special to the Herald says: “As| soon after arrival in port as practi- | | cable vessels shall coal and prepare for | sea, in order that they may always be | ready to perform any service that the department may require.” | This significant order just issued by | | | PARIS, Nov. 17. the Navy Department has given rise | to much comment in naval circles. It | is believed to be due to the possibili- sties growing out of the international | | situation, as well as to the dilatoriness | | alleged to have been displayed by sev- eral commanding officers in getting | their ships ready for sea. | It is the policy of the administration | to maintain all warships in commission | in condition for immediate service, but the naval authorities have been handi- | capped by extensive repairs required by | | the frenclads. Believing that the work | was unnecessarily drawn out, and in order to be prepared for untoward de- | | velopments abroad, the department di- rected more haste, and some overtime work is being done on the battleship Indiana, the furnaces of which are in very bad shape. The New-York is at Hampton Roads awalting the remain- ing vessels of the North Atlantic sta- tion, which will rendezvous at that point. Their central position will make them available for service in any di- | rection. | | | | S s | THINK SPAIN WILL YIELD SOON NEW YORK, Nov. 17.—The Herald’s Washington correspondent telegraphs: | Advices which Secretary Hay received | to-night from Paris have encouraged | the authorities to believe that negotia- | tions will be satisfactorily completed | at a very early date. None of the au- | thorities will talk about the contents | of the dispatches received, but there is no doubt that they have givea this im- pression, and the authorities are ac- cordingly gratified over the outlook. The feeling is that the Spanish Gov- ernment will accede, under protest, of course, to the demands of the American commissioners. “The entrance of a third power into the negotiations,” said an official to- | day, “would be an interference, and furthermore would delay progress of the work. The United States will set- tle the matter in the way it sees fit.” It was admitted to-day by adminis- tration officials that instructions had been sent to the American Commission- ers to negotiate with the Spanish repre- sentatives for the cession of an island of the Carolines to_the United States, preferably Ualan. No demand will be made for the cession of the island, but Spain will be asked to sell it to this Government. S SRR L Brighter Peace Prospects. WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.—TL> ad- ministration f-els encouraged over the outlook for a successful termination of the labors of the Peace Commissioners in Paris. Whether this renewed confi- dence is' based upon an abstract of the Spanish reply which was submitted at yesterday's meeting or is founded upon private advices indicating a weakening of the Spanish position is not known, but it is probable that both of these had an influence in brightening the prospects. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1898 PRICE FIVE CENT PRESIDENT DWIGHT OF YALE RESIGNS Noted Educator Desires to Retire Before dge Weighs Too Heav- ily Upon Him. » PROF. TIMOTHY DWIGHT, WHO RESIGNED THE PRESI- DENCY OF YALE UNIVERSITY YESTERDAY. EW HAVEN, Conn., Nov. says: the immediate future. presented his resignation. to-day past year has been $57,544. Ak ke ok kR ok ok ok sk ok ok sk sk sk ok ok ok ok sk K ok ok ok ok ok ok ok KOR KOk ok ok ok o sk ok ok EEXEEEEFFFXE XXX FRX XX LR E X XX R RN R XXX R RN 7.—At the meeting f the corpora- tion of Yale University late this afternoon President Timothy Dwight presented his resignation. effect at the end of the university vear. Among the friends of Dr. Dwight it has been no secret for some time that the president contemplated his resignation be- fore age weighed too heavily upon him. It has been my conviction for many years that it is desirable—alike with reference to his own happiness in the later, less active and more restful peri- od of life,and as related ta the highest interestsof the institution—thata per- son who is placed in the chief administrative office in a large university like this should not continue in that position beyond the age of 70. In accordance with this convictlon, I have had the purpose ever since I entered upon the presidency, to offer my resignation at that time when I should myself reach that age, which time has just arrived, and I make known to you my desire to withdraw from the duties of my affice at the close of the academ- ic year, and my wish that, at the regular meeting of your body, which is to be held in May, or at the meeting that will take place should elect a president of the university who shall enter upon the duties of his position immediately after the next annual commencement. President Dwight said to-night: Of course I shall serve out %he year, but be- yond that I do not know what I shall do except to take a rest. I shall remain here in New Haven, quiet citizen, and I hope to die here.” Professor George J. Brush, director of Sheffield Scientific School, Brush was appointed professor emeritus. den was elected as Director Brush’s successor. The report of William F. Farnum, treasurer of Yale University, showed that the increase of the permanent fund of the university the The general fund of the university amounts to $772,358, and other special funds make a total of $1,635,- 550. The academical funds aggregate $1,607,890; the funds of the the- ological department amount to $649,122, and the Sheffield Scientific School fund is $406,312; the law department has funds amounting to $117,347 and the art school has funds amounting to $115,627. The resignation is to take In his letter Dr. Dwight in June, you “I have no particular plans for Yes, to make my home here as a It was accepted and Professor Professor R. H. Chitten- ook kK ok ok ok ok ok ok ok R K ok K K kR KKk kR R OK K ok ok ok kR K R Rk EITHER A THIEF OR BRIBE GIVER Express Company Offi- cial on Trial. ACCUSED OF EMBEZZLEMENT HE SETS UP A SENSATIONAL DEFENSE. Claims the Missing Funds Were Used to Line the Pockets of the Legislators of Nebraska. Special Dispatch to The Call. OMAHA, Nov. 17.—For eighteen years Fred Bechtel of Omaha has been chief auditor of the Pacific Express Company. To-day he was placed on trial for embezzling funds of the com- pany. Erastus Young, auditor of the Union Pacific, who succeeded Bechtel long enough to make an investigation, which he alleges developed that $150,- 000 of the company's funds had been feloniously squandered, supplies the evidence of the prosecution. In addition to being the Pacific Ex- press Company's auditor, Bechtel has | been a prominent politician. He was president of the Omaha Council when arrested. Mr. Bechtel's friends declare that while considerable funds of the company have been used for political purposes during Bechtel's incumbency, the money was pald to members of the Nebraska Legislature during the past ten years to head off hostile legislation. At the time of Bechtel's arrest his assistant, T. K. Sudburrough, and Chief Clerk Andy Hunt also were arrested, and President Morseman resigned. Friends of the interested ex-officials as- sire of the new spirit in the Union Pa- cific management to make a record, and since that company owns a big block of Pacific Express Company stock, Young took this means of making pub- lic matters which he thought would es- tablish his standing as a shrewd au- ditor. On the other hand, Young’s friends assert that he investigated the business in the ordinary course and found things S0 that prosecutions were necessary. One of the clerks under Bechtel was the first witness and to-day testified to having forced balances frequently, at one time adding $20,000 to make the books balance. He said he did this un- der instructions from the assistant au- ditor and understood the money was used for legislative purposes at Lin- coln. The irregularities had been going on ten years, he said. The testimony brought out the ad- ditional fact that many of the books and papers of the department had dis- appeared when Bechtel was arrested. The case will continue a week. Its most interesting phase is that the in- coming Legislature proposes to investi- gate the report that thousands of dol- lars have been used to corrupt Neb- raska legislators, and for this purpose will force the express company to bring in its books for the past ten years. DEPRECATE THE DELAY. MADRID, Nov. I7.—Almost all the papers deprecate the dilatory proceed- ings at Paris, expressing their bellef that the United States will decline ar- bitration and urging the Government to yield quickly, since it is impossible for Spain to renew the struggle or to expect European assistance, and, fur- thermore, because it would be better to cease wasting money and concentrate attention upon Spain’s domestic affairs and the restoration of her finances. LONDON, Nov. 17.—All the special dispatches to the London papers this morning from Paris express the belief that the Spanish Commissioners will finally yield, though under protest, to the American demands. e e Why Sagasta Procrastinates. LONDON, Nov. 17.—The Paris corre- spondent of the Dalily Telegraph say: “I understand that Senor Sagasta de- sires to protract the Paris negotiations to the utmost because he fears, first, that the signature of a peace treaty ‘would be the end of his public life, and, in the second place, because he desires to stave off if possible the fall of the sert that the prosecution is due to a de-dynasty.” MYSTERIOUS DEATH IN THE FRESN JAIL {Suspicious End of a | Yale Man. | DIAMONDS AND MONEY GONE WAS PROBABLY DRUGGED AND ROBBED. Locked Up at His Own Request, He Dies of Delirium Tremens Investigation Being Made. Special Dispatch to The Call. FRESNO, Nov. 17.—A. J. Brandreth, | a graduate of Yale University, died at the County Jail to-day at ncon of de- lirium tremens. He claimed to be a nephew of Dr. Brandreth, the wealthy patent medicine man. Yesterday he had a check for $1500 and wore 2 dia- mond stud. When he was arrested last night the check and diamond were gone. It is suspected that he had been \_:loped and robbed. The matter will be investigated at the Coroner’s inquest to-morrow morning. Brandreth had | had been waiting on table at Dr. Eshel- | man’s Minnewawa vineyard until Sun- day, when he was discharged for in- toxication. An officer is making an investigation into the mysterious death of Brand- reth, but as yet has found no tangible clew to work on. Last Friday he came to town from the Minnewawa vine- vard and told Al Woodward, a bar- keeper at Harry Wilson’s saloon, that | @ relative of his had died, leaving him considerable money, and that he had come to town to sign the necessary papers to obtain the legacy. He stated | that he expected the money Tuesday. | On that day he showed a chegk for $1500 yand was loaned $10 by Woodward. Yes- | terday and last night he had been drinking around at dffferent saloons. He met Officer Walton last night and inquired where Rev. Edward Eccleston, the Presbyterian minister, lived, ex- plaining that he and Eccleston had been schoolmates. The officer did not know the address, whereupon Brandreth re- quested him to lock him up. The po- liceman said Brandreth was not very much under the influence of liquor at that time, but as he persisted in his request to be locked up Walton put him in jail. He soon was taken with de- lirflum tremens, and as he was a re- markably robust man it required two men to hold him. He had requested Officer Walton to send Rev. Eccleston to him in the morning, adding there would be $50 in it for the officer. This forenoon the minister reached him just before he died. CUBAN ARMY WANTS UNCLE SAM'S GOLD This Government Will Be Asked to Give the Island Soldiers a Year’s Pay. NEW YORK, Nov. 17.—A Washington special to the Herald says: An officerof the United States army. recently from Cuba, stated to me that one of the objects of Garcia’s visit to this country was to en- deavor to get this Government to assume the obligation to pay off the Cuban army for a year. The statement was further made that the Cuban army was eager to disperse, but the men had no means of support and would be helpless were they to go to their homes. Property being in common during military organization the men are enabled to use what comes in their way without protest. This privi- lege would vanish at the disorganization of the army. Representations in behalf of these Cu- ban soldlers will be made by the com- mission headed by General Garcia and a strong hope is expressed in certain quar- ters that the plea may be effective. On the other hand, the administration may consider the wiser course to be a distri- bution of food after the plan of the Comal and Bratton expeditions. BLOODLESS SHOOTING IN PANA'S STREETS Hundreds of Shots Exchanged Be- tween White Strikers and Colored Miners. PANA, Ill, Nov. 17.—Non-union colored miners and white strikers clashed in the streets of this city again to-day. Several hundred shots were fired, but the com- batants did their shooting from behind trees and hedges, consequently no blood was spilled. The trouble is said to have been started by an unknown negro firing upon \Veslei; Pope, a striker. Pope says he was walking near the Springside col- | liery, where the negroes are quartered, when he was’ fired upon. He secured a rifle and reinforcements. Meantime the negroes appeared in force and the shoot- ing became general. After several hun- dred shots had been exchanged the ne- groes retreated to their stockade. The militia arrived too late to get into action, but are patrolling the Springside district in force to-night. DREYFUS MAY BE BROUGHT TO FRANCE His Examination at Long Range Would Prove a Very Ccstly Affair. PARIS, Nov. 17.—In legal circles here the belief is expressed that the Court of Cassation will shortly order the return of Dreyfus to France from his prison on Devil's Island, off the coast of French Guiana, on the ground that it is impossi- ble to carry on the examination of the prisoner by cable, in view of the cost of such a proceeding, as well as in view of the necessary delay. BILLOT ACCUSED BY COUNT ESTERHAZY Said to Have Paid Eighty Thousand Francs for the Forgery of the Bordereau. PARIS, Nov. 18.—La Petit Republique says that during the recent trial of M. Zola for libel Comte Esterhazy was over- heard to say that General Billot, former Minister of War, gave him francs for forging the bordereau. Stephen B. Tyng Dead. PARIS, Nov. 17.—Dr. Stephen B. Tyng, resident of the American Chamber of Eomu. is dead. ;@